GALLERY : ANSISTERS : 2005 INVITATION
about ansisters • opening event • performances • creative contributions
• bridge festival • colours of the diaspora
Ansisters is a Creative Festival exploring Female Lineage - we move our attention to the women, to the mothers, the great mother earth and her daughters. All those quiet voices in the background of our world. We explore questions around female lineage, be it biological, spiritual, intellectual or cultural.
The ansisters constellation is the 2005 focus of the FACE project [Fe(male) Activation through Creative Empowerment] and is created in partnership with Constitution Hill. Of the funds generated by the event will go towards the Starfish Foundation in support of the mothers of the nation. Visitors to the Ansisters festival are invited to bring a stone as contribution to the memory cairn.
For more information visit our website: http://www.face.org.za/ or call (011) 486 4777
You are invited to the ansisters opening event
on Mon 8 August @ 18:30 for 19:00
at the Old Fort on Constitution Hill, 1 Kotze St, Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
RSVP (011) 486 4777 or
For a detailed schedule, visit our website at http://www.face.org.za/
The opening event includes these wonderful performances:
• Hearing Visions by Mmatshilo Motsei
• Sitting in the Fire by Eugenie Grobler
• Colours of the Diaspora (excerpts)
• Searching for a Saviour dialogue
• Gumboot Opera
by Napo Masheane & Kalaneng Art Tracks
• Patterns Outside my Head by Janine Lewis & Rantebeng Makapan
• Family Constellation Workshop by Svenja Wachter
• Activation by Janine Lewis & the Imagination Lab
• Children's Street Theatre by the Hillbrow Theatre Outreach Project
As well as the following Creative Contributions:
• Braid (Boitumelo, All)
• Star Gazer (Kay Potts)
• Breaking Bowls (All)
• Running the Line (Kevin Collins)
• Tower of Strength (Amalie von Maltitz)
• Sacred Spiral (Annali Cubano-Dempsey)
• Pillars of Creation (John Moore)
• Ancient Playground (Lynette ten Krooden)
• Dancing in Mama Modjadji's Garden (Chris Diedericks)
• Resilience Quilt (Claudia Chandler)
• Recipes for Life (Roela Hattingh)
• Handle with Care (Makhosasana Xaba)
• Endless Circle Heritage (Ronéll Meijerink)
• Listening Womb (Anni Snyman)
• Reeds of Doubt (Eugenie & Melanie Grobler)
• Packing Light (Mariëtte de Wet)
• Ascension Wish (Anni Snyman)
• Izinkondlo (Busi Mngoma)
• Grandmother, Mother & Rapunzel's Quilt (Boitumelo)
• Altarpiece (Keiskamma Art Project)
• Daughters of Africa (Pippa Hetherington)
• Gates of Deliverance (Nerina du Plessis)
• This Way We Bleed (Lindiwe Nkutha)
• Transferring... (Lizette van Staden)
• Inkuleleko Yabesifazane (Mickey de Froe)
• Three Women (katty vandenberghe)
• Unravel (Sarah Fraser)
• These Hands (Makhosasana Xaba & Erica Luttich)
• Teelepeltjie Heuning (Melanie en Eugenie Grobler)
• Storylines (James Cairns & Imagination lab)
• In/visible Library (Nina Romm)
• To My Librarian (Makhosasana Xaba)
• Sacred Spaces (katty vandenberghe)
• Jocasta's Hairballs (Lindiwe Nkutha)
• Jacaranda Lyrics (Makhosasana Xaba)
• Sentinels (Cheryl Gage)
• Tree of Life (Cheryl Gage, Erica Luttich, Anni Snyman)
• Manana (Eugenie Grobler)
• Birth Mound (Ilse Venter)
• Elements (Susanna Swart)
• Well of Tears (Anni Snyman)
• Labyrinth (Anne-Marie Moore & Friends)
Special ansisters event on the 9th of August:
On Women¹s Day the Bridge festival will link The Hillbrow Theatre to Constitution Hill. It starts at 10am at the Old Fort. There will be street performances and artists drawing on the pavement all the way along the route, culminating at the Hillbrow Theatre at 14:00 for a performance by the children of the Hillbrow Theatre Outreach Project, and at 16:00 "Colours of the Diaspora" by Napo Masheane will be performed.
"Colours of the Diaspora" - fresh back from the Grahamstown festival for this event - is directed by Napo Masheane actress, poet, director and playwright. The production includes poetry, dance, music, and theatre starring five talented female performers: Mageba Hlatshwayo, Debra Leshika, Thabang Matsupa, Shantell Mkuyana and Lindiwe Ndlovu.
Posted 15 July 2005, www.face.org.za, author: Anni Snyman.
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