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    Goethe-Institut Project Space (GPS) Call for Proposals

    The new project aims to support non-commercial work and will privilege experimental content, with the focus above all else on artistic quality.

    Application Deadline: 5 September 2017
    Realisation Period: January to December 2018

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    Music In Africa puts musicians first with massive portal revamp

    New interactive platform adds streaming, EPKs, bookings, stats and more to guide African musicians towards success.

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    BIKOHAUSEN: STEVE BANTU BIKO AND KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN IN JOHANNESBURG

    In March 1971 Karlheinz Stockhausen met Steve Biko in Soweto. BikoHausen is a collaborative extemporization of an imagined dialogue between the two visionaries.

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A history of violence - Lerato Shadi's work asks: Are we really a 'post' colony?

Her new exhibition is a visceral and complex display of knowing oneself and one’s lineage in the absence of, and despite, history and memory.  [more …]

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This project initiated by the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg aimed for participants from different African countries and Germany to face their common history. Here is what three participants experienced on their journey. [more …]

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Francis Dibiédo Kéré’s loam architecture forms a cultural bridge between Africa and Germany – not as an export, but as a project of mutual exchange. [more …]

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Literary Crossroads is a new series of talks where South African writers meet colleagues from all over the continent and from the African diaspora to discuss trends, topics and themes prevalent in their literatures today.

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Wiki Loves Women

There are countless influential women who have shaped Africa’s countries and societies. But few African women enjoy exposure on internationally relevant online databases such as Wikipedia. WikiAfrica and the Goethe-Institut intend on tackling this issue with the Wiki Loves Women project.

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