Please note: two outdoor performances Urban Expressions and Look have been cancelled.

Urban Expressions will be rescheduled for Saturday 1 May at 13:00.

Free tickets will be given at  Staceyann Chin in Conversation with Pumla Gqola. (12 at The Gallery in the Origins Centre)

Pumla Gqola

Pumla Dineo Gqola is a feminist writer, Associate Professor at the WITS School of Literature and Language Studies and a columnist for City Press. Her essays, poems and short stories have been published in numerous journals, literary magazines and books. Academically, she has published on Southern African and Caribbean literature, slave memory, gendered Blackness, African feminisms and sexualities in post-apartheid South Africa. She recently guest edited a special issue of the British literary magazine, SABLE on contemporary South African literature. Her new book, What is slavery to me? postcolonial/slave memory in post-apartheid South Africa, is published by Wits University Press.

Staceyann Chin in Conversation with Pumla Gqola.

Saturday 24 April 2010  12:00 – 14:00   Venue: The Gallery, Origins Centre

24 April at 12:00-2:00pm Staceyann Chin and Pumla Gqola will engage in what promises to be an interesting discussion based on various issues as well as their respective books, The Other Side of Paradise and What is slavery to me? postcolonial/slave memory in post-apartheid South Africa.

This event is FREE and all are welcome. Drinks and snacks will be provided at the end of the event which will take place in The Gallery at The Origins Centre.

Support the Dramatic Arts Alumni & Friends Fund by purchasing a ticket to one of three WSOA official productions as part of WALE and join us for a cocktail event before hand.

Welcome by Head of Dramatic Arts, Warren Nebe.  Guest Speakers: Mlomla Dandala, Zane Meas and Gina Shmukler.

Date: Friday 23 April    Dress code: Smart

Tickets cost R150 and proceeds go to the Dramatic Arts Alumni & Friends Fund.

Festivities begin at 6pm in the Wits Main Theatre Foyer with all performances starting at 7:30pm

Tickets:  catherine.pisanti@wits.ac.za or call 011 717 1376
Covered parking in the adjacent Senate House.

This is a two day seminar at Wits under the VC’s office which discusses literature and research on talent identification and marginalization with presentations by local and international researchers. The focus of the seminar would be two fold:

first to discuss the literature and the state of research on talent identification in marginalized communities and second the issues in identification of talent in marginalized communities which need to be researched or further researched in the South African context.

Thursday 22 April 2010   15:00-20:00    Venue:  South West Engineering Building, Committee Room

Songs for a New World on 22 April will start at 17:30 and not 19:30.

Witix night tickets are only R12 for all audiences.

We apologise for the inconvenience, Staceyann  and Emma in Conversation at The Gallery in the Origins Centre has been cancelled.

Staceyann’s flight has been delayed due to the international flight crisis.