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The Isishweshwe Story: Material Women?
It is with great excitement that Iziko Museums of South Africa announces a new exhibition at the Slave Lodge. The isiShweshwe Story: Material Women? is thefirst in-depth exhibition conceived and created about isishweshwe. This fabric is used today by many women – and men – in southern Africa as traditional, daily and fashion wear.
Words of Slaves: Places of Memory
Words of Slaves: Places of Memory,summarises some 400 years of Atlantic Slave Trade history. The exhibition, presented in South Africa for the first time at the Iziko Slave Lodge, is a collaborative project by Iziko Museums of South Africa, French photographer, Philippe Monges, and the association, The Shackles of Memory (Les Anneaux de la Mémoire), based in Nantes in France.
Iziko Slave Lodge will close at
Due to preparations for the State of the Nation address,
the Iziko Slave Lodge will close at
15h00 on 11 & 12 February 2013; and at
14h00 on 14 February 2013.
Labels
Iziko Museums of South Africa presents Siemon Allen’s Labels, a large architectural installation that will be on display at the Iziko Slave Lodge from January to December 2013. SiemondescribesLabels as, “a historical record, a chronological discography of select labels” from his archive and “as a kind of visual memorial to South Africa’s rich musical past.” Exhibited in the museum’s Music Room, the work features 5,000 photographs of record labels inserted into a suspended clear plastic curtain.
Inspiring New Imaginings: explore, engage, reflect, interact and be empowered
On 2 – 23 February, 2013, Iziko Museums of South Africa is proud to host its annual multi-faceted Summer School programme, which includes series of public engagements, hands-on activities, film screenings and walkabouts.
Statement: Peter Flack Collection Donation
Iziko Museums of South Africa operate 11 museums in Cape Town. The museums that make up Iziko have their own history and character, presenting extensive art, social and natural history collections which reflect our diverse African heritage. Iziko’s natural history collections are housed at the Iziko South African Museum, comprising more than one and a half million specimens of scientific importance.
Free entry to the Castle of Good Hope 14 & 15 December 2012, sponsored by the MTN SA Foundation
This year, MTN New Contemporaries Award 2012 finalists comprised four collaborations. The group of artists has been working in collaborative units under the leadership of guest curator, lecturer and art historian, Portia Malatjie, to mount an exhibition of their work in the Iziko B-Block at the Castle of Good Hope.
MTN New Contemporaries Award 2012 winners are announced
Collaborating artists Unathi Sigenu and Khanyisile Mbongwa were announced as the winning team for the MTN New Contemporaries Award 2012 at a gala exhibition opening at the historic B Block, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, on 12 December 2012. The artists jointly received R80 000.00 and other prizes, such as a Samsung Galaxy S3 each.
‘R-A-T: AN ASSOCIATIVE ORDERING
An exhibition that uses the brown rat, Rattus norvegicus, as a means to explore the representation of species within museums of natural history entitled R-A-T: an associative ORDERING, the exhibition opens at the Iziko South African Museum, 8 December 2012.
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2012
In what has become an annual event on the calendars of both nature lovers and photographers, the most prestigious wildlife photography exhibition in the world is once again headed to South Africa this year.
The King’s Map:
A unique map of South Africa produced 222 years ago for King Louis XVI, and never before exhibited, will form the centre-piece of the exhibition, The King’s Map, Francois le Vaillant in Southern Africa: 1781 -1784. The exhibition, on show at the Iziko South African Museum until 26 May 2013, forms part of the prestigious ‘French Season’ - the multifaceted bilateral collaboration between France and South Africa.
Panel Discussion: ‘Slavery, Human Trafficking and Migration’
A panel discussion entitled ‘Slavery, Human Trafficking and Migration’ will be hosted at the Iziko Slave Lodge on Monday 3 December 2012, in observance of the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery (which falls on Sunday 2 December 2012).
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