Thursday 10 April 2014

The Angry Youth Workshop



The Angry Youth Workshop is based on the highly successful EAA (Emerging Arts Activist programme) model launched and piloted in Youth Month 2013 (refer to note 1 & 2 below). The broader aims of the two day Angry Youth workshop are to expose, explore and instil a basic socio-political grounding in young activist, towards a socio-transformational end. An objective of the workshop is to promote arts practice as a transformative tool by focussing on critical contemporary histories toward a broader reconciliatory end. The workshop has been generously funded by the University of Johannesburg Centre for Education Rights and Transformation.

Note 1. The EAA pedagogic model is an art-based variant of Freire and Biko’s praxis. Freire argues that praxis, which constitutes a cycle of theory, application, evaluation, reflection and finally a return to theory, can lead to conscientisation and the knowledge to act against oppression. The EAA model applies the original praxis criteria but extends the idea of towards socio-political art processes and civic engagement. It achieves this by employing critical arts practices in order to elicit criticality in South African youth.
The programme addresses the overarching idea of praxis by focussing on pertinent postcolonial theory, critical dialogic and reflective methods, and practice in the form of visual dialogue and civic engagement. Further areas addressed through the participant-based dialogic approach are identity and cultural production.
The programme is a partnership between the Apartheid Museum and UJ Transformation and was initiated and curated by Farieda Nazier.


Note 2. The Angry Youth Workshop is supported by UJ Centre for Educational Rights and Transformation CERT and the Ithuba Arts Fund. The workshop is based on the Emerging Arts Activist programme launched in 2013 in partnership with UJ Transformation Unit and Apartheid Museum.

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