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This book provides an engaging and contextualised insight into a South African township-based arts centre that has survived the vicissitudes of steady militarisation in townships during some of the worst years of apartheid as well as the exhilaration of a new democratic policy while attempting to circumnavigate different policies and funding dispensations. Sibikwa provides arts centres across the world and especially those in decolonising countries with strategies for survival in tumultuous times. This multi-disciplinary book maps and co-ordinates wider historical, political, and social contextual concerns and events with matters specific to a community-based east of Johannesburg and provides an exploration and analysis by experts of authentic theatre-making and performance, dance, indigenous music, arts in education and NGO governance. It has contemporary significance and raises important questions regarding inclusivity and transformation, the function and future of arts centres, community-based applied arts practices, creativity, and international partnerships. This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance, indigenous music, dance, and South African history.
Phyllis Klotz is the artistic director and co-founder of the Sibikwa Arts Centre in Benoni.Smal Ndaba is the co-founder and managing director of the Sibikwa Arts Centre in Benoni.
List of contributorsAcknowledgementsPART 1Chapter 1. The Political is Personal: Smal Ndaba and Phyllis Klotz in Thumbnail Portraits of Origins and OrientationsSarah RobertsChapter 2. Founding Sibikwa: A Professional Partnership Tempered in the Forge of Apartheid’s Final YearsSarah RobertsChapter 3. Democracy, the First Decade: The Mandela-Mbeki Years (1994-2005)Sarah RobertsChapter 4. The Trouble with Freedom: Mbeki’s Dream of an African Renaissance, Nation-building and Issues Surrounding HIV/AIDS in South AfricaSarah RobertsChapter 5. Issues of Governance, Policy, Delivery, and Accountability Escalate: Sibikwa Responds to Developments in Arts and Culture Policy Documents and with Theatre-in-Education ProjectsSarah RobertsChapter 6. The Struggle for Social Justice in Confronting Gender-based Violence and Srategies of Intensifying an African Cultural Heritage as the Project Moves into the Future Sarah RobertsAppendix :1 A Chronology of Major Political Events, Cultural Developments and Sibikwa Plays PART IIChapter 7. Governance of Sibikwa Arts Centre: A Reflection on the Agility, Progress, and Longevity of the Organisation Munyaradzi Chatikobo and Caryn GreenChapter 8. Sibikwa’s Educational ProgrammesVanessa Bower and Hazel BarnesAppendix 2: A Chronology of Educational and Vocational Training ProgrammesChapter 9. Living Proof: Thirty Years of Sibikwa’s Theatre ProductionsSarah RobertsAppendix 3: A Chronology of Sibikwa ProductionsChapter 10. Celebrating Sibikwa’s Legacy of Dance and Physical Theatre from Community to Professional Dance DevelopmentClare Craighead and Lliane LootsAppendix 4: A Chronology of Sibikwa Dance Company Productions and FestivalsChapter 11. Keeping the African Sound RelevantEvans NetshivhambeAppendix 5: A Chronology of Sibikwa’s Music HistoryChapter 12. Framing the Intersectional Gender Politics of the Sibikwa LegacyLliane LootsAppendix 6- A Chronology of Gender Based Productions, Festivals and TrainingIndex
