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HSRC presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Arts and Culture

HSRC presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Arts and Culture. 8 March 2005. Presentation format. Indigenous Knowledge Systems Disability Gender Social Cohesion and Identity. Indigenous knowledge systems.

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HSRC presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Arts and Culture

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  1. HSRC presentation to thePortfolio Committee on Artsand Culture 8 March 2005

  2. Presentation format • Indigenous Knowledge Systems • Disability • Gender • Social Cohesion and Identity

  3. Indigenous knowledge systems • Importance of indigenous knowledge in reducing poverty of rural agrarian households • Focus on local natural resources in particular African vegetables • Provide a means of managing natural resources to ensure food security • Identify indigenous innovations that can promote sustainable food security • Integration of the identified indigenous innovations and scientific knowledge • Collaborators • HSRC, ARC, DST, residents in Nkuna Tribal Area, Limpopo province • Funding • DST • Parliamentary grant

  4. Disability

  5. ZIP ZIP MY BRAIN HARTS Photography, disability and hidden lives • Angela Buckland’s three-part photographic exhibition portrays several families’ experience of disability • Her project will be extended to include: • An international touring exhibition • A photographic book based on her work • Educational workshops for health professionals • CYFD will evaluate the extent to which these change attitudes towards parenting and disability • Collaborative project between the social sciences, arts and disability rights/activist groups • Partial funding from Royal Netherlands Embassy for the photographic book

  6. ‘NOTHING WITHOUT US’ Disability inclusion and SABC Education CYFD recently completed a report for SABC education giving guidelines on presentation of disability in the media

  7. Gender

  8. Fatherhood project • Aims to recognise, encourage and support men’s care and protection of children • Travelling photographic exhibition, book, media and activities by participating organisations • Images of fatherhood by professional photographers, students and children • Accompanied by words of children talking about fathers and men talking about how they see themselves

  9. Women’s history project • Follow-up on the book Women marching into the 21st century published in1998 • Two-part project initiated in 2002 • Book on gendered history of S. African by women scholars • Will be released in 2006 to coincide with 50th anniversary of women marching to Pretoria • Interactive CD Rom • Will contain database of biographies of SA women • Target audience learners, researchers, HEIs, NGOs

  10. Social Cohesion and Identity

  11. Heritage projects • The Subtle Power of Intangible Heritage: a review of legal instruments for managing intangible heritage, conducted for the International Network for Cultural Policy, 2003 • Protecting our Cultural Capital: a review of legislation, policy and research on the Heritage sector, 1994-2003 commissioned by DAC • South African Cultural Observatory which focuses on the music, print media and publishing, film and video, craft and heritage sectors. HSRC/DAC collaboration

  12. SA-Flemish Community Arts Centre Project • Three-year project under DAC bi-national agreement • Aim • is to develop a policy-driven network of sustainable community arts centres in South Africa • Objectives • Develop policy framework for arts centres • Enhance service delivery in six arts centres • Build capacity in government and arts centres • Project areas • KwaZulu-Natal, Free State and Limpopo • Funding • Flemish allocation R7,2 million • DAC allocation R3,3 million

  13. South African identity & its meanings • What does it mean to be S. African : Race, culture and identity • The role of intellectuals, artists and media in the making of a national identity • 19th century African intellectual and literary history in the making of African identity • Indigenous African philosphical systems and their contemporary relevance • Memory consciousness and social values • The relationship between culture and the constitution of public life on nation building • Strengthening heritage research capacity at the local level

  14. Identity, Africa & the world lecture series • Conversations on African Identity by distinguished scholars: Ayi Kwei Armah, Wole Soyinka, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Cornel West and Ntongela Masilela • Networking with African scholars and institutions • Reviving intellectual culture and research capacity with a particular focus on youth artists and writers

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