HSRC presentation to thePortfolio Committee on Arts

and Culture

HSRC presentation to thePortfolio Committee on Arts

and Culture8 March 2005

Presentation formatPresentation format Indigenous Knowledge

Systems

Disability

Gender

Social Cohesion and Identity

Indigenous knowledge systems

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

DisabilityDisability

ZIP ZIP MY BRAIN HARTS Photography, disability and

hidden lives

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

‘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

‘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

GenderGender

Fatherhood projectFatherhood 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

Women’s history project

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

Social Cohesion and Identity

Social Cohesion and Identity

Heritage projectsHeritage 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

SA-Flemish Community Arts Centre Project

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

South African identity & its meanings

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

Identity, Africa & the world lecture series

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