African artists champion human rights at fourth Artfluence Festival
The dance production, We Stand for Freedom, is choreographed by Ukrainian choreographer Kateryna Aloshyna and is performed by South African dancersThe Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal is set to host its fourth annual Artfluence Human Rights Festival from 3 May to 8 May 2024. This pioneering festival has, for three years, leveraged the arts as a powerful medium for advocating social justice and human rights .
Delegates from Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Mali and the DRC are expected to congregate at this year’s festival at the Howard College Theatre in UKZN and wrap up at the free closing event at the KZNSA Gallery. This year’s festival will shine the spotlight on the South African constitution, the African Charter for Human Rights, as well as the establishment of the solidarity of artists in Africa and other human rights matters affecting artists on the continent.In partnership with the African Festival Network, we will also look at how artists can become independent, and we will discuss the artists' charter, which protects the rights of artists, their careers and livelihoods.
Award-winning actress Kim Blanche will perform Mike van Graan’s critically acclaimed satire My Fellow South Africans. Another story of Ntombikayise Kubheka, who was tortured and murdered after being abducted by the apartheid police, will be revisited in the screening of Enver Samuels’s documentary series, Truth Be Told on the TRC, titled Ntombikayise Kubheka, Bones of Memory.The KwaZulu-Natal Chapter of the SA Human Rights Commission has committed to throwing its weight behind the programme. The full programme can be accessed on the Artfluence Human Rights website .
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