Think!Fest Programme 2015
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THINK!FEST 2015 #cocreateSA is a platform for South African and Dutch counterparts to exchange ideas and innovations for a sustainable future. If we work together, we can make a difference and co-create solutions for local challenges. Full details of the programme, speaker Duration: Tickets for all events: R30 biographies and topic descriptions will be All talks are 1 hour; Panel discussions available in the Think!Fest Brochure. and debates are 1 hour 30 minutes 2015 THINK!FEST CONVENOR: ANTHEA GARMAN THINK!FEST DAILY SCHEDULE – ALL EVENTS ARE IN THE BLUE THEATRE, EDEN GROVE (UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED) Friday 3 July Monday 6 July continued Thursday 9 July 11:00* When I Was Fish: Tales Of An Ichthyologist - Mike Bruton 14:00 Free? Prior? Consent? - LRC screening of Shore Break - 10:00 Local Histories, Present Realities - (123) Odette Geldenhuys & Wilmien Wicomb (120) Noor Nieftagodien (120) 12:00 The Role of Urban Art on the Streets Today - 17:00** The Pipes, The Pipes Are Calling (124) 11:00* Shakespeare’s Word Play - Roy Sargeant & Cale Waddacor (119) 17:30 Knowledge-Power: The Debate (118) Diane Wilson (122) 14:00 A Chain of Voices: The Prose Oeuvre of André Brink - 12:00 Satire and Parody - Dario Milo (117) Dr Godfrey Meintjies (122) Tuesday 7 July 14:00 Search For Authenticity: Composing in SA (120) 10:00 Art & Resistance - Manfred Zylla (118) 17:30 State of the State Debate (120) Saturday 4 July 10:00** How to do a Show at the Edinburgh Fringe (124) 10:00 IFAS / IFX Roundtable - Freedom of Expression (117) 11:00* 150 Years of Wagner’s Tristan - Jamie McGregor Friday 10 July 11:00* Grafitti South Africa - Cale Waddacor (123) (130) 10:00 The kykNet/Mnet Jans Rautenbach Interview (121) 14:00 Work - Anti-Work - Lerato Bereng (123) 12:00 Being a Born Free - Vanessa Malila (119) 11:00* Short.Sharp.Stories: Incredible Journey (123) 17:30 Red - A Documentary Film by Simon Gush (121) 14:00 Race Trouble in Everyday Life - Kevin Durrheim 11:30 Conrad Koch: Speaking Up (117) (119) 14:00 Myth of Marketplace of Ideas - Pierre de Vos (117) Sunday 5 July 16:00* Florence - Reading by Patricia Boyer (122) 16:00 Cartoon Competition (123) 10:00 Public Spaces - Iain EWOK Robinson (119) 17:00** 15 Fantastic Songs From 2014 (124) 17:00** Peter Klatzow - My Music (121) 12:00 Access to Information & Online Space - 17:30 Troubling Race - Again And Again (119) 17:30 Satire: The Most Sane response? Debate (117) Gabriella Razzana (118) 14:00 Our Right to Know - Siviwe Mdoda (118) Wednesday 8 July Saturday 11 July 14:30 DALRO / SAMRO / Debate - Media & Tolerance (117) 10:00 Limits of Liberty - Gavin MacFadyen & 10:00 Woza Sisi - Dahlia Maubane (119) 17:00** Blues had a Baby, they named it Rock ‘n Roll (124) Sarah Harrison (118) 12:00 Getting the Last Laugh on Cecil John Rhodes - 17:30 Redefining Urban Spaces: Debate (119) 11:00 The Zulu Crush Dialogues (Rec Centre) (125) Justice Albie Sachs (117) 12:00 The Administration of Power- Ivor Chipkin (120) 14:00 What Is “African Literature” Good For? - Monday 6 July 14:00 Loyiso Gola - The Thin Line (116) Ranka Primoric (122) 10:00* Odyssey of an African Opera Singer - 16:00 Functionality of SA’s ‘Dysfunctional’ Schools - 16:00 The Musical Deeds ff Dr SJ Khosa (120) Musa Ngqungwana (122) Ashley Westaway (120) 16:00* New Territories - Greg Homann (122) 10:00 Ndifuna Ukwazi: Think, Act, Lead - Shaun Russell 17:00** Political Song at 33 & 1/3rd Revs per minute (124) (118) Sunday 12 July 12:00 A Meeting between South American & South African * = Seminar Room 1, Eden Grove 11:00 Soft Vengeance - Film & Talk - Albie Sachs (121) Filmmakers (121) ** = Listening Lounge, Monument SATIRE, CENSORSHIP AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION When politics gets rough and talking gets tough, the fools come out to play to do and say the things the rest of us can’t for fear of being arrested (or shunned or pilloried in public). Who’d have thought that in the post-apartheid era we would need the satirists (of all kinds) to bring some sanity to our public sphere? POLITICAL SONG AT 331/3 REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE – RICHARD HASLOP WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 17:00 MONUMENT RESTAURANT Whether scathingly satirical, laugh out loud funny or as serious as your life, politically- orientated song writing has always had the power to upset those who might have a guilty LOYISO GOLA – THE THIN LINE conscience. Richard Haslop, a WEDNESDAY 8 JULY 14:00 practising labour lawyer who Loyiso Gola is the co-creator and anchor of the satirical news has been involved with music television series Late Nite News with Loyiso Gola on e.tv and eNCA for most of his life, singles out which was launched in 2010. In 2012 he was named one of the Mail songwriters from around the world and across the decades who & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans. Men’s Health describes Gola set up their targets and knock them down with unerring accuracy, as having “divisive mass appeal” due to the openly critical nature of sometimes at considerable personal cost. Haslop presents the his humour, and being “a genuine thinker masquerading as a fool Listening Lounge from Sunday 5 to Wednesday 8 July at 17:00 daily and the reluctant voice of a cynical generation”. at the Monument Restaurant. SATIRE, CENSORSHIP 117 AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION SATIRE AND PARODY: THE SATIRE: THE MOST SANE AND LEGAL PROTECTIONS AND RATIONAL RESPONSE? A DEBATE RESTRICTIONS – DARIO MILO FRIDAY 10 JULY 17:30 Pierre de Vos, Dario Milo, Albie Sachs and Conrad Koch will be THURSDAY 9 JULY 12:00 joined by representatives from the media and others to discuss the valuable role satire plays in the post-apartheid public sphere. Dario Milo is a partner in the dispute-resolution practice at Webber Wentzel, where he specialises in media, GETTING THE LAST LAUGH ON communications and information law, and commercial CECIL JOHN RHODES – and tax dispute resolution. JUSTICE ALBIE SACHS He authored Defamation and SATURDAY 11 JULY 12:00 Freedom of Speech (OUP) and has represented a number of Justice Albie Sachs is an activist and Member of the ANC. He helped high profile arts cases, including draft the ANC’s Code of Conduct and statutes, is member of the the cartoonist Zapiro, the Constitutional Committee and National Executive Committee of Goodman Gallery in The Spear the ANC, a Director of Research for the Ministry of Justice, a retired claim and ventriloquist Conrad Constitutional Court Judge and an author. He sits a member of Koch. numerous Boards, including the National Arts Festival Board. CONRAD KOCH: SPEAKING UP ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: FRIDAY 10 JULY 11:30 Ventriloquist and comedian FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION SATURDAY 4 JULY 10:00 Conrad Koch talks about freedom of expression in a profession that The French Institute of South Africa and Freedom of Expression relies on the ability to talk openly Institute join forces to present a round table about press freedom and ask difficult questions. Koch’s with guests from Radio France Internationale (RFI) and members puppet Chester Missing famously of the South African media. On 7 January 2015, gunmen attacked became the first puppet to win a the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing 12 court battle when the Randburg people including the editor and celebrated cartoonists. The satirical Magistrate’s Court set aside an magazine has a long history of publishing intentionally controversial interim protection order secured and provocative cartoons and covers. The attack on Charlie Hebdo by Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmeyr represented an attack on media freedom and a violation of the rights gagging the puppet from tweeting to free expression. However, beyond the solidarity shown by the about him. rest of the world for the victims, the attack reignited long standing debate on how freedom of expression is contextually defined in ways that differ between countries. On a broader scale, the role of the media and particularly those who are tasked with editorial MYTH OF THE FREE decision making is today increasingly defined by local constructs such as cultural sensitivity, political partisanship, legal norms, social MARKETPLACE values which increasingly define media freedom and free expression OF IDEAS – as a less universal principle. PIERRE DE VOS WHY VALUES MATTER WHEN CAN THE MEDIA IMPROVE DECIDING ON THE LIMITS OF TOLERANCE AND UNDERSTANDING FREE SPEECH FRIDAY 10 JULY 14:00 AMONG WORLD RELIGIONS? PRESENTED BY THE WORDFEST DALRO/SAMRO COLLOQUIUM Pierre de Vos is the Claude Leon SUNDAY 5 JULY 14:30 Foundation Chair in Constitutional SEMINAR ROOM 2, EDEN GROVE Governance at the University of Cape Town. He has published widely on issues of constitutional law, from Maggy Thatcher once said: “Publicity is housing to marriage equality and citizenship rights and co-edited the oxygen of terrorists.” Is there more South African Constitutional Law in Context (OUP). His blog to the matter than that? A distinguished www.constitutionallyspeaking.co.za offers a constitutional panel of experts from widely different backgrounds explores the perspective on contemporary South African social and political complex issue of press freedom and the need to know in a world issues and is widely read and syndicated in the Daily Maverick. where the number of religious adherents is escalating rapidly and coming into closer contact than ever before. 118 SECRECY AND SURVEILLANCE Paradoxically we have more information than we have ever had before at the tips of our fingers and we have the power to pass it around in microseconds; but the same technology that gives us that fantastic ability is also used to constrain, to hide and to keep tabs on who we are, what we want to know and what we do with information.