PROGRAMME
An initiative of the Institut français d’Afrique du Sud (IFAS) / French Institute of South Africa and Embassy of France
13 February 2024
Registration Open
09:00
60 mins
Homecoming Centre
For delegates attending the Design Thinking Workshop
Design Thinking Session
10:00
120 mins
Tafel, Homecoming Centre
Hosted by the Hasso Plattner d–school Afrika*. In this session, participants will be introduced…
Registration Open
12:00
360 mins
Homecoming Centre
For delegates not attending the Design Thinking Workshop
Meet and Greet Lunch
13:00
60 mins
Tafel, Homecoming Centre
Get to know the delegates and convening contributors in an informal gathering.
Welcome Address
14:15
25 mins
Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre
Curator’s Address
14:45
15 mins
Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre
Reimagining Museums and Cultural Institutions for a New Era
15:00
90 mins
Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre
Museums the world over are being compelled to keep up with the expectations of their increasingly…
Reimagining the South African Museum: Beyond the 200-year-old Wunderkammer
16:45
60 mins
Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre
The Iziko South African Museum (ISAM) is the oldest and largest museum in southern Africa…
Reimaging Heritage Archives and Museums: Today Tomorrow
18:30
150 mins
Iziko South African Museum (ISAM)
The convening’s opening event will take place inside the Iziko South African Museum’s Whale Well.
14 February 2024
A Radical Commitment to Repair: Perspectives on Restitution
09:00
30 mins
Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre
The return of African heritage is happening. It is a vital quake in the heritage landscape and…
From Broken Bones to Healing Hearts: My Journey with Sarah Baartman
09:30
30 mins
Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre
Internationally renowned poet and storyteller Diana Ferrus will deliver a performance lecture…
Repatriation and Restitution: From Conversation to Action
10:45
120 mins
Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre
A roundtable that will discuss active claims and aim to propose ways to approach and move…
Walkabout: Kewpie Daughter of District 6 Exhibition
12:45
90 mins
District Six Museum
In 2018 the District Six Museum, in partnership with the GALA Queer Archive, debuted the exhibiti…
Lunch & Walkabout: Truth to Power: Desmond Tutu and the Churches in the Struggle Against Apartheid
12:45
90 mins
Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation
A first of its kind on the African continent, Truth to Power celebrates key aspects of the legacy…
Collections Care and Heritage Management For Africa: Who Are Collections Really For?
14:30
90 mins
Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre
A panel discussion that will explore how indigenous knowledge, community-centred practices and…
Augmenting the Archive: Exploring AR and Digital Preservation for Accessibility & Interactivity
14:30
90 mins
The Workshop, Homecoming Centre
In this practical, hands-on workshop, participants will explore innovative approaches to…
Djowamon
14:30
60 mins
Avalon Auditorium, Homecoming Centre
Since December 2022, the AFD Campus, the University of Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne and the…
Performance: Genesis 1
16:45
15 mins
Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre
A request to return to the beginning of time, to reverse the spirit that has brought humanity to…
Pecha Kucha & Talk series: Case studies on Conservation, Collections and Heritage Management
16:45
75 mins
Avalon Auditorium, Homecoming Centre
6 min 40 sec each
Heritage and Spirit
17:00
60 mins
Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre
This session will foreground Indigenous knowledge systems and African spiritualities to explore…
Seismography of Struggle
19:30
30 mins
Zeitz MOCAA
Seismography of Struggle: Towards a Global History of Critical and Cultural Journals, curated by…
15 February 2024
Community Engagement – Engaging Communities: What Does it Mean to Serve the Community Well?
09:00
90 mins
Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre
How can museums and heritage institutions be more reflective, inclusive, responsive, visible, and…
Discussion: “Mutoko”: A Hidden Rock Art Treasure of Southern Africa/French Conservation Project
09:30
60 mins
The Workshop, Homecoming Centre
The Iziko Museums of South Africa, is privileged to be the custodians of two massive Rock Art Rep…
Unboxing Mayibuye: Access to Digital Heritage
09:00
90 mins
Avalon Auditorium, Homecoming Centre
The “Unboxing Mayibuye – Access to Digital Heritage” project was launched in 2022. It is a three…
Contemporary Design as Heritage Preservation and Engagement
10:30
90 mins
Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre
This panel discussion will address how top South African designers are drawing on their heritage…
The Present as an Archive: Intergenerational Dialogue Through Folklore
10:30
90 mins
Avalon Auditorium, Homecoming Centre
How can folklore function as a library for intergenerational dialogue and a portal into…
The Urgency of Preserving and Archiving African Languages Through Storytelling
10:30
90 mins
The Workshop, Homecoming Centre
An engaging presentation and workshop that will address the critical importance of preserving and…
Pecha Kucha series: Digital Today/Tomorrow
13:45
60 mins
Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre
6 min 20 sec presentation each
Heritage and Art: The Role of Private and Corporate Collectors in Valuing and Preserving African Heritage
14:30
60 mins
Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre
How can private and corporate collectors contribute not just to the growth of the art market, but…
Let’s Talk Money: How Do We Pay for Heritage?
15:45
60 mins
Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre
How can heritage institutions in Africa and Europe ensure adequate, sustained resources to…
Closing remarks
17:00
30 mins
Star Theatre, Homecoming Centre
Ngaire Blankenberg, Emmanuel Kasarhérou and Michelle Constant
16 February 2024
Mayibuye Archives
09:00
180 mins
Mayibuye Archives (University of Western Cape)
In 2000 the UWC Robben Island Mayibuye Archives (formerly the Mayibuye Centre) became the officia…
Exhibitions 13 – 15 February
This Was Our Home
08:00
28 mins
Tafel, Homecoming Centre
District Six is a piece of land in Cape Town, South Africa, that bears testimony to resistance…
small gestures, grand gestures
08:00
20 mins
Tafel, Homecoming Centre
Shot inside the French Ministry of Defence audiovisual archive near Paris, the film looks at the vis
Accused #2 Walter Sisulu
08:00
16 mins
Bits ‘n Pieces, Homecoming Centre
Virtual reality film
16 Mins
Nicolas Champeaux & Gilles Porte
Atomu
12 mins
Bits ‘n Pieces, Homecoming Centre
Atomu places the user at the cyclical centre of a Kikuyu tribal myth from Kenya wherein man may…
Invisible Reality
08:00
5 mins
Bits ‘n Pieces, Homecoming Centre
This is a geographical concept highlighting misconceptions of race, ideas of identity, belonging…
Kwasukasukela
08:00
15 mins
Bits ‘n Pieces, Homecoming Centre
An immersive experience by Inka Kendzia and Xabiso Vili that takes the audience on an extraordina…
Letters from the Landscape
08:00
– mins
Bits ‘n Pieces, Homecoming Centre
Letters from the Landscape is an experimental mapping project, explored across multiple scales of pl
Tembea
08:00
30 mins
Bits ‘n Pieces, Homecoming Centre
The project combines documentary film If Objects Could Speak and an AR installation. The project fol
The Eye of Rre Mutwa
08:00
16 mins
Bits ‘n Pieces, Homecoming Centre
Eye of Rre Mutwa, An Afrocyborg Homage to Credo Vasamazulu Mutwa 1921-2020, draws inspiration from t
Speakers, performers and moderators
'Mamokuena Makhema
Afrocyborg VR Film Collective
Albie Sachs
Ambassador David Martinon
Andrew Lamprecht
Anele Lupuwana
Annelize Kotze
ArtBank intern
Atlas V
Azah Mphago
Baruu Collective
Benjamin Fellous
Betty Karanja
Bradley Mottie
Bridget Ulalo Shumba
Camile Kaiser
Caryn Green
Craig McClenaghan
Dawn Robertson
Dr Diana Ferrus
Dr Erica de Greef
Dr Koni Benson
Dr Mwayi Lusaka
Dr Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu
Dr Nokuthula Nhleko
Dr Paul Bayliss
Dr Rudo Sithole
Dr Same Mdluli
Dr Steven Zwane
Dr Wandile Kasibe
Dr Wayne Florence
Dr Wendy Black
Emilie Gambade
Emmanuel Kasarhérou
Eric Itzkin
Gabriele Mohale
Genevieve Ray
Gilbert Balinda
Gilles Porte
Goabaone Montsho
Gogo Khanyakude
Gregory Maqoma
Inka Kendzia
Innocent Fungurani
Janene van Wyk
Jay Pather
Keval Harie
Khalil Driss
Khaulah Abdulkadir
Laurent Serrano
Lebogang Mashile
Lekgetho Makola
Linda Chernis
Louis Norval
Lucy MacGarry
Lukhanyo Mdingi
Maggi Loubser
Mahoutondji Kinmagbo
Mandla Sibeko
Marie Perrier
Mariki Victor
Mbali Mthethwa
Melusi Masike
Michelle Constant
Molemo Moiloa
Motsane Gertrude Seabela
Mpumi Mayisa
Mudzunga Munzhedzi
Mwenya Kabwe
Ngaire Blankenberg
Nicolas Champeaux
Nkuli Mlangeni-Berg
Nyaradzayi Maduro
Orinayo Odubawo
Precious Mothiba
Prof Carolyn Hamilton
Prof Ciraj Rassool
Prof Jen Snowball
Puleng Plessie
Rasoarifetra Bako
Ryan Pillay
Sami Meddeb
Shariffa Ali
Simbayi Cogen Qwasira
Siphokazi Jonas
Sophia Sanan
Sophie Taïeb
Steve Kwena Mokwena
Storm Janse van Rensburg
Thebe Magugu
Thomas Monteil
Tina Smith
Tsosheletso Chidi
Veronica Maduna
Veronika Châtelain
William Mutikani
Xabiso Vili
Yazeed Kamaldien
Yetude Dada
Zahia Rahmani
Zakhele Ndlovu
Zandile Tshamlambo
