If you walk down the main avenue of upper campus on a sunny afternoon, you find thousands of students, black and white – often together – doing what students do: dancing in the Molly Blackburn hall, studying in the library, sitting in groups on the plaza chatting, sometimes discussing politics or science, fretting over tests, loans and money, often holding hands and sometimes kissing. When: 15 August 2018 Time: 13:00 – 14:00 Venue: Molly Blackburn, UCT Upper Campus Blackburn was brought up with liberal ideas, and became aware of the problems facing South African black communities such as poverty, violence and political injustice and the anger this caused through her involvement in the Black Sash. Twice in recent years, it has been robed by students as a means of protest. The event served several purposes, said committee chairperson Associate Professor Jay Pather. The Green Campus Initiative presents the Divestment Panel Discussion. Molly Blackburn Hall, UCT Upper Campus. stream <>>> These events form part of a programme of Thursday lunchtime performances, debates and interventions coordinated by the WOAC. August 3, 2018. Posts about Molly Blackburn written by curatingtheabsence.
Molly Blackburn Hall - UCT video venue finder UCTVideoVenueFinder. Blackburn was the Black Sash campaigner and anti-apartheid activist whose mortal sin was to have been white, or perhaps a vector of “whiteness” – effectively the same thing. … UCT Ballroom and Latin Dancing Society is a student oriented, social dancing society, offering lessons, dance socials and other events to the UCT community. UCT's decision to honour the late Molly Blackburn by renaming the hall which currently houses the Nescafé, the Molly Blackburn Memorial Hall, attracted widespread media interest recently.The naming ceremony on July 8 was aired on SABC TV, and reports were published in newspaper around the country, including one or two newspaper editorials applauding the move on the part of UCT.Although Blackburn died in a car accident in 1985, an event many regarded with suspicion at the time, her memory is still very much alive in the South African consciousness. The opening of the Molly Blackburn exhibition space will take place on 12 April between 13:00 and 14:00. The spaces that we use, we don’t just use them to learn… we also feel them. Molly Blackburn Michaelis N Neville Alexander Bldg New Engineering Bldg New Lecture Theatre (under construction) New Science Lecture Theatre (NSLT) O Obz Square (Main Rd, Observatory) Off Campus Student Accommodation Services [OCSAS] (Meulenhof, Main Rd, Mowbray) Old Admin Bldg Old Groote Schuur Hospital Old Medical School Bldg Ombud, Office of the Our beginner class will … In the case of bad weather promoters will be permitted to distribute flyers to students in the Molly Blackburn Hall. Dance. Blackburn and Brian Bishop were killed. The absence of the Rhodes statue, with a shadow of the statue painted on the stairs

The first session was held on 15 March, and kicked off discussions around new visions for and ways of engaging with the UCT art collection.“This we are quite clear on: that the atmosphere on the campus, with regards to artworks, with regards to symbols, does need to be transformed,” said Pather.Through the re-curation of spaces, the committee strives for spaces that “better reflect this contemporary moment, and not a moment from the past”, he continued.A cleansing ritual was performed on Thursday, 22 March, at 13:00 in Molly Blackburn Hall. This event marks the start of a campus-wide rehanging of the UCT art collection. 3 0 obj Posters can therefore reach a very wide audience or target very specific groups that frequent specific buildings. endobj Molly Blackburn was born in 1930. Molly Blackburn Hall. July 22, 2018. <> The sculpture, by Bester, has been on display at UCT for 12 years.

Since then the committee has developed a series of activities to inform the community about what the curatorial policies currently are at UCT, in order to begin the development of a new policy.“Together with the curation and the informing of the campus about what we’re doing, we’re also engaged with trying to make apparent, and work with, existing works that may or may not be problematic or difficult – and to open up a discussion to actually receive views and to act on those views,” explained the chair of the committee, Associate Professor Jay Pather.It was in this spirit that this, the second lunchtime engagement facilitated by the WOAC, took place. endobj 1 0 obj ".Vice-Chancellor Professor Njabulo Ndebele said Blackburn had been "a remarkable woman who was one of the truly great South Africans to stand up and be counted during one of the darkest periods of our history".By embedding this news article on your site you are agreeing to,Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License,UCT retains top spot in Africa in THE world rankings,Scholarship opportunity to spark global social change,From campus cleaning to library assistant,UCT innovators on M&Gs list of top young South Africans,Forgotten diseases hit poorest billion hardest during pandemic.A new Lancet Commission report shows that non-communicable diseases and injuries cause more death and disability at every age among the world’s poorest billion than in wealthy countries.UCT medical students make a difference on the frontline.UCT medical students spent the past few months on the frontline, playing their part in the country’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.Trusting local knowledge: the case of fire management in a Namibian park.Fire and humans have a long history in African savannas.