DOUG JAHANGEER TALK

The first KZN Arterial Network reading group session will take place at the Centre for Creative Arts house on May 25 at 18h30. The session will feature local artist and activist Doung Jahangeer who will be exploring the concept of cultural diversity.

In typical Durban fashion, this will not be a conventional reading group session. Instead of focusing on texts, Jahangeer will be using a series of images as a starting point for a discussion around cultural diversity and the nature of public space. He will be interrogating the meaning of 'cultural diversity', together with fellow artist Peter McKenzie, with particular focus on what he calls the “post-apartheid cultural space that is primarily the pavement”. Jahangeer will also be discussing the twin notions of 'united cultural diversity' and 'segregated cultural diversity'.

Doung Jahangeer is an artist and activist who specialises in urban interventions, concentrating on the multiplicitous nature of urban space and exploring the ingenious design solution that working class city dwellers produce in response to their environment. Together with Rike Sitas and Nontobeko Ntombela, Jahangeer is also the co-founder of the Dala art collective, an interdisciplinary collective which uses the transformative role of creativity to help build safer and more liveable cities.

Arterial Network is a continental network of artists, cultural activists, arts NGOs, cultural enterprises and others committed to developing African music, dance, theatre, literature, craft, design, visual art and film in their own right, and as means to contribute to democracy, human rights and development in Africa.

The group reading session takes place on May 25 from 18h30 to 20h30 at the Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal. The CCA is located on Mazisi Kunene Avenue in a yellow house +/- 30m before the entrance boom gate to the Howard College campus of the University. Parking available inside the gate. More information on 031 260 2506.

Entrance is free and all are welcome.

Download the Arterial Network e-brochure or for further information visit www.arterialnetwork.org and www.artsinafrica.com