BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.7//EN TZID:Africa/Johannesburg X-WR-TIMEZONE:Africa/Johannesburg BEGIN:VEVENT UID:40@afcapetown.co.za DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230817T180000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20230817T200000 DTSTAMP:20230731T113632Z URL:https://www.afcapetown.co.za/events/joint-talk-book-launch/ SUMMARY:Joint Talk & Book Launch DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n \;\n\nWhere does history lie?\nFrom Remembering D6 to Writing a History of Mitchell’s Plain.\n\n\nLudmila Ommundsen Pessoa and Yazeed Kamaldien will present their complementary latest works and ex change views with the audience in this joint talk. While Kamaldien will ex plain his objectives in collecting oral testimonies of displacement from f ormer District Six residents and the issues encountered in dealing with th e complexities of truth\, Ommundsen Pessoa will explain how the unexpected discovery of the little-known propaganda documentary film ‘Mitchells Pl ain’ (1980)\, also featuring residents' interviews\, induced her to 'cou nter-compose' a history of Mitchell's Plain\, thus paving the way for more histories with different and enlarged perspectives. This joint talk will begin with a screening of Kamaldien’s videos and the 1980 documentary fi lm. \n\nDr. Ludmila Ommundsen Pessoa is a senior lecturer at the Universi ty of Le Havre-Normandy (France). From September 2023 she will take up a p rofessorship position at the University of Le Mans (France). Her research now focuses on South Africa’s contemporary literature\, history and cult ure. She is a former director of the Alliance Française in Cape Town and Mitchell’s Plain (2008-2013).\n\nWelcome to Mitchell’s Plain\, Filming a ‘Model Township during Apartheid (2023) chronicles the fortunes of M itchell’s Plain. Its conception as a “model township” for the Colour ed—evacuated from their homes by racialised rehousing programmes—and i ts role as propaganda for the apartheid regime\, who heavily publicised it not just within South Africa but also in the international press and comm issioned a documentary film for worldwide distribution in 1980. The study draws on official documentary sources and interviews with various social a ctors whose life experience conveys a very different image of the process. https://books.openedition.org/africae/3939 .\n\nYazeed Kamaldien is a jou rnalist and documentary filmmaker who was born in Cape Town\, South Africa . He has reported from various countries\, including conflict zones such a s Yemen\, Syria and the Gaza Strip. He was the production manager on Miner s Shot Down\, which won an international Emmy award in New York in 2015. Y azeed holds a degree in journalism and a master’s degree in internationa l peace-building.\n\nThis Was Our Home is a video series of former Distric t Six residents sharing their feelings about their homes\, which once stoo d where the Cape Peninsular University of Technology (CPUT) was built. It aims to provide a platform for the voices of displaced District Six reside nts with the intention of informing a younger generation about what was lo st. It was part of Infecting the City public arts festival and was launche d at the St Mark’s Church in District Six in 2017. Watch all the short v ideos on social media: https://www.facebook.com/D6OurHome\n\nRSVP : cultu re@afcapetown.co.za | Deadline : 14 August\nLocation : Alliance Française du Cap\, 155 Loop Street | Free entrance\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.afcapetown.co.za/wp-content/uploads/ 2023/07/Flyer-AF-du-CAP-800x800-1.png CATEGORIES:Literature END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Africa/Johannesburg X-LIC-LOCATION:Africa/Johannesburg BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20220817T180000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:SAST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR