Name: Breaking the Silence: A luta Continua – An exhibition of memory and healing work. Country: South Africa Artistic Medium: visual arts - photography, memory cloths, art banners, drawings, paintings, scrapbooks, body maps and film.
Organizations: Human Rights Media Center and Khulumani Support Group Western Cape
Shirley Gunn & Zukiswa Khalipha, Human Rights Media Centre director@hrmc.org.za and admin@hrmc.org.za
Objective: To give the unacknowledged heroes and survivors of the struggle against Apartheid a chance to remember and express their experiences and to create a record that might honour their sacrifice and educate future generations.
A luta continua banner
Abstract: Breaking the silence: A luta continua documents a process involving over a thousand Khulumani (“to speak out”) Support Group members in the Western Cape who used scrapbooks, body-maps, photographs, memory cloths, drawings, paintings, art banners and film to tell the stories of their lives under apartheid. The purpose of the process was twofold: to give the unacknowledged heroes and survivors of the struggle against apartheid a chance to remember and express their experiences and to create a record that might honour their sacrifice and educate future generations. In 2002, the Human Rights Media Centre also produced the movie We never give up (71 mins) directed by Cahal McLaughlin. This travelling exhibition spans three years of collaborative work between the Human Rights Media Centre and the Khulumani Support Group – Western Cape. It was hosted at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, from July to December 2004, at the Slave Lodge in Cape Town from July 2006 to February 2007 and Slough Museum in London, United Kingdom, in March 2007. At smaller exhibition is hosted at the Red Location Museum in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
If you are interested in hosting the exhibition please contact the Human Rights Media Centre, director@hrmc.org.za
Before the fire and after the fire banners
The project also aims to raise awareness of a number of social issues including the unfinished work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which largely ignored, arson and did not complete the process of resolving disappearances and reintegrating ex-combatants, as well as a number of large corporations who abetted apartheid (there is a Khulumani lawsuit against 23 multinational corporations for their role in aiding and abetting apartheid).
Three Khulumani members have been trained as guides to take visitors through the exhibition. There is also an educational package for schools.
The HRMC is an oral history project that aims to promote an awareness and culture of human rights by enabling organisations and individuals to tell their life stories to the public through a variety of media forms and through a number of projects.
Bonteheuwel Veterans’ Association memory cloth
Body maps and scrapbooks
Abstract: Breaking the silence: A luta continua documents a process involving over a thousand Khulumani (“to speak out”) Support Group members in the Western Cape who used scrapbooks, body-maps, photographs, memory cloths, drawings, paintings, art banners and film to tell the stories of their lives under apartheid. The purpose of the process was twofold: to give the unacknowledged heroes and survivors of the struggle against apartheid a chance to remember and express their experiences and to create a record that might honour their sacrifice and educate future generations. In 2002, the Human Rights Media Centre also produced the movie We never give up (71 mins) directed by Cahal McLaughlin. This travelling exhibition spans three years of collaborative work between the Human Rights Media Centre and the Khulumani Support Group – Western Cape. It was hosted at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, from July to December 2004, at the Slave Lodge in Cape Town from July 2006 to February 2007 and Slough Museum in London, United Kingdom, in March 2007. At smaller exhibition is hosted at the Red Location Museum in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern
Cape, South Africa.
If you are interested in hosting the exhibition please contact the Human Rights Media Centre, director@hrmc.org.za
The project also aims to raise awareness of a number of social issues including the unfinished work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which largely ignored, arson and did not complete the process of resolving disappearances and reintegrating ex-combatants, as well as a number of large corporations who abetted apartheid (there is a Khulumani lawsuit against 23 multinational corporations for their role in aiding and abetting apartheid).
Three Khulumani members have been trained as guides to take visitors through the exhibition. There is also an educational package for schools.
The HRMC is an oral history project that aims to promote an awareness and culture of human rights by enabling organisations and individuals to tell their life stories to the public through a variety of media forms and through a number of projects.
Name: Breaking the Silence: A luta Continua – An exhibition of memory and healing work.
Country: South Africa
Artistic Medium: visual arts - photography, memory cloths, art banners, drawings, paintings, scrapbooks, body maps and film.
Organizations: Human Rights Media Center and Khulumani Support Group Western Cape
Shirley Gunn & Zukiswa Khalipha, Human Rights Media Centre director@hrmc.org.za and admin@hrmc.org.za
Objective: To give the unacknowledged heroes and survivors of the struggle against Apartheid a chance to remember and express their experiences and to create a record that might honour their sacrifice and educate future generations.
A luta continua banner
Abstract: Breaking the silence: A luta continua documents a process involving over a thousand Khulumani (“to speak out”) Support Group members in the Western Cape who used scrapbooks, body-maps, photographs, memory cloths, drawings, paintings, art banners and film to tell the stories of their lives under apartheid. The purpose of the process was twofold: to give the unacknowledged heroes and survivors of the struggle against apartheid a chance to remember and express their experiences and to create a record that might honour their sacrifice and educate future generations. In 2002, the Human Rights Media Centre also produced the movie We never give up (71 mins) directed by Cahal McLaughlin. This travelling exhibition spans three years of collaborative work between the Human Rights Media Centre and the Khulumani Support Group – Western Cape. It was hosted at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, from July to December 2004, at the Slave Lodge in Cape Town from July 2006 to February 2007 and Slough Museum in London, United Kingdom, in March 2007. At smaller exhibition is hosted at the Red Location Museum in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
If you are interested in hosting the exhibition please contact the Human Rights Media Centre, director@hrmc.org.za
Before the fire and after the fire banners
The project also aims to raise awareness of a number of social issues including the unfinished work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which largely ignored, arson and did not complete the process of resolving disappearances and reintegrating ex-combatants, as well as a number of large corporations who abetted apartheid (there is a Khulumani lawsuit against 23 multinational corporations for their role in aiding and abetting apartheid).
Three Khulumani members have been trained as guides to take visitors through the exhibition. There is also an educational package for schools.
The HRMC is an oral history project that aims to promote an awareness and culture of human rights by enabling organisations and individuals to tell their life stories to the public through a variety of media forms and through a number of projects.
Bonteheuwel Veterans’ Association memory cloth
Body maps and scrapbooks
Abstract: Breaking the silence: A luta continua documents a process involving over a thousand Khulumani (“to speak out”) Support Group members in the Western Cape who used scrapbooks, body-maps, photographs, memory cloths, drawings, paintings, art banners and film to tell the stories of their lives under apartheid. The purpose of the process was twofold: to give the unacknowledged heroes and survivors of the struggle against apartheid a chance to remember and express their experiences and to create a record that might honour their sacrifice and educate future generations. In 2002, the Human Rights Media Centre also produced the movie We never give up (71 mins) directed by Cahal McLaughlin. This travelling exhibition spans three years of collaborative work between the Human Rights Media Centre and the Khulumani Support Group – Western Cape. It was hosted at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg, South Africa, from July to December 2004, at the Slave Lodge in Cape Town from July 2006 to February 2007 and Slough Museum in London, United Kingdom, in March 2007. At smaller exhibition is hosted at the Red Location Museum in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern