Strategies for Survival at SIBIKWA 1988 – 2021: Landmarks of South African Theatre History

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Acknowledgements
PART 1Chapter 1. The Political is Personal: Smal Ndaba and Phyllis Klotz in Thumbnail Portraits of Origins and Orientations
Sarah Roberts
Chapter 2. Founding Sibikwa: A Professional Partnership Tempered in the Forge of Apartheid's Final Years
Sarah Roberts
Chapter 3. Democracy, the First Decade: The Mandela-Mbeki Years (1994-2005)
Sarah Roberts
Chapter 4. The Trouble with Freedom: Mbeki's Dream of an African Renaissance, Nation-building and Issues Surrounding HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Sarah Roberts
Chapter 5. Issues of Governance, Policy, Delivery, and Accountability Escalate: Sibikwa Responds to Developments in Arts and Culture Policy Documents and with Theatre-in-Education Projects
Sarah Roberts
Chapter 6. The Struggle for Social Justice in Confronting Gender-based Violence and Srategies of Intensifying an African Cultural Heritage as the Project Moves into the Future
Sarah Roberts
Appendix :1 A Chronology of Major Political Events, Cultural Developments and Sibikwa Plays
PART IIChapter 7. Governance of Sibikwa Arts Centre: A Reflection on the Agility, Progress, and Longevity of the Organisation
Munyaradzi Chatikobo and Caryn Green
Chapter 8. Sibikwa's Educational Programmes
Vanessa Bower and Hazel Barnes
Appendix 2: A Chronology of Educational and Vocational Training Programmes
Chapter 9. Living Proof: Thirty Years of Sibikwa's Theatre Productions
Sarah Roberts
Appendix 3: A Chronology of Sibikwa Productions
Chapter 10. Celebrating Sibikwa's Legacy of Dance and Physical Theatre from Community to Professional Dance Development
Clare Craighead and Lliane Loots
Appendix 4: A Chronology of Sibikwa Dance Company Productions and Festivals
Chapter 11. Keeping the African Sound Relevant
Evans Netshivhambe
Appendix 5: A Chronology of Sibikwa's Music History
Chapter 12. Framing the Intersectional Gender Politics of the Sibikwa Legacy
Lliane Loots
Appendix 6- A Chronology of Gender Based Productions, Festivals and Training
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This book provides an engaging and contextualised insight into a South African township-based arts centre that has survived the vicissitudes of steady militarisation in townships during some of the worst years of apartheid as well as the exhilaration of a new democratic policy while attempting to circumnavigate different policies and funding dispensations.

Sibikwa provides arts centres across the world and especially those in decolonising countries with strategies for survival in tumultuous times. This multi-disciplinary book maps and co-ordinates wider historical, political, and social contextual concerns and events with matters specific to a community-based east of Johannesburg and provides an exploration and analysis by experts of authentic theatre-making and performance, dance, indigenous music, arts in education and NGO governance. It has contemporary significance and raises important questions regarding inclusivity and transformation, the function and future of arts centres, community-based applied arts practices, creativity, and international partnerships.

This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance, indigenous music, dance, and South African history.

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