Join us for these great events in May: Author Richard Conyngham and artist Tumi Mamabolo at Interference Archive and Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu at the Contemporary African Voices Series.
Plus! You could win copies of both of Siphiwe’s books.
Author Richard Conyngham explored South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal’s basement archive, and through that research, was able to construct narratives of six cases of stories of resistance and rebellion from the period loosely known as the “Union years”—between South Africa’s unification in 1910 and the beginning of apartheid in 1948. These are stories of passive resisters, strikers, rebels, and revolutionaries fought back in the streets and in the courts.
The result of that work was the illustrated history, All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa, which was created with a team of South African artists. Join Richard and artist Tumi Mamabolo on Sunday, May 22 at 1:00 pm ET to explore the ways artists and creative writers can make use of archival materials, to discuss how archives and primary sources can be an effective avenue for creative work, and how the artists and writers filled archival gaps through creative decision-making to construct the stories we read in All Rise. Hosted by Interference Archive.
Award-winning author, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, will be in conversation with journalist Garvia Bailey as part of the Contemporary African Voices Series on Thursday, May 26 at 10am PT
This event is a fundraiser for the Stephen Lewis Foundation Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign which supports community-based organizations in sub-Saharan Africa who are turning the tide of HIV and AIDS. The event is free, but donations are welcome and greatly appreciated.
There is also a book giveaway! We’ll be giving away four sets of Siphiwe’s novels, The Theory of Flight and The History of Man, to four winners— two in Canada, and two in the US. Entries accepted until Thursday, May 12, 2022