HSRC presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Arts and Culture 8 March 2005

Presentation format  Indigenous Knowledge Systems  Disability  Gender  Social Cohesion and Identity

Indigenous knowledge systems  Importance of indigenous knowledge in reducing poverty of rural agrarian households  Focus on local natural resources in particular African vegetables  Provide a means of managing natural resources to ensure food security  Identify indigenous innovations that can promote sustainable food security  Integration of the identified indigenous innovations and scientific knowledge  Collaborators  HSRC, ARC, DST, residents in Nkuna Tribal Area, Limpopo province  Funding  DST  Parliamentary grant

Disability

ZIP ZIP MY BRAIN HARTS Photography, disability and hidden lives  Angela Buckland’s three-part photographic exhibition portrays several families’ experience of disability  Her project will be extended to include:  An international touring exhibition  A photographic book based on her work  Educational workshops for health professionals  CYFD will evaluate the extent to which these change attitudes towards parenting and disability  Collaborative project between the social sciences, arts and disability rights/activist groups  Partial funding from Royal Netherlands Embassy for the photographic book

‘NOTHING WITHOUT US’ Disability inclusion and SABC Education CYFD recently completed a report for SABC education giving guidelines on presentation of disability in the media ‘NOTHING WITHOUT US’ Disability inclusion and SABC Education CYFD recently completed a report for SABC education giving guidelines on presentation of disability in the media

Gender

Fatherhood project  Aims to recognise, encourage and support men’s care and protection of children  Travelling photographic exhibition, book, media and activities by participating organisations  Images of fatherhood by professional photographers, students and children  Accompanied by words of children talking about fathers and men talking about how they see themselves

Women’s history project  Follow-up on the book Women marching into the 21 st century published in1998  Two-part project initiated in 2002  Book on gendered history of S. African by women scholars  Will be released in 2006 to coincide with 50 th anniversary of women marching to Pretoria  Interactive CD Rom  Will contain database of biographies of SA women  Target audience learners, researchers, HEIs, NGOs

Social Cohesion and Identity

Heritage projects  The Subtle Power of Intangible Heritage: a review of legal instruments for managing intangible heritage, conducted for the International Network for Cultural Policy, 2003  Protecting our Cultural Capital: a review of legislation, policy and research on the Heritage sector, commissioned by DAC  South African Cultural Observatory which focuses on the music, print media and publishing, film and video, craft and heritage sectors. HSRC/DAC collaboration

SA-Flemish Community Arts Centre Project  Three-year project under DAC bi-national agreement  Aim  is to develop a policy-driven network of sustainable community arts centres in South Africa  Objectives  Develop policy framework for arts centres  Enhance service delivery in six arts centres  Build capacity in government and arts centres  Project areas  KwaZulu-Natal, Free State and Limpopo  Funding  Flemish allocation R7,2 million  DAC allocation R3,3 million

South African identity & its meanings  What does it mean to be S. African : Race, culture and identity  The role of intellectuals, artists and media in the making of a national identity  19 th century African intellectual and literary history in the making of African identity  Indigenous African philosphical systems and their contemporary relevance  Memory consciousness and social values  The relationship between culture and the constitution of public life on nation building  Strengthening heritage research capacity at the local level

Identity, Africa & the world lecture series  Conversations on African Identity by distinguished scholars: Ayi Kwei Armah, Wole Soyinka, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Cornel West and Ntongela Masilela  Networking with African scholars and institutions  Reviving intellectual culture and research capacity with a particular focus on youth artists and writers