Bringing Music to Cape Town's Underprivileged Communities – a Norwegian Academy of Music (NAM)/ South African College of Music (SACM) Collaboration

South Africa in world context

South Africa – on the tip of Africa

Cape Town

History of the project Funded by the NORAD Programme in Arts and Cultural Education (ACE) This project has been running since 2006 UCT has been able to send a total of ten students to study at NAM for one year each Two students from NAM have come to UCT as part of the programme

The students from UCT who were awarded the scholarships were: Chris Engel & Lwanda Gogwana {2006/7} Keenan Ahrends & Mandla Mlangeni {2007/8} Darren English & Claude Cozens {2008/9} Wathiq Hoosain & Ethan Smith {2009/10} Adele Wyngaard & Justin Bellairs {2010/11} The students from NAM who were awarded the scholarship were: Lisa Hvoslef & Ellen Brekken {2009}

Academic objectives This project relates to student mobility and introduced the possibility for students from the Jazz Department at SACM to spend an exchange period at the Norwegian Academy of Music as a part of their Bachelor of Music programme in Cape Town, and vice versa for 2 Norwegian students. The study programme includes subjects such as: main instrument, improvisation, different ensembles, aural training, harmony, composition, arrangement and a Norwegian language course. The amount of credit awarded for the year will be 60 ECTS.

Service-learning objectives On return to SACM students are expected to engage in a community-education programme for a year, which involves them going to disadvantaged areas of the community and providing quality education. This will eventually provide access to various university programmes at UCT to the youth in those communities. This part of the programme is administered by Prof Mike Campbell at SACM.

A typical tourist’s view of Cape Town

Reality for many underprivileged communities in Cape Town

Teaching on the IMAD Project

IMAD Project The Institute for Music and Indigenous Arts Development Founded in 2007 by George Werner Currently runs in four schools: Eluxolweni Primary in Khayelitsha York Rd Primary in Lansdowne ComArts Community Centre in Elsies River Manenberg High in Manenberg

Difficulties faced UCT does not run any credit-based SL programmes so there is no central office to manage this type of thing Students sometimes found it difficult to go out to the areas where the schools were located – lack of transport as well as cost implications No existing music teachers at schools

Future sustainability Purchasing of instruments for schools means that music education can possibly continue Teaching skills developed by the returning students often lead to them taking up full- time teaching positions IMAD and SACM have an established relationship so the likelihood of this continuing after this project is over is high

Conclusion UCT would like to thank NORAD ACE for its generous sponsorship of this programme We hope that the association with NORAD will continue in different spheres UCT is a member of SANORD and we have enjoyed participating in this project and working with our NORDIC partners