Centre is an on-going collaborative project between Scalabrini Drama Group and performance artist Rosa Rogers Postlethwaite, with performers exploring clichés around “good” first impressions.
Centre is presented as part of the AVA public programme that accompanies Sydelle Willow Smith’s Soft Walls, an exhibition that deals with convivial relationships between migrated African nationals and South Africans. Smith is the first recipient of the Gisèle Wulfsohn Mentorship in Photography established by the Market Photo Workshop in association with the family of the late Gisèle Wulfsohn.
The work becomes all the more poignant as the performers are refugees who address stereotypes, biases and tensions that mar the daily social life of many marginalised individuals.
Following the performance of Centre, Abdul Dube from Kaospilots will host World Café as a form for stimulating and building vibrant conversation between performers and their audience.
WHERE: The AVA Gallery, 35 Church Street, Cape Town, 8001
WHEN: Saturday 17 May 2014, 11am to 1pm
INFO: (021) 424 7436 or info@ava.co.za
