Women* Storytelling Circle (Abafa(ba)zi exhibition)

Name: Women* Storytelling Circle (Abafa(ba)zi exhibition)
Start: 2025-02-28T11:00:00+02:00
Location: 119 Jan Smuts Avenue - Parkwood, 2193 Johannesburg, South Africa

Schedule

Fri, 28 Feb, 2025 at 11:00 am

UTC+02:00

Location

119 Jan Smuts Avenue - Parkwood, 2193 Johannesburg, South Africa | Johannesburg, GT

AVE THE DATE: Join us for the Women* storytelling circle on 28 February 2025, 6pm at Goethe-Institut South Africa.
RSVP IS REQUIRED: RSVP at [email protected] (Subject: Storytelling event) is encouraged.
Note: Women* stands for all persons identifiying as a women.
This event underscores Abafa(ba)zi’s mission to honour traditional practices as acts of agency, healing, and storytelling within African and diasporic contexts.
The storytelling circle will mark the perfect closing to the Abafa(ba)zi exhibition. The storytelling circle will be a 3 hour workshop that will explore the varying stages to storytelling; sharing, performative and recipient to story. This is an open invite to all lovers of story, storytellers, ears of empathy and most importantly the symbolism of the exhibition, seeing ourselves as the vessels and inhibitors of story. This will be an interactive workshop, a safe space that welcomes all stories in whichever shape or form.
I would like to invite you all to start thinking about impactful stories of womanhood that have shaped you and played a significant role in your life.
We’re exploring:
“Stories around womanhood”
“Narratives that are women centric”
Be sure to wear comfortable clothing.
Co-ordinator bio: Khanyisa Sigwanda is a Storyteller, Playwright, Drama therapist, Author and Cultural practitioner/producer. The founder of Mind over Matter a mental health initiative that was birthed during Covid that focused on story as a healing tool for empathy building and processing trauma and life alterations. Her practice embraces the language of story as a bases for healing, self-actualization, reflection. Embodied narratives a workshop that was part of the WIPC 2023 was a result of this practice where she acknowledged and embraced the body as a vessel and archiver of stories, passed on from generation to generation. Being the recipient for the New Vision new voices Assitej Conference for new works, asserted her in the industry and through this used Drama Therapy in her children’s theatre productions. Her work was part of the WIPC Women International Playwright Conference in Chile and the Re-Imagined storytelling Festival in Kenya.
Learn more: https://www.goethe.de/ins/za/en/ver.cfm?event_id=26332645