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Talks to launch the Programme
The plan is to launch the year with talks of a more popular rather
than academic nature to attract a cross section of the public.
Venue:
Iziko
Slave Lodge Museum
Date: 21 March
Human Rights Day (the abolition date is 25 March on the
following Sunday)
SAMA Opening Address
By the CEO of Iziko at the Western Cape
Regional Conference at the Slave Lodge - 'Sites, Sounds and Stories of Slavery: a Regional Bicentenary
Perspective'.
Venue:
Iziko
Slave Lodge Museum
Date: 22 March 2007
Contemporary Dance
'Cargo' – performed by Jazzart / Magnet Theatre –performance/workshop
with children.
Venue:
Iziko
Slave Lodge Museum
Date: 24 April 2007
Public Lecture – Freedom Day
A lecture, entitled Commemorating 1807 – or should that be 1808?,
by Prof. Nigel Worden will officially launch Iziko’s Freedom Project.
Was abolition really the result of humanitarian concerns? And what
impact did it have on the slaves of the British colonies, especially
at the Cape?
This lecture draws attention to the mixed motives of the 1807
abolition and reviews the circumstances of Cape slaves after the
ending of the slave trade. It suggests that a more appropriate
commemoration in South Africa should be the bicentennial of the 1808
slave uprising, a genuine call for liberation which has been neglected
in our public memory.
Venue:
Iziko
Slave Lodge Museum
Date: 26 April 2007 at 18h00.
Ceremony of Remembrance
Iziko in collaboration with the St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town
remembers the abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire and
ongoing human rights violations.
Venue: St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town
Date: 06 May 2007, from 16h00 to 18h00.
Contact Vivienne Carelse, Director: Education and Public
Programmes, for further details:
publicprogs@iziko.org.za or at +27 (0)21- 481 3814
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