Working with the youth of the Cape Deep South is a big part of what we do - creative training, connecting youth from different communities, facilitating experiences in nature, exposing them to art events in the city.
Growing up in the Cape Deep South can make you feel isolated from Cape Town and the possibilities that it offers. We aim to connect youth with inspirational people and art - opening up creative spaces, taking ownership of physical spaces and feeling empowered to change the world around them.
Borderlands Youth Program 2019 is supported by the Arts & Culture Department of the City of Cape Town & community donations.
Partners & allies include - Desmond Tutu HIV Youth Centre, Masi Creative Hub, eMzantsi Carnival, FEMME Projects, Mothertongue Project, Alistair Berg, Khanyiselo Silo, Yandiswa Mazwana, Pippa Hetherington, Noordhoek Pottery Studio, Michael McFadden
Growing up in the Cape Deep South can make you feel isolated from Cape Town and the possibilities that it offers. We aim to connect youth with inspirational people and art - opening up creative spaces, taking ownership of physical spaces and feeling empowered to change the world around them.
Borderlands Youth Program 2019 is supported by the Arts & Culture Department of the City of Cape Town & community donations.
Partners & allies include - Desmond Tutu HIV Youth Centre, Masi Creative Hub, eMzantsi Carnival, FEMME Projects, Mothertongue Project, Alistair Berg, Khanyiselo Silo, Yandiswa Mazwana, Pippa Hetherington, Noordhoek Pottery Studio, Michael McFadden
BORDERLANDS WORKSHOPS 2019
BUT MAKE IT FICTION
creative writing with Chase Rhys
Focused and observant, these young creative writers from different neighbourhoods are pushing themselves to create new worlds.
"Out of black and white words, you can make a world of colour. That's the magic." - Chase Rhys
"Out of black and white words, you can make a world of colour. That's the magic." - Chase Rhys
BE WHO YOU WANT TO BE
character acting with Leila Anderson
Getting under someone else's skin - young performers are introduced to physical and vocal characterization. The performers surprise themselves, putting on the floor exciting contemporary South African monologues and monologues written by participants of But Make It Fiction, led by Chase Rhys.
DIGGING IN THE DIRT
wild clay sculpting with Catherina Pagani
A wild clay experience getting in touch with the kaolin in our valley. Participants got their hands dirty, turning raw mountain into making material and creating unique sculptures in the Noordhoek Pottery Studio.
WHEN THE TREES TAKE OVER
eco game with Emke Idema
If the trees develop smart powers & fight back against their destruction, how can we co-exist?
A game of imagination, re-mapping Cape Town for an eco-future.
A game of imagination, re-mapping Cape Town for an eco-future.
DANCING IN THE STREETS
public interventions with Tara Francis
Making your body fit to space and space fit to your body. Participants got out and playful, creating live physical images in different public spaces in different neighbourhoods. Movement with meaning!
NO ONE SEES THE WORLD THE WAY YOU DO
photography and zine-making with Al Berg, Siba Silo & Tazneem Wentzel
Framing the world & re-framing relations. Young photographers from Simonstown, Kommetjie, Masi, Ocean View, Noordhoek and more in a holiday workshop of portraiture, street photography, book-making, wheat-paste and visual storytelling. Seeing the world around through fresh eyes.
FREESTYLE THEATRE
improvisation with Margo van de Linde
Acting fast and thinking even faster. Intro to improvisation workshop taking participants through games and exercises that get the imagination flowing. Surprises around every corner in this fun session!
BORDERLANDS CAMPS 2019
CROSSING BORDERS ECO-ARTS CAMP
19 - 21 APRIL
Stimulating, thought-provoking and challenging creative activities filled three days for this group of Grade 8 learners. Drawing, debating, writing, exploring nature, collaborating, sensory hiking, sharing stories and questions brought this dynamic group together.
DREAM YOUR DESTINY TREK
16 - 18 MARCH
A group of tough Matrics hiked the trail from Orange Kloof to the People's Hut and down Platteklip Gorge in a once-in-a-lifetime challenge, seeing the city of Cape Town and themselves from a new perspective. Achieving things takes grit and the group were challenged to climb the mountain and come out stronger for it. A powerful exercise in self-reliance and collaboration, the Dream Your Destiny Trek was a journey of discovery to bring out the superhero in everyone.
BORDERLANDS WORKSHOPS 2018
BORDER LENS
2 - 6 JULY
We were proud to collaborate with photographers Philipa Hetherington and Michael McFadden to present an intensive visual storytelling workshop in the winter holiday.
Teens across the Cape South were invited to join and explore art-making as a means of individual expression – put their eye behind the lens and frame the world from their perspective. A diverse group of teen participants signed up for the journey. They came from the neighbourhoods of Masiphumelele, Ocean View, Red Hill and Khayelitsha. Over the course of the workshop they shot portraits of each other, created zines that laid out their own visual narrative, walked and gathered idiosyncratic images from the streets of nearby Masiphumelele - finally presenting their work in a pop-up exhibition.
The products of Border Lens are deeply reflective of their creators. Going on the workshop journey together crossed social boundaries, making space for collaborative creative play and peer reflection. But the work created comes from each independent creative eye – the embodied experiences and individual perspective of each young person. The Border Lens photographers are a small sample from the youth of today’s South Africa – a country grappling with the past, framing the present and producing its future with each act of creation.
Sincere thanks to Pippa and Michael for initiating, crafting and facilitating this creative journey with such care. Thanks also to Alistair and Sally Berg for equipment and support and to the Desmond Tutu HIV Youth Centre for the partnership.
Teens across the Cape South were invited to join and explore art-making as a means of individual expression – put their eye behind the lens and frame the world from their perspective. A diverse group of teen participants signed up for the journey. They came from the neighbourhoods of Masiphumelele, Ocean View, Red Hill and Khayelitsha. Over the course of the workshop they shot portraits of each other, created zines that laid out their own visual narrative, walked and gathered idiosyncratic images from the streets of nearby Masiphumelele - finally presenting their work in a pop-up exhibition.
The products of Border Lens are deeply reflective of their creators. Going on the workshop journey together crossed social boundaries, making space for collaborative creative play and peer reflection. But the work created comes from each independent creative eye – the embodied experiences and individual perspective of each young person. The Border Lens photographers are a small sample from the youth of today’s South Africa – a country grappling with the past, framing the present and producing its future with each act of creation.
Sincere thanks to Pippa and Michael for initiating, crafting and facilitating this creative journey with such care. Thanks also to Alistair and Sally Berg for equipment and support and to the Desmond Tutu HIV Youth Centre for the partnership.
BORDERLANDS ECO-ARTS CAMP
14 - 16 MARCH 2018
SUNBIRD CENTRE
A weekend camp at the Sunbird Centre taking a group of 20 Grade 8 learners on a journey of exploration and creation. The Borderlands Eco-Arts Camp is a chance for teens from across the Southern Peninsula to connect, co-habit and collectively create. Facilitated by experienced applied theatre, environmental and arts educators, the weekend camp results in a performance in public space at The People's Picnic.
Thank you to all participants, volunteers & facilitators for making a truly unforgettable experience. And thanks to learners from Masiphumelele High, Ocean View High, Fish Hoek High and Simonstown High. |
THE PEOPLE'S PICNIC
HUMAN RIGHTS DAY - 21 MARCH 2018
FISH HOEK BEACH
CREATIVE OCCUPATION OF PUBLIC SPACE
The fabulous Eco-Arts Camp teens, from Ocean View, Masiphumelele, Simonstown and Fish Hoek High Schools presented their Freedom performances. They opened The People's Picnic, a celebratory public action, at Fish Hoek beach. Young and old came to watch, eat together and play on the beach from the communities of Fish Hoek, Ocean View, Masiphumelele, Noordhoek, Kommetjie and Scarborough. We exercised our right to creatively occupy public space, celebrate and share! Thanks to Pick 'n Pay Fish Hoek for the generous food donation |
BORDERLANDS FILM
22 MARCH 2018
DESMOND TUTU HIV YOUTH CENTRE
Thanks to Fly on the Wall Films for sharing their awe-inspiring documentary, The African Cypher, with our Borderlands audience. Prince, Ubuntu and all the other dancers featured in the film are total inspirations - bringing full passion and commitment to every move they make.
If you haven't seen this award-winning local documentary - check it out immediately!
And for more top film from Africa, browse the new, revolutionary website
www.africa.film
If you haven't seen this award-winning local documentary - check it out immediately!
And for more top film from Africa, browse the new, revolutionary website
www.africa.film
DMOV [DRAMA MASI OCEAN VIEW] TEENS
Born out of the Borderlands Festival 2017, a group of young womxn from Ocean View and Masiphumelele have been on a journey of self-discovery and creative empowerment.
DMOV Teens has been meeting weekly - going through a creative process that includes theatre and writing , creative play, ritual connection with nature, pottery workshops, several trips to city theatres and performance in the Borderlands Festival. They've also gone on a special camp with FEMME Projects - an immersive weekend of inner growth and nurturing. And they've participated in the Improvised Feminism workshop led by guest Margo van de Linde. DMOV Teens has been facilitated by Chase Rhys, Rehane Abrahams& Leila Anderson. Find out more about the work of FEMME [Freedom of Education Motivates Empowerment ] Projects here And The MotherTongue Project here |
MY SISTER / MY SOUL
Collaborative site-specific performance created by Nasie, Anesipho, Lathitha, Lakeesha and Megan - directed by Chase Rhys & Leila Anderson and performed on Noordhoek Beach Borderlands Festival 2018 |
KUMBA THEATRE
With Kumba Theatre - a Masi-based company - we've run a series of training workshops, inviting guest artists to share their artistic approaches and widen the theatrical skill set of this talented young company.
PUBLIC PROVOCATIONS - A workshop series created to develop physical theatre skills, stimulate creative thinking, teach improvisation, clowning and physical comedy. 'Public Provocations' aimed at looking critically and creatively at social problems, chosen by participants, and using storytelling and physical theatre to create powerful, imaginative performance works that for performance in public space during the Borderlands Festival. Facilitated by Kati Francis [BeautifulMess Theatre] WORKING METHOD - A step-by-step creative tool kit working with subconscious association, images and words - developed by Iraqi/Belgian performance maker Enkidu Khaled. Facilitated by Leila Anderson HOME - A writing and performance workshop exploring the poetry of 'home'. Faciliated by Mara van Nes Thanks to Siba, Ace, Likhona, Siphokazi, Jaro and all of the other Kumba artists. Special thanks to the Desmond Tutu HIV Youth Centre and all facilitators. |