Jazz Against Apartheid is a profound initiative for cultural exchange offering young South African jazz musicians (in the workshops and community outreach programmes) the opportunity to engage with this supreme set of musicians from Germany, London, Canada and South African jazz exile history.
To become familiar with a part of our own exile history aims in different directions. On the one hand, we want to make an essential aspect of the buried cultural heritage accessible to a young generation of professional jazz musicians who have grown up in the post-apartheid society. And also to make others aware with this “homecoming” of the richness of the artistic heritage that has been cultivated over decades in Europe and especially in Germany.
Because this exchange is not a one-way street, we also want to give the young jazz musicians in South Africa the opportunity to encounter the contemporary influences of Europe in this music, as they are embodied and audible in Jazz Against Apartheid.
Jazz Against Apartheid, cultural exchange
In the concerts, but also in master classes and workshops, in the encounters with orchestras in schools and in communities, it should come to a küntleirsch-kutlrelle exchange, which announces the own richness of each tradition.
Community Outreach Programmes visit the masterclasses to outstanding projects in the underserved communities of South Africa.
Steve Biko Centre
Community Outreach Programmes visit the masterclasses to outstanding projects in the underserved communities of South Africa.
Community Outreach Programmes visit the masterclasses to outstanding projects in the underserved communities of South Africa.
The free workshops are open to invitation to universities, schools, orchestras and community projects and will expand the knowledge of Johnny Dyani´s compositions and the Jazz Against Apartheid musical arrangements of these compositions.