South Africa , addressing the racial divide

June 2009 - Johannesbourh, Grahamstown, S.Africa

PAX’09 hopes to bring artists and intellectuals from diverse racial backgrounds to discuss the threats and the opportunities of the racial divide in the context of the South African democracy.

Johannesbourg Venues --
Grahamstown Venue – Albany Museum
Theme – Racial Divide
The current political situation does pose a threat to racial peace, and certainly makes people lose faith in the government.
While there is a disproportionate black population that lives in terrible poverty; the number of other races that are poverty stricken is also growing.
A large number of the white population is immigrating, and even though the government's reformation process plays a definitive role, it more based on the growing level of uncontrolled crime in the country.

National Coordinator
Edna Gee, Pretoria (edna@pax08.com)
Call for participation

We Call for Established and up-and-coming visual and performing artists, poets, writers and scholars from Africa to join the relevant collaborative project for PAX09

PAX'09

Patron -Tselane Tambo

Edna Gee
Abdul Razak Awofeso
Nastasja De Wet
Reuel Bosh
Guy Du Toit
Diana Victor
Carl Jeppe
Collen Massaganyi