Our collaboration with AVReQ, CST and Stellenbosch University Museum honours cosmologies of interdependence and deepens into Ubuntu philosophies and practices through ecological food rituals. As an experience and expression of living justice, these food rituals offer nature-cultural exchanges which enliven our experience of relational sovereignty. In recognising that racial, social, ecological and food justice are inextricably entwined we are working within a politics of consciousness which contributes to racial transformation through an ethics of care in the everyday.
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There is an urgent need to reframe food security and food sovereignty as part of our reparative, social justice quest and Living Justice’s creative, collaborative approach is highly timely in this regard. Their artistic, relational and process-sensitive approach to food as a different modality of intervention and healing will certainly contribute to our work at AVReQ.
PROFESSOR PUMLA GOBODO-MADIKIZELA
TASTING UBUNTU RESIDENCY: 19 February – 8 March 2024 EMANCIPATORY ARTS FOR LIVING JUSTICE
WEDNESDAY 21 FEBRUARY: OPENING STUDIO AT MUSEUM ANNEXE
- Time: 14.00. All welcome.
- Venue: Stellenbosch University Museum, 52 Ryneveld Street Stellenbosch.
THURSDAY 22 FEBRUARY: CST COLLOQUIUM ON LIVING JUSTICE
- Time: 13h00-14h00. All welcome.
- Venue: Centre for Sustainability Transitions, 19 Jonkershoek Road, Stellenbosch.
FRIDAY 23 FEBRUARY: OPEN STUDIO
- Time: 11h00 – 15h00. All welcome.
- Venue: Studio, The Annexe, Stellenbosch University Museum, 52 Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch.
SUNDAY 25 FEBRUARY: APPLE HARVEST AT VERGESIG FARM
- Time: 10h00 – 14h00. Book tickets to be part of the day.
- Venue: Apple Picking Harvest day at Vergesig Farm, Piketburg.
- Followed by convivial picnic.
MONDAY 26 FEBRUARY: LIVING JUSTICE OPEN STUDIO
- Time: 11h00 – 15h00 sharing listening-thinking partnerships as a research methodology. All welcome.
- Venue: Studio, The Annexe, Stellenbosch University Museum, 52 Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch.
- picnic.
WEDNESDAY 6 MARCH: TASTING UBUNTU FOOD RITUAL & CONVIVIAL GATHERING
- Miche Fabre Lewin, Flora Gathorne-Hardy & Method Gundidza host a convivial gathering on the art of ritual, indigenous knowing & collective liberation. Join us to ferment cabbages & collaborations.
- Time: 11h00 Start 15h00 End
- Courtyard of Stellenbosch University Museum, 52 Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch
- Local seasonal drinks & nourishment
- To reserve a place please email connect@livingjustice.earth
FRIDAY 16 FEBRUARY: ARRIVAL
- Landing in Stellenbosch to be at home with Professor Rika Preiser of Centre for Sustainability Transitions (CST) at Stellenbosch University and UNESCO Chair in Complex Systems and Transformative African Futures.
- Chance encounter with Kobus Visagie, Chief Executive Office of The Waitrose Foundation.
SATURDAY 17 FEBRUARY: RE-SOURCING WITH LOCALLY GROWN FOOD
- Visit to La Familier Farm Shop, which forms part of the Annandale Wine Estate.
- Chance encounter with Astrid Teffry-Goatley, Senior Researcher at Stellenbosch University and advocate of arts based research methodologies.
- Hempies Du Toit of Annandale Wine Estate offers gifts of Karoo grown squash and other fruit and vegetables.
- Homestead Convivial with Liesl Haasbroek and Charl Piennar, who introduces us to the work of Theo Mayekiso via his book Being Black.
SUNDAY 18 FEBRUARY: CULTIVATING KINSHIPS BETWEEN UK & SOUTH AFRICA
- Visit to Boschendal Farm.
- Tea with Seth Tabatznik and Renata Minerbo of Be the Earth Foundation and 42 Acres UK. Together we harvested home grown cabbages for fermenting and herbs.
MONDAY 19 FEBRUARY: ORIENTING
- Homestead encounter with Wilhelm Verwoerd to orient and set intentions for Tasting Ubuntu Residency. These are to nurture: healing and clarity; trust in heart ecology; the honouring of collective nature|culture intelligences.
- Day One of Cabbage Fermentation Ritual, chopping, salting and pressing cabbages with Rika Preiser.
TUESDAY 20 FEBRUARY: ANCHORING
- Breakfasting with Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Dr Anell Stacey Daries, Westley Ceasar and Wilhelm Verwoerd of AVReQ, and with Rika Preiser.
- Lunch at Taste and introduction with Marietjie Oelfsen, Ulrich Wolff of Stellenbosch University Museum, and Amy Rommelspacher of the Visual Arts Department of Stellenbosch University.
- Settling into Studio Annexe at Stellenbosch University Museum with help from Lloyd Africa.
WEDNESDAY 21 FEBRUARY: OPENING LJ STUDIO
- Lunch with Vusumzi Zwelendaba of Elsenburg Agricultural Training College, Astrid Teffry-Goatley, Theo Mayekiso and Wilhelm Verwoerd.
- Studio Opening, meeting new visitors including Mhlengi Khambule and Rabia Abba Omar.
THURSDAY 22 FEBRUARY: CST COLLOQUIUM
- Meeting with AVReQ’s collaborative team to explore contributing to the emerging book writing project exploring the realisation of Stellenbosch University’s Restitution Statement.
- Sharing Living Justice | Tasting Ubuntu with research community at CST.
FRIDAY 23 FEBRUARY: LIVING JUSTICE OPEN STUDIO
- Meeting with Rika Presier and Tanja Hitchert, UNESCO Co-Chairs in Complex Systems and Transformative African Futures
- Meeting with Mhlengi Mhlengi Khombule in the Studio Space at the University Museum to explore thinking feelingly through deep listening and free drawing
SATURDAY 24 FEBRUARY: ARRIVAL
- Divining time for heartful ecologies: food ritual praxis, walking the labyrinth; experiencing constellation practices.
SUNDAY 25 FEBRUARY: RE-SOURCING WITH LOCALLY GROWN FOOD
- Apple Picking Harvest day at Vergesig Farm, Piketburg Convivial picnic
MONDAY 26 FEBRUARY: ARTS RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES
- Sharing of transformative arts based research methodologies within the studio with Masters and Doctoral students from Stellenbosch University.
- Meeting with Dr Jess Schulschenk, Co-Director of the Sustainability Institute
TUESDAY 27 FEBRUARY: HONOURING FOOD GROWERS
- Meeting with local agroecological growers and farmers in the Stellenbosch hinterland.
WEDNESDAY 28 FEBRUARY: DEEP LISTENING
- Participating in the dialogue ‘Exploring the Transgenerational Legacies and the Reparative Quest’ hosted by AVReQ.
THURSDAY 29 FEBRUARY: PARTICIPATORY ARTS PROCESS
- Hosting at the Living Justice Studio a participatory arts process to digest the dialogue exploring transgenerational legacies and the reparative quest.
FRIDAY 1 MARCH: FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
- Open Studio to reflect on the week’s engagements and the inter-weaving of human liberation and ecosystem restoration within movements for food sovereignty.
- Co-host Small is Beautiful food ritual with Seth Tabatznik and Renata Minerbo of Be the Earth Foundation and Boschendal Farm as a convivial space to experience and explore food citizenship.
Thursday 22 February | Living Justice Colloquium at the Centre for Sustainability Transitions
Our interactive presentation was a space to co-explore a deep listening and processes for practical action. We engaged with the concept of relational sovereignty through the convivial artisan practice of cabbage fermentation. One word reflections from participants, on-line and in presence, include:
