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GIPCA Projects 2016
- Fellowship Presentations – 5 Thoughts
- Great Texts: Jonny Steinberg
- Great Texts/Big Questions: Mark Fleishman & Jennie Reznek
- Great Texts – Maya Rao – CANCELLED
- Great Texts/ Big Questions: Nelson Maldonado-Torres
- Great Texts/Big Questions: Gerald Machona & Pak Ndjamena
- Great Texts/Big Questions: Gayatri Spivak
- Great Texts/Big Questions: Grace A. Musila
- Great Texts/Big Questions: Imraan Coovadia
- Great Texts/Big Questions: Jyoti Mistry & Jacki McInnes
- Great Texts/Big Questions: MAMAZA
- Great Texts/Big Questions: Masande Ntshanga
- Great Texts/Big Questions: Robert Bernasconi
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- Medical Humanities – Carla Tsampiras
- Medical Humanities – Lester Davids, Shose Kessi & Berni Searle
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- Music in the City – Madosini
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GIPCA Projects 2014
- 2nd Live Art Festival
- Artist’s talk – Wangechi Mutu
- Book Launch – James Matthews
- Exhibition – Between Subject and Object
- Exhibition – Ijusi: Design based in African Experience
- Exhibition – Index
- Exhibition – do it
- Film Screening & Discussion – Pre-LIFE 2
- Film screening and discussion – Miners Shot Down
- Great Texts/Big Questions: Fiona Leonard
- Great Texts/Big Questions: Rustom Bharucha
- Great Texts/Big Questions: Clayton Campbell
- Great Texts/Big Questions: Edgar Pieterse
- Great Texts/Big Questions: Mark Gevisser
- Great Texts/Big Questions: Nadia Davids
- Infecting The City Public Arts Festival 2014
- International Workshops – Nicole Seiler
- International performances – HATE RADIO
- Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism
- Live Art Festival – Programme Launch
- Music in the City – Kevin Vigneau and Kimberley Fredenburgh
- Panel Discussion – Pre-LIFE 1
- Workshop series – Drawing Pleasure
- Workshop – Words We Have Learned Since 9/11
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GIPCA Projects 2013
- 2013 Ways to do Public Art
- Andrew Putter – Sketch Assembly
- Concert – UCT and Yale Choirs
- Crossings #3 International Artistic Workshops
- Crossings #3 – International Performances
- Drama Therapy public lecture and workshop – Robert Landy
- Exhibition – Between the Lines
- Exhibition – Martyrs, Saints and Sellouts
- Great Texts: Dorothy Driver
- Great Texts: Jane Taylor
- Great Texts: Michael Godby
- Great Texts: Mike van Graan in conversation with Brent Meersman
- Great Texts: Nicholas Mirzoeff
- Great Texts: Peter D. McDonald
- Great Texts: Virginia MacKenny
- Great Texts: Zen Marie & Andrew Lamprecht
- Infecting The City Public Art Festival 2013
- International Dance Performance – EIRA
- International Dance Performance – T42
- Medical Humanities series – Catherine Burns
- Medical Humanities series – Elelwani Ramugondo
- Medical Humanities series – Jane Taylor
- Medical Humanities series – Lorna Martin
- Medical Humanities series – Mark Solms
- Medical Humanities series – Raj Ramesar
- Music in the City – Piero Delle Monache
- Performance and Discussion – Bleu Remix
- Performance – Afro Galactic Dream Factory
- Picturing Health rights – Voices from the Cape Flats
- Presentation – macbEth
- Public Lecture – Jens Hoffmann
- Public Seminar – Lance Herman in conversation with Josh Ginsburg
- Public lecture – Achille Mbembe
- Puma Films4Peace
- TERMINAL – an exhibition on street poles
- Thinking the City
- Workshop series – Drawing Pleasure
- Workshop series – Drawing Pleasure
- Workshop series – Drawing Pleasure
- Workshop series – Drawing Pleasure
- Workshop – Artistic Practice and Entrepreneurship
- Workshops and Audio Tours – The Uncommercial Traveller
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GIPCA Projects 2012
- 5 Thoughts – GIPCA Fellows’ mid-term presentations
- AFTA Conference 2012: Querying Africa
- Baxter Dance Film Festival screenings
- Book Launch – Post-apartheid Dance
- Directors & Directing: Playwrights
- Exhibition – A Shot to the Arse
- Exhibition – Black Folk
- Exhibition – Not My War
- Exhibitions – EKDUO and Facing the Climate
- Film & Dance Workshops
- Films4Peace
- Futures of Nature / Facts that Matter
- GIPCA at Infecting the City
- Great Texts – Adam Haupt
- Great Texts – Anton Harber
- Great Texts – Azila Reisenberger
- Great Texts – Cindy van Acker
- Great Texts – Damon Galgut
- Great Texts – Daya Reddy
- Great Texts – Duncan Brown
- Great Texts – Ferial Haffajee
- Great Texts – Griselda Pollock
- Great Texts – Handspring Puppet Company
- Great Texts – Kiran Desai
- Great Texts – Margie Orford
- Great Texts – Neo Muyanga
- Great Texts – Pierre de Vos
- Great Texts – Steven Friedman
- Hot Water Symposium
- Music in the City – Cecile Verny Quartet
- Music in the City – Justin Krawitz
- Music in the City – Nicky Schrire plus 3
- Music in the City – South African Flute Music
- Music in the City – The UCT Jazz Voices with Mike Rossi
- Performance – Crepuscule
- Performance – Fragile
- Performance – Utopia
- Performance – Villa Sofia
- The Exuberance Project Exhibition
- The Exuberance Project
- Workshops and Performances – Boris Nikitin
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GIPCA Projects 2011
- 5 Thoughts – GIPCA Fellows Midyear Presentations
- Directors and Directing
- Emerging Modernities
- Exhibition – The Underground, the Surface and the Edges
- Film and Dance
- Film and Exhibition – Place of Grace and Homebody
- Great Texts – Abner Nyamende
- Great Texts – Albie Sachs
- Great Texts – Anwar Mall
- Great Texts – Cultural Boycotts
- Great Texts – Hedley Twidle
- Great Texts – Hugh Corder
- Great Texts – Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk
- Great Texts – Isabel Hofmeyr
- Great Texts – Jane Taylor
- Great Texts – Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
- Great Texts – Riason Naidoo and Sean O’Toole
- Great Texts – Sandra Young
- Great Texts – Sarah Nuttall
- Great Texts – Stephen Watson: In Memory
- Great Texts – Writers on their favourite pages
- Hot Water – Art and Climate Change
- International workshops and performances – Cie7273
- Music in the City – Patsy Toh
- Music in the City – Renee Reznek
- Music in the City – Vuurvoël (Firebird)
- Performance – Capturing Sanity
- Performance – Mbeki and Other Nightmares
- Performance – Statements after an arrest under the immorality act
- Performance – Words Words Words
- Performances – After Cardenio
- Republic – Art, Authority, Nationhood
- The Beautiful Project
- The Names We Give
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GIPCA Projects 2010
- Discussion – Present and Future Photography
- Exhibition – reGeneration2
- Exhibitions – Third Worlds: Model Cities and Proposal for a New City
- Five: 20 Operas Made in South Africa
- Great Texts – Alan Morris
- Great Texts – Coilin Parsons
- Great Texts – Daniel Herwitz
- Great Texts – Deborah Posel
- Great Texts – Foofwa d’Imobilité
- Great Texts – Ian Glenn
- Great Texts – Imraan Coovadia
- Great Texts – Mark Ellyne
- Great Texts – Michael Steinberg
- Great Texts – Milton Shain
- Great Texts – Peter Merrington
- Great Texts – Protection of Information Bill panel discussion
- Great Texts – Rajend Mesthrie
- Great Texts – RoseLee Goldberg
- Great Texts – Shelley Barry
- Great Texts – William Kentridge
- International performance – Strange Democracy
- Lecture and book launch – The Value of Humanities
- Music in the City – Albie van Schalkwyk and the St Petersburg Virtuosen
- Music in the City – David Earl and the Odeion Quartet
- Performance – Between You & Me
- Performance – Enter the Maids
- Performance – Il Viaggio à Reims
- Performance – Ingcwaba lendoda lise cankwe ndlela
- Performance – Kitchen
- Performances – Foofwa d’Imobilité
- Performances – Qaphela Caesar
- pre-post-per-form Colloquium
- Public lecture – Guillermo Gómez-Peña
- Public lecture – John Purser
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GIPCA Projects 2009
- Exhibition – Legacies of Landscape
- Exhibition – Subtle Thresholds
- GIPCA Year-end showcase
- Great Texts – Andre Brink
- Great Texts – Angelo Gobbato
- Great Texts – Carrol Clarkson
- Great Texts – David Benatar
- Great Texts – George Ellis
- Great Texts – John Higgins
- Great Texts – Jonathan Shapiro
- Great Texts – Mamphela Ramphele
- Great Texts – Mark Solms
- Great Texts – Tim Noakes
- Great Texts – Zackie Achmat
- Performance – Duende
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