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A central
motivation for the CPM is the public dissemination of oral and visual
histories through different media. We aim to help people recount their
stories through: community radio programmes, video documentaries, exhibitions,
soundscapes, interviews and popular history books.
- We recently
launched "Umqomboti, utywala & lucky stars: stories of liquor
in Langa between 1930 and 1980". This audio visual exhibition
was the outcome of this year's post graduate intern training programme.
It used 40 audio interviews with Langa residents involved with the underground
liquor trade, as a base to explore the histories of people living under
apartheid. the exhibition opened in Langa in October 2002 and will travel
to a range of venues over the next year.
- We are
currently co-ordinating a project on forced removals in the Northern
Suburbs of Marmre/Atlantis in partnership with Radio Atlantis. The
project involves the training of 4 community members in interviewing
skills, transcription, equipment best practices and radio production.
The 80 audio interviews will serve the basis for a number of radio
documentaries and dramas, to be broadcast in November and December
2002
- In September
2001 the CPM created "Remember the days..." an exhibition
that used photographs and text to present memories of forced removals
in Cape Town. The exhibition included a soundscape of audio from
the CPM archive and was accompanied by Randy Hartzenburg's video "Road
to Zero".
- The exhibition
was coupled with the launch of the book "Lost Communities,
Living Memories: Remembering forced removals in Cape Town"
which was edited by CPM's director Dr Sean Field and included articles
about removals in Tramway Road, District Six, Harfield village, Windermere/Fracerton
and Simonstown/Oceanview.
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