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Rewind – a Cantata for Voice and Testimony

Resource type: Grants

Granted to The Office Performing Arts and Film

Goal

To host a performance of Rewind, A Cantata for Voice Tape and Testimony – a musical and visual work by emerging composer Phillip Miller that dramatises the hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission – at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town; and to produce a series of educational workshops around Rewind to promote public debate about the divisions of the past and to provide for closure and healing.

Grant Amount

$226,730

Local Currency

R1,500,000

Year Awarded

2011

Term

6 Months

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Issues:

Delivering on Democracy

Global Impact:

South Africa

Historical Programme Affiliations:

Reconciliation & Human Rights

Foundation Center Themes:

Race & Intergroup Relations, Performing Arts

Foundation Center Approaches:

Advocacy, Strategic Communications, Convening