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Written by ESAACH Webmaster
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009 |
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Download the invitation here.
iHeritage and the African Commons Project
are inviting all museum, archive, library and heritage fundis to a
seminar on digitisation and access to South African heritage in
Rosebank, Johannesburg. The first seminar in the iHeritage series this
year is entitled: “Digitisation and access: Tools for cultural heritage institutions”
and will take place on Tuesday 3 February 2009 from 10am - 1pm at the
iCommons Offices at the Grace Hotel, 1st Floor, 54 Bath Avenue,
Rosebank, Johannesburg (Google map link)
Professionals
working in the cultural heritage space will know that copyright
restrictions are one of the greatest barriers to digitising their
collections and putting them online and thus making them more
accessible to the public. This seminar will introduce participants to
international case studies of institutions who are making their
collections openly accessible, the legal and digital tools that they
are making use of, as well as efforts to get the public involved in
building online collections of heritage resources. Participants will
also share their own methods for digitisation and discuss a pilot
project in Johannesburg to bring major heritage institutions and the
public together to popularise and share our history and culture online.
Please RSVP to
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by Friday 30 January with your name, title and organisation, 2009 and join the mailing list at
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Written by ESAACH Webmaster
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
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DATE: 29-30 November, 2008
VENUE: Tropicana Hotel, Durban, South
Africa
The National Department of Arts and
Culture (DAC) and the Encyclopaedia of South African Arts, Culture and
Heritage (ESAACH) Project is pleased to invite you to a two-day project
review workshop.
ESAACH is a multi-year project of
national significance to produce multi-volume, multi-media work of encyclopaedic
scope on the verbal, performing and visual arts as well as on the
many expressions of South African cultural heritage. (Study the attached
project description)
The workshop will take place Saturday-Sunday
29-30 November, 2008. The venue will be the Tropicana Hotel in Durban.
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Written by Graham Stewart
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008 |
Obituary – Carol de Kock When she passed away on 11 October 2008, shortly before her 53rd
birthday, Carol de Kock remained as actively engaged in her academic,
community and family commitments as she had been at the onset of
serious ill-health almost a year before. Her untimely death has
deprived KwaZulu-Natal of a foremost academic, and tireless champion
for the empowerment of under-prepared school leavers facing the
challenges of university study. As Head of the Department of Media,
Language and Communication at the Durban University of Technology,
Carol de Kock delivered and later managed English Communication courses
to students across all faculties for nearly twenty-five years. She held
a Masters Degree in South African English Literature from the
University of KwaZulu-Natal, and at the time of her death was planning
a doctoral study of her special literary passion, the author Alan Paton.
Carol was a work colleague, but also a friend. She earned the
respect and affection of her fellows by guiding the Department of
English and Communication through the stormy seas of an institutional
merger, and enabled many of the casualties of that turbulent period to
find their feet and establish new directions. That is a debt that many
of us will always owe to Carol. But Carol's contributions extended way
beyond the world of work – she dedicated many years to community
projects in which she had invested her passion and commitment. She was
a long-standing member of the Alan Paton literary competition committee
– one that has encouraged and inspired and motivated young writers all
around the province.
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Written by ESAACH Webmaster
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
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The Mail & Guardian had an interesting article on indigenous food plants.
At
first glance, they could have been asparagus tips. But one bite
indicated otherwise -- fresh green flavours reminiscent of green beans,
accompanied by a minerally deeper taste and a gritty sprinkling of sand
across my tongue. "We've been washing them all day," Julian Melck told
us, somewhat apologetically, "but I picked them in the veld and
veldkool is only found in sandy soil."
We were eating Sunday lunch at Kersefontein, Melck's guest farm, in the
heart of the Cape's West Coast. Celebrating the seasons and local
products, we started with waterblommetjie soup, picked in the vlei,
before moving to roast wild boar, shot on the farm, accompanied by
veldkool, the lithe spring shoots of Trachyandra falcata.
In
1942 Afrikaans writer C Louis Leipoldt described the plant as
"delicious veld food that city folk have hardly discovered yet". More
than 65 years later not much has changed. Of all the indigenous food
plants that comprise our edible heritage, waterblommetjies (Aponogeton distachyos) are the best known and the only one widely sold.
But, while you may not be able to find veldkool at your local
supermarket, some enterprising people are looking to change that.
Plantsman Alan Sonnenberg has been propagating veldkool, with other
indigenous food plants, at Groenfontein Farm, near Ceres. With his
partners in the project, food historian Renata Coetzee and farm owner
Volker Miros, Sonnenberg is exploring the commercialisation of wild
food plants.
Click here to read the full article ...
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Written by ESAACH Webmaster
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
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Invitation to Best Design Award Ceremony for our new logo. Please join Professor Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane (ESAACH Project Leader & General Editor) and Prof Graham Stewart (Associate Editor: Verbal Arts and Durban Project Leader) in celebrating the award of best design for the new ESAACH Project logo.
Time: 12:45
Date: Friday 20 June 2008
Venue: Graphic Design Seminar Room 203, City Campus, Durban University of Technology, Smith Street, Durban
The Encyclopaedia of South African Arts, Culture and Heritage (ESAACH) is a major project of national significance that aims to produce multi-volume, multi-media work of encyclopaedic scope that will encompass the verbal, performing and visual arts as well as many expressions of South African cultural heritage.
Refreshments will be served. RSVP Bongiwe Chiliza 031-3736520 (
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Written by Bridget McNulty
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Wednesday, 23 April 2008 |
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author of Home Affairs. 
1. When did you first start writing?
As soon as I knew how! I used to keep diaries and journals as a child (and still do) and was forever scribbling down notes, phrases and fragments of sentences or thoughts and ideas that came to me. I would also write down words that I’d read that I either didn’t know the meaning of or wanted to use in the future. My first ever professional writing was copy for my father’s advertising agency while I was still at school and I have written professionally in one form or another for most of my working life, although only latterly have I started to write books.
2. What do you love most about writing?
I love the idea that letters can be arranged into words, and those words, in turn, arranged into phrases that conjure up so many images in the mind of a reader and evoke such an intense range of emotional responses. I am always delighted when a book makes me cry or laugh out loud, and I love the idea that rather like musical composition, it was a particular arrangement of words in a very specific order that elicited that response. I have always loved the written word and adore writing in all its forms, and I still think that an artfully penned letter is a beautiful thing to write and a lasting and lovely thing to receive.
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