Constitution Hill, in partnership wth Kalashnikovv Gallery, presents the Basha Uhuru Youth Festival!
In commemoration of 40 years of the 1976 Soweto Uprisings, the 4th annual Basha Uhuru Youth Festival will be celebrated throughout the month of June, and will feature art exhibitions, film screenings sponsored by the Gauteng Film Commission, a creative network exchange, a time-travel tour which will re-enact the events of the 16 June 1976 from Orlando to Number 4 at ConHill, and a heritage cycling tour which will link up the Hector Pieterson Museum and ConHill. Market @ The Fort, ConHill’s monthly lifestyle market, will be a fusion of food, fashion, and accessories to complement the Basha Uhuru Music Concert on the 25 June 2016!
Entrance is FREE for the whole festival!
PROGRAMME:
Week 1:
Green Week Panel Discussion
Date: 1 June 2016
Time: 14h00
Venue: Constitution Hill, Women’s Gaol
Contemporary Art Exhibitions
Date: 2 June 2016
Time: 18h00
Venue: Constitution Hill, Women’s Gaol
Week 2:
Visions of Freedom (Pt. 1) – Film Screenings
Date: 9 June 2016
Time: 19h00
Venue: Constitution Hill, Women’s Gaol
Week 3:
Visions of Freedom (Pt. 2) – Theatre Production
Date: 15 June 2016
Time: 18h00
Venues: Constitution Hill, Women’s Gaol
Week 4
Conversations of Freedom (Pt. 1) – Design Share Party Creative Networking
Date: 18 June 2015
Time: 16h00
Venue: Constitution Hill, Women’s Gaol
Conversations of Freedom (Pt. 2) – Panel Discussion on Free Education
Date: 22 June 2015
Time: 16h00
Venue: Constitution Hill, Women’s Gaol
Rides of Freedom: Heritage Cycling Tour & Time Travel Tour
Date: 25 June 2016
Time: 09h00
Venue: Hector Pieterson Museum to Constitution Hill
Sounds of Freedom: Market @ The Fort & Basha Uhuru Music Concert
Date: 25 June 2016
Time: 10h00 till late
Venue: Constitution Square, Constitution Hill