Drama for Life

Drama for Life (DFL), based at the @WitsUniversity School of Arts, is dedicated to arts for social transformation and healing.

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Jordan Stewart led a workshop online titled, "Inside Out: Puppetry and Improvisation for Such a Time as This Exploring the Expressive Release of Collective and Suppressed Emotions."

@WitsUniversity @thebuzhive @vow_881 @WitsTheatre1 @basa_news

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Ko Kopanong Playback Theatre perform @WitsUniversity for the @dflwits conference. This was Ko Kopanong's debut performance in South Africa.

@iHeartRadio @WarrenNebe @CTAOP @thebuzhive @TheCitizen_News @basa_news

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Paper Series (Online): Violent Strikes in the South African Workplace: An Applied Drama perspective on mental fitness. Presented by Bhekilizwe Bernard Ndlovu

@WitsUniversity @thebuzhive @vow_881 @WitsTheatre1 @basa_news

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Vukuzenzele Team, on how intergrating Drama in their practice has improved the Vukuzenzele Youth Team’s lives, and development.

@WitsUniversity @Wits_News

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[Drama for Life @dflwits]

Workshop Series (Online): Rupture and Repair: An interdisciplinary and embodied approach to Arts and Health Practices in a post-conflict South African context by Marlize Swanepoel

@WitsUniversity @basa_news @thebuzhive

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Nobonke van Tonder giving a profound keynote address titled, "Entangled with the most daring of times ~ brave and humble pathways for the artistic soul."

@WitsUniversity @thebuzhive @vow_881 @WitsTheatre1 @basa_news

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Dr. Bhebhe welcoming our Keynote address speaker, Nobonke van Tonder.

@WitsUniversity @thebuzhive
@WitsTheatre1
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Elikem Kunutsor in a solo performance called "Just Shhhh..."

A deeply ritualistic journey of searching, belonging, and healing.

@WitsUniversity @thebuzhive @vow_881 @WitsTheatre1

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[Drama for Life @dflwits]

A Forum Theatre process titled "FUCKalty and SIEStems" conceptualised by Lucky Moeketsi, facilitated (jokered) by Teto Mokaila, performed by Nomfundo Ncanana, Kabelo Mokgehle, Khanyisile Zwane, Tobejane Kholofelo and Khanyisile Seroka.

@WitsUniversity
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The DFL Playback Theatre Company performing for teller stories under the theme "the red thread of radical hope."

@WitsUniversity @thebuzhive @vow_881 @WitsTheatre1

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Mpho Molepo speaks about Freedom & Expression.
Mpho: Freedom is not the right to speak without restraint, but the duty to speak with responsibility.

@WitsUniversity

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[Drama for Life @dflwits]

Panel Discussion:
Voices on the Edge:
Freedom or Harm?

@WitsUniversity
@SportArtsCultur
@nacsouthafrica @GaytonMcK

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[Drama for Life @dflwits]

Performance Series: Gas by Geralt Cloete

@WitsUniversity

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[Drama for Life @dflwits]

Paper Series: Ngwana Ya Salleng:
Judicial Theatre as a route for
Justice(us)ness presented by
Selloane Mokuku

@WitsUniversity

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[Drama for Life @dflwits]

Performance Series: Project 2040 – Configured Artention by Collen Makua

@WitsUniversity

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[Drama for Life @dflwits]

Kabelo Mokgehle facilitated a workshop called, "Stories Black Men Tell: Storytelling, Healing, and Justice(Us)".
An exploration of what it means to be a man. A dialogue between two generations of men ensued.

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Paper Series: "Hey Grok,
are you changing our
traditions? An Applied
Drama/Theatre review
of Blacking’s Tradition
and Change in Society
in 2025." presented by Hamish Neill

@WitsUniversity

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[Drama for Life @dflwits]

“Repetition of laughter created a space of resistance for the family” Paper Series: Laughter in the Margins: Black Feminist Aesthetics and Pedagogies of Care presented by Dr Refiloe Lepere

@WitsUniversity
@WarrenNebe
@thebuzhive

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Paper Series: Rethinking Digital Knowledge in the Anthropocene by Dr Renzo Filinich at Waternweiler Library

@WitsUniversity

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Sithembile Khalishwayo, performing a fictional one-man performance called "Diaries of Retired Violence", a fictional one-man performance delving into the life of a former freedom fighter turned president, facing an impending war crimes trial.

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