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 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Overview - History - Programme - Board of Directors - Team _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
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Mirjam Asmal-Dik (MD) Originally from the Netherlands, Mirjam completed a Bachelors degree in International Management before obtaining her Masters in the History of Art, specialising in Indian contemporary art, from the University of Amsterdam. She has worked for numerous galleries in Europe including the Royal Hibernian Academy Gallagher Gallery in Dublin, Ireland and Foundation for Indian Arts in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. On arrival in South Africa Mirjam joined the Association for Visual Arts in Cape Town as Gallery Custodian. Since 1998 she has held the position of Manager of the Pro Helvetia Liaison Office Cape Town (Arts Council of Switzerland). 
Stacy Hardy (Project writer) Stacy Hardy is a writer, journalist, multimedia artist and theatre practitioner. She has lectured and tutored in the Drama Department at Rhodes University and has staged numerous productions around the country. She has 6 year’s experience as a freelance journalist, commissioning editor and features writer, and 5 year’s experience in advertising. Her digital and multimedia art has been exhibited at various local and international exhibitions and she was a member of the South African delegation at Ars Electonica in Austria in 2002. Her digital work has won numerous awards, including a gold Construction Award [2003]. Her fiction has appeared in various local journals and she participated in the 2003 Crossing Border Festival in Den Hagen, The Netherlands. 
Lebohang Tlali (Producer) Lebohang Tlali is a photographer and artist originally from the Free State, but currently living in Cape Town. He has extensive experience working with various artists and photographers on projects/commissions either as an assistant and/or collaborator. He was part of the Brett Kebble Art Award team and is part of the organising and curatorial team for the third Straight to Video art event for 2006. He has exhibited his own photographs in various venues and galleries in Cape Town. His main interest is in portraiture dealing with issues of identity and perception, particularly of the black male. 
Robert Weinek (Young Curators Programme Coordinator) Robert Weinek is generally known as the handyman of the arts. He is active in all facets of the arts from project management to curatorial responsibilities. He is also involved in the production and distribution of art based South African cinema. He is a founding member of CAPE Africa Platform, Public Eye Art Trust and Afrika Burn and is currently coordinating Cape Africa Platform's Young Curator's Programme geared at nurturing local curatorial talent by providing an exciting environment for both critical and practical engagement. 
Shamila Rahim (Art Pays, Arts Awareness Programme Coordinator) Shamila Rahim has studied fashion designing and fashion photography and has a senior paralegal diploma. In 2005 she obtained a postgraduate diploma in African Museum Heritage Studies. Her career in the arts started in 2004, working for Jazzart Dance Theatre and the lighting department at Artscape. She subsequently obtained her theatre technical and management training at Artscape. Since then, Shamila has managed the Warehouse Theatre, project managed the arts component of the Cape Town Festival, worked at the District Six Museum in the Expressive Arts Department and more recently completed a stint as a project manager at Kagiso Exhibitions and Events. 
Hannah Loewenthal (Art Awareness Coordinator) Having studied design and worked as an architectural glass artist in the UK, Hannah Loewenthal went on to study dance and movement. On her return to South Africa, she trained and worked with Remix Dance Company for two years, developing design aspects for performances and creating a schoolís programmes. Her work with Remix encompassed multiple projects in and around South Africa and Africa, including creative community projects in Ethiopia. Most recent projects included South African representative at an annual seminar and workshop in Emerging Global Leadership for Community Arts (Hawaii 2008; Colorado, US 2007). Since the beginning of 2008, Hannah has worked with the CAPE Africa Platform, developing and co-ordinating the Arts Awareness programme in schools as an ongoing and sustainable project. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Born in 1982 in Kagiso, a township in the west of Johannasburg, Nonkululeko Mlangeni completed a short introduction course to Journalism before joining the Market Photography workshop. Since then she has worked as a picture editor for Drum magazine and a freelance photographer for youth culture publication JhbLive and Summit TV. Combining her background in photography with her fascination with fashion, she has organized numerous fashion shoots with young photographers and artist in Johannesburg and worked as freelance fashion stylist contributing to a number of publications including, True Love Babe, Move! Magazine, Drum and Elle magazine. A founding members of Mind Your Head, an underground Art Hub based in downtown Johannesburg, she assisted in organizing music events, art exhibitions and film screening. She has traveled extensively in East Africa, documenting the Masia people in Kenya, working with Nairobiís budding hip hop movement and volunteering for the Humanist Movement of Kenya. As a Young Curator at the CAPE Africa Platform, she has traveled to Switzerland and other parts of South Africa, attending curatorial workshops and visiting art galleries. 
Bongani Mkhonza (Young Curator) Bongani Mkhonza is an Art Education Officer at the Durban Art Gallery. He completed a degree in Fine Arts through the University on Natal (now University of KwaZulu Natal) before going on to teach art at schools in Durban. While teaching, he enrolled and completed a Post-Graduates Certificate in Art Education. In December 2008 he completed his Masters Degree in Fine Arts through the University of KwaZulu Natal. Bongani has collaborated with other curators on various art exhibitions around KwaZulu Natal. He joined CAPE Africa Platform in January 2008 as part of the Young Curators Programme and has visited Angola, Luanda as part of the Cape Africaís initiative of forging networks without boarders throughout the whole African continent and abroad. He is currently working CAPE 09 as well as his solo Auto-ethnographic exhibition, inspired by his research paper.
Residing in Khayelitsha Cape Town, Loyiso Qanya graduated in BA (Fine Art) at the University of Cape Town in 2005. He has been active in art education since 1999, where he facilitated art classes at former Community Arts Project (CAP), Jameís House Childrenís Home in 2001, and Amy Biehl Foundation Trust in 2005. He has participated in various workshops including Tupelo in 2005/7, Curatorís Workshop 2006, and Critical Writing 2008. He was appointed as the Trainee Curator of Contemporary Art at Iziko South African National Gallery in 2006/7, where he co-curated Imbacu: Art from the Inside/Outside exhibitions.
Lerato Bereng was born in Maseru, Lesotho in 1986. She attended High School in Bloemfontion and continued to study at Rhodes University where she obtained a BA Fine Art in 2007, specialising in painting. Lerato subsequently completed an internship at Public Eye, a Maseru-based newspaper. In 2008 she was contracted as one of five Young Curators at Cape Africa Platform. On behalf of CAPE she completed a traineeship at Goodman Gallery Cape Town as well as recently co-producing Sessions Maputo in Mozambique.
Born in Soweto, South Africa in 1973, Ntando Xorile started out as performing artist for the Soweto Dance Project in the early 90s. He travelled extensively with the company, performing in major arts events around the world. In 1998 he graduated with a Diploma in design and went on to work as a graphics and a lay out artist for The Star newspaper. In 2006 he was appointed as an artist client liaison officer for the newly founded Johannesburg Art Bank. The initiative opened up new possibilities for the visual art as means of communication in the post 1994 landscape. He also served as a committee member for Rendezvous Project, which aimed to develop relationships between business, education and cultural practitioners. He subsequently continued to focus on visual arts, both as a member of VANSA (Visual Arts Network South Africa) Gauteng Province and as a researcher and assistant partner curator with TRACE, a team of professionals in the field of heritage, research, exhibition and design who work with clients on all aspects of exhibitions, publications and public programmes, including strategy, planning, design and implementation of projects, institutions and public spaces. In 2007/2008 he assisted Clive van den Berg and oversaw Spier Contemporary at the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
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Lerato Bereng (Young Curator)
Ntando Xorile (Young Curator)