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''[[Lalela uLwandle]]'' ("Listen to the Sea") is a  
 
''[[Lalela uLwandle]]'' ("Listen to the Sea") is a  
  
Led by Dylan McGarry and Taryn Pereira at the Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, with [[Neil Coppen]] and [[Mpume Mthombeni]] from [[Empatheatre]], and Kira Erwin at the Urban Futures Centre, Durban University of Technology, ''[[Lalela uLwandle]]'' forms part of the One Ocean Hub, a global action research network led by Strathclyde University and funded by the UKRI Global Challenge Research Fund.
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''[[Lalela uLwandle]]'' draws on the stories of three people who recount how the ocean is linked to, among other things, livelihoods, medicine and healing, scientific study and its role as a site for spiritual connections with ancestors. The play then deals with acts of past and present power and exclusion in South Africa. It performs the painful experiences of forced removals under apartheid, which robbed many of a life on the coast. It explores how extractive mining on land and sea, and industrial fishing, continue to create forms of oppression and exclusion.  
  
The research team partnered with [[Empatheatre]], a collective who use research-based theatre as a participatory decision-making tool for social justice. They have tackled issues related to street-level drug use (''[[Ulwembu]]''), gender and migration (''[[The Last Country]]''), mining (''[[Soil&Ash]]'') and the sea (''[[Lalela uLwandle]]'').
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Developed by a team led by Dylan McGarry and Taryn Pereira at the Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, with [[Neil Coppen]] and [[Mpume Mthombeni]] from [[Empatheatre]], and Kira Erwin at the Urban Futures Centre, Durban University of Technology, ''[[Lalela uLwandle]]'' forms part of the One Ocean Hub, a global action research network led by Strathclyde University and funded by the UKRI Global Challenge Research Fund.

Revision as of 06:59, 8 April 2020

Lalela uLwandle ("Listen to the Sea") is a

Lalela uLwandle draws on the stories of three people who recount how the ocean is linked to, among other things, livelihoods, medicine and healing, scientific study and its role as a site for spiritual connections with ancestors. The play then deals with acts of past and present power and exclusion in South Africa. It performs the painful experiences of forced removals under apartheid, which robbed many of a life on the coast. It explores how extractive mining on land and sea, and industrial fishing, continue to create forms of oppression and exclusion.

Developed by a team led by Dylan McGarry and Taryn Pereira at the Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, with Neil Coppen and Mpume Mthombeni from Empatheatre, and Kira Erwin at the Urban Futures Centre, Durban University of Technology, Lalela uLwandle forms part of the One Ocean Hub, a global action research network led by Strathclyde University and funded by the UKRI Global Challenge Research Fund.