Windybrow Arts Centre

Windybrow Arts Centre is an arts centre in Johannesburg’s inner city Hillbrow area currently run by the Market Theatre Foundation since 2016.

For more information on the history of the venue prior to 2016, see Windybrow Centre for the Arts.

History

The Market Theatre Foundation’s history as an arts organisation key in the struggle against Apartheid and its ongoing work in arts for social justice since the advent of a democratic South Africa in 1994, makes it well-placed as a managing body to overturn the colonial legacy of the Windybrow and mobilise it as connector through the arts across social divides.

This work started with the physical restoration of the building by Urban Works Architecture and Urbanism in 2017 and a year-long participatory research programme run by community-engagement NPO, Sticky Situations. In 2018, a youth theatre company, KwaSha, took up residency in the Windybrow Arts Centre and an after-school programme was initiated for young people in Hillbrow. In 2020, Johannesburg Awakening Minds and in 2022 the Johannesburg branch of ASSITEJ South Africa moved into the Windybrow Arts Centre. A literacy programme was established for children and youth in 2022.

Sources

https://marketartscentre.co.za/about-us/

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