{"id":105342,"date":"2023-10-06T13:18:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T11:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woordfees.co.za\/uncategorized\/karoo-kaarte\/"},"modified":"2023-10-06T13:18:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T11:18:55","slug":"karoo-kaarte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woordfees.co.za\/en\/theatre\/karoo-kaarte\/","title":{"rendered":"Droomkraan-kronieke: The backstory"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Droomkraan-kronieke is off the charts<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Text:\u00a0Diane De Beer<\/b>
Photos: Ryan Dammert and Karoo Kaarte
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South Africans are starting to realise that we have to do it for ourselves. The production Droomkraan-kronieke<\/i> which can be seen at the Woordfees, embodies just that. It is a testiment to how change will truly make an impact. This is something artists Neil Coppen and Vaughn Sadie put into practice with the establishment of the\u00a0Karoo Kaarte<\/i>\u00a0project which in the end led to their latest stage production,\u00a0<\/b>Droomkraan-kronieke<\/a><\/i>. DIANE DE BEER<\/span> spoke to the two art activists about this ongoing dream of theirs.<\/b><\/p>

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Karoo Kaarte<\/em> (Karoo Maps) is one of the most intriguing and important projects initiated at the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees (KKNK) in 2022.\u00a0The project\u2019s name\u00a0<\/span>Karoo Kaarte\u00a0<\/em>plays on the dual meaning of <\/span>kaarte<\/em> in the Oudtshoorn context. The English translation of <\/span>kaarte<\/em> is maps and in the local vernacular \u201com kaarte te sny\u201d refers to hanging out and telling both serious and lighthearted stories.<\/span><\/p>

Karoo Kaarte<\/em>\u00a0was the result of months of research and work done in Oudtshoorn. It was the dream of the late Dr David Piedt, a founding member and chairman of the KKNK and someone who worked tirelessly for the transformation and renewal of the KKNK over the years.<\/p>

The project driven by the KKNK (with funding from NATi and the ATKV) was established to make a transformative difference in the Karoo town where the festival is based.<\/p>

Facilitated by the smart combo of the innovative theatre maker Neil Coppen and the visual artist Vaughn Sadie, the idea was to use arts in many different ways to change the narrative of the Oudtshoorn community to a more inclusive one.<\/p>

Storytelling is one of the most powerful and compelling tools we have as people to bring about change, and it is exactly what was applied in this project in many different forms. The whole community of the town was encouraged to participate and engage in the research projects, which focussed on as many individuals as possible telling their individual stories, and more particularly, how they saw themselves featured in the town.<\/p>

The whole exercise is about bringing people together. With our past in mind, many of our towns and cities still show the former fault lines and it is wishful thinking to hope that things will slide into normality by itself. This is some of what they were working with to incorporate and bring everyone together to tell their stories and become part of the fabric of this Karoo town.<\/p>

Coppen explains how it all started: \u201cI\u2019ve worked with Hugo Theart (KKNK Artistic Director) on multiple occasions as a producer and across many of our conversations, he always expressed the festival\u2019s need and enthusiasm for developing projects that invested in the Oudtshoorn arts community and deepened the relationship between the festival, residents and local artists.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cThe Karoo Kaarte <\/em>project was born from these conversations and is an expansion and deeper iteration of a variety of projects Vaughn Sadie and I have worked on over the last decade, both in collaboration and separately. As artists and facilitators we both are deeply passionate about, and committed to, initiating public participatory arts and theatre projects across South Africa, creating work that attempts to stimulate empathy, awareness, dialogue and deeper listening through performance and visual arts mediums.\u201d<\/p>

With the help of the KKNK, their resources and energy, they were able to pull off a project and programme of this depth, complexity and reach. Both Coppen and Sadie moved to Oudtshoorn for six months, collaborating daily with what they describe as an incredible team of young artists, writers, musicians, performers, art leaders, activists and educators.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Some of the Karoo Kaarte <\/em>team members including Clarissa Saaiman, Glenisha Tarentaal, Tiffany Saterdaght, Cole Wessels, Zietske Saaiman, Lauren Theodore, Mirinda Ntantiso, An\u00e9 Koegelenberg, and back Theo Witbooi, Janion Kennedy, Vaughn Sadie and Neil Coppen.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The good news is that this is an ongoing project. With the KKNK, their vision is to establish a solid and effective long-term engagement with the community of Oudtshoorn through the arts and expand the project annually to include and feature more and more local artists at the festival.<\/p>

A big part of the success depended on the people involved. The process was one of broad consultation, which meant that Coppen and Sadie engaged with around 60 business people, traditional knowledge holders, political leaders, supporters of the festival and artists to reflect on the possibilities of implementing a community-led festival programme for the KKNK in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>

\u201cOnce the project began, we selected a core team of Oudtshoorn-based artists, poets, arts leaders, writers, musicians, researchers, facilitators and educators. These participants were guided over the four month long \u2018first phase\u2019 of the project through a series of weekly workshops to introduce the project methodologies and processes.<\/p>

\u201cEssential to the success of these processes was the involvement of leading intangible heritage consultant Deidre Prins-Solani, who facilitated a series of key workshops around developing the project ethos,\u00a0harnessing deep listening skills and the importance of preserving and archiving the intangible heritage of the region.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>

The core team participants were then trained in oral history skills and methodologies and, from October 2021, conducted 35 oral histories with a range of residents\u00a0around the themes of music, land, identity, sexuality, disability, history and place. These unearthed a compelling set of stories and life histories which were and are being collated and used to bolster the existing archives housed in the CP Nel Museum, which means that the history of the town is being broadened to capture as much of the community as possible.<\/p>

For change to truly manifest, everyone has to claim ownership.<\/p>

From this body of research the team also generated content in the form of four Zines (small magazines distributed at the 2022 Festival), art exhibitions, a theatre production and a musical performance for a week-long community-led programme at the 2022 KKNK Festival, all of which we as festival-goers could engage with.<\/p>

On the art side, a participatory collage process saw the team working with hundreds of images handpicked from the CP Nel Historic Archives and a selection from the KKNK\u2019s past 25 years of theatre festival photography, as well as personal images brought to workshops by participants. These collage workshops were held with learners, unemployed youth in outlying rural areas (in partnership with the Youth Cafe) and the broader public.\u00a0<\/p>

This process was designed as a quick but thought-provoking introduction by capturing how participants from various walks of life imagined themselves, as well as their sense of place and context within the town and outlying areas.\u00a0<\/p>

In 2022\u00a0this lead to the theatre production\u00a0Op Hierdie Dag<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>and the public arts programme.\u00a0Both the theatre and arts teams (each featuring around ten participants in their teams) sifted through vast bodies of research to create performances and exhibitions which fall outside of the more stereotypical ones that have come to define the region \u2013 and of course many others.\u00a0<\/p>

To find musicians, actors, writers and poets for the theatre production, a series of open auditions were hosted covering the town extensively. In the end, the panel saw over 100 people and completed call-backs and workshops to finalise the cast and musicians for the production.<\/p>

Sadie explains that the visual arts, theatre and music are all invaluable modes of expression for communicating the research. \u201cIt\u2019s important to have multiple entry points to make the project accessible to different audiences through different registers.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cI was deeply inspired by the level of dedication, talent and commitment shown by the whole team and was challenged and changed by creating this work and dreaming alongside all of them. I believe the Karoo Kaarte<\/em> process proves that collaboration at this scale can yield powerful and exciting creative results,\u201d noted Coppen.<\/p>

He argues that much of art and theatre in the Western world is about individual ego, hierarchies and ownership, while all the outputs of Karoo Kaarte<\/em> were achieved through deep conversation, consultation and collaboration with dozens and dozens of incredible minds and talents. \u201cIt was a process whereby each one of us were encouraged to contribute our respective skill sets and abilities to the mix.\u201d<\/p>

The theatre production of Op Hierdie Dag,<\/em> for example,\u00a0<\/strong>featured many voices and contributions and a text inspired and co-authored by the citizens of Oudtshoorn. \u201cOne of the local participants, Tiffany Saterdaght, and I worked incredibly hard to wield all these narratives into coherent theatrical experiences, but the material itself literally stems from thousands of pages of research and interviews that were gathered by the Karoo Kaarte <\/em>core team.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cIn the end there were so many people responsible for its success and reception and who could feel a sense of pride in what they collectively accomplished and saw up there on the stage.\u201d<\/p>

What excites Coppen and Sadie is the talent they unearthed. Many of them were young artists and arts leaders who worked tirelessly at their craft and disciplines for several years and honed their abilities despite the challenges they have faced around lack of access, recognition and platforms.\u00a0<\/p>

They both agreed that many of the participants across this project were some of the most talented and hardworking artists they had the privilege of working with.<\/p>

If anything, this project set out to try and dismantle this misconception that artists and performers from small towns (the fringes of more urban arts centres) are lesser or \u201camateur\u201d\u2026 when all that\u2019s really missing from the equation is the access to space.\u00a0<\/p>

When you are able to offer these elements to these artists and storytellers, they are truly able to shine and receive the sort of recognition that is long overdue to them. So a project like Karoo Kaarte<\/em> tries to foster and build these platforms and shift the national spotlight to shine on worlds, people and stories that have been excluded from national stages and conversations for way too long. It\u2019s really about treating Klein Karoo-based artists and storytellers with the respect, audiences and attention they deserve.<\/p>

For those of us lucky enough to see some of what they had created, the most impressive was the participants and their enthusiasm.<\/p>

Fortunately, as Coppen stated at the time: \u201cThe dream is for this process to continue and grow and expand well into the future and we are already dreaming up new processes as a collective\u201d.\u00a0Droomkraan-Kronieke <\/em><\/a>will be performed at the Woordfees on 7 Oct 10:30 | 8 Oct 10:00 and 13:00 | 9 Okt 10:00. And when you see the production \u2013 which everyone should \u2013 witness the professionalism and talent and see what can be done with training when the whole team, from production and including performers are completely involved.\u00a0<\/span>It is one of the most rewarding theatre experiences you will ever have.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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