Brief Description of Currently Up and Running Activities

Administration 

The project has operated with a heavy reliance upon individuals and volunteers to train its members in administration. The office work is done every morning from 0830 until 1000 hrs on Monday to Friday.

Administration Structure – Manager

                                          Artistic-Director

                                          Secretary

                                          Treasure

                                          Public Relations Officer

                                          Three Additional Committee Members    

Rehearsals

These takes place on Tuesday to Saturday between 1000 and 1300 with fulltime members of the project.

Community Theatre Workshops

We mobilize Children and Youth with aims of making them stay off the streets and promote self-reliance as well as motivating them to face the future with courage. These workshops are facilitated in schools, drop centre, shelters in the inner city of Johannesburg.

SAVSA (Steps Against Violence South Africa)

The project developed in 1993 by a group of Germany and South African theologians and teachers from Kassel and Braunschweig, under the leadership of Rev. K.J. Burckhardt. It then was put to the test with students of secondary schools. The project is specially designed to highlight structural causes of violence, address the problem of growing racism in Germany and partly in South Africa and to give students the options to look at alternatives to either fight or flight in terms of personal responses to violence. This achieved by using South Africa as a metaphor of a successful (yet ongoing) struggle to fight apartheid and its causes. It relates to the ethical foundations of active non-violence and challenges students to look for ways to break the cycle of violence in their own school surroundings.  Hlalanathi has used the Community Theatre methodology to create forums for various communities to identify issues that need to be addressed as well as enacting resolutions to them. Hlalanathi runs SAVSA in partnership with Schritte Gegen Tritte in Germany. Schools are the main target of this programme and up to this with schools such as St Endas Secondary, Centurion College, IH Harris, and Knowledge is Virtue, Phoenix College, Gauteng College, Freedom College, Afro-Kombs College, BASA Tutorial Institute and Barnato Park High School.

Hillbrow Peace Festival

This is an annual event happening on the Heritage week that seeks to bring together diverse communities in the area to explore their cultural diversity. As Hillbrow was formerly known as the European catchment area, now it has become “The Capital of Africa” in which all nations from Africa are found. In this event all the nations living in and around are invited to perform and exhibit their different cultures and heritage.

Tour Guide

apart from the theatre works that the project provides the community it also ensures a safe and informative guide in the city of Johannesburg to its visitors.