Bringing Music to Cape Town's Underprivileged

Communities – a Norwegian Academy of Music (NAM)/ South African College of

Music (SACM) Collaboration

South Africa in world context

South Africa – on the tip of Africa

Cape Town

History of the project

• Funded by the NORAD Programme in Arts and Cultural Education (ACE)

• This project has been running since 2006

• UCT has been able to send a total of ten students to study at NAM for one year each

• Two students from NAM have come to UCT as part of the programme

• The students from UCT who were awarded the scholarships were:

• Chris Engel & Lwanda Gogwana {2006/7}• Keenan Ahrends & Mandla Mlangeni {2007/8}• Darren English & Claude Cozens {2008/9}• Wathiq Hoosain & Ethan Smith {2009/10}• Adele Wyngaard & Justin Bellairs {2010/11}

• The students from NAM who were awarded the scholarship were:

• Lisa Hvoslef & Ellen Brekken {2009}

Academic objectives

• This project relates to student mobility and introduced the possibility for students from the Jazz Department at SACM to spend an exchange period at the Norwegian Academy of Music as a part of their Bachelor of Music programme in Cape Town, and vice versa for 2 Norwegian students.

• The study programme includes subjects such as: main instrument, improvisation, different ensembles, aural training, harmony, composition, arrangement and a Norwegian language course. The amount of credit awarded for the year will be 60 ECTS.

Service-learning objectives

• On return to SACM students are expected to engage in a community-education programme for a year, which involves them going to disadvantaged areas of the community and providing quality education.

• This will eventually provide access to various university programmes at UCT to the youth in those communities. This part of the programme is administered by Prof Mike Campbell at SACM.

A typical tourist’s view of Cape Town

Reality for many underprivileged communities in Cape Town

Teaching on the IMAD Project

IMAD Project

• The Institute for Music and Indigenous Arts Development

• Founded in 2007 by George Werner

• Currently runs in four schools:• Eluxolweni Primary in Khayelitsha• York Rd Primary in Lansdowne• ComArts Community Centre in Elsies River• Manenberg High in Manenberg

Difficulties faced

• UCT does not run any credit-based SL programmes so there is no central office to manage this type of thing

• Students sometimes found it difficult to go out to the areas where the schools were located – lack of transport as well as cost implications

• No existing music teachers at schools

Future sustainability

• Purchasing of instruments for schools means that music education can possibly continue

• Teaching skills developed by the returning students often lead to them taking up full-time teaching positions

• IMAD and SACM have an established relationship so the likelihood of this continuing after this project is over is high

Conclusion

• UCT would like to thank NORAD ACE for its generous sponsorship of this programme

• We hope that the association with NORAD will continue in different spheres

• UCT is a member of SANORD and we have enjoyed participating in this project and working with our NORDIC partners