ORIGINS CENTRE LECTURE REMINDER AND MANDELA EXHIBITION

[Origins Centre]

LECTURE REMINDER:

Soutpansberg historian Charles Leach speaks about his book ‘The Legend of Breaker Morant is Dead and Buried: A South African version of the Bushveldt Carbineers in the Zoutpansberg’ this month.  He offers a South African angle on the life and times of ‘Breaker’ Morant, the Anglo-Australian who caused mayhem in the dying days of the Anglo-Boer War.
Date: Tuesday 26 June 2012
Time: 18h00 for 18h30
Cost: R45/R35 Wits students and Wits staff
Bookings: a...@origins.org.za

EXHIBITION: MANDELA@94

A exhibition of artwork celebrating our former President as his 94th birthday approaches opens in the Origins Centre Gallery on 4 July.  This exhibition of paintings, sculpture, photographs, beadwork and prints by South African artists is curated by Natalie Knight, Wits’ Art Curator for West Campus. 
 
The exhibition runs until July 31 and will be open Mondays - Fridays from 09h00-17h00 and on Saturday mornings from 09h00-13h00.  In addition, the following special events will be held:

Lecture:  The Fruits of the Long Walk to Freedom
Speaker: Natalie Knight
Date: Tuesday 10 July 2012
Time: 18h00 for 18h30
Cost: R45/R35 Wits students and Wits staff
Bookings: a...@origins.org.za

Lunchtime Walkabout
Guide: Natalie Knight
Date: Wednesday 18 July 2012 (Mandela Day)
Time: 12h30 for 13h00
Cost: R50/R40 Wits students and Wits staff
Bookings: a...@origins.org.za
(Limited to 50 participants)

Saturday Morning Walkabout
Guide: Prof Iain Currie, The Mandela Institute
Date: Saturday 28 July 2012
Time: 10h00 for 10h30
Cost: R50/R40 Wits students and Wits staff
Bookings: a...@origins.org.za
(Limited to 50 participants)

Please e-mail your request for seats to a...@origins.org.za. If you are a Wits student or Wits staff member, please include your student/staff number. We will then e-mail an invoice to you, which can be paid by eft.