IJR: Youth Dialogue and Poetry Slam on Race and Identity

The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation's (IJR) Ashley Kriel Youth Leadership Development project in collaboration with the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights (JELI) in Atlanta, Georgia, have convened and hosted a cross-cultural dialogue project titled Crafting Change Agents. This program served as a cross-cultural dialogue between black American students and *coloured South African students to explore their participatory roles in their various communities by drawing parallels in each group’s identity politics and identity formation processes.

This project aimed to better understand the ways in which minority groups function within democratic societies and how greater participation in democratic processes can encourage reconciliation. The programme used digital dialogue as the vehicle to facilitate conversations where personal and historical perspectives are acknowledged, prejudices challenged and inclusive narratives explored.

The four-week digital dialogue will culminate in a youth dialogue and poetry slam convened by IJR’s Ashley Kriel Youth Leadership Development and Memory Arts and Culture projects exploring race and identity and the role of the youth in challenging racial injustice.

This event is open to the public.

Date: 28 May 2015 Time: 6pm - 8:30pm Venue: District Six Museum

To RSVP email eduplooy@ijr.org.za