Right To Speak

The Centre for Creative Arts is proud to be the official host to launch the Right To Speak project in South Africa. The Right To Speak project is a partnership initiative headed by the Goethe Institute in South Africa; and brings together the French Institute of South Africa, the Representation of Flanders and the Wallonie Bruxelle to partner with the Poetry Africa, the Hear My Voice ngo and the STAND Foundation to collaborate and present a series of hybrid events that use poetry as a vehicle for young people to critically engage with the concepts of human rights and their experiences in the world. The partners take pride in launching this dynamic programme at the Time of the Writer festival on 21 March which marks South Africa’s Human Rights Day and UNESCO’s International Poetry Day. The Right To Speak project is a partnership initiative funded by the European Union of National Institutes of Culture and more commonly known as EUNIC. The Centre for Creative Arts will launch the programme online and stream it from the Kwa Muhle Museum in Durban. The building was formerly the most despised structures in the city from where the basic human rights of African people was trampled on every single day. Formerly known as the Department of Native Affairs, it is from here where the government enforced its apartheid laws that controlled the lives and movement of African people.