Collaborative Conversations

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>To celebrate Mothertongue's 21st anniversary </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Collaborative Conversations</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> weaves together the reflections of a group of artists scholars and writers who have journeyed with the organisation over the last two decades.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Since its inception in 2000 with </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>What the Water Gave Me</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> The Mothertongue Project has used participatory integrated arts methods to create theatrical works that strive for personal and collective dialogue and healing in South Africa.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>In poetry scholarly writing and transcribed oral conversations the contributors now think and feel their way through the aspirations and achievements - and the alchemy - of The Mothertongue Project's work. Accompanied by photographs of performances from across the 21 years this book provides a sense of what a Mothertongue theatre piece does: it draws audience and performers into transformative embodied conversations.</span></p><p><strong>Includes work by</strong> Awino Okech Genna Gardini Koleka Putuma Makgati Mokwena Malika Ndlovu Mwenya B Kabwe Nicosia Shakes Nina Callaghan Ntomboxolo Makhutshi and Rehane Abrahams.</p>