the 2020 rome charter: south african resonances
15 September 2020.
14h00 - 16h00 (SAST)
Biographies of participants
phyllis klotz
Phyllis Klotz is Artistic director of the Sibikwa Arts Centre which she co-founded with Smal Ndaba. Phyllis has been involved in development theatre and arts education for many years and is recognized as an expert in the development of community arts centres. She has toured Southern Africa, Europe, Canada, USA and Singapore extensively with plays dealing with a variety of topics. She is the recipient of several awards for her contribution to South African theatre. Phyllis directed and co-wrote the seminal South African theatre piece ‘You Strike a Woman, You Strike a Rock’ and was voted one of the ten major contributors to the South African performing arts by the Star newspaper, she is the recipient of a Naledi Lifetime Achievement award.
François Matarasso
François Matarasso has worked in community arts since 1981 as an artist, producer, researcher, writer and trainer. He has published influential work on the social outcomes of participation in the arts, and on the history, theory and practice of community art. He has worked with arts organisations, foundations and government bodies large and small. He has experience of community-based cultural work in about 40 countries and is a strong advocate for a rights-based approach to art and culture. His latest book A Restless Art, How participation won and why it matters, was published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 2019. www.arestlessart.com
stefanie mills chetty
Stefanie Mills Chetty is Director for Urban Policy Development and Management at the National Department of Cooperative Governance. She manages and supports provincial CoGTAs and municipalities to implement the Integrated Urban Development Framework (IUDF). Previously worked at the National Department of Rural Development of Land Reform as a Chief Town and Regional Planner- Spatial Coordination. She was responsible for development and the Implementation of the Spatial Planning Land Use Management Act (SPLUMA), and the Regulations and Model Municipal By –Law for the Gauteng Province. She served on the secretariat for the National Spatial Planning Land Use Management Forum. Previously worked at Eskom Distribution in Pretoria Menlyn as a Town and Regional Planner. Holds a Master’s Degree in Town and Regional Planning from the University of Pretoria.
eriel huang
Eriel Huang is the Deputy Director: Johannesburg Youth Orchestra Company and Convener: Cultural Policy Working Group, Im4theArts. She has travelled to 30+ countries as a musician, teaching artist and cultural consultant. She was the lead violinist for the South African Music Award winning band Sterling EQ. In 2013, Eriel relocated to Boston for the Sistema Fellowship Program on social justice and music education at the New England Conservatory of Music. During her time in the US, she was immersed in arts advocacy and cultural policy, and supported the launch of the Creative Youth Development sector. Career highlights include strengthening community development projects and youth leadership programs throughout South Africa and the continent; residencies in Italy, Japan, Venezuela and Afghanistan. She was a representative at the UN ECOSOC Youth Forum, the Nobel Laureate Youth Summit, G8 Youth Summit and COP17. Eriel returned to South Africa in 2016 to re-eastablish a family business and is currently based in Johannesburg.
Avril Joffe
Avril is a development economist and head of the Cultural Policy and Management Department, at the Wits School of Arts. Avril’s areas of focus are cultural policy design, implementation and evaluation; value, mapping and assessment of the cultural economy for evidence-based policy making; strategic planning for the arts; cultural entrepreneurship; and, foregrounding arts and culture in urban and city development. She has notably developed generic cultural policy frameworks and toolkits on fundraising for the arts in Africa and was recently part of the Ministerial-appointed review panel to rewrite South Africa’s cultural policy. She designed and facilitated training programmes. Further she has worked as a specialist researcher, policy analyst, evaluator and consultant on behalf of major internal bodies, and across Africa. She serves on the UNESCO expert facility on cultural policy and governance and on the International Advisory Committee for the UK's Cultural and Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Council.
Zayd Minty
Zayd is a cultural management professional and researcher. He has worked, primarily in South Africa: on local cultural governance initiatives; in post-apartheid museums, community arts centres, festivals and networks; and with public and contemporary arts projects. He has a special interest in understanding how culture could be better mobilised at localised levels to enable more sustainable, integrated and just cities in the global South. He is currently working on his doctorate looking at the Newtown Cultural Precinct and its implications for cultural governance, through the African Centre for Cities. He has been running Creative City South since 2017 – which serves as a platform for documenting and popularising urban cultural policies and practises for sustainable cities in the global South. He is a research associate at the University of Witwatersrand at the Cultural Policy and Management Department of the School of Arts.
Jordi Pascual
Jordi Pascual is the coordinator of the Committee on culture of the world organisation of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG). The work of the Committee is based on Culture 21 Actions, the most complete toolkit on culture in sustainable cities. The Committee organises a global award as well as a biennial Summit, manages a unique database of good practices and promotes a range of learning programmes on capacity-building and connectivity of cities. As coordinator of the Committee, he is involved in the global campaign #culture2030goal that advocates for the role of cultural factors and actors in the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Annabel Lebethe
Annabel Lebethe is CEO of DITSONG: Museums of South Africa previously known as the Northern Flagship Institution. It is an amalgamation of eight national museums with diverse collections covering the fields of fauna and flora, palaeontology, military history, cultural history, geology, anthropology and archaeology. Annabel has held leadership positions at several important institutions notably the National Arts Council (NAC), the Market Theatre Foundation and the Performing Arts Council of the Free State (PACOFS).
Dr Stella (CN) Khumalo
Dr Stella (CN) Khumalo is Deputy Director General: Arts, Culture Promotion and Development in the National Department of Sports, Arts and Culture. She has an MBA from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (2004), and a Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She was previously the CEO of uShaka Marine World (2014-2020), CEO, KZN Liquor Authority (2012-2014), Head of Department, Provincial Department of Arts, Culture, and Tourism (2007-2012), Chief Director/General Manager – Tourism and Corporate Strategy (2005-2007), Director in the Department of Education and Culture (2000-2002), and in the Office of the KZN Premier (1998-2000). She started her career in education in schools (1985-1998)
Mthobeli Kolisa
Mthobeli Kolisa is the Chief Officer: Infrastructure Delivery, Spatial Transformation & Sustainability at the South African Local Government Association (SALGA ). He was previously a group head at the City of Tshwane Municipality
Carla Schiavone
Currently Senior Advisor to the Vice Mayor in charge of cultural development for the City of Rome, Carla has over 15 years of experience in the field of collaborative strategy, being able to create and facilitate dynamics and innovative processes that lead diverse groups of people to transform their context. She serves public administrations and international organisations in developing policies and strategies that serve a multi-purpose stakeholder community. Carla has led and facilitated over 150 collaborative sessions with the aim of collective problem solving. Prior to this experience, she served as Community and Communication Director of Culture Action Europe and as senior consultant for organisations such as Harvard Business School, OECD, FIAT Chrysler, Bocconi University, Unicredit Group, Independent Sector.
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