"South by South Africa – Crafting Cultural Understanding" is a collaborative arts, crafts, history and tourism-development initiative in Charlotte, N.C., focusing on the art forms of South Africa. From January through June 2006, institutions in Charlotte and the surrounding region will present exhibitions, performances, community outreach initiatives, culinary events, films and lectures, using civic-dialogue strategies to tell the story of South Africa's emergence from the Apartheid system to a full democracy. Participants hope to use the different contextual scenarios to gain perspective on social issues facing both Charlotte and South Africa. To launch the project, the Levine Museum of the New South will present "From Apartheid to Democracy: The Struggle for Liberation in South Africa," recounting that country's first ten years as a democracy. (Thanks, Animating Democracy.) [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham