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The first stage of this chapter will launch during the second half of 2025 following the premiere of
A STRANGE ALCHEMY at the 27th Encounters Documentary Film Festival and the opening of the exhibition
The Art & Life of Albie Sachs
at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, from 24 July 2025 until 23 August 2026.
A society that takes itself too seriously risks bottling up its tensions and treating every example of irreverence as a threat to its existence. Humour is one of the great solvents of democracy. It permits the ambiguities and contradictions of public life to be articulated in nonviolent forms. It promotes diversity. It enables a multitude of discontents to be expressed in myriad of spontaneous ways. It is an elixir of constitutional health.
