The Centre for Development Support

The Centre for Development Support invites you to the premiere of what remains through time, slowness and stillness. This documentary captures a collaborative decolonising initiative led by interdisciplinary artist Sonya Rademeyer at Oliewenhuis Art Museum in Mangaung. Exhibited during the Vryfees 2025 in partnership with the University of the Free State, Queensland University of Technology, and the Vrystaat Arts Festival, the film is more than a record of an exhibition; it is an immersion in slowness, care, and regenerative cultural practice.

We ask: What knowledge systems survive erasure? How do we make visible what indigenous memory still carries? Community members, performers, and "more-than-human kin" – live snails, Earth, and waste – become equal partners in reimagining what a museum can hold. These collaborators are not metaphors but witnesses, their material traces resisting hierarchies of knowledge. At the heart of this vision is Meraka (place of gathering): cultural walls built inside the museum using post-natural and indigenous methodologies. Building becomes a living act of reclamation – brick by brick, hand by hand, reconstructing relationships with place, heritage, and one another. Bridging Oliewenhuis, the Meraka Cultural Village, and the Sekoele Holistic Living Arts Centre, the film invites knowledge to flow in multiple directions. Through auto-ethnographic storytelling, we are asked to consider what endures when we pause. Please join us for an afternoon of viewing and reflection as we sit with the questions raised: What remains, what is carried, and what becomes possible when we slow down enough to notice?

Date: 13 March 2026
Time: 14:00 – 16:00
Venue: Equitas Auditorium, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein Campus
Cost: Free (limited spots available)
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For more information, please contact Anita Venter at [email protected]