ImaginingOtherwise: A glossary of arts education practice on the Cape Flats

ImaginingOtherwise is a cross disciplinary collaboration grounded in artistic practice, activism and youth-led social change. Located in Cape Town, South Africa, this is a year-long project of engagement with the arts for young people from the Cape Flats and young people from migrant backgrounds in other areas in Cape Town. The project asks how young people make sense of race and spatial inequalities in Cape Town. We aim to reflect on the role of creativity in the context of violence and economic and developmental dispossession, asking: How does theatre for social change produce educational and activist alternatives? We consider how dialogic creative arts generate a theory and practice of social change by, with and for peripheralized young people in Cape Town.