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ART EXHIBIT
 Voices
of the Ancestors
Venue: South African National Gallery, Government Ave, Cape
Town.
Tel: (021) 467 4661
Gallery Hours: Tue- Son: 10:00am to 5:00pm.
Duration: 24 Sep 2008 - 15 Mar 2009
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Iziko has a superb collection of musical instruments from Southern,
Eastern and Central Africa that are presented as sculptures. However, it
is through an appreciation of the music, performance contexts and the
instrument itself that we can begin to grasp what an instrument means to
the people who made and played it.
Over one hundred works have been selected from Iziko collections to
suggest the rich diversity of musical instruments created by African
people for their own use.
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Exhibited for the first time, seventeen different types of instruments
are drawn from four classic categories - idiophones (self-sounding
instruments), chordophones (stringed instruments), aerophones (wind
instruments) and membranophones (drums).
The title of the exhibtion, Voices of the Ancestors refers to the
belief that in certain contexts, the spiritual world can be accessed
through music.
Visitors can engage in the audible dimensions of African sounds in the
Chill Room where interactive programmes and listening equipment awaits.
Exciting education and public programmes and a special celebration on
Heritage Day are planned.
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