ISIVIVANA CENTRE

Under the theme Counter-narratives of Commemoration, Resonance Archive Festival returns in 2026 with a simple provocation: Remembering is never neutral. Every monument, anniversary, museum label and national holiday tells us what to remember, and by extension what to forget. This year the festival asks who writes those versions of the past, whose stories they leave out, and what becomes possible when those stories are told on their own terms?

The programme continues the festival’s conversations on archive and memory through film, performance, visual art and literature, across three cities.

26 NOVEMBER

ISIVIVANA CENTRE

1PM A Counter-narrative Anthology: Post-Apartheid Popcorn, Atrophy and the Fear of Fading, Anatomy of Apartheid, The Burning

African Jim

3PM Knockout

27 NOVEMBER

11AM How Long

1PM Stoney: The One and Only

3PM Land Apart

28 NOVEMBER

1PM And She Didn’t Die

3PM Jack Markovitz Presents: Beaches and Racism in Cape Town, Cape Dependance

29 NOVEMBER

1PM A Counter-narrative Anthology: Post-Apartheid Popcorn, Atrophy and the Fear of Fading, Anatomy of Apartheid, The Burning

Knockout

3PM African Jim