Stacy Hardy
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Stacy M. Hardy is a writer
, journalist
, multimedia artist
and theatre
practitioner.
She is a founding member of the Venus Fly Trapeze Theatre Company, which has produced 8 original productions since 1995. She has lectured and tutored in the Drama Department at Rhodes University
(1996–1998) and remains active in using theatre as an educational tool by lecturing and hosting workshops for the Grahamstown Foundation’s National Schools Festival (1996–2003). She is currently scripting a new play for acclaimed South African director Jaco Bouwer.
She has 6 year’s experience as a freelance journalist, commissioning editor and features writer for publications including SL magazine, Rage.co.za and Art South Africa, and 5 year’s experience in advertising. Her work on Keyline Magazine received a Silver Loerie 2001. In 2001, together with Peet Pienaar
and Heidi Chisholm, she established the advertising and design company, Daddy Buy Me A Pony.
Her digital and multimedia art has been exhibited at various local and international exhibitions and she was a member of the South African delegation at Ars Electonica in Austria in 2002. She has won numerous awards, including a Construction Award 2003 and New Channels Digital Art Competition 2003. Her currently digital projects include a new collaboration with Francois Naude on a work that explores translation and literacy in South Africa.
Her fiction has appeared on "Donga", Litnet, in the Laugh It Off Annual, "Chimurenga
" and in AFRO Magazine. She participated in the 2003 Crossing Border Festival in Den Hagen, The Netherlands with fellow South African authors Ivan Vladislavic
, Lesego Rampolokeng
, Phaswane Mpe
, K. Sello Duiker
, and Nadine Botha. She has completed fiction for a book of photography by Pieter Hugo
, published in 2007 and has collaborated with Miles Keylock, Adam Haupt and Julian Jonker on a book of South African lyrics.
(IFFR) 2006 selection and was awarded Best Experimental Film at the Festival Chileno Internacional Del Cortometraje De Santiago
in 2006.
She is currently working as a writer and educator for the CAPE Africa Platform. She is also a member of the Bowling Club, a new collaborative creative venture founded by artist and designer Peet Pienaar. She regularly contributes to various conferences and platforms, including recent Underground Conference organised by Fred Devries at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research and the VANSA (The Visual Arts Network of SA) Young Curators Workshop held on Robben Island
.
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, multimedia artist
Multimedia artist
Multimedia artists are contemporary artists who use a wide range of media to communicate their art. Multimedia art includes, by definition, more than one medium, therefore multimedia artists use visual art in combination with sound art, moving images and other media...
and theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
practitioner.
She is a founding member of the Venus Fly Trapeze Theatre Company, which has produced 8 original productions since 1995. She has lectured and tutored in the Drama Department at Rhodes University
Rhodes University
Rhodes University is a public research university located in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, established in 1904. It is the province’s oldest university, and is one of the four universities in the province...
(1996–1998) and remains active in using theatre as an educational tool by lecturing and hosting workshops for the Grahamstown Foundation’s National Schools Festival (1996–2003). She is currently scripting a new play for acclaimed South African director Jaco Bouwer.
She has 6 year’s experience as a freelance journalist, commissioning editor and features writer for publications including SL magazine, Rage.co.za and Art South Africa, and 5 year’s experience in advertising. Her work on Keyline Magazine received a Silver Loerie 2001. In 2001, together with Peet Pienaar
Peet Pienaar
Peet Pienaar is a South African performance artist, most famous for having himself videotaped while undergoing circumcision in 2000...
and Heidi Chisholm, she established the advertising and design company, Daddy Buy Me A Pony.
Her digital and multimedia art has been exhibited at various local and international exhibitions and she was a member of the South African delegation at Ars Electonica in Austria in 2002. She has won numerous awards, including a Construction Award 2003 and New Channels Digital Art Competition 2003. Her currently digital projects include a new collaboration with Francois Naude on a work that explores translation and literacy in South Africa.
Her fiction has appeared on "Donga", Litnet, in the Laugh It Off Annual, "Chimurenga
Chimurenga
Chimurenga is a Shona word for 'revolutionary struggle'. The word's modern interpretation has been extended to describe a struggle for human rights, political dignity and social justice, specifically used for the African insurrections against British colonial rule 1896–1897 and the guerrilla war...
" and in AFRO Magazine. She participated in the 2003 Crossing Border Festival in Den Hagen, The Netherlands with fellow South African authors Ivan Vladislavic
Ivan Vladislavic
Ivan Vladislaviċ is a South African short story writer and novelist of Croatian origin. He lives in Johannesburg where he also works as an editor. In the eighties he worked as a fiction and social studies editor at Ravan Press...
, Lesego Rampolokeng
Lesego Rampolokeng
Lesego Rampolokeng is a South African writer, playwright and performance poet.- Early life and education :Lesego Rampolokeng was born in 1965 in Orlando West, Soweto, Johannesburg. He studied law at the University of the North in South Africa. .- Works :Lesego Rampolokeng prominence happened in...
, Phaswane Mpe
Phaswane Mpe
Phaswane Mpe was a South African poet and novelist. He was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was a lecturer in African literature. His debut novel, Welcome to Our Hillbrow, was published in 2001...
, K. Sello Duiker
K. Sello Duiker
Kabelo "Sello" Duiker, , was a South African novelist. His debut novel, Thirteen Cents, won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first book written by an African writer...
, and Nadine Botha. She has completed fiction for a book of photography by Pieter Hugo
Pieter Hugo
Pieter Hugo was born 1976 and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. He is a South African photographer who primarily works in portraiture and whose work engages with both documentary and art traditions with a focus on African communities. - Early Life :...
, published in 2007 and has collaborated with Miles Keylock, Adam Haupt and Julian Jonker on a book of South African lyrics.
Works
Her short film, I Love You Jet Li, created in collaboration with Jaco Bouwer was part of the transmediale.06: video selection, International Film Festival RotterdamInternational Film Festival Rotterdam
The International Film Festival Rotterdam is an annual film festival held in various cinemas in Rotterdam, Netherlands held at the end of January. It is approximately comparable in size to other major European festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Berlin, and Locarno...
(IFFR) 2006 selection and was awarded Best Experimental Film at the Festival Chileno Internacional Del Cortometraje De Santiago
Santiago, Chile
Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...
in 2006.
She is currently working as a writer and educator for the CAPE Africa Platform. She is also a member of the Bowling Club, a new collaborative creative venture founded by artist and designer Peet Pienaar. She regularly contributes to various conferences and platforms, including recent Underground Conference organised by Fred Devries at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research and the VANSA (The Visual Arts Network of SA) Young Curators Workshop held on Robben Island
Robben Island
Robben Island is an island in Table Bay, 6.9 km west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. The name is Dutch for "seal island". Robben Island is roughly oval in shape, 3.3 km long north-south, and 1.9 km wide, with an area of 5.07 km². It is flat and only a...
.