Jordan Stewart led a workshop online titled, "Inside Out: Puppetry and Improvisation for Such a Time as This Exploring the Expressive Release of Collective and Suppressed Emotions." @WitsUniversity @thebuzhive @vow_881 @WitsTheatre1 @basa_news #dflconference2025

Ko Kopanong Playback Theatre perform @WitsUniversity for the @dflwits conference. This was Ko Kopanong's debut performance in South Africa. @iHeartRadio @WarrenNebe @CTAOP @thebuzhive @TheCitizen_News @basa_news #dflconference2025

Paper Series (Online): Violent Strikes in the South African Workplace: An Applied Drama perspective on mental fitness. Presented by Bhekilizwe Bernard Ndlovu @WitsUniversity @thebuzhive @vow_881 @WitsTheatre1 @basa_news #dflconference2025

Vukuzenzele Team, on how intergrating Drama in their practice has improved the Vukuzenzele Youth Team’s lives, and development. @WitsUniversity @Wits_News #dflconference2025

Workshop Series (Online): Rupture and Repair: An interdisciplinary and embodied approach to Arts and Health Practices in a post-conflict South African context by Marlize Swanepoel @WitsUniversity @basa_news @thebuzhive #dflconference2025

Nobonke van Tonder giving a profound keynote address titled, "Entangled with the most daring of times ~ brave and humble pathways for the artistic soul." @WitsUniversity @thebuzhive @vow_881 @WitsTheatre1 @basa_news #dflconference2025

Dr. Bhebhe welcoming our Keynote address speaker, Nobonke van Tonder. @WitsUniversity @thebuzhive @WitsTheatre1 #dflconference2025

Elikem Kunutsor in a solo performance called "Just Shhhh..." A deeply ritualistic journey of searching, belonging, and healing. @WitsUniversity @thebuzhive @vow_881 @WitsTheatre1 #dflconference2025

A Forum Theatre process titled "FUCKalty and SIEStems" conceptualised by Lucky Moeketsi, facilitated (jokered) by Teto Mokaila, performed by Nomfundo Ncanana, Kabelo Mokgehle, Khanyisile Zwane, Tobejane Kholofelo and Khanyisile Seroka. @WitsUniversity #dflconference2025

The DFL Playback Theatre Company performing for teller stories under the theme "the red thread of radical hope." @WitsUniversity @thebuzhive @vow_881 @WitsTheatre1 #dflconference2025

Mpho Molepo speaks about Freedom & Expression. Mpho: Freedom is not the right to speak without restraint, but the duty to speak with responsibility. @WitsUniversity #dflconference2025

Panel Discussion: Voices on the Edge: Freedom or Harm? @WitsUniversity @SportArtsCultur @nacsouthafrica @GaytonMcK #dflconference2025

Performance Series: Gas by Geralt Cloete @WitsUniversity #dflconference2025

Paper Series: Ngwana Ya Salleng: Judicial Theatre as a route for Justice(us)ness presented by Selloane Mokuku @WitsUniversity #dflconference2025

Performance Series: Project 2040 – Configured Artention by Collen Makua @WitsUniversity #dflconference2025

Kabelo Mokgehle facilitated a workshop called, "Stories Black Men Tell: Storytelling, Healing, and Justice(Us)". An exploration of what it means to be a man. A dialogue between two generations of men ensued. @WitsUniversity @iHeartRadio @GenderSonke #dflconference2025

Paper Series: "Hey Grok, are you changing our traditions? An Applied Drama/Theatre review of Blacking’s Tradition and Change in Society in 2025." presented by Hamish Neill @WitsUniversity #dflconference2025

“Repetition of laughter created a space of resistance for the family” Paper Series: Laughter in the Margins: Black Feminist Aesthetics and Pedagogies of Care presented by Dr Refiloe Lepere @WitsUniversity @WarrenNebe @thebuzhive #dflconference2025

Paper Series: Rethinking Digital Knowledge in the Anthropocene by Dr Renzo Filinich at Waternweiler Library @WitsUniversity #dflconference2025

Sithembile Khalishwayo, performing a fictional one-man performance called "Diaries of Retired Violence", a fictional one-man performance delving into the life of a former freedom fighter turned president, facing an impending war crimes trial. @sthekhali #dflconference2025