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By Sisonke Labase
Janet Buckland has an infectious
love for the arts. She is the director
of the Eastern Cape Drama Company
UBOM!, a council member
of the Eastern Cape Provincial
Arts and Culture Council and the
2008 Shoprite Checkers Woman
of the year.
UBOM! is an award winning
Theatre Company with its eye on
community development using
theatre to entertain and educate.
Ms Buckland started UBOM! in
2003.
“I was inspired by the primary
condition of the province, which
suffered marginalisation and lacks
a professional art economy,” she
says.
UBOM! means life in Xhosa. Ms
n Janet Buckland brings life to EC drama
Buckland explains that “we felt we
were bringing life into the arts and
the Eastern Cape.”
Ms Buckland also works closely
with Rhodes as a part time lecturer
and course coordinator. She also
runs the Amaphikho Dance Project
in Grahamstown and is a council
member of the Eastern Cape
Provincial Arts & Cultural Council
(ECPACC). She has received many
awards for her work and directing
both local and international.
Her hard work and talents have
seen her receive three Vita awards
for Best Production and Best Direction,
a Naledi Award and three
international Scotsman Fringe
First Awards at the Edinburgh
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Fringe Festival. Her success has
not come easy, with many challenges,
determination and hard
work has kept her in the top of her
game for 10 years.
“The challenges we face aren’t
hard work, but economical.
“Working in an industry that is
unvalued as the arts is hard. For
instance the National Art Council
did not sponsor us this year because
of the economic crisis,” Ms
Buckland says.
When asked what keeps her
persevering she says “people inspire
me, without other people’s
passions and them believing in
what we do we wouldn’t make it;
my team, they are my pioneers.”
Ms Buckland’s career highlight
is winning the Shoprite Checkers
Woman of the Year in 2008. She
describes the experience as unexpected
and amazing.
“It was mind blowing winning
the overall award, I didn’t expect
it; to be acknowledged for the
work you do is amazing,” says Ms
Buckland.
Her love of the arts is to develop
and make a change in communities
especially with young people
with UBOM! and Amaphikho
Dance Project, she aims to do just
that.
As she says “a society without
the arts is like creating a society
without a sensitive soul.”
JAnEt BuCklAnd
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