Open Window

29/05/2026

What an incredible night! It was absolutely amazing to welcome our Open Window alumni back to the Centurion campus.

Walking through the studios, sharing stories, and seeing where your creative journeys have taken you since graduation reminded us exactly why we do what we do. You are the heartbeat of OW, and the creative industry is so much brighter with you in it.

Thank you to everyone who made the trip back home. Swipe through to see some familiar faces.

29/05/2026

Some places exist beyond the edges of the map. Some stories are never archived. Some memories fade, fracture, or disappear entirely. Some communities remain unseen despite existing in plain sight. MAPS AND GAPS, the 2026 Third Year Photography Exhibition by the Photography students of The Open Window Institute, explores the spaces between what is documented and what is forgotten.

Through photography, installation, mixed media, and experimental processes, these emerging artists investigate absence, belonging, erasure, memory, identity, and the invisible structures that shape our world.

This exhibition invites viewers to navigate landscapes both physical and emotional, tracing the lines between presence and omission, structure and fragmentation, visibility and silence.

Because sometimes the most important stories exist in the gaps.

28/05/2026

27/05/2026

We are thrilled to celebrate the outstanding creative achievements of our faculty outside the classroom.

Screen Acting Lecturer Ilana Dlangalala Cilliers is directing BLING!, a compelling new theatre production written and performed by Buhle Ngaba. This bold piece uses satire and physical performance to explore complex themes of colonialism, identity, and the power of storytelling.

Support local theatre by securing your seats today.
https://buhlengaba.com/portfolio/bling/

26/05/2026

Thank you to all the incredible educators who joined for the Stellenbosch Teachers’ Conference, Co-Creation and Creativity: Arts Education in Dialogue! We hope you walked away with fresh insights from our talks, workshops and some wonderful new connections. We already can't wait to see you at the next one! Facilitated in partnership with Cape Town Creative Academy

22/05/2026

Congratulations once again to our incredible Film student, Talita Brits, on being selected as a finalist for the 2026 Sony Future Filmmaker Awards! See the link below for a recent interview with Linda van Tilburg, Talita dives into the creative choices behind her finalist film, Ongeluk. She shares why she chose to shoot primarily in Afrikaans, seamlessly weaving in English and Tswana and discusses her firm belief that powerful visual storytelling has the magic to cross any language barrier.

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ETHICS Talita Brits, a filmmaker from Pretoria studying at the Open Window Institute in Centurion, is not afraid of tackling hard subjects. F...

21/05/2026

Work in teams to build your own battle-ready fighting robot from the ground up. Design, assemble, and test your machine – learn about motors, microcontrollers and weapon mechanics to create a bot with an appetite for destruction. These robots will take centre stage at our Microfighters event day on 2 October. Beginners welcome!

OW STUDENTS & STAFF ONLY
BOOK YOUR SPOT: tr.ee/microfighters

20/05/2026

Our Photography department in Centurion recently collaborated with Vita24 to produce commercial product shots for their upcoming campaign.

Attached are some photos highlighting the incredible work from our recent workshop. A huge thank you to photography Lecturer Jean Claude for organising this fantastic opportunity and giving our students valuable real-world industry experience!