The UJ Arts Centre offers you great shows and stunning exhibitions in a secure environment.
The 436-seat theatre is a modern, high-tech building. Since 2005, we have offered our patrons world-class shows. Year after year, the UJ Arts Centre has been the venue of choice for many prestigious events.
We also offer patrons the best value for money with excellent student productions. Tickets are priced at about 50% of the average theatre ticket, with even further discounts for students and pensioners, making theatre more accessible to all. With the support of professional directors, set builders, costumes makers, UJ students perform at a level which is as close to professional as any student production could possibly come.
The UJ Arts Centre has various programmes running for students and the general public. The most acclaimed of these are the Sundowner Concerts held on Mondays at 17:30, featuring some of the best South African classical musicians. International musicians also perform frequently. And it is absolutely free.
UJ Arts in association with the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, hosts various Architecture Lectures annually. The speakers are award-winning professionals who have designed landmark buildings in SA. The lectures are accredited (0.1 CPD points).
The UJ Art Gallery has 8 to 10 exhibitions annually.
The UJ Arts Centre at the University of Johannesburg was inaugurated on 5 October 2005. This was the culmination of a long-held dream by numerous people who have worked towards this for more than six years.
The decision to build an arts centre for the then RAU (now the University of Johannesburg) was taken in 1999, and since then planning quietly went ahead. By the beginning of 2004 plans were at such an advanced stage that a consortium of architects had been appointed to see the project through to completion. Under the dynamic and inspired vision of Justus van der Hooven of ARC Architects and Jeremy Rose of Mashabane Rose Architects the final plans were drawn up and building started in April 2004.
This complex has a prime location on the Auckland Park Kingsway Campus of the UJ. Access to the Arts Centre is directly off Kingsway (c/o University Rd and Kingsway). The Arts Centre has its own parking area, with provision for overflow parking directly across the road in the University's visitor's parking area, linked to the complex with a pedestrian bridge built over Kingsway.