I’M LEFT, this month, reflecting on the many voices we have heard as we complete a whirlwind tour de force of South Africa where we experienced first-hand the depth of our country’s creative and cultural industries. We have heard the good, the bad and the ugly – in a necessary, complex voicing of hope, despair, potential and promise.
THE 2016 Arts Journalism of the Year Award winners were announced on November 28 at a ceremony at Nando’s Central Kitchen in Johannesburg.
RETAINING staff; achieving greater market share; increasing turnover; and having more satisfied clients, have been proven to be the outcome of incorporating, and embedding, design into organisations, or design-led organisations. Deep into these organisations’ ethos, is the integration of design, it is argued.
PALESA Kgasane’s uber cool Mzansi Moodboard, showcases creativity from a variety of individuals and spaces “with a special emphasis on young women of colour”.
THE De Vos Institute’s fellowship program is offered free of charge to arts managers from across the United States and around the world who are selected through a competitive application process.
BENIN: Sino-African relations are a major point of interest, especially over the past 20 or more years. The commentary, according to Catherine Gilbert Teaching Fellow in Comparative Literature, King's College London, tends to focus on trade, economic investment and aid and is often negative in tone. But culture is perceived as the most positive aspect of the relationship.
MAXI-D Productions are proud to announce the digital release of the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack of their film, Noem My Skollie / Call Me Thief.
ROBYN Orlin, nicknamed in South Africa “a permanent irritation”, is a controversial and provocative artist well known for reflecting the complex South African realities, brings to the John Kani @ the Market Theatre stage the evocative World Full Of Butterflies, It Takes Balls To Be A Caterpillar… Some Thoughts On Falling… this December.
THE Market Theatre is celebrating its 40 years of storytelling from 1976 to 2016 with a special limited edition coffee table book.
METICULOUSLY researched, author Brenda Schmahmann engages the reader as the history and motivation behind the extraordinary Keiskamma Art Project is revealed in the book, "The Keiskamma Art Project - Restoring Hope and Livelihoods".
THE UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has released a new report spotlighting the power of culture as a strategic asset for creating cities that are more inclusive, creative and sustainable.
OPENING Keynote address by the Minister of Arts and Culture, Mr Nathi Mthethwa at the 2nd Sector Indaba on the White Paper on Arts, Culture and Heritage, Johannesburg, 17 November 2016. "It was almost a year ago on the 24 November 2015 that we gathered together as the Arts, Culture and Heritage Sector in a meeting of minds on the future of the arts. And I pledged to all present that once we had completed our consultative work led by the eminent Reference Panel, we would return and reconvene the sector to engage this important work. We have remained true to this pledge and today we return for this important second consultative Indaba."
