WOMEN in the creative and cultural industries still struggle to break through structural challenges which are limiting their equitable participation in the economic yields of the industry, Prof Jen Snowball and Amy Shelver discuss.
GENEVA: Cultural diversity is an asset. It adds value to and creates opportunities for society – something Art for the World, an NGO associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information (UNDPI), will acknowledge at its latest event, a Library Talk.
ESTHER Mahlangu has again collaborated with BMW to develop a car that is as much artwork as it is luxury vehicle.
THE seventh World Summit on Arts and Culture is being held at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta between October 18 and October 21, 2016. The theme for this edition is: ‘At the Crossroads? Cultural Leadership in the 21st Century’.
THE JAN Michalski Foundation is inviting applications for its inaugural writers’ residencies. The programme is based at the foot of Switzerland’s Jura Mountains and the selected writers will each live and work in newly constructed treehouses.
THE Johannesburg Youth Ballet’s 40th Anniversary Gala season will be celebrated in style onstage at The Mandela, Joburg Theatre from 14 to 16 October with A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Other Ballets.
WHILE South Africa lost an invaluable part of the collection of the law library at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Howard College, this month, another one is steadily growing.
RAT Western provides an analysis of the value of labour, using the National Arts Festival as the site to interrogate this and the value placed on creative production.
DESIGN Indaba founder Ravi Naidoo, First National Bank, and the United States Embassy have all been honoured with Special Awards at the 19th Annual BASA Awards, partnered by Hollard and Business Day.
ELEVEN projects were honoured at the 19th Annual BASA Awards, partnered by Hollard and Business Day, during an arts-filled event attended by representatives of the business and arts community, and by the Minister of Arts and Culture, Nathi Mthethwa, as well as the Minister of Tourism, Derek Hanekom.
INTERNET streaming of music is becoming the ‘next biggest thing’ globally. Consumers are no longer simply downloading music, but are now listening or watching music videos instantaneously online.
THE new age of smartphones has taken a lot of the attention of society away from natural surroundings and sounds.
