The Royal Heritage Festival (RHF) in Vhembe is described by organisers as Limpopo’s biggest music festival. The Festival began in 2012 and is now in its 5th year. The full name of the event is the Phalaphala FM Royal Heritage Festival. Phalaphala FM is a Tshivenda language radio station owned by the SABC, which can be received mainly in Gauteng and Limpopo provinces.
IN AN unusual token of collaboration, South Korea, China and Japan have agreed to collaboratively host and demonstrate their cultures and heritage, by hosting a ‘Culture Olympics’.
THE theme for Heritage Month is ‘Celebrating Human Treasures by Asserting our African Identity’ which Arts & Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa launched in Sophiatown earlier this month.
MARKET Theatre chief executive, Ismail Mahomed, reflects on how our heritages are shared, and often marked, by the creative spaces that can define us.
IT WAS quite something to see the incredible women in the arts, heritage and cultural and creative industries (CCIs) profiled during Women’s Month. If you missed National Film and Television Foundation CEO, Zama Mkosi’s piece on the challenges women in the film industry face, read it here. It’s worth some consideration – and possibly further research.
EGYPT: It must have been a terrifying moment in 2014 when Abdel Hamid Salah el-Sharief arrived at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, Egypt, to be met with a glittering sea of broken glass.
THE South African Museums Association is hosting a conference from 1-3 November. The Conference theme: “Museums and Cultural Landscapes” and forms part of ICOM’s International Museums Day 2016 theme.
OUR rich history will be celebrated with an exciting and diverse line-up of events at Artscape Theatre Centre in September. Former president, the late Nelson Mandela once said: “Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation.”
THE Linder Auditorium came alive with the passion of music on Saturday night, when the two SAMRO Overseas Scholarships winners were announced.
AUDIENCES are often hard to come by in the arts, culture, and heritage sectors and the creative and cultural industries, and that’s why ART WEEK was started – to develop new audiences and increase public awareness of the vibrant contemporary art scene in South African cities starting with Cape Town and Johannesburg.
LOOKING for a dose of artistic freedom – but not directly in the creative sense – then the Hilton Arts Festival is the place to be this month. Organisations offer this advice to see much without parting with a single cent.
SIX gifted Grade 12 scholars are one step closer to claiming their share of R800 000 to help realise their dream of studying the performing arts.
