THE award-winning Creative Programme developed by the British Council, Connect ZA is now getting ready for the next exciting phase which calls on applicants to submit new, never-before-funded work.
THE SACO and DAC recently worked together to collect responses from over 200 attendees at the 22nd South African Music Awards (SAMA’s) this month.
IT’S BEEN just over a month since the SACO’s first national conference, Counting Culture 2016, and the initial round of papers and presentations are now available on the SACO Counting Culture 2016 conference website.
THROUGH an assortment of research opportunities, the South African Cultural Observatory (SACO) is engaging young academics in arts, culture and economic studies that both develop the research capabilities of these young minds and offer fresh insights into the work the SACO is undertaking.
BUSINESS and Arts South Africa launched the BASA ArtsTrack No. 7 to its members, at Hollard’s Villa Arcadia in Johannesburg this morning, and also gave an overview and update on the organisation’s programmes. Following this event there will be visits to the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal: on the 28th June at Iziko Rust en Vreugd Museum in Cape Town, and then in Durban.
YOUNGER delegates at the inaugural South African Cultural Observatory conference have commended the new institution for the constructive content provided in Port Elizabeth on 17 and 18 May, and for the employment opportunities initiatives like SACO offer.
WE HAVE been celebrating Africa Month in May, and you will notice a distinctly African flavour to this month’s South African Cultural Observatory newsletter. Additionally, we got to praise – and criticize – the creative economy on the continent and the incredible work being done both in South Africa and across Africa at our inaugural Counting Culture 2016 conference in Port Elizabeth this month.
IT TOOK two days of intense dialogue, debate, delving deep and engagement, but in many ways the tone for a new view of the creative and cultural industries in South Africa was set by academics, thinkers, creatives and practioners – who, unusually, came together to talk ‘counting culture’.
THE SOUTH African Cultural Observatory (SACO) is committed to developing talented young researchers interested in pursuing a post-graduate degree related to arts, culture, research or statistics in an effort to grow the sector’s research base in alignment with the SACO Research Agenda.
LEADING WOMEN in the arts and culture sector have praised the inaugural South African Cultural Observatory (SACO) national conference, held in Port Elizabeth on 16 and 17 May, for the diverse set of speakers and practical narratives shared at the event.
GHANA: THE GHANAIAN Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts recently held a workshop to share the rationale of the new Creative Arts Bill, which if passed will be called the Creative Industry Scheme, with stakeholders.
THE LITERATURE Advisory Panel of the National Arts Council is hereby inviting applications from independent South African publishing houses and publishers for its special grant in the attempt to redress scarcity of leisure books in African languages.
