National Arts Festival unleashes feisty line-up for 2016
SOUTH AFRICA’S visionaries, mavericks and disruptors headline this year’s National Arts Festival, which runs from 30 June to 10 July in Grahamstown.
News Listing
The NFVF announces new funding cycles and online application portal
The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), an agency of the Department of Arts and Culture, provides film and video-related funding in the broad categories of Education and Training; Development; Production, Marketing and Distribution. As of 1 April 2016 the NFVF concluded a change from four to three funding cycles per year.
Note from the Culturalist: CEO
It’s been a rapidly moving start to the year at the South African Cultural Observatory and momentum is certainly propelling us forward. It’s almost unbelievable that the second quarter of the year is upon us, but looking back much has been achieved that is already setting the tone for the coming months.
Rapid Response Teams Necessary for Conflict Zone Conservation
EGYPT: Abdel Hamid Salah el-Sharief arrived at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, Egypt to confront a glittering sea of broken glass.
Open Source: Latest research for download March 2016
Although already in the public domain for over a year now, the KEA and Kaiser Associates Report, Trade In Creative And Cultural Goods And Services – EU-South Africa CCIS Development, is still highly relevant to the South African creative and cultural industries.
SACO Conference
The South African Cultural Observatory invites arts and culture practitioners, academics, professionals, academics, researchers and all those associated with the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) in South Africa to attend and contribute where appropriate to: ‘Counting Culture: The Cultural and Creative Industries in National and International Context.’
ACT Awards
The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) is inviting nominations for the eagerly awaited 2016 ImpACT Awards, which are held annually in recognition and celebration of excellence within the arts, culture and creative sectors in South Africa.
From the Partners
Research and creative thinking can change the world. This means that academics have enormous power. But, as academics Asit Biswas and Julian Kirchherr have warned, the overwhelming majority are not shaping today's public debates.
What are cultural observatories and how do they work?
Does the act of observing change the behaviour of the observed? This key question is in the background as work being done on South Africa’s first ever Cultural Observatory gains momentum and the foundations for the Observatory of the future are laid.
Cultural Observatory research agenda, rationale and M&E tools discussed at National Workshop
The first national South African Cultural Observatory workshop took place on Friday, 19 February at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Johannesburg. Industry players gathered to hear the vision and motivation for this initiative, ask questions, and voice concerns.
Note from the Culturalist: CEO
Looking back at 2015, a lot of groundwork and headway was made toward the establishment of the Department of Arts and Culture’s first ever Cultural Observatory. In 2016, we look forward to formalising what we hope will be South Africa’s seminal research institute for statistical analysis and mapping of the socio-economic impact of the cultural and creative industries in South Africa.
Word from DAC
DIRECT FROM THE MINISTER'S DESK: “The only hope is in the creation of alternative values, alternative realities. The only hope is in daring to redream one's place in the world - a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another we breach and confound the accepted frontiers of things.”