The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) is inviting nominations for the eagerly awaited 2017 ACT Awards, which are held annually in recognition and celebration of excellence in the arts, culture and creative sectors in South Africa. Lifetime Award recipients 2016: From left – Johnny Clegg, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Albie Sachs, Dr. Wally Serote, Penny Siopis
Top international researchers will be in Johannesburg next week to conduct a series of workshops and talks with local cultural practitioners. Ian King
The Arts & Culture Trust’s next five-year strategy will see the organisation making bold changes. Photograph by John Hogg
ASSITEJ SA’s “Cradle of Creativity” 17-27 May, an international theatre festival for children and young people in CT, has officially opened bookings. This incredible once-in-lifetime opportunity to experience a theatre festival with plays from around the world, with more than 80 countries represented is unlikely to be repeated in the foreseeable future.
The 20th Annual BASA Awards, partnered by Hollard & Business Day, are now open for entries from business and arts partnerships that were activated between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2016.
In March 2017, RapidLion will host the annual South African International Film Festival at the Market Theatre complex. The RapidLion film festival screens films from the African continent, African diaspora and BRICS countries and aims to promote South African cinema into these territories, and introducing South Africans to films from these territories.
Registration opens for The South African Cultural Observatory’s (SACO) annual conference which will explore the interface between creative economy and development.
What comes to your mind when you think Community Arts Centres? We think, expansion, and improvement.
The online, peer-reviewed journal for the publication and discussion of artistic research is calling for submissions. The deadline for consideration is 17 March 2017.
The South African Cultural Observatory (SACO) today announced the theme for its national conference with an accompanying call for papers.
