Creative art enthusiasts who have backgrounds in Art and or have written about Photography, New Media and Digital Art, and or has provided coverage on Fashion, Product and Graphic Design are invited to apply for a four-month internship. The closing date for applications is 31 March 2015.
There’s revolution going on in publishing. Commercial publishers in South Africa are reluctant to take risks on new authors and new subjects. Vanity publishers are making a killing. But that won’t last forever. There’s a lot of space opening up between these two poles, and it’s in this widening terrain that the independent publishing revolution
Tinder Press, an imprint of UK publisher, Headline Publishing will celebrate two years of publishing by opening submission to unagented manuscripts for two weeks in March. From 2nd to 15th March, the imprint will be open to accept fifty pages of a manuscript, an outline and an author biography from previously unpublished writers of fiction.
It is with great sadness that the Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) has learnt the news of André P Brink’s passing at the age of 79. Brink passed away while returning from Amsterdam after receiving an honorary doctorate from the Belgian Francophone Université catholique de Louvain (UCL). At the time of his passing he was
This is an invitation to writers to explore the medium of sound … “the theatre of the mind” … to create a one-hour radio play in English! The closing date for submissions is 28 February 2015. The first prize is R50,000, the second R30,000 and the third R20,000.
The ImpACT award winner for Theatre 2012, Phillip Dikotla, has scooped up the Olive Schreiner Prize for Drama for his play Skierlik. The production also won Best Play at the 2013 Zabalaza Festival, was written in 2010, and was first staged the following year at the Mmabana Arts Centre, in the North West Province. Described
The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) named author André P. Brink as the 2014 winner of the ACT Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. Born in Vrede in 1935, André P. Brink is the author of numerous plays, works of non-fiction, and novels, including An Instant in the Wind, Rumours of Rain, A Dry White Season,
Art Much? forms part of the UJ Advancement Strategic Communication Publications’ suite. According to Ashraf Johaardien, “Working closely with aisleb.co.za (UJ Arts & Culture’s strategic partner in intelligent design), every issue of Art Much? aims to reflect the aesthetics of excellence.”
Zabalaza Theatre Festival is calling for applications to participate in the 2015 festival running from 20 to 28 March at the Baxter Theatre Centre. The Baxter’s Zabalaza Theatre Festival is calling for applications from theatre-makers, directors, script writers, community groups and theatre companies to participate in the 2015 Zabalaza Theatre Festival.
If you are a non-fiction author and currently involved in a writing project, or will be within the next 12 months, you are eligible to apply to the Academic and Non-fiction Authors’ Association of South Africa (ANFASA), a previous ACT grant recipient, for their Grant Scheme for Authors. The grants are intended to provide a
