Welcome to the Theatre.

Festival Networks Stimulate Creative Industries Growth

Getting to know the artistic decision-makers of festivals is the first step into understanding how festivals select or commission their programmes. The National Arts Festival will offer producers and artists a unique opportunity to meet with the festival directors of some the major South African arts festivals as well as directors from international festivals who come to the National Arts Festival to scout for South African work.

PRESS RELEASE
GIPCA Hosts 7273 in Cape Town
29 March 2011

The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA), in partnership with Pro Helvetia Cape Town, are hosting a series of dance performances and workshops by acclaimed Swiss dance company Cie 7273 (Nicolas Cantillon and Laurence Yadi).

All performances and workshops are free and take place on the University of Cape Town’s Hiddingh Campus, Orange Street, Cape Town. Booking is essential.

Outgoing National Arts Festival Fringe Manager, Kate Axe Davies, will be taking to the road this month with a three-pronged agenda: she’ll be introducing Fringe Manager Designate, Zikhona Nweba, to Eastern Cape artists, explaining the Fringe initiatives for 2011, and providing hands on information on participating in the Fringe to artists across the region.

Mic To Monitor South Africa 2010

Exploring how the arts can heal Africa

How can the arts be used to empower and heal African communities? This crucial issue will be discussed during the Drama for Life Africa Research Conference, taking place at Wits University from 26 to 28 August 2010.

This course will teach artists everything they need to know about basic business; from how to manage their finances to how to market themselves more effectively and critically – to negotiate decisively when pitching a product and pricing an idea. This is a profound and practical investment for artists who will emerge more confident about their creative aspirations and be much better equipped to continue working creatively but without being so vulnerable to exploitation.

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Spoken-word gets sexy in poetry slam

The Drama for Life “Sex Actually” Festival will go under the covers when it travels around the country during August and September 2010.

The Drama for Life (DfL) Festival, which is part of the DFL holistic arts programme hosted by the Division of Dramatic Art at Wits, will offer an array of theatre, comedy, spoken-word, dance, poetry, art, film and workshops with one overarching intention: using creative means to stimulate discussions and influence behaviour around sex, HIV/Aids and relationships.

We provide part-time and full-time education for beginner and established musicians in Workshop form, catering for all instruments in respective categories.

We aim to connect musicians with each other and expand their skills beyond their instruments as well.

Students have the opportunity to network with each other and attend discussions by industry professionals as well as learn to play their instrument on a proficient and professional manner.

Lara Preston

Lara Preston is Managing Director of Red Flag Design and Marketing. She has spent 15 years working in all aspects of music promotion.
She has been involved in the organisation of numerous live events as the marketing manager of CD Warehouse and in her time at Sound Zone productions creating the Band Slam national tour featuring the Springbok Nude Girls, Squeal, Sugardrive, Nine and Lithium.
At Red Flag she has extensive experience handling various elements of music marketing, strategy, branding and PR. She has worked with acts like Abdullah Ibrahim, Goldfish, Prodigy, Jozi, Pitch Black Afro, Balthazar (Belgium), Tim Moloi, Bliss ‘n Eso (Australia), Shaggy, Dirty Skirts, Cassette, Jimmy Dludlu, Kelly Khumalo and RootsRiders (Belgium).