TO BE HEARD: Free Film Screenings, Free Writing Workshops for Youth, Poetry Slams WHAT: Rooftop Films brings the power of poetry to the streets of New York with three free events based around this award winning documentary about lives and language on the edge: three teens from the Bronx tell their stories and show how a radical poetry class can ignite change. Rooftop Films will co-host screenings in East Harlem, Chelsea and the South Bronx. Each event will be a celebration of the power of writing, with a poetry workshop for teenagers, a performance slam, and a screening of the... Continue Reading
6‐8 November 2012, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa 27 July 2011; The inaugural POWER‐GEN Africa conference and exhibition, to be held in Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa on 6‐8 November 2012, has announced the Call for Papers now open, with a deadline for abstract submittal of 3 February 2012. The POWER‐GEN Africa Advisory Board has released the conference topics and announced that the 2012 conference will consist of three tracks running simultaneously. Under the conference theme of Global Technology for Local Solutions, POWER‐GEN Africa 2012 will feature leading power industry professionals from around the world who will share their... Continue Reading
SOWETO, GAUTENG, 25 JULY 2011 – South Africa’s first and biggest township-based wine festival, the successful 2011 Soweto Wine Festival, has signed up a 3-year headline sponsorship with South Africa’s largest liquor retail outlet, Tops at SPAR, adding serious punch to the growth of the festival. Says Ray Edwards, CEO Tops at Spar, “Tops at SPAR have, from inception, been on the cutting edge of innovation and now believe the time is right to begin an association with the Soweto Wine Festival. This market is a long ignored opportunity and we look forward to improving our brand equity through this headline sponsorship.”... Continue Reading
By Martin Chemhere – Johannesburg: Wembley to Soweto, an exhibition of 50 photographs shot in 2010 in South Africa ended its exhibition run in London on 24 July after opening to wide media and public admiration. A 42 minutes long award-winning documentary that screened during the same month at the British Film Institute completes the multimedia show. “The reaction to the exhibition and film surpassed our wildest dreams,” said David Westhead director of Wilton Pictures the producers of the show and film. The exhibition opened to the public for free from 7 – 24 July, 2011 and displayed the unexpected... Continue Reading
By Peterking Quaye – Come, Tuesday, 26th July, Accra the capital of Ghana will experience the presence of the digital technology in Africa and how influence as well as impact on our society today. Under the auspices of the Ministry of Communication, the African Institute for Development Informatics and Policy (AIDIP), Ghana; PearlRichards Foundation, Ghana, United Nations Development Programme, Ghana (UNDP, Ghana); Africa e-governance Academy (AfegA) (an OSIWA and UNDP Initiative), Ghana and RLG Communications, Ghana comes the Africa Digital Week 2011 . RLG Communications, currently ranked among Africa’s future development in the mobile telecommunications industry, the company is bridging the... Continue Reading
