By Novell Zwange in Johannesburg, South Africa – Johannesburg City of Dreams an exhibition of photographs taken by British photographer Emma O’Brien over the last six months, opens tomorrow Tuesday 7th December at Upstairs @ Bamboo Cnr 9th Street and Rustenburg Road, Melville, from 10.30am and runs till 6pm on the 15th December. Since moving to South Africa last year, Emma has been involved with various community outreach programmes, using her skills as a photographer to bring awareness to the work done by each charity. This exhibition has been generously sponsored by Credit Suisse Standard Securities and will feature photographs... Continue Reading
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With the support of the German Embassy Lilongwe and its partnership with Cream!Women in the Arts, the first-ever Superwoman Festival is taking place in Lilongwe on November 25 and 26. The Superwoman Festival is being organized by Cream! Women in the Arts, an organization of female Malawian artists with the goal to promote the cultural and artistic capacity of Malawian women. The organisation, launched in March 2010, unites female artists from varying fields of the arts and holds interactive capacity building events intended to lead to women’s socio-economic empowerment. Cream! supports women artists by dispelling biased and negative perceptions of... Continue Reading
By John Owoo – ACCRA – An exhibition of recent works by nine painters from Ghana and Nigeria will on Thursday November 25 open at the CFAO Motors showroom, located at the Airport City in Accra. Participating artists are Duke Asidere, Amarkine Amarteifio, Nicholas Kowalski, Ayoola Gbolahan, Augustine Gokah, George Edozie, Eric Aniagyei, Babalola Dare Lawson and Okezie Okafor. Edozie’s works for example possess a kind of patch work quality while his simplified two dimensional figures and abstract pieces appear as overlapping blocks of bright colours – indeed of heavy impasto – plain or with gradations intone. Gbolahan’s paintings explore... Continue Reading
By Novell Zwange – SOUTH AFRICA – The Durban FilmMart has confirmed that its second edition will take place from 22-25 July 2011 during the 32nd Durban International Film Festival (21-31July). This partnership project between the Durban Film Office and the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) provides film professionals from across Africa an opportunity to pitch projects to financiers, distributors and sales agents as well as participate in an exciting master-class and workshop programme. The successful inaugural edition of Durban FilmMart hosted over 200 international producers, sales agents, distributors, financiers and funding organisations, who filled meeting lounges and seminar rooms... Continue Reading
