The official 2011 Comrades Marathon was was officially launched in Johannesburg on Thursday 26 August 2010. After the hugely successful 2010 Comrades Marathon, which was also the 85th celebration of the world’s biggest ultra-marathon organisers have expressed their satisfaction with the growing interest in the event, not only among South Africans, but all over the world. The 2010 Comrades Marathon amassed the second largest field in the history of the race, only surpassed by the millennium race in 2000. The race also set new records for international (5%), women (24%) and novice (29%) entries, while organisers expect the Comrades Marathon to... Continue Reading
In a brilliant stroke of additional casting, Winnie Khumalo has been included in the Brenda Fassie Musical’s State Theatre run. The renowned singer and songwriter is now the alternate lead for ‘Ma-Brrr: The Brenda Fassie Musical’, joining Lesego Motsepe in the role of South Africa’s legendary pop icon. The State Theatre run of the show starts on September 3rd and runs for almost the full month – ending off on Sunday September 26th with a matinee. Khumalo’s take on Ma-Brr will start on September 11th at 8pm and gives the singer – who is most popularly known for her huge... Continue Reading
By Vanessa Perumal – Keith Moss (23) and James Bassingthwaighte (28) were named the winners of SAMRO’s 2010 Overseas Scholarships for composers following a hard-fought music contest at the UJ Arts Centre on Saturday night. Each young composer walks off with a scholarship to study music abroad worth R170 000, in this prestigious competition that has been run by the Southern African Music Rights Organisation since 1962. On a four-yearly cycle, it alternates between awarding singers, instrumentalists, keyboard players and composers of exceptional promise. The packed Arts Centre at the University of Johannesburg witnessed renditions of indigenous compositions by the... Continue Reading
Johannesburg:- The programme and strong speaker line-up for this year’s Moshito Music Conference and Exhibition is set to get South Africa’s music business talking with its mix of contentious, topical and informative sessions. The three-day event – which takes place on September 1st to 3rd at Museum Africa in Newtown, Joburg – tackles several key issues facing the domestic music industry head-on through a conference programme that doesn’t shy away from hot topics. One of these is the Breakaway session “360 Degree Deals: Threat or Opportunity’ which is sure to get both sides of the global hot-button fired up! Another... Continue Reading
Savanna Trust in collaboration with the University of Zimbabwe Theatre Arts Department invites artists, media experts, civic society leaders, academics and human rights activists to submit abstracts and performance, exhibition/workshop proposals. The theme for this year is: “Protest Arts, Culture and Democracy: Imagining and Inventing the Future” Festival/Symposium sub-themes Transformative arts education for democracy. Identity and democracy in protest culture – reconstructing race, class, gender and ethnicity for democratic engagement. Artistic and cultural engagement with constitution-making processes. Visual Arts and democratic commitment for the future. Pitfalls and possibilities of ideological commitment in artistic and cultural works. The politics of culture... Continue Reading
