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The Thami Mnyele
Foundation and the CBK Zuidoost are pleased to invite you to
the opening of the exhibition:
20 Years Thami Mnyele
Foundation
A selection of 26
contemporary artists from all over Africa from 12 March till
29 April in CBK Zuidoost
Kunstcafé Thursday
April 14 from 17h00 to 19h00:
Annet Zondervan, CBK
director, in discussion with the organizers and artists: Bert
Holvast, Samson Kambalu, Moshekwa Langa, Rutger Pontzen and
Ina van Zyl.
Twenty years ago,
inspired by the South African patriot and artist Thami Mnyele
(1948-1985), a group of Amsterdam based artists and concerned
citizens, set up an artists-in-residence program, enabling
artists from Africa the opportunity to live and work in
Amsterdam for a period of three months.
The atelier, that the
Thami Mnyele Foundation made available, continues to be a
vibrant meeting place for artists from Africa and artists from
the Netherlands.
The Thami Mnyele
Foundation together with the CBK has selected the work of 26
artists out of the 68 artists that have been working in the
studio over the last twenty years. This choice gives a glimpse
into the diversity of contemporary art practices coming out of
Africa. The exhibited works were made by the artists and
donated to the Thami Mnyele Foundation during their stay in
Amsterdam.
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ACT Building Blocks Programme Launched
The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT), in partnership with the
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, proudly announced
the launch of the new ACT Building Blocks Programme.
“We are proud to be a loyal partner of ACT. Our support of the
Building Blocks Programme is aimed at capacity building and
knowledge transfer. We believe this create better
understanding as well as creating a situation where both
parties in this initiative may profit,” said His Excellency Mr
Rob de Vos, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands,
launching the Programme at the ACT Awards 2010 ceremony last
Friday. “Culture is not a luxury; it’s a barometer of the
state of our nations. It is an indication of our society, let
us handle it very carefully,” he concluded.
The Building Blocks Programme is a capacity building and
sustainability programme for South African arts, culture and
heritage organisations. The aim of the Programme is to
strengthen the infrastructure that supports arts, culture and
heritage programming and services.
“The Building Blocks Programme is a much-needed intervention
in the creative sector. Funding grants, in isolation, could be
seen as the proverbial fish that feeds a man for a day.
Through the Building Blocks program the Embassy of the Kingdom
of the Netherlands has afforded ACT the powerful opportunity
to structure a capacity building programme that speaks to the
notion of teaching a man to fish to ensure his sustenance for
a lifetime. We are grateful to the Dutch government for their
commitment to addressing this crucial need,” says Chairperson
of ACT, Brenda Devar.
The Programme seeks to strengthen local organisations through
cultural planning, technical assistance, master classes and
other developmental efforts. Projects considered for support
should aim to strengthen capacity to broaden access to
artistic excellence throughout South Africa. Initiativ es that
create sustainable arts organisations and work towards
developing and building South African communities
economically, culturally and socially through arts and culture
will be considered for support. Also eligible will be projects
that build local public awareness and support for South
African arts, culture and heritage organisations and their
work.
The Programme takes on form of Special Grants to the maximum
of R200,000 and once-off grants ranging from R10,000 to R
50,000. In addition, the Programme also facilitates a series
of Master Classes aimed at arts and culture practitioners
across the country. The targeted participants of these
intensive two-day classes include arts administrators and
managers, Chief Executive Officers, Chief Financial Officers
and Board members of arts and/or cultural organisations.
Applications for Special Projects, Once-off Grants will open
on Thursday 11 November and applications to attend Master
Classes will open o n Monday 15 November 2010. Please visit
www.act.org.za.
NOTE TO THE EDITORS:
About the Arts &
Culture Trust (ACT)
The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) is South Africa’s premier,
independent arts funding and development agency. The primary
aim of ACT is to increase the amount of funding available for
arts and culture initiatives, and to apply these funds to
innovative, sustainable projects that make a meaningful
contribution to society. Structured ACT funding programmes
support projects that contribute to improving the quality of
life in communities where it is most glaringly needed. Go to
www.act.org.za for more information about ACT, its funding
programmes, criteria for assessment and submission of
applications online.
About the Embassy of
the Kingdom of the Netherlands
The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is a
founding sponsor of the Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) . The
Netherlands has an active policy of stimulating international
cultural exchange with the aim of enhancing mutual
understanding. The Netherlands was one of the first donors to
take an active role in culture and development: "Everyone has
the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the
community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific
advancement and its benefits" (article 27(1) of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights). Under its 'Culture and
Development' programme, the Embassy of the Netherlands
supports initiatives that stimulate the further development of
the cultural sector and infrastructure in South Africa. |
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POW Ensemble presents
Ikhaya on wooden shoes, The adventures of Josef Brezelbacker
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THE LOW COUNTRIES NO. 18 - 2010
In 2010 it is exactly 100 years since the creation of the
Union of South Africa, which later became an independent state
within the British Commonwealth. A hundred years on, in 2010,
South Africa is hosting the Football World Cup. For many
people the World Cup symbolises the spirit of reconciliation
that should characterise the new South Africa. And it must
also demonstrate that the country is a fully-fledged nation.
South Africa has links with the Netherlands, or more precisely
with the VOC, the Dutch East India Company. On 6 April 1652
three ships commanded by Jan van Riebeeck landed in Table Bay,
where they were to establish a revictualling station for VOC
ships rounding the Cape of Good Hope on their way to
Batavia. In this yearbook we are talking about South
Africa and the Low Countries: how do they view each other
nowadays? A South African writer rides her bike through
the flat Flemish countryside and notes down what she sees
and what happens to her. |
A Flemish and a Dutch writer who know and love
South Africa give their candid opinion. We think about Common
Cultural Heritage that is not always ‘shared’. A South African
strip-cartoonist is inspired by the clear lines of Tintin. The
painter Marlene Dumas has long belonged to the world, but
South Africa is still very much alive within her. And then
there is Afrikaans, one of South Africa’s eleven official
languages. This sister-tongue to Dutch is trying to maintain
itself in the Babel that is the Cape. Not for a long time has
it been a language exclusive to white Africans – and in fact
it never was. The poet Elizabeth Eybers, who moved to the
Netherlands in 1961, has written superlatively well about the
nostalgia of the emigrant who never arrives anywhere. The
verses she wrote in Afrikaans on life as a refugee she has
herself later recreated in English. For the rest, in this
issue you will find the usual mix of writers, visual artists,
theatre people, musicians, intellectuals and architects from
the Low Countries. This delta country has known Islam for
centuries, Belgium continues to tinker with itself and in 2010
Congo, the one genuine colony the country ever had, will mark
half a century of independence. South Africa and Congo: the
continent where mankind was born still resonates in the Low
Countries. |
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A
GENTLE INVASION BY AUKE DE VRIES
Exhibition at the Pretoria
Art Museum from 19 August to 14 November 2010 Auke de
Vries's sculptures appeal through their poetry and lightness,
their often risky statics and surprising forms and shapes.
(read more) |
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