A South African Arts & Culture Magazine
This year, each BASA Awards winner receives a trophy that reflects the theme of the Awards: Legacy. The cork base of each trophy is symbolic of a strong and meaningful legacy foundation. It invites future generations to add to…
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As the saying goes, “there is nothing new under the sun,” and if you read my forward written in this program in 1989 this will prove it without a doubt. I found it by accident when I was looking on…
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As part of the Muizenberg Children’s Arts Festival, Python and the Qunube Tree will be performed at the Masque Theatre (foyer) from 1 – 5 Oct at 10am every day. Python and the Qunube Treeis based on an…
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The second Cape Town Baroque Festival (CTBF) is yet again set to be a highlight on the city’s music calendar. With local and international soloists and ensembles performing, the CTBF will offer audiences a varied programme of top quality baroque…
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September 26 will mark the birthday of Leonard Sachs.The future television, stage and film actor Leonard Meyer Sachs was born that day in 1909 in the small town of Roodepoort, Gauteng. He received his education in South Africa and moved…
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Applications Deadline: Sunday 16th September 2018 Planning a music tour and require support? Apply to Concerts SA’s Music Mobility Fund, which will select new projects in September Following the success of the ten previous rounds, applications are now…
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The Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) launches Africa’s leading performance art festival, the international ICA LIVE ART Festival, this spring from 1 to 16 September 2018. Returning to Cape Town for its highly anticipated fourth anniversary, the Festival showcases a…
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Tough guy Bruce Lester escaped a Nazi jail to help keep a chemical formula out of their hands, physician Bruce Lester took care of victims of the Mau Mau Revolt of the 1950s, and British aristocrat Bruce Lester killed a…
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More than 100 Western Cape schools and a total of about 3000 primary and high school learners will be taking part in this year’s Artscape Schools’ Arts Festival to be held from 13 – 28 August 2018 at the Artscape…
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The Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival has always been a place where the old and the new meet. Whilst Mozart, Brahms and Tchaikovsky remain staple fare, the likes of Gliere, Dohnanyi and Golijov, once foreign to our ears have, thanks…
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