Full members of Im4theArts in Western Cape are invited to nominate any other full member of Im4theArts in their province to the position of Provincial Representative, to serve and represent the province on the National Steering Committee. The Western Cape – by virtue of having more than 200 members – may elect a second representative. Please note … Read more
Learn more about the proposed National Theatre and Dance Policy and find out how YOU can contribute to shaping the future of theatre and dance in South Africa. Join us live on Facebook on Monday 21 & Tuesday 22 February at 18h00
Programme – Online & in person regional & national workshops – free to all this Spring. Personal Resilience (3 – 5 September). Entrepreneurial Resilience (11 – 12 September). Creative Resilience (18 – 19 September). Financial Resilience (25 – 26 September). PERSONAL RESILIENCE ENTREPRENEURIAL RESILIENCE CREATIVE RESILIENCE FINANCIAL RESILIENCE
30 April marked the end of our freedom month and the 59th day of unprecedented protest in the arts fraternity. Since March 3, Sibongile Mngoma and other creatives (now Abahlali base NAC) initiated a sit-in at NAC seeking answers to the maladministration with regards to the disbursement of PESP funding (view the sit-in timeline here). … Read more
DAY 60 – SAT 1 MAY 2021 Abahlali end their sit-in at National Arts Council. DAY 59 – FRI 30 APRIL 2021 DAY 59 SURVIVOR NAC PAY THE PESP MONEY. IT’S THE END OF APRIL AND THE NAC HAS FAILED TO COMPLETE THE PESP PROCESS. THEY WILL COME OUT AGAIN WITH AN UPDATE TODAY AND … Read more
Iam4the Arts calls for civil society to support the arts community in South Africa and for artists to join in solidarity with those who are sitting-in at the NAC offices. STATEMENT FROM THE IM4THEARTS NSC – ARTISTS LIVES MATTER: IT’S TIME TO STEP UP Through its message #ArtistsLivesMatter, we campaign for society to step up … Read more
On Martin Luther King Day 2020, the President of Im4theArts, South African opera and indigenous jazz doyenne Sibongile Mngoma stood up and said, “NO MORE!” She created a Facebook group (Im4theArts) and invited friends and colleagues to come together and look at fresh ways that the creative industries could work together as a collective, starting … Read more
The Interim Steering Committee of Im4theArts has received 6 nominations for the seven positions as National Officials (the executive) on the NSC, coming from 5 provinces, 4 men and 2 women. The date for nominations closed on 2 September 2020. We do not have sufficient numbers yet to call an election. We are aware that … Read more
The Im4theArts Winter School was a response to members’ needs for capacity-building. This pilot event ran from Monday 22 to Wednesday 24 June 2020 offering 12 short courses of 270 minutes, divided into three sessions of 90 minutes on three consecutive days. The early mornings were devoted to introductions to the creative industries in each discipline … Read more
Sibongile Mngoma expresses her anger & frustration at the ongoing carelessness of the Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture, Nathi Mthethwa, as he calls a press conference at an inaccessible venue in Port Elizabeth, effectively impeding access to artists in the area. Sibongile calls artists to action to take their talents to Minister Mthethwa’s press conferences … Read more