Brenden Ruiter joined the management team of the Absa KKNK on 1 November 2011 as marketing and communications manager for the major arts and culture festival.
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Durban International Film Festival manager Nashen Moodley has been appointed as director of the Sydney Film Festival. Previously a journalist at Independent Newspapers, for whom he still writes film reviews, Moodley has been centrally involved in the development and management of Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) programmes since joining the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Centre for Creative Arts (CCA) in 2001.
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Mail & Guardian says that while the Qatar Museums Authority bought Irma Stern's painting Arab Priest for R34 million on auction six months ago, it hasn't been able to hang the painting because its export has been blocked by the South African Heritage Resource Agency (Sahra).
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Four years almost to the day since the untaught former creative marketer David Myers started painting, his first solo exhibition will be at the new contemporary Paarl Space, Gallery 88, on Thursday 17 November 2011.
Read more >>The new Companies Act has had significant impact on some of the services that the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) has offered to its members over the years. The most significant of the services affected by the Act is the distribution of the Non-Royalty Revenue (NRR).
Read more >>Moving into Dance Mophatong (MIDM) is taking its production to the province of Mpumalanga where they will present a multi-disciplinary production "The Triumph" on 23 and 24 November 2011 at the Witbank Civic Theatre. The production is choreographed by Sifiso Kweyama, directed by Jerry Mofokeng, with live music directed by Ray Phiri.
Read more >>The Cape Town Edge invites proposals for inclusion in its programme for 2012 at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
Read more >>The 14th annual Arts and Culture Trust (ACT) Awards recently celebrated the talents of both veteran and young-and-upcoming artists at a luncheon hosted at Monte Casino's La Toscana in Johannesburg.
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LONDON, US: Woes in the home entertainment market continue, largely as a result of consumer reluctance to spend with entertainment retailers, say analysts at Verdict Research (one of the Datamonitor group of companies) in a new report on the global home entertainment market.
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