13 Dec 2011

Arts & Entertainment

 

Roll on 2012

Happy Bizmas!Well, this is our last newsletter for 2011, but we will be back with our first newsletter for 2012 on 10 January. In the meantime we will continue to update the site, but at a lower rate since a great many of you, being far cleverer than us, will be relaxing on holiday or at home with friends and family, and work will be the last thing on your mind.

So, from the Bizcommunity team, our best wishes to all of you - our readers, subscribers, contributors and your friends and families - we hope you have a wonderful and restful festive season and we'll see you back in 2012.

Drive safely, drive defensively, and be safe.

The Bizcommunity Team

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Die Vegas Show binnekort op MK
[Anna-Bet Bester] Die Vegas Show is vanaf die 20ste Desember op MK (kanaal 324 op DStv) elke Dinsdag teen 20h30, met herhalings op Donderdae teen 21h30 Read more >>

2oceansvibe Radio announces highest monthly listenership
2oceansvibe Radio has announced it's highest monthly listenership in the last year, with more than 30 000 downloads of the mobile streaming app at a time when national FM stations are declining gradually. Read more >>

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Arts practitioners can apply for studio, research residencies in Switzerland
Pro Helvetia Cape Town, the Swiss Arts Council, is inviting applications from Southern African arts practitioners - including curators, event organisers, and mediators from all disciplines - for studio and research residencies in Switzerland in 2012/13. Read more >>

Concrete panels display Ghandi's messages at Satyagraha House
In a project that epitomises Pretoria Portland Cement's (PPC) 'Our Strength, Your Vision' concept, a local sculptor, Sybrand Wiechers, pushed the limits of cement usage to new heights when he created massive concrete panels displaying messages by Mohandas 'Mahatma' Gandhi for Satyagraha House in Orchards, Johannesburg. Read more >>

Motion Pictures and Film


Crowd-sourcing campaign launched to fund film
Award-winning filmmaker and journalist Janet van Eeden has launched a crowd-sourcing campaign for her film "A Shot at the Big Time". The film was inspired by the story of her brother, Jimmy, who took his own life rather than fight in the border war, a war he didn't believe in. Read more >>

Music


RTR SA Rubadub line-up
[Anna-Bet Bester] Still haven't quite decided whether or not to join us at the Rock the River SA New Year's Festival this silly season? Maybe this will change your mind: Aside from the lively Main and Metal stages that will host artists from a variety of alternative genres, the festival organisers have also managed to sign up Rubadub to get heads bopping to dubstep rhythms from 18h00 on the 31st of December 'till 06h00 January 1st. Read more >>

Johannesburg Mozart Festival will include jazz concerts
'Quasi Improvisando' is the underlying theme that threads through the 4th Johannesburg International Mozart Festival (JIMF) that will take place from 27 January to 19 February 2012. However, organisers have added some jazz concerts into the programme so now the festival offers pure classical music lovers the chance to be exposed to jazz and vice versa. Read more >>

New chairman for Moshito
South Africa's premier music market, Moshito Music Conference and Exhibition, has a new chairperson and executive. King Phatudi-Mphalele has been elected as the new chairman, while the rest of the incoming executive is made up of Tholsi Pillay (vice chairperson), Sipho Sithole (treasurer), Musa Manzini (exco member) and Lee Walters (general manager). Read more >>

Performing Arts


Invitation for playwrights to submit short plays
UJ Arts & Culture will premier 'SA Shorts' directed by Alby Michaels at the 2012 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. Established, emerging and new playwrights are invited to submit previously unpublished and unproduced ten-minute plays for possible inclusion in the production. Read more >>

Deadline for festival of reading of new writing extended
The fifth PANSA Festival of Reading of New Writing, with the support of the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF), will be held in April 2012. The deadline for entries has been extended to 13 January next year. Read more >>


International
MIPFormats Pitch 2012 competition opens
PARIS, FRANCE: The MIPFormats Pitch 2012 call for entries is now open. Warner Bros International Television Production (WBITVP), the exclusive sponsor of the competition, will oversee pre-selection to choose the final competition contestants and will spend up to €25 000 to develop the winning project of the MIPFormats Pitch. Read more >>

Innovation drives the market for digital cameras
NUREMBERG, GERMANY: Technical innovations are the main reasons why consumers are happy with the latest digital cameras - even if they already own an older model. There is a particular demand for compact system cameras around the world, as Marion Knoche, global director of imaging at GfK Retail and Technology discussed at the 2011 Imaging Summit. In addition, smartphones with camera and video functions are starting to influence the photo industry more and more. Read more >>

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