18 Dec 2012

Arts & Entertainment

 

Thank you for your support in 2012

Today sees our last newsletters for 2012, with the first of our new industry newsletters to be published on 15 January 2013, but we will keep on updating the new industry portals over the festive season.

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support; our subscribers across all our portals continue to grow; in fact, in our new industries alone, we are now closing in on 70,000 subscribers, and for that we thank you.

We want to wish all of you a very enjoyable end-of-year break and - assuming the world doesn't end on Friday (You've heard about the predictions around the Mayan calendar, right?) - we wish you a highly successful 2013.

All the best from the Bizcommunity team!

Rod Baker: Content Director

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Peter Rorvik leaves UKZN's Centre for Creative Arts
The departure of Peter Rorvik from the UKZN's Centre for Creative Arts (CCA) concludes an exciting growth period for arts and culture in Durban, represented through the four annual CCA festivals: Time of the Writer, Poetry Africa, JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience, and the Durban International Film Festival. Read more >>

Hat trick of Lifetime Achiever Awards for KZN's Caroline Smart
Caroline Smart, editor of online magazine artSMart, has received three Lifetime Achievement Awards in as many months. In September, the Ethekwini 2012 Living Legend Award for Arts and Culture. In November, The Indian Academy of South Africa presented her with a Golden Peacock Award for Achievement. Read more >>

Artscape reveals plans to revamp and expand complex
Artscape has unveiled a R1.5 billion plan to revamp the 41-year-old complex into an iconic cultural precinct on Cape Town's Foreshore. Read more >>

Mercedes-Benz launches online lifestyle content portal
Underground art, emerging filmmakers and even kasi coffee are not the traditional offering from a motor manufacturer. But that's what you can expect from Mercedes-Benz South Africa's new online lifestyle content portal, mblife. Read more >>

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It's simply not cricket
NEWSWATCH: Cricket South Africa (CSA) is apparently still negotiating with the SABC to get live coverage of the Proteas home series against New Zealand, reports sport24. Read more >>

Orders from 'on high' allegedly zap Zapiro SABC interview
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: According to a Mail & Guardian report, quoting the Times, an SABC interview featuring the cartoonist Zapiro was canned at the last minute. Read more >>

SABC... jingle (alarm) bells
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: The tighter controls over talk shows introduced at the SABC this week have the alarm bells ringing, reports BDlive, and proof of how bad news travels is the fact that news that local SA news channel eNCA had to apologise for using an old clip dealing with comments on Nelson Mandela, has been picked up the Times of India. Mail & Guardian reports countries - the US and China to name but two - are at odds over laws governing the internet, and IOL reports on how a UK study finds that playing violent video games can make people more aggressive. Read more >>

Events


Invitation for artists to Take the Stage at V&A Waterfront
Do you get people screaming for more with your rocking guitar riff, drumming or lead vocals? If your answer is yes, the V&A Waterfront wants to put you on the road to fame by giving your band the opportunity to perform live at the Amphitheatre during February 2013. Read more >>

Five bands to perform at V&A Waterfront
The V&A Waterfront is going to rock to the beat of the drum and the clash of guitars when five acclaimed South African bands take to the stage in the Amphitheatre's Summer Concerts between Wednesday, 26 and Sunday, 30 December. Read more >>

Motion Pictures & Film


Anne Power film highlights realities of ageing actress
With more than 30 years of showbiz under her belt, well-known theatre personality Anne Power explores what it means to turn 50 and be side-lined in a brave, original and funny new film To The Power Of Anne, which opens in cinemas on 8 March, 2013. Read more >>

Music


Govt sets up task teams for music industry
PRETORIA: Government, working with musicians, has set up task teams to look into the challenges facing the various sectors of the music industry. Read more >>

Performing Arts


Busy 2013 for South African Mzansi Ballet company
The founding of a new ballet company is a historic event and with the establishment in 2012 of the South African Mzansi Ballet (SAMB) this has been a landmark year for the entire South African ballet community. Read more >>


International
Wet T-shirts and bustles at fashion show
PARIS, FRANCE: From the court of Louis XIV to the dawn of the 20th century, a Paris exhibit last week charted two centuries of European fashion through scores of immaculately-preserved silhouettes, male and female. Read more >>

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BizLounge
Living the detour - Interview with Jet Black Camaro
[Ruth Cooper] You might have thought that that real rock 'n' roll, ballsy, intelligently conscious sound had died a sadly quiet death many years ago, perishing especially so from the hipster-centric generation and gentrification. However the bluesy, soulful rock of Jet Black Camaro might just change your mind. Read more >>

Alan Committie: No, seriously?
[Eugene Yiga] After a year that involved defending the caveman and getting up to some funny business, comedian Alan Committie's new one-man show is now on at Cape Town's Theatre on the Bay. The two-hour performance features the return of his crazy characters, failed auditions from So You Think You Can Dance, and a Q&A session that puts his improvisation skills to the ultimate test. Read more >>

Lacklustre celebration of familial flamenco heritage
[Debbie Hathway] At the southern tip of Africa, we are privileged to be exposed to some of the best artistic performances from around the globe. Spoilt for choice, maybe. Demanding, definitely. The more we get, the more we want. So when Juana Vargas, artistic director of Cape Town's Flamenco Del Sur, announces a collaborative performance with the long-established Linda Vargas Flamenco Company from Durban, it attracts high expectations from the local dance community. Read more >>

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
[Daniel Dercksen] The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is here at last and it's worth its weight in gold, 10 times over! It is unquestionably one of the greatest cinematic experiences ever and a proud prequel to the equally consummate The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. Read more >>

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