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Here at BizLifestyle we're all about supporting and promoting the arts, and this week we're feeling especially supportive.

We kick things off with an interview with Shakirah Sky Dramat, co-founder of THAT Network, a startup which aims to create a sustainable community for local creatives. Click through to see how you can join.

While in other top story news, the 2017 National Arts Festival winners are announced, Martin Myers gets to know the guys behind EDM act Strange Loving and Megan Duckitt reports back on the top seven trends seen at the SA Menswear Fashion Week.

We have a new competition this week - tickets to Liefde By Die Dam featuring Die Heuwels Fantasties are up for grabs - click here to enter!

Ruth Cooper, Lifestyle Editor & Production Manager (@Biz_Lounge)

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#StartupStory: THAT Network helps creatives find clients
#StartupStory: THAT Network helps creatives find clients
[Ruth Cooper] South African based entrepreneurs, Shakirah Sky Dramat and Wayne Hipe Robertson, recently relaunched THAT Network, a startup, which aims to create a sustainable creative industry... read
Seven top trends from SA Menswear Fashion Week
Seven top trends from SA Menswear Fashion Week

Meagan Duckitt

The SA Menswear Spring Summer collection recently took place at the Palms in Woodstock from Thursday, 6 July to Saturday, 8 July... Read

#MusicExchange: Strange Loving
#MusicExchange: Strange Loving

Martin Myers

Roland Rowley, Dakin Auret and Kosta Karatamoglou, from EDM act Strange Loving, have recently scored a number one on the iTunes Jazz Chart... Read

Winners announced for the 2017 National Arts Festival Awards
Winners announced for the 2017 National Arts Festival Awards

The Fringe at this years' National Arts Festival saw more than two hundred productions premiere, with the Ovations Awards panel making their way through the festival's theatres to select work that stood out and made audiences stand up. Read

Theatre
Cape Town Fringe introduces new format for 2017
Cape Town Fringe introduces new format for 2017
The Cape Town Fringe is back in the Mother City from 21 September to 8 October 2017 in a brand new format. read

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Movies
#OnTheBigScreen: Ape battles, human nature and Japanese art
#OnTheBigScreen: Ape battles, human nature and Japanese art

Daniel Dercksen

War For the Planet of the Apes, The Circle, Wakefield; The Odyssey and Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave open at local cinemas this weekend. read
The webbed Avenger returns in Spider-Man: Homecoming
The webbed Avenger returns in Spider-Man: Homecoming

Natalie Le Clue

With Tom Holland at the helm, Spider-Man makes his return as the webbed Avenger in the 2017 reboot of the film franchise. read
Music
Tweak's back with their 2017 Acockalypse Tour
Tweak's back with their 2017 Acockalypse Tour
In 1998, the pop-punk band Tweak exploded onto the radio waves with their breakout single ‘Birthday Card'. This November sees them reunited for their Acockalypse Tour coming to Joburg, Cape Town and Stellenbosch. read
CTEMF releases 2018 festival dates
CTEMF releases 2018 festival dates
The Cape Town Electronic Music Festival has announced its 2018 festival dates, which will take place in Cape Town from 6 to 8 April 2018. read
Food & Wine
Learn about whisky at Ginja Restaurant's Whisky Wednesday evenings
Learn about whisky at Ginja Restaurant's Whisky Wednesday evenings

Eugene Yiga

The Whisky Wednesday evening, hosted by Ginga Ginja Restaurant at Newmark's Victoria & Alfred Hotel at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, in its third and latest instalment, offers a five-course dinner paired with Three Ships Whisky, at a cost of R295. read
2017 Eat Out Woolworths Sustainability Award entries now open
2017 Eat Out Woolworths Sustainability Award entries now open
The Eat Out Woolworths Sustainability Award, which was launched last year as a first for South Africa, gives recognition to a restaurant that brings its customers seasonal, local and responsibly produced food. read
International
Gangnam Style dethroned as top YouTube video
Gangnam Style dethroned as top YouTube video
NEW YORK - Gangnam Style, the quirky South Korean video that spawned a global dance craze and went so viral it nearly broke YouTube, has finally been dethroned as the most watched video... read
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Business
Online B2B marketplace for SMMEs goes live
Online B2B marketplace for SMMEs goes live
Launching to small, medium and micro-sized enterprises servicing the retail sector in SA, XAfricaMart offers sellers and their customers a trade secure payment platform... read
Multimedia
Zingah - Get Em
Zingah - Get Em
Zingah releases the music video for Get Em. The video was shot in Johannesburg in one take and was directed by UncleScrooch and produced by Monde Dube. - View/Rate
Shortstraw - The Less We're Together
Shortstraw - The Less We're Together
Shortstraw release the official music video for The Less We're Together. Directed by Yolande Botha from The Brave Cartel. - View/Rate
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