20/03/2025
BAT Centre
📢 RESISTANCE. RIGHTS. RESILIENCE. 🎨🎶
TOMORROW IS A PUBLIC HOLIDAY!!! ✨🙌🏾💫
So join us at The BAT Centre for a powerful two-day event honoring legendary artists, musicians, and visual creatives who have used their craft as a form of resistance and resilience!
📅 Event Programme:
🎭 Day 1 – March 21 (Friday) | 11 AM – 2 PM
🔸 Theme: Visual Arts, Music & Resistance
🔸 Masterclass & Dialogue with legendary visual artists Paul Sibisi, Thami Jali, Tiki Phungula, Sfiso Ka Mkame, and Zamani Makhanya and musician David Msweli
🔸 Exhibition Opening featuring works from past & present resistance artists
🔸 Performance by the iconic Dr. Madala Kunene
🔸 Networking Session
🎷 Day 2 – March 23 (Sunday) | 3 PM – 5 PM
🔸 Theme: Jazz & Legacy – Commemorating Philani Ngidi Edition
🔸 Sunday Jazz Sundowners: A heartfelt tribute to Philani Ngidi, featuring a soul-stirring performance by Afro Divas
🔥 Don’t miss this celebration of art, activism, and legacy! Save the dates, spread the word, and let’s honor the past while inspiring the future!
📍 Venue: The BAT Centre, Durban
📆 March 21 & March 23, 2025
19/03/2025
The nominations for sculptors for the 2025 Helgaard Steyn prize are open. The deadline for nominations is 28 April 2025.
South African sculptors are eligible for this year’s Helgaard Steyn Award. This prestigious annual award recognises excellence in four disciplines, alternating between musical composition, painting, literature and sculpture.
Art museums, galleries and their appointees, curators, art consultants and arts practitioners are invited to nominate artworks by submitting a statement of motivation, a curriculum vitae of the sculptor and the details of the artwork (including visual documentation) for the consideration of a panel of adjudicators, chaired by Dr. Louisemarié Combrink from North-West University with Prof. Janine Allen-Spies from the University of the Free State and Mr. Andrew Lamprecht, a curator at the Iziko South African National Gallery.
Work produced between 2021 and 2024 can be entered – including free-standing pieces and constructions, works in relief, and indoor or open-air installations in any permanent medium, including ceramics. The work must have been offered for purchase to the public or be currently displayed in a public space.
Past recipients of the Helgaard Steyn Award for Sculpture include David Brown (1989), Jackson Hlungwani (1993), Gert Swart (1997), Willem Boshoff (2001), Jan van der Merwe (2005), Andrieta Wentzel (2009), Wim Botha (2013), Angus Taylor (2017) and Mary Sibande (2021).
Visit the website www.helgaardsteynpryse.co.za for more information as well as the nomination form. The prize money is adjusted annually, and is one of the largest art awards in the country.
Media inquiries: [email protected]
19/03/2025
Our next exhibition opens on Saturday 29 March 2025. Exhibition will be on view until 17 April 2025.
Gallery hours: Monday - Friday 9:00am- 3:00pm.
Join us for Impilo Yasemakhaya 📸Photography Exhibition, which is a powerful visual and community-based project designed to document and celebrate rural heritage through photography and empower the people of Umnceba Village, Ntabankulu
Please join us at this amazing exhibition that will be held at DUT City Campus Satellite Gallery.
17/03/2025
Nic Human Art
SAAMBR
DUT Faculty of Arts and Design
www.dut.ac.za
24/02/2025
Cedric Nunn
Omar Badsha
Ike's Books and Collectables
I will be in conversation with historian Daniel Magaziner for the launch of his biography on Omar Badsha. Badsha is a comrade, mentor, friend and colleague, and I look forward to this event with great anticipation.
08/02/2025
Call For Contributions - Culture Co-operative: Moments, Spaces, and Alternatives for Art and Cultures of Learning National Association for Fine Art Education, Annual Conference @ Feral Art School, Hull, Britain, Friday, 25 April 2025. Deadline: 3rd March 2025
Proposals for contributions should be submitted to: [email protected] no later than Monday 3rd March 2025 , 23:59. The decision on contributions for our next NAFAE conference will be communicated to the participants by 17th March 2025.
To submit a proposal for contributions, you must be a NAFAE member. To join NAFAE please visit https://www.nafae.org.uk/membership
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