Business and Arts South Africa in the media

Business and Arts South Africa members benefit from a number of radio and television partnerships that ensure exposure for creative projects and the South African arts and culture scene in general. The shows also offer South African arts lovers an easy way of staying in touch with what’s going on in the South African and global scene.

Artworks Bulletin

Feed back from the Barloworld Artworks Mentorship Programme to date and entries open for the Business day BASA awards for best mentor.

BASA Media Update March 2010

One of the benefits of being a Business and Arts South Africa member are the many media partnerships that we have in place. Aside from being a great way for arts devotees to keep up-to-date with the South African scene, these media platforms are an important way of publicising projects across online, radio, television and print.

Business and Arts South Africa’s 2010 CSI gets underway

Business and Arts South Africa’s 2010 Corporate Social Initiative (CSI) got off to a cracking start in March when learners from the Progressive Primary School spent a day immersed in The National School of the Arts’ Festival of Fame (F.O.F) 2010.

Barloworld ARTWORKS mentoring programme update March 2010

Read more about the Barloworld ARTWORKS mentoring programme’s support of wordsetc, L Shape Productions, State of the Nation, the Arts & Culture Trust, Shwe Shwe Poppis, the Origins Centre, Buskaid and Sibikwa.

BASA Media Update February 2010

2010 sees Business and Arts South Africa recommit its energies to the many media partnerships that are already in place, whilst also looking for new opportunities. These media partnerships are just one of the benefits of being a Business and Arts South Africa member – and also offer South African arts aficiandos an easy way of staying in touch with what’s going on in the South African and global arts scene.

Barloworld ARTWORKS mentoring programme update February 2010

Take a closer look at how Dale Smith, a CPA, mentor the Johannesburg Youth Orchestra Company in financial management and planning and how the Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism brings e-marketing advice to the Motherwell Arts Centre.

Money and the art of ‘lifestyle’ reporting

To report on the World Cup without putting Fifa before it, is not only incorrect - Fifa owns the event and its trademarked title — but is likely to have Sepp Blatter red-carding any media outlet stupid enough to perpetrate such a foul. They have put millions into the event, the least we can do is call it by its proper name.

President Jacob Zuma addressed the cultural sector

The event, which took place at Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, saw the Presidency bring out the Big Guns as part of what he called opening “a conversation with every sector of our society in the country, as an important element of a democratic culture”.

Soloists challenge old-school perceptions of classical music at Jhb International Mozart Festival

A violinist with falconry as a hobby and a clarinet player with a role in an Oscar-winning movie to her name. The avant-garde soloists to perform at the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival, 23 January – 9 February 2010, will challenge the inaccurate perception that the love of classical music is an exclusive and reserved affection.