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2013

May

• - BASA’s Artist Sponsorship Toolkit set to significantly strengthen role of arts in business

• - Growing impact of environmental arts projects celebrated by BASA Awards

• - Deutsche Bank Sponsors Circa Gallery

• - Entry deadline now extended for SA’s only arts sponsorship awards

• - Arts festival celebrates the spirit of Africa

April

• - Start your art to win with Middelburg Mall

• - Taking arts and culture to new levels

• - Apply your grey matter for the 2013 PPC Cement YCSA art competition

• - BASA and Middel & Partners announce innovative on-line B-BBEE contribution programme

• - Rewards of business sponsorship of youth arts projects highlighted by BASA Awards

• - BASA Toolkit and Entrepreneurial partnership to be launched at Soweto Theatre

• - Public invited to crucial discussion on The State of Arts Funding

• - Port Elizabeth and East London to host BASA Education Programme, supported by Etana Insurance

• - International Poetry in Conversation at Spier

• - Telkom Art Space features Pat Mautloa

• - Breaking barriers at the 2013 Sasol New Signatures art competition

March

• - Durban to host BASA Education Programme, supported by Etana Insurance

• - Partners celebrate Sekoto’s Centenary Exhibition

• - Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards winners announced

• - SA Post Office launches big five themed design competition

• - The BASA Education Programme, supported by Etana, comes to Cape Town

• - Entries open for South Africa’s only awards celebrating partnerships between business and the arts

• - Sanlam Private Investments National Portrait Award judges announced

• - SA Arts Journalism Awards

February

• - Stage set for first SAMRO Wawela Music Awards

• - Naledi Theatre Awards celebrates its 10th anniversary

• - Joule City Arts Incubator Call for applications

• - See the world through the eyes of SA’s artists at Design Indaba 2013

• - 19th Absa KKNK packed with new productions

• - SAMRO music bursary applications now open

• - Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards

• - Absa Gallery kick-starts the New Year with solo exhibition from former Absa L’Atelier winner

• - Joint Media Statement by Minister Bathabile Dlamini and the Ministerial Task Team on Non-Profit Org

January

• - SA Arts Journalism Awards - call for entries

• - NLDTF allocates R185 million to Arts, Culture and National Heritage NGOs

• - BASA Education Programme, supported by Etana, launches its first workshops

• - New intern for BASA’s RMB-supported Intern programme

• - La Rosa for the Oude Libertas Amphitheatre

• - SA and China make a way at Standard Bank Gallery

• - Fringe Application deadline looms for 2013 NAF

• - PANSA KwaZulu-Natal to host eighth Musho! International Theatre Festival

• - ‘Win Your Own Film Fest’ winner

• - Invitation to Social Cohesion community conversations

• - Festival welcomes New Year with Viennese flair

2012

December

• - SA musicians can cash in abroad via SAMRO

• - Partnerships: BASA Supporting Grant Scheme core

• - MTN New Contemporaries Award winners

• - Prepare art for 2013 Absa L’Atelier art competition

• - The Michael Jackson musical biography HIStory II returns to Durban this December.

November

• - Cape Dance Company presents Grace - Supported by Fruit and Veg City

• - Art investment recovers well towards end of the year

• - BASA’s model positively received at African Creative Economy Conference

• - African determination

• - Lyrics get centre stage with Sanlam writing competition

• - Call for a three year NAC arts funding

• - Young artists to help define SA cultural identity

• - Jozi Film Festival attracts Vodacom as a partner for their new Mobile Film

• - The 8th Definitive Series of Stamps

• - MTN New Contemporaries Award 2012 finalists

• - ATKV Award for UJ Choirmaster

• - A unique celebration of choral music’s Champ of Champs

• - Government and visual artists commit to work together and form a Visual Arts Task Team

• - Standard Bank Young Artist: Mikhael Subotzky

• - ACE 2012 Conference speakers announced

October

• - RMB - BASA Intern programme open for applications

• - Fringe Applications open for 2013 NAF

• - Moving into Dance Mophatong’s 21st anniversary celebration to culminate this November

• - AFAI hosts UNESCO cultural experts in Cape Town

• - Themba Interactive 10th Anniversary Celebration Event

• - Call for arts organisations to be part of upcoming BASA Boardbank event

• - African art

• - City hosts public forum to discuss Street Art

• - Board member duties and liabilities in spotlight at BASA workshop

• - Latest round of BASA Supporting Grants recipients announced

• - Tyrell centenary exhibition at DAG

• - Art of Banking: celebrating through collections

• - Strauss & co Auction : ‘Art Session Proves No Recession’

• - KWV Sensorium a unique pairing of KWV wines and top SA art!

• - ATKV Teen Scene Finale 2012

• - Anglo American annual Enterprise Development Workshop speakers announced

• - Field Bands to wow Johannesburg

• - New look for National Gallery - for now

• - The Art of Banking: celebrating through collections

September

• - Fashion, Celtic music and jazz in Classicfeel

• - Visual Arts Copyright Licensing Division offers SA artists international opportunities

• - Smash-hit Porgy and Bess for Artscape

• - 12th Sekunjalo Annual Edujazz Concert

• - Historical music exhibit brings its sounds to EL

• - BASA facilitates art exhibition for Discovery Invest Leadership Summit

• - FEED ME SEYMOUR! Little Shop of Horrors heads for UJ

• - Young instrumentalists vie for national honours

• - Unique Duo Wins ATKV National Classical Music Competition

• - Starlets and heritage in Classicfeel September

• - Beacon Island Resort walks away with coveted BASA award

• - Thirteen business and arts partnerships awarded BASA Supporting Grants

• - BUSKAID’S 15TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

August

• - Creative solutions Awards recognise and award supporters of the arts.

• - Top international architects heading to the Mother City

• - Drama for Life Sex Actually Festival

• - THE 15TH ANNUAL BUSINESS DAY BASA AWARDS, SUPPORTED BY ANGLO AMERICAN, 2012 WINNERS ANNOUNCED

• - Porky Hefer lights up the BASA Awards with new installation

• - BASA welcomes new staff members

• - NEXT CALL FOR FUNDING APPLICATIONS

• - The business of art

• - CAPE TOWN SOPRANO WINS ATKV CLASSICAL SINGING COMPETITION

• - Moshito 2012 confirms its place

• - BASA Awards video gives fascinating insight into how SA business is engaging with the arts

• - Notable artworks emerge at Sasol New Signatures

• - 2012 Absa L’Atelier Art Awards showcase South Africa’s top young artists

• - U.J. Faculty of Arts Design and Architecture Talks Gordon Massie

• - BASA celebrates one year of Etana supporting the BASA Mentorship Programme

July

• - BASA crosses borders into Zimbabwe

• - U.J. Faculty of Arts Design and Architecture Talks Gordon Froud

• - Department of Arts and Culture kicks off Mzansi Golden Economy Programme

• - The 15TH Annual Business Day BASA Awards, Supported by Anglo American,2012 Finalist Announced

• - Kline Smith wins NAF Student Fest award

June

• - Telkom Art Space opened

• - BASA supports the National Arts Festival in skills development

• - Business and the arts

• - Sasol fosters young musical talent across South Africa

• - Vodacom presents Soul Classics at the Baxter

• - 8.ta flagships stores display African artwork

• - Partnerships at the core of BASA Supporting Grant Scheme

• - International ballet star for Le Canard

• - Creatives examine the City of Gold

• - BASA’s groundbreaking Arts Sponsorship Toolkit now available in a customised format

• - SAMRO’s million-rand boost for music stars

• - Jam-packed youth programme at Artscape

May

• - THE 15TH ANNUAL BUSINESS DAY BASA AWARDS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 25TH

• - BASA Awards encourages media sponsorship

• - Small business encouraged to enter BASA Awards

• - DEUTSCHE BANK, A POSITIVE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY

• - Classical to contemporary arts projects across SA awarded BASA Supporting Grants

• - White Termite gets a little colour

• - BASA applications now in isiZulu and seSotho

April

• - 21-year Artist Proof Studio celebration

• - Sexy sounds at 2012 Standard Bank Jazz Fest

• - Business urged to sign up for valuable sponsorship workshops

• - Cirque at Joburg Theatre

• - ARTS UNBOUND

• - YCSA ENCOURAGES SCULPTORS TO REIMAGINE CONCRETE

• - Sector input encouraged for ACT | UJ Conference

• - Absa KKNK 2012: Kanna nominations

• - BASA workshops highlight all-important duties and liabilities

• - FTH:K kicks off national tour in KZN

• - FASHION REMODELS CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP-Suzaan Heyns

• - Dance XChange Development project starts up

• - Ster-Kinekor Cinema Nouveau plays key role in opera development in SA

• - Seventeen diverse arts projects awarded BASA Supporting Grants

March

• - National Arts Festival feast announced

• - The Latest Citadel Art Price Index

• - TBWASouth Africa art auction raises over R500k for Room 13.

• - Fleur du Cap winners

• - SAMRO unveils its new executive team

• - Arts practitioners urged to do UNESCO survey

• - SA supports World Theatre Day for children

• - ENTRIES OPEN FOR THE 15TH ANNUAL BUSINESS DAY BASA AWARDS, SUPPORTED BY ANGLO AMERICAN

• - The Universal Ballet of Korea is at the Joburg Theatre

• - Sasol launches 2012 Sasol New Signatures art competition

• - An exciting career opportunity exists for an OFFICE MANAGER at BASA

• - BASA reveals biannual Artstrack research findings

• - MXIT @ ABSA KKNK

• - MTN gives voice to muted opera group

• - SA stories weave through recycled tapestries

February

• - ABSA KKNK GOES GREEN

• - FIRED’ – an exhibition of South African ceramics

• - BASA works with southern African arts bodies to build sustainability in the region

• - Wide range of benefits attract diverse spread of new members to BASA

• - BASA Supporting Grants spotlight range of business and arts partnerships

• - New dawn for the NAC

• - Volunteerism proving potent way to support SA’s arts community

• - RMB-supported BASA Internship programme now in its fourth year

• - Fleur du Cap Awards announce new categories

January

• - Dance Umbrella 2012 - the 24th platform

• - The Phantom has arrived in Joburg

• - Cape Jazz Festival unveils 2012 musical gems

• - Mozart’s Messiah and Improv Jazz for JIMF

• - Musho! for Musho!

2011

December

• - Cinema Nouveau and Ster-Kinekor Theatres present the opera - Satyagraha

• - Coffeebeans Routes’ “story-based” experiences add creative dimension to tourism

• - Nine business-arts partnerships awarded BASA Supporting Grants

• - Address by Minister of Arts and Culture Paul Mashatile-  Mzansi’s Golden Economy Gig Guide

November

• - New BASA members help ignite Kwa-Zulu Natal’s arts industry

• - Cinema Nouveau and Ster Kinekor Theatres proudly present the renowned opera – SIEGFRIED!

• - New members to benefit from extensive value BASA membership offers

• - Richard Long: Karoo Highveld exhibition - a continental first!

• - SXSW Final Call out

• - Plascon’s sponsorship-in-kind set to brighten up inner city arts project

• - Standard Bank Young Artists for 2012 announced

• - Citadel Art Index set to help define art as alternative asset class

October

• - Address by Mr. Sibusiso Xaba, DG: Arts and Culture at the launch of the Citadel Art Index

• - Citadel launches first SA art price index

• - The 2011 PlatAfrica Jewellery Design Awards winners stole the show

• - Absa KKNK appoints new Visual Arts Curator

• - The Johannesburg Youth Orchestra Company presents Metamorphosis In Crystal

• - New Music Indaba 2011 Launches 14th October 2011

• - Theatre, dance, environmental arts projects among those benefiting from BASA grants

September

• - Internship opportunity at Business and Arts South Africa

• - Preserving the /Xam heritage in Clanwilliam

• - Artists benefit from BASA’s Moshito workshops