Since its inception the Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) has funded more than 400 projects across the spectrum in arts and culture.
With the renewed support of Founding Trustees; Nedbank, the Royal Netherlands Embassy, Sun International, the Department of Arts & Culture and the Vodacom Foundation, ACT is pleased to announce that 31 applicants in 11 arts disciplines will receive funding of almost R1.5 million this year. A portion of these funds will go towards 10 bursaries which have been awarded to formal and non-formal educational institutions specialising in arts and culture.
The recipients are as follows:
Arts Administration
Organisation: Performing Arts Network of South Africa (PANSA) North West
Project: Performing Arts Workshops
Amount granted: R50,000
The project will run a series of skills training workshops in rural areas for community theatre groups in the areas of fundraising, financial management, proposal writing, report writing and issues around copyright.
Literature
Organisation: The Centre for Creative Arts
Project: Poetry Africa
Amount granted: R100,000
Poetry Africa is an international festival of poets with a central programme of more than 20 poets representing approximately 12 countries. Other activities include free seminars, workshops and performance opportunities for amateur poets.
Individual: Yolisa Madolo
Project: Sibhala Sibatsha
Amount granted: R50,000
The project aims to produce literature for children in isiXhosa through a series of isiXhosa workshops for children and writers of children's literature.
Organisation: Froggy Press
Project: Children's Poetry Journal
Amount granted: R20,000
The project is a quarterly publication of children's poetry which features contributions from children across South Africa. The journal encourages children to write and validates their creative expression.
Individual: Gus Ferguson
Project: Carapace Magazine
Amount granted: R10,000
Carapace Magazine is an independently published poetry journal which promotes the reading and writing of poetry. The magazine also increases awareness of local and international talent amongst its readership.
Multi-Disciplinary
Organisation: Sisters of Mercy Educational Trust
Project: Dithaga Music Project
Amount granted: R150,000
Dithaga is a music development project which works with 230 children from historically disadvantaged backgrounds. Funding will support the purchase of a vehicle which will provide transport to rehearsals, performances, eisteddfods and festivals.
Music
Organisation: University of the Free State
Project: Mangaung String Programme
Amount granted: R50,000
The project will provide 240 historically disadvantaged children with music tuition to encourage awareness, understanding and appreciation of music.
Organisation: School of Music, North-West University
Project: Musikhane Community Project
Amount granted: R22,000
The project comprises a music workshop which provides training for 40 children, a 30-member youth orchestra, a music centre, a brass ensemble, a violin ensemble and a music literacy programme.
Organisation: Msunduzi Music Centre
Project: Msunduzi Music Centre
Amount granted: R50.000
The project is run by a group of qualified Jazz musicians and offers theory of music, rhythm studies and training in guitar, piano, drums recorder and saxophone..
Theatre
Organisation: Market Theatre Foundation
Project: Season of New South African Work
Amount granted: R225,000
The project will present 5 new South African works to celebrate the Market Theatre's support of new indigenous work and its development of new talent across the performance spectrum.
Dance
Organisation: Moving into Dance Mophatong
Project: New work by Sylvia Magogo Glasser
Amount granted: R50,000
Prestigious choreographer, Sylvia Glasser, in collaboration with two aspirant choreographers will create a new dance work that will form part of the "Three Women" programme to take place in 2006.
Visual Arts
Organisation: Friends of the Johannesburg Gallery
Project: The Makhubelas: A Triumph over Oppression
Amount granted: R75,000
This is an exhibition that will showcase the important role that the Makhubela family played in supporting, preserving and developing the arts and culture of the Tsonga/Shangaan people.
Individual: Geoffrey Grundlingh
Project: Photographic Mural
Amount granted: R25,000
The grant will support a commission by the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular medicine at the University of Cape Town to create two photographic murals which symobolise South Africa's contribution to research in HIV/AIDS and a medical research in South Africa.
Community Art
Organisation: Lesheba Venda Arts & Culture Trust
Project: Musical Instrument Carving & Manufacturing Programme
Amount granted: R75,000
Through this programme young students will obtain a variety of skills relating to the production and preservation of traditional musical instruments and knowledge of the Venda people.
Arts Education
Organisation: The Caversham Centre for Artists & Writers
Project: Specialist Residency and Partner Workshop
Amount granted: R40,000
The project will form part of a partnership programme of printmaking workshops that will introduce participants to printmaking skills and examine areas where they can be used in allied areas.
Bursaries
Bursaries of R20,000 were awarded to the following formal and non-formal educational institutions specialising in arts and culture.
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The Arts and Media Access Centre
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UCT School of Dance
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Johannesburg Dance Foundation
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Rhodes University Drama Department
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Ruth Prowse School of Arts
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AFDA (South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance)
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Ballet Theatre Afrikan
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BorderTechnikon
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UCT Fine Art Department
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Wits Arts Television
Background Information
ACT was founded in 1994 by the Ministry of Arts and Culture, the Royal Netherlands Embassy, Nedbank, Sun International and the Vodacom Foundation. ACT focuses on five areas of development: job creation; creative skills; management skills; cultural diversity, awareness and understanding (the promotion of local cultures and facilitation of cultural exchange) and cultural tourism and marketing (the expansion of the local and international markets for SA culture). Only projects that fell within the scope of at least one of the five focus areas were evaluated according to merit, impact, development, sustainability, capacity and profile. Applications were referred to subcommittees comprising trustees with experience and expertise in the fields of theatre, music, dance, film and video, literature, heritage, arts administration, community arts, visual arts and arts education. Requests were assessed, projects investigated, budgets scrutinised and individually rated according to each criteria. Those projects which scored more than 80 percent were taken through to the final round of assessment.
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Issued by: Jerome Balakistan on behalf of the Arts & Culture Trust
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FOUNDING TRUSTEES: Nedbank, the Vodacom Foundation, Sun International, the Royal Netherlands Embassy, The Department of Arts and Culture
Posted on Monday 8 Aug 2005
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