Stage: Aubrey Sekhabi’s Mantolo – The Tenth Step Posted: Thursday, 11 June 2009
The South African State Theatre’s Artistic Director, Aubrey Sekhabi, is directing Mantolo – The Tenth Step – a true story about the life and struggle of Sibusiso Senele Masuku, now on, in the Arena until Sunday, 21 June 2009. [Read More]

Awards: Sasol New Signatures Art Competition rewards rising art talent Posted: Thursday, 07 May 2009
An emerging South African artist stands to win R60 000 in this year’s Sasol New Signatures Art Competition. Sasol’s search for cutting edge creativity is being held in partnership with the Association of Arts Pretoria. [Read More]

Exhibitions: International Museum Day celebrated in the capital Posted: Thursday, 07 May 2009
City of Tshwane’s Arts, Culture and Heritage Division will celebrate this year’s International Museum Day (IMD) by giving the public free admittance to the Pretoria Art Museum, Melrose House Museum and Fort Klapperkop Heritage Site from Tuesday, 19 May to Friday, 22 May 2009. [Read More]

Exhibition: Mbongeni Buthelezi’s launches first national touring exhibition in Tshwane Posted: Friday, 01 May 2009
The Seippel Gallery, in association with the Pretoria Art Museum, will launch Mbongeni Buthelezi's first national touring exhibition on Wednesday, 13 May 2009 in Arcadia. [Read More]

Awards: Search for the 2009 PPC Young Concrete Sculptors begins Posted: Friday, 01 May 2009
The annual 2009 PPC Young Concrete Sculptor Awards Competition, now in its seventeenth year, has begun. PPC, in partnership with the Association of Arts Pretoria, hosts the competition, providing artists young in the art of concrete sculpting the opportunity to showcase their talents through the affordable and versatile medium of concrete. [Read More]

Awards: Karoo Moose wins big at the 2008 Naledi Theatre Awards Posted: Monday, 20 April 2009
The cast and crew of Karoo Moose were the big winners at the 6th annual 2008 Naledi Theatre Awards, scooping eight of the 21 contested awards, at the star-studded ceremony that took place on Sunday, 19 April at the South African State Theatre in Pretoria, Tshwane. [Read More]

Stage: James Ngcobo directs The Hill at the State Theatre Posted: Saturday, 18 April 2009
The South African State Theatre, through its director development programme - 52 Seasons, will stage Zakes Mda’s The Hill in the Arena from Tuesday, 21 April until Sunday, 10 May 2009. [Read More]

Culture: Carlo Mombelli and Sharp! Sharp! to tour Tshwane Posted: Sunday, 12 April 2009
Sharp! Sharp!, an intercultural project between France and South Africa, will tour Tshwane’s Hatfield and Mamelodi this coming weekend, 18/19 April. [Read More]

Exhibition: Fried Contemporary to host exhibition on gender identities Posted: Sunday, 12 April 2009
Fried Contemporary Art Gallery and Studio is to host Four women and a man, a group exhibition that investigate shifting gender identities in the South African and global contexts. The exhibition, featuring artworks of Ruhan Jansen van Vuuren, Jacqueline Schoombie, Marina Aucamp, Esme Kruger and Anna Gous, opens on Saturday, 18 April 2009 until 16 May 2009. [Read More]

Awards: Top entertainment, celebrity presenters for 2008 Naledis Posted: Saturday, 11 April 2009
With the 2008 Naledi Theatre Awards just around the corner, Executive Director Dawn Lindberg has announced an exciting line-up of entertainment and celebrity presenters, plus the addition of three new sponsors for this year’s Naledi Theatre Awards to be held in Tshwane. [Read More]

Drama: TUT withdraws from top Afrikaans Theatre competition Posted: Monday, 30 March 2009
Newcomer Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) has pulled out - Karakters, a play by Jané Dowd, which was initially selected as a finalist - from the 2009 Sanlam Prize for Afrikaans Theatre (SPAT) scheduled to take place from Monday, 6 April to Friday, 10 April at the Klein Karroo Nationale Kunstefees (KKNK) at Oudtshoorn. [Read More]

Awards: 2008 Naledi Theatre Awards in Pretoria Posted: Thursday, 12 March 2009
More than hundred nominees in twenty-one categories for the 2008 Naledi Theatre Awards, that went controversial last year, were announced at the Market Theatre in Newtown, Johannesburg on Wednesday. The Best Community Theatre Production will be announced at the Award Ceremony scheduled to be held in the Opera at the South African State Theatre on Sunday, 19 April. [Read More]

Stage: Peter Pan at the Breytenbach Theatre Posted: Friday, 06 March 2009
The Tshwane University of Technology’s(TUT) Department of Drama and Film Studies is staging the magical tale of Peter Pan by J.M Barrie this month. This story which has remained a favourite with both children and adults since it was first published in 1902, has also been modernised. This classical tale will be staged at the Breytenbach Theatre from Friday, 20 March to Thursday, 26 March 2009. [Read More]

Stage: Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom back with another erotic play Posted: Sunday, 15 February 2009
Controversial and award-winning playwright Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom of Cards fame will present, Foreplay, a modern South African adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s Reigen at the South African State Theatre from 17 March 2009. The setting is no longer Vienna during the 1890’s, but the capital city of South Africa, Pretoria in 2008. [Read More]

Exhibition: Georgia Papageorge at Pretoria Art Posted: Tuesday, 10 February 2009
The Pretoria Art Museum in Arcadia is currently hosting two exhibitions, Africa Rifting/Bloodiness and Kilimanjaro/Global Warming by Georgia Papageorge. The exhibitions was to run concurrently until Sunday, 19 April 2009. But due to popular demand this highly regarded exhibition has been extended until Sunday, 03 May 2009. The museum opens Tuesdays to Sundays from 10h00 to 17h00. For more information call the museum on 012 344 1807/8. [Read More]

What's on: TUT's Arts line-up for February Posted: Monday, 02 February 2009
The 2009 Drama season of the Tshwane University of Technology's (TUT) Department of Drama and Film Studies (Drama) is set to start with a bang, at the National Cultural History Museum TUT host its Annual Degree exhibition by B Tech Students of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts and an enthralling variety of photographic images awaits visitors as Gallery 20/20 at the Voortrekker Monument hosts Department of Visual Communication’s 2008 Annual Photographic Exhibition. [Read More]

Award: Calling all young South African Publishing Entrepreneurs Posted: Wednesday, 28 January 2009
The British Council is looking to award the International Young Publishing Entrepreneur of the Year (IYPE). The award which is being offered for the sixth time, seeks to champion and celebrate the importance of creative young entrepreneurs aged between 25 and 35, working in the international publishing sector, showcasing individual achievement and potential in South Africa. [Read More]

Exhibition: Alain’s Art Studio students at Centurion Art Gallery Posted: Wednesday, 14 January 2009
The Centurion Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition by students of the Alain’s Art Studio from Wierda Park in Centurion. The works on display cover themes such as landscapes, stills, portrait, abstract and own choice, and a wide range of medium have been used (oil, acrylics, water colours, prints and mixed media). The exhibition opens on Thursday, 15 January and runs until Friday, 30 January 2009. [Read More]

Design: Carrol Boyes launches Metal 2009 New Designer Search Posted: Friday, 09 January 2009
Carrol Boyes has launched the fifth annual Metal 2009 new Designer Search, which seek to encourage, unearth and nurture new product design talent in South Africa. This year aspiring designers are invited to submit a three-dimensional prototype based on the theme ‘FRUITFULL – Design beyond the Bowl’. “The word ‘Fruitfulness’ evokes an image of fullness, an abundance, an overflowing of something whether it be an object that is filled to the brim or an idea that has burgeoned and come to fruition,” Carrol Boyes said, when explaining her choice of this year’s theme. [Read More]

Scholarship: Darmasiswa, a chance to study music, arts in Indonesia Posted: Thursday, 08 January 2009
South Africans are being invited to apply for a scholarship to study music and dance in Indonesia. The Indonesian government is again offering the Darmasiswa Scholarship for a variety of disciplines at Indonesian universities. Darmasiswa is a scholarship program extended by the government of the Republic of Indonesia to foreign students from countries with which Indonesia has friendly relations. [Read More]

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• 2008 ¦
• November ¦
• Tshwane to host Contemporary Croatian Drawing ¦ Exhibition
• Carrol Boyes announces METAL 2008 winners ¦ Design
• October ¦
• 2008 PPC Young Concrete Sculptor winners ¦ Exhibition
• 2008 PPC Young Concrete Sculptor countdown bigins ¦ Awards
• Titus Matiyane, too extraordinary an artist ¦ Exhibition
• Urinetown – The Musical ¦ Musical
• September ¦
• Kuns Uniek Summer's ¦ Exhibition
• Visual voices of the electronic generation ¦ Exhibition
• SA author nominated for Swedish literature prize ¦ Awards
• Cancer, a Second Chance ¦ Exhibition
• Biko, Where the soul resides ¦ Drama
• August ¦
• Sasol unlikely to buy winning art piece ¦ Exhibition
• New South African State Theatre Council announced ¦ Theatre
• Art Festivals for all in Tshwane ¦ Festivals
• ACT NOW! Against AIDS ¦ Call for proposals
• About Weaving at Pretoria Art ¦ Exhibition
• May ¦
• Mummenschanz “3 X 11” for Tshwane ¦ Theatre
• April ¦
• iGoogle project celebrate South African art ¦ Internet
• Local artist uses unlikely media as metaphors ¦ Fine Art