Feb 28, 2023 | ARTiculate
By BRUCE DENNILL There’s a man playing a singing bowl and warbling along to the soothing sound it makes outside the bank of elevators that service Rosebank’s The Zone centre. He’s good. He has a couple of albums displayed for sale on the floor next to his...
Sep 14, 2022 | ARTiculate
By HUGH MELAMDOWITZ Hugh Melamdowitz is a Partner at Spoor & Fisher South Africa “There are no virgin births in music. Music comes out of other music,” says Sandy Wilbur, forensic musicologist (cited in Rolling Stone, 2020) – referring to the finite...
Apr 11, 2022 | ARTiculate
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] The most recent statement from the Theatre And Dance Alliance: If you are not with us, Minister Mthethwa, you are against us It is with a renewed sense of shock and dismay that the Theatre and Dance...
Mar 21, 2022 | ARTiculate
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By HOWARD FELDMAN The realisation came when I least expected it. We had been out of South Africa for five years when we met my parents, siblings and their families for a family holiday. Our children by then...
Dec 18, 2021 | ARTiculate
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] Across the world right now – from Cape Town to Kabul and London to Beijing – the arts are being silenced. COVID-19, conflict, censorship, loss of funding, displacement – even natural...
Jul 29, 2021 | ARTiculate
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] CHARTER OF RIGHTS FOR SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS Definition For the purpose of this Charter, and based on UNESCO’s 1980 Recommendation Concerning the Status of the Artist, an “Artist” is someone who a. creates, or...
