Performing Arts

Early Beginnings of the African Film Industry: During the British colonial rule over Kenya, Uganda, Northern Rhodes...

Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS, Congress of South African Students COSATU, Congress of South...

King Kong: An African Jazz, was the first all-Black South African musical which opened in 2 February 1959. The musical c...

Introduction Starting in the late 1970’s and reaching its height in the 1980’s, the South African province of Natal (...

The EOAN Group was founded by Helen Southern-Holt in 1933. EOAN Group was a social and educational centre and cultura...

The New Africa Theatre Association (NATA), founded in 1987 by Mavis Taylor the head of University of Cape Town Drama Dep...

Can you create music that can find a home on both sides of the Indian Ocean beyond the cliché of “fusion”? Are Indian fo...

"On Language South Africa is a land of many languages, but these languages can be divided into two main categories - the...

Feature Films are the long format, fictional (non-factual) films you see in cinemas. They are called long format because...

This genre of music started emerging in the 1990s. It is a mixture of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1...

Theatre Workshop ‘71 was a theatre training workshop that was founded in 1971 by the South African Institute for Race Re...

September 2015, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town. Performance Curated by: Sumangala Damodaran, Tina Schouw an...

The Arts and Cultural Development Network (ACDN) was founded in 1991 as an initiative to influence government policy at ...

September 2015, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town. Performance Curated by: Sumangala Damodaran, Tina Schouw an...

EXPERIENCE a unique sound! Buy a CD by the Insurrections Ensembles, a collection of poetry-music collaborations bet...

In 1974, an inaugural festival titled the 1820 Settlers National Monument  was opened as a memorial to the British ...

The African Art Centre is a non-profit organisation based in KwaZulu-Natal. Founded in 1959, it was under the leadership...

Established in 1991, Dance For All (DFA) is a non-profit dance organisation, originally known as Ballet for All. DFA was...

The Performing Arts Councils (PACs) were conceived in 1961 to replace the NTO, and in 1963 then Minister of Education, A...

The National Theatre Organisation (NTO) was a state funded institution, which was founded to promote and produce Afrikaa...

NAPAC was founded on 25 July 1963 under Chris Lombard as the first director. The first office premises were two small o...

PACT was founded in Pretoria on 3rd January 1963 with P.P.B Breytenbach as the first director. It was founded under the ...

PACOFS operated from Bloemfontein with Rex Hugo as the first director. In 1996, state subsidy was reduced and PACOFS be...

CAPAB was instituted to promote the performing arts in the Cape Province. Operational costs for CAPAB, the Performing Ar...