Bushfire Festival 2008
For Journalist
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The in-service training and peer-to-peer collaboration will be conducted with senior and established media professionals.
The goal is to upgrade standards of African arts reporting in all media, with depth and analysis through research-based feature writing and production.
The activities will be geared to creative media production in a real working environment against the backdrop of an exciting arts festival – it will be intensive, packed, and demanding!
The 7-day course (July 29 to August 4) starts in Johannesburg with some exciting media partners and continues against the backdrop of the Swaziland BUSHFIRE FESTIVAL (check out the website www.bushfire.co.sz for details) which runs from August 1-3. The Bushfire festival has grown rapidly to become one of the most exciting arts festivals in Southern Africa, featuring some of the great names in African music, theatre and performing arts.
The festival is closely linked with Swaziland’s’Young Heroes’ initiative against HIV/AIDS. The program helps orphans, linking them with sponsors who provide funds for food, clothing and necessities. The goal: to keep these children alive, healthy and together on their family homesteads and in their communities.
Swaziland presents a vivid African experience and context to arts reporting: a deeply rooted traditional African society with strong sense of identity in rural culture, language and value-systems in the midst stunning mountain scenery.
Like much Africa, it is also a society of transition, contradiction, modern global influence and social challenges – rich ground for the discerning arts journalist!
COURSE CONTENT
Details, including preparatory work, will be provided to successful applicants.
The course will seek to select a balanced team comprising print and film/TV journalists, with, hopefully a photo-journalist and radio journalists in the mix.
The full team will produce filmed material, feature articles and photo-essays. It will be a’total immersion’ experience, looking to present the highest standards of reportage, analysis and interpretation of African arts in a festival context.
BACKGROUND TO ORGANISATIONS
The driving institutional partner in this initiative is ARTERIAL NETWORK- an informal, dynamic network of individuals, institutions and funding partners working to support the effectiveness and growth of the African arts and culture civil society and to enhance the sustainability of creative industries in Africa.
PAMBERI TRUST is an arts and culture NGO that operates venues Book Café and Mannenberg jazz club (Harare) stages over 600 arts events annually and manages the widest-ranging arts development program in Zimbabwe, in the framework of Harare Culture House, a multi-disciplinary community arts centre.
ETHOS: Managing Creativity
The arts are by definition untidy. Talent erupts in unlikely places at inconvenient times. Yet it is this stimulus that drives the arts, more critical than ever to basic freedoms, social progress and cohesion. If the arts are to be a vital force in the life of the nation, we have to accept responsibility to nurture diversity, sustain emerging talent and to create facilities for community participation in the arts.
MISSION STATEMENT
Cognisant of the economic and social potential of the arts and the need to create free, diverse means of cultural expression; Pamberi Trust is an enabling facility, by which writers and performing artists, including the marginalised, may develop, promote and perform their works, and participate in building the nation.
AFRICAN SYNERGY is a pan-African cultural network that works to create intra-African cultural linkages. African Synergy is the regional partner to Pamberi Trust, and works in partnership with Arterial Network.
ETHOS: Homegrown Development
Creative industries will realize growth and prosperity when driven from within the continent, using homegrown ideas and resources.
MISSION STATEMENT
The work of African Synergy is premised on the need to break cultural isolation between African countries and societies, and between the continent and the African Diaspora.
Marimba: ARTS ACROSS AFRICA Multi-Media Collaborations
Marimba is a research and information program to strengthen arts reporting in Africa through in-service training, peer-to-peer collaboration, research, in-depth features, publication and an exchange and arts journalist network in Africa.
The goal is to upgrade standards of African arts reporting in all media, with depth and analysis through research-based feature writing and production.
The activities will be geared to creative media production in a real working environment against the backdrop of an exciting arts festival – it will be intensive, packed, and demanding!
The 7-day course (July 29 to August 4) starts in Johannesburg with some exciting media partners and continues against the backdrop of the Swaziland BUSHFIRE FESTIVAL (check out the website www.bushfire.co.sz for details) which runs from August 1-3. The Bushfire festival has grown rapidly to become one of the most exciting arts festivals in Southern Africa, featuring some of the great names in African music, theatre and performing arts.
The festival is closely linked with Swaziland’s’Young Heroes’ initiative against HIV/AIDS. The program helps orphans, linking them with sponsors who provide funds for food, clothing and necessities. The goal: to keep these children alive, healthy and together on their family homesteads and in their communities.
Swaziland presents a vivid African experience and context to arts reporting: a deeply rooted traditional African society with strong sense of identity in rural culture, language and value-systems in the midst stunning mountain scenery.
Like much Africa, it is also a society of transition, contradiction, modern global influence and social challenges – rich ground for the discerning arts journalist!
COURSE CONTENT
Details, including preparatory work, will be provided to successful applicants.
The course will seek to select a balanced team comprising print and film/TV journalists, with, hopefully a photo-journalist and radio journalists in the mix.
The full team will produce filmed material, feature articles and photo-essays. It will be a’total immersion’ experience, looking to present the highest standards of reportage, analysis and interpretation of African arts in a festival context.
BACKGROUND TO ORGANISATIONS
The driving institutional partner in this initiative is ARTERIAL NETWORK- an informal, dynamic network of individuals, institutions and funding partners working to support the effectiveness and growth of the African arts and culture civil society and to enhance the sustainability of creative industries in Africa.
PAMBERI TRUST is an arts and culture NGO that operates venues Book Café and Mannenberg jazz club (Harare) stages over 600 arts events annually and manages the widest-ranging arts development program in Zimbabwe, in the framework of Harare Culture House, a multi-disciplinary community arts centre.
ETHOS: Managing Creativity
The arts are by definition untidy. Talent erupts in unlikely places at inconvenient times. Yet it is this stimulus that drives the arts, more critical than ever to basic freedoms, social progress and cohesion. If the arts are to be a vital force in the life of the nation, we have to accept responsibility to nurture diversity, sustain emerging talent and to create facilities for community participation in the arts.
MISSION STATEMENT
Cognisant of the economic and social potential of the arts and the need to create free, diverse means of cultural expression; Pamberi Trust is an enabling facility, by which writers and performing artists, including the marginalised, may develop, promote and perform their works, and participate in building the nation.
AFRICAN SYNERGY is a pan-African cultural network that works to create intra-African cultural linkages. African Synergy is the regional partner to Pamberi Trust, and works in partnership with Arterial Network.
ETHOS: Homegrown Development
Creative industries will realize growth and prosperity when driven from within the continent, using homegrown ideas and resources.
MISSION STATEMENT
The work of African Synergy is premised on the need to break cultural isolation between African countries and societies, and between the continent and the African Diaspora.
Marimba: ARTS ACROSS AFRICA Multi-Media Collaborations
Marimba is a research and information program to strengthen arts reporting in Africa through in-service training, peer-to-peer collaboration, research, in-depth features, publication and an exchange and arts journalist network in Africa.
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