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The Arts
About this page
The arts section is joining up with Ja. Magazine, an online platform that collects, curates and celebrates the work of local creatives, with a handmade twist. Together with Ja. Magazine, The Journalist Arts page will bring you interviews, reviews and profiles from arts and music festivals around the country. We bring you interviews with upcoming legends and community artists while providing history and context. We do this by celebrating the unique power of the talented men and women who have strengthened the creative fabric of our society through the ages.
Artist Wonga Mancoba dies in Paris
1946 – 2015
Giving A Lotta Love: To Zayn Adam
Tribute to a musical giant
The Son of Adam: A Friend’s Tribute
Terry Fortune’s regular column
Jazz Factory
Delft Big Band produces the goods and churns out the hits
Provocative theatre gets students hot under the collar
Amazing Show keeps conversations going
Straight into the lens
Lesbian women and trans individuals glare right back at those who have inflicted pain.
Merging theatre and politics in a divided city
Alexandra Sutherland’s interest in community engagement began around the same time she started studying drama. In fact, it was sparked when people started killing each other just minutes away from the first year classes she sat in. Sutherland is well known in both the Rhodes University Drama Department as the Head of the Applied Theatre […]
Public Art, Public Outcry
Defaced Raybans & vague Madiba connection
Making Histories Visible
Arts writing restoring the power of the marginalised
Dancing in a divided city: The Pantsula Art of Ayanda Nondlwana
“When I perform, I can feel him in my feet”
Yes, but what does your dress really say?
Shweshwe is a long way from its home
A Dookoom Stir: Larney Jou Poes
Hip Hop & Black Rage
Working with Broken Glass
An old man haunted by The Ghost of Glenmore
Dance should be an official language
10th Annual Baxter Dance Festival
The ‘Shirley Goodness’ legacy: Chris van Wyk Tribute
Writer, poet and activist
Hip Hop: Militant & Spiritual
Music forging communion with the higher self
25 Voices: What Makes Us Angry – Serious!
Local youth speaking out
25 Voices: Intimate invasion
Fear of rape grows among girls at a local school as boys use their toilets.
Peter Clarke: Inspiring the world from the township
The art world continues to mourn
Children of the Light: Tutu Film Premiere
Heritage Month Tribute to A Living Treasure
Dudley Tito: Clash of Culture vs Community Needs
Jazzman caught in the middle
Willie Bester: Sculptor Extraordinaire
Turning found objects into high art
Madala Kunene: Still Showing Us A String Or Two
King of Zulu Blues
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