CAB Festival applications now open

Music theatre composers and writers invited to apply for “Cabaret and Beyond” Festival 2021.

The Artfluence Festival presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of Kwazulu-Natal will partner with the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation to host a dynamic group of young international human rights activists in a webinar about how the arts have inspired their social and political activism. The session will

Artfluence Human Rights Festival honours Sibongile Mngoma The Centre for Creative Arts has launched its inaugural Artfluence Human Rights Festival this afternoon by paying homage to opera singer Sibongile Mngoma for her activism to defend and fight for artists’ rights. The Centre has awarded her the inaugural Artfluence Human Rights

  The only human right I have is the right to be human. See what happens during 400 days of lockdown? Time to think about things that usually are left behind in the rat race rush. Things like looming climate change. Things like our fragile democratic constitution. And things we

This week’s inaugural Artfluence Human Rights Festival, presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, will culminate with the announcement of yet one more new festival to be added to the Centre’s bouquet of annual festivals. The Cabaret and Beyond (CAB) Festival will be an annual

The Artfluence Human Rights Festival scheduled to open this week and presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of Kwazulu-Natal embraces the importance of World Press Freedom Day. “We salute journalists whose work advances a culture of human rights and whose ethical journalism about the arts affirms

The hard lockdown and prohibition of public gathering have generated widespread precarity and insecurity within the Arts sector. Physical distancing and closure of performance venues have curtailed public performances and rehearsal with dire consequences to livelihoods and careers. In regrouping, many performing arts institutions have attempted to adapt by offering

The inaugural Artfluence Human Rights Arts Festival with a focus on arts, constitution and democracy will be presented by the Centre for Creative Arts in partnership with the Embassy of the Netherlands. Voices of Hope, Courage and Resilience will be the theme for the inaugural festival. It will mark the 25th anniversary of the

Online Jazz Festival will connect the Tradition   South African Jazz: Connecting the Tradition is the theme for an online festival that will be presented on Tuesday 27 April as a partnership project of the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Arts & Culture at the

The Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and Arts & Culture at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) will join hands this month with the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music at UKZN and the South African Association for Jazz Education to present a one-day free to