Inner city children find urban arts platform

The children involved in the Urban Arts Platform project will work with one of the United Kingdom’s most reknowned urban artists, Solo One, in the build up to their Arts Unbound festival on 28 and 29 April. Urban Arts Platform aims to renew

 
Johannesburg, the City of Gold

The City of Gold festival, Johannesburg’s international urban art festival, is gracing the city for the second consecutive year. Following last year’s success, the festival organisers Grayscale, have brought back the festival currently taking place from 15 – 21 April 2012.

 
AKTP grant recipient secures additional funding

Shonaquip makes custom-built wheelchairs and other devices for people with disabilities. This innovative social enterprise partnered with Professor Tracy Bhamra from the University of Loughborough’s design department in the United Kingdom (UK), as well as Dr Mugendi Rithaba from the Industrial Design department

 
Flyover to Soweto

UK hip-hop artist Soweto Kinch, in partnership with the British Council, hosted Kinch’s groundbreaking Flyover show at Freedom Square in Soweto on Saturday 31 March. The Flyover Show is Kinch’s project and is set up as a day-long, music and arts festival that

 
Culture shift converting ideas into reality

Culture Shift brought together professionals in the creative economy – festival managers, curators, artists, publishers, and others – with top talent from enterprise, technology and design, in creative and dynamic events to challenge them to build proof-of-concept solutions for problems facing creative and cultural sectors.

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