Arts and culture

Salt River community celebrates shared heritage with the Palestinian cause

New murals a break from “cultural gentrification”

Cape Town’s orchestra performs first live concert since pandemic — for Groote Schuur’s health workers

How musicians are helping health workers cope with Covid

The Covid-19 pandemic has exhausted health workers. To boost morale, musicians Graham Alexander and Colin September are performing in the hallways of hospitals.

Free art therapy, drama and stories help inner-city children find their way

For 27 years, Lefika la Phodiso has welcomed Johannesburg children from six to 18

Teaching tomorrow’s ballet stars in Gugulethu

The Move for Two dance school has classes three times a week in a classroom at Bonga Primary school

Homeless man creates unique lampshades from recycled material

Ziggy Goredema lost his job and home at the start of lockdown and began making and selling the hanging lampshades

Millions in Lottery funds spent on one-night “music and arts festival”

NPO was given R4.8 million for the concert

Artists want Minister Nathi Mthethwa’s head to roll

Theatre and Dance Alliance report says those responsible for the mess made of the Presidential Employment Stimulus Package should be held accountable

A roller-coaster year for the arts, says National Arts Festival CEO

Live performances at this year’s festival have been cancelled for the second year

Circumcision schools say new lockdown does not apply to them

Traditional school leaders say they were not consulted and they will only stop if the president explicitly says they must

Refugee uses art to tell stories of xenophobia

Azuri Muhuli has seen and suffered violence

The game that keeps young people out of gangs

Kalib Missoe runs an after school dominoes club in Belhar, Cape Town

Covid funds for artists: Public Protector intervenes

“Artists are not seen as employees but as freelancers” says performer

Robben Island Museum is ailing and yet R102 million of its infrastructure grant went unspent

Reasons for failure to spend are unconvincing

Cape Town township gets a pop-up cinema

25-year-old Buhle Sithela is bringing movies to children in Harare, Khayelitsha

National Arts Festival may go live again

Makhanda residents hoping for a better year