So, you’re making the trip down to Makhanda for the National Arts Festival. You’re ready to brave the cold, the potholes and the donkeys for the unique experience of stepping into a university theatre or an otherwise ordinary venue in an otherwise ordinary town, that’s
With the 2023 National Arts Festival kicking off in less than a month, you should have already started browsing through the extensive offering of theatre, visual art, dance, jazz, performance art, live music and more. But if it’s all a bit overwhelming, allow the below
The cultural and creative industry in South Africa has seen substantial growth over the last 10 years, with more people participating across the various activities of the value chain. The creative industry does not only offer benefits from an economic point of view but can
The Embassy of Japan recently announced that applications are now open for the 17th International Manga Award. This prestigious competition celebrates the Japanese comic book and graphic novel, manga, and artists from around the world are invited to submit their applications by 7 July 2023.
2022 was a busy year for the Creative Feel team. In addition to undertaking new editorial projects, we also formed new partnerships, continued longstanding relationships with institutions, organisations and independent art spaces, and maintained our coverage of local and global music, performance, visual art and
UPDATE: The National Arts Festival is back to 100% capacity thanks to the removal of Covid-19 restrictions. More tickets are therefore on sale for the big shows you’ve been asking for. We’re still afraid we might jinx it by saying it out loud, but the
The power of Kings, Queens, Judges, Speakers of the House, Archbishops and Presidents is reflected in the chairs that they occupy. Whether gilded or bound in leather, seats of power throughout time have been extravagantly built in order to overawe and intimidate. In South Africa’s
The International Committee of Museum Management (INTERCOM) has jointly developed the Museum Watch Governance Management Project with the International Committee of Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM) as a special initiative of ICOM, inspired by CIMAM’s existing Museum Watch Committee (MWC). With the participation
With the launch of the Living Heritage project, Creative Feel is actively working to document and archive African artists working in the fields of visual art, performance, literature, music and design who are using living heritage within their creative practice. Our aim is to both
Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s state funeral at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town on 1 January 2022 was watched by millions who mourned his passing, across the world. Tutu’s deep sense of justice, his wisdom and humility, his outspoken intolerance for hypocrisy (particularly that of politicians),
As this year draws to a close, our Editor-in-Chief, Lore Watterson, looks back on the survival of the arts during the second year of the pandemic and shares some of the great projects that Creative Feel initiated or collaborated on in the past 12 months.
The Nobel Prize in Literature, considered the pinnacle of achievement for creative writers, has been awarded 114 times to 118 Nobel Prize laureates between 1901 and 2021. This year it went to novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was born in Zanzibar, the first Tanzanian writer to
Virtual exhibitions, online performances, and digital modes of engagement have increasingly become the norm. Whichever way you feel about them, there’s no denying that, over the course of the global Covid-19 pandemic, they’ve helped us to engage with, produce, and be inspired by the arts
The winners of the 23rd Nat Nakasa Journalism Awards were announced at a gala dinner at The Trevor Huddleston Memorial Centre in Sophiatown on 14 August 2021. The flagship event of the South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) awards journalists who have shown courage and
After years of pressure, Germany recently announced that an agreement had been reached to return hundreds of priceless artefacts and artworks that had been looted from Nigeria in colonial times and were on display in German museums. Commonly called the Benin Bronzes, these beautiful and
August is Women’s Month in South Africa. Those of you who’ve been reading us for some time will know that for the Creative Feel team, when it comes to spotlighting and celebrating women in the arts, it’s more of a year-round affair than a single
Rolex has announced the five pioneers who have earned the title of Laureate of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise for their bold, visionary projects that have the potential to help reinvent the future. Among the five men and women who hail from around the globe
The Outstanding Museum Practices Award recognises modern and contemporary art museums and collections who have developed new models of working during the global pandemic. In November 2019, the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), launched the Outstanding Museum Practices Award project,
The museums of Tshwane have collaborated to celebrate International Museum Day, which is annually celebrated on 18 May. Every year since 1977, ICOM has organised International Museum Day (IMD), which represents a unique moment for the international museum community. On this day, participating museums plan
With 25 May being Africa Day, the month of May is a time for acknowledging and celebrating all things Africa. Here at Creative Feel, we’re using that time to celebrate African art, music, literature and more. In this article, we’re looking at the rich literary
Fossils are regarded as heritage and scientific objects. Most are discovered in a fragmentary manner, while others are perfectly complete. Sometimes the completeness of the specimen assists in the excitement visitors experience when viewing a specimen. The near-perfect preservation of these adds to the awed
Telling the story of events surrounding South Africa’s Entry into the Second World War (1939 – 1945) By Allan Sinclair, Ditsong National Museum of Military History Newspaper headlines are used to quickly draw attention to important stories. They are usually written in a term called
Beginnings and early career history Charles Kimberlin ‘Bob’ Brain (see Fig. 1) was born on 7 May 1931 in what was then Salisbury (now Harare), Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). From his earliest years, he had close contact with natural history as his father was an entomologist and
When South Africa held its first democratic election in 1994, Nelson Mandela declared the 21st of March as Human Rights Day to commemorate the Sharpeville massacre and to pay homage to all of those who fought and lost their lives in the struggle for freedom. Annually on the 21st March,
The Haasgat cave system has been the site of a substantial amount of research over the years, revealing further links to our natural history. In this article by Lazarus Kgasi, who works in the Palaeontology Unit at DITSONG: National Museum of Natural History, we find