Fox Fire Films

Email: jseebass@gmail.com
Phone: 0728043287
Social Media: Facebook

Free Film School is a project of Fox Fire Films, provides arts education that seeks to provide accessible and decolonised skills for aspiring filmmakers. Free Film School has been operational since 2019 and they have managed to host several screenings and workshops - then later transitioned into an online platform as COVID-19 progressed. At the moment they hope to reignite the sense of community and collaboration they started off with a 3-month pilot program which involves weekly classes that promote sustainable filmic education, more workshops and screenings, field trips, and mentorship/work opportunities. The program will conclude with an opportunity for their participants to liaise and connect with industry professionals and potential employers.

During the pandemic, remote learning has proved to be largely ineffective in providing meaningful education, especially in creative fields. This is due to insufficient internet access across the country as well as a host of social obstacles. Thus, Free Film School prioritizes offering a physical, safe space and contact teaching which can maintain as much resilience as possible despite ongoing Covid concerns, continuing to develop online engagement in parallel, building on our YouTube Platform, Lockdown Film School, and creating a podcast of lesson recordings. Additionally, via their website, participants will have the opportunity to list their profile and portfolio, creating a database to aid with work placement and mentorship.
 

Sibikwa Community Project

Email: businessarts@sibikwa.co.za
Phone: 0114224359
Social Media: Instagram, Facebook

Uvuko Creative Arts Incubator is the Sibikwa Community Project’s solution to the youth employment crisis in the arts which aims to provide them with sustainable means to set up their entrepreneurial endeavors. Through arts administration training that is accredited by CATHSSETA and additional courses in Entrepreneurship and Digital Media, this program wants to equip youths with skills in different creative fields that ensure their success and career longevity. The desired applicants are people with involvement in performing arts, visual arts, and design. The 10 week program 9 applicants will culminate in a showcase to industry professionals 3 participants will be mentored and assisted in building their business.

Specializing in music, dance, spoken word, drama and visual arts, within the landscape of national and international festivals, exhibitions, corporate events, arts education, civic engagement, and cultural exchange, the organisation was significantly impacted by COVID-19. However, through the turbulence of shifting economic landscapes, rising social tensions, troubles of systemic and service delivery issues, and the plethora of challenges that arose in relation to education, events and engagements the organisation is re-imagining, re-organising and migrating of programmes to digital platforms, to meet the demands of COVID-19.
 

Baz-Art

Email: hello@baz-art.co.za
Phone: 0827589792
Website: https://baz-art.co.za/
Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, Youtube

Immersive Program - a skills development initiative for young artists to gain invaluable experience at IPAF 2022 is the latest effort of the street art platform, Baz Art. This project is part of their plan to expand Baz Art’s skills development for aspiring artists by connecting and educating them with experienced artists. The program is based in Cape Town and the end goal is to give artists the opportunity to showcase and develop their work at the International Public Art Festival (IPAF). In essence, this immersive incubation is an internship that will select 5 South African artists and provide them with extensive training in marketing, project management, arts administration, entrepreneurship.

The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns has had a devastating effect on the entire event- and arts industry; which is having to adapt rapidly to the new and ever-changing challenges that accompanies the global pandemic. Baz-Art believes that the IPAF outdoor public arts festival model could become the future of events which will provide unique job opportunities for young, as well as established artists in this difficult climate. The audience for the 2022 IPAF edition will be spread out across mural locations in the city, and can easily comply with the latest health and safety regulations.
 

Mareledi Centre of ARTS

Email: tminya@icloud.com
Phone: 0605604391
Website: https://www.barloworld.com/mbewu/mareledi-centre-of-arts/

Founded in 2017, the Mareledi Centre of ARTS has a new project called Creative Crossroads. Mareledi primarily operates in Gauteng and North West and their work prioritises the arts and social justice. They achieve this with a focus on artistic entrepreneurship and education, accessible training, and a pro-feminist ethos that seeks to implement change using this ideology in the arts. With Creative Crossroads, they want to take this mission statement into practice by bringing together 10-15 artists between ages 18-35. The program will take place over 3 months with a series of workshops and opportunities to network for the selected applicants. The target applicants are under-represented, femme and non-binary people as they want to address the challenges faced by these demographics in the art scene. These training sessions will provide the artists with skills in art entrepreneurship, digital marketing skills and archiving and cataloging.

The declining income, foot traffic leading to decline in sales revenue for physical events, providing social interaction, which is central to the cultural experience. Job losses-due to declining sales revenue. This project is giving back to the art profession through digital mentoring webinars and series of art entrepreneurship workshops ,as well as virtual ARTalk and an exhibition which will be both virtual and in person.
 

Zip Zap Circus

Email: grants@zip-zap.co.za
Phone: 0836018076
Website: https://www.zip-zap.co.za/
Social Media: Facebook, Instagram

MOYA is the project of NPO, Zip Zap Circus, which operates with the intention of providing children and youths of underprivileged backgrounds in Cape Town’s townships with transformative tools through circus arts. As an answer to the economic hardship imposed by the pandemic, Zip Zap conceptualised and produced an acrobatic art film called MOYA with the hopes of reaching a wider audience and sharing the efforts of their organisation. Their current goal is to attain full ownership of the movie and rework the score, adapt the film for live performance, and travel overseas to potentially gain more exposure and promote the film and organisation. The film follows a journey of self-discovery and highlights some of the key problems faced by South African youths in the modern world: GBV, drug abuse, and finding a place to belong.

This performance of MOYA will be the start of an incredible opportunity to promote the show, to a global audience of influencers, show promoters, festival directors, social and economic investors. It will also provide employment opportunities for graduates from the Zip-Zap programmes.
 

Satori Productions

Email: satorisound@gmail.com
Phone: 0823902140
Social Media: Facebook

To combat the adverse effects of Covid on the music industry and its creatives, particularly the artists, Satori productions has devised “Electric Stories – A Sonic Sister Collective".There are few independent record labels/ studios owned by womxn artists in South Africa as opposed to the large number of womxn artists and creatives. Satori Productions is a Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) owned production company that focuses on training womxn in music and art production, from concept inception, to the final release and marketing of the finished work/ product.

While tours and gigs as we know it have stopped, studio work in the form of making music, podcasts, audio ethnographies, film/ ad scoring, and the production of sample packs is on the rise. Thus this Project will provide participants with the necessary skills to conceptualise, create and produce their desired studio products. Participants will be required to produce a mixtape that consists of the skills they would have acquired and there will be a final showcase of these projects.