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28 JUNE - 8 JULY 2012 HANDS ON! MASKS OFF! COMPLETING THE PUZZLE A series of workshops at the National Arts Festival, presented by Business and Arts South Africa with support from the SA Post Office. 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Art Project Management Deutsche Bank Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Africa Centre Norton Rose Development Bank of Southern Africa African Arts Institute NCP Alcohols Devereux & Harris Art Events Offcentre Design Diamscan SA Art Source South Africa Old Mutual Distell (Pty) Ltd Artspace Johannesburg Dreamcatcher Multi-Media PG Group Artscape Theatre Centre Pinpoint One HR Empowerdex Cape Town Opera Plascon South Africa (Pty) Ltd Etana Insurance Cultural Radius CC PPC Cement Exclusive Books cultures in regeneration Public Affairs Research Institute Fairheads Durban Art Gallery First National Bank Prosound EMMM Entertainment CC Rainbow Flow Communications Gallery izarte Flux Trends Rainbow Restaurant Hamburg Artists Residency Rand Merchant Bank Food Lovers Market IZIKO South African National Gallery Regarding Capital Management Freedthinkers Jeanetta Blignaut Art Consultancy Freshly Minced Sabvest Ltd Juliet Meintjes Fine Art Samro Goldberg de Villers Inc Johannesburg Youth Orchestra Gordon Institute of Business Science Sanlam Ltd Joburg Theatre Santam Limited Grant Thornton Performing Arts Centre of the Free State (PACOFS) Sappi Ltd Gray Moodliar Attorneys Pieter Toerien Productions Grey South Africa Sasol Richard Cock Music Sekunjalo Investments Ltd Gumbi Global (Pty) Ltd Ron Belling Art Gallery Hollard Insurance Company LTD Seyalemoya Communications t/a OFM Sibisi Gallery Sibaya Casino and Entertainment Kingdom iFraternity Sue Martin Fine Art Sondlo & Knopp Advertising iSchoolAfrica Youth Press Team The Cultural Development Trust Inscape Design College Source SA The Goodman Gallery South African Rugby Union Interactive Africa Think Theatre Investec Bank Snazzi Solutions Vansa (Western Cape) Speakeasy Vocal Academy JSE Limited Spier Holdings JT Communication Solutions Standard Bank Kena Productions Shouldn’t your business Karl Storz Endoscopy (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd Ster Kinekor Cinema Nouveau be a member too? Kwelapele Investments (Pty) Ltd Stephan Welz & Co. t/a Modern Autohaus BMW Summit TV For further information contact Keith Kirsten Horticulture International (Pty) Ltd Suzaan Heyns BASA on 011 447 2295/2182 or Khulisa Crime Prevention Initiative TBWA Hunt Lascaris Holdings (Pty) Ltd e-mail: [email protected] CONTENTS WORKSHOP PAGE Professional Advisors: A new journey 2 Incentives for success 3 Bums on seats require more than word of mouth 4 All the world’s a stage but it requires design 4 From stage to screen … for Material success 4 It takes two to go Dutch 5 So you want to take your drama to America? 5 From stage hand to technical director 5 Strategy—a roadmap to business success 6 All the world’s a stage but it needs networks 6 You-Twit-Face - up ur arts ;-) 6 Arts residency at Hamburg: All you need to know 7 Auditions require more than sitting on a casting couch 7 Time to “monetise” your creative work 7 From dreams to diva … 8 Dancing to corporate tunes 8 All workshops are free and will be held in Seminar Room 1, Eden Grove, Rhodes University 1 Professional advisors … a new journey with the Hands On! Masks Off! programme The new look Hands On! Masks Off! programme, in its partnership with the Student Theatre Festival will be supported and guided by a panel of four professional advisors. They will attend all 16 productions on the Student Theatre Festival programme, as well as a number of productions selected from across the Fringe. They will offer constructive critique of the work they see, observe trends in practice and advise the Festival of extended opportunities that may be available for productions that are presented in Grahamstown. The panel of advisors are well grounded internationally. They have strong professional careers in the arts. More than that, they also have a brilliant track record of grooming the next generation of arts professionals. Christina Kennedy Kathy A Perkins Lighting Designer and Theatre Educator Kathy Perkins has designed throughout the United States, as well as in Europe and South Africa. She has designed off- Christina Kennedy is a seasoned South African theatre critic and arts writer. She Broadway with such theatres as New Federal Theatre and Manhattan Theatre commenced her career in 1994 with a community newspaper in the East Rand Club. Regionally in the U.S. Kathy has designed for such theatres as The prior to joining The Citizen newspaper in 1999 as deputy Arts Editor. She soon Goodman, Los Angeles Theatre Center, eta Creative Arts, Alliance, Mark Taper moved up the ranks to become the newspaper’s Arts & Entertainment Editor. Forum, Berkeley Repertory, St. Louis Black Repertory, Indiana Repertory, Seattle Until 2006, she took a hands-on approach to the production side of the arts Repertory, and Court Theatre. She is editor/coeditor of five anthologies focusing pages, taking care of copy tasting, commissioning freelancers, assigning stories on African/African Diaspora women, including Black South African Women: An to reporters, editing copy, compiling and designing pages and proofreading. As Anthology of Plays, and African Women Playwrights. As both an educator and a long time arts journalist and theatre critic, Christina has been at the forefront designer she has traveled to over 30 countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, North of writing about the careers of South Africa’s artistic directors, designers, and South America. Kathy teaches lighting design and theatre history at the performers and their productions. This is her second stint as a Festival Advisor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is excited to be returning for her on the Student Theatre Festival. sixth visit to the National Arts Festival. Gez Casey Kemati J. Porter Kemati J Porter, the Producing Director, eta Creative Arts Foundation, (Chicago) is on a special visit to the National Arts Festival to meet mature as well as Gez Casey – is an actor, playwright and, since 2007, the Literary Manager young playwrights writing about the continuum of the African experience. As of Live Theatre, a new writing company based in Newcastle upon Tyne in the Artistic Director of the The Diaspora Season in the USA, she seeks to produce UK. He has run classes in playwriting for over ten years and is the co-creator and engage the voices of African people throughout the world. She intends of beaplaywright.com, an online course for aspiring dramatists. He has also to bring the stories and if possible the playwrights to the USA to examine and worked with emerging playwrights on new writing initiatives with the RSC discuss how voices from the African continent resonate with Africans in America and BBC Writers Room. He is currently helping to develop a verbatim theatre and with each other. Kemati’s background is rooted in theatre education. She project with young women in the Eastern Cape. He also teaches at Northumbria holds an MFA, Directing, The Theatre School of DePaul University; BA, Creative University. Writing/Advertising, Columbia College of Chicago. She has worked extensively in the USA with leading institutions as a Fellow-Producer, Artistic Advisor, performance and directing instructor. 2 STUDENT THEATRE FESTIVAL Incentives for Success (all performances in the Rehearsal Room, Monument) Tender (Rhodes University) Saturday 30 June (10:30); Monday 2 July (19:30) This year’s Hands On! Masks Off! programme will introduce a set of incentive awards sponsored by the South African Post Office. SA Shorts: Quickies for a Microwave Generation (University of Johannesburg) The Awards aim to catapult emerging professionals Friday 6 July (12:30); Saturday 7 July (17:00) participating in the Student Theatre Festival into the more complex creative economy. The Homeless Orchestra (University of Cape Town) Friday 29 June (20:00); Sunday 1 July (15:30) Best Student Theatre Fence (Market Theatre Laboratory)