Social Media Day Is Coming #SMDay #FollowSA

On Saturday around South Africa and around the World we will be celebrating Social Media Day.
The Day started by Mashable for everyone to celebrate Social Media.

#FollowSA will be hosting 3 events around the country.

@Jodenecoza from #FollowSA will be hosting a big event in Johannesburg
at the Protea Hotel and Ice - Melrose Arch 6h30pm.
There will be loads of fun and prizes

follow the link here to RSVP and find out more
http://twtvite.com/smdayjoburg

In Cape Town at the Fire and Ice Hotel 6h30pm your host is Fatima Razzak
find her on twitter here - @fatimarazz

To RSVP to this event go here
http://www.meetup.com/Mashable/Cape-Town-ZA/710732/?a=socialmedia

In Durban Fred Felton from Falconscove will be hosting the #FollowSA event
at @Livingstons_DBN at Glenore Centre 6h30pm for 7pm.
There will be fun, prizes, snacks, tweetups, meetups, quizzes and more.

To RSVP to this event go here
http://www.facebook.com/events/368264303226678/

For more details about Social Media Day visit the Mashable site
http://mashable.com/smday/

When you go to the events remember to Tweet, Share and Upload pics
and Check in Using Foursquare and use the hashtag #smday

If you are a blogger we challenge you to do some live blogging
at the event.

Most importantly have fun and enjoy it.


Fred Felton
Durban Event Co-Ordinator for #FollowSA
Falconscove
A Digital Media Agency
twitter - @fredfelton

Free Tickets to Pansa members for #CapeTown Show Tonight

1. Free tickets to PANSA paid up members


This is to invite Cape Town Based PANSA members (and partners) to tonights performance of
Green Man Flashing at the Artscape Arena at 20:15


Kindly RSVP to PANSA info@pansa.org.za by 4pm 

(source: PANSA) 

Want to Design for SA Fashion Week? In Kzn?

The TIKZN and Kwazulu-Natal Fashion Council (KZNFC) invite KwaZulu-Natal based
fashion deisgners to apply to showcase at SA Fashion Week from 27 - 30 Sept 2012
in Johannesburg.

TIKZN and the KZNFC will co-sponsor emerging junior and established designers to present
their collections at this event.

Fashion designers who are interested in this opportunity must submit a comprehensive CV
with all industry experience to

shavera@kznfc.co.za

The deadline is Tue 19 June 2012.

Auditions for Dancers for Sun City

Pro Dancers Needed for Sun City 

Sun City Auditions!!! Auditions being held Wednesday the 20th June @ Virgin Active Cedar Square(fourways) @ 11am Looking for Female and Male Dancers for a contract in Sun City for 2 months. Show running from the 28th July-29th September 2012. (Needing Topless Female Dancers Only) Girls Pls bring T-bars to the audition and all Dancers to bring CV attached with a Picture. Kindly forward to all Pro dancers


(Source - Kerry Hiles and Gig Grapevine) 

Loads of Opportunities for Musicians, Singers, Dancers, Writers and More

We received this from Pansa today.

Loads of opportunities for people in the Arts, Theatre, Writers and More.

Audition for IKUSASA : June 9,10,11,12 2012 in Bassline, Newtown, JoburgThe production is looking for multi-talented singers, dancers, actors and musicians to perform in this brand new music and dance theatre production about present-day South Africa.The show is set for a launch in Joburg in February 2013 and a 2,5 month tour in Europe with a minimum of 55 shows until the end of April 2013. For more information and the latest updates check www.facebook.com/ikusasa

Please register for auditions by sending a facebook message - www.facebook.com/ikusasaor an email to auditions@ikusasa.com with your:
- Name, Email address, Age, Skills, Former experience.

The full article is on the PANSA web site click here
GIPCA Creative Arts Awards: 23 July (CT)
These monetary awards are intended to assist  in presenting creative and interdisciplinary projects and programmes to the public and the University community. The full article is on the PANSA web site click hereCall for Papers GIPCA’s Directors and Directing: Playwrights symposium: 25 June (CT)Interested applicants should send a topic and an abstract of no more than 350 words for a presentation of 10-15 minutes. Please include your name, email address, landline and mobile numbers, as well as a 100 word biography. The full article is on the PANSA web siteclick here

Some of the topics will include:

• Critical approaches to South African writing for theatre
• Multiple languages in the theatre
• The primacy of the written text
• The relevance of the literary text in a post-dramatic, post-colonial, post -Artaudian universe
• Oral Traditions and the Theatre
• Post 1994 writing
• Directors on Writers / Writers on Directors
• Young Playwrights
• Writers who direct their own text
• Whose text 1: Writer, director, producer, funder?
• Whose text 2: Can I tell your story if I have not experienced your life?
• Whose text 3: Multiple voices in workshop theatre and theatre making
• New forms

Applications should be sent to fin-gipca@uct.ac.za
For more information, contact the GIPCA office on 021 480 7156.

Dolly Puppet Theatre: 23 June (CT)
Dolly Puppet Theatre (glove puppets) is looking for actors and actresses.
Auditions: 23 June
Time: 12-3 pm
Venue: Tokai Library, Tokai Road
Contact: dollytheatre@gmail.com

Dance Auditions: 9 June (CT)
CAPE DANCE COMPANY auditions for professional contracts on Saturday 9th June at 1:30pm.
Venue : CAPA studios. Commences with ballet class.
Production/Tech Manager for Grahamstown: 11/6-14/7 (EC)
We are looking for a Production/Tech Manager for our annual National Schools Festival in Grahamstown.

The Production/Tech Manager is ideally available from 11 June (18 June the latest) on a flexi-hour basis in order to get all the pre-planning done. The Production Manager has to be available at all times during the Festival.

The planning involves contacting suitable technicians who want to stay over from National Arts Festival, drafting a move-in tech schedule and call times for the technicians, preparing the contracts for the technicians and stagehands. You will also be required to work closely with the National Arts Festival technical team in order to facilitate venue handovers.

We require someone to coordinate the venues and technicians for the festival, making sure that all venues are on track and to meet and make sure that the artists are happy and satisfied. Sometimes productions may need assistance to move from one venue to another or to fetch equipment/consumables from the Stores – which requires the use of the Grahamstown Foundation transport (i.e. Drivers licence required).
How to apply: E-mail Neville Engelbrecht: neville.engelbrecht@foundation.org.za

ABSA KKNK Drama Teks-Kompetisie
Have you ever had the desire to make your writings on the stage to see?

With our new text competition offering the KKNK and the Dawn Trust you to your work on stage to see and to R50 000 in cash to win. If your work has never been performed, you can enter the competition. Send by July 2, a presentation of two pages to Theo Kemptkemp@kknk.co.za  for the opportunity to make your text with a recognized playwright to develop and for the prize money eligibility.
Website: www.absakknk.co.za

Arts Moves Call for Researcher: 11 June
AMA offers travel grants to artists and cultural practitioners living and working in Africa to travel within the African continent in order to engage in the exchange of information, the enhancement of skills, the development of informal networks and the pursuit of cooperation. The researcher will be working and travelling in east African countries from the 2nd July 2012 to end of September 2012. The full article is on the PANSA web site click here


(Source: Pansa)

Article by @fredfelton

Top Billing Auditions #capetown #durban #jozi and more

Just heard that Top Billing will be holding auditions for presenters countrywide.

Contestants have to bring a completed entry form, a copy of their ID and a photo.
They also have to prepare a presenters link or introduction to a TV segment.

Audition Times and Venues

13 - 14 May, 9am - 17h00
Bloemfontein, Protea Hotel, Willow Lake

18 - 19 May, 9am - 17h00
Durban, Protea Hotel, Umhlanga Ridge

24 - 25 May, 9am - 17h00
Port Elizabeth, Venue to be confirmed

28 May, 9am - 17h00
Polokwane, Venue to be confirmed

1 - 3 June, 9am - 17h00
Cape Town, Protea Hotel Fire & Ice

8 - 11 June, 9am - 17h00
Johannesburg, Venue to be confirmed

Source:  Channel24

Actors and Directors Needed Countrywide #durban #capetown #jozi

The fifth PANSA Festival of Reading of New Writing with the generous support of the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF) is well under way with 43 script entries currently in the adjudication process.

 The regional Festivals will be held during May/June at the following venues:

Cape Town:       Magnet Theatre, 18-19 May 2012, Comedy Genre

Johannesburg:   University of Johannesburg, 27-28 May 2012, 1/2 Handers Genre

Durban:              Catalina Theatre, 1-3 June 2012, Drama Genre

 We are inviting all actors, directors and technical personnel who would like to be considered by the successful writers to work on the play readings, to send an updated CV to the email addresses listed below by Wednesday 25 April 2012.

 Participants must be available for at least 10 days prior to the festival in the region for which they are submitting. These submissions will go on a list to be considered by the writers in these regions and the successful submissions contacted directly by the writers.

 The basic criteria for participation are:

·        All Participants should be PANSA paid-up members

·        Participants will receive a fee for their participation

·        Participants need to be available for at least 10 days prior to the Festival in the region

·        Participants submitting for the actors and directors category need to be available to travel to Durban for June 3, 2012 in the event that the script in which they are participating be a winner in the regional finals.

·        Writers will consider this list as well as other agency options in casting their play readings.

 An important component of the Festival of Reading of New Writing will be the discussions to follow the reading of each work. We encourage all participants to attend this constructive feedback, and the debate around theatre aesthetics, functions and forms.

 The festivals have been a resounding success in previous years towards generating new South African scripts and we look forward once again to exciting festivals and the final recipient of the Grand Prize of R30 000.

 Submissions must be sent, by WEDNESDAY APRIL 25, 2012, to

Cape Town: info@pansa.org.za

Johannesburg: info@pansa.org.za

Durban: kzn@pansa.org.za

 All further enquiries to 021 448 3513 or info@pansa.org.za

 (Source:  Pansa)