#WeAreDyingHere Cape Town, Monday, 5 September 2022 – After a successful festival run across the USA, South Africa, Germany, and Australia, the highly acclaimed short film #WeAreDyingHere took home the coveted Golden Horn at this year’s SAFTA’s, claiming top honours in the Best Short Film category. “History is being made in this collaboration between poetry, stage and film, and the SAFTA... Continue Reading →
#WeAreDyingHere will be released and available for streaming on Showmax from Monday, 5 September 2022
#WeAreDyingHere Cape Town, Wednesday 31 August 2022 - After a successful festival run across the USA, South Africa, Germany, and Australia, the award-winning short film #WeAreDyingHere screened on Monday, 29 August, at The Labia Theatre in the Cape Town. The screening kicked-off the week before the much-anticipated lead up to the SAFTAs*, wherein the film has a Best Short Film nomination. ... Continue Reading →
SIPHOKAZI JONAS FOR SA WOMEN’S ARTS FESTIVAL IN DURBAN ON 12TH AUGUST
SA WOMEN’S ARTS FESTIVAL IN DURBAN The Playhouse Company, celebrates its annual SA Women’s Arts Festival in Durban’s Playhouse complex between 2 and 13 August 2022. Featuring a stellar roster of cultural icons, this lynchpin event on our county’s Women’s Month calendar has long been one of the flagships of the Company’s yearly Arts Plan. “Over the years, our role in underlining... Continue Reading →
NAVIGATING THE ENTERTAINMENT ECONOMY ON SATURDAY 23 JULY
Selcorp Media, Music Exchange (MEX) and Jazzathon have embarked on a joint venture with CCFM for the CCFM Music Academy to celebrate music education . The world may be in turmoil, recovering from a global pandemic while witnessing war atrocities, yet the youth always remain our future’s hope. This is one of the many reasons... Continue Reading →
Siphokazi Jonas on Cape Talk 18th May speaking about SAGSA 2022 Conference
The interview on 18th May with Siphokazi Jonas on Cape Talk, the drive time show at 5.50pm speaking about the SAGSA conference (South African Girls School Association ) #sagsaCPT2022 https://soundcloud.com/martinmyers/siphokazi-jonas-a-writer-performer-and-a-poet-with-a-vision-for-education?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
The Regional Network Gathering for the BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa
Siphokazi Jonas is a writer, poet, performer, and producer with a laudable body of work and growing international presence. Dirt Under Our Fingernails was produced by Andile Masuku, Siphokazi Jonas, & Brendan "Spike" Ballantine for the Regional Network Gathering for BMW Foundation Responsible Leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa. What does it mean to be connected to the... Continue Reading →
Siphokazi Jonas delivers Pan-African Moët & Chandon ‘Toast to Today’ unites 10 countries in Africa on Champagne Day
MOËT & CHANDON CELEBRATES CHAMPAGNE DAY WITH A GRAND ‘TOAST TO TODAY’ From South Africa to Dubai, the French Champagne House brought people together in glamorous celebration Moët & Chandon has been associated with the celebration of success and of life’s most memorable moments for nearly three centuries. It Is the world’s most loved champagne for good... Continue Reading →
Siphokazi Jonas to headline Poetry Africa Festival 2021 | iol.co.za
Siphokazi Jonas. Picture: Supplied By Kedibone Modise South African poet, playwright and producer, Siphokazi Jonas is honoured to be the featured act at the 2021 Poetry Africa Festival. Under the theme “Unmute: Power to the Poet”, the 25th edition of the virtual festival is set to take place at the Centre for Creative Arts at the... Continue Reading →
Siphokazi Jonas Selected as Featured/Headlining Poet at Poetry Africa Festival, this is the inaugural year
Siphokazi Jonas Stella Nyanzi South African poet, playwright and producer, Siphokazi Jonas will be the featured poet during the 25th Poetry Africa Festival presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal from 11 to 16 October 2021. Poet Dr Stella Nyanzi, a multiple award-winning medical anthropologist, specialising in sexual and reproductive... Continue Reading →
Siphokazi Jonas speaks at Creative Arts Conference, hosted by Rustenberg Girls Junior School from 27 -28 Aug
Siphokazi Jonas along with Im4theArts Arts Education Working group committee members are taking part in the first Creative Arts Conference, hosted by Rustenberg Girls Junior School and Western Cape Education Department, funded by Old Mutual Foundation this weekend from 27 to 28 August We invite you to attend the virtual conference. The ticket is just... Continue Reading →
A special evening on Friday 14th May of Poetry and Song with the inimitable Siphokazi Jonas, Heinrich Frans, Benedict De Maar and Valentino Europa.
Poetry and Song, LIVE! A special evening of Poetry and Song with the inimitable Siphokazi Jonas, Heinrich Frans, Benedict De Maar and Valentino Europa. Heinrich Frans has performed as lead and backing vocalist for international artists such as Jonathan Butler, Kirk Whalum, Oleta Adams, Diana Ross, Bebe Winans, Josh Groban, and Mark Fransman’s Strait and... Continue Reading →
The Empty Chair, a podcast series from PEN South Africa 15 April -Terry-Ann Adams, Megan Ross , Siphokazi Jonas with Nadia Davids
We are delighted to introduce The Empty Chair, a new podcast series from PEN South Africa about writing, freedom of expression, censorship, resilience and solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic. For these first five episodes, we have drawn together an eclectic and electric group: novelists, poets, performance poets, journalists, constitutionalists and academics, who together offer us... Continue Reading →
Online Health for All programme rounds off 3 year Community Voices for Human Rights series with Siphokazi Jonas and more
A collection of presentations interspersed with powerful cultural items will make up a programme focusing on health scheduled for Wednesday 7 April 2021, from 7pm to 8.30pm. The programme, titled Health for All, takes place on World Health Day and is organised by the Cape Cultural Collective in partnership with the Foundation for Human Rights, the People’s... Continue Reading →
Siphokazi Jonas will be appearing at Cafe for Poems on 21st March from 4 to 5pm
Siphokazi Jonas will be appearing at Cafe for Poems on 21st March from 4 to 5pm Details on posters Si
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POETRY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
STAND FOUNDATION, IN ASSOCATION WITH THE CENTRE FOR CREATIVE ARTS AND THE FOUNDATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: POETRY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS The University of KwaZulu Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts (CCA) presents the 24th edition of the Time of the Writer International Festival hosted virtually on the festival’s social media channels from 15-21... Continue Reading →
Bez Roberts from Mafikizolo on his bicycle riding across South Africa from top to bottom
My name is Bez Roberts. I am professional musician. I have spent my whole life performing gigs all over the world. I am a member of the Afro Pop group MAFIKIZOLO, I have toured and recorded with most of South Africa's greatest musicians, Brenda Fassie, Bra Hugh , Bongo Maffin, Sipho “Hotstix” Mabuse, Johnny Clegg,... Continue Reading →