JOMBA! KHULUMA BLOGSITE

The Centre for Creative Arts has announced that JombaKhuluma.blogspot.com - the blogsite for JOMBA! KHULUMA - is up and running!

The JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience runs until September 12 and patrons can visit the JOMBA! KHULUMA blogspot for regular updates, reviews and beautiful photos by Val Adamson. Over the 12 days of the festival, veteran journalist Adrienne Sichel will mentor seven UKZN honours students in a process of learning how to decode, read and write about dance performance.

Twitter @Jomba_Dance will forward links of all blog posts! Watch out for the two JOMBA! Khuluma print editions!

AdrienneSichel is winner of the 2009 Alan Kirkland Soga Lifetime Achiever award presented by Mondi Shanduka Newsprint and the Newspaper Association of South Africa. She has a reputation for being a fearless defender of artistic and press freedoms in South Africa and has a lifetime reputation of fighting for coverage for dance and theatre in South Africa. Her decades of arts journalism inspires and provokes!

Sichel will also co- host and facilitate the selected JOMBA! TALKS DANCE forums in which dancer- choreographers will get to speak about their work - all in an attempt to raise the critical debate around dance in South Africa. Check the schedule for dates!

JOMBA! 2010 is made possible with support by the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (principle funder), the National Arts Council, the City of Durban, HIVOS, Pro-Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland, Karbardock, and other valued partners. More information on 031 260 2506 / 1367, fax 031 260 3074, or email: email:cca@ukzn.ac.za or visit www.cca.ukzn.ac.za/ blog: jombakhuluma.blogsport.com / twitter: www.twitter.com/jomba_dance