Deadline: Applications close: October 28 2020
The Arts and Culture Trust (ACT) launches a pioneering new national project.
The Arts and Culture Trust is excited to announce the open call for phase two of the ACT Tlholo Project 'Uncovering Solutions 2020', an innovative and imaginative solution-based platform for addressing some of the challenges faced by South African arts practitioners.
Definition: Tlholo /tlhÅlo/ {Noun} a Sesotho word that means Victory. 1. an act of defeating an enemy or opponent in a battle, game or other competition.
The ACT is looking for dynamic community-minded artists who wish to participate in a groundbreaking pilot project searching for innovative business solutions in their communities. The ACT Tlholo Project 'Uncovering Solutions 2020' aims to empower these dynamic artists to lead conversations with fellow artists about local solutions.
The project, sponsored by Nedbank, recognises the innate ability of creative minds to find innovative solutions to tough times and problems and to overcome the obstacles at hand with ingenuity and wit. It is a platform that seeks out, highlights and encourages the sharing of grassroots, practical solutions to current challenges faced by arts and culture practitioners particularly in rural, remote and under-resourced areas of South Africa.
Tobie Badenhorst, Head of Group Sponsorships and Cause Marketing at Nedbank, says: 'Under extreme Covid-19 conditions, our artists and arts and culture professionals and communities had to completely reassess how to survive and sustain. They have needed to adapt rapidly and redefine and reinvent how they create and produce to keep themselves and the arts alive. Through the ACT Tlholo Project we want to share collective learnings and approaches that can help our artists going forward, and breathe new life into our arts, culture and heritage industry in every part of our country.'
The ACT Tlholo Project 'Uncovering Solutions 2020' will evolve over four phases, gathering expertise from industry leaders as well as the lived experiences from arts practitioners to design tailored solutions for context-specific issues. Asset-based Community Development (ABCD), the arts value chain and constructive and creative business models will be interrogated and shared in a useful resource kit that will be available on the ACT website and YouTube channel.
The ACT Tlholo Project 'Uncovering Solutions 2020' seeks the following:
-Solution-driven arts and culture
professionals.
-Arts and culture professionals who have
been working in their fields for a minimum of three years and who earn at least
part of their income from their art.
-Community arts and culture leaders.
The participants must:
-be available for online training November 16
– 21 2020;
-be willing to participate in online
discussions;
-have access to resources to record and
submit data (such as a laptop or computer and cellphone);
-be residing and working in South Africa;
and
-be over the age of 18.
*Selected participants will receive training in facilitation and be supplied with a data and travel stipend.
Applications open: October 14, 2020
Applications close: October 28, 2020
How to apply
Complete the online application form on the
ACT’s website: https://act.org.za/act-tlholo/
The ACT Tlholo Project 'Uncovering Solutions 2020' aims to do the following:
-Facilitate conversations and sharing of
ideas and solutions.
-Encourage experimentation (presentation of
new practices) and feedback (relevance and applicability to context).
-Leverage the network of arts and culture
practitioners around the country to share solutions and develop solution-based
thinking.
-Provide means of accessing the tools,
stories and best-practice resources generated through the ACT Tlholo Project
for arts practitioners working in remote, rural and under-resourced areas in
South Africa.
-Inspire more resilient and self-reliant
arts practitioners with creative and sustainable solutions.
The four phases of the 'Uncovering Solutions 2020' will involve the following:
-Profiling artists and organisations who
have developed solutions and best practice.
-Creating capacity for the sharing of
expert knowledge and business models with and for artists.
-Creating and making available on the ACT
website podcasts based on the conversations.
-Creating and making available resources,
including videos and guides, to accompany the podcasts.
The ACT Tlholo Project 'Uncovering Solutions 2020' is leveraging strategic partnerships with community radio stations in all nine provinces to promote and host vital conversations about solutions for the African context. In addition, the project will enlist highly skilled facilitators from the Sibikwa Community Arts Centre to drive through concepts and learnings in a way that speaks to our stakeholders.
To link direct to the Arts & Culture Trust’s site, click on the ACT logo to the right of this article or visit http://www.act.org.za
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