The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) is delighted to announce the successful outcomes for the Development Grant Bursary Open Call.
In November 2020, ACT invited students accepted for masters or doctoral programmes in the 2021 academic year to apply for one of 10 ACT bursaries valued at R30,000 each. The bursaries were made available for study in any arts discipline.
The ACT Bursary Programme forms part of the ACT Development Programme, which is a long-standing arts development initiative sponsored by Nedbank and administered by ACT. Nedbank contributes to the South African arts and culture sector through its Arts Affinity. As the flagship programme of the partnership between ACT and Nedbank, the ACT Development Programme has supported more than 850 organisations and projects nationwide over the past 24 years, a contribution valued at more than R25 million in total.
A large number of excellent applications were received from across the country and the adjudication panel considered many viable and valuable research interests.
Marcus Desando, ACT CEO, says, “If there is one thing the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us, it is the value of knowledge creation and preservation within the arts and culture sector. This has been exactly the calibre of applications we received; a group of very exciting and encouraging research initiatives that will be highly beneficial to our sector.
“We congratulate the following 10 successful applicants”:
Nadia van der Walt (PhD in History of Art)
Temara Prem (PhD in Film and Television)
Mohau Mogale (Master of Arts in Music)
Gcotyelwa Mashiqa (Master of History in
Advanced Issues in Museum and Heritage Studies and Visual History)
Camilla Pontiggia (Master of Arts in Fine
Arts)
Nicole Clare Fraser (Master of Arts in Fine
Arts)
Keitumetse Mbatha (Master of Arts in
Cultural Policy and Management)
Ntombifuthi Nkuna (Master of Arts in
Cultural Policy and Management)
Simangaliso Siyathemba Thango (Master of
Arts in Cultural Policy and Management)
Thuto Nnena-Noko (Master of Arts in
Cultural Policy and Management)
Tobie Badenhorst, Head of Group Sponsorships and Cause Marketing at Nedbank, says, “The cultural and creative industries are essential for the development of our society, our people and our economy. We need to recognise and embrace that people studying and working in the arts and culture sector as they are the flagbearers of a more humane, more conscious, more self-inquiring nation. To achieve this we need postgraduates to research new ways of seeing and being in this changed world. We are incredibly excited about this year’s choice of candidates and we look forward to witnessing what they produce and who they become.
We wish the successful ACT Bursary Programme applicants all the best for their studies in 2021.”
For more information email info@act.org.za
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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