Applications are now open for the new BASA Cultural Producers Programme, an intensive leadership accelerator training programme, which will also place candidates into South African creative and arts organisations that have identified the need for building leadership skills. Supported by the British Council Cultural Economy programme, and partnered by Common Purpose South Africa, the successful cohort will…
Nhlakanipho Ndwandwe, winner of BASA’s Debut Online competition, tells us about his journey with the programme, which aims to equip young emerging creatives with skills, funding and training to make a profitable livelihood from their talents. This year is the second iteration of the Debut Programme, which was set up to contribute to the development…
Business and Arts South Africa NPC (BASA) has been awarded the tender to produce the 5th edition of the SOCreative Hubs Summit 2022 and an impactful new cultural producers leadership development programme, supported by the British Council Cultural Economy programme and partnered by Common Purpose South Africa. If your skills and experience match one of…
The Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) Supporting Grants Programme augments and amplifies powerful partnerships between business and arts partners to effect meaningful social change. “BASA grant making has a significantly different purpose compared to other more conventional arts funding models,” comments BASA CEO, Ashraf Johaardien. “The purpose of our Supporting Grants has never been…
The Debut Graduation on Friday 19 November marked the end of the second phase for the Programme’s participants. The support given to the participants has manifested through online immersive workshops, mentoring, networking opportunities, promotional events, as well as R15 000 start-up capital for each participant during the Kickstarter and Hlanganisa phases of the Debut Programme.…
Partnered by the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC), Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) has successfully taken 120 new and emerging creatives to market with the launch of DEBUT ONLINE https://debut.basa.co.za. The programme extends the support BASA is providing to each participant in this innovative, entrepreneurial programme by both amplifying their footprint and…
Partnered by the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (DSAC), Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) will be taking 120 new and emerging creatives to market on 15 November with the launch of the DEBUT ONLINE. The online showcase will profile the participants as well as provide a platform for audience to vote for them…
This episode of the 2021 Debut Programme’s Conversation Series takes place against the backdrop of Debut Online, an event that presents 180 participants taking their products to market and launching their websites to existing and new online market segments. We discuss what it means to work with participants from rural and peri-urban areas in the…
In this episode of the 2021 Debut Programme’s Conversation Series, we look at how the world has moved online at an accelerated pace – but has left communities in the creative sector battling to keep pace and access this new space. Boitumelo Mostsoatsoe discusses dismantling digital inequalities with Jane Mpholo (renowned Free State artist, co-director…
The arts economy holds promise for creative entrepreneurs to be their own boss and create further employment, but business skills are key to making the transition from idea to successful enterprise. Now in its second iteration, Business and Arts South Africa’s (BASA) Debut Programme transfers enterprise development skills to artists from all nine provinces through…
Zingisa Motloba has been appointed as the new Board Chairperson of Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) and Hilton Lawler is the new Deputy Chair. Ms Motloba succeeds Charmaine Soobramoney, who stepped down at the September 2021 BASA Annual General Meeting after serving as Chair for the past four years. Mr Lawler takes the Deputy…
Today marks 31 years since the first Pride March in South Africa. It was held in Johannesburg in 1990. Lockdown has scuppered the big Pride parades this year. Many of them have been virtual and the action has largely played out on social media, teetering dangerously close to slacktivism, merging into commercial and retail marketing…
Msimeki Nkatingi has been appointed as a non-executive director on the Board of Business and Arts South Africa NPC (BASA). Mr Nkatingi was elected at the BASA Annual General Meeting held on 30 September 2021. He is the founder and Managing Director of MIN Creative Co (Pty) Ltd, a branding and marketing agency. He graduated…
Business and Arts South Africa NPC (BASA), partnered by the Automobile Association of South Africa (AA), has commissioned independent non-profit record label Rootspring to compose and produce a song calling on every South African to RISE! Economic empowerment, financial inclusion and social cohesion are Business and Arts South Africa’s core objectives,” says BASA Chairman, Charmaine…
2020 was a true test of resilience, and only the strongest of partnerships measured up against the extreme challenges brought on by the arrival of COVID-19. In many ways, the global threat and subsequent lockdown was also the mother of invention. If ever there was a time to reinvent or create something new and fresh,…
In this episode, we look at the value of the arts and creativity to the economy, how small creative enterprises can contribute to economic growth, where collaboration and partnership can come into play and elevate all parties concerned, and look at what the arts sector needs right now. All these questions are answered in this…
uKhoiKhoi featuring Yogin Sullaphen and Anelisa Stuurman (aka Annalyzer), Manthe Ribane and Dear Ribane, Lebo Mashile, Masasa Mbangeni, Vuyani Dance Theatre, Johannesburg Youth Orchestra and the National School of the Arts are just some of the emerging and established artists and art organisations that have been showcased at the annual BASA Awards. “While the key focus…
The pandemic has forced the arts sector to think deeply about ‘what’s next?’ In this episode, host Samm Marshall is joined by Professor Pitika Ntuli, Dr Ismail Mohamed, actress and director Buhle Ngaba and BASA Head of Programmes Boitumelo ‘Tumy’ Motsoatsoe. Samm asks the panellists some hard-hitting questions about working in partnership to realise the…
BASA Call for Nominations Business and Arts South Africa NPC (BASA) has a vacancy on the Board of Directors. The purpose of this notice is to call for nominations for a new member to fill this position. The current Board comprises 12 Non-Executive Directors and one Executive Director, all of whom contribute to the overall…
Internationally acclaimed clay storytellers, Zizipho Poswa and Andile Dyalvane, have crafted the trophies that will be awarded to the winners of the 24th BASA Awards. Every year the BASA Awards commissions an artist, collective or studio to create distinctive and original works as trophies which are given to the winners. The Eastern Cape-born duo’s work is…
In this special Women’s Day edition of the BASA Podcast, we’re putting the spotlight on the BASA Awards and conversations surrounding this year’s theme, RISE. Womxn Rising brings together four fabulous women who have careers in the creative sector and business to talk about where women find themselves now and what is ahead as we…
In this sixth and final episode of the first season of the ASSEMBLY podcast series, outgoing BASA Chairman Charmaine Soobramoney facilitates a conversation with Marcus Desando of the Arts & Culture Trust and Flying House’s Tamara Guhrs about ecosystem building and collective value creation through strengths mapping and systematic collaboration.
One of the creative sector’s most anticipated awards events, the 24th Annual BASA Awards, partnered by Hollard, shines a spotlight on partnerships with the arts that have, through their projects, made a positive impact. “Art stimulates creativity. Businesses that understand the power of art to the mind, heart, and the bottom- line collaborate with creatives and…
The cultural sector requires agile and relevant business models to survive. BASA Deputy Chair Mandie van der Spuy is joined by author, poet, and media consultant Kojo Baffoe and 2020 Standard Bank Young Artist Jefferson Tshabalala (Kiri Pink Knob and Ubdope Shishini) to look at different ways of thinking about financial sustainability within the creative…
BASA Deputy Chair, Mandie van der Spuy, Impact Space’s Kathy Berman (Impact Space), and Lakin Morgan-Baatjies of UJ Arts + Culture explore how the roles of creatives and marketers aren’t always separate – both are part of the value chain, unique and different, but still connected in touching the hearts of consumers. This conversation looks…
In this episode of the ASSEMBLY podcast series, BASA CEO Ashraf Johaardien facilitates a Q&A with Dr Andrea Rurale from Milan, Italy on the social impact of the arts, the degree to which the creative sector and cultural institutions have (or have not) been agile, responsive or resilient, in terms of Covid-19 challenges, and the…
This Nelson Mandela International Day, the BASA community is joining the nation in celebrating the idea that each individual has the power to transform the world. Here is how some of our members are marking the 67 years Tata Madiba spent fighting for social justice: Nando’s has challenged each internal department to collect 67 blankets…
Charmaine Soobramoney (BASA Chair) is joined by Unathi Malunga (SASFED) and Elroy Bell (DALRO) to talk about Intellectual Property in a Digital Age. This conversation explores various IP issues ranging from what creatives’ rights are, how to protect these rights and stop exploitation, how to earn from your IP and more.
It has come to the attention of the Board of Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) that an article by Botho Molosankwe (an editor for the Star Newspaper), has been published and reports that BASA has been paid a sum of R9.9 million for assisting the Gauteng Department of Sports, Arts, Culture and Recreation (SACR)…
