BASA Awards- Harnessing Creativity
Past Awards adjudication panelists share their keen understanding of the powerful role that the arts and creativity can play in reaching markets and stakeholders.
BASA Awards – The Real Reward in Recognition
Together with BASA podcast host Samm Marshall, our guests dissect both the implicit and explicit value of being judged by a jury of one’s peers – and where the advantages lie.
Dismantling Digital Inequalities: Part 2
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…
Dismantling Digital Inequalities: Part 1
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…
RISE: MORE THAN A SIDE HUSTLE
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…
Rebooting the arts sector
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…
Womxn Rising
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…
Less duplication and more collaboration
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.
CULTURAL SECTOR FUNDING AND BUSINESS MODELS
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…
Purpose-driven marketing
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…
CREATIVE FUTURES: Q&A with Dr Andrea Rurale
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…
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN A DIGITAL AGE
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.
The Creative Agenda
ASSEMBLY and ArtsTrack No. 9: BASA Chairman Charmaine Soobramoney and BASA Deputy Chairperson Mandie van der Spuy in conversation with Grace Meadows (British Council) and Madeleine Lambert (BASA). Anchored by insights from the launch of ArtsTrack no.9, this is a deep dive into the findings of the inaugural edition of BASA ASSEMBLY partnered by the…
A challenge to young African artists to ‘Act their Art’
In partnership with the South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA), Absa officially opened applications for the 2021 Absa L’Atelier art competition, inviting young artists from across the continent to enter. Since its inception 35 years ago, the Absa L’Atelier has showcased and continues to invest in some of the finest young artists…
Leading with impact
In this BASA Awards’ podcast, Samm Marshall speaks to BASA Board Chairman Charmaine Soobramoney and Hollard Group Sponsorship and Industry Relationships Manager Nikki Belford. They talk about their personal approaches to leadership, as well as how that applies to the South African landscape. Amplifying freedom of thought and skills application will invariably yield a complement…
The Indelible Art
In this episode of our BASA Awards’ podcasts, Samm Marshall speaks to Banele Khoza, the artist commissioned to create this year’s Awards’ trophies. As the star of a number of high-profile exhibitions, 2017 Gerard Sekoto Foundation award winner and winner of the SA Taxi Foundation Art Award, 2020 initially looked to be an equally successful…
BASA Artist Relief Efforts
As South Africa tentatively adjusts to its Level 1 national lockdown, BASA CEO Ashraf Johaardien notes their surprise at the rapidity at which it occurred, with Hollard CMO Heidi Brauer echoing this and applauding South Africans’ collective capacity for care and our gift for embracing change. This sets the tone of the latest episode of…
Awards in the time of pandemics
When BASA paused to reflect on its 2019 Awards, we as an organisation accepted that things needed to change. Unknown to us, and indeed the entire globe, within a few short months everything would change. This presents the question: is there room for improvement when we’ve essentially been evicted from all we once knew?