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26/02/2025

📽🎬⚠️Opportunity Alert for filmmakers!⚠️🎬📽

The global call for film submissions for ABFF 2025 is open—but the deadline is fast approaching! February 28 2025! Don’t miss your chance to showcase your work on one of the biggest stages for Black and brown storytellers.

📅 Submit your film now and be part of a legacy that amplifies diverse voices and celebrates cinematic excellence.

For details, visit

01/11/2024

CALL OUT:

SAMRO is inviting applications for the 2024 Music Business Skills Programme, a flagship Corporate Social Investment (CSI) initiative in partnership with the Soul Candi Institute of Music.

The program equips SAMRO’s Full and Associate Members with essential skills to navigate the music industry, covering topics like copyright law, contract negotiation, brand management, and financial planning.

In its fifth year, the program has already helped 183 members thrive in the music sector. This year, 70 qualifying members will be selected for two cohorts starting 2 December 2024.

Applications open on 30 October 2024, and close on 15 November 2024.

For eligibility, applicants should have a minimum qualification of NQF level 4-6 or STD 8.

All completed application forms must be submitted to SAMRO by 15 November 2024 (a link with the application form has been shared with members).

For more info, contact [email protected].

24/09/2024

Happy Heritage Day

23/09/2024

The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) invites South African filmmakers with disabilities to submit proposals for the Not What Society Expects anthology.

This initiative aims to support and amplify the voices of filmmakers living with disabilities, offering funding of R250,000 for the production of short fiction or documentary films. If you’re ready to share your unique story, apply now by clicking the link below.

https://linktr.ee/nfvfsa

Closing date: 25th October 2024, 17h00.

For any queries please contact Katlego Moseamedi - [email protected] or Tsietsi Themane - [email protected]

22/03/2024

On October 9, Cape Town born jazz pianist-composer Abdullah Ibrahim, will be turning 90.

13/04/2023

Hazel Tobo and Norman Chauke talking about the Inaugural of Marabastad Jazz Festival 2023

Jazz aficionados Norman Chauke, Gabi Motuba, Azah Mphago and Ayanda Sikade are set to headline the inaugural Marabastad Jazz Festival. The showcase is set to...

13/04/2023

https://www.snl24.com/dailysun/celebs/festival-to-honour-marabastad-20230303

This is a first kind of musical that pays homage to all the artists who come from Marabastad.

13/04/2023

https://www.iol.co.za/entertainment/whats-on/pretoria/gabi-motuba-among-the-artists-on-the-bill-for-the-inaugural-marabastad-jazz-fest-025d83d7-4f76-4a10-b47f-2044f6a756ad

To mark the prestigious occasion, Motuba will debut music from her forthcoming album, ‘The Sabbath’.

13/04/2023

Gauteng Tourism Authority
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Marabastad Jazz Festival - Gauteng

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13/04/2023

CULTURE Review Magazine
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Marabi a ko Marabastad – The Marabastad Jazz Festival

Lidudumalingani Culture Sacrificing The Self for The Whole This is how black tax begins … It doesn’t start when you are much older and have a job, with endless siblings to support and ageing parents who have no pension whom you must look after. No, it already begins to eat at you at the mall whe...

13/04/2023

https://www.news24.com/citypress/trending/marabastad-comes-alive-with-brand-new-jazz-festival-20230304

In order to have a better and informed understanding of the present and how we got here, we have to look at the footprints of history from time to time.

13/04/2023

How to register to become a Member?

Only composers, authors, and publishers can register with SAMRO.

To register your works, you would have to do the following.

Visit our website at www. samro.org.za click on the MUSIC CREATOR LINK and not MUSIC USER, fill in the online application forms and attach your Identity Document (Note: If you have a smart ID (card), you will need to upload both sides of your ID).

For Publishers company registration documents, ID copies of all directors, and agreements between the publisher and the composer are required.

Once your application has been received and processed, SAMRO will send you an email of confirmation that you are now a Prospect Member (Applicant).

As and when you create new music, you can notify SAMRO of your new works. This means that you update SAMRO of your new musical works.

In addition, eligibility to be elected as a SAMRO Associate Member depends on whether your musical works have been broadcast or played in public, for example on licensed radio stations, licensed TV stations, and licensed live venues such as restaurants, clubs, and shopping malls.

For more information, visit www.samro.org.za

13/04/2023

Ayanda Sikade headlining the inaugural of Marabastad Jazz Festival 2023 held at the South African State Theatre,