Musina 1st Annual Arts Festival 2012

Musina Arts Festival 2012 press release

The 1st annual Musina Arts Festival will be held on the 15th of December 2012 at the newly revamped Musina community hall, the festival will incorporate live performances, Poetry, Theatre, Dance, Craft, Film, Fashion show & eating competition.
The festival is produced by Mus’town Theatre and Whizz Khodesa Production in partnership with Musina Local Municipality and Musina FM. The festival will start from 10am till late and entrance fee is R15.

Musina Arts Festival aims to amongst others,

• To celebrate and showcase all art forms, cultures and heritage of all groups within the multi cultural society of Musina thus promoting nation building
• The promotion of unity in diversity through arts & culture
• Contribution of the arts to economic growth and cultural tourism
• Employment opportunities for the youths of Musina in the arts

The festival will localize the national mission of the government.
• Developing and promoting arts and culture in Musina and mainstreaming their role in social development
• Developing and promoting the official languages of Musina and preserve the linguistic diversity of Musina
• To improve economic and other development opportunities for arts and culture locally and nationally through mutually beneficial partnership and ensuring sustainability
• To help Musina municipality to develop and monitor the implementation of policy, in the conservation and promotion of cultural heritage
• The Musina Arts Festival to be used as a guide to sustain and develop the archival, heraldic and information resources of the municipality and empower the citizens through full and open access of the municipality resources

For more info please contact
Whizz Khodesa on 072 992 3126
Pilot Biller on 071 112 8867

Musina FM Vacancies

MUSINA COMMUNITY RADIO VACANCY OPENING

Have you been thinking about joining Musina fm, experiencing Media Art and not knowing how…now here is your opportunity…

Musina Community Radio has open vacancies on the following positions Station Manager, Sales, Technical, Programmes Managers, Administrator and a Music librarian…

If you think you have what is takes, email your application letter with position you are applying for, CV, certified copies of qualifications at mataks@telkomsa.netor hand deliver to Musina Legal Advice Office, at Extension 2 Nancefield, Rollet Kwinda Street, Musina, Monday to Friday from 9am to 4pm. Closing date is the 9^th of November 2012 at 12 O’clock mid day.

Good Luck!

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Suppoted by: Made In Musina Arts Network

MIM working together with Musina FM

Musina FM is a community Radio Station based in Musina around Limpopo province. The station was established since 2009 and it has the listener-ship of + – 98 000 people even tho sometimes it can reach Zimbabwe, Venda and Seshego. Musina FM is one of the most useful platform to Musina Artists at large.

Most of Ground Artists in Musina uses Musina FM as a platform to Expose and Market their god given Talents; Actors, Actresses, Dancers, Singers, Musician, Writers and Media Artists.

All the Arts events which are been produced by any Arts structure in Musina or Artists in Musina It becomes Musina Fm mass publicity through its own Air time, All this has made Made in Musina to recognize the importance and the availability of the Radio station which is more concerned and helpful to the Arts industry in the community.

Made in Musina, Musina FM and  Mus’town Theatre joined hands to build and sustain Musina’s Arts and Culture Community, Mus’town theatre helps in keeping Musina Artists busy practicing and performing their arts to the public and at the same time reducing hire risk of drug and alcohol abuse to Musina Artists.

Musina FM and Made in Musina Arts Network are working together on exposing and marketing Musina Artists through Made In Musina Arts Festival which is Annually and all event which Musina Host.

Handing of Instruments to Mustown Theatre

Mus’town theatre productions is an arts performing group from the townships of Musina, a multi-ethnic town which connects South Africa to Zimbabwe from the far north corner of the country.  

Mus’town Theatre is made up of young and vibrant members of whom most of them are still school going. The group was established in year 2010 by Pilot Biller and Sello Maladzhi. Since then, The group with 40 members has grown from strength to strength and have performed in weddings, private functions within and outside Musina and are currently preparing for provincial theatre competitions in Polokwane on the 31^st March.

In 2011, Mus’town attended auditions which were held at the local community hall by Resource Africa. About 10 performing groups were present at the auditions and many spectators to cheer up their favorite groups. Mus’town Theatre made it to the tops and landed themselves professional theatre training workshop and a donation of props in  March 28 2012.  

ResourceAfrica (RA) a member of IUCN is a not-for-profit organisation that has a long standing relationship with various government and private institutions across the country over the years. The organization for over a decade now has lobbied for funding, developed, designed and facilitated the implementation of programmes and projects funded by FFI, The World Bank, WWF, IUCN and currently the People and Parks Programme funded by The National Lotteries Distribution Trust Fund just to mention but a few. 

RA works with various partners to encourage and deliver new models of sustainable development on community mobilization and participation. Uppermost are the values of transparency, equity and respect for local people, their needs and customs. All the above resonate with Resource Africa’s vision: ‘A sustained improvement in the quality of life of marginalised communities in Africa’

The ResourceAfrica Support to People and Parks Programme (RASPAP), a three year National Lotteries funded programme is fundamentally aimed at providing a holistic approach to nature conservation and poverty alleviation through the sustainable use of natural resources and the improvement of the livelihoods of the rural poor living around South Africa’s Parks and Nature Reserves. 

Since commencement of the programme in 2010 RASPAP has made significant progress in all its different focus areas. Of the 30 targeted Protected Areas (PAs)across the country, 14 have been visited and include the following; Loskop Dam Nature Reserve, Madikwe Game Reserve, Pilanesburg Nature Reserve, Highveld Nature Reserve, Addo Elephant Park, Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Nature Reserve, Tembe Elephant Park, Maria Moroka Nature Reserve, Golden Gate Nature Reserve, Ndumo Nature reserve, Driftsands, Nwanedi Nature Reserve and Mapungubwe National Park.

In the process, we have achieved the following:

Created an income for 14 young Theatre Outreach Program members from different provinces; Auditioned 680 unemployed youth; 173 of those youth were trained on theatre performance, principles of people and parks and Mus’town Theatre is one of the groups that has benefited in this project.

All thank to Made in Musina Arts Network for calling Artists in the audition.

Made in Musina 2nd Arts Festival(career Expo)

Made in Musina 2^nd Arts Festival is one of the most Educational Events that was ever created in Musina. The festival was driven by the Theme “Together we can do more to Build Infrastructure, fight Youth Unemployment and Inequality” and the sub Theme “Youth Uniting For Economic Freedom”.

The main Activity was Career Expo and creating platform for Musina Artists to express and show case and exhibit the importance of the historic day through the Music, Dance, Poetry, Visual Art and Theatre.

The Festival was held in Musina on the 16^th of June 2012. Most of the government departments and Musina NGO’s took part in the career Expo and Mapungubwe Sun Park as one of the National heritage side they where exhibiting different field of working in a National parks or working on environment.

Musina Field Band and Mus’town Theatre has became the Main Performers for two years in the 1^st and 2^nd Arts festival by Developing street Dance and street band that was used to Mobilize the Festival.

Made in Musina Arts Festival is an annual Festival which has two years and it is set to be alive in future, Made in Musina Arts Festival is a platform of showcasing Local talents and at the same time it sends different massages in the community.

Aim

As Made in Musina Arts network and Save the children UK we have discovered that most of the Youth in school and out of school they get it hard to choose a career, therefore we came up with the idea of having career expo as platform that will allow youth to be informed on how to choose a career.

Objectives

• To exhibit different careers
• To inform and anchorage youth in education
• To showcase Musina’s Talents
• Developing collaboration between Stakeholders

Mission

Building the relationship with local stakeholders, uniting Youth and spread the voice of education

Vision

Having well informed Youth in terms of how to choose a career

Supports

• Save the Children UK

 

Hoer School Arts & Culture Night

Musina Hoer School presented arts & culture day which was supported by the MADE IN MUSINA and some of the STAKE HOLDERS OF MUSINA.
 The event was held at Hoer school conference hall. It was a great night which was inspired by the young talented youth in MUSINA. 

 Drama, poem and music were purpose of the night. 
MADE IN MUSINA’S ONE REASON WAS A DREAM COME TRUE. We wanted to develop the friendship & the networking with artist who live in township…and we now have access with whites and blacks who live in town…
MADE IN MUSINA CAN SAY THAT WE ARE NETWORKING WITH ALL THE ARTIST OF MUSINA.

This event created a link between township artists and location artists and this was one of Made In Musina objective. Now there is a relationship between all artists of Musina and most of the artists are in collaborations which is the good thing for made in Musina.

Through the event Made in Musina made it through to have access to give arts info to children that are attending in township high school.

Fun Day

SAVE THE CHILDREN, MADE IN MUSINA AND KGANG-KGOLO are joininghands to have a talent and fun day to one of the shelters around Musina.

THIS FUN AND TALENT DAY WILL BRING UNITY AMONG THE KIDS AND THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO WILL  WITNESS THE TALENTS OF OUR YOUNG BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. DRAMA, POETRY, AND PARADE ARE THE MAIN ACTIVITYS OF THE DAY.

VENUE: MATSWALE PHASE 6 (MUSINA, LIMPOPO, SOUTH AFRICA)

DATE: 09 APRIL 2011

TIME: FROM 9AM TILL 3PM

Lerado – A love story in Musina

Lerado is a project that was initiated by MIGEU YA KASI, a film, modeling and acting agency. The main objective to shoot a movie in the town of Musina was to create activity that Musina artists/youth will be busy working on it, as most of the youth around the world are in to alcohol abuse and drug abuse some are in to committing crime.

This project kept the artists and youth of Musina buys for four (4) month and which real contributed in limit of crime and drug use to some of the kids.

Lerado managed to cover up to 78 children in the town, all this people where part and parcel of the shooting of the movie. The movie was directed by master J JOJO NCUBE. The move was to educational as education was involved and practiced in the movie and it also show the culture and how people live in the town of Musina. It also shows the different between city children and township children.

16 June 1976 Comemoration

Made in Musina with local municipality plan to join hands to bring the arts festival themed on the historic events of 16 June 1976. The event will be all about the youth whom will be thinking and bring back the past. At the same time it will be the opportunity for Made in Musina to be recognised by the municipality and the community. 

 Mus’town Theatre, Taffies Dance Crew, Fresh Musina as welll as dance, hip-hop, brass band and other Musina artists will be entertaining during the event. The event will be held at Musina (Nancefield) South Africa, Limpopo. 
Date 04 June 2011
 Time: from 10am till late.

This event is planned to be historic, Musina artists made it through to showcase drama, music, dance and poetry which was so good and educational to the current generation whom they never knew the history of Hector Peterson. Arts also made in a point that history is heritage and such events