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Arts Alive moves into a dynamic new era

City of Joburg Director: Arts, Culture and Heritage, Steven Sack says: ‘Our work addresses the needs of the poor and marginalised communities as well as providing a showcase for the best and most talented artists from Johannesburg, South Africa and a variety of countries around the world. We look forward to a vibrant, entertaining and successful Arts Alive in 2009.”

Arts Alive is set to incorporate many different arts disciplines in a scintillating mix, including theatre, dance (from classical to contemporary and street), visual arts, comedy, spoken word, poetry, and much more.
Longtime favourites, like Jazz on the Lake, are to remain with music continuing to be a big focus of the 2009 Arts Alive programme, details of which will be revealed in the coming month. A key aspect of Arts Alive 2009 is the multiple partnerships and collaborations that will deliver some stunning content during September.

Among these is the Indian ‘Shared Histories’ programme and a Best of the National Arts Festival run, as well as partnerships with the Royal Thai Embassy, the Austrian Embassy, Jamaican Embassy, the Soweto Festival and the National Arts Council. This will also feed into Arts Alive 2009’s outreach programme which will see workshops, shows, and collaborative events taking place in Johannesburg’s townships and those areas not regularly serviced by the arts and culture community.

Also adding significantly to the impact of Arts Alive is the 4th World Summit on Arts and Culture, which takes place in the city from 22nd to 25th September. This is the first Summit to take place on the African continent and will see arts and culture policy makers, funders and representatives of international, regional and national artist’s networks make up the 400 delegates from over 70 countries across the world.
 
The reinvigorated Arts Alive is looking for synergy with the objectives of the City of Joburg, chiefly job creation and skills transfer, the latter being effected by job shadowing across all areas of the Arts Alive production value chain.