The 2010 FIFA World Cup to be held in South Africa presents enormous opportunities to the arts and culture sector of the country, SADC and the whole continent at large. It is interesting to note that there is already a Task Team responsible for arts and culture with regards to the event. The aim of this site is to provide information around arts and culture and 2010.
This is the most recent strategy adopted by the Department of Arts and Culture on 2010.
This is a strategy document for the city of Cape Town.
North West Department of Sports, Arts and Culture hosted a 2010 workshop in Rustenburg on 24 March 2009Earlier in March, the South African High Commissioner to Botswana, Mr Dikgang Moopelwa, hosted a workshop in Gaborone, Botswana together with 2010 FIFA LOC, North West Department of Sport, Arts and Culture 2010 Unit, Rustenburg as a host city and business people from Botswana. It is at this workshop that the North West provincial government made a commitment to host the Botswana 2010 task team to ensure that they get to know how the host city is preparing itself logistically and technically.It was decided that a follow-up workshop be held as follows:Date: Friday, 27 March 2009Venue: Rustenburg Civic CentreTime: 13h00This workshop would be followed up by a Gala Dinner at the Sun City Resort on the same day at 19h00.The main objectives of the workshop were to:• act as an information platform on opportunities presented by 2010 World Cup;• extend the opportunities presented by 2010 World Cup throughout the Limpopo and across the South African Development Community (SADC), in particular Botswana (mission focus);• serve as business to business and government to business match making opportunity (related services, products and offerings);• encourage the spread of 2010 World Cup benefits to other areas outside South Africa, particularly in Botswana and beyond the football / sports arena into the economic (business) and tourism arenas.The workshop was held under the theme “Towards 2010: Investing in Botswana.”On 28 March 2009, the North West provincial government hosted all 14 SADC high commissioners for the Mandela Peace Cup match to be held at the recently completed Royal Bafokeng Stadium in Rustenburg which will be officially handed over to the 2010 FIFA LOC for the 2009 Confederations Cup and the 2010 FIFA World Cup.For more information, contact:Cornelius Tanana MonamaCell: 082 578 4063.Tel: 018 387 3456E-mail: cmonama@nwpg.gov.za Link: http://forafrica.co.za/?p=2383
Celebrated since 2001 all over the world by the international community of theatre practitioners for children and young people. Events during the World Day may be special performances, open rehearsals, forums, lectures, exhibitions, articles in newspapers and magazines and are run by Assitej Chapters across the globe.
World Storytelling Day is a global celebration of the art of oral storytelling. It is celebrated every year on the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere, the first day of autumn equinox in the southern. On World Storytelling Day, as many people as possible tell and listen to stories in as many languages and at as many places as possible, during the same day and night.
Believed to have its origin in the 1930s, World Poetry Day is now celebrated in hundreds of countries around the world. This day provides a perfect opportunity to examine poets and their craft in the classroom. In 1999, UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) also designated March 21 as World Poetry Day.
Union International de la Marionnette declared 21 March 'World Puppetry Day'. It is the day designated to celebrate world puppetry and visual theatre.
First launched in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute, World Theatre Day is celebrated on 27 March throughout the world.
23 April is a symbolic date for world literature for on this date in 1616, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. It is also the date of birth or death of other prominent authors such as Maurice Druon, Haldor K.Laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and Manuel Mejía Vallejo.
It is observed annually on April 26. The event was established by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2001 to "raise awareness of the role of intellectual property in our daily lives, and to celebrate the contribution made by innovators and artists to the development of societies across the globe". April 26 was chosen as this was the date on which the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization entered into force in 1970.
ICOM created International Museum Day in 1977 to encourage awareness about the role of museums in the development of society.
Further to the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity by UNESCO on November 2001, the General Assembly, in Resolution 57/249, welcomed the Declaration and the main lines of an Action Plan for its implementation, and proclaimed 21 May the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development. The Day provides an opportunity to deepen people’s understanding of the values of cultural diversity and to learn to “live together” better.
It is the annual commemoration on May 25 of the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). On this day, leaders of 30 of the 32 independent African states signed a founding charter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Observed December 1 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. It is common to hold memorials to honor persons who have died from HIV/AIDS on this day. Government and health officials also observe the event, often with speeches or forums on the AIDS topics. Since 1995, the President of the United States has made an official proclamation on World AIDS Day. Governments of other nations have followed suit and issued similar announcements.
This day is celebrated on the 25th of October every year in honour of artists for their contributions to society.
