BASA Podcast

In today's podcast episode, TV personality and Metro FM radio host, Rorisang Thandekiso is joined by BASA current Chair Zinggisa Motlaba, former Chair, Charmaine Soobramoney, and former Deputy Chair Mandie van der Spuy as they delve into BASA’s legacy, its bold programme marking this year as a milestone -- and to peek into what the future potentially holds for the organisation, its stakeholders, and the creative sector as a whole.

BASA Deputy Chair, Mandie van der Spuy is joined by Kojo Baffoe (author, poet, and media consultant) and Jefferson Tshabalala (Kiri Pink Knob and Ubdope Shishini), to look at different ways of thinking about financial sustainability within the Creative and Cultural Industries.

BASA Deputy Chair, Mandie van der Spuy, Kathy Berman (Impact Space), and Lakin Morgan-Baatjies (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 looked at the ways in which these two seemingly disparate groups can find synergy.

The Debut Online Podcast Part 2 takes place against the backdrop of Debut Online, an event that will present 180 Debut Programme participants taking their products to market and debuting their websites to existing and new market segments online. Following on from our first podcast, we continue the discourse of what it means to work with participants from rural and peri-urban in the Debut Programme, specifically how this engagement has highlighted the digital inequalities that exist in the sector.

BASA Head of Programmes Tumy Motsoatsoe is once again joined by Jane Mpholo (renowned Free State artist, Co-director at Vukallective and former Debut Programme Provincial Liaison/Ambassador); Rucera Seethal (Creative Director for the National Arts Festival), and Msimeki Nkatingi (newly appointed BASA Board Member and founder of Min Creative Co.)

Due to the pandemic, the world is moving online at an accelerated pace but in its haste there are some communities in the creative sector that are battling to access the space and keep up the pace. Boitumelo “Tumy” Mostsoatsoe discusses dismantling digital inequalities with Jane Mpholo, Free State Renowned Artist, Co-director at Vukallective & Former Debut Programme Provincial Liaison/Ambassador; Rucera Seethal the Creative Director for the National Arts Festival; Msimeki Nkatingi, newly appointed BASA Board Member and founder of Min Creative Co.; and Mimi Mashinini, law graduate and Strategic Partnerships Manager at Digify Africa.

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 latest episode under the theme RISE: More than a Side-Hustle, the vital role of arts businesses. To help unpack the theme, Samm Marshall is joined by CEO of the Craft and Design Institute group Erica Elk, 24th Annual BASA Awards trophy commissioned Duo, Andile Dyalvane and partner Zizpho Poswa from Imiso Ceramics based in Cape Town.

The pandemic has forced the arts sector to think deeply about ‘what’s next’. How will the arts reboot and RISE again? How can we work in partnership to truly value and recognise the huge potential of the creative economy. In the latest BASA Awards podcast episode, Host Samm Marshall sits down with sculptor, poet, writer, and academic Professor Pitika Ntuli, cultural administrator Dr Ismail Mahomed, actress and director Buhle Ngaba and BASA Head of Programmes, Boitumelo 'Tumy' Motsoatsoe to unpack the theme Rise: Rebooting the Arts sector.

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 them 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 take stock of the impact of the pandemic. How will we RISE? We asked children and women’s rights activist, television producer and businesswoman Carol Bouwer, Hollard’s Chief Marketing Officer Heidi Brauer, BASA Awards Chairperson, Khanyi Mamba and award-winning musician Thandi Ntuli.

This episode of the ASSEMBLY podcast series sees BASA CEO Ashraf Johaardien facilitating 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 future of the creative economy at this point in time.

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 (which could link to e-commerce, apps, etc. as well) - particularly from a digital perspective in light of 4IR and COVID's pivot to digital platforms. BASA Chairman Charmaine Soobramoney is joined by Unathi Malunga from the South African Screen Federation (SASFED) and Elroy Bell from the Dramatic, Artistic and Literary Rights Organisation (DALRO).