During Saturday’s Role on Hellenic Radio, host Renos Nicos Spanoudes chats to Interim CEO of Arts & Culture Trust, Jessica Denyschen. The Arts & Culture Trust has been actively serving the arts and culture sector in all 9 provinces of South Africa for 28 years. The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) Awards are held annually in recognition and celebration of excellence in South African arts, culture and creativity.

Since 1998, the ACT Awards celebrated many individuals and organisations that have made a significant contribution to cultural life in South Africa. A salient element of the ACT Awards is the presentation of five Lifetime Achievement awards for Theatre, Music, Visual Art, Dance and Arts Advocacy.

A night of celebration with 15 young artists competing for the top prize, a fully paid undergraduate degree at an institution of their choice in SA!

The finals showcase features 11 Performing Artists and 4 Visual Artists.

https://savacancies.co.za/arts-culture-trust-act-awards/

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During Saturday’s Role on Hellenic Radio, host Renos Nicos Spanoudes chats to Dramatic Arts Teacher and Director of the National School of the Arts, Laine Butler.

From October 13 – 16, Arthur Miller’s allegorical Tony Award-winning play, The Crucible, will be staged in the People’s Theatre at Joburg Theatre. Directed by Laine Butler and Johan Anker and featuring top talent from the NSA, The Crucible will appeal to theatre lovers and learners currently studying the text as a setwork. “The People’s Theatre provides an intimate playing space perfect for a work of this nature,” says Laine Butler.

The Arthur Miller trust gave the National School of the Arts permission to set The Crucible in SALEM in the Eastern Cape. The name, SALEM, means peaceful and complete; a bitter irony for the infamous SALEM in Massachusetts, whose name will forever be synonymous with the tragic witch-hunts which took place there over 300 years ago, in which 19 innocent people were hanged for being witches.

The Crucible is presented by the NSA Drama Department and directed by Johan Anker and Laine Butler, whose previous NSA productions include the Afro-Punk Macbeth (2017/2018), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2019) and Hip-Hop Hamlet (2020).

Performance Times:

Featuring:

Bookings through Joburg Theatre Webtickets

Prices:

https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/Event.aspx?itemid=1518399097

https://www.newslink.co.za/2022/10/10/national-school-of-the-arts-to-stage-the-crucible/

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During Saturday’s Role with Renos Nicos Spanoudes, our representative in Greece, Katerina Simboni Paraskeva pays tribute by taking a trip down memory lane to explore the films made about the destruction of SMYRNA as we pay our respects and remember this tragic part of our history.

Katerina also updates us with all the latest news. Listen to the podcast to find out more!

During Saturday’s Role on Hellenic Radio, host Renos Nicos Spanoudes chats to South African singing sensation Fagrie Isaacs, who will perform a tribute show for the late Luther Vandross titled ‘Here and Now’ at Hillsong Church in Century City, Cape Town, on 12 November. Isaacs will be joined by other artists, including Salome, Andrea Fortuin and former Idols winner Jody Williams, as well as comedian Carl Weber who will be the MC for the event. The show is courtesy of SME and Fi6 Music.

Isaacs said he’ll perform a selection of the late R&B star’s popular ballads and his personal favourite hits including ‘Impossible Dream’, ‘Here and Now’, ‘Power of Love’, and many more. The gig will feature a full stage production with a live band, backing vocals, and all the bells and whistles, the singer said. Isaacs boasts nearly 35 years of experience entertaining audiences across the world with his stage presence and soulful voice. He has performed a number of cover songs before including 'Always and Forever' and 'Evergreen' by Luther Vandross'.

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https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/sa-fagrie-isaacs-present-luther-vandross-tribute-show

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Tickets can be purchased by contacting Naz Jacobs at 076 866 9767.

During Saturday’s Role on Hellenic Radio, host, Renos Nicos Spanoudeschats to Nomalanga Sitole, a rare combination of entrepreneur, MC, inspirational speaker, facilitator, voice-over-artist, author, and TV presenter with over 20 years of experience. Often people speak about finding their inner voice as a means of directing their personal journeys and getting their vision or key messages across. This is certainly the case for Nomalanga Sitole, the South African entrepreneur behind The Voice Within, an event management company creating memorable eventing experiences for clients and attendees alike.

The Voice Within is the business vehicle Nomalanga uses to harness her 20 year experience in the field of Public Speaking (MC / Facilitator/ TV Presenter), and also her 8 years of specialist marketing, events coordination and management and promotions experience whilst still working in the corporate world.

Today her company offers both her own personal skills to clients, together with a portfolio of Corporate and Private Eventing services which include Event planning and Co-ordinating; Venue sourcing; Catering; Décor; Event Sound, Equipment, Audio Visual and Lighting; Facilitator Services; and Marketing.

Inspiring people to look within themselves and encouraging them to do what they are passionate and purposeful about is what gives Sitole the most satisfaction. She believes that whatever one does it’s important to seek to empower the current and the next generation, and she does this consistently through her work and interactions.

EMAIL [email protected]

https://www.lionessesofafrica.com/blog/2017/2/5/startup-story-of-nomalanga-sitole

http://thevoicewithin.co.za/

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/nomalanga-sitole-503650104/

https://www.instagram.com/nomalangaspeaks/

During Saturday’s Role with Renos Nicos Spanoudes on Hellenic Radio, our representative in Greece, Katerina Simboni Paraskeva pays tribute to Irene Papas born Irene Lelekou on 3 September 1926. Irene Papas is a Greek actress and singer who has starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years. She gained international recognition through such popular award-winning films as The Guns of Navarone (1961) and Zorba the Greek (1964). She was a powerful protagonist in films including The Trojan Women (1971) and Iphigenia (1977). She played the title roles in Antigone (1961) and Electra (1962). Papas won Best Actress awards at the Berlin International Film Festival for Antigone and from the National Board of Review for The Trojan Women. Her career awards include the Golden Arrow Award in 1993 at Hamptons International Film Festival, and the Golden Lion Award in 2009 at the Venice Biennale.

Following the tribute, Katerina also updates us on the latest Entertainment and other news in Greece.

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During Saturday’s Role on Hellenic Radio, host, Renos Nicos Spanoudes chats to Joburg Ballet’s artistic director Iain MacDonald about Joburg Ballet welcoming spring with the scintillating classical Cinderella, for just eight performances from Friday 30 September to Sunday 9 October.

Choreographed by Joburg Ballet’s artistic director Iain MacDonald and given its world premiere in 2013, Cinderella waltzes across the stage with Johann Strauss’s immortal melodies providing the perfect musical setting for this ultimate rags-to-riches tale. Designer Andrew Botha’s breathtaking designs frame the action while Joburg Ballet’s stars will set the stage alight with dancing in the grandly classical tradition.

The casting for the roles of Cinderella and the Prince are as follows. Casting is subject to change.

Friday 30 September at 18h30:  Nicole Ferreira-Dill and Armando Barros

Commenting on the return of Cinderella, Iain MacDonald said: “Cinderella has always been one of the company’s most popular ballets, both in our original version well as our current production which was last staged at the Joburg Theatre in 2016 and at the Teatro at Montecasino in 2018

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During Saturday’s Role on Hellenic Radio, host, Renos Nicos Spanoudes chats to Mbongeni Buthelezi about his art – AFRIMAXX – Modern African Lifestyle. Mbongeni Buthelezi is a South Africa artist who is known for painting in plastic. He has exhibited all around the world, including Germany, The U.S.A, and Egypt and is growing in popularity. While other artists might use watercolors or oil paints, Mbongeni Buthelezi uses waste plastics to create highly textured portraits at his studio in Booysens, Johannesburg. His medium is the plastic litter he collects from local rubbish dumps and city streets. "Animals are dying, fish in the ocean are dying -- because of this material and because of us as human beings," Buthelezi said. "It is us that need to take responsibility." An artist and activist, Buthelezi, 56, first found his talent for the creative as a boy in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He sculpted clay figurines of the livestock around his village: cows, horses and goats. "I grew up with my father's animals, the cattle were an important part of my life," said Buthelezi. But not everything in this rural setting was natural.

He explained that plastic litter was so common in grazing areas that it became an unwelcome part of the cows' regular diet. "We would see these cows die because they had eaten plastics," Buthelezi said. Five decades on, South Africa still has a serious plastic pollution problem. In 2018, 107,000 metric tons of plastic waste from South Africa ended up in the marine environment. A 2015 study found that the country was one of the world's top 20 contributors to marine plastic pollution. With plastic waste growing around the world, Buthelezi is using his work to both highlight and combat the issue.

https://pavillon54.com/artists/60-mbongeni-buthelezi/biography/

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/mbongeni-buthelezi-plastic-artist-south-africa-spc-intl/index.html

https://www.dw.com/en/mbongeni-bhutelezi-paints-with-plastic-instead-of-paint/av-62989494

https://www.instagram.com/buthelezimbongeni/?hl=en

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14 August marks the tragic day on which Turkey launched ‘Atilla two’ – its second invasion of the Republic of Cyprus in 1974. Turkey had already captured part of Cyprus in its initial invasion on 20 July 1974. It used the pretext that it was “restoring constitutional order” following a short-lived coup to overthrow President Makarios by the US-backed junta which was then ruling Greece.  Despite the Athens junta and coup collapsing, and negotiations at Geneva, Turkey launched a second invasion to conquer more Cypriot territory. On 14 August, the Turkish military recommenced its ethnic cleansing of non-Turks in the northern areas of Cyprus through bombing, mass executions (of civilians and combatants) as well as torture and rapes. 200,000 Greek Cypriots were forced out of their ancestral lands.

In the Studio at Hellenic Radio on Friday, 26thAugust 2022, radio host Stelios Leoni chats to The High Commissioner of Cyprus in South Africa, His Excellency, Mr Andreas Mandritis. Listen to the podcast!

Στο Στούντιο της Νέας Πανελλήνιας Φωνής την Παρασκευή, 26 Αυγούστου 2022, ο Στέλιος Λεωνή συνομιλεί με τον Ύπατο Αρμοστή της Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας στη Νότια Αφρική, κ. Ανδρέα Μαδρίτη για την δεύτερη Εισβολή της Κύπρου από την Τουρκία. Ακούστε το podcast!

The Trolley Dollies are back in The Triplets of Bellville at the Pieter Toerien Montecasino Main Theatre from the 24th of August to the 11th of September 2022. After dropping off the face of the earth since late 2021, Cathy, Holly and Molly can barely stand to be in the same room anymore. These three sisters from different misters, like any other siblings, have many skeletons in their collective closet and their day of reckoning has arrived in this brand new production, The Triplets of Bellville which carries an age restriction of 16.

Bookings through Computicket and the theatre box office!

Venue:  Pieter Toerien Montecasino Main Theatre, Montecasino, Fourways, JHB.

Website:  pietertoerien.co.za

Tel:   021 438 3301

During Saturday’s Role on @Hellenic Radio, radio host, Renos Nicos Spanoudes chats to Brendan van Rhyn (aka Cathy Specific). Listen to the podcast to find out more!