I’ve got an imagination, talent, two hands and some tools I’m sure I can put some stuff together and sell them to a few people who happen to love them and boom I am a business owner. I honestly thought it was as simple a process as that, what a hard slap I had to…
CREATIVE COLLAB SESSIONS
To support young creatives and ensure that our programs are always on, we have Created the Creative Collab programme to serve as a home for the growing creative community. Ensuring information sharing; events; workshops and master classes are part of the new normal. THE CREATIVE COLLAB SESSIONS are part of this support initiatives and is…
Basha Uhuru Creative Uprising 2020 is Here !!
Hey you! Yes you! Get your ticket to the BASHA UHURU CREATIVE UPRISING: POETRY Master Class with Lesego Rampolokeng. Word N Sound Poetry Live Literature Movement is a project of the African Youth Literature Institute, a creative & academic social enterprise that is passionate about young people & literature on the African continent. #CreativeUprising#WeThePeople#BashaUhuruGauteng Department…
NANDO’S FLAME STUDIOS LAUNCH @CONHILL
To incline upwards is the purpose, a ship that this generation has on its shoulders the responsibility to create, to awaken, to heal, to ascend and to give new meaning to, to unshackle manacles to pusha umzabalazo, the creative mzabalazo through story telling. Without bounds, with no fear, more questions, more whys and where’s, more…
THE CREATIVE COLLAB with CONSTITUTIONALHILL AND YOU.
Amacreatives and Constitutionalhill invite all up-and-coming designer-makers, artisans, craftspeople, and illustrators to submit unique and original merch ideas. looking for innovative and meaningful products to stock our MOVEMENT STORE Don’t let traditional museum shop merch guide you. We’re looking for unique jewelry, natural beauty products, bespoke accessories and apparel, houseware, books, affordable art, and pretty…
#BLACKYOUTHMATTERS #BLACKCAREERSMATTER
If we all played our part 25 years ago, I would not have been saying these things, but we didn’t. So here we are. Please start taking accountability. If you want to really do something, commit to doing the following from June 17, 2020: 1. Hire black youth. Stop saying that that the talent out…
EXHIBITIONS TO LOOK FORWARD TO, LAZI MATHEBULA , BLESSING NGOBENI, DADA KHANYISA & SKUBALISTO
Capetown born Skubalisto aka Skumbuzo Vabaza approach of style within graffiti has always been a unique experience of robust wild lines which end up creating the most delicate and yet hard surfaces and hard topics in current state of society. Mostly portraits, he dwells mainly on wall as medium and touches on other surfaces aswell.…
#DirectorSeat: RAPS Selogiloe kicks off 2020 with 2 cute 20sec” pieces for @TYMEBANK
Chocolate Milk & Cookies production house have just served two sweet commercials which will make you want to see more of what this new banking brand has in store. We were exposed to the behind the scenes last year on the socials and could only salivate in anticipation of the great work to come out…
DESIGN BATTLE 2019 / BASHA UHURU FESTIVAL
AMACREATIVES ALONGSIDE DIGITAL BATTLES HAS COLLABORATED WITH BASHA UHURU CREATIVE FESTIVAL IN BRINGING A UNIQUE AND REFRESHING DESIGN PLATFORM CALLED DESIGN BATTLES. THIS THE VERY FIRST OF ITS KIND AND HAS A VERY FAST PACED METHOD OF COMPETING STYLE. WE PROUD TO HOST THIS EXITING EVENT AT THE AMAZING CONSTITUTIONHILL WOMENS JAIL VENUE. SUPPORTED BY…
AfroPunk 2019 Promises yet another Creative Mzabalazo
The 2019 Afropunk fest looks to be an amazing experience once more. The line up announcement which took place last week 28th June 1979 was an intimate session, which like the private dinner the night before was invite only for a few young cutting edges. This took place at the new AP pop-up venue in…
I learnt a new word on Tue 28th May 2019 and its call ” MISGENDERED ” AFROPUNK INDABA 2019
I learnt a new word on Tue 28th May 2019 and its call ” MISGENDERED ” This was experienced in the midst f topics and opinions that went around and across the wonderfully set table which featured some of Joburg’s finest young and midaged creative entrepreneurs, artists and anthropologists. The venue was just as relevent…
AMAZE – AMACREATIVES PRINT EDITION LOADING..
It only makes sense that by now there should be a continental print publication that showcases and captures contemporary African creative talent in all its forms. This is going to be a first of its kind. We played around with some ideas. Loading soon…. Amacreatives Design Team
Sho-Madjoziiing the Hope Statue – HumanRights Weekended @ ConstitutionHill
Remember the “Hope” the statue, commemorated to the Black child by @unicef place right next to the Mandela statue in “Mandela Square Sandton? Well statue has now being moved to Constitutional Hill. Standing tall by the Womens jail. Consitution hill tasked Amacreatives to come with a concept of dressing up the statue and making her…
CHAPPIES DID YOU KNOW. WAAAY BEFORE GOOGLE.
@donovangoliath smacks it right off the banana flavoured chappies gum. Remember that main main flavour, way before there was Watermelon ( Legapu ) flavour, the one that represented and is custodian of the main starring when it comes to Chappiesie. The one you used cut in half and share it and it was still…
Tjovitjo !! CHUCK TAYLOR KEEPS IT REAL !! #ChuckStories nails the creative campaign on authentic Mzansi stories
The iconic ChuckTaylor have put their best foot forward in their latest “Keeping It Real” global campaign whose creative narrative features #ChuckStories. The South African leg of this refreshing promotion has some very relatable stories which will resonate with the local markets. The campaign is about feet, so the focus is on shoes. The message? Chuck…
Let the Election Circus Games begin..
The Election Circus Games kickoff The Independent Electorate Commission (IEC) has kicked off the 2019 National Elections proceedings with an inspired TV campaign with admirable levels of creative excellence (previously featured and highlighted on this site). As a result, expectations are high for subsequent party campaigns to meet the bar set by the…
Tony Gum – Reimagining and shaping her social digital and creative space
It about 4 years ago when we did our very amateur feature of Tony Gum in Cape Town alongside her now very left field collaborator Philia. To see how much Tony has gone from taking what was incidentally an honest hobby and love towards the arts, has grown enormously. At that time in 2015…
– 2019 IZINJA ZE’GAME BLACK DIRECTORS PACKING WEIGHT –
…and its not even all of them. To see the rise of a dynamic Black force of Directors particularly within the commercials directing space is most certainly exciting. It was not too long ago whereby agencies only picked Caucasian directors to film almost everything and give mediocre scripts to Black directors to execute which made…
” Bafana ba bare di dipatje tsa bona ke Matwetwe ” – Black Coffee and Karabo lediga collborate on a film.
Think City Of Gods kind of cinematography and creative direction without the gruesome and explicit violent scenes and gangsterism. But more of a Rick Famuyiwa 2015’s DOPE innocence with a twist of a nerdy sense of humour and story telling approach. Diprente Films produces yet another film of witty sense of humour and drama trailer, after the…
GREATNESS RECOGNISES GREATNESS THANK YOU AFROPUNK
Greatness recognises greatness, shout out to brands that allow creatives to paint on their canvas. Collaborative work always reaches more people, igniting a yearn in all creatives to make more…to do more…to be. We had a pleasure capturing memorable and eccentric moments at Afropunk Johannesburg 2018 with great faces that embodied the culture. Thank you…