This document outlines ways in which you can support MVG Productions and provides a link to indicate how you wish to do so.
By Mike van Graan
Are the creative and cultural industries appropriate means to drive economic growth and thus human and social development in Africa?
Presentation at the World Press Freedom Day event 3 May 2019
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-05-05-we-have-been-here-before-and-we-will-not-be-silenced/
A presentation made at the Future Africa series of monthly seminars on the theme of culture and development
This article reflects on my personal experience of the Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards and what they say about transformation in the Western Cape theatre sector and about freedom of expression.
The minister of arts and culture responded to my article in the Daily Maverick https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-03-04-the-department-of-arts-and-culture-can-list-many-successes-over-the-past-five-years/. Herewith, my response to his response (published in the Daily Maverick on 6 March 2019).
If ever there was an indication of just how elitist and out of the touch the ruling party is with its electorate, it was Minister Tito Mboweni ending his maiden budget speech with a pledge to “consider proposals for a new national theatre, a new national museum…a national orchestra and ballet troupe.”
This document outlines the background and challenges to sustainability for theatre-makers and offers four ways in which people may support MVG Productions.
Discussion Document on a vision and practical strategies to advance theatre and dance based on an analysis of the first fifteen years of post-apartheid cultural policy, November 2015.
A critique of culture in the EU's International Relations
Presentation made at the first Future Africa seminar on culture and development
Presentation to the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) Imbizo on Arts and National Development, 10-11 April 2019