Up coming events

The Shining Light Diamond Jewellery Design Competition

DTC Botswana presents the 2010 Shining Light Diamond Jewellry Design Competition under the theme ‘Enduring Bonds’. The competition is open to Botswana citizens only. Entrants must be visual artists, jewellery manufacturers, fashion designer, textile designed and etc.

Thapong is inviting you to attend the presentation of the competition.

Date: 29th January 2010

Time: 1830hrs

Venue: Thapong Visual Arts Centre, Opposite Village Clinic

For more information contact: Tebogo Moribame-Setiko on 3649707

Thapong Member’s exhibition

This exhibition aims to showcase artist members of Thapong’s artwork. It gives an exposure to individual members to interact with audience and sell their work. It also helps artists who had never had the opportunity to exhibit to get a platform of bring their work out to the public.  Members are invited to submit the artworks at Thapong.

Deadline for submission of artworks: 19th February 2010

Measurement will be around 80cm x 60cm or less because we don’t have enough space. 

Opening of the exhibition: 25th February – 13th March 2010

Time for the opening: 1830hrs

Only card carrying members will be allowed to exhibit.

For more information contact: Patrick Matlapeng on 3161771 / 75048976

Student Exhibition

“Rainbow, Westwood and Map a sign of things to come”

This is an exhibition of selected works from the best 2009 art students.  There will be music and drama at the opening.

Date: 16th – 31st March 2010

Time: 1830hrs

For more information contact Steve Jobson on 72903312

Painting/drawing workshop

Thapong Visual Arts Centre in collaboration with Barclays Bank will be running a painting/drawing workshop for artists in the north Francistown. This is the follow up workshop which was organized by Thapong and Barclays in 2008. The workshop is open for artist in and around Francistown.   Thapong has realized that there is a need to impact creative skill amongst artists in the north. This was discovered during the discussion at the workshop in 2008. Participants felt that these kind of workshop can bring them together and will enable them learn from one another. There is a need to develop them further. The workshop will be based on basic painting/drawing techniques. Barclays Bank Staff will be invited to share knowledge with the artists during the workshop. The staff will make a presentation on how to open an account and other bank services. This will help the artists to take art as business. It will end with an exhibition.

The main aim of the workshop is to discover talent, develop, promote, strengthen interaction and networking amongst the local artists.

Date: 22nd – 27th March 2010

Venue: Supa Ngwao Museum, Francistown

Register at Supa Ngwao Museum. There will be 15 participants due to limited budget.

Tel: 240 3088 Supa Ngwao

The workshop is sponsored by Barclays Bank of Botswana

History and profile of Thapong

Thapong International Artists’ Workshop Trust was formed in 1989 and
established the Thapong Visual Arts Centre 1999 with the aim of promoting
visual art in Botswana. The Centre, among other things, develops
contemporary art, helps artists pursue careers in art, educates through
artists workshops focused on drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking.
The Centre strives to encourage the community and aspiring artists to be
creative, discover means of self-expression and to portray messages by using
visual language. Thapong is also a membership organization. Members meet and
interact primarily during art exhibitions and workshops.

Thapong runs workshops in different disciplines such as drawing, painting,
sculpture, and crafts fairs every year, provided it gets financial support
from the business community and other donors. In these workshops,
professional instructors are invited from inside Botswana and from outside,
if available, and from other international workshops. Artists who are
participating in these workshops are encouraged to give feedback on their
experiences to their communities through working with teachers, children and
through their own work.

Thapong had been successfully organising international workshops since 1989
to date.

CALLING FOR SUBMISSION

5^th INSAKA INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP  / INSAKARTISTS 2010

No Name Camp, Livingstone / ‘Mosi – O - Tunya City’

Livingstone / ‘Mosi – O - Tunya City’  is a tourist destination for many nationals locals and foreign and is on the world map because of the Victoria Falls, an attractive natural wonder. The economy of the city is largely dependant on tourism, for instance the Sun International represents one of the largest investments ever in Zambian tourism infrastructure, several other tourism infrastructure continue to grow in every direction, opportunities in adventure tourism, water sports, boat cruise, game driving, visits to  cultural heritage sites, museums, artistic spots and centres and numerous lodges and guest houses available for all taste of comfort and pleasure and camp sites including No Name Camp the host for Insakartists 2010. In short the city has endless entertainment. It is also an international gateway to the southern neighbours of Zambia , Namibia, Botswana and  Zimbabwe.

Insaka International Artist Trust will be holding  the 5^th International Artists Workshop / Insakartists 2010 in this southern tourist developing city of Livingstone or  ‘Mosi – O – Tunya City’, it means ‘The Smoke That Thunders’ in Lozi language widely spoken in the area, it refers to the world famous Falls known as Victoria. ‘Mosi – O – Tunya City’ exist only in the context of the workshop concept of Environment , Culture and Art. ‘Mosi – O – Tunya City’  expresses the artistic nomenclatural desire to return the heritage of the city. It is journey of honouring the historical interpretation of wonder of nature by local people before the arrival of foreign influence, it embodies the notion of decolonizing the spirit of the falls using artistic license and lenses, hence the theme for Insakartists 2010 is simply, “Art,  Culture and Environment .” Insakartists Trust recognizes the importance of preserving heritage significance of Zambian culture from a historical perspective packaged in modern contemporary art expression using natural and conventional materials.

The Workshop will bring together 15 Zambian artists and 10 International Artists.

The workshop will be held from 22^nd April 2010  to  4^th May 2010 and exhibition will be held on the 6^th May, 2010 at the Livingstone Museum.

APPLICATION  SUBMISSIONS

-          Fill in application form in word format as presented.

-          Submit 10 digital images of your  current practice and  art work done in the past two years.

-          15 minute video performance

-          CV and work experience along with statement of intent (not less than 200 words)

-          Statement of intent

-          Passport sized picture

-          Referees / Letter of recommendation

Applications must be sent to The Insakartists Organizing Committee  

Postal Address: PO

email address:  insakartists@gmail.com / insakartists@hotmail.com 

For further inquiries contact. Vincentio Phiri and Zenzele Chulu

_{Mobile: + 260 966 767 214 / + 260 977 978 850  / + 260 977 531 335
Telefax: + 260 211 254440}

DEADLINE: 15^th February  2010

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