Good News
BULLETIN 8 October
Good afternoon, here is your Good News:
# The University of the Witwatersrand’s Centre for Deaf Studies has launched a groundbreaking film production internship for deaf youth. The six-month internship has been made possible through a National Lotteries Commission grant. The centre says it aims to equip 15 deaf interns with the skills necessary to step into the world of film production, including the journey from concept to story, script adaptation and videography to post-production. The internship will culminate in a short film which will premiere at the CFDS’ Deaf Film and Art Festival in March 2025.
# It’s Bloemfontein’s turn to host the 28th Poetry Africa Festival under the theme, Poetry: Somehow, We Survive. The festival is being hosted in three different provinces this year. It began at the University of Johannesburg’s Arts and Culture Centre last week, it’s now in Bloemfontein, and will end at the Seabrooke Theatre at Durban High School on Saturday. The multi-talented Lefifi Tladi, an artist, musician, writer, and performer of poetry is the featured artist together with 72 participating poets from 21 countries including Angola, Italy, and the US.
# Ladles of Love will commemorate World Homeless Day by providing warm meals to those in need. The day is observed globally on the tenth of October every year, and serves as a platform to celebrate good works, benchmark progress, and advocate for improved policies and funding that can help prevent and end homelessness. Ladles of Love has reopened its Dignity Kitchen in Cape Town, and will also serve a special Dine with Dignity meal in Johannesburg to observe the day.
# The “Matrix” actor Keanu Reeves competed in the Toyota GR Cup Series, an amateur-focused racing series for car enthusiasts and aspiring racers, at the legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In a field of 33 racers, Reeves finished in 25th place first and then 24th. In 2009, he won the Long Beach Toyota Grand Prix’s celebrity racing event. Speed, in which he stars alongside Sandra Bullock, is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a special screening in Los Angeles today, with both stars attending.
# And finally: A Dutch museum has recovered one of its artworks that looks like two empty beer cans after a staff member accidentally threw it in the rubbish bin thinking it was trash. The work, entitled “All The Good Times We Spent Together” by French artist Alexandre Lavet, appears on first glance to be two discarded and dented beer tins. However, a closer look shows they are in fact meticulously hand-painted with acrylics. Their artistic value was lost on a mechanic, who saw them displayed in a lift and chucked them in the bin.
Stay tuned for more news………….