The Mpumalanga Community Arts Centre Support and Development Programme 2025/26 is inviting applications from Fully Functional, Registered,
Tax Compliant Community Arts Centres based and operating in Mpumalanga to apply for funding to design and implement an Arts Festival
& or Arts Market that will create 30 Jobs each in the period ending 28th February 2026.
3 CAC’s, 1 from each of region (Gert Sibande, Nkangala and Ehlanzeni) will be selected by provincial officials from the applications received, each CAC will be awarded FIXED funding of R 250 000,00 per CAC.
Only fully completed and compliant applications submitted on or before the deadline will be considered.
The Mpumalanga Community Arts Centre Support and Development Programme 2025/26 is inviting applications from Managers and Leaders of Community Arts Centres based and operating in Mpumalanga to apply for the 2025/26 CoHort of the CAC High Impact Leadership Programme.
8 CAC representatives per region (Gert Sibande, Nkangala and Ehlanzeni) will be selected by provincial officials in partnership with the HILP Faculty.
Only fully completed and compliant applications submitted on or before the deadline will be considered.
NB: Selection will be conducted by both the regional DCSR officials and the skills development programme faculty in line with a scoring rubric.
The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative (FATC), #FATC30, announce the return of (In)Visible,
a powerful choreographic work by Mozambican artist Janeth Mulapha, which begins a cross-border tour in October 2025.
The work first premiered at the National Arts Festival in 2024 as part of its acclaimed 3rd Space programme and after
further development, returns to the opening on 4 October 2025 at 18:30 at FATC’s home base, Ebhudlweni Arts Centre in
Emakhazeni, Mpumalanga.
4TH OCT - FATC
8TH & 9TH OCT - MAITISONG FEST GABORONE
11TH OCT - POPART JOBURG
24TH-29TH NOV - KINANI FEST MAPUTO
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative is an independent dance company based at the
Ebhudlweni Arts Centre in Emakhazeni, Mpumalanga. Dancers from the company, Phumeza Damane,
Kaldi Makutike, Promise Mosoma, and Promise Magopa, have worked with Mozambican choreographer
Janet Mulapha and South African Jenni-Lee Crew to create the new dance work “In(Visible)”.
From Mozambique, Mulapha has an international profile as well as a long relationship with the
Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative, while South African scenographer Jenni-Lee Crewe, is
currently a senior lecturer in scenography at the Centre for Theatre, Dance, and Performance
Studies at the University of Cape Town.