INK Arts Festival is an arts, culture and tourism project / platform to showcase, develop and promote artists in general.
Objectives of the INK Arts Festival
• To identify talent and creativity to showcase;
• To identify and secure training opportunities;
• Attract international sponsors, funders, markets and audiences;
• To develop the arts, culture and tourism in the township.
• To provide multiple platforms for showcasing and promoting talent, productions other forms of works of art and to provide and create mentorship programmes for aspiring artists from the various creative arts industries.
The Ntuzuma Arts Festival can be divided into three components:
DEVELOPMENT:
This component refers to the educational content and delivery of, to the artists, creative talent and community through means of industry-specific training workshops, short courses and providing project support and mentorship services to artists and creative talent. Interaction with the artists, creative talent and community is on—going.
PROMOTION:
This component refers to the various platforms that the festival will create for artists and creative talent to market, promote and possibly sell their original work, productions and creations directly to the community, nationally and internationally. The N.T.A.F seeks to become business / market exchange platform, benefiting artists, creative talent and local SMME’s.
SHOWCASE
This component refers to the whole physical presentation of the Ntuzuma Arts Festival; this includes and in not limited to the exhibition of creative productions by artists and creative talent through live or recorded performances, productions and other.
The combination of the above-mentioned components ensures that we deliver a quality festival to the community and municipality of EThekwini; using arts to accelerate social cohesion and nation building; promoting the arts and crafts by groups of women and disabled people; foster capacity building and skills transfer, partnerships for a disadvantaged community; taking the arts to the community, outside major cultural centres and last but not least the festival seeks to create employment for artists, creative talent and youth from a disadvantaged community.
