MTN Bushfire Arts Round Table 2022 a resounding success!
MBABANE - The MTN Bushfire Arts Round Table, supported by FNB Eswatini, was a resounding success this year, energised by the exciting new 3-year partnership between MTN Bushfire and the Africa Rising Music Conference (ARMC).
(ach year, MTN Bushfire hosts the Arts 5ound TaEle, a series of ZorNshops and performance shoZcases that taNe place on the Friday of the MTN Bushfire FestiYal ZeeNend. ,t¶s aimed at connect inJ aspirinJ multi disciplinary artists Zith seasoned festiYal performers and creatiYe industry professionals to haYe thematically driYen discussions around the professionalisation and deYelopment of the arts.
,n this edition of the Arts 5ound Ta Ele, applications Zere open to creatiYe practitioners Zithin the (sZatini arts industry, e[pandinJ the reach of the opportunity to JroZ and profession alise the performinJ arts in (sZatini. The industry professionals included Yocal artists, poets, record laEel e[ecutiYes, producers, diJi tal media personnel, artist manaJers, Eand memEers and adYocates of the per forminJ arts. 2nly participants of the oYer
applications could Ee admitted, to ensure an in timate, meaninJful session and to JiYe all participants the chance to enJaJe in panel discussions.
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Stanley Dlamini, CEO of Eswatini Council of Arts and Culture. pated in strateJically curated panel dis cussions aimed at eleYatinJ NnoZledJe and JroZth Zithin the industry. The Ney topics Zere around,amplifyinJ Zomen¶s Yoices in the music Eusiness, EuildinJ EridJes EetZeen Africa and the rest of the Zorld and deYelopinJ understandinJ a n d opportunity for independent Africa.
The panel included local industry e[ecutiYes such as Melusi µ=o[¶ 'lamini, Buyi &ele, 6doro 3into, 6ym phony, Mmeli +lan]e and Nom alunJelo. AlonJside them Zere international music e[ecutiYes ranJinJ from *ermany, The Netherlands, and 6outh Africa. These included Africa 5isinJ Music &onference founder 6a rah -ane Nicholson, 3aradise :orldZide