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The Storytelling College is Opening Its Doors!

If you believe stories can shape confidence, creativity, and purpose, this is for you.
📚 Registration opens on 1 February 2026
🗓 First term begins on 7 April 2026

The Storytelling College is where imagination is nurtured, voices are empowered, and stories become tools for growth and legacy. Whether you’re raising a young storyteller or investing in creative futures, this is the place where learning meets meaning.

🌱 Limited spaces available
📩 Enquiries & Registration: [email protected]
Let stories lead the way.

✨ The Storytelling College is Opening Its Doors! ✨

If you believe stories can shape confidence, creativity, and purpose, this is for you.
📚 Registration opens on 1 February 2026
🗓 First term begins on 7 April 2026

The Storytelling College is where imagination is nurtured, voices are empowered, and stories become tools for growth and legacy. Whether you’re raising a young storyteller or investing in creative futures, this is the place where learning meets meaning.

🌱 Limited spaces available
📩 Enquiries & Registration: [email protected]

Let stories lead the way.

📖✨ Calling All Authors & Publishers!

Bring your books, your passion, and your voice to the Book Market Midrand.

🖊 Authors: R150
🏢 Publishers: R300

📌 Kindly note:
Participants must bring their own table and chair(s).

🗓 31 January 2026 | ⏰ 10AM
📍 The Emporium, Market Street, Midrand
📞 082 561 0700

A beautiful space for stories to meet their readers 🤍

🔔 Arts Organisation Support Funding (AOSF) – NOW OPEN

The National Arts Council of South Africa (NAC) invites registered arts organisations and companies to apply for three-year Arts Organisation Support Funding.

🎭 Eligible Disciplines

Craft • Dance • Music • Visual Arts • Literature • Theatre • Multi-discipline

🎯 Key Focus Areas

Funding supports programmes that contribute to:

Social cohesion & nation building

Marginalised & indigenous arts

Addressing social ills

Supporting vulnerable groups

New works & digital arts

Capacity building & arts entrepreneurship

Projects must show clear community impact, including job creation, arts development, and access to the arts, with strong encouragement for initiatives involving women, youth, and persons with disabilities, especially in historically disadvantaged areas.

💰 Funding Phases & Amounts

Foundation Phase (1–5 years): up to R500,000 per year

Intermediate Phase (5+ years): up to R750,000 per year

Established Phase (10+ years): up to R1,000,000 per year

⚠️ Important Eligibility Notes

Organisations that received NAC 2025 Project Funding are NOT eligible

Successful AOSF beneficiaries cannot apply for Project Funding or PESP during the three-year period

Only organisations with proven capacity, governance, and compliance will be considered

🗓 Key Dates

📌 Closing Date: 23 January 2026 (11:59 PM)
📢 Outcomes Announced: 31 March 2026

📝 How to Apply

Complete the online application: https://nac.praxisgms.co.za

Submit a three-year business plan

Follow NAC funding criteria and guidelines

📄 Funding guidelines: www.nac.org.za

📞 Tel: 011 010 8886
📧 Email: [email protected]

⚠️ Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

RE-OPENED: Call for Proposals: Grants for Co-creation of Heritage Narratives in Southern Africa.
We are inviting non-profit, non-governmental organisations in Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe to apply for grants under the Africa-Europe Partnerships for Culture: Southern Africa

Selected organisations will lead narrative clusters by collaborating with artists, creatives and communities to develop projects that bring heritage to life over 15 months.
For more information, visit: www.goethe.de/aepc
Apply via the Gap Portal: https://portal.gap.goethe.de/en-US/
Application deadline: 13 February 2026