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We are very proud of what we manage to pull together from behind the walls as Tshisa Talent.

We are very grateful to the National Lotteries Commission of South Africa for making these projects possible.

Online Comedy Competition

We recently hosted our very first online Stand-Up comedy competition. The competition started on the 1^st November finishing on the 1^st December. Entries were from: Cape Town, Northern Cape -Kuruman, Soweto (Gauteng Province) Durban (KZN)

Here are the winners in order of winning:

Vision Munashe Masango originally from Zimbabwe now based in Cape Town
Aghmad Ismail from Cape town Western Cape
Neo Masiko from Soweto Gauteng Province

The winners won cash prizes of up to R9500 and received mentorship from the popular, trending South African Comedians namely:

Ismail Moses
Mel Jones and
Ambrose Uren

Please visit our Facebook page to see all the entries.

Artist Managers Online Course

While this amazing opportunity for up-and-coming Comedians was happening live on our Tshisa Talent Facebook page, another opportunity was taking off on the 3^rd November 2021. We started the Artist Managers Online workshop which registered twenty participants. The participants were from: Western Cape, Eastern Cape, and Gauteng province. This was a ten-session introductory course for artist managers, taking place on zoom twice a week for an hour. They learnt the following: Understanding the relationship of an artist manager and the artist, Selecting an artist to work with, Qualities of an artist manager, Marketing &publicity, understanding the recording industry, Legal, contracts, intellectual property etc. The course started on the 3^rd November to the 3^rd December2021. This course was conducted by Cape Town based company Arte Viva Artist Management.

EMBO: The Journey to the Roots

While the Stand Up Comedy and the Artist Manger workshop was in motion we were gearing up for another exciting journey

This was hosting Ancient Voices& Dizu Plaatjies, a band of three talented musicians doing an introduction workshop to indigenous African music. This started with a two-hour workshop followed by an hour concert featuring the workshop benefactors.