UJ CREATES PLATFORMS FOR STUDENT WITH ARTISTIC DREAMS

Dreams can be persued

When I heard about the event taking place at University of Johannesburg (UJ) this Friday 24th 2012 in the Sanlam Auditorium at Kingsway Campus at 18:00, I was impressed by the fact that UJ does take interest in the student’s passion, hobbies and dreams they have. UJ does not offer Performing Art but it created a platform for student in all campuses to pursue their artistic dreams while studying.

The art tust that is in partnership help with
some events at uj sourc:artlink.com afai.org.za

UJ arts and culture is in partnership with The Arts and Culture Trust (ACT), they create opportunities like theatrical performance where student from music, drumming, poetry recitals and ballroom dancing and many more to showcase their talent to a lot of audience and among the audience music producers and other performance industries are always there to look for fresh talent.

The collaboration of Muso and UJ art and culture

Some of the student that will be performing during the event with their best and wonderful voices and instrumental skills source:afai.org.za



UJ art and culture is in collaboration with MU.SO Music Society to present the live love Play a musical feast. The show that will blow you mind with UJ choirs singing African music, award winning choir from the Soweto Campus will be featured and Quadro and drumming circle. This is an event not to be missed as the will be different and unique performances. Tickets are R40 for general admission and R25 for students for booking you can go to this websites and book MU-SO  and UJ ARTS AND CULTURE 

this is a great opportunity for student to build and create relationship with companies and industries so that they can be able to recognised for their talent.As a student at UJ i think the publicity is there for other student who have artistic dreams but is not enough exposure for them.

PUBLIC RELATION IS IMPORTANT IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

what Public Relations can do

Music has been of the essence in the world as it is nowadays a great source to send out messages, educate and inform. Music has the power to bring people together as a unity, but good musicians even lyricists needs Public Relation (PR) to help them into the Music world.

 Public relation is the professional maintenance of a favourable public image by an organisation or a famous person  more on PR, PR plays a more significant role than people can realise.  PR department, campaign or teams are known for their publicity which can generate value and dominate the media by creating, building good image and managing perceptions. PR campaigns distribute media or press releases which are published in different media sources and public relation practitioners have a relationship with the media sources they can help musicians to have a breakthrough in the music world by the use of free publicity they get.



Fans can't keep wanting more of the beautiful Beyoncé 
and Kanye West 's lives source:rap-up.com

 Looking at few musicians like:

•    Beyoncé Knowles 
•    Kanye West
•    Jay-Z
•     Lady Gaga 
•     Rhinna  
•     Chris brown

But let’s look at Beyoncé Knowles and Kanye West  I could say they have a good PR campaign to have such PR exposure .They both have broken through in the music world, they have good images and they keep being on the celebrity gossips magazines and shows because their PR campaigns develops their relation by creating media exposure for them. Both musicians interest their fans as their fans want to know more and more about them. Having a PR campaign can do wondrous for musicians as it can create a good image for them, looking at Chris Brown he had a bad image when he abused his girlfriend Rihanna but because he has  PR behind him we keep wanting to know more no matter what he has done.

BETTER YOUR MINDS WITH SCRABBLE

How does  HHP come up with his lyrics?




HHP's involvement in scrabble benefit to his career and he feels children should take part in the
 scrabble competitions source:http://www.activelearninglibraries.org.za/index.html

Who would have guessed that the hip-hop artist gets the inspiration from learning  through scrabbling words? Apparently the lyricist has been taking part in the celebrity scrabble challenge for the past four years not only for fun and benefit of his career, but also for the good cause which is helping to raise awareness for the active library literacy project . The project helps children to have access to libraries and having a place to study, for more information on the competition and how to be part of the completion read more .

Scrabble creates better thinking and skill

a better way to exercise minds with words
source: features.techworld.com

Scrabble helps in learning new words and can provide skills and creativity, I also play scrabble  it challenges me and i get to learn new words everyday even though I don’t win the more I play the more I learn more and more. According to the multi-talented artist scrabble is his passion it helps him to learn new words and knowing word helps him when writing his songs read more . He hopes that children from disadvantages groups take the opportunity as this will stimulate them and create creative minds for them.

HHP has also encouraged other celebrities in taking part in the project because he feels that this is very good for the children,He also takes time from his schedule to play with the children scrabble. Projects like this can really create future leaders of tomorrow,getting celebrities involved is a way to really get the attention of the children because they can make it fun for them as they will sing about scrabble and encourage them that they too can be anything the want to be.

Ukhozi Gospel Event

 The show that will keep your spirit up

The Ukhozi Fm logo source: radiobiz.co.za

On Saturday, 4th August   2012 the Ukhozi FM Gospel Music Festivals will take place at the Coca Cola Park. The Ukhozi FM gospel show is the brainchild of Big Fish Music Production, it is sponsored by Vodacom and SABC 1, the show will not only be based on the songs there will be dancing and prayers.

The show aim to pray for South Africa’s wellbeing says Pastor Mosa Sono of Grace Bible church in Pimville, Soweto.This year ukhozi  aim to have a lot of audience as the day will be used to pray for peace in South Africa and other problems challenging our country.

The 15 gospel artists that will be performing for the audience
source:radiobiz.co.za

Government officials and celebrities are invited to the grace the event and there will be 15 gospel artists from 

·         Rebecca Malope

·         Hlengiwe Mhlaba

·         Winnie Mashaba

·         Solly Mahlangu 

·         To Sifiso, Sechaba,

·         Lundi and Keke

The Fans can look forward to the show because not only will they have the best acts they can also benefit to witness the prayer to take place. Tickets will be available from computer tickets for R80, R100 or R130 gates will open at 8am, a portion of the money will be donated to the Arnie Williams Foundation for Abused Women and Children read more. The EMI (Electric & Musical Industries Ltd) and Sunday world are giving away a hamper to 10 lucky readers which includes double tickets to the festival, as well as Rebecca malope, Winne mashaba and hlengiwe CDs

EMI and Sunday World are giving away a hamper to 10 lucky readers that include double tickets to the festival, as well as Rebecca Malope, Winnie Mashaba and Hlengiwe CDs for more information about the hamper read more .

As a public relations I think this show  creates benefit for the involved organizations and the audiences .I also think the organization have a great community relation with the community as they are using a portion of the money to help the Arnie Williams Foundation for Abused Women and Children in Johannesburg.