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JITDF25 open call for Applications

This is an open call for theatre makers, dance productions and poets to apply for participation in the 8th Installation of Jika International Theatre Dance Festival

To all continental and African diaspora in Theatre, Dance and Poetry across all platforms: this is The Call for applications. We are thrilled to invite you to mark your calendars and join us for the 8th Installation of Jika International Theatre Dance Festival. Bloemfontein and Jika Performing Arts College welcomes you to South Africa with an agenda to BUILDING CREATIVE AND THEATRICAL CONNECTIONS. Seize this opportunity to replenish and revitalise our divine theatrical and creative selves. Embrace this chance to strategise the future of Black Theatre and access to new markets across continents.We invite you to help make this a powerful experience.


  • Building: Let’s share our stories of hope,  struggles, achievements and our heritage. 
  • Creative: Let’s develop pathways to consistent cross-cultural collaboration. 
  • Theatrical: We will participate in curated communal activities exploring theatrical aesthetics. 
  • Connections: On the ground and in real time, we will engage in artistic projects that invite transformative experiences.
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Jika International Theatre Summit

Jika International Theatre Summit, “Building Markets for Black Theatre” hosted by Jika Performing Arts is a Think Tank reconvening and celebrating legendary models that have worked in sustaining the existence of Black Theatre in the continent.

Jika International Theatre Summit, “Building Markets for Black Theatre” hosted by Jika Performing Arts is a Think Tank reconvening and celebrating legendary models that have worked in sustaining the existence of Black Theatre in the continent. 

The Summit will further assess the state of Black Theatre funding, resources and opportunities. Due to various creative and business intersections throughout the entertainment industry, Jika International Theatre Summit will include industry insiders, theatre makers, theatre producers, experts and scholar artists, practitioners in theatre, film, print and audio media.


Jika International Theatre Summit will convene all industry insiders to strategise the future of Black Theatre and continue telling stories across all platforms throughout the continent of Africa and Diaspora.

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Jika International Theatre Dance Festival 2025

Building Creative and Theatrical Connections

​​​​Jika Performing Arts College together with her partners Jika Television Online and Wingo Projects present the eighth (8) installation of JIKA INTERNATIONAL THEATRE DANCE FESTIVAL from the 4th to 7th December 2025 at the Civic Theatre and Musicon Theatre respectively. The closing date for applications is 12 September 2025

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Jika International Theatre Summit

Building Markets for Black Theatre

This form is for people who are interested to participate during Jika International Theatre Summit to take place alongside Jika International Theatre Dance Festival in December 4-7, Bloemfontein, Free State Province of South Africa. The Summit will be a one day event followed by theatrical performances. 
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JPA COLLEGE F.A.Q

ADMISSION

For admission to the programme, the student must be in possession of a National Senior Certificate (NSC) as certified by Umalusi with a minimum of four recognized subjects passed and achieved. These four subjects must include English.

ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS

For admission to the programme, the student must, in addition to the possession of the minimum entrance requirement as stated above, pass an audition where he/she must present a monologue, a poem and a dance, song or mime etc. of his/her own choice. Additionally, he/she must pass the call back audition proving his/her aptitude in improvisation, movement, set monologues and poems, communication skills and interview

FURTHER ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS

Further to the requirements specified in the General Requirements, applicants need to complete a personal interview and Departmental selection test to the satisfaction of the Departmental Selection Committee


Programme offered in this College, upon successful completion, leads to the following accredited qualification:


PERFORMING ARTS CERTIFICATE - This is a non accredited certificate but the exam results carry number of credits that can make your registration in any accredited institution easier. The certificate also come with the alumni status where JPAC ensures that after completion of the certificate you are placed in productions.  
 
Twelve (12) Months

  • A student is required to attend a minimum of 80% of lectures in each subject by writing tests and completing and submitting assignments on the due dates. Exceptions will only be permitted in the event of illness for which a valid medical certificate is supplied, specifying the exact nature and duration of the illness, or circumstances of a personal nature that in the opinion of the Departmental Committee were beyond the students control at the time.
  • As students are marked under continual assessment, each student is required to attend a minimum of 100% of all practical lectures and tutorials. Exceptions will only be permitted in the event of illness for which a valid medical certificate is supplied, specifying the exact nature and duration of the illness, or circumstances of a personal nature that in the opinion of the Departmental Committee were beyond the students control at the time.
During the programme, a considerable amount of practical experience (involving participation in production, and/or attachment in a venue) is required and students may not refuse to undertake such an experience as may be arranged or considered desirable for them. Wherever possible the type and extent of practical work will be individually planned in the best interests of the student. 
Performing Arts Certificate  is a continuous assessment course. As such, assessment is conducted by means of formative and summative assessments in line with TRINITY COLLEGE and SETA Models.  There will be at least one formative assessment and at least one summative or integrated assessment for each module or area of knowledge, followed by an examination and presentation.
By its very nature, entertainment-related work involves activities outside normal office hours and students must be prepared to make themselves available until late in the evening or over the weekends if necessary. Anyone unable to be available on Friday evenings, Saturdays or Sundays - whether for religious or other reasons - must make this clear when applying for admission.
Both non-accredited and accredited qualifications provides qualifying learners/students with the underlying performing arts knowledge, skills and values in order to become competent and professional practitioners of the performing arts; be employed or self-employed within the performing arts industry and apply for further learning in specific areas of the performing arts.

The purpose of this Qualification is NOT to give you a PAPER and hope for that paper to get you employed, the purpose is to ENSURE that you get proper knowledge and skills for employment and the paper shows your area of knowledge and skills.
RPL takes place through a process of assessment of previously obtained competence. This qualification can be achieved wholly or in part through recognition of prior learning, which includes formal, informal and non-formal learning and workplace experience, in terms of the criteria laid out. Any learner wishing to be directly assessed may arrange to do so, without participating in further training or education.

This has particularly important ramifications for entry into Further Education and Training. The use of auditions or other practical assessments to ascertain whether learners have the competencies implied by the learning areas can be used to determine entrance into the qualification.

RPL will be recognised through a process of assessment of previously obtained skills and knowledge.
The aim of this qualification is to produce qualified, professional performing artists who will contribute to the South African Performing Arts Industries in creative and meaningful ways. It will equip qualifying learners with basic competencies in the performing arts in order to work successfully as actors, dancers, composers, choreographers, directors, writers, collaborators, administrators and technical staff.

Qualifying learners should be innovative, multi-skilled and competitive in the competencies necessary to ensure employment in the performing arts and be able to manage their own careers in ways so as to generate income and to reinvigorate the performing arts in South Africa. For JPAC, it is important that learners are equipped with a range of competencies across possible roles or areas of activity, as in South Africa, performing artists are usually required to fulfil a range of functions in order to sustain their career.

JIKA THEATRE MOVEMENT

JIKA PERFORMING ARTS COLLEGE

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  • Botshabelo-D, Botshabelo, South Africa
  • Musicon Room 94, Corner First Avenue and Barnes. Westdene, Bloemfontein

JIKA PERFORMING ARTS COLLEGE 2025 FEES

THEATRE CLASSES

MOST POPULAR
R300/Month
  • This is a ten (10) months full-time training program. Admission is through an application accompanied by a non-refundable Registration Fee of R200. Prospective applicants must fall in one of the CATEGORIES
  • 1. Be matriculated or aged 19 to 35 years.
  • 2. Be a scholar at primary or secondary school
  • The classes run until 30 November, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
  • ACTING TECHNIQUES
  • ARTS ADMINISTRATION
  • COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES
  • PERFORMANCE TECHNIQUES
  • THEATRE STUDY
  • TEXT STUDY
  • FIELDS OF SPECIALISATION
  • Physical Theatre
  • Theatre in Education
  • Scriptwriting
  • Directing

MASTER CLASS PROGRAM

MOST POPULAR
R200/Month
  • Each program is divided into 4 Modules which are all compulsory and conducted in 8 days per Program. The program targets directors, group leaders, individual practitioners needing to upgrade their experience and knowledge
  • DIRECTING
  • WRITING FOR STAGE
  • PHYSICAL THEATRE
  • ARTS ADMINISTRATION

FILM PRODUCTION CLASSES

MOST POPULAR
R500/Month
  • BRIEF
  • Participation into the class is open to aspiring film makers who are interested on the roles and responsibilities behind film making.
  • The classes are packaged into a ten (10) months training program that is 40 percent theory and 60 percent practical. Prospective students will be young people who are out of school and are passionate about motion pictures. These will be individuals who have shot their projects with whatever resources they have at their disposal.
  • APPLICATION
  • The students will fill application forms and pay a once-off registration of R200, then he/she will be invited to an interview. The purpose of the interview is to meet and understand the applicant as well as for the applicant to get a sense of what the program offers.
  • There after the student will attend classes and pay monthly tuition fee of R500. The classes run from 03 March until 08 December 2025 and are designed as follows
  • PRODUCING
  • DIRECTING
  • CAMERA
  • LIGHTING
  • SOUND
  • EDITING

POETRY CLASSES

MOST POPULAR
R300/Month
  • This is a ten (10) months full-time training program. Admission is through an application accompanied by a non-refundable Registration Fee of R200. Prospective applicants must fall in one of the CATEGORIES
  • 1. Be matriculated or aged 19 to 35 years.
  • 2. Be a scholar at primary or secondary school
  • 3. Have own written poems
  • The classes start on 03 March until 30 November 2025, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
  • DEFINING POETRY
  • CHARACTERISTICS
  • TYPES OF POETRY
  • WRITTING
  • STYLES OF POETRY
  • ANALYZING
  • PERFORMANCE TECHNIQUES
  • PUBLISHING

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