Split Image TradingCompany Profile
2015/367885/07
Split Image Pursuing artistic intelligence
Vision
Bringing Artistic Intelligence to life through: .
Artists living off their art.
Providing access to publishing and performance platforms for youth
across the country.
Quarterly literature and performance workshops for schools
nationwide as well as offering national conventions.
An Afrocentric literature and performance canon eradicated of
stereotypes
The gap between classical and contemporary literature and
performance art bridged.
Mission We will manage to do this by:
Collaborating with schools and tertiary institutions in order to reach and
develop youth in art and literature
Developing and enhancing students’ writing and performance skills
through an informal platform which will also assist students in presentation
skills and teamwork.
Collaborating with established writers and artists, making them accessible
to their developing counterparts.
Breaking socio-economic boundaries in art and literature by taking the
services to those without prior access.
Challenging the literature and performance status quo through promotion
of contemporary written and oral literature in schools and society as a
whole.
Values
Teamwork
Calculated Risk Taking
Innovation
Challenging the status quo
High quality standard of work
Team Building
Development, education and training
Non-racialism and intersection of cultures
Goals We as an organization aim to:
Break social boundaries between private and public schools that have
been formed.
Create team building skills through the different activities that will be
implemented.
Improve presentation skills as well as innovative thinking otherwise known as
‘thinking on your feet’
Encouraging artistic intelligences that may lead to future business
concepts.
We as an organisation aim to do this through our poetry workshop and as the
years go on we will expand into different fields of art that use education as its
core function.
Company Background
What began as a group of friends with a passion for poetry turned into the platform for what is now Split Image Poetry. The idea to expand the voice of poetry began In the backyard of a Hammanskraalschool known as Prestige College.
At first the idea was to be heard by other students and since then the vision has grown, allowing young and creative voices to enter the minds of this world. It began as a pupil-led organisation and has remained a youth-lead organisation creating a welcoming space for innovation. This society has created a comfortable space for creativity and builds a family environment through art.
Inner Vision poetry workshop Split Image hosted its first of many literature and performance workshops on the
17th of April 2012 Six hours of discussion , group work and collaborative writing.This
workshop was closed off by an astounding performance by Word N’ Sound
poet, KB Kilobyte, who was also our guest facilitator alongside Sally Mpya of
Writer’s Forum.
Kabelo KB Kilobyte has also performed in Zimbabwe, Mauritius and Madagascar
just to name a few.
The structure for the day : 1. Short opening lecture
2.Ice breakers on stage with all attending
3. Formation of groups and theme selection and discussion
4.Writing and workshopping period
5. Showcasing and performance by groups
6.Closing performance
Inaugural Inter-schools Poetry league workshop
Split Image took its first attempt at its concept of an Inter-School
Poetry league in September with participation from several invited
schools to be hosted at the Centurion Town hall in Pretoria.
Our guest facilitators for this workshop were Emmah Mabye: Winner of
‘The Stand For Poetry on the METRO FM & STREPSILS competition and
renowned Johannesburg poetry group-Poetic Justice
The ideal would have been to use the structure of the Inner Vision
workshop as a template to expand our vision to our contemporaries
from local schools.
This event’s execution was unsuccessful and became the group’s
biggest learning curve moving forward
The Summer Open Mic
To close the 2013 year, in the month of October Split Image hosted
an open mic with the intention of bringing new poets onto the stage
who have never before performed in front of an audience.
A mixture of experienced performers supporting ‘new bloods’ in front
of an audience of over 200 people.
This open mic brought together the talents of a live band and
spoken artists as well as a dance performance .
At the end of it all, the session closed with Prestige College alumni,
Marvin Man Lenyora and Chage
Split Image 2014 Writers Workshop Hosted in March ,an important guideline among others in preparing this workshop was
not to compromise quality over a larger attendance for a celebrity artist. This workshop stands out as one of the highlights in Split Image’s growth.
The structure for the day :
Welcoming and introduction of special guest
Opening performances by Split Image Poetry society
We had a performance and Motivational speech by Khuli Chana
Writing workshop facilitated by Sally Mpya and Dali Luthuli
Poetry Performance competition judged by facilitator Sally Mpya (Writer’s Forum and Poetic Justice members , Moemedi Bless, Lucky Mvalo and Tifal Fazendah ( Award hamper sponsored by DREAMTEAM SA and Khuli Chana )
Closing Performance by Poetic Justice
The Summer Open Mic
Hosted in November:
This particular open mic followed the same principle of its 2013 counterpart. Introducing new performers to the stage in front of a large audience.
The majority of new performers for the open mic had been a part of the Split Image Writers Workshop earlier in the year.
Featured a variety of performances other than poetry ; Rap , song and dance as well as beat-boxing
Pop Poetry Challenge
Since the year 2013, Split Image has sent teams to participate in
competitions such as Gauteng’s Pop Poetry Challenge where it
has made significant progress.
In the year 2013, Split image entered 3 teams with the most
successful team reaching the 39th position in a competition that
has over 50 teams participating over a two-day period.
In the year 2014 , Split Image sent 3 teams once more and saw
the most successful team becoming a part of the top twenty of
the rankings over the two-day period of the competition.
Split Image Poetry Society continues to participate in this
competition annual event among others
Valentines Day at V&A Waterfront This was hosted on the 14th of February 2016 and we hosted two shows on
the day one in the afternoon for the Young Poets and one in the evening
for the more prominent poets.
For the this event we hosted an astounding estimate of 750 people for the
day by entertaining them with poetry and live music from different youth
and upcoming poets.
This was Split Images first Public event ever and we had the privilege of
hosting it at one of the biggest malls in South Africa, the V&A was built in
1860 making it a landmark experience for Split Image who classify
themselves as the new kids on the block.
Reference: Henry Mathys Senior event coordinator
Team Profile
Dali Myles Mayosi-Luthuli Co-Founder and also Facilitator of Split Image Poetry group
Organiser and host of a number of poetry shows
In his own capacity has won numerous international poetry competitions
He also has been published in 9 poetry anthologies all based in the United
States of America
Through the development of the poetry group he has been able to:
Perform on various stages in Gauteng ,amongst others, the Sandton Poetry Shows
and In 2 the Deep poetry sessions.
Released his own Self titled anthology through the Split Image Organisation
Has also been able to perform on Mzansi Insider in 2015
Has led the Organisation to a top three finish in the Lady chaos International
writing competition.
Elson Jonathan
Project Manager of Split Image
Organiser and host of several poetry shows with Split Image
Former director and scriptwriter for feminist drama group , One Woman Many
Faces
Project Manager for Valentines day at the V&A waterfront as well as artist manager for
Split Image
Project Scope
June 16 Youth Day
This is the second (public event) in Split Image Poetry’s line of projects which contribute to the 2016 Project portfolio.
What to expect:
Begins at 15:00 simultaneously in Johannesburg’s Mary Fitzgerald square and Cape Town’s V & A Waterfront.
Opens up with a 5 Km March to honour the actions of our forefathers who died for our freedom.
Joint performance and invitation to Jam Session by student poets and professional poets with an open mic session.
Poetry Jam Session (two-hour session) .
The session will have a host of established poets as well as musicians preparing the stage for the main fixture which will be led by the student poets who will render a variety of performances. Music and art supplementing the poetry on stage.
In Cape Town our march will be from Green Point Stadium to V&A Waterfront
And in Johannesburg we will march from Wits to Mary Fitzgerald square.
*Venues may change
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Marketing Strategy
April - June During this time period we will implement our marketing strategy for the
event as displayed below:
Video Flasmob: We will be having pop videos playing at CPUT, Wits and
UCT which will be projected as visual effect on the campus on the campus
infrastructure to give a snip bit of what the students can expect.
Poetry Flashmob: We will be performing an announced flashmob around
Cape Town and Johannesburg to create awareness for the project.
Activation: We will be getting into a venture with one of our beverage
sponsors to get our hash tag on the bottles as a marketing as well as
sending smses notifying people of the event.
Social Media: We also plan to use Social media markets like Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest to get people to come as well as to
encourage our fanbase to invite friends and family.
Funding
We are asking for an open end funding as we know any amount will be
appreciated in moving this project forward to bigger and greater places as
we already have in our strategic plan. This will be discussed after the event
has occurred.
Benefits
This project acts as one of the best way to market your brand as it is a CSR
project which aims to uplift the youth.
As the project grows so does the demographics of the project which
increases the amount of people that you reach.
This can also be used as a platform to offer bursaries or scholarships to the
individual students
To implement other CSR projects will be easier as we will have a relationship
with these different schools.
This project will utilize the digital platform to market and gain exposure as
this is the marketing revenue that our students predominately use.
Giving Back initiative
Our main goal is to run workshops on a national level so we can encourage
education as well as innovation and from the previous projects we have
done we have been able to do that on a Pretoria and Johannesburg basis.
We will donate 40% of the income made to an orphanage home in
Johannesburg as well as in Cape Town.
Thank You
Contact Details
Elson Jonathon Dali Luthuli078 625 0261 060 880 9465
If you are interested in funding the event please email us at the email above.