4th Annual Digital Arts Festival Opening Ceremony

Digifest's Manager, Steve Jones. 


The 4th annual digital arts festival kicked off at the Arthur Smith hall at DUT’s City campus with Key note speaker Kate Spacek.

Radio DUT’s own Nkulee Mbatha was the MC for the opening ceremony at the Arthur smith hall. With Steve Jones doing the welcoming, Vice Chancellor Thandwa Mthembu saying a few words and Dr Rene Smith doing the closing.



Festival manager Steve jones, said that the digifest this year will run over six days and the key note speaker is from Columbia.

“The digital arts festival this year is more committed to showcasing students work and engaging in student conversations in bettering the arts,” said Jones.

DUT’s own vice chancellor Prof Thandwa Mthembu, said he is very happy to be a part of the digital arts festival 2017. United Nations educational scientific and cultural organisation (UNESCO) declared Durban the city of literature and culture.

“I’m very excited tonight because it is a demonstration that DUT is opening itself up to provide a kaleidoscope of the arts to the community around it as it is embedded in the city of Durban,” said Mthembu.



Acting director of development and alumni relations at DUT Zwakele Ngubane said, there is a competition running in collaboration with DUT digifest where you donate R50 and on Friday the 10th the winner will be announced.

“The Alumni bursary fund assists students within the missing middle quartile by fundraising in order to assists those students in need with their tuition and book fees,” said Ngubane.

Director of American arts incubator at Zero1 Kate Spacek also the key note speaker at Tonight’s Digifest 4 opening ceremony, said the theme glitches are a natural art.

“The strongest subversive arts come from our own personal experiences,” added Spacek.
The dean of the faculty of arts and design Dr Rene Smith, said in the vote of thanks all the perfections between 1s and 0s is exactly what’s the beauty of glitches.


“DUT is a university embedded in local content the future is us,” concluded Smith.

-MONGI KHANYILE

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