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^{Walter Oltmann, recipient of the 2001 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art and winner of the 2007 Sasol Wax Art Award, exhibits new works employing both human and insect aspects to explore the paradoxes of vulnerability and the monstrous. Oltmann’s obsessive explorations of the natural world have resulted in drawings in ink and bleach and woven wire constructions that reference local craft traditions. Walter Oltmann is a senior lecturer at the Wits  School  of the Arts, Johannesburg. Read more}

^{AfricanColours.net is currently seeking students or other interested parties to fill internship and volunteer positions. We need 2 onsite interns in the Nairobi area who are able to commit to 20 hours per week and 2 to 3 interns to work online from anywhere in the world. We are also actively accepting volunteer professionals help from individuals interested in helping AfricanColours.net move to the next level. Click here for more details.}

^{In December the multimedia project Timbuktu.tv was launched. This project will be carried out by the VPRO (a Dutch public broadcaster with an innovative and liberal character), in cooperation with Hivos. Broadcasting will start the end of March 2008. Timbuktu will be broadcasting weekly TV-shows and a 24/7 video website about small and big world affairs.}

^{It will be a programme about foreign affairs for young people, the YouTube generation. HIVOS is looking for film makers and journalists who would like to contribute to the programme. As a correspondent you will be producing and directing short features about events in your country. Filming for Timbuktu TV can also be an additional source of income. Click here to read more.}

_{The Abro International workshop held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for two weeks has just concluded. The theme of the workshop titled 'Embryo' was a symbol of a new beginning for Abro who have officially joined the Triangle Arts Trust. “The Embryo idea came about during the planning of the workshop. It is all about giving visual artists the chance to express their experience in finding oneself in a common womb... Read and view images of the workshop here} 

_{The drawing, Crossing Over is my attempt to portray a woman who has renounced the physical world of the senses in the desire to seek a spiritual world of love and understanding. In this I wish to explore the question: How do we explain, the political and violent events that happen in our lives and in the world, now that we no longer believe in the power of ‘divine intervention’? Click here to read more about lauryn Arnott's upcoming exhibition.}