Youngsters flock to education workshop
National artists, such as R J Benjamin and celebrity afro-jazz singer Ms Judith Sphuma, also supported the event.
Youngsters from across Ivory Park flocked to the Ivory Park North Hall for the Geleza Kleva Education workshop.
The workshop was held on Friday last week and was hosted by Standard Bank Joy of Jazz.
National artists, such as R J Benjamin and celebrity afro-jazz singer Ms Judith Sphuma, also supported the event.
They shared their experiences with the youth in Ivory Park.
These highly focused learning programmes are organised with the aim of empowering young people who have little or no access to such information.
Geleza Kleva Education is a jazzy, youthful street vernacular expression that implores savvy individuals to rise to the occasion and resolve to study, learn and up-skill themselves.
It is carries both a challenge and a rallying call to action for individuals to educate and improve their lives through interactive workshops.
The workshops covered lessons about careers in the music industry beyond what happens on the stage.
Standard Bank Joy of Jazz, founder and executive producer Mr Peter Tladi, said they believe that Geleza Kleva and Learn contributes in a meaningful way to the growing the arts and culture sector by empowering interested young people with a rare opportunity to learn from elite industry players.
“We strive to ensure that attendees come out with a clearer understanding of various opportunities and careers available in the music industry and what it takes to pursue them. Star students will also be selected and picked up by some of the speakers to work for them. In this way, it not only works to shape employable individuals but future job creators too, as they come out of the workshops with a renewed capacity and confidence to claim their space in a highly competitive industry,” he added.
