Live Magazine South Africa
November 2011 will see the launch of a brand new youth media
force in South Africa. This is your chance to get involved!
ABOUT LIVE
Live magazine is created by young people for young people, working with the
support and guidance of professional mentors. The magazine has been produced
in London, UK for the last ten years, and is now opening an office in Cape Town to
give young people in South Africa the chance to get involved in the new SA
version…
The glossy magazine is read by around 150,000 young people in London, delivering
content in a youth voice – with everything from the design and photography to
illustration and editing done entirely by young people. You are in control!
Live Magazine will repeat this successful formula for South African youth, aiming to
educate, entertain and inspire a new generation with a mixture of cutting-edge
culture, fashion, sport, careers, photography, design, art and humour… all
produced entirely by young people themselves under professional mentorship. We
will base the SA version on the UK model, but create the content aimed at youth
here – including educating readers with hard-hitting social issue, politics, careers,
role models, information and guidance.
But while the aim of the magazine is to help educate, you’ll also have the chance to
enjoy super-exciting experiences... like interviewing celebrities, reviewing music,
films, events, creating fashion shoots and much more.
Live exists to help its readers and contributors to access new opportunities and
take responsibility for their own futures.
Our aim to become the magazine that is the publication for young people in South
Africa… Join us in making it happen!
THE OPPORTUNITY
Weʼre now looking for young people who are interested in journalism, design,
illustration, photography, editing, ad sales, distribution or production for a
two-month hands-on phase of activity creating a brand new magazine.
Live magazine is recruiting a core team of young people to work on its very first
South African edition. Weʼre looking for young people to spend two months at the
Live Magazine office in De Waterkant, Cape Town, working with media mentors to
produce the magazine.
What you can get out of it:
-Learn skills, or build on your existing training, in the full range of media – as well
as crucial employability skills – with a practical, hands-on process
-Work with top class expert mentors from publications including
Cosmopolitan, Dazed and Confused, Colours, Elle and many more in a
professional but supportive environment
-Get your work published and read by thousands of other young people – build
your portfolio of published work
-Use the project as a springboard into employment – get supported by experts
and mentors to develop a great CV, contacts, ideas and guidance
-Use the magazine to express yourself – have your say! Talk to other young
people and show them your creativity. Help us get crucial information and
encourage debate among young people in South Africa.
In London, 1000 young people every year contribute to Live Magazine – now
it’s your chance to be one of them on the very first South African version!
No magazine experience is necessary, but weʼre looking for young people who are
18-25 and fulfil one or all of the following criteria:
• Have shown dedication/ determination/initiative: whether that be at school, for
a project, or for their own progression
• Are currently unemployed, or studying part-time
• The Live project will create an inspiring, empowering environment that gives
participants the chance to gain crucial confidence and employability skills, as
well as first-hand experience of creating a publication that will be read by tens
of thousands of other young people.
The practical activities will include mentoring, tutoring in a wide range of content
creation and creative disciplines. This is no college course: itʼs practical, hands on,
for up to four days a week (flexible around current commitments).
We aim to give every team member a wide view of magazine publishing, with
opportunities to specialise in their preferred area (design, writing, photography etc).
There will be opportunities to continue working on Live Magazine beyond issue one
based on attendance, performance and circumstances.
This is not a paid job, but an internship and opportunity to get hands on
experience in a working environment, and we will provide you with a monthly
travel ticket.
To apply:
-Fill in the short application form, with a CV. Any examples of work would be
welcome, and send to nkuli@livityafrica.com
Deadline to apply: Wednesday 17th August. Start date 5th September.
For any questions or further info, please contact Nkuli Mlangeni on
0848950787 nkuli@livityafrica.com etc
LIVE MAGAZINE CORE TEAM: APPLICATION FORM
Thanks for your interest In Live Mag SA. Weʼd like to know a bit more about
you, so please answer the questions below and return the form to us with your
CV: email to nkuli@livityafrica.com
Name: Education level:
Date of birth: Where do you live?:
1. Where did you hear about
this opportunity?
2. Why do you want to
become part of Live
Magazine?
3. What would you hope to get
out of your time working
with Live?
4. What are your career
goals?
5. What are you interested in
in the media world
(journalism, design,
photography etc)
6. What are you personal
strengths/ weaknesses?
7. How do you feel this
opportunity would benefit
you?
8. Any other info youʼd like to
tell us about, things you
have achieved etc
For more information about Livity Africa, check out www.livityafrica.com and for info about
Live Magazine in the UK, check out www.live-magazine.co.uk

hi every one, had some issues with paper work that allows me to come out to see you all but please keep blogging about your days at work.

This weeks questions:

- Who are the role players in a single job.

- Who has the most say about the creative work?

- Who is in charge of seeing clients ?

- Team vs Individuals (comment on this)

- Specialization or general designer (comment on this )

- How are the jobs assigned?

- How could the university assist you in this regard? (referring to the questions above?)

Thanks Cheri

WILL research

Hi students let me start by saying a Big thank you for agreeing to help me with my research. Please could you all keep a journal for the next 3 weeks, i know thats hard to do so you can all just post your daily activities here on my blog that way we don't have to retype things later. Could we start by blogging our ideas around these questions below and could you keep the numbering.

1. What do you expect to do in the work place during your work integrated learning period?

2. What do you think is the most important skill or element needed for the work place ?

3. What do you think you would want to learn or experience in the work place?

I so look forward to your input!!

jo'berg March 2010

Coloured Blind

I was explaining to my son about District 6, and was explaining about white and coloured and black people and why some groups had to move. I was trying to be as objective as i could be, as i did not want him to feel less for being who he is and i wanted to tell him that he could be proud of the fact the his forefathers were slaves.

But he just looked at me and said,....."What is white people" and where is the pink, blue and green (ben ten) ones. He has no idea that people have different skin colours

good old days

i am just thinking about how that day in April must have felt for all those who we force fulled removed from the District 6. The got letters saying that they would have to relocated to the cape flats, bonta's. lavis. Mplain and so on at the end of May and 6 months later the bulldozers came and just drove over a lively hood that once thrived

I listen to my grandma today as she old me about the old days and how she was so glad for the 4 roomed house in lavis that the gov would give her when she moved, as she only had a house with 2 rooms back then. She did not say anything bad about apartheid or white people or being poor. She just remembered the music and who she would dance and be so in love with da sailor(grand pa) who was so much older and so in control. I felt so angry, what she was so o.k with that. She told me that forgiveness for all things past and things to come are more important than living with what if". So i wish i grow up on the other side of the track and went to a nice school and had nice things and my own room and for along time people wished they were white. I can see why.

We now have another war , the war against poverty , the line between rich and poor is so wide. HOPE is all they have, so why am i complaining. And Jesus did say the poor will always be with you...so i am a prayer warrior for poverty of the heart and of this life, from SA to Mexico to Roianda and Haiti.

just to a few fat cats leave so many hungry....

cheers

Reflecting on Class on wednesday 13/04/ Knowledge

Hey I am doing the course and was thinking i was o.k then i got to class last Wednesday i was so over my head. Every one is so intelligent and speaking about things i not sure of, hectic. I felt strongly about a few issues and wanted to say something but the fear of sounding silly keep me still. That must be just how my students feel. I often get so excited about stuff that people get stuck on my emotion towards it and they don't listen to what i have to say, other times they just think i too young to contribute anything worth while.

I have nearly ten years teaching experience and i could always draw so i guest i have something to contribute, that is what i tell my students. There is a place for all of us in the art world and so too in life for we have purpose on matter how small. So here goes.

1. Why does university teachers come down on school so badly, for any one who has ever been to public school lately will tell you , it is hard being a teacher there. It is a tuff place and most days you just pray to get home without any miss hap. The teacher do their best but the big classes and ill discipline and lack of supplies and the in fighting amongst teachers and management, it is so hard to be there. Some students use schools as a platform to get their drugs and smokes sold and to get to other kids. Break times is so hard, violent and dangerous. And all you hear from curriculum advisers is that you must do more you must give more. The students are never to blame and you are powerless in every way. So the few would make it out of there and in to university , i am so proud and thank full. We have no idea what they faced in school. Please be mind full about all the challenges at public schools.

Please see face book page on Belhar high and you could get an insight to public school.

2. I don't like curriculum development, since school days , all the education dept. say is lets fix the curriculum but on the ground level it is a different story, teacher cheat the system and fairly so they get paid the rates as someone in a shop or factory. So why , where is the job satisfaction a pride? I can't blame them. How can we develop the learning but we are not developing the person. So i started saying curriculum development was for people who sit in offices and make up these things but have no idea what is happening in the class room,. They want to brush every one with the same brush. Just like in the old days, when we were all suppose to think in the same why so why are surprised that we have so few free thinkers.

3. Modes of knowledge Generations:
- I heard about this for the first time in class but it was not new to me at all. Mode 1 referes to the traditional mode of education, like university. and Mode 2 from the university of life LOL i love that because everything i know was from experience even after tech, i was still drawing logos by hand and in the job they used pc and scanners, by first job was at you magazine and i was the scanner but i have never scanned in my life and was not equip to be in that environment, never saw a contract or a bank card before. So since that moment i just remained hungry to learn anything and very thing, because here i was thinking i went to tech and had matric, but i still knew so little. So i want my students to have that hunger for information, to find out even if you don't know.

4. Things that in pact curriculum:
- this was a bit over my head as she was explain it. And only after class did it get to me. Macro (world) and Mesro (provincial) and Micro (school) all these thing inpact on what we plan to teach.

5. What is a curriculum:

- basically a plan on what will be learned and what will i teach and how. Allowing both modes and relevant examples, whil simulating real life briefs. Diversity, unfair footings find out what others say about it.

6. Concept and Context

This was tuff for me but now i get it, Concept has i building block system and context is a practical system. I do believe they go hand in hand and not one or the other Some things are build up and other just happen, As long as there is coherency or follow that makes sense.

cheers for now...