My bit of good for the community for the week:
The Association For Visual Arts’ Artreach fund was founded by committee members in the late 1980s to help raise funds for various charities in Cape Town. In the 1990s it was transformed into a more focused fund for the financial assistance of visual artists.

To date, AVA’s Artreach fund has sponsored art materials, art studio rentals, workshop fees, art tuition, art classes for children in Langa, a sculpture peace park, a street youth drawing project, a gallery in an art school, art catalogues, exhibition expenses for shows at AVA, framing charges and production costs for exhibitions.

AVA’s Artreach programme is an initiative aimed at broadening opportunities for visual artists in South Africa by creating artmaking possibilities, by encouraging art education, by promoting through exposure, and by advancing cultural production across a wide spectrum of visual arts media.

co-sponsored by Absolut Vodka and with Lottery funding.

The Artreach committee meets on a monthly basis the 2 of February being the next date. For details with regards to applications Please check www.ava.co.za

Also the AVA's apparently amazing gallery assistant has thrown in the towel. Word has it that the job is quite well paid, but you might end up being stuck between a rock and hard place:

Friendly, organised, ability to multitask, sales/art knowledge
Proficient in: Photoshop, Word & Excel
Pastel an advantage, balls of steel a must
E-mail CV to: avaart@iafrica.com before 9 Feb.

Geez, you'd never guess that I ran into the AVA's new go-getter, would you?