2015 Edition

Peter Rorvik

Peter Rorvik

Secretary-General of Arterial Network 

South Africa

He was director of the Durban International Film Festival in South Africa from 1999 to 2012. As director of the Centre for Creative Arts (UKZN), Rorvik was also responsible for its other annual festivals - Time of the Writer, JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience and Poetry Africa. Rorvik’s experience includes fundraising, strategy planning, festival design and implementation, intercultural exchange, training, and audience development initiatives. Rorvik was recently appointed Secretary-General of Arterial Network, an agency concerned with structural growth for arts and culture in Africa, and whose work includes building sustainable networks, policy formulation and lobbying, mobilizing resources, training, and various continental projects, across the continent of Africa.