2012 National Arts Festival Programme by National Arts Festival

DEPARTMENT OF SPORT, RECREATION, ARTS AND CULTURE Private Bag/Ingxowa Eyodwa/Privaatsak X0020, BHISHO 5605

The Department

The Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture gives due regard to provincial priorities by ensuring that its mission caters sufficiently for youth, women, the disadvantaged and the disabled. The guiding principles for programme development are based on the 10year Provincial Growth and Development Plan.

Our Vision

A united, active, and winning province through sport, recreation, arts and culture

Our Mission

To develop and promote Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture for spiritual, intellectual, physical and material upliftment of the people of the Eastern Cape

Our Values

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Unity of purpose Respect for self and others Commitment to service delivery Loyalty to the organisation and the people we serve Work ethics Honesty Communication Equity

Our Programmes

The programmes of the Department are designed to render services in the following areas: ;; Sport and Recreation ;; Arts and Culture ;; Libraries and Information Services ;; Museums and Heritage

Contact details:

MEC Mrs Xoliswa Tom Member of the Executive Council: Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture Tel: 043 – 604 4101 Fax: 043 – 604 4093

Mr Mzolisi Matutu

Head of Department: Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture Tel: 043 – 604 4019/20 Fax: 043 – 642 5309

Ms Naledi Nkula

General Manager: Cultural Affairs Tel. 043 – 604 4013 Fax. 043 – 642 5386

Sisonke Sinakho

Contents

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Accommodation Travel Map Booking Procedures 2013 Call for Proposals Standard Bank Ovation Awards

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Student Theatre

Main Programme Fringe Programme The Art of Opportunity Village Green Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Arts Festival

Theatre

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Physical Theatre

Festival Messages Acknowledgements Index Standard Bank Young Artist Award Winners French Season in South Africa

Dance

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Arena Programme 28 29 46 77 103

Dance Physical Theatre Theatre Music Exhibitions

French Season in South Africa 26 45 73 114 142

Dance Theatre Music Performance Art Public Art

Eastern Cape Showcase 74 Music 100 Exhibitions

Solo Season 41 Theatre

Family Theatre

Front cover photograph: ÂŠ JL Beaujault

164 185 Drama

The Festival organisers have made every effort to ensure that everything printed in this publication is accurate. However, mistakes and changes do occur, and we do not accept any responsibility for them or for any inaccuracies or misinformation within advertisements. Artists provide images, logos and advertisements and we accept no responsibility for the quality of reproduction in this publication.

Physical Theatre

We will be publishing an update to our Programme which will be available in Grahamstown throughout the Festival, at all of our Box Offices and Information Kiosks. This will contain updated information on performances and events, changes, cancellations and additional shows and a daily diary.

147 158 Dance

2012 Festival Programme Update

Public Art

Think!Fest

Film

Performance Art Exhibitions Jazz Music

SpiritFest

Music Theatre / Cabaret

Classical / Recital

Contemporary Music

Visual Art

Cine-Mazing Film

217 220 229 241 244

Comedy

188 212

137 105 116 129 78 91

Photo: Suzy Bernstein

Ayanda Mjekula National Arts Festival Board Chairman

elcome once again, on behalf of the Board of the National Arts Festival, to the 38th edition of this amazing feast of the arts.

welcome the partnership to the Festival, knowing that it will make both our audiences and our artists richer for the experience.

Whether you are planning on visiting for a day or for a week, I know that you’re going to be blown away by the variety on offer, and the thread of excellence that runs through this year’s programme. Our stages truly have something for everyone: from traditional to classical, through to contemporary. Work that will make you laugh, cry, gasp, sympathise, roar, shriek and shudder. There are performances from South Africa’s best, our newest, our rising and our hopeful stars, peppered with gems from around the world in every genre.

The Board is grateful to our sponsors, funders, partners, critics and friends for continuing to invest time, money, passion and creative energy into the Festival. We’re particularly grateful to our presenting sponsors: Standard Bank, National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, National Arts Council, Eastern Cape Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture, MNet and our new print partner, City Press, for believing in the Festival and in the power of the arts. We salute you for your contribution, and hope that your investment is considered money well spent.

This year we celebrate the launch of the French Season in South Africa in Grahamstown, the result of a bilateral agreement between our two countries and an extraordinary partnership across the arts sector and government. We

Finally, the management of the Festival join me in welcoming you to Grahamstown, hoping that, when you leave, you will do so with exhilarating memories, new friends, and a promise to return

Jay Pather National Arts Festival Committee Chairman

ace is not important. Not to art. Excellence matters.

I wondered about this as I sat in an overwhelmingly white audience through the Fleur du Cap Awards earlier this year. Out of 72 nominations in the various categories there were four black artists and with those odds, no black winners. What ever happened? Should we be taking notice? Should race matter? In our deliberations at the National Arts Festival, the number of applications that we receive is demographically skewed. It is a sad reflection of how far we have come (or rather, not) in attempts at education and development, redress and funding opportunities. A disturbing trend recurs. Young black artists emerge with powerful, groundbreaking work. This is seemingly where the growth stops. A vehicle that mediates, and carefully grows these precious buds into strong and sustainable forests is missing. A sad disconnect exists here and as much I want this address to be full of epithets of positivity, there are moments when things reach a head that we simply cannot ignore. We should look at this more closely. Because in the absence of some clearly defined mechanism to safeguard this, the strange habitual repetitiveness of a time we thought we left behind occurs without warning and in this unfortunate pattern, it is impossible to ignore race. And so as much as excellence in the arts does, race matters.

With this in mind the Artistic Committee is hard-pressed to develop ways of selection and curation. While the open call is still priority, and so is excellence, we are committed to looking closely at repetitive patterns of absence and skewed demographics and other more concerted ways of programming are in place. This year’s programme is packed with excellence and innovation. It is an abundant and diverse programme. Most importantly, it makes conscious attempts to extend the range of work to the cutting-edge contemporary. Several inter-disciplinary works and collaborations, and a whole new category of performance art that blurs boundaries between genres and invites out the box thinking, mark a programme that secures the classical and the tried and the tested but that invites works that break new ground. Several international works including those from the much-anticipated French Season in South Africa, as well as national works across the disciplines, walk a tightrope of edgy aesthetics. A veritable feast from far flung sources in one space. From Think!Fest, which features provocations for intellectual engagement in lectures from culture to politics, to a startling Arena programme and one of the biggest Fringes we have had, the programme is truly a national body of work. The palpable passion and talent of the artists featured here to the young, increasingly

inventive performers on the streets of Grahamstown, all bear testimony to a wealth in our nation beyond the hyperbole. It is incumbent on us to get the absences right. An artist creates in a moment of risk and great vulnerability. When they fly, they carry all we ever believe in. It is both a responsibility and a liberation. I trust that we have provided enough support to make the flight robust and confident. In this regard, I want to sincerely thank the hardworking Artistic Committee, Ismail, Tony, the Festival office and the Technical Team. Now it is only left to you, our valuable audiences, to experience and enjoy these remarkable journeys by our artists, these magicians of our soul, our intellect and our dreams.

Jacko Maree Group Chief Executive, Standard Bank Group

he National Arts Festival, always a barometer of the country’s cultural landscape, plays an important role in the artistic development of our society. We value any contribution we can make to enhance the growth and enrichment of South Africa’s cultural heritage, especially through the annual Young Artist Awards as well as the Standard Bank Jazz Festival and its accompanying Youth Jazz component. Our association with this iconic cultural event dates back to 1983 when Standard Bank first became the title sponsor of the Festival. The partnership has endured over a period of 30 years although it has taken on a slightly different guise in the past ten years since the establishment of a multi-sponsor relationship in 2002 when the Eastern Cape Government joined forces with Standard Bank followed by

the National Lotteries Distribution Trust Fund and the National Arts Council. We are delighted that this partnership has ensured that the future of the festival is secure and we trust that it will continue to do so. Standard Bank has made a firm commitment of support for the next three years as we believe in the significant contribution of this cross-cultural showcase which reflects a truly national character. As a financial institution we try to position ourselves as being relevant to the societies in which we operate and the arts constitute one of the core pillars of our involvement with communities. Our appreciation is due to the overall Festival team who, together with the citizens of

Grahamstown, as well as the support of the national media, make this important event happen every year. We wish you every success.

Xoliswa Tom Mec For Sports, Recreation, Arts & Culture of the Eastern Cape

usic, theatre, dance, visual art, crafts, film and literature … these are the many forms of expression through which South Africa’s artists become the shining examples of how our country continues to heal from its past, embrace its present conditions and envision its future. The arts are one of many tools through which South Africa’s struggle for democracy was fought. At the National Arts Festival this year, the Eastern Cape Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts & Culture will present the exhibition, My Expression, My Freedom which reflects on the past 100 years of how South African artists used their creativity to ensure that future generations of South Africans will enjoy the fruits of a new democracy. This exhibition is informed by the centenary celebrations of the African National Congress which is the ruling political party in the Eastern Cape, and which is committed to ensuring that the arts continue to be the vehicle through which we advance social cohesion in all our communities. The Eastern Cape is one of South Africa’s most economically challenged provinces but the National Arts Festival, which is located in this province, is the one place in South Africa where the richness of our diversity and the wealth of our creativity shows no boundaries. This province has given us internationally celebrated artists such Athol Fugard, Winston Ntshona, John Kani, Michael Moerane, George Pemba, Zim Ngcawana, Elizabeth Connel and a host of other creative geniuses. Earlier this year, the Eastern Cape Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts &

Culture was the first in South Africa to host a summit to explore ways to advance the Mzanzi’s Golden Economy proposals as outlined by Arts & Culture Minister Paul Mashatile. This province is not only the host of the continent’s largest arts festival but it also demonstrates that it has the vision and the courage to take a leadership role in determining how the arts can contribute to economic prosperity for all South Africans. It is also significant that as the African National Congress celebrates its centenary this year that the city of Grahamstown is also reflecting on its own 200 year history. In the same way that the Eastern Cape Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts & Culture has embraced the courage to present My Freedom, My Expression, I applaud the artists and arts organisations of Grahamstown who will grasp the opportunity to create work that further reflects, celebrates and articulates the many challenges that we still all have towards building opportunities for those who have been previously marginalised. To the visitors from all over South Africa and abroad who will visit the Festival this year, let me wish you an enjoyable, stimulating and inspiring experience in our province. I also want to take this opportunity of inviting you to attend the Eastern Cape Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts & Culture’s Indigenous Music and Dance performances, the province’s craft hub and to support the province’s jazz initiative at the Dakawa Centre. At the province’s WordFest programme, I urge you to reflect, to be critical, to debate, to engage each other’s minds and consciences.

Once again, I want to express my Department’s appreciation to the National Arts Festival for making the Eastern Cape the platform at which all South Africans can embrace each other, laugh together, feel the same empathy, share the same hopes and imagine the enormous potential that we have as a nation. I want to continue to pledge my Department’s support for the National Arts Festival and to thank the officials in my Department for the partnership role that they play with the Festival to advance Minister Paul Mashatile’s vision of Mzanzi’s Golden Economy to create a new growth path for our people. In the spirit of the arts, I say, “Xa sisebenza sonke singeza lukhulu”.

The National Arts Festival would like to thank the following sponsors and supporters

Presenting sponsors:

Strategic partners:

Supplier sponsors:

With thanks to: African Festival Network Albany Museum Group AN White Artscape Australian High Commission Brandhouse South Africa British Council Cadar Printers Churches of Grahamstown Cinemark Computicket DALRO Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) Embassy of China Embassy of France Embassy of Spain French Institute in South Africa (IFAS) Goethe Institute Goodman Gallery Grahamstown Hospitality Guild Italian Embassy in South Africa Italian Institute of Culture J&C Joel South Africa Magnetic Storm Members of the South African and International Media Makana Municipality Opera Africa PG Bison George Pick ‘n Pay Walmer Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) ProHelvetia PVision Red Pepper Pictures Royal Netherlands Embassy in South Africa SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts SGB - Cape South African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) South African Police Service Standard Bank for loan of computers Standard Bank Gallery Ster-Kinekor Stockton International Riverside Festival Swallows Foundation Troubadour US Embassy Village Green Committee World Fringe Alliance The Managements, Presenting Companies, Galleries, Artists and Technical Staff whose talent, professionalism and creativity make the Festival a pleasure to produce, and an amazing 11 days for our audiences to experience. The Citizens of Grahamstown for their hospitality, support and encouragement.

The Schools and Colleges of Grahamstown: Carinus Arts Centre Diocesan School for Girls Graeme College Kingswood College Nombulelo Secondary School P J Olivier Hoërskool St Andrew’s College St Andrew’s Preparatory Victoria Girls’ High School Victoria Preparatory School Good Shepherd Oatlands Primary School. National Arts Festival Team: Tony Lankester (CEO) Ismail Mahomed (Festival Director) Kate Axe Davies (Festival Manager) Zikhona Nweba (Fringe Manager) Nicci Spalding (Technical Director) Michelle Lowry (Technical Manager) Ryan Bruton (Technical Administrator) Danielle Wessels (Receptionist and Social Secretary) Nichole de Vos (Fringe Assistant) Lynette Marais (Project Consultant) Selina White (Village Green Director) Clarissa Carolus (Village Green Assistant) Gilly Hemphill, Fiona Gordon and Cilnette Pienaar (The Famous Idea Trading Company – Media and Public Relations) Festival Programme: Brian Garman – Rhodes University School of Journalism & Media Studies (Art Direction and Design) Natalia Carvalho Ruth Chatukuta Shavaughn Haack Tanya Hirst Sumaya Ismail Jennifer Jacobs Nina Joubert Sarah Kobal Stephanie Pretorius Claire Smith Amy Uzzell Danelle Wessels Abigail Whelan Simone Loxton (Layout team) Cadar Printers, Port Elizabeth (Printing) Website: Matthew Buckland Chris Conradie Catherine Murray Graham Shillington Ryan Gordon (Creative Spark)

Board of Directors: Association incorporated under Section 21 Registration No. 2002/016052/08 Ayanda Mjekula (Chairman) Jay Pather (Chairman: Festival Artistic Committee) Paul Bannister Letepe Maisela Elinor Sisulu Grahame Lindop Nopasika Lila Albie Sachs Louisa Clayton (Grahamstown Foundation Representative) Tony Lankester (CEO)

Audit Committee: Thavanesen Padiachy (Chairpman) Grahame Lindop Nopasika Lila

National Arts Festival Artistic Committee: Jay Pather (Chairman) Melissa Mboweni (Vice Chairman / Visual Art) Richard Cock (Music) Mokale Koapeng (Music) Andrew Verster (Visual Art) Brett Bailey (Theatre) Dominic Thorburn (Visual Art) Nomusa Makhubu (Visual Art) Brenton Maart (Visual Art) Malcolm Purkey (Theatre) Aubrey Sekhabi (Theatre) Adrienne Sichel (Theatre, Dance, Arts Development) Trevor Steele Taylor (Film) Anthea Garman (Think!Fest) Alan Webster (Jazz)

Sponsors’ Representatives Pragasen Chetty (Eastern Cape Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts & Culture) Mandie Van Der Spuy (Standard Bank) Bongani Tembe (National Arts Council)

National Arts Festival Representatives Tony Lankester (CEO) Ismail Mahomed (Festival Director) Kate Axe Davies (Festival Manager)

Media Representative Gilly Hemphill

INDEX TO THE 2012 NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 05978321 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 !Aïa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 0>40 and Everything in Between . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 2012: The Mayan Raiders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 2052 Karoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 2Late . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 31 Million Reasons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 4 Nights with Anna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 8arts8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 A City within a City: Vestigial Memories of Colonial and Apartheid Durban . . . . . . . . . 134 Activism & Agency – A Panel Discussion . . . . 131 A Dance Interpretive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 A Gift from the Stones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 A Karoo Moment Relived . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 A Midsummer Night’s Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 A Moment when Love Hurts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 A Tale of Horribleness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 A Tribute to Linga Diko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 A. Spell – Songs & Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 About Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Absolucy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Acoustic Soul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 AFDA Retrospective 1994 – 2011: Reinventing our Local Cinema Voice . . . . 128 African Heartbeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 African Music Renewal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 African Rhythms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 African Romantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Afrikaaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Afrikwetu Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Afro-Fusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Afro-Sessions with Take Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Afternoon of a Foehn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Age of Loneliness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Ahmed Kathrada – Bannings and Jailings . . 132 Ahmed Kathrada – Tour of the Exhibition Kathy, The Man Behind the Public Image . . . . . . . . 133 Ajobi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Alchemy of Desire / Dead-man’s Blues . . . . . . . . 50 Alice Who? This aint Wonderland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 All-Star NYJF Closer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Alone: together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Alright, Mrs Albright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 An Audience with Pieter-Dirk Eish! . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Ancestors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Ancient Inspirations: Chanticleer Singers . . . . 61 Andy Narell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Angels and Aliens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Another Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Antjie in Berlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Apartment 107 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Architecture, Space and Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Arena Art Exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Arno Carstens & Band in Concert . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Around Iceland on Inspiration – Riaan Manser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Art Comix Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Art of Intersection (Street Parade) . . . . . . . . . . 140 Art Walkabouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 ART: 4x4 Seasons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Art Show Cannes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Arts and Crafts by Vukile Teyise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Arts Writing / Writing Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 As You Were . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Astral City: A Spiritual Journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Autopsy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Ave Maria / Halleluja . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Bala Brothers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Bantustan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Barney Pityana – The Silences and Gaps . . . 133 Bathongwa Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Beautiful Classical Melodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

Being & Belonging – An Interactive Exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Before the Sin and Fall of a Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Behind Every Rastaman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Behind the Exhibits – Brett Bailey with Anton Krueger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Being & Belonging: Zackie Achmat . . . . . . . . . 131 Beit Bridge to Cape Point – George Scola . . . 135 Below Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Bench . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Benjamin Herman Quartet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Bernarda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Best Medicine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Best of Durban Hip Hop & Poetry I . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Best of Durban Hip Hop & Poetry II . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Between the Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Beyond Belief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Big Band to Hollywood – Buble takes Centrestage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Big Boys don’t Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Big Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Big Time with Braka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Bitches be Crazy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Black Butterflies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Bliss! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Blue & White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Body Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Boet ‘n Swaer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Bosman’s Patriots: A Scoundrel’s View . . . . . . 134 Bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Braka Quartet – Elephants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Breathe Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Bridezilla! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Brothers in Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Bru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 B-Traq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Butlers & Bunny Chows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 By the Apricot Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Bye Bye World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 C L I V I S – activities, declivities, proclivities . . . 232 Callum’s Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Camerata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Carine Bonnefoy New Large Ensemble . . . . . . . 80 Carine Bonnefoy Quartet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Carnage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Catch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Caught in the Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Cedric Nunn: Call and Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Celebration of Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Cell… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Centrestage Extravaganza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Centrestage’s Nuvo Retro Topsy Turvy Music Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Chasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Cheryl Carolus – The Mass Struggle . . . . . . . . 132 Children of the Soil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Children Playing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Choice of the Bleeding Hearts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Choosing and Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Chris Chameleon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Chris Thurman on At Large: Reviewing the Arts in South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Clare Menck: Hidden Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Classical Curiosities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232 Claudia Mohr: My Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Clora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Colossus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Comedy with Khanyisa Bunu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Conduct Unbecoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Conscious Marimba Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Cooked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Coward & Cole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Craft from Waste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

Crush Hopper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Cry the Beloved Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Culloden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Cultural Boycotts – Are They Effective? . . . . . 130 Culture and the Built Environment . . . . . . . . . 134 Dance Spectrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Dark Imaginings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 David Newton – Best of Fest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 David Newton – Dysfunctional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 David wasn’t Built in a Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Davyn and the Rhinos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Dear Mandela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Dearly Departed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Defining a Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Die Windpomp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Diphala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Discharge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Discounted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Dogyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Double Double Bass Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Double Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Down on the First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Dr Stef’s Side-splitting Hypnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Dream Boy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Dream, Brother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 D-Seven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Eastern Cape Provincial Craft Exhibition . . . 101 Eco-Wolf and the Three Pigs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Eden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Edvard Munch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Egazini Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Eliezer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Encore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Engagement of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Ernie Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Etty Spaghetti . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Evening Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Evolution in Black and White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Exhibit A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Extended Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 F.A.T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Face the Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Faces of Betrayal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Fallen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Falling Truths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Fence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Ferial Haffajee – Free Thinker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Filming the Future – The Neons . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Finding Nemorena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Fingo Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Fiona Forde – The ANC Youth League and the Future of the ANC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Fiona Forde on An Inconvenient Youth, Julius Malema and the ‘new’ ANC . . . . . . . . 136 Fired Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Flotsam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Flying Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Fracking in the Karoo – Katie Du Toit Barnard135 Fractography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Fragile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Frank Chikane – The ANC in Power . . . . . . . . . . 132 Frank Chikane on Eight Days in September and No Life of my Own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Freedom Blues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Frene Ginwala – The Exile Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 From China, With Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Gala Concert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Garth Taylor Stripped Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Gary Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Gauteng Motjeko Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Gerald Clark & Luna Paige . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Ghetto Bang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Gig Guide (Urban Lounge & Prime) . . . . . . . . . . . 225

9 Gino Fabbri and Donna Africa in ‘Funni Galore!’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Gino Fabbri and Donna Africa in ‘Toasted Nuts’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Giselle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Global Ballgame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 God’s Perfect Palette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Goon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Grahamstown Voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Green Man Flashing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Guess this is why they call it The Blues . . . . . . . . 223 Guitar Legends & Graham Gillot Band . . . . . . . . . 223 Guy Buttery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Ha Jabulane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 Halle’s Comet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Hare Roperopehe Feela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 Hassan’adas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Hats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Have you seen me? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Hear the Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Her & Him . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Here Lies the Last Broken Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Hidden Closet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Hol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Home from Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Hope is the Saddest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Horn of Sorrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 How would you “Handel” the Messiah? . . . . . . . . 213 Hypnagogia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 I am an African . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 I Love You when You’re Breathing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 I Melt with You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 I Salute Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow . . . . . . . . . 170 ILAM Free Fringe Indigenous Music & Dance Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Impressions of the Karoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Imprints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 In Praise of Vessels / Treasures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 In Situ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Inner Necessity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Inter.Fear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Interactions: A Strategy of Difference and Repetition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Interplay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Intonjane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 intranceit 2012 – Erasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 intranceit 2012 – Hydrolunatics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 intranceit 2012 – Rusty Spoons Collective . . . . . 160 inTranceit 2012 – Tender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 intranceit 2012 – The Memory of Water . . . . . . . 170 Isigekle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Isikhalo Sendoda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Isingqi SabaThembu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Ithemba-Tattu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 It’s all about Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Itshawe Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Itsoseng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Jazz at Dakawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Jazz Jam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Jenna Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Jerusalema . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Jitsvinger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Johan Carinus Art Centre: 2012 Exhibitions . . . 232 John Ellis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Journeying Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Jurie Steyn’s Post Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Just Business/Net Besigheid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Kaleidoscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Kaput . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Karoo 2052 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Kathy, The Man Behind the Public Figure . . . . . 98 Keepsake Minus 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Kelibogile Boikanyo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Kenaz: A Sight-and-Sound Journey . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Kesivan & the Lights Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Kgafela le Marabele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Khanyisa Cultural Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Khotso Sethuntsa Returns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Khupamarama – The Secret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 King of Old Trafford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Kissing Sid James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Kitchen Fables in a Cookie Jar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 La Commune . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Laddered Fishnets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Laisses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Landi Raubenheimer and Paul Cooper . . . . . . . . 236 Lanx & Obtus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Laurie Levine & Lize Wiid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Laurie Levine & the Folk Collective . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Le Chop Royale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Leave a Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Les Pigeons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Letters from the Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Life Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Limpopo the Musical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Little Foot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Little Hartmut & an Expression FM . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Live and Kicking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Live Wire: The Explosion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Living Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Local Artists Exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Lolo Rollins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 London Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Lord Hamlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Los Angeles Children’s Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Louis Armstrong & Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Lovborg’s Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Love @ First Fight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Love for Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 LoveGlori . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Loving Memories of a War Fought Badly . . . . . . 198 Loyile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Loyiso Bala . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Lucy Kruger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Macbeth & Quo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Madikizela Verwoerd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Mafeking Road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Maingard & Hutch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Making Way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Making Your Way in the Arts World . . . . . . . . . 135 Mall Girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Man on the Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Mango Groove . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Manolibera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Margot and the Dolls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Mariannhill: A Chain Broken. Social Change and Material Challenges to our Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Maria’s Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Marimba & Vibraphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Marimba Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Martha Marcy May Marlene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Martin Evans and the FBPK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Master of the Café Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Mayhem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Medeaphenomenon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Media Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Mediated Citizenship in South Africa . . . . . . 131 Melancholia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Memories in the Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Midwinter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Mies Julie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Miskien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Mix Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Mlungisi Gegana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Mmmhhm, Mmmhhm! (Silence) What is Therapeutic About Therapy? Gael Beckett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Mo Molemi and Mo Miles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Mob Feel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Moffie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 molo mimi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Money’s too Tight to Mention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Moribo wa SeTswana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Morris Goldberg Quartet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Mother Milk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Mother to Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Mpande Zabangoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Mvanda let’s Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 My Bra se Tjirrie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 My Freedom, My Expression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 My Hunters Heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 My Life with the Jazz Greats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 My Victory (Uloyiso) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Mzobane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Nampri’s All in One Dancers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Natalie Rungan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Natasha Meister Band . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Ndilamba Njani (Why should I suffer) . . . . . . . . . 237 Ndingo Johwa (Satjilombe) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 New Paintings: Jacqueline Griffin-Jones . . . . . . . 237 Nibs van der Spuy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Nibs van der Spuy & Guy Buttery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 No Strings Attached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Nothing Funny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Nounouche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Nthathu / Three . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 NY/SA Collective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Of Birds and Beasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Off the Beaten Path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Off the Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Okuya Phantsi Kwempumlo/ The Meal . . . . . . . . 154 Ological Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 On the Trail of Bowakazi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 One In Nine – Talk by Tracey Derrick . . . . . . . . 135 One in Nine Exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 One Minute Later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 One-Woman Farce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Open Spaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Opera for Fools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Oscar Petersen Tribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Out of Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Out of Silence: Leopards & the Trapping Truth Exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Lecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Owl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Pacific Art Gallery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Paige Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Pants on Fire! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Pantsula van Tuka Af . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 PaperBoy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Pastel & Pixels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Performance Obscura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Phall♂s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Pierrot Lunaire, Op 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Ping, Sing & Sting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Pitterpat the Crazee Caterpillar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Plasma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Platteland Patriots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Pocket Shots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Polis Series: An Arena for the Examination of a Small Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Power of Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 PPC Young Sculptors Exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Princess Emma – Ukuzazi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Princess Mkabayi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Privy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Professor Twiddle’s Tremendous Time Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Prototype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Pudique Acide / Extasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Pumzi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Punishment Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Puppet Asylum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Purple Passage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Race Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Rachmaninov Vespers: Chanticleer Singers . . . 61 Radi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Rapid Fire Fairytales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Rats! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Reclaiming Body – Reclaiming Self . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Red . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Reflect. Celebrate. Live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Reflections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Re-Fresh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Relativity: Township Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Relocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Retinal Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Return of the Red Flag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 ReVerse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Revival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Reworking Strindberg: Staging Yael Farber’s Mies Julie – Marcia Blumberg . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Rhino Poaching – Themba’s Story . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Rhodes Fine Art Student Exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Rhythmic Hearts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Rhythms of the Eastern Cape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Riaan Manser on Around Africa on my Bicycle; Around Madagascar on my Kayak; and Around Iceland on Inspiration . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Risiko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Risk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Road to Nowhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Rob van Vuuren – Live! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Romancing the Stone: A Shona Sculpture . . . . 238 Rosemary Smith on Swimming with Cobras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Rradinokga – Father of Snakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 SA Shorts: Quickies for a Microwave Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Sacred Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Sacred Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 Saints, Sinners and Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Salzmann Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Sandile Goje’s Solo Exhibition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Saturday Night Funk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 School / Youth Bands I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 School / Youth Bands II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Sê - My - Alles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Seashells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Seriously? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Seswagga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Settler Skeletons and Colourful Characters . 136 Sex in the Suburbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Shades of Blackness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Shame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Shannon Hope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 She Died Dreaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Shika-Land! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Shoelace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Should I Last this Long? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Sie Weiss Alles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Signatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Simfonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Simply Broadway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Sipho Mutsi “The Barefooted Comrade” . . . . . . . 242 Siyavuma Makhosi Dancers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Sjöstedt/Almqvist New Quartet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Skeem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Skin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Small Pieces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Snare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Snow White and Russian Red . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Sobukwe my Husband . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Sorry Wrong Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Soul of Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Sounds like Fun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 South African–Swedish Youth Big Band . . . . . . 87 Southern Exposure: A Double Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Spamily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Speaking Power’s Truth: Steven Friedman . . 131 SpiritFest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 Spontaneous Reunion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Standard Bank National Schools’ Big Band . . . 86 Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band . . . . . 86 Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz: Afrika Mkhize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Starwors: The Final Parody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Stately Homes and Old School Ties . . . . . . . . . 136 Staude Landscapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Ster City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Storielied . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Stories of Crime and Passion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 StringCaesar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Stroke Survivor: George Scola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Stuperstition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Subject to Citizen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Subject To Citizen – Think!Fest performance & discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Sunday Morning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Symphony Concert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Synchro-Psyche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Tactics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Tales from the Brothers Grimm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Talking Heads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Tallulah Belle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Taming the Terroir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Tender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 The Art of George Pemba: Content and Reception – Brenda Schmahmann . . . . . . 132 The ArtEC 93rd Annual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 The Arts Lounge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 The Best of Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 The Blue Iris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 The Bowl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 The Brothers Streep: Stand-Up Musicians . . . . . 206 The Captain’s Tiger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 The Chilli Boy – 10th Anniversary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 The China Fujian Art Troupe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 The Cradle of Humankind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 The Dance of the Redeemed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 The Dark House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 The Dead will Awaken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 The Diary of an Unknown Soldier . . . . . . . . . . . 116 The Dogs must be Crazy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 The Durban Comedy Invasion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 The End of Model C Schools as we Know Them . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 The Epicene Butcher and Other Stories for Consenting Adults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 The Essence of Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 The Evening Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 The First Grader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 The Forgotten Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 The Fox & the Horn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The Frank Sinatra Tribute Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 The Freethinker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 The Genesis Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 The Gladiators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 The Graveyard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 The Handkerchief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 The Homeless Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 The Horn – The Musical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 The Last Lions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 The Limits to Liberation: Steve Robins . . . . . 131 The Lowlander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 The Monastery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 The Muffinz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 The Neons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 The Origins – Ekugaleni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 The Other Side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 The Oubaas and the Bootjie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 The Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 The Present Past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 The Pride of abaThembu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 The Prophet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 The Rebirth: From Darkness to Light . . . . . . . . . . 154 The Return of Tshini Kwedini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 The Shadow of Brel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 The Ship Of Theseus And Heritage Today: The Changing Nature Of Heritage Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 The Single Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 The Sound Kiln Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 The Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 The Streets of Mangaung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

The Tale of Qedusizi and The Rhino . . . . . . . . . . . 162 The Terence McKenna Omnibus 2012 . . . . . . . 123 The Thoughts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 The Three Little Pigs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 The Tina Turner Songbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 The Tree of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 The Tree Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 The Universal Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 The Uprisng of Hangberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 The War Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 The Wedding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 The Wicker Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 The Wicker Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 There Are No Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Three Days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Three’s Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Through Blue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Tia Anam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Tim Sandham on A Bosman Companion . . . . 136 Timmy Big Ears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Tonight Neither Hamlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Tony Cox – Wreckless Precise Guitar . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Tough Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Township the Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Trapped . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Truth Heals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Trystan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Tsa Lapeng Youth Jazz Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Tweet – The Musical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Twelve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Two Trios & a Quintet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Ubom! Stage to Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Ucarmen eKhayalitsha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 U-Diverse Entertainment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Udumo with Khanyisa Nkantsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Umsino Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Umteyo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Umtshikitsio Traditional Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Umxhentso Wakwa-Ntu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Under The South African Skies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Up Beat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 Venice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Venus at Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Villain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Vintage Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Vittorio’s Secret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Viva! Pop Opera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Voices Made Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Vortex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Vuma Bo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Wacht . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Wacky Wizard Comedy Magic Show . . . . . . . . . . 186 Wavelength . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 We Strive 2 Move – A Double Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Where are the Fathers? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Where’s Alice? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 White Wedding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Whilst We Were Dreaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Who the **** is Gareth Woods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Why are We Here? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 Wild Arts & Crafts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Wiles Gallery Paintings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 WinterSweet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 With a Single Hand... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Wordsuntame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 World Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 Wretched . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Writing & Staging Moffie – Bailey Snyman & Andre Carl van der Merwe . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Wrong Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Xenophobia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Xolela Mangcu – Free Thinker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Xpressions 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 You Sit I’ll stand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Your Signature, My Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Youth Jazz Choirs & Vocal Soloists . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

12 “One of the ways of understanding a nation and its culture is through music. This means that Standard Bank should continue developing and nurturing young artists as this makes our heritage and culture much richer and able to uplift the human spirit.”

Afrika Mkhize Jazz

“As fast as I move, as fast as I speak, is as fast as I can put the framework of a work together and then I start fleshing it out.”

Bailey Snyman Dance

“I don’t want to compete with established directors; a separate platform needs to be created for young directors, as well as more mentoring programmes. At the moment, the focus is on acting, and we need to shift that focus. Potential directors should be identified when young, and from there you start to build them.”

Princess Zinzi Mhlongo Theatre

“For me, photography has become a way of attempting to make sense of the very strange world that I see around me. I don’t ever expect to achieve that understanding, but the fact that I am trying comforts me.”

Mikhael Subotzky Visual Art

“As a young artist, it does not matter what field you are in. If you give the best at what you do and put in all your effort, good things will happen. Your work will give other people joy.”

Kelibogile Boikanyo Music

Mikhael Subotzky – Visual Art

Princess Zinzi Mhlongo – Theatre

ikhael Subotzky (30) is a man of few public words; he prefers to let his striking photographs do the talking. His technical, aesthetic and academic explorations have seen him become one of the world’s most exciting photographers. Subotzky uses photography to make images that are both nuanced constructions of colour and light; and also scholarly studies of the peculiarities of South African communities. Subotzky’s work has been exhibited widely in major galleries and museums. His prints are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the South African National Gallery, Cape Town, the Johannesburg Art Gallery, and FOAM (FotoMuseum Amsterdam). A most recent body of photography was included in New Photography 2008: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and has won him the coveted Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2009. His other international awards include the Lou Stouman Award, the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant, the ICP Infinity Award, the KLM Paul Huf Award and the Special Jurors Award at the 2005 Rencontres africaines de la photographie in Bamako. His journey towards success and acclaim began when he graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town, where his portfolio, Die Vier Hoeke, achieved the highest mark ever awarded to one of its students. His solo exhibitions have been presented in Italy, Holland, USA and extensively in South Africa. Since 2005, his work has also been featured in group exhibitions in the UK, Finland, Germany, China, Switzerland and Mali. Mikhael Subotzky is represented by Goodman Gallery, Studio La Citta and also by Magnum Photos. On receiving the 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist Award, Subotzky said, “It is a great honour. I am very grateful for the opportunity and honoured to follow in the footsteps of the artists who have previously been given the award.”

rincess Zinzi Mhlongo (25) has a knack for adding a new spark to an old classic to woo contemporary audiences. It is as if she has a strong sixth sense for matching the right actors with the right characters. Born in Witbank, Mpumalanga, this spunky actress/writer/director found her calling in the arts when she became a member of the Witbank Youth Theatre which, for three years, gave her the opportunity to perform in a musical production that toured to the National Arts Festival. Hungry for the arts, Mhlongo used her ten-day sojourns in Grahamstown to see more than thirty plays each year. She graduated from the Tshwane University of Technology in 2007 but, while studying, she directed Joe Woodward’s Naked Goddess, Fatima Dike’s So What’s New? and Michael Williams’ Crocodiles. Mhlongo is the founder of Tick Tock Productions, a dynamic entertainment company and is working hard to firmly establish her company and her reputation as a young South African director with enormous promise. Between 2008 and 2010, she was assistant director to Janine Lewis’s production Without Blood, she directed Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis, revived Zakes Mda’s And The Girls In Their Sunday Dresses, was invited to participate in a festival in Braunchweig Germany, and directed Fatima Dike’s play So What’s New? She is also is passionate about using her education skills and opportunities to mentor community-based artists. During 2011, she started to write her first play, Trapped, with assistant writer Zimkitha Kumbeka. After its première at the Festival, Trapped will tour to Salzburg, Austria. On winning the Standard Bank Young Artist Award she said, “I know that this award will open up many doors for me. I am ready to grab opportunities as they come. I have big dreams and this is the perfect time for them to come true. Winning the Standard Bank Young Artist Award doesn’t mean I have made it but it simply marks the beginning of great things to come”.

Bailey Snyman – Dance

ailey Snyman (33) has a remarkable ability in his choreography to create beauty, intrigue and edgy qualities that challenge perceptions and ideology. Having grown up in Kimberley, he knew from a very young age that he wanted to spend his life on the stage. It was at the age of 6 when he played the role of Benjamin in The Story of Moses that his interest in the performing arts found its first spark. He completed a Masters Degree in Choreography and Contemporary Dance Studies at Rhodes University and went on to work full-time for First Physical Theatre Company in Grahamstown under the artistic guidance of Gary Gordon and Juanita Finestone-Praeg. Snyman moved to Johannesburg in June 2006 and, with Nicola Haskins, started the Matchbox Theatre Collective to work with schools and universities and forge important relationships with teachers and educators, the people they believe to be the backbone of the arts in South Africa. At the end of 2006, Snyman performed at the acclaimed Laban Centre in London. In 2007, he performed in PJ Sabbagha’s contemporary dance version of Macbeth and was cast in Richard Loring’s

African Footprint, touring with the production to Mexico and America. In October 2010, he performed in Tel Aviv, in Carmen. Since 2008, Snyman has held a lecturing position at Wits University, where he teaches Movement and Physical Theatre Studies. Snyman believes there is a need to train choreographers and theatre-makers in different ways of thinking about creating work. He feels the current emphasis is on training dancers, but this should extend to discussion around the creation of work. Given his commitment and the respect that he commands in the South African arts sector, Snyman is well positioned to effect the change he envisions. About winning the 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist Award, Bailey Snyman says, “This award is a reflection of the many years I have spent refining my craft as a dancer and choreographer. It is a validation that hard work does pay off and that the arts community in South Africa recognises excellence”.

Afrika Mkhize – Jazz

frika Mkhize represents the exciting new face of South African jazz. Steeped in South Africa’s musical heritage, he displays a fresh, international perspective that places South African jazz in a new perspective.

He is a pianist with serious jazz chops who has the versatility to play music from across the spectrum, from African grooves to hip-hop to straight-ahead jazz, and in any company. Born in Durban, Afrika Mkhize started playing the piano at the age of six. At age eleven Mkhize was enrolled at the Funda Centre Music School in Soweto to study classical piano. At only fifteen he was accepted at the National School of the Arts to further his classical musical studies, and in 1999 he enrolled at Pretoria Technikon to further his interest in Jazz, Composition and Arranging. During his school years, Mkhize was involved in arranging music for small ensembles and performing live with musicians on the Johannesburg jazz circuit. After completing his studies, Mkhize began working as a music producer, producing awardwinning albums for Tlali Makhene, Themba Mkhize, Sibongile Khumalo, Kabelo from TKZ, Nokukhanya Dlamini and Miriam Makeba. Mkhize has worked as a musical director and pianist for the late Miriam Makeba, and also contributed arrangements for the Roma Philharmonic Orchestra in Italy, on her request. He has performed with numerous renowned artists, including Dorothy Masuka, Khaya Mahlangu, Zim Ngqawane, Musa Manzini, Vusi Khumalo, Sibongile Khumalo, Judith Sephuma, Oliver Mtukudzi, MXO, Marcus Wyatt, Zama Jobe, Papa Noel from France, Melanie Scholtz, Jimmy Dludlu, Allou April and TK. He has also recently recorded on Vusi Mahlasela and Nkanyezi Cele’s latest album. In 2010 Mkhize arranged music for the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra featuring Abigail Kubeka, Dorothy Masuka, Mara Louw and Zenzi Lee, for a tribute to women in the arts at the State Theatre, hosted by the Department of Arts and Culture. In November 2010 he scored arrangements for the Jazz Meets Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Prince Lengoasa. He is currently scoring full big band arrangements for his favourite pianist, the late Bheki Mseleku, in his honour. When he performed at the 2010 Standard Bank Jazz Festival, the media wrote, “Afrika Mkhize is one of the hip new generation of South African jazz musicians, combining clear South African roots with excellent technique and the world’s music influences. He has spent the past couple of years in Paris, soaking up the jazz scene in France.” About winning the Standard Bank Young Artist Award, Mkhize says, “To win this award simply means that some individuals have been watching me for a number of years. This also means that there is appreciation for my work. My expectation is to continue working with confidence, since I now know that there is positive support.”

Kelebogile Boikanyo – Music

elebogile Boikanyo’s artistic life has the markings of a champion for whom winning seems to come quite naturally, but it is her passion to nurture her wonderfully clear, strong voice, which she combines with her fine acting ability, that puts her on a par with international artists. Her road to success began when she won the national soloist competition at the Tirisano School’s choral eisteddfod for three years running since 2004. In 2006, she won her first Sagma competition and that same year she also won the South African Student Price Competition for all opera schools in the country. Her rise in the South African opera world has been nothing short of meteoric. After attending the Hebron Technical and Commercial High School in North West and getting a scholarship to study for a BA in performing vocal arts at Tshwane University of Technology, she made her professional singing debut, whilst still a student, with the international South African superstar, tenor Johan Botha, in Opera Africa’s Opera Extravaganza in 2007. In 2008 she dazzled as the High Priestess in Verdi’s Aïda, and made her international debut as Queen Silomo in the Zulu opera Princess Magogo at Oslo’s Den Norske Opera, before playing Echo in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at the Royal Opera de Wallonie in Liège, Belgium. In 2010, she excelled as Musetta in Opera Africa’s La Bohème and as a soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO). Since then she’s received accolades for singing the finale of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the JPO as well as her portrayal of Micaëla in Opera Africa’s production of Bizet’s Carmen and Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. As part of the Opera Africa/JPO collaboration, she was heard again in the soprano solos in the orchestra’s performances of Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor in October, 2011. Boikanyo is a member of the Opera Africa Studio and has been appointed as an Opera Africa Associated Artist from 2012. She is sponsored by the Maponya Group. While the international stage seems destined to be part of Boikanyo’s career, the Standard Bank Young Artist Award will give her the opportunity of performing for the first time at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. About winning the award she says, “I am confident that with enough hard work, I will have a bright future. When I am on stage, it is because I love what I do and I do it with passion. I do not expect any recognition, but this award tells me that people acknowledge and appreciate good artistic work.”

All Standard Bank Young Artist Award photographs: © Suzy Bernstein

Matchbox Theatre Collective in association with the National Arts Festival presents Standard Bank Young Artist Bailey Snyman’s

Being gay in the military has for centuries been a matter of debate. Only recently has the United States lifted their ‘Don’t ask, Don’t tell’ policy. In South Africa, although the Truth and Reconciliation Commission had gone a long way to expose and exorcise some of the atrocities committed in the name of apartheid, very little has been revealed about the adversities faced by gay people under the old regime. Moffie is a story about love, sexuality and violence.

Sound Design Animations Finance Manager

Bailey Snyman Carol Preston Simon Thijs Natasha da Silva Bailey Snyman Wilhelm Disbergen Bailey Snyman ina Gibson Rodney Haskins

Cast Henk Opperman Nicola Haskins Lara Spence

Monday 2 July 18:30 Tuesday 3 July 12:00 & 18:30 Wednesday 4 July 12:00 & 18:30 Duration

1 hour (no interval)

Age Restriction

PG 12 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Scholar / Student)

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Alec Mullins

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Richard Gau Bailey Snyman Johan Dippenaar Stefania du Toit

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Photo: Suzy Burnstein

Choreography Production Manager and Lighting Design Technical Manager Stage Manager Costume and Set Design

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“Moffie (a derogatory Afrikaans term for a gay man) is a result of my need to make sense of the madness around me while I was doing compulsory military service in South Africa during the 1980’s. I had nowhere to turn for help or understanding – not to my parents, my Church or my friends; the Government had even criminalized homosexuality – and so it was my diary that saved my sanity. I documented my suffering, which was also that of so many others; our anguish at having to hide behind a façade, our desperation of wanting to escape or sublimate an inescapable orientation. Set during the South African border war against communism (in itself is a part of this country’s history that could be all too easily forgotten) I have recorded the atrocities that took place in ‘Ward 22’, where gay people in the Defence Force of the time were abused and tortured.” Andre Carl van der Merwe (author: Moffie)

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tandard Bank Young Artist Bailey Snyman has firmly entrenched his reputation for creating dance work that is poetic, challenging and visually provocative. Inspired by Andre Carl van der Merwe’s novel Moffie, Snyman explores and exposes the fears, anxieties and overwhelming sense of denial of gay people in the military. His dance play will delve into both historical and contemporary understandings of homosexuality and the military, and consider the universal struggle of being gay in the military.

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Cape Town City Ballet (The South African National Ballet) in association with Artscape and the National Arts Festival presents

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Giselle

With the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Naum Rousine

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Friday 29 June Saturday 30 June

19:00 11:00 & 19:00

Duration

1 hour 50 minutes (including interval)

Age Restriction

None

Tickets 19:00 Performances R85; R75; R65 (Full) R75; R65; R55 (Student / Scholar) 11:00 Performance R75; R65; R55 (Full) R65; R55; R45 (Student / Scholar)

THE STORY ACT I A Rhineland Village

Count Albrecht has fallen in love with Giselle, a peasant girl, though she believes him to be a villager named Loys. When he comes from his castle to court her, he leaves the cloak and sword that might reveal his true identity in a cottage. Giselle’s mother, Berthe, hopes that she will marry a local forester, Hilarion, who is deeply in love with Giselle. Hilarion interrupts the meeting of the young couple and reminds Giselle of his own love and warns her against trusting Loys. But Giselle is sure of Loys’ devotion: she disregards Hilarion’s suspicions and her mother’s evident dislike of Loys and joins happily in the celebrations that mark the end of the grape harvest. Horns sound in the distance and Albrecht’s squire, Wilfred, comes to warn his master that a hunting party is approaching. Hilarion observes this encounter and at the first opportunity breaks into Loys’ cottage to try and uncover the mystery surrounding his identity.

Adolphe Adam David Poole after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot Owen Murray Elizabeth Triegaardt Shamiel Abrahams

Cast

Megan Swart Thomas Thorne Ivan Boonzaaier Angela Hansford

Laura Bosenberg Xola Putye Anthony Bakty Lauren Rogers

Kim Vieira Daniel Szybkowski Xola Putye Angela Hansford

All other characters are danced by artists of the Cape Town City Ballet, dancers in the CTCB’s Graduate Programme and dancers on short-term contracts

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Technical staff for this production: Production Manager Charles Petersen Stage Manager Timothy Harding Karriem Petersen Adrian Pharo Mervyn Andrews

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Giselle Albrecht Hilarion Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis

Fri 29 June Sat 30 June Sat 30 June 19:00 11:00 19:00

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Music Choreography This ballet is performed by kind permission of Production Lighting

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As midnight sounds Hilarion is keeping vigil by Giselle’s grave which lies in the unhallowed ground beside a forest lake. This is the hour when the Wilis materialise – female spirits who, jilted before their wedding day, rise from their graves at night and seek revenge upon any man whom they happen upon during the hours of darkness by dancing them to death. Myrthe, their Queen, appears and summons her Wilis. Giselle is called from her tomb to be initiated into their rites. When Albrecht enters bringing flowers for her grave, Giselle appears to him. Soon the Wilis return in pursuit of Hilarion whom they exhaust with dancing and then drive to his death in the lake. They next fall vengefully upon Albrecht. Myrthe condemns him to dance until he dies. Giselle urges him to the safety of the cross on her tomb but Myrthe uses her power over Giselle to force her to lure Albrecht into the dance. Giselle tries to sustain him, yet as the night wears on his dancing exhausts him more and more. Just as death seems imminent, dawn breaks. Daylight destroys the Wilis’ power and he is saved. The ghostly dancers disappear into the morning mist and Giselle too fades into the air, leaving Albrecht sorrowing and alone.

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The hunting party arrives, attending the Duke of Courland and his daughter Bathilde, Albrecht’s future bride, who are staying at Albrecht’s castle for the betrothal ceremony. They ask for rest and refreshment at Berthe’s cottage. Bathilde is charmed by Giselle’s dancing and, discovering that she too is betrothed, gives her a necklace. Before entering the cottage the Duke orders a hunting horn to be left so that the courtiers may in due course be summoned. This provides Hilarion with the opportunity to compare the crest on the horn with that on the sword he has discovered in Loys’ cottage. Their similarity is the proof he has been seeking and he chooses the moment when Giselle has been crowned Queen of the Vintage to unmask Loys. At first Giselle refuses to believe him but when Bathilde claims Albrecht as her fiancé, the shock drives Giselle to madness. In her delirium she relives her love for Loys and dies of a broken heart.

ACT II Giselle’s Grave in the Wood

Dance Forum in association with the National Arts Festival presents

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Opera for

pera for Fools orchestrates itself around the complex nature of shebeens. From the deprivation and discrimination, which marked the end of apartheid until today, cMantsoe explores the hidden forcefulness of South African Tribal, Local / Freedom and African American / Negro soul music. Probing the centre of the shebeen lifestyle, Opera for Fools discovers what makes people enjoy their daily lives and enables them to forgive, but not forget. This vibrant production is a celebration of a people’s hope, anger, joy and sometimes loneliness and despair.

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Fools

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Set against the backdrop of the shebeen-lifestyle as it was lived in Soweto and which framed in the centrestage some of the most dramatic moments during the seventies and eighties, Opera for Fools is created to the music of Mbaxanga, Kwela (Pennywhistle jive), Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Simon Mahlatini and Mahotella Queens, Johnny Clegg, Brenda Fassie, Mzwake Mbule, Sello ‘Chicco” Twala, Stimela and many others.

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Throughout the country’s cry for freedom and justice, music became a voice of its own, shaped by the hopes and sacrifices of individuals. Local music, and with it the local fame that attached itself to it, did however, not only speak of politics, but also of cultural diversity, migration, integrity, pride and about sensual or sexual powers. Opera for Fools makes history stay with the shebeen-goers as they do their toyi toyi dance and, in this case, still raise their fists and say AMANDLA, though for a different purpose.

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Photo: Danile Aime

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South African born Vincent Mantsoe, is one of South Africa’s leading contemporary choreographers on the international festival circuit. His work draws on the traditional African dance forms, with a contemporary approach from modern, ballet and Asian forms such as Tai Chi, Martial Art and other traditional dances that he has learnt on his travels. His work goes beyond ‘African-Contemporary’ or ‘Afro-Fusion’ and Mantsoe is reluctant to give it a name. In 2005, he created his first company (Association Noa Cie-Vincent Mantsoe) based in France, where he works with dancers from different cultural backgrounds.

“I am an artist, who creates different points of view based on a cultural perspective and selfpreservation within the global political arena and agenda of current times”. Vincent Mantsoe

Alec Mullins Thursday 28 June 16:00 Friday 29 June 16:00 & 20:00 Saturday 30 June 16:00 & 20:00 Duration

1 hour 15 minutes (no interval)

Age Restriction

None

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student)

The company is supported by La DRAC Auvergne, Région Auvergne and Département de l’Allier France.

Choreography

Vincent Sekwati Koko Mantsoe

Assistant Choreographer

Cecile Maubert-Mantsoe

Lighting & Set Design

Serge Damon

Music

Andréa Cera

Dancers Aude Arago (France) Romain Cappello (France) Sarah Cerneux (France) Desire Davids (South Africa) Vincent Mantsoe (South Africa / France) Saul Dovin (France)

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Photo: Suzy Burnstein

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Athena Mazarakis and Hansel Nezza in association with the National Arts Festival presents

nter.Fear is an artistic co-production between South African choreographer and performer, Athena Mazarakis and Hansel Nezza, choreographer, performer and artistic director of MARÀBULA barcelona • berlin. Their collaboration creates an immersive theatrical encounter that delves into that most basic, common and essential human emotion: fear.

The material for the work is sourced and researched across three cities: Barcelona, Berlin and Johannesburg. Inter.Fear however looks beyond the triggers of fear specific to each of these particular socio-political contexts. Instead, through the poetic universe created, it enters the fabric and texture of fear inhabited by bodies across these cities. Bodies that are biologically hard-wired to respond to danger, to threat, to the unknown, to

Mazarakis and Nezza, inspired by a global context in which our most basic human reactions and biological hardwiring are so often and so easily manipulated, submerge themselves in this space of ‘inter.fearance’, to bring you a provocative and unnerving piece of theatre where the characters are unable to switch off the fear mechanism. Tegan Bristow’s breathtaking interactive digital interfaces alongside Jenni-lee Crewe’s sparse poetic stage design and Liannallull and Nezza’s haunting score combine to draw the audience into the twilight spaces of the psyche where their fears reside. Inter.Fear, as presented by the National Arts Festival, emerges out of a shorter work originally commissioned by, and presented at, Dance Umbrella 2012. The initial phase of Inter.Fear was generously supported by Dance Umbrella 2012, the GoetheInstitut South Africa and the Embassy of Spain in South Africa: Mzansicultura.

Technical Director Production for MARÀBULA barcelona • berlin Agnes Forn

Alec Mullins Friday 6 July Saturday 7 July Sunday 8 July

14:00 & 18:30 14:00 & 18:30 14:00

Duration

1 hour (no interval)

Age Restriction

None

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Scholar / Student)

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Inter.Fear weaves together a raw physicality with an evocative stage design and cutting edge interactive digital art to explore the constant and insidious presence of fear in our contemporary lives – a presence that mediates and interferes with our every encounter.

the shadow. Bodies trapped in states of fearfulness, bodies that struggle to connect because of this ‘inter.fearance’.

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Interactive Digital Artist Designer Lighting Designer: Original Musical Score

Athena Mazarakis & Hansel Nezza Tegan Bristow Jenni-lee Crewe Barry Strydom Liannallull & Hansel Nezza Barry Strydom

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Inter.Fear

Choreography and Performance

Compagnie Greffe in association with the National Arts Festival and supported by Pro Helvetia presents

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Lanx (Created in 2008)

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Choreography and interpretation Sound composition and live performance Scenography Lighting Realisation scenography and technical direction Costume Administration and promotion Production Co-production

Cindy van Acker Mika Vainio Line Fontana & Cindy van Acker Luc Gendroz

Lanx and Obtus

Victor Roy Aline Courvoisier Tutu Production Cie Greffe Festival Electron

Obtus (Created in 2009)

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Choreography Interpretation Sound composition and live performance Lighting and scenography

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Costume Technical direction Administration and promotion Production Co-production

Cindy van Acker Tamara Bacci Mika Vainio Luc Gendroz, Victor Roy, Cindy van Acker Aline Courvoisier Victor Roy Tutu Production Cie Greffe Festival Electron

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rained in classical ballet, Cindy van Acker first worked in the Flanders Royal Ballet, Belgium. After joining Geneva’s Grand Theatre, she decided to settle in the city. She began creating her own pieces in 1994, and launched into an international career with Corps 00:00 at the Geneva ADC in 2002. In 2005, Italian director Romeo Castellucci chose van Acker to represent Switzerland at the Venice Biennial and he suggested that she create the choreographic part of his production of Dante’s Inferno for the 2008 edition of the Avignon Festival, and for Parsifal, which he produced at La Monnaie in January 2011.

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Her choreographic scripting, which allies esthetic gravity, minimalist movement, precise composition and electronic music, allows her to examine the connections between body and spirit, sound and rhythm with almost scientific precision.

Transnet Great Hall Wednesday 4 July Thursday 5 July

16:00 12:00 & 16:00

Duration

1 hour 20 minutes (including interval)

Age Restriction

None

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Scholar / Student)

In Lanx, a continuous current circulates between the body and the geometrical motifs that encircle it. Balancing on the lines, unfolding its sides, its ridges, its angles, playing with perspectives that continually renew themselves, the body sounds out its capacity to inscribe forms in a predetermined space. Transforming itself as if it were under the effect of an optical illusion, the décor starts to vibrate, to transform itself. This continuum with variable dimensions draws a relative geometry, on the level of sensations. Gilles Amalvi In Obtus, it all begins with a hand. Two arms follow that speak of flying, head down. Tamara Bacci has taken off into Obtus. Meditative gestures, slow, continuous movements, a body in peril which finds its most beautiful expressions when equilibrium is pushed to its limits. The dancer moves with exquisite precision and sensitivity, playing with a ramp of neon lights making parts of her body disappear. Lighting designer Luc Gendroz created a work of volume and substance, which unsettles our perception of depth producing floating effects and playing with disappearance into the dark. Transported by the light and the sound, the choreographic material topples the perceptions of the spectator. Michèle Pralong

Compagnie Greffe benefited from a joint funding agreement for the period 2009-2011 from the Ville de Genève, the Canton de Genève and Pro Helvetia and with the support of Loterie Romande.

The National Arts Festival presents

orget comfort zones. Audiences will move from performance to performance: from a conventional space to peering through a hole in a wall, to the street, to see dancers fighting with space inside a car, parked in traffic.

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Comprising solos and duets the diverse works represent fresh aesthetics as well as new voices: ranging from stalwarts such as KwaZulu Natalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mlu Zondi and the Western Capeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lean Coetzer to idiosyncratic upstarts such as Nicholas Aphane (Johannesburg), Tebogo Munyai (Cape Town) and Freddie Nkantolo Zwane (Benoni).

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Based on Fresh, a programme which revealed new directions in performance, and which included luminaries such as a very young Dada Masilo, Nelisiwe Xaba, and the visual artist Ruth Sacks, Re-FRESH similarly showcases singular choreographic voices from various parts of the country.

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Re-FRESH

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Tuesday 3 July 18:30 Wednesday 4 July 18:30 Thursday 5 July 18:30 Duration

90 minutes

Age Restriction

PG16 years+

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

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Thomas Pringle Hall and environs, Monument

Théâtre Taliipot in association with the National Arts Festival presents

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!Aïa

“I am the people from whom the loss of earth is the loss of everything”

Poem /xam, san

!Aïa is a San name which means a special state of being. “!Aïa is waking up your strongest feelings and becoming reborn... To fully awaken, !Aïa requires filling your heart with overwhelming love.” Bradford Keeney

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ollowing the success of The Water Carriers and Mâ Ravan, Théâtre Taliipot brings !Aïa, a transversal work between art, culture, science and traditional wisdom. It creates a dialogue about our origins and the relationship between human beings and nature. The company has worked with scientists, artists and traditional healers in unique places, including the Cradle of Humankind, and various places where one can still feel and see the tracks of the San people, the most ancient culture in the world. Beyond all the persecution and discrimination the San underwent, Théâtre Taliipot explores their vision, their experience and their expression of the origins, their link to earth, and to nature with which they are in everlasting empathy.

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In the San’s vision, the relationship to landscape, the link between landscape and body, landscape and mother languages, is evoked particularly in the San languages. Rock paintings and petroglyphs inspired the work of the actors and dancers. Guided by scientists and traditional healers, Théâtre Taliipot travels through different worlds and memories, always showing a deep alliance between Man and Nature, questioning the sources and roots of our identity and mobility.

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Transcending any narration, this musical, theatrical and choreographic show offers a kind of organic opera where bodies reveal their secret and intimate alliance with nature, beyond all ruptures, exhaustions, oppressions, mass exoduses and liabilities. At the heart of the urban context, !Aïa queries origins: not historical as in past origins, but active origins, that currently put bodies into motion, that cater for revivals, links and empathy.

Cast & Music Composition

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Themba Mbuli Isaac Rakotsoane Thierry Moucazambo Artistic Direction

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Drama Assistant Choreography, Direction & Script Assistant in South Africa Scenography Lighting Design Props Design Music composition

Philippe Pelen Baldini & Thierry Moucazambo Thierry Moucazambo Philippe Pelen Baldini Themba Mbuli Philippe Pelen Baldini Nicole Léonforte Sacha Ehlers Phil Thurston, Isaac Rakotsoane Thierry Moucazambo

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Music Composition & Sound Design Phil Thurston

Transnet Great Hall Thursday 28 June Friday 29 June

20:00 14:00 & 18:30

Duration

1 hour 10 minutes (no interval)

Age Restriction

12 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

Inside a white space, like a laboratory of evolution, the dancers evolve between dream and reality. This creation incorporates dances, sounds and images inspired by rock paintings and engravings. In the rock as in the flesh, it is about rekindling with the trace of this primordial energy driving the heart of our modern world, in the heart of the city. The contemporary music performed live on stage is inspired by indigenous African songs and is infused with compositions by Mozart and electronic music specially composed for the show. !Aïa acknowledges mother earth, the san population and the common origin. Théâtre Taliipot acknowledges the artistic and scientific advice of Jean-Loïc Lequellec (Research Director at the CNRS, France and Rock Art Specialist) and the following researchers who contributed to the development of the production: Professor Sam Challis (Archaeologist, Origins Centre, Wits University), Sven Ouzman (Archaeologist, rock engraving specialist, Pretoria University), John Parkington (Archaeologist, University of Cape Town), Pippa Skotnes (Archaeologist, University of Cape Town) and Jean-Loïc Lequellec (Research director at the CNRS, France, rock art specialist)

This show is co-produced by Artscape and Nirox Foundation

Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon in association with the National Arts Festival presents

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Coproduction de Hexe: Maison de la Danse de Lyon / Acknowledgment Institut Français de Copenhague. Restaging: Coproduction Théâtre

The Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier LanguedocRoussillon directed by Mathilde Monnieris is subsidised by the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication - Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier Agglomération and the Conseil Régional Languedoc-Roussillon. www.mathildemonnier.com Transnet Great Hall Sunday 1 July Monday 2 July

18:30 14:00

Duration

1 hour 5 minutes (including interval)

Age Restriction

14 years +

Tickets

R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

de la Cité Internationale – Paris, Théâtre Garonne – Toulouse, Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon / with the help of the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, Cité de la Musique et de la Danse

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Pudique Acide was world premièred in March 1984 in New York and Extasis in November 1985. They were re-staged for the opening the 2011 Montpellier Dance Festival in Languedoc-Roussillon

Jean-François Duroure was awarded a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture to study in New York with Merce Cunningham. Along with Mathilde Monnier, he created Pudique Acide and Extasis, which propelled them into the choreography spotlight. In 2001, he was appointed Head Choreographer of the choreography programme at the Conservatoire Cité de la Danse et de la Musique in Strasbourg, where he advocates a style of dance that hinges on improvisation and personal creation as the expression of inner life.

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It so happens that both shows were created in the thick of American Abstraction, Merce Cunningham’s inevitable legacy to European dancers, and assert the primacy of a two-way hand-to-hand as an act that is more theatrical than merely formalistic. Even if the dance unfolds wordlessly, it comes up with a different way of talking due to its fundamental expressionist, combative and humorous nature. The obvious references to Kurt Weill, and to a dream world that the authors call impish, drape these dance-acts with the claims of punk and hip hop, in order to translate them into a world brimming with energy. A breathless atmosphere under the sunlamps of a Berliner cabaret Lise Ott for the programme of the Montpellier Dance Festival 2011

Mathilde Monnier holds a reference position in the French and international contemporary dance landscape. Her creations continuously defy expectations thanks to constant renewal. Her nomination as director of the Centre Chorégraphique de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon in 1994 has initiated a series of collaborations with people coming from different artistic domains. Mathilde Monnier has always pushed the boundaries of a work she sees as an experience above all else.

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or the 2011 Montpellier Dance Festival, Mathilde Monnier and Jean-François Duroure devised a new staging of their first two joint productions – Pudique Acide and Extasis – prompted by a desire to reclaim and impart the essence of the creations, with two new dancers now in the choreographers’ shoes. This restaging also reasserts a commitment to unbridled youth and to a passion for raw existence. Both pieces, the first created in New York in 1984, the second in Lyon one year later, tackle dance – and especially the duo figure – at the crux of archetypal forms and novel concerns that abounded at that time.

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Photo: Marc Coudrais

Mathilde Monnier & Jean-François Duroure Kurt Weill & Bernard Herrmann Sonia Darbois & Jonathan Pranlas Éric Wurtz Laurence Alquier Thierry Cabrera Marc Coudrais Jean-Marc Urrea, Anne Fontanesi, Anne Bautz

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outhern Exposure is a heartfelt delve into dance, gender and the South African way!

Durban’s award-winning Flatfoot Dance Company offers up a double bill of resident choreographer Lliane Loots’s most recent two works.

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The second work in this double bill, Mapping Nostalgia, is a politically volatile and yet tender journey into a remembered South Africa almost eighteen years after democracy. Jointly created by Loots and the six resident dancers of Flatfoot, this is a spiritually harrowing work that demands a re-look. It features an original live score by veteran maskanda living treasure, Madala Kunene, accompanied by master drummer and musician Mandla Matsha.

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SKIN is a solo work that offers a culturally brave look at contemporary black womanhood that still bears the definitions of paternal culture. This is a mesmerising confrontation with, and on, the female skin, beautifully performed to Liam Magner’s reinterpretation of Stravinsky’s Rites of Spring.

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Choreography Lighting Design Sound Musicians Dancers

Lliane Loots Wesley Maherry Clare Craighead Madala Kunene and Mandla Matsha Lerato Lipere, Jabu Siphika, Julia Wilson, Sifiso Khumalo, S’fiso Magesh Ngcobo, Tshediso Kabulu

FRINGE Sunday 1 July Monday 2 July Tuesday 3 July Duration Age Restriction Tickets

12:30 12:00 & 20:00 20:00 1 hour 15 minutes (including interval) 16 years + R60 (Full) R50 (Scholar / Student)

Photo: Val Adamson

Centenary Hall

The National Arts Festival’s Arena Programme in association with Past Paleontological Scientific Trust (PAST) presents

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hat would arise if science and art were thrown together in a performance? What if the prose and poetry of some of the great writers met the words of some of the great scientists? What do Beckett and Einstein have in common (beyond their extraordinary intelligence), and how do we find those common elements?

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ReVerse explores the evolution of Homo sapiens, and the complex interaction between words, mind and body. It is a visual /verbal interpretation of humankind’s ascent, descent and the complex interactions between modern people and their divergent beliefs. The show explores the process of adaptation which has led to our species and questions whether a large brain capacity means wiser behaviours, whether our interactions with our environments are driven by greed, and whether the different disciplines of science and arts can provide understanding of ‘what it means to be human’? Directed by Performed by

Sylvaine Strike-Nakar Greg Melvill-Smith and Craig Morris

The Hangar

Palaeontology, the origins of human beings, and the conjunctive use of the arts and sciences is explored in a Think!Fest lecture that cross-references the Festival productions ReVerse, Little Foot, The Cradle of Humankind and !Aia. Sunday 1 July at 14:00, Blue Lecture Theatre, Eden Grove

Thursday 28 June 18:00 Friday 29 June 19:00 Saturday 30 June 16:30 Sunday 1 July 19:00 Monday 2 July 16:00 Duration 1 hour (no interval) Age Restriction 13 years + Tickets R60 (Full) R50 (Scholar / Student)

he human body is breathing living social spiritual psychological. It is mineral, it is dying, it is vegetable, it is sexual, it is regenerating, it is private, it is thoughtful, it is public. It is red on the inside and smooth on the outside. It is simultaneously propelled up and dragged down by its past, subject to history, gravity, time. It is in this moment.

Inspired by Claudio Stellato’s L’Autre, Fragile explores performer presence and the performance of the moment. Through a series of carefully crafted (and carefully jumbled) non-literal choreographic portraits, audience members will negotiate the boundaries of beauty, ugliness, stark form, and seemingly unpredictable chaos that make up complex personality and its performance.

Nicola Elliott Illka Louw Jori Snell, Thabiso Pule and Lucy Kruger

PJ’s Thursday 28 June Friday 29 June Saturday 30 June Monday 1 July Duration Age Restriction Tickets

20:00 14:00 & 20:00 14:00 21:00 45 minutes (no interval) 10 years + R60 (Full) R50 (Scholar / Student)

Fragile was created under the Theatre Arts Admin Collective’s Emerging Theatre Directors Bursary

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Award-winning choreographer Nicola Elliott combines theatre and dance, realism and abstraction into philosophical collage. Working for the first time with, among others, award-winning Jori Snell, Elliott’s Fragile promises audience members a unique, exciting and savagely precarious theatrical experience.

Choreography Designer Performers

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Fragile

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The National Arts Festival’s Arena Programme in association with Nicola Elliott presents

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Standard Bank is the principal corporate funder of PAST.

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ReVerse is built on the solid foundation of Africa’s extraordinary richness, as revealed through origin sciences – detailed, intricate postmodern explorations.

The Salzburg Festival in association with Tick Tock Productions and the National Arts Festival presents the World Première of Standard Bank Young Artist Princess Zinzi Mhlongo’s

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rincess Zinzi Mhlongo made her professional debut as a director in 2008 when she directed Zakes Mda’s And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses for the State Theatre and the Market Theatre. Hot on the heels of her directorial debut, she produced Fatima Dike’s So What’s New and Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis. Her approach to making theatre immediately grabbed the attention of the South African arts media and of several artistic directors heading theatres and festivals. Trapped is her first writing project. The production premières at the National Arts Festival prior to her taking it to Salzburg (Austria) as one of only four young directors who have been invited to take part in the 2012 Young Directors Project. Having taken two years to write, Mhlongo describes Trapped as a fantasy world where real life issues are tackled. She creates characters that want to be free: free from pain, free from suffering, free from destruction, free from rules, free to choose, free to move and free to be free. The audience is able to watch the Extras create a world, where there are those who are torn between the past and the demand of living in their present. They try to find ways and seek guidance from others to break the chains that keep them from moving forward. The Extras represent different characters all presented in different exhibits in an abandoned unknown museum. Trapped is about anyone and for everyone. From time to time, we’ve all felt the need to break free from whatever may be holding us back. Princess Zinzi Mhlongo Hlengiwe Lushaba Madlala Mandla Mtshali Thando Lobese Thunyelwa Thambe Rachwene Zimkitha Kumbaca

Writer & Director Choreographer Lighting Designer Set & Costume Designer Stage Manager Music Composer CAST Bennedict Bongani Masango Thapelo J Sebogodi Nkoto Anne Keitu Malebye

Rantebeng Makapan D’Anne Mahlangu

Trapped was commissioned by Salzburg Festival Young Directors’ Project powered by Mont Blanc

Friday 6 July Saturday 7 July Sunday 8 July

18:30 14:00 & 18:30 14:00 & 18:30

Duration

1 hour 30 minutes (no interval)

Age Restriction

13 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

Photo: Mack Magogane

Rhodes Box Theatre

Eric Abraham and The Fugard Theatre in association with Mannie Manim and the National Arts Festival present the world première of Athol Fugard’s

The Blue Iris

thol Fugard is South Africa’s most significant and internationally acclaimed playwright. For over fifty years he has written soul-searing plays with roles for all South Africans. He has moved audiences in South Africa and around the world to laughter and tears. His scripts are carefully woven to induce a personal emotion and to reflect the racism, barbarity and inhumanity of apartheid. The Fugard Theatre makes its debut on the Main Programme of the National Arts Festival with the world première of Athol Fugard’s The Blue Iris, directed by South Africa’s multi award-winning director Janice Honeyman and lit by Mannie Manim. Mannie’s association with Athol Fugard as lighting designer or producer started in 1970 with Boesman and Lena and People are Living There at the Alexander Theatre. Since then he has lit and produced all the first South African productions of Fugard’s plays in South Africa. Message from the Director of The Blue Iris: As we celebrate Athol Fugard’s 80th birthday this year we notice that he continues to write compulsively. “There are still so many stories to tell!” he says. In October 2010, when he was asked in an interview, “Do you still keep a notebook?” he answered: “I am sitting with my notebook now – I have a new play – The Blue Iris.” The play has shifted from notes to a script, and we are privileged to have yet another work in the Fugard cannon. We find ourselves in a charred and blackened werf of a burntout Karoo farmhouse, and as the farmer, Robert Hannay, and his housekeeper Rieta Plaasman, sort through and clear away

Rhodes Theatre Thursday 28 June Friday 29 June Saturday 30 June

18:30 14:00 & 18:30 14:00 & 18:30

Duration

1 hour 30 minutes (no interval)

Age Restriction

None

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

the debris from a fierce and ravaging fire, both encounter and exchange personal memory after memory. Their secrets are revealed”, says Fugard, and, speaking about his work more generally, he says, “We should be going into people’s lives, their souls, their ways of life. Everything I have written is an attempt to share secrets with you…” And The Blue Iris does precisely this. We are given a small chamber play, a work as particular, intimate and detailed as a carefully and delicately painted miniature. To awaken these memories Fugard has dug deep into the human hearts of his characters, and the result is a love story full of tender, soul-touching and surprising personal revelations. To search for and discover layer upon layer of emotional exchange, to be engaged in the searing exposure of the characters’ innermost feelings, and to be party to glimpses and ghosts of the past makes for exciting and engrossing theatre. Janice Honeyman Writer Director Assistant Director Lighting Designer Set Designer Production Manager

Athol Fugard Janice Honeyman Pusetso Thibedi Mannie Manim Dicky Longhurst Greg Karvellas

Cast Robert Hannay: a Karoo Farmer Graham Weir Rieta Plaasman: Robert’s Housekeeper Lee-Ann van Rooi Sally Hannay: Robert’s deceased wife Claire Berlein

The Market Theatre in association with the National Arts Festival presents

Little Foot

A new play by Craig Higginson first commissioned by the National Theatre, London, for the 2012 Connections Festival

ittle Foot was commissioned by the National Theatre, London, for the 2012 Connections Festival. Craig Higginson is one of ten writers from around the world to participate in this prestigious festival, and Little Foot will be performed at the National Theatre prior to the 2012 Olympics. The National Theatre has generously agreed to allow the Market Theatre, in association with the National Arts Festival, to produce an extended version of the original play. This powerful new South African play is situated on a farm in the Cradle of Humankind, where much of the world’s pre-human remains have been found. It takes the audience down into the network of caves where the three-million-year-old hominin Little Foot was discovered. Out of sheer co-incidence, the production will be released at the same time that Little Foot’s remains will finally be freed from the rock. In Higginson’s play, we experience the caves through the eyes of a group of South African university students who went to school together and are having a reunion on New Year’s Eve. As the group go deeper into the caves, and their ‘ancient history’ emerges, forces are unleashed between them and around them that appear to have tragic consequences. Part realism, part nightmare, this darkly poetic play takes us on an unforgettable journey into our unconscious ancestral memory.

Little Foot explores how the best and the worst of us has its roots in the ancient past, and how these two capacities are carried through into our contemporary democracy. Since we first learned to control fire, light has been used to satisfy our best and our worst impulses. It is what we do with the light handed down to us that defines us. Writer Craig Higginson and director Malcolm Purkey collaborate with 2011 Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year award-winner Neil Coppen to create a multi-media event that includes a composer, videographer, sound designer, sculptor, editor, choreographer, as well as a lighting, costume and set designers. Huge screens are used to create different spaces and textured surfaces, as well as being used for video projections and shadow puppetry. The Chorus are created using masks, sculpture and projection. In both content and form, this promises to be a unique piece of storytelling that will challenge the boundaries of contemporary South African theatre.

Previous collaborations between writer Craig Higginson and director Malcolm Purkey include the internationally acclaimed plays Dream of the Dog and The Girl in the Yellow Dress – both originally premièring at the National Arts Festival and produced by the Market Theatre. Writer Director Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Movement AV Design

Craig Higginson Malcolm Purkey Neil Coppen Tina le Roux Tristan Horton Mongi Mtombeni Vaughn Sadie

Cast Wizard Dylan Nicol Horley Coco Jenna Dunster Rebecca Phumzile Sitole Braai Khayelihle Dominique Gumede Moby Glen Biderman-Pam Little Foot Mlondolozi Bradley Zondi Chorus Kyla Davis, Jacques de Silva, Sibulele Gcilitshana, Peter Langa, Sello Sebotsane

Rhodes Theatre Friday 6 July Saturday 7 July Sunday 8 July

16:00 & 20:00 16:00 & 20:00 12:00 & 16:00

Duration

1 hour 30 minutes (no interval)

Age Restriction

12 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Students / Scholar)

Kickstart in association with the National Arts Festival and by special arrangement with the Creative Artists Agency, New York, presents the South African première of John Logan’s 2010 Tony Award-winning play

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amous for his screenplays such as Gladiator, The Aviator, Rango and the recent Scorsese blockbuster, Hugo, this thrilling new play by John Logan explores the fascinating creative process and inner conflict of the famous American artist, Mark Rothko.

Red is a compelling and moving account of one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century whose struggle to accept his growing riches and praise become his ultimate undoing. The audience is witness not only to his passionate and challenging discussion of making art, but also to its actual making: the action of stretching and priming canvasses, and the hugely visceral thrill of painting itself. While painting a group of murals in his New York studio, for the expensive and exclusive Four Seasons restaurant, and under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a definitive work for an extraordinary setting. Highly respected South African theatre veteran Michael Richard plays Rothko, with exciting newcomer, Jeremy Richard as his assistant. Jeremy made his debut on the National Arts Festival’s Main stage in the 2011 hit production of Alan Bennet’s play, The History Boys. Directed by Steven Stead and designed by Greg King, with lighting design by Tina le Roux, this talented trio who headlined the 2010 National Arts Festival’s production of Margaret Edson’s play, Wit, bring their talents together for the South African première of Red.

“Smart and scintillating: Red deftly conjures what most plays about artists don’t: the exhilaration of the act.” John Lahr, The New Yorker

Rhodes Box Theatre Thursday 28 June Friday 29 June Saturday 30 June

20:00 16:00 & 20:00 16:00 & 20:00

Duration

1 hour 20 minutes (no interval)

Age Restriction

PG 12 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

Photo: Val Adamson Director Designer Lighting Designer Poster and Programme Design Photography

Steven Stead Greg King Tina le Roux Shirley Berko Val Adamson

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Michael Richard Jeremy Richard

The Baxter Theatre Centre and the South African State Theatre in association with the National Arts Festival present

Mies Julie

Restitutions of Body and Soil Since The Bantu Land Act No. 27 of 1913 and The Immorality Act No. 5 of 1927 Based on August Strindberg’s play Miss Julie Photo: Mark Wessels

outh African-born and internationally acclaimed director Yael Farber sets her explosive new adaptation of Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie in the remote, bleak beauty of the Eastern Cape Karoo.

Adaptation & Direction Music Composed and Performed by Singer & Musician Lighting Design

Transposed to a post-apartheid kitchen – a potent convergence point of domination, domestic practicality and untenable sadness – a single night, both brutal and tender, unfolds between a black farm-labourer, the daughter of his “master”, and the woman who has raised them both.

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The visceral struggles of contemporary South Africa are laid bare in this domestic setting, as John and Mies Julie spiral one night, in a deadly battle over power, sexuality, memory, mothers and land. The award-winning Farber’s probing adaptation looks at a post-traumatic society and the knot of inheritances and legacies that entangle lives in the aftermath. Haunting and violent, intimate and epic, the struggles between the three individuals reach to address issues of restitution and the reality of what can and cannot ever be recovered.

Mies Julie John Christine

Yael Farber Daniel and Matthew Pencer Thandiwe Nofirst Lungisa Patrick Curtis

Hilda Cronje Bongile Mantsai Thoko Ntshinga

Rhodes Box Theatre Monday 2 July Tuesday 3 July Wednesday 4 July

14:00 & 18:30 14:00 & 18:30 14:00 & 18:30

Duration

1 hour 30 minutes (no interval)

Age Restriction

16 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

The Playhouse Company in association with the National Arts Festival presents David Mamet’s

Race

“Race, like sex, is a subject on which it is near impossible to tell the truth” David Mamet Director Costume & Set Designer Lighting Designer Sound Technician

Clare Mortimer Sarah Roberts Mannie Manim Philane Shange

Cast Graham Hopkins Michael Richard Sello Maake Ka-Ncube Nondumiso Tembe

Charles Strickland Jack Lawson Henry Brown Susan

Graeme College Theatre Monday 2 July 20:00 Tuesday 3 July 14:00 & 20:00 Wednesday 4 July 12:00 & 16:00 Duration

1 hour 30 minutes (no interval)

Age Restriction

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

hame, guilt, class, sex, lies and race are all provocatively stirred together in this fast-paced show that is guaranteed to leave theatregoers dissecting and discussing it long after the final curtain call.

fraught subject. Racial concerns may be the point of contention for some of Mamet’s characters but the ambition to maintain an upper hand over friend and foe alike is what will hold the audience riveted to the play.

When David Mamet directed Race for Broadway, as soon as the curtain fell, the audience rose in unison to their feet with appreciative applause for Mamet’s barbed one-liners which are propelled by his scalpel-edged intelligence.

Race is more than just about a plot that will unravel guilt or innocence. The actual story lies in the interoffice dynamics which are even more complex.

Mamet’s play, which raises issues particularly on the ethnic varieties of shame and the universal nature of guilt, is likely to be one of the most talked about post-performance sbjects for Festival patrons. Centred around three lawyers – two partners, one African-American, one white, and their young, AfricanAmerican law clerk – this riveting plot debates whether or not to take the case of a white billionaire, seeking representation for being accused of raping an African-American woman, a crime he vehemently denies committing. Mamet’s fast-paced text, like the case, is not open and shut. The audience members will undoubtedly bring their own set of judgments and preconceptions into this work that delves into a most complicated and

Race marks the return of the Playhouse Theatre Company to the Festival’s Main Programme after a hiatus of seventeen years. The production of Race at the National Arts Festival is fully funded by the U.S. Diplomatic Mission to South Africa who, over the past years in Grahamstown, have supported the production of American theatre that celebrates a fine reputation for excellence. Produced by special arrangement with Abrams Artists Agency New York and made possible with the financial support of the U.S. Diplomatic Mission to South Africa

Magnet Theatre in association with the National Arts Festival presents

Voices Made

Night Adapted from the short stories Vozes Anoitecidas by © Mia Couto Originally published by Editorial Caminho

“Evocative physical theatre.... the show should not be missed” Andrew Gilder, Cape Times “(Voices Made Night) combines the best of all worlds... a show that reflects the unique identity of South African theatre” Roger Lucy, e-tv

Photos: Mark Wessels

ia Couto’s wonderfully imagistic tales confront head-on the difficulties facing post-colonial societies in the process of transformation. They offer unique insights into the psychic damage, which has been the legacy, both of colonial history and the wars of de-colonisation, but there is no sense of hopelessness or despair in the work as a whole because of the immensely creative manner in which the stories are told and the rich and creative life of the imagination of his characters.

Voices Made Night is a reworking of the company’s 2001 award-winning production which scooped the FNB Vita – Best Director, Best Actress and Best Lighting Design awards.

When one first reads Couto’s stories one is struck by the visually exciting metaphoric images that provide perfect material for Magnet Theatre’s physical style of theatre. The language is dense and multi-layered providing ample opportunity to tease out the images in the physical space of the theatre in a profound and arresting way.

Production Manager Stage Manager

Magnet Theatre celebrates 25 years of producing innovatively exciting and critically engaging theatre. Voices Made Night reflects all of Magnet Theatre’s orientations as a company – a focus on creative, innovative and sophisticated African theatre which engages with their present condition in southern Africa; a commitment to developing theatre that consistently challenges form, the roles of theatre and its reach; and the prioritising of the body and the physical image.

English Translation Director Original music Set Design Costume Design Lighting design

David Brookshaw Mark Fleishman Neo Muyanga Craig Leo Illka Louw Mark Fleishman and Craig Leo Craig Leo Themba Stewart

Cast Faniswa Yisa Jennie Reznek Dann-Jaques Mouton Mfundo Tshazibane Thando Doni Chiminae Ball Richard September Performances at the National Arts Festival are presented by Magnet Theatre by arrangement with Literarische Agentur Mertin, Inh. Nicole Witt e. K. Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Graeme College Theatre Friday 6 July Saturday 7 July Sunday 8 July

20:00 16:00 & 20:00 12:00 & 16:00

Duration

1 hour 30 minutes (no interval)

Age Restriction

10 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

Artscape in association with the National Arts Festival and Abrahamse & Meyer Productions present

William Shakespeare’s

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

o other play by William Shakespeare offers such a fantastical feast of magic, madness, romance, humour and spectacle as A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Set on a luxury game lodge in Africa, this new production brings to life Shakespeare’s most romantic of romantic comedies with spectacular sets, sumptuous costumes, magical lighting effects, and laugh-a-minute comedy. Abrahamse & Meyer Productions, in collaboration with the National Arts Festival, have achieved international recognition for their two previous Shakespeare productions, The Tragedy of Richard III (2010) and Shakespeare’s R&J (2011) and now, in partnership with Artscape, bring this new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to the 2012 Festival.

“The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact. The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turn’s them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.” A Midsummer Night’s Dream V.i

Transnet Great Hall Friday 6 July Saturday 7 July Sunday 8 July

20:00 12:00 & 18:30 15:00

Duration

2 hours 45 minutes (including interval)

Age Restriction

None

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

“Abrahamse’s production is a theatrical triumph. The result establishes Shakespeare as the greatest entertainer the world has known” Bruce Mann, The Herald Direction & Set Design Costume Design Lighting Design Laser Design Soundscape

Fred Abrahamse Marcel Meyer Faheem Bardien Ian Powell Charl-Johann Lingenfelder

Cast The Nobles: Theseus, Duke of Athens Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons Egeus, a nobleman

Marcel Meyer Chi Mhende Siswe Msutu

The Lovers: Hermia, daughter to Egeus, in love with Lysander Lysander, a youth in love with Hermia Demetrius, betrothed to Hermia Helena, in love with Demetrius

Zondwa Njokweni James MacGregor Anelisa Phewa Hannah Borthwick

The ‘Rude’ Mechanicals: Peter Quince Nic Bottom Francis Flute Snug Tom Snout Robin Starveling

Luthando Mthi David Dennis Mdu Kweyama Malafane Moshuli Wiseman Sithole Sipho Vara

The Fairies: Oberon, King of the Fairies Titania, Queen of the Fairies Puck, attendant to Oberon

Marcel Meyer Chi Mhende Nicholas Andrews

39 Scarlattine Teatro in association with the National Arts Festival and supported by the Italian Institute Of Culture presents

Manolibera

anolibera has been acclaimed internationally as a wonderful example of how a piece of theatre can cross the generational divide. The Italian company, Scarlattine Teatro combines two distinct talents – character acting and drawing – and turns them into a seriously clever piece of fun. In this interplay between reality and fantasy, the actors use their charm in ingenuous ways to reveal how creativity can thrive everywhere. Highly visual, this is a journey of joy and fascination; a funny and original celebration of the imagination. Monolibera takes the audience into the world of the comic book where the actors interact with the characters and become part of the story. Drawing on the clowning techniques of Jacques Lecoq and inspired by Dario Fo, Scarlattine Teatro intertwine animation, jazz and bubbles in a celebration of life that crosses linguistic and age barriers. It is like the comic story that adults buy for their children only to hide it away to read it for themselves. Through its liveliness and forthright simplicity and using a combination of on-the-spot sketches and pre-drawn cartoons, the artist and his co-performers rely on body language and a few well-placed sound effects to create a show with the kind of storytelling that can be so very gratifying and the artwork such great fun. In 2009, Manolibera won the Pick of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Award and was shortlisted for the Total Award Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2010, the production won the Best Performance Award at Lalka tez Czlowiek Warsaw Festival. The South African première of Manolibera is made possible at the National Arts Festival with the kind support of the Italian Institute of Culture and the Embassy of Italy in South Africa. Michele Cremaschi, Michele Eynard and Anna Fascendini Michele Cremaschi, Michele Eynard and Francesca Cecala Django Reinhardt  Umberto Bendotti

Written by Performed by Music Scenography Victoria Theatre Friday 6 July Saturday 7 July Sunday 8 July

12:00 12:00 & 16:00 11:00

Duration

1 hour (including interval)

Age Restriction

None

Tickets Stalls R50 (Full) R35 (Student / Scholar) Balcony R45 (Full) R30 (Student / Scholar)

The Handspring Puppet Company in association with the National Arts Festival presents

I Love You When You’re Breathing Featuring a cast of puppeteers led by Gabriel Marchand

he Handspring Puppet Company was founded in 1981 by four graduates of the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town, South Africa. Two of the co-founders, Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones, continue to run the company. Originally they created shows for children and thereafter productions for adult audiences. Arguably one of the greatest puppetry companies in the world, Handspring has since collaborated with a succession of innovative South Africa directors including Malcolm Purkey, Barney Simon and artist William Kentridge. Apart from seasons throughout theatres across South Africa, Handspring has been presented at many international festivals including Edinburgh, the Avignon Festival in France, the Next Wave Festival at BAM in New York, The African Odyssey Festival at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, Theatre d’ Automne in Paris, Theatre der Welt in Germany, as well as in Hong Kong, Singapore, Adelaide, Zurich and Bogota. The company provides an artistic home and professional base for a core group of performers, designers, theatre artists and technicians who collaborate with them on a project basis. Based in South Africa

they continue to explore the boundaries of adult puppet theatre within an African context. In I Love You When You’re Breathing audiences have the unique opportunity of seeing a puppet deliver a meta-theatrical address to critics and the general public. Using comedy and generous amounts of self-reflexive humour this presentation gives insight into the behind-the-scenes life of a puppet, as an object in the world of international theatre. Often humorous and sometimes irreverent, the lecture looks at what it’s like to be inanimate while also considering the special role of the audience and it’s part in making meaning. Jason Potgieter is a writer, director and puppeteer with the Handspring Puppet Company in Cape Town, South Africa. He has worked as a puppeteer on a number of productions including Woyzeck on the Highveld, The Return of Ulysses and Ouroboros with 2010 Standard Bank Young Artist, Janni Younge. He is also the curator of Handspring and Puppetry SA’s Iqonga programme at the Out The Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Theatre. Jason teaches puppetry skills and facilitates object workshops around the world. He is a lover of the avocado and most things green. The twenty five minute performance of I Love You When You’re Breathing will be followed by a question and answer session.

Graeme College Thursday 28 June Friday 29 June Saturday 30 June

18:00 14:00 & 16:30 12:00; 14:00 & 18:30

Duration

1 hour (including Q & A)

Age Restriction

None

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

Based on the original text by Adaptation and direction Puppet crafted by Puppet’s suit Production

Basil Jones Jason Potgieter Adrian Kohler Phyllis Midlane Handspring Puppet Company

The National Arts Festival presents a

Season of Solo Theatre Through a diverse range of one-person shows, the National Arts Festival explores and celebrates the uniqueness of the individual theatre-maker. This inaugural Season of Solo Theatre presents highly accomplished South African artists with vast experiences in solo performance. These productions explore cultural values, racial issues, political matters, as well as topics related to sexual identity, women’s interests, and world adventures. The Season of Solo Theatre provides Festival enthusiasts with access to high quality solo works some of which have won major accolades in previous seasons and internationally. Each of the productions in this season is more poignant than stand-up comedy, more intimate than a monologue, more hopeful than a rant and as powerful as the freedom with which South African artists can embrace the right to be an individual.

41 Evita se Perron in association with the National Arts Festival present

“Uys dons false eyelashes and presidents listen.” LA Times (October 2010)

n the road to the ANC 2012 Congress in Mangaung, still inspired by his scriptwriters, the government of the day, Pieter-Dirk Uys takes a night off and presents his life in theatre, on stage, through satire, celebrating survival – frocked or unfrocked – ever transparent. In conversation with an audience usually means a dialogue, a Q & A, a grilling and often a roasting. This will be all of those, interspersed with some of the 80 characters from his 38 years in the political arena, brandishing his weapon of mass distraction: humour.

What South African cartoonist Zapiro is to South African print media, prolific South African writer, entertainer, activist and philanthropist, Pieter-Dirk Uys is to South African theatre – and even more to the South African political arena. No other South African performer – and no politician – has been able to deliver the kind of bitingly funny and fast-paced satire to highlight the truth, challenge assumptions and help us all cross our boundaries from the old South Africa right into a new, but not faultless, democracy. In his journey from the old South Africa to the new, political hypocrisy has hardly ever escaped Uys’s perceptive eye. His unbridled courage, combined with his talent as a raconteur, has enabled him to tell uncomfortable political truths in a way that even those politicians who are the subjects of his satire have found themselves exploding with laughter. Uys’s satire is fast-paced and intelligent. His uncanny ability to recreate South African politicians and to breathe life into their absurdities is guaranteed to evoke hilarious laughing at their folly but in an entertaining and provocative way. Uys is a genius at awakening our consciousness about how we’ve allowed ourselves to become observers and participants in their tragic blunders. If ever there was an award for being the People’s Conscience, Pieter-Dirk Uys would walk away taking it with or without his costumes, tiara, mascara and lipstick. And there would be no doubt that long after the theatre lights had gone down, there would still be laughter resonating in the theatre.

Guy Butler Theatre, Monument Thursday 5 July 19:00 Duration 1 hour 10 minutes Age Restriction Anyone from 14 to 89 who cannot laugh at themselves Tickets R75 (Full) R65 (Scholars / Students)

42 Richard Jordan Productions Ltd in association with the Baxter Theatre and the National Arts Festival presents

MAIN

Itsoseng

Written and performed by Omphile Molusi Associate Producer

FRENCH/SA SEASON

Actor and writer Omphile Molusi was the first recipient of the Royal Shakespeare Company/ Baxter Theatre Brett Goldin Award. His selfpenned, one person play is a story set in Itsoseng, a township in the North West Province, whose name means “wake yourself up”.

John Worboys

“There is a kinetic brilliance to a performance that whirrs between the menace of hopelessness and touching sensitivity”. The Irish Times

EASTERN CAPE

Itsoseng is a scathing indictment of government indifference, cynicism and incompetence in dealing with the people of the township. The story is told through the eyes of Mawilla, a young man who loses the love of his life whom he has loved since childhood.

“Molusi is a talented performer with boundless energy. His conviction is riveting.” Zane Henry (The Star Tonight)

SOLO SEASON

When Itsoseng was staged at the Edinburgh Festival in 2008 it won an Edinburgh Fringe First Award and a review that was guaranteed to give the production an extended life: “Molusi’s is a tour de force performance. It’s impossible to take your eyes off him as he shape-shifts between personae using a variety of theatrical devices. Raw and gritty but also yearning and tender, Itsoseng finds moments of desperate beauty amid the waste of lives.” – Tina Jackson

The Hangar Thursday 5 July 10:00 & 18:30 Saturday 7 July 10:00 & 21:00 Sunday 8 July 16:00 Duration 1 hour 20 minutes (no interval) Age Restriction PG 12 years + Tickets R60 (Full) R50 (Student / Scholar)

West in association with the National Arts Festival presents James Cuningham in

ARENA

Sunday Morning

STUDENT

Writer Director Designer

Nick Warren Jenine Collocott Alastair Findlay

Original Design Technical Support Producer

Jenni-Lee Crewe Strike Alliance WEST

Mat is a successful photographer who has his life exactly how he likes it – ordered, neat, and beautifully composed – until the day his girlfriend tells him she is pregnant.

FRINGE

In an attempt to process this disturbing information he goes out for a run. Straying from his regular route, he ventures into a strange part of the city where he makes a gruesome discovery that changes everything. This fast-paced story is infused with the kind of aggressive wit, acute observation, real suspense, imminent danger, selfish need and poignant humanity that are the basic elements of urban life in contemporary South Africa. Hangar Wednesday 4 July 18:30 Thursday 5 July 16:00 & 21:30 Friday 6 July 16:00 Saturday 7 July 16:00 Duration 55 minutes (no interval) Age Restriction PG 10 years + Tickets R60 (Full) R50 (Student / Scholar)

“Shattered, humbled, elevated and still sobbing a little with joy and sadness, all at the same time” Robyn Sassen “This is not good. It is brilliant” Katharina von Ruckteschell (Goethe Institute Director)

43 The National Arts Festival, with support from the Royal Embassy of the Netherlands, presents Hiske Eriks in

Hiske Eriks Manon Nieuweboer / Casper Nieuwenhuis

Writer / Director Production / Stage Manager

Nicky Rebelo Jennifer Steyn

Herman Charles Bosman wrote what he called, The Voorkamer Stories, as weekly contributions for Johannesburg’s The Forum from April 1950 to his untimely death at the age of 46 in October 1951. Nicky Rebelo has adapted some of these stories to create Jurie Steyn’s Post Office. He and David Butler previously collaborated on the highly successful Bosman shows A Touch of Madness, for which Rebelo received a 2000 Vita Best Director Award, A Teacher in the Bushveld, and Street Woman. “A touch of class… Butler simply gives the performance of a life time” – Stephen Gray on A Touch of Madness

12:00; 13:00 & 20:00 12:00; 19:30 & 20:30 17:30 & 18:30 20 minutes (no interval) PG 14 years + R35 (Full) R30 (Student / Scholar)

The Hangar Friday 6 July 10:30 & 21:00 Saturday 7 July 13:30 & 18:30 Sunday 8 July 11:00 Duration 1 hour 5 minutes (no interval) Age Restriction None Tickets R60 (Full) R50 (Student / Scholar)

FRINGE

Thursday 5 July Friday 6 July Saturday 7 July Duration Age Restriction Tickets

David Butler once again takes on the role of Herman Charles Bosman as well as portraying the Marico farmers whom Bosman depicted with much insight, irony and wit. There’s Jurie Steyn who, apart from being a regular farmer, doubles up as the ill-tempered Postmaster, and there’s Gysbert van Tonder a self-confessed cattle smuggler, At Naude, constantly paranoid from listening to too much news on the radio, Chris Welman, living with shame since his son went to reform school, Johnny Coen, the permanently lovelorn former train-shunter from Ottoshoep, and Oupa Bekker, the half deaf, oldest inhabitant of the district who claims to have once been the Minister of Finance of the former Boer Republic of Ohrigstad.

STUDENT

Jurie Steyn’s Post Office takes a hilarious look at life in the Groot Marico pre-1950, and the eccentric characters that used to gather in Jurie Steyn’s voorkamer (reception-room), which also served as the local Post Office, to swap stories, opinions, unwelcome advice and philosophies while waiting for their post and milk cans, which arrived on the government lorry from Bekkersdal.

ARENA

“…easily the funniest Bosman show since Patrick Maynard at his best. Bosman’s short, abruptly ended, sojourn in the bushveld is captured so vividly it’s as if the man himself has briefly been brought back to life.” – Professor Craig Mackenzie on A Teacher in the Bushveld

Glennie Festival Centre

SOLO SEASON

A graduate of the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Hiske Eriks has performed at numerous festivals in Europe and, most recently, Australia. Wacht! was described by the 2011 Amsterdam Fringe Jury as, “A thoroughly entertaining piece of performance theatre which will make you both happy and sad….A poignantly realised study in loneliness, and the search for excitement in the mundane”.

Jurie Steyn’s Post Office

EASTERN CAPE

What would you do if you felt that there was more potential in you than actually shows? What would you fantasise about? We all feel the urge once in a while to break free from the daily grind. In search of stimulus, in search of adventure, in search of taming the restlessness inside. Wacht! is a very funny performance, without words, for anyone who has ever dreamed of doing things differently. A performance that makes sure you’ll never walk through a museum without a grin again.

Square Metre Theatre in association with the National Arts Festival presents David Butler in

FRENCH/SA SEASON

Concept/performer Production

MAIN

‘Wacht!’

44 Freevoice Productions in association with the National Arts Festival presents Thembi Mtshali-Jones in

MAIN

Mother to Mother

FRENCH/SA SEASON

Writer Director Original Set Design Original Lighting Design Original Props Technical Director Photography Composer/ Musical Advisor Video Editor

Sindiwe Magona Janice Honeyman Dicky Longhurst Mannie Manim Koos Marais C.J. Marshall Eric Miller Neo Muyanga Devon Brough

Mother to Mother is a powerful story of forgiveness and reconciliation. Based on the tragic killing of Amy Biehl, this production plays out as an imaginary personal testimony from one mother to another. Poignant, moving and ultimately uplifting, this unforgettable one-hander captures the soul of an ordinary woman. It is a tour de force performance delivered with dignity, sensitivity and humour. Mother to Mother brings together four powerhouses of South African female talents – Dr Sindiwe Magona (writer of the original story upon which the play is based), Janice Honeyman (multi award-winning director), Thembi MtshaliJones (celebrated singer, actress and playwright) and Yvette Hardie (international producer, director and educator).

EASTERN CAPE

Described as a “heart wrenching tour de force” (Bermuda News), the play is based on Magona’s compelling story which seeks to understand the tragic killing of young American Fullbright scholar, Amy Biehl in Gugulethu in 1993, just months before South Africa was to celebrate its freedom from oppression and usher in a new era of democracy.

SOLO SEASON ARENA

Adapted for the stage by Magona and Honeyman, Mother to Mother begs for understanding and redemption as it recounts the unimaginable tragedy that befell two families during a time in South Africa where being a child or a mother was difficult and turbulent. The one-woman play is an intimate and moving portrait of a woman struggling to make sense of her son’s actions. It takes a compassionate look at the devastating effect of violence and anger in a South Africa divided by racial tension, and explores the question of where the responsibility for this violence lies. Mother to Mother celebrates the possibilities that exist in a fractured society for forgiveness, understanding and healing.

STUDENT FRINGE

In real life, the men who were found guilty of the crime were granted amnesty at the TRC hearings. Amy’s parents, Peter and Linda, attended the hearings in 1997, the same year they started the Amy Biehl Foundation, which takes proactive steps to reduce violence and empower people to become positive forces for change. Two of the men convicted of the crime now work for the Foundation. The themes of redemption and forgiveness resonate powerfully through this beautifully realised and intimate work. Mother to Mother was first produced by the Baxter Theatre in 2009

The Hangar Wednesday 4 July 12:30 Thursday 5 July 14:00 Friday 6 July 13:30 & 18:30 Sunday 8 July 13:30 Duration 1 hour 10 minutes (no interval) Age Restriction 12 years + Tickets R60 (Full) R50 (Student / Scholar)

45 The Carnets Sud/Nord and The Ster City Project in association with the National Arts Festival present

Dominique Lentin Patrick Puechavy Catherine Laval Sean Hart

EASTERN CAPE

Cast

Jean-Paul Delore Isabelle Vellay Jean-Paul Delore Isabelle Vellay Lindiwe Matshikiza Nicholas Welch

FRENCH/SA SEASON

Director Assistant Director Texts Music, Percussion & Samplers Lighting Design Costumes & Make-up Video, Photography & Design Projection & and General Production Stage Manager

MAIN

Ster City

Guillaume Junot Karine Hébrard

Lindiwe Matshikiza, Nicholas Welch & Dominique Lentin

SOLO SEASON

Ster City is one of the projects of the Carnets Sud/Nord (Notebooks South/North) - a travelling theatre and music creation laboratory from France, under the direction of Jean-Paul Delore. The Carnets have been on the move since 2002 in Central and Southern Africa, in Brazil and in France, collaborating with artists from various continents.

ARENA

In Johannesburg, Jean-Paul Delore met two South African performers, Nicholas Welch and Lindiwe Matshikiza. Together with French musician, Dominique Lentin, they formed a trio with the idea to stage an hour-long History of South Africa - from prehistoric times until today - primarily for young audiences in France. The initial challenge was to play with ways to achieve this absurd task. The current challenge has been to adapt the game for South African audiences...

STUDENT

They give us their insolent, free and most often comical version of South African history, playing with the landmarks and unclear boundaries between tradition and modernity. The main task is for them to express the complexity of this country by incarnating humans, animals, confessions and anti-historical truths, anecdotes, war treaties, race treaties, masters, slaves, giraffes… Languages spoken in this production: French, English, Zulu, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Sotho & Tswana

The Carnets Sud/Nord and the Ster City Project are proudly partnered by Région Rhône-Alpes / Drac Rhône-Alpes / Arcadi / Institut Français

FRINGE

This false historical conference is a series of games between the performers, often improvised using song, rap, video, fragments of language and gesture, historical ‘fact’ and personal anecdote. The real story of these two actors and some pieces of their romantic genealogies, dress the many fictitious and historical characters they incarnate in Ster City. In so doing, they revisit the aesthetics of chaos, hope, disaster and recovery peculiar to certain clown shows, by making use of new technologies in a burlesque way.

The Hangar Monday 2 July Tuesday 3 July Wednesday 4 July

11:00 & 18:30 17:00 & 21:30 21:30

Duration

1 hour (no interval)

Age Restriction

8 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

The National Arts Festival Arena Programme in association with the ThinSkin Collective presents

Callum’s Will MAIN

Writer / Director Cast

Janna Ramos-Violante Darren King Clinton Small

FRENCH/SA SEASON

Callum’s Will, a beautiful, intimate story, takes the audience on an almost filmic experience as the unlikely relationship between two men evolves from an awkward first encounter to a deep and lasting friendship which neither expects or understands. Sometimes in life friendships choose us. People enter our lives for the wrong reasons but at exactly the right moment to save us from ourselves.

EASTERN CAPE

Set in London’s early nineties, the two characters come from completely different backgrounds. Callum is a cultured man in his mid-forties, an ex-ballet dancer whose career was cut short by a tragic accident which has left him paraplegic and in a wheelchair. Disconnected from his “friends” and previous life, he is unable to cope and is forced to seek assistance in the unlikely form of Will. Will is a boy in his mid-twenties from the wrong side of the tracks. He has grown up amidst mass unemployment in a country of state benefits. Surrounded by friends who have accepted their lot in life, Will is not bereft of hope and dreams, something his eccentric, late mother left as a seed that is about to germinate.

SOLO SEASON

The story takes the audience on a journey of laughter and sometimes tears but essentially full of hope as it offers a quiet window into the tiny intricacies of human behaviour and interaction which we never really get the opportunity to observe.

The Hangar Saturday 30 June 19:00 Sunday 1 July 16:30 Monday 2 July 21:30 Tuesday 3 July 11:00 & 19:30 Duration 55 minutes (no interval) Age Restriction 15 years + Tickets R60 (Full) R50 (Student / Scholar)

The National Arts Festival Arena Programme in association with Rob van Vuuren presents

ARENA

The Three Little Pigs Director Cast

Tara Notcutt Albert Pretorius, James Cairns, Rob van Vuuren

STUDENT

Adapted from The Three Little Pigs (traditional) by the company

FRINGE

wo good pigs are dead. The mutilated bodies of the brothers, both decorated police officers, were found in their respective homes on the same night of a savage and grizzly revenge crime. The prime suspect, a wolf, is still at large … and he wants the third little pig dead. The Three Little Pigs is a taut psychological thriller set in a world where Animal Farm meets Reservoir Dogs and gives birth to a dark and unexpected take on a classic children’s story. A delightfully twisted collaboration between multi award-winning artists Tara Notcutt (…miskien, Mafeking Road), James Cairns (Dirt, Sie Weis Alles), Albert Pretorius (…miskien) and Rob van Vuuren (Rob van Vuuren - Live!, The Most Amazing Show), The Three Little Pigs is at turns terrifying and hilarious, savage and beautiful. The Three Little Pigs is a riveting and subversive adaptation of an age-old tale and a show not to be missed. Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? The Hangar Thursday 28 June to Monday 2 July Duration Age Restriction Tickets:

Daily at 14:00 1 hour (no interval) 15 years + R60 (Full) R50 (Student / Scholar)

447 The National Arts Festival Arena Programme, with support from the Australian High Commission, presents the 2012 Perth Fringe Theatre Award-winner

Hope is the Saddest Devised and directed by Jeffrey Jay Fowler Featuring Jeffrey Jay Fowler, Michelle Robin Anderson and Natalie Holmwood Hope is the Saddest is a bittersweet story of falling in love, bicycles, death and Dolly Parton. Especially Dolly Parton. It both begins and ends with a violent traffic accident that draws the same three people into each other’s eccentric worlds. Hope is a childlike, eternally optimistic young woman who takes all her life lessons from Dolly Parton’s lyrics and is not afraid to go to extreme measures when fate makes true love land/collapse at her feet.

The third angle in this isosceles triangle is the neurotic, nouveau riche Marion. In a surreal twist of supposed, real and imagined events, Marion’s journey sees her kill a cyclist, bury her car in the backyard, ignite a romance between strangers, seduce Jesus and finally bear the second coming of Christ. “A touching and perfectly timed piece of theatre, from a group of articulate young artists. It represents the voice of a new generation of practitioners: Hope is the Saddest is more poignant than sad; more joyous than hysterical. It is a feelgood production in which the characters demonstrate a naiveté we all long for.” (2012 Perth Jury) “All three performers were captivating… very entertaining.” (Australian Stage.com)

Theo, the object of her desire, throws up a few hurdles for Hope, but there is no way that she’s going to let Theo’s boyfriend deter her, or let the fact that he is “a bit gay” stand in the way of her path to true love.

The Hangar Thursday 28 June 21:00 Friday 29 June 16:30 Saturday 30 June 21:30 Sunday 1 July 21:00 Tuesday 3 July 14:00 Duration 1 hour Age Restriction PG Tickets R60 (Full) R50 (Student / Scholar)

The National Arts Festival Arena Programme, with support from the Royal Netherlands Embassy, presents the 2011 Amsterdam Fringe Jury Award-winning Production

Bye Bye World! A performance made by Gehring & Ketelaars | Frijling Director Text Dramaturg Performers

Marjolein Frijling Vera Ketelaars Nienke Scholts Anne Gehring and Vera Ketelaars

‘A woman takes a bite of birthday cake left over from her party. She looks around the house. Never again, she thinks. Never again. She sticks her fork in the cake and grabs her coat. It is possible. You could just disappear. Close the door behind you, never to return again. Anne Gehring and Vera Ketelaars reconstruct the upheaval in the perfectly normal lives of two ordinary women. Bye bye world! is a transparent parable about living today, in which the performers need nothing but themselves to conjur a whole universe. It’s modern storytelling in its purest form.

‘The performers are complex, fearless and truthful. The staging is simple and meticulous. All these components create a performance that is both moving and mysterious’. Amsterdam Fringe Jury

B2 Arena Thursday 28 June 20:00 Friday 29 June 12:00 & 20:00 Saturday 30 June 12:00 & 20:00 Duration 1 hour Age Restriction None Tickets R60 (Full) R50 (Student / Scholar)

The National Arts Festival presents

the 2012 Student Theatre Festival Tender

SA Shorts: Quickies for a Microwave Generation

By Rhodes University

By the University of Johannesburg

Director Alby Michaels Assistant director Motlatji Ditodi Scripts by Tristan Jacobs, Rhea MacCallum, Anthony Akerman & Zanandi Botes Directed by 2OI2 Naledinominated Best Director, Alby Michaels, SA Shorts features culottes new short plays from and about South Africa in a range of genres by emerging and established local and international playwrights, and performed UJ student board shorts performers.

pj bottoms

cargo

pt broekie

Works were selected from an open call for submissions and the selection is fresh, playful, engaging, energising, provocative and powerful. These scripts reveal unheard of and vital perspectives about living in South Africa today.

boxers

nylons

SA Shorts is a laboratory for new voices and new ideas. Directed by Madelé Vermaak

Rehearsal Room

Cast: Robert Haxton, Maude Sandham, Elisha Mudly, Nomcebisi Moyikwa, Tyson Ngubeni, Michelle Ellis, Fezi Mthonti, Sandi Dlangalala, Danielle Bowler and Megan Knowles

Friday 6 July 12:30 Saturday 7 July 17:00 Duration 1 hour 15 minutes Language English Age Restriction None Tickets R35 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. J, Krishnamurti Tender is a collaborative exploration striving for transcendence while being utterly aware of the dissatisfaction we encounter along the way. While not being sure what to do about it, mostly “we are dissatisfied that we have trained ourselves so well and so hard, to not be dissatisfied.” Tender weaves together a series of responses presented as interlinking vignettes. A series of works have been crafted in their respective rooms only to have them come together in one creative shack where the whole has been carefully moulded into this presentation.

The Homeless Orchestra By the University of Cape Town Directed by Joanna Evans An orchestra comes together, the conductor arrives, they open their cases and the instruments aren’t there. How can the concert go on? Can you make music without instruments? And is there more to homelessness than simply not having a home?

These responses serve as galvanising balls of potential, itching to burst open and engulf us with an undiscovered world of sufficient sustenance to suffice us; to leave us completely satisfied. Only, they exist to tease us, to give us something, to leave us with something – a potential – an overwhelming need for more. What’s more satisfying than that?

This exciting production explores the idea of community and shows the triumph of the human spirit over adversity, mishap and preconditioning. It is hilarious, thought provoking and will strike a chord on your heartstrings. These are the SA’s rising stars, in a new work, that will restore your passion for theatre but. they are homeless, so all donations welcome.

Rehearsal Room

Saturday 30 June Monday 2 July Duration Language Age Restriction Tickets

10:30 19:30 55 minutes English, Afrikaans, isiXhosa 13 years + R35 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

Friday 29 June 20:00 Sunday 1 July 15:30 Duration 1 hour Language English Age Restriction PG Tickets R35 (Full)

R25 (Student / Scholar)

Faces of Betrayal By AFDA

Directed by Christopher John and Caroline Duck Faces of Betrayal is a poignant, new, work-shopped play that explores the lives of young people living in Cape Town through a series of events involving moments of betrayal. The play draws on personal narrative and research on the streets of Cape Town. Through their detailed character observations, the actors take the audience on their journeys of pain, triumph and humour as the play delves into a world where tensions run high and masks are shattered. Rehearsal Room Friday 29 June Sunday 1 July Duration Language Age Restriction Tickets

11:30 18:30 1 hour English & Afrikaans 15 years + R35 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

Fence

Reclaiming Body – Reclaiming Self

By the Market Theatre Laboratory

By the University of the Western Cape

Directed by Linda Vincent Shabangu and Pumza Tshem

Directed by Sivuyiswe Wonci Work-shopped by a UWC collective

There are two sides to every fence. As one side protects, the other repels. (If you stay on your side, my side is fine). Not content with being lines of reference, fences bear witness. Witness to our divisions; to our destinations; our separations and the things we think we control. Fences strain under our weight when we sit and they lose their power when we jump. But fences can catch our flesh and rip at our soul. The promise of safety – betrayed. And the only evidence of our life’s blood now is their rust. Rehearsal Room Tuesday 3 July 11:30 Thursday 5 July 18:30 Duration 1 hour 10 minutes Language English Age Restriction PG Tickets R35 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

This play deals with the multiple struggles that young Black women are facing in the post-1994 South Africa. It speaks out against stereotypes, conservative society, religion and oppressive body politics. It questions the contradictions in the so-called land of freedom(s). A must see production by young female students from the University of the Western Cape. Rehearsal Room Monday 2 July 11:30 Wednesday 4 July 15:30 Duration 50 minutes Language English Age Restriction None Tickets R35 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

Madikizela Verwoerd By the University of the Free State Directed by Walter Strydom The architect of apartheid, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd’s extramarital affair with a black woman produces a bastard child. The mother of anti-apartheid, Winnie MadikizelaMandela, stabs a 14-year-old police informant with a pair of scissors in the neck.

For I, the Lord your God, lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected – even children in the third and fourth generations.

Between law and order, duty and pride, black rage and white guilt, black people, white people, ‘Kill-the-Farmer’ and ‘De-la-Rey-De-la-Rey’, where does the South African lay down his head in shame tonight? How do you want to build a supposed rainbow nation with burnt tyres and rotten gallows rope?

Monday 2 July Wednesday 4 July Duration Language Age Restriction Tickets

Rehearsal Room 15:30 18:00 1 hour English PG 16 years + R35 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man’s Blues By the University of Pretoria

Written by Directed by Assistant Director

Caridad Svich Wendy Mortimer Franco Strydom

Cast Simone Jamie Selah Caroline Miranda Tirasol

Janine Bezuidenhout Troy Zuma Masego Mothibakgomo Khensani Maluleka Tselani Mashilo Lakecia Harris

This play transports the audience to a world where spirits wander, trees stretch way up to the sky and deep below the soil, and the air is thick with history and heat. A world where ancient rituals have the power to re-unite lovers separated by death. Communities around the world suffer great loss due to war and waves of grief, anger and confusion ebb and flow through the survivors. The death of a young soldier sends his widow, and a community of women left behind, on a journey where the soldier’s ghost, fried chicken and other mysteries of spirit and nature come together in a search for pure grace. This is one woman’s story of moving on after experiencing a loss she never anticipated. Rehearsal Room Wednesday 4 July 11:30 Friday 6 July 17:00 Duration 50 minutes Language English Age Restriction None Tickets R35 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

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Animals

Written by Teakshania Chetty collaborating with Genbia Hyla Directed by Thembalethu Professor Nqumako

By Louis Roux Directed by André Gerber

A button is pressed. “Start”! Gun shots! Pow! Pow! “Go”.

A re-education camp for myths. A battery farm for victims. The place where stories go after we stop telling them. This is the world as Persephone, Orpheus and Sisyphus know it. All victims of a brutal system ruled by indifferent gods, they struggle to find meaning and identity in their stories of abuse. Guarded and caged in by the disembodied voice of H.A.D.E.S Inc. and its guards, they try to find a way out of an inescapable system of oppression.

By the Durban University of Technology

The trap doors are shut, and interrogations are all that is left when there’s nowhere to hide. Man to man, face to face! Bang! Bang! Bang! The war is on. Oops! Too late! The final blow, man down! “Do not kill what you cannot eat”. What have you eaten? Beat your head with the gavel for the record. Watch your fingers! Ring, ring! Home or cell? Would you rather buy or sell honour? Negative plus positive equals positive, but when positive questions are asked, you may get negative answers. Why? Rehearsal Room Thursday 28 June Saturday 30 June Duration Language Age Restriction Tickets

16:00 18:30 50 minutes English Strictly adults only R35 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

By the University of Stellenbosch

Who exactly are the real animals in our society? Rehearsal Room Sunday 1 July 11:30 Tuesday 3 July 19:30 Duration 1 hour 10 minutes Language English Age Restriction PG Tickets R35 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

Mob Feel

By the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg Written by Kline Smith, Based on Can Themba’s Mob Passion Directed by Kline Smith

“In the soul of almost every being raved a seething madness, wild and passionate, with the causes lying deep. No cursory measures can remedy, no superficial explanation can illuminate. These jovial faces that can change into masks of bloodlust and destruction on smallest provocation.” Can Themba, Mob Passion (1953) The age-old traditions of storytelling are meshed with physical theatre and live music on stage to create an intimate revisiting of the incidences of gang violence and ethnic rivalry that took place in the township of Westbury, Johannesburg, in the 1950’s. The performance is a love-story about violence and passion, about Linga, a Xhosa, and Mapula, a Sotho, (a Lethebele and a Russian!) forbidden by rival families to exchange even the slightest of glances.

Here Lies the Last Broken Heart By City Varsity

Written and directed by Amy Jephta Devised by the cast: Maroinelle Frazenburg, Danica Carelse, Jamie Freeman, Joseph Stuart, Siseko Ntwana and Kyla Philander

Evocative, vivid and poetic language and imagery is used to articulate the detrimental effects of mob mentalities and township violence, and the dangers of losing one’s sense of individual feeling and responsibility when caught up in a mob feeling.

When a relationship goes wrong, something must happen to the fragments left behind. To the letters, the trinkets, the objects and bits of history shared between two people. It must be sealed up in a box and stored away. It must be buried in the backyard, out of sight. It must be looked at now and again, remembered once in a while. Why do we hold onto these objects when the giver has left? What stories lie in the relics of past loves?

Rehearsal Room

Thursday 28 June Saturday 30 June Duration Language Age Restriction Tickets

12:00 21:00 1 hour English 13 years + R35 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

Wednesday 4 July 20:30 Saturday 7 July 11:30 Duration 1 hour Language English, Afrikaans, isiXhosa Age Restriction PG Tickets R35 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

Relocation

By the Tshwane University of Technology Directed by Thabiso “Vetis” Malebye Written by Hulisani Ndou The irony in Relocation is that no one goes anywhere. The ‘relocation’ that is taking place is not physical, but psychological. A cultural paradigm shift that is happening in black societies, especially in townships, where the majority of people are not taking advantage of the democracy and equality that they fought for. Now, they are their own oppressors. Rehearsal Room Friday 6 July Saturday 7 July Duration Language Age restriction Tickets

20:30 14:30 1 hour English, seSotho 16 years + R35 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

Tweet – the Musical

By the Waterfront Theatre School Directed by Book & Lyrics Music & Lyrics

Wretched

By the University of the Witwatersrand Devised by Neka Da Costa, Damien Harry, Emilie Owen and Jeremy Richard Directed by Neka Da Costa Boy meets girl. They fall in love. The end. No, not good enough. Boy meets girl. They are tangled in each other. It’s love at first sight. Boy meets girl. They fall in love. They go home. Boy meets girl. They go home. They see each other through the window. They fall in love.

Paul Griffiths Paul Griffiths Roland Perold

Have you noticed recently, when sitting amongst a crowd of people, how many of them are on their phones? If not speaking, then texting? Many of us marvel that we live in an age of instant contact. We celebrate how connected we are, how in touch we have become! But is it not true to say that whilst we sit in a crowded room – engaging with our private technology – we have disconnected from people around us? TWEET – The Musical explores cyber-connection versus realconnection and seeks to find the balance! So, ditch that lifeline connection to social media for a few minutes to enjoy this entertaining, fresh new musical. Status updates after the show… highly recommended! Rehearsal Room

Boy tries to catch girl, to keep her. Boy tries to impress girl. Girl is impressed. Girl is in love. Boy is in love. Boy tries to keep her. Boy tries to impress girl. Girl is impressed. Girl loves boy. It’s love at first sight. Boy tries to catch her, to impress her. Girl is unimpressed.

Thursday 28 June 20:00 Saturday 30 June 15:30 Duration 45 minutes Language English Age Restriction PG Tickets R35 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

Boy tries to love girl. Girl is annoyed, unimpressed. Boy is sad. Boy is in love. Girl goes home. Boy goes home. Boy is in love. Girl is unimpressed. Boy tries to keep her. Boy tries to impress her.

Privy

Boy gives her his heart. Girl takes his heart. Now what?

By the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban Written and directed by Bronwyn Botha & Jason Barber In a country like South Africa, we negotiate our way through the various cultures, languages, races and beliefs, but it is often difficult to find a common ground. One thing most of us share is our use of that most inconspicuous, yet highly secretive object: the toilet.

They fall in love? The end? Not good enough. Wretched. Two clowns fall in love. What happens after that is far more complicated. This play explores the language of love through the language of the body. What does it mean to give your heart to someone? What is real love and what is pretend? How much are we willing to risk for love? How far are we willing to go?

Privy aims to explore South Africa in relation to the toilet, looking at how it can be used for recreation, oppression, alleviation of one’s burdens. Using a range of performance styles, influenced by many different genres, we hope to show you a part of the South African story as experienced by its ordinary citizens.

Rehearsal Room

Thursday 5 July 11:30 Saturday 7 July 21:00 Duration 1 hour Language None Age Restriction None Tickets R35 (Full)

Tuesday 3 July 15:30 Thursday 5 July 15:30 Duration 1 hour Language English, isiZulu Age Restriction PG Tickets R35 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

R25 (Student / Scholar)

53 The National Arts Festival in association with Opera Africa presents 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist for Music

Kelebogile Boikanyo Vocal Recital

elebogile (Pearl) Boikanyo’s rise in the South African opera world has been nothing short of remarkable. Born in 1987, in Pretoria, Kelebogile attended Hebron Technical and Commercial High School, where she graduated at the age of 16. She gained entry into Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria with a scholarship to study a BA in Performing Vocal Arts. Her “defining moment”, she says, happened in 2004 when she won the national soloist competition at the Tirisano School’s Choral Eisteddfod competition for the third year in a row. Aged 15, she was the first student from the North

West Province to win this prize. In 2006 she won her first SAGMA competition as well as the South African Student Prize Competition for all Opera Schools in the Country. This young soprano made her professional singing début with the international South African superstar, tenor Johan Botha, in Opera Africa’s Opera Extravaganza in 2007, while still a vocal arts student at the Tshwane University of Technology. Kelebogile is a member of the Opera Africa Studio and has been appointed as an Opera Africa Associated Artist from 2012. She is sponsored by the Maponya Group.

Programme

Performers

George Frideric Handel Cleopatra’s aria: Piangero la sorte mia, si crudele (1685-1759) from Giulio Cesare Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Susanna’s aria: Deh vieni non tardar (1756-1791) from Le Nozze di Figaro Fiordiligi & Dorabella duet: Ah, guarda sorella From Cosi fan tutte N A Rimsky-Korsakov Opus 45 No.3 The Octave (1844-1908) Opus 42 No.3 The Swift Parade of Clouds César Cui Opus 54 No.5 Here the Lilac Blossom Fades (1835-1918) Manuel de Falla Canción and Jota (1876-1946) from Seven Spanish Folk Songs Mzilikazi Khumalo Queen Silomo & Princess Magogo duet (b 1932) Wangenza Wena kaMancinza from Princess Magogo kaDinuzulu George Gershwin Bess’ aria: My Man is Gone Now (1898-1937) from Porgy and Bess Giuseppe Verdi Oscars’ aria: Saper vorreste di che si veste (1813-1901) from Un Ballo in Maschera Giacomo Puccini Musetta’s aria: Quando men vo (1858-1924) from La Bohème Jacques Offenbach Guilietta & Nicklausse duet: Belle nuit (1819-1880) from Les Contes D’Hoffmann George Bizet Micaela’s aria: Je dis que rien ne m’èpouvante (1838-1875) from Carmen Gaetano Donizetti Norina’s aria: Quel guardo il cavaliere (1797-1848) from Don Pasquale

Kelebogile Boikanyo Thembisile Twala Abraham Paulus Ferreira

Soprano Soprano Pianist

Rhodes Chapel Friday 29 June Monday 2 July

15:00 19:00

Duration

1 hour 10 minutes (no interval)

Age restriction

12 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Students / Scholars)

54 Conducted by Daniel Boico Soloist François du Toit Programme Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Danse macabre, Op. 40 Camille Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 INTERVAL Paul Dukas (1865-1935) Symphony in C major

The National Arts Festival presents the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra’s

Symphony Concert T

he KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic will open the 2012 National Arts Festival with a concert of fantasy and favourites. Celebrating the cultural exchange between France and South Africa, the KZN Philharmonic presents an all-French programme, pairing two Romantic masterworks of Camille Saint-Saëns with the unjustly neglected symphony of Paul Dukas. The concert opens with the clock striking twelve, and with the arrival of midnight Death tunes his fiddle while playing a tritone, the interval that used to be known as the “devil in music.” Thus begins Saint-Saëns’ symphonic poem Danse macabre; the solo violin then leads the orchestra in a darkly chromatic waltz. When the cock crows, signalling the approach of dawn at the end of the piece, the festivities wind down to a halt. Saint-Saëns would later make fun of his dancing skeletons through his use of the xylophone in the Fossils movement of his Carnival of the Animals. The evening’s next item is another famous work by Saint-Saëns – his Piano Concerto No. 2. Composed in 1868, six years before Danse macabre, the second piano concerto did not make an immediate splash. This could have been due to the circumstances surrounding the première – it was written in a matter of weeks, with Saint-Saëns at the piano under the direction of the Russian dynamo Anton Rubinstein. In any event, the concerto’s powerful slow opening, combined with the sparkling effects achieved throughout the work, have led to its status as perhaps the most popular of Saint-Saëns’ concertos. The range shown in the work prompted the bon mot that the piece “begins with Bach and ends with Offenbach.” Drama yields to excitement as the concerto progresses, and this spills over into the final work of the evening. Paul Dukas, most well-known for his symphonic poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, composed his only symphony a year before that work, in 1896. It is a cheerful and compelling piece, rarely heard in the concert hall today, displaying Dukas’ early flowering as an orchestral composer. With its array of charming themes and playful orchestration, Dukas’ symphony possesses but expands on the traits we love in his music for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. We are proud to present it in what may be its first performance in South Africa. Cast in three movements, this fresh and animated symphony reflects the late-Romantic atmosphere in which it was conceived.

Daniel Boico, raised in Paris and the United States, was a student and assistant of Russian Professor Ilya Musin at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. A prize-winner at the Prokofiev and Pedrotti conducting competitions, Mr. Boico was Apprentice Conductor with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra where he was also the assistant to the then Music Director. He has led numerous major orchestras worldwide, including the New York Philharmonic, Moscow Philharmonic and State Orchestras, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Mexico, and the Royal Philharmonic of London. He has collaborated with many notable soloists, including Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz, Nikolay Luganski, Maximiliano Martín, Barbara Hannigan and Eric Owens. Upcoming engagements include the National Symphonies of Mexico and Costa Rica, the Florida Orchestra, Nürnberger Symphoniker and the San Francisco Ballet. Daniel Boico resides in New York with his wife, Anastasia, and daughter Naomi. François du Toit, one of South Africa’s leading concert pianists and musicians, is an Associate Professor of Piano at the University of Cape Town. At the age of fifteen, he was selected, while still a student at UCT, to accompany the former Cape Town Symphony Orchestra as soloist on its historic tour of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in 1988. He has over 30 concertos in his repertoire, ranging from Bach to Hendrik Hofmeyr and has performed with conductors including Bernhard Gueller, Victor Yampolsky, Omri Hadari, Alun Francis, Dawid de Villiers, Piero Gambo, Arjan Tien and Alexander Lazarev. In July 2006 he released his first solo CD comprising works of Bach, Busoni, Haydn, Mendelssohn and Chopin and in 2010 TwoPianists record label re-released his recording of Tchaikovsky’s 1st Piano Concerto and Rachmaninoff’s Paganini Variations with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. In August of 2007 he took part in the 3rd International Stift Chamber Music Festival in the Netherlands after which, he travelled to the USA where he gave recitals and masterclasses in Omaha, Nebraska and Madison, Wisconsin. In 2010 Francois accompanied Julian Lloyd-Webber in a recital in South Africa. In between lecturing in Cape Town, Francois is often invited to sit as juror for competitions throughout the country and abroad.

55 KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra

Chief Executive and Artistic Director: Bongani Tembe Music is a universal language. It is in the shared experience of a gathered audience that communities celebrate both their diversity and their common ground. Thus in South Africa, where many languages are spoken, and diverse cultures intersect, the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra plays an important role. Ably led by Bongani Tembe for the past 18 years, the KZN Philharmonic has, through its message of hope and unity, continued to inspire its audiences and contribute toward social cohesion.

The KZN Philharmonic’s dynamic approach to its responsibilities in Education and Development (E&D) has resulted in the growth of vibrant community-centred programmes. These endeavours encompass arts exposure, skills training and performance opportunities, which contribute to the ongoing sustainability and growth of this art form in South Africa. It also ensures that thousands of school children are reached annually through school concerts and numerous community concerts and rural residency programmes.

Founded in 1983 as part of the Natal Performing Arts Council (later The Playhouse Company), the KZN Philharmonic was restructured, in April 1998, as an independent viable entity according to the new South African Arts and Culture dispensation policy. The Orchestra travels extensively and has undertaken highly successful tours to Europe and other parts of Africa. Primarily funded by grants from eThekwini Municipality, the KZN Government, the National Department of Arts and Culture, via the National Arts Council, and the National Lotteries Distribution Trust Fund, the rest of its income is derived from sponsorships, donations and box office income.

The Orchestra is also committed to harnessing South African talent and providing a career path for young musicians through programmes such as the National Cadetship Programme. Talented young musicians, aspiring to a professional level of performance, work with the Orchestra as cadets. On a one-to-one basis, as well as in groups, young talent is fostered through training by the KZN Philharmonic and its members, who teach at schools, tertiary institutions or privately. Tuition is also given to students of the community based arts projects with which the Orchestra has formed links.

KZN Philharmonic Orchestra First Violin Hristo Kardjiev *** Violeta Osorhean ** Beatris Lauenburg * Elena Kerimova Naum Rousine Geza Kayser Mihail Mihaylov Refiloe Olifant Lidia Sanacori Second Violin Petya Koleva * Emi Fukuda Thomas Steinhausen Patrick Motsa Jane Baillie^ Dineo Molebatsi^ Thandeka Benbooi^ Viola David Snaith * Todor Hadgiev Nassi Gueorguieva Ingrid Snaith Annamaria D’Andrea Moeketsi Khang^ Tshegofatso Mokobe Cello Boris Kerimov * Jennifer Cox Kolio Kolev Nina Watson Cecilia Di Cecco Fiona Grayer Marguerite Spies Ralitsa Pechoux

Doube Bass Simon Miliken Yuri Litvinenko Andreas Kappen Mihail Sirakov Jonalene Taylor^ Flute Sabine Baird* Lisa Thom Kim Watson

Trombone Duncan Wooldridge Bass Trombone Jonathan Hooper* Tuba George Foster* Timpanie Stephane Pechoux*

Oboe Alison Lowell* Stella Martin Margrit Deppe

Percussion Nick Stone* Nidhi Gangan^ Thando Nkangana^

Clarinet Kirsten Sayers

Harp Linor Steinhausen*

Bassoon Vessela Minkova* Lubomir Minkov Anele Mnguni Xavier Cloete French Horn Sorin Osorhean * Tzanko Tzankov Alice Thomson Marian Van Duyker Andre Valentine ^ Trumpet Michel Schneuwly * Cathy Peacock Nathan Lawrence, ^

Bongani Tembe

Daniel Boico

François du Toit

Guy Butler Theatre, Monument

*** Concert Master ** Assoc. Concert Master * Principal ^ Cadet

Thursday 28 June

19:00

Duration

1 hour 40 minutes (including interval)

Age Restriction

8 years +

Tickets R85; R75; R65 (Full) R70; R60; R50 (Student/Scholar)

56 The National Arts Festival presents the

KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra’s

Gala Concert

Conductor

Richard Cock

Soloists

Kelebogile Boikanyo

Soprano

Magda de Vries

Marimba

his year’s Gala Concert is a fascinating blend of music inspired by anniversaries and events. We are celebrating or commemorating Massenet (d 1912); Claude Debussy and Edward German both born in 1862; 60 years since the accession of Queen Elizabeth II; and 200 years since Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow for which we feature the great 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky. But central to the programme are the two soloists – 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist Kelebogile Boikanyo and the outstanding marimba player, Magda de Vries. This is truly a celebration to remember! Programme Overture to Phaedre Jules Massenet (1842-1912) En Bateau from Petite Suite Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Come scoglio from Cosi fan Tutte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Shepherd’s Dance Edward German (1862-1936) Merrymakers Dance Edward German (1862-1936) Mozart’s Magic Marimba Mozart (1756-1791) arr P McLea Song to the Moon from Rusalka Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904) Annen Polka Johann Strauss Jr (1825-1899) Crown Imperial William Walton (1902-1983)

Kelebogile (Pearl) Boikanyo made her professional singing debut with the international South African superstar tenor, Johan Botha, in Opera Africa’s Opera Extravaganza in 2007, while still a vocal arts student at the Tshwane University of Technology. In 2008 she dazzled as the High Priestess in Verdi’s Aïda, and made her international debut as Queen Silomo in the Zulu opera Princess Magogo at Oslo’s Den Norske Opera, before playing Echo in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at the Royal Opera de Wallonie in Liège, Belgium. In 2010 she excelled as Musetta in Opera Africa’s La Bohème and as a soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Since then she’s received accolades for singing the finale of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the JPO as well as her portrayal of Micaëla in Opera Africa’s production of Bizet’s Carmen and Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro earlier this year. Boikanyo is a member of the Opera Africa Studio and has been appointed as an Opera Africa Associated Artist from 2012. She is sponsored by the Maponya Group.

INTERVAL Ballet from Petite Buite Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Jewel Song from Faust Charles Gounod (1818-1893) Czardas Vittorio Monti (1868-1922) Morris Dance Edward German (1862-1936) Torch Dance Edward German(1862-1936) Ah! Je Veux Vivre from Romeo & Juliet Charles Gounod (1818-1893) Radetsky March Johann Strauss Sr (1804-1849) 1812 Overture Pyotr II’yich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Guy Butler Theatre

Monument

Sunday 1 July

15:00

Duration

2 hours (including interval)

Age Restriction

None

Tickets R80; R70: R60 (Full) R65; R55; R45 (Student)

Magda de Vries started percussion at the age of 15 and within a few years won a number of South African music prizes and national scholarships. She obtained her performer’s licentiate diplomas (with distinction) from both the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and the University of South Africa. Two prestigious South African overseas music scholarships enabled her to pursue postgraduate studies in percussion at the Tokyo College of Music where she was awarded a postgraduate diploma cum laude. While working in the UK (2000-2003) she performed in a UK-France concert tour; CD recordings; workshops run by Ensemble Bash and Sinfonia 21; as well as performing with a variety of groups at top venues including Covent Garden.

Magnolia Music in association with the National Arts Festival presents the 1993 Standard Bank Young Artist Sibongile Khumalo in

Reflect. Celebrate. Live. R

eflect. Celebrate. Live. is the soundtrack of Sibongile Khumalo’s beginnings, her mid-journey and current musical inclinations. Taught and inspired by her father, Khabi Mngoma from when she was a little girl, it reprises her beginnings at the Ionian Youth Music Programme as a teenager, through the years as a classically trained singer searching for her jazz voice, to where she is now.

Creative Director James Ngcobo Sound design / Technical co-ordinator Freddy Malesa Stylist Thando Lobese Lighting Designer Tumisang Sebogo Stage Manager Sibusiso Ndumndum Company Manager Ayanda Khumalo

Her musical sojourn over the past 20 years and more has seen her tackle Purcell, Handel, Bach....Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, Verdi, Mahler, Rachmaninov, Tyamzashe, Myathaza, Moerane, Mohapeloa, Khumalo, Magogo, Miller, Matshikiza, Ntoni, Mkhize, Makhene, Ellington, Porter, Jobim and more.....

Cast

In Reflect.Celebrate.Live., Khumalo peeks into her illustrious if starchy beginnings, when she had to break down some of what she had learnt and put it back together again, in order to find her own voice. She reflects on a career in which she would not be boxed; a career in which her voice firmly located her as an African secure with her own identity and gifting. A career in which, in her voice, the different genres she was exposed to co-existed comfortably. Khumalo invites us to celebrate with her how the studious and serious-minded singer and performer grew into her own skin and allowed the message in the music to filter through with limited interference from her. Typically, she takes us on an exploration of her continually evolving sound – an exploration that draws from both the operatic and choral vocabulary and technique, as well as jazz and folk music sensibilities. The use of voices, jazz band and string quartet is not new, neither is it unique. Khumalo stretches this combination in innovative and unexpected ways. In the mix, a poet and actor provide the narration and a visual artist interprets Khumalo’s life through a series of sketches. Reflect.Celebrate.Live.is a feast for the senses.

Lead Performer Poet / Narrator Singer / Narrator Conductor / Musical Director Pianist / Musical Director

Sibongile Khumalo Stoan Seate Balungile Gumede Kutlwano Masote Mdu Mtshali

Trio Piano / Musical Director Bass Drums

Mdu Mtshali Bheka Mthethwa Siyabulela Satsha

String Quartet Violin Violin Viola Cello

Samson Diamond Kabelo Motlhomi Elbe Roberts Abel Selaocoe

and accompanied by an awe-inspiring choir

Guy Butler Theatre, Monument Friday 6 July

19:00

Duration

1 hour 30 minutes (no interval)

Age Restriction

None

Tickets R120 (Full) R110 (Student / Scholar)

58 The National Arts Festival presents Zanne Stapelberg (Soprano) & Kathleen Tagg (Piano) in

Soul of Fire

with Piet de Beer (Violin) Charles Lazar (Double Bass) Tony Paco (Percussion)

oul of Fire is a genre-bending production conceived by Zanne Stapelberg and Kathleen Tagg as a vehicle for the magnificence of music from Spain and Latin America with a unique combination of instruments – violin, piano, bass and percussion with voice. The programme juxtaposes classical Spanish songs by Montsalvage, for which Zanne is so well known, with the instrumental tangos of Astor Piazzola in new, original arrangements, and the magical energy of Spanish Zarzuela. All of this is rounded out by new arrangements of haunting folk songs in Spanish and Portuguese from Spain, Argentina and Brazil. Soul of Fire is a passionate and inspired production by two of South Africa’s most gifted classical musicians. Earthy, fun-loving diva ZanneStapelberg has attained fame as a serious classical artist with unprecedented popular appeal. A Stellenbosch graduate she has won numerous singing bursaries and awards, including the 2008 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Music and the 2006 Cosmopolitan Awesome Woman Award for her opera work. Included amongst her critically acclaimed performances are the roles of Mimi in La Bohème and Marguerite in Faust, as well as Mozart’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah and Dvořák’s Requiem. In 2004 Zanne started a production company, Long Tall Woman Productions, and she has created many productions which have travelled to all the major South African festivals. Some of her career highlights include being chosen to perform in a gala concert for Cape Town Opera with the world famous South African tenor Johan Botha; performing with Grammy Award-winners Lady Smith Black Mambazo and Johnny Clegg; and singing at the President’s Club for Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex. Kathleen Tagg is a South African pianist based in New York City. Since moving to New York she has revelled in the diversity and energy of he city’s musical life. Recent years have seen her performing at New York’s Carnegie Hall and venues as diverse as the Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Merkin Hall, Goethe Institute, Kosciusko Foundation, Steinways, Here Arts Center and many more. Kathleen studied at the University of Cape Town, Mannes College of Music, New York, and the Manhattan School of Music, where she received her Doctorate, winning the Helen Cohn Award as the outstanding doctoral graduate. Outside the USA her activities include recitals all over South Africa as well as performances in Europe, India and Zimbabwe. Concerto performances have been with the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, Capab Orchestra, Cape Baroque Ensemble and the UCT Orchestra. Kathleen collaborates with musicians and artists on a wide variety of instruments and a wide array of styles, and has appeared on recordings of non-classical music like world music, pop and gospel.

Programme A la nanita nana (Lullaby)

From: 5 Canciones negras (5 Black Songs) Xavier Montsalvatge (1912-2002) Cuba dentro de un piano Canción de cuna para dormera un negrito Canto negro Carinhoso

Friday 6 July Saturday 7 July

12:00 19:00

Duration

1 hour 15 minutes (no interval)

Age Restriction

10 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

Pixinguinha (1897-1973) Arr. K. Tagg

From: Siete canciones populare Españolas Nana From: El niñojudio De Españavengo From: El anillo de hierro Lagrimasmías

Rhodes Chapel

Folk tune arr. K Tagg

Manuel de Falla Arr. K. Tagg

Pablo Luna (1879-1942) Pedro Marqués (1843-1918)

Oblivion

Astor Piazzola (1921-1992)

La muerte de lángel (Death of the Angel) Quiero ser tu sombra (I want to be your shadow)

Astor Piazzola (1921-1992) Arr. K. Tagg

From: Maria de Buenos Aires Milonga de la Annunciación

Traditional Argentinean folk tune Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

59 The Theatre Benevolent Fund in association with the National Arts Festival present

Louis Armstrong & Friends

Following on the success of last year’s Lloyd Webber & Friends, the National Arts Festival presents Louis Armstrong & Friends with stunning arrangements and fine performances. A concert not to be missed!

With the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Richard Cock Trumpet & Vocals Mezzo-Soprano Tenor

Prince Lengoasa

Richard Cock

Veramarie Meyer

Nicholas Nicholaidis

Programme Washington Post

Orchestra

John Philip Sousa

Hello Dolly

Prince Lengoasa

Jerry Herman arr Haubrich

Belle of the Ball

Orchestra

Leroy Anderson

The Rose

Veramarie Meyer

Amanda McBroom arr S Cock

Fly me to the Moon

Nicholas Nicholaidis

Bart Howard arr S Cock

The Entertainer

Orchestra Scott-Joplin

Mack the Knife

Prince Lengoasa

Kurt Weill arr Haubrich

Moon River

Orchestra

Henry Mancini

Don’t cry for me Argentina

Veramarie Meyer

Andrew Lloyd Webber arr S Cock

Kiss to build a dream on / Prince Lengoasa Klamer/Ruby/Hammerstein/Rose Blueberry Hill arr Cheyne

Interval St Louis Blues

Orchestra

W C Hardy

Basin Street Blues

Prince Lengoasa

Spencer Williams arr Cheyne

Jazz Pizzicato

Orchestra

Leroy Anderson

What a Wonderful World

Prince Lengoasa

Bob Thiele/George Weiss

arr S Cock Unforgettable

Nicholas Nicholaidis

George Gershwin

La vie en rose

Veramarie Meyer

Louis Guglielmi / Edith Piaf

Memory

Orchestra

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Funiculi Funicula

Orchestra

Luigi Denza

Back of the Moon

Prince Lengoasa & Veramarie Meyer

Todd Matshikiza arr Campbell

Prince Lengoasa Veramarie Meyer Nicholas Nicholaidis

Prince Lengoasa is a freelance musician (trumpeter and singer) working as a teacher, arranger, composer, session musician, soloist, ensemble player, conductor and motivator to younger musicians. He has appeared on over 25 South African recordings and has worked extensively with musicians such as McCoy Mrubata, Themba Mkhize, Sibongile Khumalo, Hugh Masekela and Jonas Gwangwa. Veramarie Meyer has appeared as soloist in a number of oratorios such as Mozart’s Requiem, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and the Rachmaninov Vespers as well as recitals and numerous other concerts. She has also sung many operatic roles both here and abroad to critical acclaim. She is a member of the Black Tie Ensemble with whom she has travelled extensively. Nicholas Nicolaidis’ repertoire covers a wide range of musical genres from oratorio to chamber music and opera to jazz. His performances have included Mozart’s Requiem with the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa, and Pirates of Penzance and the Nelson Mass with the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra. He regularly sings the evangelist in St John Passion, as well as showing his versatility in lighter concerts such as Lloyd Webber & Friends and Flights of Fantasy with Richard Cock.

A percentage of proceeds from this concert will be donated to the Theatre Benevolent Fund, a registered South Africa charity founded and administered by caring arts professionals to provide a reasonable standard of care and comfort to those performers who find themselves incapacitated and destitute by virtue of their illness.

Guy Butler Theatre, Monument Monday 2 July

14:00

Duration

2 hours (including interval)

Age Restriction

None

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student/Scholar)

Classical Movements in association with the National Arts Festival present the

Los Angeles Children’s Chorus Conducted by Anne Tomlinson

Programme I

The Los Angeles Children’s Chorus – lauded as “one of the world’s foremost children’s choirs” (Pasadena Star News), and described by critics as “hauntingly beautiful”, “astonishingly polished”, “extraordinary in its abilities”, and “one heck of a talented group of kids”, promises to move and delight South African audiences.

The Glories of Shakespeare Who is Silvia? Under the Greenwood Tree Full fathom five Fear no more the heat o’ the sun It was a lover and his lass

Founded in 1989, LACC performs with such leading organisations as LA Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Pasadena Symphony and POPs. The chorus has toured North and South America, China, Australia, and Europe, and produced the world première of Keepers of the Night, an opera by Peter Ash and Donald Sturrock. The chorus appears on the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s critically acclaimed Decca recording A Good Understanding, and Plácido Domingo’s Deutsche Grammophon recording Amore Infinito.

Sacred Songs Psalm 100 Ruth Watson Henderson Ubi Caritas Ola Gjeilo Dona Nobis Pacem Esa-PekkaSalonen God Bless the Master Ralph Vaughan Williams L’dor Vador Meir Finkelstein Praise His Holy Name Keith Hampton He Came Down Traditional Cameroon, arr. Grundahl

Anne Tomlinson celebrates her 16th anniversary as Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus with the 2011/12 season, overseeing the educational and artistic development of the Chorus, as well as leading LACC’s renowned Concert Choir and Chamber Singers. Tomlinson is a frequent guest conductor and presenter at symposia, workshops and festivals both nationally and internationally. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and a Master’s degree from Northwestern University. In 2000, she received the Golden Crown Award for Music Education, given by the Pasadena Arts Council; in 2001, the Power of One Award, given by Facing History and Ourselves Foundation, and, in 2006, the Educator of the Year Award, given by the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Southern California.

World Songs Caturogna, Nonoy Philippines Sesere Eeye Australia Amabhayesikili Africa O be joyful Canada To Music Germany Sail Away America It don’t mean a thing America

St. Aidan’s Chapel Programme I Saturday 7 July

19:00

Programme II Sunday 8 July

15:00

Duration

1 hour 10 minutes (no interval)

Age Restriction

PG 8 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

Sir David Willcocks

Programme II The Isle is Full of Noises Daniel Bjarnason Oh, I have suffered Be not a’feared The Cloud-capp’d towers (African première, commissioned by LACC, 2012) The Art of Song Seligkeit Petites voix

Franz Schubert Francis Poulenc

American Songbook Sing All Ye Joyful Kirke Mechem Come let’s be Merry James Mulholland America Leonard Bernstein I’m Goin’ Up a Yonder Spiritual O Music Lowell Mason

The National Arts Festival presents

The Chanticleer Singers Conducted by Richard Cock Programme I

Programme II

Ancient Inspirations A programme of music inspired by the original inhabitants of South Africa.

Rachmaninov Vespers – All Night Vigil By Candlelight

Chanticleer Singers with Duo FourIVTwo: Magda de Vries and Frank Mallows Horizons Prayers and Dances of Praise from Africa Return of the Moon In a far place Prayer to the New Moon Blue mist like smoke Rain-making with bowstring Song of the broken string Firebowl San Gloria Gloria in Excelsis Et in terra pax Laudamus te Domine Deus Quonian tu solus sanctus

Peter Louis van Dijk (b 1953) Peter Klatzow (b 1945) Peter Klatzow (b 1945) words: Stephen Watson (1954-2011)

Hans Roosenschoon (b 1952) Peter Louis van Dijk (b 1953)

All the music in this programme is based on fragments of music or styles that originate deep in our history – mainly from the San culture. The San people roamed this country long before anyone else and are, arguably, the most dispossessed of all the inhabitants of South Africa. Pressed on all sides they eventually retreated into the desert regions or Drakensberg mountains or were absorbed or enslaved by other people. Their culture is rich and their language has enriched all the languages of Southern Africa, and many of our mountains, rivers and vast tracts of land have San names. In this programme – using voice and percussion – the world of the San is explored through the eyes of contemporary South African composers.

Soloist: Veramarie Meyer (Contralto) The Vespers or All Night Vigil by Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943) is a monumental work for unaccompanied choir. It was Rachmaninov’s favourite work and part of it was sung at his funeral. He absorbed the music of the Orthodox liturgy so completely that even when composing his own chants he creates something which sounds completely authentic. From simple vocal lines, Rachmaninov is able to weave choral writing of austere simplicity or gorgeous intricacy. His use of unaccompanied choir is extraordinary and performing the work in candlelight just adds to its mystery. Whatever Rachmaninov thought or felt about religion we don’t really know, but the Vespers are increasingly ranked amongst his finest achievements and one of the high points of 20th century religious music. The full text of the 15 movements will be handed out at the concert. Rhodes Chapel Ancient Inspirations Saturday 30 June 19:00 Duration

1 hour 10 minutes (no interval)

Rachmaninov Vespers Sunday 1 July 19:00 Duration

1 hour 15 minutes (no interval)

Age Restriction

None

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

62 End of Time Ensemble in association with the National Arts Festival present

Pierrot Lunaire, Op 21 by Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) Poems by Albert Giraud English translation by Cecil Gray Programme

Teresa de Wit Malane Hofmeyr-Burger Elizabeth Roberts Allan Thompson Wessel Beukes Anna Wilshire Jones

Mezzo-soprano Flute/Piccolo Violin/Viola Clarinet/ Bass-clarinet Cello Piano

ierrot Lunaire, a song-cycle for soprano and instrumental quintet has long been recognised as a key twentiethcentury chamber composition, as important in its revolutionary aims and musical influence as Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Strauss’s Elektra. As a dramatic work that alternates between irony, satire, blasphemy, depression and exultation, its atonal sound world employs strict formal structures combined with a richness of instrumentation in order to create an unforgettable experience for musicians and audiences alike. Owing to its literary

and technical complexity, it has been rarely performed in South Africa. The piece will be performed in English, as it was the composer’s wish that it be presented in the language understood by the majority of its listeners. The concert will be preceded by an introduction to its musical and dramatic language in order that a new generation of listeners will be encouraged to experience the intensity of one of the greatest works of Western music. Detailed programme notes will be available at each of the concerts

Allan Thompson

Part Three Heimweh (Homesickness) Gemeinheit! (Vulgarity) Parodie (Parody) Der Mondfleck (The Moonspot) Serenade Heimfahrt (Barcarole) (Homeward Bound) O Alter Duft (Oh Ancient Fragrance)

Elizabeth Roberts

Part Two Nacht (Passacaglia) (Night) Gebet an Pierrot (Prayer to Pierrot) Raub (Theft) Rote Messe (Red Mass) Galgenlied (Gallows Song) Enthauptung (Beheading) Die Kreuze (The Crosses)

Teresa de Wit

Malane Hofmeyr-Burger

Part One Mondestrunken (Moondrunk) Columbine Der Dandy (The Dandy) Eineblasse Wäscherin (An Ethereal Washerwoman) Valse de Chopin (Chopin Waltz) Madonna Der kranke Mond (The Sick Moon)

19:00 19:00

Duration

1 hour (no interval)

Age Restriction

12 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

Wessel Beukes

Tuesday 3 July Thursday 5 July

Anna Wilshire Jones

Rhodes Chapel

63 KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in association with the National Arts Festival presents

Colossus

Musicians Sabine Baird Alison Lowell Tba Lubo Minkov Linor Steinhausen David Plylar Joanna Frankel Violeta Osorhean David Snaith Boris Kerimov Nicholas Nicolaidis

he musicians of the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra present Colossus, a daring programme of large chamber works ranging from the hauntingly beautiful to the intensely powerful – and at times, even violent.

Flute Oboe/English Horn Clarinet Bassoon Harp Celesta/Piano/Conductor Violin Violin Viola Cello Guest Speaker

Programme Carlo Gesualdo (arr David Plylar) (1560-1613)

Moro, lasso, al mio duolo

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Introduction and Allegro

Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975)

Piccola Musica Notturna

Frederic Rzewski (b. 1938)

Coming Together Featuring Nicholas Nicolaidis

David Plylar (World première 2012)

Colossus

Known as both composer and murderer, Carlo Gesualdo created harmonically innovative music that still surprises audiences; the concert begins with a transcription of his motet Moro, Lasso, al Mio Duolo. Motivated primarily by envy, Maurice Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro was commissioned as an attempt to outshine a recent work by fellow composer Claude Debussy. Next on the programme is Luigi Dallapiccola’s Piccola Musica Notturna, a depiction of the stark loneliness of a traveller as he encounters a sleeping town by night. The ghostly atmosphere of this octet is brutally shattered by the next work, Frederic Rzewski’s powerful Coming Together for speaker and ensemble. The music plunges deep into a prisoner’s psyche of madness and chaos as the piece races towards its climactic finish. The concert concludes with the world première of David Plylar’s Colossus. Written specifically for the National Arts Festival, this work showcases the virtuosity of the KZN Philharmonic musicians. The performance offers concertgoers a unique opportunity to hear an incredible collection of works not usually performed in one programme.

Rhodes Chapel Sunday 1 July Tuesday 3 July

21:30 15:00

Duration

1 hour 10 minutes (no interval)

Age Restriction

12 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

64 End Of Time Trio in association with the National Arts Festival present

African Romantics

Photo: Juliet Pitman Allan Thompson Wessel Beukes Anna Wilshire Jones

Clarinet Cello Piano

Programme Max Bruch (1838-1920) Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op 83 Andante Allegro con moto Andante con moto Allegro agitato Andante: Rumanian Melody Andante con moto: Nocturne Allegro vivace, ma non troppo Moderato Peter Klatzow (1945 - )

Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano (2002)

Detailed programme notes on the two works will be available at the concerts

Rhodes Chapel Wednesday 4 July Friday 6 July

15:00 19:00

Duration

1 hour 15 minutes (including interval)

Age Restriction

12 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Op 83 German composer Max Bruch was one of the last of the conservative Romantic composers, preferring to compose in the autumnal and tonal style reminiscent of Brahms rather than following the more radical experimentation of Wagner, Liszt and Strauss. Known primarily as a choral composer during his lifetime, his reputation today rests on the popular first violin concerto, the Scottish Fantasy for violin and orchestra, and the KolNidrei for cello and orchestra. The Eight Pieces were composed in 1911 at the age of 73, and, together with the concerto for clarinet and viola, were written for his son, Max Felix (who was by all accounts a player to rival Brahmsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clarinettist, Richard Muhlfield), and the principal viola of the Paris Opera Orchestra, Maurice Vieux. He provided an alternate cello part in place of the viola, and it is this version which will be performed at this concert. Each of the pieces is a character piece in its own right, although they carry no titles more descriptive than tempo indications. All but the seventh are in minor keys, and are designed to draw the mellowest sound possible from the instruments. Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano (2002) Described by Klatzow as one of his favourite works the piece was composed at the request of Albi Odendaal for a major international Chamber music festival. The first performances were given at the Grachtenfestivalaan de Maas in Thorn, Netherlands in August 2002, and movements of it were played in Apeldoorn as part of an international masterclass. The composition has three distinct movements. The first is in an asymmetrical meter, as is the somewhat light-hearted second movement. The finale represents the â&#x20AC;&#x153;centre of gravityâ&#x20AC;? coming in the last movement, which is a set of variations on material first presented by the solo clarinet.

65 KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in association with the National Arts Festival presents

Camerata

Elena Kerimova David Snaith Boris Kerimov To be confirmed

Violin Viola Cello Clarinet

Sorin Mircea Osorhean Vessela Minkova Simon Milliken

Programme Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) String Trio in D major, Op.9 No 2 Allegretto Andate quasi allegretto Menuetto: Allegro Rondo: Allegro The three trios of Op.9 came near the end of Beethovenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first period, and are generally considered among his finest early chamber works. They are of a quality that even allows them to stand alongside many of the mature compositions in the genre. As a group they comprise a giant step forward for the composer, and may even be viewed as a significant precursor to his innovations in the realm of the symphony.

Septet for Strings and Woodwinds in E flat major, Op.20 Adagio: Allegro con brio Adagio cantabile Tempo di menuetto Tema can variazioni: Andante Scherzo: Allegro molto e vivace Andante con moto alla Marcia: Presto One of the last works Beethoven wrote before he became aware of his encroaching deafness, the Septet is a light-hearted work in the spirit of the 18th century serenade. Beethoven had it premiĂ¨red in the same concert in which he unveiled his Symphony No.1 and it was an immediate success. It is an interesting work, filled with youthful energy and contains engaging and attractive solos for the instrumentalists.

Detailed programme notes on the two works and biographies of the musicians will be available at each of the concerts.

Horn Bassoon Double bass

Beethoven Room Saturday 30 June Monday 2 July

15:00 19:00

Duration

1 hour 5 minutes (no interval)

Age Restriction

12 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

66 Duo FourIVTwo in association with the National Arts Festival present

Photo: Albert Koekemoer

Marimba and Vibraphone Duo Magda de Vries (marimba) & Frank Mallows (vibraphone)

he innovative mallet percussion duo – Duo FourIVTwo (pronounced four-four-two) – with classical marimbist Magda de Vries and vibraphonist Frank Mallows, play an inspired repertoire of newly commissioned works by some of South Africa’s internationally acclaimed composers. The duo uses an exciting variety of performance techniques, including using 4-mallets and bowing on their custom-made 5-octave rosewood marimba and gold bar vibraphone. The audience can look forward to an enjoyable informative performance of visual spectacle and rich, rhythmic sonorous sensations. Formed in 2003 the duo has performed with great success at the National Arts Festival (Grahamstown), the Baxter Concert Hall (Cape Town), Aardklop Festival (Potchefstroom), KKNK (Oudtshoorn), Franschoek Festival and the ZK Matthews Auditorium at UNISA (Pretoria). The duo plans to present an all South African programme on an overseas tour in 2013. Magda de Vries started percussion at the age of 15 and within a few years won a number of South African music prizes and national scholarships. She has performed with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra (Tokyo), Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Eastern Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, Johannesburg Festival Orchestra and the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra as orchestral percussionist.

Beethoven Room Thursday 28 June 15:00 Monday 2 July 12:00 Duration

1 hour 10 minutes (no interval)

Age Restriction

12 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Students/Scholars)

She is chairman of the Stellenbosch National Ensemble Competition and has been on the panel of the performing Australian Music International Competition in London, as well as the ATKV Muziq Competition. She works as a freelance percussionist with the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra and teaches marimba at Beaulieu Preparatory School and percussion at the University of Pretoria. Frank Mallows hails from Cape Town. He started out as a violin student and then changed to percussion. As a student he was fortunate to study with two of the world’s leading mallet percussion specialists: Robert van Sice, focussing on marimba and Ed Saidon (Berklee College of Music in Boston Mass, USA), with whom he specialised in contemporary jazz vibraphone techniques and styles. He is currently principal of the Beau Soleil Music Centre in Cape Town, a position he has held since 1990. He is also the percussion and drumset lecturer at UCT’s College of Music. As a versatile percussionist with a strong leaning to mallet percussion instruments, Mallows has performed with international acts at the Cape Town Jazz Festival and regularly in a wide range of musical settings, from classical concerts with professional orchestras around South Africa, to jazz gigs with his own group FmJazzQ. Programme Victoria West

Paul D. Hanmer (b.1961)

Divisions

Robert Fokkens (b.1977)

Ambient Resonances

Peter Klatzow (b.1945)

Papilio I

Peter-Louis Van Dijk (b.1953)

World Première of New Work Partita Africana * River of Sorrow * Umsindo

Alexander Johnson (b. 1968) HendrikHofmeyr (b.1957)

67 KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra in association with the National Arts Festival present

Three’s Company

Géza Kayser Liuben Gardev David Smith

Violin Cello Harpsichord, Piano

his programme explores music for three players (violin, cello, keyboard) from the Baroque and Modernist eras. Using a harpsichord, the first half displays the violinistic mastery of Corelli as supported by the typical Baroque continuo bass. This is complemented by J S Bach’s Sonata in F minor in which the texture of three voices is shared equally between violin and harpsichord, the cello serving to suggest the presence of a bass gamba. After interval, the piano replaces the harpsichord, and the programme moves to two attractive modernist works by East European composers. Cinq pièces brèves, written in Paris in 1930, shows Martinů’s command of a cosmopolitan idiom. Shostakovich’s Second Piano Trio (1944) is a large-scale contribution to the genre, full of his typical traits – soulful lyricism, witty sarcasm, whimsicality, and grandeur. Géza Kayser (violin) is presently a member of the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, for whom he has worked in various capacities since 1996. He has appeared as a soloist in orchestral as well as chamber music settings, notably with the Baroque 2000 Ensemble in which he has played for several years. Liuben Gardev (cello) played for ten years as a member of the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, where he was involved in the orchestra’s busy recording programme. He helped found ‘Rococo’, an ensemble specialising in Baroque music, and in 1990 he moved to South Africa where he rose to co-principal cellist of the KwaZuluNatal Philharmonic Orchestra. He currently performs on a freelance basis. David Smith (harpsichord, piano) was lecturer in music theory at the former University of Natal. From 2002 to 2009, he served as the university’s first Professor of Opera and Choral Studies, retiring from this position to return to the field of performance. He is permanent harpsichordist with the Baroque 2000 Ensemble, with whom he has performed for a decade.

Programme Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)

Sonata for violin and basso continuo in A major

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Sonata in F minor, BWV1018

INTERVAL Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959)

Cinq pieces brèves

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Second piano trio

Beethoven Room Friday 29 June Tuesday 3 July

15:00 19:00

Duration

1 hour 30 minutes (including interval)

Age Restriction

12 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

Teks Spookstem Konsep en Vervaardiger ns ATKV

Jak de Priester Lizelle le Roux Ockie Vermeulen Minette du Toit-Pearce Christi-Louise Swanepoel Juan Floors Oosthuizen Matthew Lombard Hugo Radyn

(Brooklyn Poet) (Viool) (Klavier / musiekregisseur) (Mezzo-sopraan) (Kontrabas) (Kitaar) (Saksofoon) (Dromme)

ester

Marlize Leyden Jacques Botes Ilse Schürmann

Minette d

Ave Maria/ Halleluja

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Die Afrikaanse Taal & Kultuurvereniging in samewerking met die Nasionale Kunstefees (Grahamstad) bied aan

Jak de Pri

en ‘n jeugkoor Deur die loop van die eeue is baie musiek met die titel “Ave Maria” gekomponeer. Ook is die gebruik van die woordjie “Halleluja/Alleluia” ‘n algemene verskynsel in die musiekkonteks. Die ATKV, in samewerking met die Universiteit Stellenbosch se Woordfees, se besondere musiekproduksie, Ave Maria / Halleluja is gebaseer op die musikale samevloeiing van komposisies met “Ave Maria” of “Halleluja” as titel. Talle geliefde werke kan gehoor word, o.a. die bekende Ave Maria van Schubert, die ander gunsteling Ave Maria van Bach-Gounod, en ook Handel se bekende Hallelujakoor uit “Die Messias” met sommige van hierdie musiek soms met ‘n effense “jazzy” aanslag. Ook ligter musiek is in ‘n klassieke styl verwerk met o.a. Leonard Cohen se Halleluja en Anneli van Rooyen se alombekende Halleluja. Spesiale dank aan Universiteit Stellenbosch se Woordfees vir die oorspronklike ondersteuning van die produksie.

Rhodes Kapel Sondag 8 Julie

15:00

Tydsduur

1 uur 10 minute (geen pouse)

Ouderdomsbeperking 8 jaar + Kaartjies R30 (Vol) R25 (Student / Skolier)

Ockie Ver

meulen

Program

F. Schube rt C. Steyn/ Ave Maria L. Beekm an G.Caccini Maria W.A. Moz Ave Maria art M.W. Smit Ave Verum h Corpus Tradision Agnus De eel i W.A. Moz Sithi Allelu art ia K. Jenkin Alleluia s G.F. Hand Ave Verum el L. Cohen Halleluja-k oo J.S. Bach/C Hallelujah r uit “Messias” . R.Siegel/A Gounod Ave Maria .van Rooy en Halleluja

The National Schools’ Festival in association with the National Arts Festival presents

Two Trios and a Quintet Two Trios and a Quintet is an ensemble featuring: All in One In the Clouds

with Hilton Schilder, Errol Dyers and Steve Newman with Steve Newman, Ashish Joshi and Greg Hadjiyorki Georgiades

he scintillating musicianship of this ensemble has a rich pedigree in terms of music collaborations, improvisations and performance using an array of acoustic string, percussion and wind instruments. The ensemble draws from a pan African musical menu and other influences from the cultural Diaspora settled in, and spread out of, Africa. The concert will consist of performances by the two trios with compositions that will give the various acoustic instruments room to create even more magic by weaving together various cultural rhythms and instrumental sounds. Members of the ensemble will also perform solo pieces to showcase the more intimate side to some of their instruments. In the final part of the concert both trios will combine into a quintet – Steve Newman being common to both – to feature traditional rhythms, sounds, melodies and a fair amount of improvisation to allow the instruments and music to breathe and to live. This concert offers a unique opportunity in terms of music and the collection of custom made acoustic string, wind and percussion instruments seldom seen on the same stage together. String instruments include nylon string guitar, mbiratar, soprano guitar, oud, bouzouki, ukulele, oudtar, mouth bow, berimbau, santoor, piano and bass. Wind instruments include reed flutes, melodica, flute and harmonica. Percussion includes Indian tabla, Iranian zarb, cajon, African djembe, bongos and various seed shakers.

Hilton Schilder plays piano, melodica, bows, guitar, bass, flutes, cajon and percussions. Errol Dyers is an outstanding guitarist, flautist and harmonica player. Steve Newman has an amazing musical dexterity on acoustic guitars (flamenco, soprano, mbiratar, bass) and percussion. Greg Hadjiyorki Georgiades is a multi instrumentalist on a number of string instruments including the North African fretless lute (oud), bouzouki, nylon string guitar, oudtar, ukelele, bass and Indian sarod. Ashish Joshi is an outstanding tabla player and percussionist, having played on various albums including Prime Circle, Vivid Afrika, Strings & Skins, The World in a Guitar and metal group Not my Dogs’ Braaivleis, to name but a few. All these musicians have carved names for themselves in the world music scene with many live collaborations and improvisational performances all over the world. Guy Butler Theatre, Monument Sunday 8 July

20:00

Duration

1 hour

Age Restriction

None

Tickets R42 (Full) R26 (Student / Scholar)

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Progrmme Pirates of the Caribbean

Klaus Badelt

Entry of the Gladiators

Julius FuÄ?Ăk

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Jazz Pizzicato

Leroy Anderson

Shosholoza

arr Cock

Waltzing Cat

Leroy Anderson

Afro Jazz Medley

arr Cock

High School Musical

Robert Longfield

Fountain Foyer, Monument Monday 2 July

17:00

Duration

55 minutes

Tickets Free

71 The National Arts Festival presents

Conduct Unbecoming

fter a successful, sold out presentation at the National Arts Festival last year, Richard Cock returns to present his entertaining and anecdote-filled Conduct Unbecoming. According to Richard, “Orchestral conductors work by an amalgam of psychology, magic, and a storehouse of knowledge about music, people and how to get the best out of a collection of highly trained, highly individualistic, and highly strung people, all thrown together in the powder-keg that is the orchestra.” In his entertaining talk, Richard explores the world of the orchestral conductor; the good the bad and the ugly, and debunks a few myths along the way. This hour of fun and laughter will provide fascinating insights about the mystical art of conducting! Conduct Unbecoming is NOT for the faint-hearted! ADULTS ONLY!! Richard was born in Port Elizabeth and educated at Woodridge Preparatory School and the Diocesan College, Cape Town. He pursued his musical studies at the Cape Town College of Music, from which he graduated in 1971. In 1972, he won a scholarship to the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM), where he was awarded several prizes and diplomas. He became Director of Music at the Cathedral Choir School and assistant organist at Chichester Cathedral in 1978. During his years in England he also became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists. After his return to South Africa in 1980, Richard breathed new life into the National Symphony Orchestra, where he was appointed Music Director in 1991. However, it is as a choral trainer and conductor that he is best known. He was organist and director of music at St Mary’s Cathedral for 12 years and was elected a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music for his services to Church music in South Africa. He founded the Symphony Choir of Johannesburg and the internationally recognised Chanticleer Singers 30 years ago. In 1999, Richard left the orchestra to pursue a freelance career and to stimulate music activities throughout South Africa. As a conductor, he is in much demand countrywide. In May 2000, he received an Honorary Doctorate in music from Rhodes University. He is chairman of the Apollo Music Trust, serves as a board member of Business Arts South Africa, the Ingoma Trust, and the Johannesburg Festival Orchestra, and is a member National Arts Festival’s Artistic Committee.

Victoria Theatre Wednesday 4 July

18:30

Duration

1 hour

Age Restriction

Adults only

Tickets R30

72 The National Arts Festival presents

Arno Carstens & Band in Concert Kevin Leicher Warren Leicher Jerome Reynard Arnaud van Vliet Brendan Jury

Band members:

uring his career as the lead singer of The Springbok Nude Girls and subsequently as a solo artist, Arno Carstens has released 10 studio albums and had 20 top ten singles. He has won five South African Music Awards and shared the stage with legends of the music world including U2, The Rolling Stones, Paul Weller, The Police, Simple Minds, INXS and REM. Arno has toured extensively in SA, UK, Europe and USA, headlined every major South African festival and performed at some of the most legendary international music festivals including Isle of Wight, Glastonbury, V Festival, T in the Park and Hard Rock Calling. 2012 will be Arno’s most creative year yet. He is currently working on his fourth solo album scheduled for release in the second quarter of 2012 and will also host his first ever art exhibition. In this concert he shows his musical versatility with a varied repertoire of songs, both old favourites and new tracks. Don’t miss this longawaited return to Grahamstown’s stages by one of South Africa’s most successful contemporary artists.

Guy Butler Theatre, Monument Thursday 5 July

21:30

Duration

1hr 20 minutes

Age Restriction

None

Tickets R80 (Full) R70 (Student / Scholar)

The National Arts Festival presents

Conducted by George Werner Big Time with Braka is an adventurous collaboration between township youth jazz brass bands and the France-based quartet, The Elephants, with South Africans Marcus Wyatt and Gareth Walwyn.Â Beyond musical innovation and compositional research, the Big Time with Braka Project is aimed at empowering South African youth musicians with an exposure to multinational musical expressions and the opportunity to be mentored by professional musicians. The Big Time Orchestra will play a heady mix of Franco improvisations played with a uniquely South African improvisational style as well as compositions of old French, Chilean, Spanish and South African songs with arrangements by Braka. Big Time with Braka is presented as part of a two year collaboration to foster and promote musical innovation and skills exchanges between French musicians and aspiring South African youth musicians.

Featuring The Elephants: Voice Lucia Recio Saxophones Nicholas Stephan Drums Braka With guest artists Marcus Wyatt on trumpet Gareth Walwyn on tuba And members from the following youth bands: Little Giants (Cape Town) Delft Big Band (Cape Town) Access Music Project (Grahamstown) Magnet School (Vereeniging)

Fountain Foyer, Monument Saturday 8 July

17:00

Duration

1 hour (no interval)

Tickets Free

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A 2012 Showcase of Eastern Cape Indigenous Music and Dance

hythms of the Eastern Cape highlights the vibrancy of the sub-tribes of the Eastern Cape â&#x20AC;&#x201C; amaBhaca, abaThembu, amaKhoisan, abeSuthu and amaMpondo. Drawn from the various districts of the province, the Eastern Cape Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts & Culture acts as a custodian of preserving and promoting indigenous knowledge systems and indigenous culture. Rhythms of the Eastern Cape, a fascinating display of the provinceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich music and dance heritage, is a potpourri of traditional dance and music ranging from the vibrant foot-stomping of the amaBhaca dances to the delicately refined animal movement of the Khoisan. Audiences will be introduced to the six diverse sub-tribes or clans who will mesmerise with their indigenous music and dance. The colourful and energetic dancers and musicians are drawn from the regions of the Eastern Cape known as the Baca-land, Gcalekaland, Western Tembuland, Abathemba baka Dalindyebo, Sotho and Pondoland. Indigenous songs, instruments and dance coupled with richly textured movements is synonymous with the cultures of Africa. Stringed instruments include uMrhubhe (bow with a string), Uhadi (bow with calabash), Inkinge (bow with a string), Isikankuri (large stringed instrument). Others are Isitolotolo (mouth harp), Umasengwana (a percussion instrument played by rubbing strings with wet fingers), Igubu (drum), iKostina (concertina), uMasikhand (a guitar), Uphondo (Kudu horn), Leseba , Impempe (pan pipe) and marimba. These indigenous instruments will be accompanied by indigenous songs, to present a programme of sound seldom heard in urban areas. The orchestra includes abaThembu women, Gcaleka women, Ntonjana girls, singers, musicians and dancers who are among the last custodians of the traditional Xhosa music that pre-dates colonial times. Some members of the group sing in umgqokolo (spilt tone) style, an unusual vocal production technique, which imbues the voice with a resonant, buzzing quality and a remarkable richness of overtones. This enables the singers to produce two different notes at once and evoke the sounds of certain Xhosa instruments. The repertoire includes working songs, initiation songs, prayer songs, rain songs, songs of celebration, drinking songs and lullabies.

Victoria Theatre Thursday 28 June 14:00 Friday 29 June 16:00 Duration

1 hour

Age Restriction

None

Tickets Stalls Balcony

R55 (Full) R45 (Student/Scholar) R50 (Full) R40 (Student/Scholar)

The Eastern Cape Department of Sports, Receration, Arts & Culture in association with the National Arts Festival presents

Jazz at Dakawa

he East Cape Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture and its partners from across the province recognise that for decades music has been a powerful means of expression and social upliftment. Music is the language of both artists and revolutionaries. Music is a dynamic voice of the oppressed. During South Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s years of oppression, several songs with political and social commentary were banned. Music was a weapon through which culture was positioned in the front-lines of political transformation and to this day, in many communities, it is through music that the poor find the means to put food on the table for their families.

The Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s support for the Jazz at Dakawa is aimed at giving artists in the province the opportunity to showcase their skills and their talents at the National Arts Festival. Jazz projects from Community Arts Centres across the Eastern Cape have been selected by the Department to perform at the Dakawa Community Arts Centre for the duration of the Festival. This offers emerging jazz artists an opportunity to share a stage and to be mentored by the more experienced artists such as Xolani Yenana, Dlukulu, Bizzah Mfenyana, Aubrey Manuels and many others.

Dakawa Community Arts Centre Sunday 1 July Monday 2 July Tuesday 3 July Wednesday 4 July Thursday 5 July Friday 6 July Saturday 7 July

19:30 19:30 19:30 19:30 19:30 19:30 19:30

Cacadu Jazz Ensemble O R Tambo Jazz Ensemble Chris Hani Jazz Ensemble Alfred Nzo Jazz Ensemble Amathole Jazz Ensemble Joe Gqabi Jazz Ensemble Nelson Mandela Metro Jazz Ensemble

Duration

1 hour

Tickets Free

The National Arts Festival Arena Programme presents

The Origins – Ekugaleni By the Sibikwa Arts Indigenous Orchestra Musical Director Orchestra Leader Musicians Stage Manager

Laurie Levine

and the Folk Collective

n this production, award-winning singer/songwriter Laurie Levine collaborates with three of the country’s most innovative and exciting young musicians to present her unique brand of contemporary folk music. The Folk Collective is reminiscent of music in its oldest and purest form – a group of musicians playing acoustic instruments to create beauty in an organic soundscape. Appalachian voices, bluegrass rhythms and haunting melodies abound in a performance that invites the audience to share in an intimate and memorable experience. The group includes Wynand Davel on violin, Friso Woudstra on guitar, banjo and various stringed instruments, and long-time collaborator Lize Wiid on accordion and keys. They will be performing songs from Laurie’s highly acclaimed latest release, Six Winters, as well as some older favourites and country/folk standards. The show will bring to life the simple purity of storytelling, voice and emotion. It is music that revels in pairing the old with the new. It is music that speaks across time, place and generations. And it is a wholly original sound that charts the human condition and takes listeners on a journey of human emotion – joy, hope, longing and loss.

Cuervo Music Room Sunday 1 July 18:00 Monday 2 July 13:00 & 21:30 Tuesday 3 July 16:30 Duration 1 hour Age Restriction None Tickets R60 (Full) R50 (Student / Scholar)

Tlale Makhene Thokozane Nsibande Mvuzo Dimba Thandi Dube Esther Maumela Mfanafuthi Masuku Mokhele Mokhalinyana Lydia Mokhele Jabulani Masete Bebe Shongwe Siyabulela Sifatyi Lucky Tshimbudzi Lebugang Mnisi

irst there was the voice, and then the drum and other instruments made from seeds and pods. Gradually man developed musical instruments to express his thoughts and feelings. Ekugaleni will lead you down exciting paths to the origins of song, rhythm and chant.

The Sibikwa Arts Indigenous Orchestra is comprised of a young, excitingly talented group of musicians dedicated to re-inventing the sound of traditional instruments for the 21st centuary. Formed in 2009 they received a national award in 2010 for their ensemble playing of indigenous instruments and in 2011 a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival. The Orchestra has played in Germany and was part of the International Folk Music Festival in Jafna, Sri Lanka. Under the musical direction of SAMA award-winning musician Tlale Makhene, the Orchestra has reached new heights. Ekugaleni promises to be a musical programme that combines the old with the new offering audience members an exhilarating experience.

St. Aidan’s Chapel

Wednesday 4 July 11:00 Thursday 5 July 17:00 Friday 6 July 11:00 & 20:00 Duration 1 hour Age restriction None Tickets R60 (Full) R50 (Student / Scholar)

Standard Bank Jazz Festival Grahamstown 2012

(Incorporating the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival) presents World Music/Gospel Mango Groove Claire Johnston Beaulah Hashe Khanyo Maphumulo Siziwe Ngema Kelly Petlane Sydney Mavundla Percy Mbonani Mike Bester Harold Wynkwardt John Leyden Neill Ettridge

(vocals) (vocals) (vocals) (vocals) (penny whistle) (trumpet) (sax) (guitar) (keyboards) (bass/vocals) (drums)

Mango Groove has helped pioneer the course of South African music for over 25 years, enjoyed 12 Number 1 hits, performed to an estimated audience of a billion people via direct satellite link-up, and received every conceivable South African music and video award – they are undoubtedly one of the most iconic South African bands of all time. Mango Groove has achieved what few bands hope to in their lifetime – they have shaped the sound of South African music and identity and have become not just a band, but part of South Africa’s heritage. Catch their one-off performance in Grahamstown. Guy Butler Theatre, Monument Saturday 7 July 19:00 Tickets R120 (Full) R110 (Student / Scholar) Mango Groove

Standard Bank Jazz Festival All performances are 1hr 10 minutes, unless otherwise stated, and there are no age restrictions. Support funding from: Royal Netherlands Embassy zz Swedish Arts Council / SIDA zz US Consulate General zz Royal Norwegian Embassy zz ProHelvetia zz SAMRO zz Spedidam zz The French Institute / French/SA Season zz Paul Bothner Music zz

Loyiso Bala Loyiso Bala Sydney Mavundla James Bassingthwaighte Mike Bester Jaydine Baron Denny Lalouette Rob Watson

(vocal) (trumpet) (trombone) (guitar) (piano) (bass) (drums)

Known as South Africa’s “King of R&B”, Loyiso Bala has broadened his musical horizons to focus on Gospel with his recent CD release. He has a knack for repeatedly walking away with South Africa’s most prestigious music awards; however his most appealing performances are not in the studio but on the stage, where he is able to carry audiences through a musical kaleidoscope and create an astonishing blend of jazz, classical, gospel, R&B, soul and traditional South African music. DSG Hall Thursday 5 July 19:30 Tickets R70 (Full) R60 (Student / Scholar) Loyiso Bala

Hassan’adas

Andy Narell

John Hassan

John Hassan Buddy Wells Nathan Carolus

(percussion/ vocals – MZ) (sax) (guitar)

Camillo Lombard (piano) Lucas Khumalo (bass) Kissangwa Junior (drums – CD)

Hassan’adas epitomises the exoticism of World Music, blending original African rhythms and sounds with eclectic influences from musicians around the globe. Under Mozambiquan leader, John Hassan, the band produces a captivating collection of polyrhythms, sound textures, and musical colours to make it nearly impossible to stay in your seat and not start dancing! DSG Hall Wednesday 4 July Thursday 5 July Tickets

19:30 17:00 R60 (Full)

Andy Narell

Andy Narell Louis Mhlanga Xoli Nkosi

(steel pans – USA) (guitar) (keyboards)

Denny Lalouette (bass) Rob Watson (drums) Tlale Makhene (percussion)

Every once in a while a musician emerges who is able to surpass the limitations of traditional musical approaches to create a sound of transcendent musical feel and emotion. Steel pan player Andy Narell is one such musician. Never satisfied with the musical status quo Narell continuously pushes the boundaries of musical innovation and performance. Here he presents a fascinating collaboration of steel pan fused with World Music and Jazz.

R50 (Student / Scholar)

DSG Hall Friday 6 July Saturday 7 July Tickets

22:00 12:00 R100 (Full)

R90 (Student / Scholar)

Natalie Rungan Natalie Rungan Mark Royeppen Jared James Mazwakhe Gumede Bruce Baker and guest – Ernie Smith

(vocals) (keyboards) (guitar) (bass) (drums) (guitar)

With smooth and enchanting melodies and a beautiful fusion of Gospel, Jazz and R&B, Durban songbird Natalie Rungan compels listeners to relax, unwind and reconnect with the harmonious soul of music. Having performed on top international jazz and world-music stages, garnered a host of awards, and released her own albums, Natalie’s musical experience has earned her a place amongst South Africa’s greats. She performs with a band of exceptional musicality to create a sound described as “pure sunlight”. DSG Hall

Natalie Rungan

Friday 6 July Tickets

17:00 R60 (Full)

R50 (Student / Scholar)

Standard Bank Jazz Festival, Grahamstown presents Cross-over Jazz

Reflect. Celebrate. Live. The Story of Sibongile Khumalo Sibongile Khumalo Stoan Seate Balungile Gumede Mdu Mtshali Bheka Mthethwa Siyabulela Satsha String quartet and choir

(vocals) (poet / narrator) (vocals / narrator) (piano) (bass) (drums)

Few artists can boast a résumé like Sibongile Khumalo’s: after winning the Standard Bank Young Artist Award in 1993, she has walked away with every major music award in South Africa. Able to bridge musical genres – jazz, opera, world, traditional, township – while making each her own, she has a voice immediately recognisable and always unique. And with a sound that contains such warmth, intimacy, richness, and soul, you might think that if our land – Mother Africa – could sing, she would sound like Sibongile Khumalo! Catch this once-off unforgettable performance filled with a thrilling string quartet and choir, poetry, narration, and South Africa’s leading lady of voice, Sibongile Khumalo. Guy Butler Theatre, Monument Friday 6 July Duration Tickets

19:00 1 hour 30 minutes R120 (Full) R110 (Student / Scholar)

Carine Bonnefoy

Carine Bonnefoy New Large Ensemble (French/SA Season) Carine Bonnefoy (piano/Fender Rhodes, composition – FR) (sax, clarinet – FR) Thomas Savy Stéphane Chausse (sax/flute/clarinet – FR) (trumpet – SA) Marcus Wyatt Manu Domergue (french horn/vocal – FR) Damien Verherve (trombone – FR) Frédéric Favarel (guitar – FR) Farida Bacharova (violin – RUS) Petra Hofmeyer (violin – SA) Jill King (viola – US) Charles Lazar (bass – SA) Jean-Philippe Feiss (cello – FR) (bass – FR) Jean-Michel Charbonnel André Charlier (drums/ percussion – FR) Tony Paco (percussion – MZ) (vocal – FR) Deborah Tanguy In what promises to be one of the most innovative performances in Grahamstown this year, French pianist and composer Carine Bonnefoy showcases some of the compositions which have earned her a reputation as one of Europe’s leading composers and arrangers in jazz, classical and nu-music. Her stunning recordings with the Dutch Metropole Orchestra under Vince Mendoza and the German WDR Big Band have received significant critical attention and she brings a beautiful mini-orchestra of strings, brass and rhythm section in what is a vibrant collaboration between France and South Africa. DSG Hall

Sibongile Khumalo

Sunday 1 July Tuesday 3 July Tickets

19:30 19:30 R70 (Full)

R60 (Student / Scholar)

Jitsvinger Jitsvinger Kyle Shepherd tbc Shane Cooper Jonno Sweetman

(MC/guitar) (piano) (trombone) (bass) (drums)

Cape Town’s newest talent – Afrikaans rapper Jitsvinger from the Cape Flats – is making musical waves across South Africa and abroad. With his cutting-edge, sociallyrelevant, and wonderfully mischievous lyrics, Jitsvinger manages either to mesmerise audiences into deep thought or induce roaring laughter. Here he teams up with one of South Africa’s most successful young musicians, Kyle Shepherd, and a great rhythm section, for a fascinating home-grown mix of jazz and hip-hop. DSG Hall Friday 29 June Tickets

22:00 R60 (Full)

R50 (Student / Scholar)

Jitsvinger

A. Spell – Songs & Sounds Nadja Stoller Jan Galega Brönnimann Ronan Skillen

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Saturday Night Funk Benjamin Herman (sax – NL) Anton Goudsmit (guitar – NL) Paul Hanmer (piano – SA) Shaun Johannes (bass – SA) Joost Patocka (drums – NL) Saturday night in Grahamstown concludes most appropriately with three of the most energetic and popular Dutch musicians playing funk with two hip South Africans. Enough said – get down and dirty with late-night funk! DSG Auditorium Saturday 30 June Tickets

23:30 R50 (Full)

R45 (Student / Scholar)

(vocals – CH) (bass clarinet – CH) (percussion – SA)

Cape Town master percussionist Ronan Skillen spent time last year on a ProHelvetia artist residency in Switzerland where he collaborated widely with Swiss musicians. One of the most interesting to emerge was this trio, which is a mix of world music, jazz and electro with vocals, accordion, bass clarinet, tabla, hybrid drumkit, percussion, didgeridoo and effects. The evocative voice of Nadja Stoller weaves between the percussive and harmonic sound textures created by her partners. DSG Auditorium Saturday 30 June 19:00 Tickets R50 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

Standard Bank Jazz Festival, Grahamstown presents Afro-Jazz Bala Brothers Zwai Bala Loyiso Bala Sydney Mavundla James Bassingthwaighte

(vocal) (vocal) (trumpet) (trombone)

Mike Bester Jaydine Baron Denny Lalouette Rob Watson

(guitar) (piano) (bass) (drums)

Take a slice of opera, mix it with a portion of South African Township, and add a pinch of jazz, R&B and Afrikaner hymns, and what do you get? The uniquely charming Bala Brothers, of course! Having trained at the famous Drakensburg Choir School for Boys, brothers Zwai and Loyiso Bala make up this multi award-winning duo. Join them for an early-evening showcase of the finest Afro-fusion on offer, and discover why they have been dubbed South Africa’s singing sensation. DSG Hall

Loyiso Bala

Saturday 7 July Tickets

17:00 R100 (Full)

R90 (Student / Scholar) )

Zwai Bala

Morris Goldberg Quartet Morris Goldberg Rashid Lanie Bakithi Kumalo Anton Fig

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(sax – US/SA) (piano – US/SA) (bass – US/SA) (drums – US/SA)

Meet the man who has played sax with Herbie Hancock, Chris McGregor and Bill Clinton, recorded on Abdullah Ibrahim’s iconic ‘Mannenburg’ album and Paul Simon’s Grammy-winning ‘Graceland’ album, and is constantly called upon to play private concerts for the likes of Anthony Hopkins and Mohammed Ali. Morris Goldberg oozes appeal and panache and, playing his own unique celebration of South African jazz – 'Safrojazz' – his music contains infectious grooves, humming melodies, and is presented with an appealing stage presence. He performs here with a star-studded band of South African musicians who have made their names in New York over the past two decades – pianist Rashid Lanie, renowned bassist Bakithi Kumalo, and drummer Anton Fig, made famous by his 26 years on the LateNight Show with David Letterman as well as performances with Miles Davis, Madonna and Eric Clapton. DSG Hall Saturday 30 June Sunday 1 July Tickets

19:30 17:00 R70 (Full) R60 (Student / Scholar)

Ernie Smith Ernie Smith Mark Royeppen Concord Nkabinde Donovan Jacob Ntokozo Mayisela Ryan Goliath & guest Natalie Rungan

(guitar) (keyboards) (bass) (drums) (vocals) (vocals) (vocals)

From a young age Ernie Smith sought to find his own unique voice and sound and his quest has led him to a host of top awards since his first album in 2003, including three SAMA awards (‘Best New Comer’, ‘Best Adult Contemporary Album’ and ‘Best Jazz Adult Contemporary Album’), one KORA award (‘Most Promising Male in Africa’), and a METRO award (‘Best Jazz Artist’). Enjoy his rich vocal texture, combined with exciting musical arrangements, as he celebrates life, love and the free spirit of music. DSG Hall Saturday 7 July Tickets

22:00 R100 (Full)

R90 (Student / Scholar) Ernie Smith

Jazz Jams Catch professional and student musicians letting off steam and butting musical heads late into the night. DSG Auditorium Thursday 28 June Friday 29 June Monday 2 July Tickets

23:30 23:30 23:30 R20

Mlungisi Gegana Mlungisi Gegana McCoy Mrubata Feya Faku Valentia Ferlito Justin Badenhorst M

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(bass) (sax) (trumpet) (piano) (drums)

With nearly two decades of experience playing South African jazz, Queenstown-born Mlungisi Gegana has carved out a successful career on the upright bass with performances on the big jazz stages of South Africa and with many of its top exponents. Having composed, arranged, performed and produced his own album, Mlungisi delivers a style of Afro-Jazz that’s “difficult to classify, but a pleasure to enjoy”. DSG Hall Wednesday 4 July 17:00 Tickets R60 (Full) R50 (Student / Scholar)

Standard Bank Jazz Festival, Grahamstown presents Mainstream Jazz Double Standards Oscar Peterson Tribute

Jason Reolon

Jason Reolon Andrew Ford Wesley Rustin Charles Lazar Heinrich Goosen Jonno Sweetman

(piano) (piano) (bass) (bass) (drums) (drums)

“What if we played the great old tunes of jazz, but using two bands at the same time!?” Double Standards features the unique fusion of two of Cape Town’s finest piano trios, playing alongside each other to create a performance that lends itself to the experimentation that is the hallmark of Grahamstown. With a fresh take on some of the world’s most loved jazz numbers, the trios juxtapose their individual textures and timbres to create a fascinating and innovative musical dialogue that skips through the myriad instrumental permutations on offer. DSG Hall Jack van Poll

Jack van Poll James Scholfield Hein van de Geyn

(piano – BE/NL) (guitar – SA/DE) (bass – NL/SA)

Dutch/Belgian pianist Jack van Poll spent many years in South Africa and returns briefly for a special performance with two musical equals, paying homage to one of the most admired pianists in jazz, Oscar Peterson. Playing a selection of Peterson’s works and jazz standards the trio reflects the technical brilliance and melodic inventiveness for which Peterson was renowned. Undoubtedly this gig promises to be one of the most entertaining and enjoyable shows of the festival. DSG Hall Friday 29 June Tickets

19:30 R70 (Full)

R60 (Student / Scholar)

Thursday 28 June 17:00 Tickets R60 (Full)

R50 (Student / Scholar)

My Life with the Jazz Greats Jack van Poll

(piano – BE/NL)

Dutch/Belgian pianist Jack van Poll has spent well over half a century as a professional musician, watching the genre of jazz evolving and being a central part of that development. He has worked with jazz greats like Ben Webster, Don Byas, Dizzy Gillespie, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Johnny Griffin, Clark Terry, Red Mitchell and Ed Thigpen and has performed and recorded around the world. He presents a solo performance combined with fascinating anecdotes about those relationships and other stories. DSG Auditorium Saturday 30 June Tickets

12:00 R50 (Full)

R45 (Student / Scholar)

NY/SA Collective Nicky Schrire Jonas Ganzemuller Nick Paul Shane Cooper Borislav Petrov

(vocals – USA/SA) (sax – DE/US) (piano – US) (bass – SA) (drums – BG)

Vivacious young vocalist Nicky Schrire graduated from UCT and has been studying at the Manhattan School of Music in New York where she has been working with a range of musicians. She returns to Grahamstown with a top-class international band whose collaborative credits range from Bob Mintzer, Joe Lovano, Britney Spears and Dave Brubeck to the Modern Balkan Jazz Orchestra. Catch these young players who have gravitated to New York from around the world to be part of the wave of jazz for the future. DSG Auditorium Friday 29 June Monday 2 July Tickets

12:00 19:00 R50 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

Nicky Schrire

Celebration of Standards Double Double Bass Project Hein van de Geyn Martin Sjöstedt & guests

(bass – NL) (bass – SE)

The curvaceous form and sonorous voice of the double bass have bewitched musicians and audiences for centuries. The upright bass is the true centre of a jazz band – the foundation of all harmonic and rhythmic developments from which the other instruments in the ensemble draw. In this performance, two of Europe’s leading exponents of the instrument pay special tribute to the beauty of the instrument, and they draw from the ranks of the musicians gathered in Grahamstown to guest with them. Maybe even a third double bass… DSG Auditorium Sunday 1 July 21:00 Tickets R50 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar) Hein van de Geyn

Fredrik Noren

Mro Fox Fredrik Noren Jason Reolon tbc Jakop Hauan

(sax – DE) (trumpet – SE) (piano – SA) (bass – NL) (drums – NO)

Jazz standards are the international language of jazz – you may not understand a word the pianist says, but he knows the chord changes of Autumn Leaves as well as you do! The joy of Grahamstown is the opportunity it presents for musicians to meet each other and here we offer five excellent musicians from five different countries and backgrounds presenting a collection of jazz standards interpreted in their own original and captivating way. DSG Auditorium Sunday 1 July Tickets

12:00 R50 (Full)

R45 (Student / Scholar)

Celebrating 20 years of developing South African Jazz with the

Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival! School/Youth Bands I Catch the exuberance of these powerful young players, featuring Belhar Music Collective from the Cape Flats, Taiwa Jazz Band from the Moses Molelekwa Foundation in Tembisa, and special guests from Sweden, Curly Camel, winners of the Swedish Jazz Federation Youth Competition DSG Auditorium Friday 29 June Tickets

19:00 R30 (Full)

R25 (Student / Scholar)

School/Youth Bands II Presenting some of the best school jazz talent in the country, Rondebosch (Cape Town), SACS (Cape Town), and Stirling (East London) perform in standard big band style. DSG Auditorium Sunday 1 July Tickets

Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band The Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band presents a selection of the top young jazz musicians in the country between the ages of 19 and 25 years. This year the band is under the musical direction of South African jazz legend, pianist Paul Hanmer. DSG Hall Monday 2 July Tickets

22:00 R30 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

Standard Bank National Schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Big Band The Standard Bank National Schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Big Band consists of the top young jazz musicians in the country up to the age of 18 years. Under the musical direction of James Bassingthwaighte, the band performs material worked on over the four days of the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival. DSG Hall Monday 2 July Tickets

17.00 R30 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

19:00 R30 (Full)

R25 (Student / Scholar)

South African-Swedish Youth Big Band This Big Band is an exciting collaboration of South African and Swedish youth musicians under the direction of Fredrik Noren, conductor of the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra, playing South African, Swedish and standard repertoire DSG Auditorium Monday 2 July 12:00 Tickets R30 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

Fredrik Noren

Youth Jazz Choirs & Vocal Soloists A celebration of school and university jazz choirs and vocal soloists from around the country, directed by top professional vocalists Amanda Tiffin (SA), Deborah Tanguy (FR), and Nicky Schrire (SA/US). DSG Auditorium Monday 2 July Tickets

Amanda Tiffin

21:00 R30 (Full) R25 (Student / Scholar)

Standard Bank Jazz Festival, Grahamstown presents Modern Jazz Kesivan & the Lights Return Kesivan Naidoo Karl-Martin Almqvist Helge Sunde James Scholfield Andre Petersen Martin Sjöstedt

(drums – SA) (sax – SE) (trombone – NO) (guitar – SA/DE) (piano – SA) (bass – SE)

Fiery drummer Kesivan Naidoo received the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Jazz in 2009 and his feature performance that year – The Lights – showcased a powerhouse combination of international musicians. Since then he has recorded with the group and performed at festivals around South Africa and Europe, raising the musical temperature wherever he plays. He returns to Grahamstown with a slightly amended line-up that features some of the most exciting musicians in South Africa and Scandinavia. DSG Hall Saturday 30 June 22:00 Tickets R60 (Full) R50 (Student /Scholar)

Kesivan Naidoo

Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz: Afrika Mkhize I

Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz: Afrika Mkhize II

Afrika Mkhize Eddie Parker Chris Engel Shane Cooper Ayanda Sikade

Afrika Mkhize Nhtlanthla Mahlangu Mthunzi Mvubu Eddie Parker Marcus Wyatt Siya Makuzeni Shane Cooper Kesivan Naidoo

(piano) (flute – GB) (sax) (bass) (drums)

Afrika Mkhize – Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz for 2012 – represents the exciting new face of South African jazz. Steeped in South Africa’s musical heritage he displays a fresh, international perspective that places South African jazz in a new light. He is a pianist with serious jazz chops who has the versatility to play music from across the spectrum, from African grooves to hip-hop to straight-ahead jazz, and in any company. For his first Young Artist performance, showcasing his own compositions, he has chosen a band of young Turks from across the country and adds a special guest – flautist Eddie Parker – who is a significant voice in British jazz. DSG Hall Saturday 30 June 17:00 Tickets R60 (Full) R50 (Student / Scholar)

(piano) (sax) (sax) (flute – GB) (trumpet) (trombone) (bass) (drums)

Afrika Mkhize is one of the hip new generation of South African Jazz musicians, combining clear South African roots with excellent technique and the world’s music influences. He was pianist and musical director for Miriam Makeba and has played with many South African musicians of her stature, as well as branching out into the production of recordings by musicians such as Themba Mkhize, Kabelo and Nokukhanya Dlamini. For his second Young Artist gig he brings together a vibrant group of young musicians from Johannesburg to pay tribute to the compositions of Bheki Mseleku and other influential African composers. Eddie Parker was central to the bands of Bheki Mseleku and his flute solo on “Angola” is well known to South African Jazz connoisseurs. DSG Hall Tuesday 3 July 17:00 Tickets R60 (Full) R50 (Student / Scholar)

Afrika Mkhize

Benjamin Herman Quartet Benjamin Herman (sax – NL) Anton Goudsmit (guitar – NL) tbc (bass) Joost Patocka (drums – NL) Benjamin Herman won not only the VPRO/Boy Edgar Prize – the national award for most promising Dutch jazz musician – but also the 2008 Prize for Best Dressed Dutch Man! How can he not be the funkiest jazz musician around!? Since 1994 he has led the very popular – and extremely hip – Dutch band, The New Cool Collective, that has performed their version of funk and jazz around the world. His quartet melds four unusual musical talents into an energetic, unique blend of jazz styles. DSG Hall

Anton Goudsmit

Friday 29 June Tickets

17:00 R60 (Full) R50 (Student / Scholar)

Carine Bonnefoy Quartet

Braka Quartet – Elephants

Carine Bonnefoy Stéphane Chausse Jean-Michel Charbonnel André Charlier

Lucia Recio Nicolas Stephan Daniel Malavergne Braka

(piano – FR) (sax, flutes – FR) (bass – FR) (drums – FR)

(vocals – FR) (sax – FR) (tuba – FR) (drums – FR)

Acclaimed Parisian pianist Carine Bonnefoy returns to Grahamstown, this time with her own quartet. Those who heard her in collaboration last year will have marvelled at the sensitivity of her playing and the complex depth of her compositions. While Bonnefoy’s ancestry lies in Tahiti, she embraces a range of musical trends and has worked with African, European and Caribbean musicians.

The irrepressible poly-instrumentalist from Paris, Braka, presents a concert based on French ballroom repertoire from the 1950s. Compositions, valses musettes, paso doble, old French songs and jazz standards are freshly remixed by these four crazy improvisers whose influences span marching bands, street theatre, free improvisation, circus music and everything in between. Their inventiveness extends to their instruments, many of which they make themselves.

DSG Hall

DSG Auditorium

Thursday 28 June Tickets

22:00 R60 (Full) R50 (Student / Scholar)

Friday 29 June Tickets

21:00 R50 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

Sjöstedt/Almqvist New Quartet

Wavelength

Karl-Martin Almqvist Martin Sjöstedt Daniel Franck Kesivan Naidoo

Jan Galega Brönnimann Nadja Stoller Shane Cooper Jonno Sweetman Ronan Skillen

(sax – SE) (piano – SE) (bass – SE) (drums – SA)

Martin Sjöstedt is the regular bassist for the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra and has played with Joe Lovano, Joey Calderazzo, Peter Erskine, Bob Mintzer and Maria Schneider among other well-known international artists. He has participated in over thirty recordings and has established a reputation as one of Europe’s leading bass players. This time, though, he appears in Grahamstown as a pianist, leading his own quartet that includes a man his equal on bass and the big tenor sax sound of one of the most unique jazz voices in Europe.

Jazz has evolved in varied directions over the past century, often absorbing the most current musical trends. This Swiss-South African collaboration – combining top-class musicians skilled both at acoustic jazz and computergenerated sounds – styles itself as urban electronic jazz, finishing off the weekend with dark electronic jazz moods. DSG Auditorium

DSG Hall Thursday 28 June Tickets

(bass clarinet/electronics – CH) (vocals – CH) (bass – SA) (drums – SA) (percussion – SA)

19:30 R70 (Full) R60 (Student / Scholar)

Sunday 1 July Tickets

23:30 R50 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

The Fox & the Horn Mro Fox Marcus Wyatt Kyle Shepherd Daniel Franck Ayanda Sikade

(sax – DE) (trumpet – SA) (piano – SA) (bass – SE) (drums – SA)

The music of German saxophonist Mro Fox reflects a deep global musical experience echoing his years spent in Europe, India, China and, increasingly, Africa. In this performance, he meets one of South Africa’s most cosmopolitan of horn players, backed by a killer rhythm section of young South African lions and a highlyexperienced Swede on bass. DSG Auditorium Saturday 30 June 21:00 Tickets R50 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

Mro Fox

Halle’s Comet Morten Halle Helge Sunde Andre Petersen Bjørn Kjellemyr Jakop Hauan

(sax – NO) (trombone – NO) (piano – SA) (bass – NO) (drums – NO)

Top Norwegian saxophonist Morten Halle has worked with South African pianist Andre Petersen for years, performing regularly together in their respective countries. Halle’s music has been strongly influenced by the Norwegian avante gard and minimalism, but this is offset by the undeniably South African flavour of Petersen’s piano style, producing a genuinely collaborative product that defies categorisation. DSG Hall Sunday 1 July Tickets

22:00 R60 (Full) R50 (Student / Scholar)

All-Star NYJF Closer Morten Halle Karl-Martin Almqvist Anton Goudsmit Andre Petersen Daniel Franck Ayanda Sikade

(sax – NO) (sax – SE), (guitar – NL) (piano – SA) (bass – SE) (drums – SA)

The Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2012 with a suitably powerful lineup of musicians and teachers, brought here to perform for the audiences of the National Arts Festival, but also to inspire the 350 young South African jazz players gathered in Grahamstown – our national jazz future. We celebrate two decades of jazz development with a blow-out performance of some of those who have been teaching and performing at the NYJF, putting together some of Europe’s leading performers with young South African talent. DSG Hall Monday 2 July Tickets

19:30 R70 (Full) R60 (Student / Scholar)

For more information check www.standardbankarts.co.za or www.youthjazz.co.za

Karl-Martin Almqvist

The Goodman Gallery in association with the National Arts Festival presents Standard Bank Young Artist, Mikhael Subotzky’s

Retinal Shift

S the 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist, Mikhael Subotzky presents an entirely new body of work, centred on a four-channel film installation which is being produced specifically for the National Arts Festival and a national exhibition tour. Photographic, video and installation works will complete the exhibition. Retinal Shift investigates the practice and mechanics of looking – in relation to the history of Grahamstown, the history of photographic devices, and Subotzky’s own history as an artist. The works in the show draw on archival portraits from the last century, found surveillance footage, and Subotzky’s own photographs from various series’ that are re-contextualised here. The opening work on the show is a self-portrait that Subotzky made with the assistance of an optometrist. High-resolution images of his left and right retinas are placed side by side. “I was fascinated by this encounter. At the moment that my retinas, my essential organs of seeing, were photographed, I was blinded by the apparatus that made the images. So it is a self-portrait of myself, the photographer, at a moment that I could not see.” Retinal Shift extends this motif of looking while not seeing – exploring it through Grahamstown’s history, our contemporary surveillance society, and the artist’s personal attempts to see. Subotzky’s photographic work combines the directness of the social documentary mode with a questioning of the nature of the photographic medium itself. He is concerned with the structures of narrative and representation, as well as the relationship between social storytelling and the formal poetics of image making. Over the past eight years, his work has focused on the inside and outside of South Africa’s notorious prisons, the small town of Beaufort West, and Ponte City, a single iconic building in Johannesburg Subotzky’s previous work has been exhibited widely in major galleries and museums, and his prints are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the South African National Gallery, Cape Town, and the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Recent awards and grants include the 2011 Discovery Award at Rencontres de la Photographie Arles, the 2009 Oskar Barnack Award, the 2008 W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant, and the 2007 KLM Paul Huf Award. His only monograph to date, Beaufort West, was published by Chris Boot Publishers and was the subject of the 2008 exhibition, New Photography: Josephine Meckseper and Mikhael Subotzky at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Mikhael Subotzky will also be collaborating with Athi-Patra Ruga on a performance piece, entitled Performance Obscura. This piece will link the Standard Bank Young Artist exhibition, with Making Way, another visual arts exhibition on the Festival’s Main programme. It will consist of a unique performance that can only be viewed through Grahamstown’s Victorian camera obscura at the Observatory Museum – a panoptic device par excellence and 19th Century precursor to contemporary surveillance systems. Monument Gallery and the Gallery in the Round, 1820 Monument Open Daily

09:00 to 18:00

Art Source South Africa in association with the National Arts Festival presents

Venus at Home Conceptual Concerns Artist Usha Seejarim Curator & Project Manager Les Cohn

Artist Statement:

The trajectory of my work shows a fascination with the everyday. Subsequent works have used household and ordinary objects like toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, bus tickets, soap bars, kwiklocks (plastic clips that close bread packets), earbuds, stoep polish and safety pins. The everyday features also in video works where the practice of daily activities has been explored. Works have been made about daily travel to work and back, washing dishes, mowing the lawn and making roti. The preoccupation with the everyday is perhaps a search for the value of what lies behind and beyond that which is ordinary. This was taken to its extreme in my last solo exhibition, Mine over Matter, where the investigation led to a consideration of the present moment; which is perhaps the ultimate “ordinary”.

Henry Lefebvre, in Clearing the Ground, 1961, describes a housewife as being immersed in the everyday, needing an escape, and a mathematician being distant from and needing a return to the everyday. This phenomenon of “escape from” and “return to” the everyday co-exist in my life as a house/home-keeper and artist. It is this dual relationship that I wish to explore in my new body of work.

sha Seejarim’s has held five solo exhibitions and has joined international group shows in Paris, Minneapolis, Tokyo, Havana and Belgium. She is a multi award-winning artist who has earned a Business DayBusiness and Arts South Africa Award for the best use of new commissioned art. She has been nominated for a Mercedes-Benz Public Art Award and was a finalist in the Sasol Wax Art competition. Seejarim remains committed to art education – whether with university students or visually impaired children. She is also co-director of the Such Initiative, a group that works to change perceptions through eco-conscious public art.

Broom, 2012

Atherstone Gallery, Monument Open Daily

09:00 to 18:00

Curator and Project Manager, Les Cohn is the founder and senior member of Art Source. Beyond service on arts-related boards, Cohn mentors fine arts students in the University of Johannesburg’s Integrated Workplace Learning Internship Programme. She was the first administrator of the Fordsburg Artists Studios – familiarly known as The Bag Factory – helping establish its dynamic international artists residency. In 2001, Cohn established Art Source to provide professional management services to artists and arts organisations. She has been a guest lecturer at universities throughout South Africa as well as in Gaborone, Maputo, and Washington and Baltimore in the US. In 2006, she received an award from the London-based Resource Alliance in recognition of her fundraising efforts, and she has been South Africa’s delegate to the International Workshop on Resource Mobilisation for Southeast Asia and Africa, held in Bangkok.

The SANLAM ART GALLERY in association with the NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL presents

Clare Menck: Hidden Life 20 Years of painting 1990 – 2010 Curated by Stefan Hundt

“I cannot think of anything else to paint but to record my own life as I cannot escape my own skin, and I am the silent witness of other people’s pain as my own” Clare Menck

ver the past two decades Clare Menck has begun to inscribe herself in the South African art world as one of the country’s most accomplished painters. Yet full and proper recognition has eluded her. It is perhaps because of her use of the smaller formats and subjects she chooses that Clare Menck is known more by the critics and collectors than by museum and exhibition curators. She has built up an impressive exhibition record and has demonstrated that she is more than a superb painter. “Clare’s art is critically engaged with the materials of its own making. It is meditative art. It engages with reality at some distance, either through the meditation of some form of image or through overtly constructed performance in the studio. In a very real way, this contemplative withdrawal to the studio reproduces the sense of alienation that is her invariable subject.” Michael Godby The exhibition is accompanied by a superbly illustrated catalogue edited by Stefan Hundt, curator of the Sanlam Art Collection, containing contributions by Amanda Botha, Prof Michael Godby, Ingrid Winterbach and Hayden Proud. This handsome publication will be on sale at the Festival exhibition.

Curator’s Note: A Hidden Life Exposed

Clare Menck has been painting passionately for the last twenty years focusing on subject matter which, at first glance, appears to be the obvious and familiar yet, on closer inspection and engagement with the paint medium, reveals a fresh and life-affirming vision of the environments around us. Very much a documentation of her own personal life, this retrospective exhibition traces the

evolution of a unique painter from her final year as a student at Stellenbosch University, through the agonies and frustrations of balancing motherhood and family life with the needs and demands of pursuing a career as an independent painter. Isolated from the city and the vagaries of the contemporary art world with its lust for quick fix, fashionable hermetic codes and exploitative interactions, Clare has focused on what she is most familiar with: herself – pondering, wondering, swimming; the persons she knows and loves; her children; close encounters; and the environments she works in, drives through and stumbles upon. With stubborn intensity she has refined her skills of observation, toiled with the images of other artists such Lucian Freud, Gwen John, Antonio Lopez Garcia, Gerard Ter Borg and Gustave Courbet, to name but a few, to develop an approach and vision that engages the eye, heart and mind of any viewer. Stefan Hundt is presently curator of the Sanlam Art Collection and head of the Sanlam Private Investments Art Advisory Service. After having studied Fine Art and History of Art at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Cape Town, he was appointed curator for the Oliewenhuis Art Museum, a satellite of the National Museum in Bloemfontein. He frequently compiles exhibitions from the Sanlam Art Collection which tour major centres and arts festivals in South Africa. The exhibition “Decade: Highlights from 10 years of collecting for the Sanlam Art Collection” was presented at the National Arts Festival in 2008.

Grahamstown Gallery, Albany History Museum Swimmer (self-portrait), Florisbad 1, 2009

Open Daily

09:00 to 17:00

Rhodes University in association with the National Arts Festival presents Maureen De Jager’s

Maria’s Story M

aria’s Story engages with a particular period in South Africa’s history (circa 1901), as it was remembered in the memoirs of the artist’s great-grandmother (Maria Anna de Jager), retold by the artist’s father several decades later, and interrogated through the artist’s own literal and metaphorical journey to the Free State where the story unfolds.

Winburg 1901 photographed by Mark Wilby Additional thanks: Anglo-Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein

Standard Bank Gallery, Albany Museum Open Daily

09:00 to 17:00

Comprising two-dimensional works on steel, sculpture, video and an artist’s book, the mixed-media exhibition traces a story that spans four generations. Each telling or retelling, reading or rereading, infuses the past with new life and new relevance. No longer a dusty archive relegated to the oblivion of forgetting, Maria’s Story becomes a contemporary exploration that points to the universal currency of history’s recurring themes: although the specifics of time and place may change, the narrative thread is one that we all recognise. Like so much of our South African history – indeed, of our world history – it is a story of conflict, hardship and survival in the face of debilitating loss. At the same time Maria’s Story arises from the artist’s own search for an irretrievable past: a history that, for all of its specificity in the matter of bloodlines, seems shadowy and inaccessible. The artist sets off in search of Maria, of Maria’s story, and arrives somewhere else – at a locus very much in the here and now, and infused with the precariousness of all families. Maureen de Jager is a senior lecturer in the Fine Art Department at Rhodes University. She has exhibited at the National Arts Festival on three occasions: 2002 and 2006 (Fringe Programme) and 2008 (Main Programme). Her work is represented in the collections of ABSA and the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum. In 2010 she was a finalist in the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum Biennial Exhibition and Award.

Bailey Seippel Gallery in association with the National Arts Festival presents

Cedric Nunn Call & Response C

edric Nunn, born in 1957 in Nongoma, KwaZulu-Natal, is one of the great discoveries in the middle generation of South African photographers. The central theme of the artist, who comes from one of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest families, is social life in South Africa, both on the land and in the big cities. Nunn documents internal political confrontations among the black population, as well as the civil war of the 1980s and its effects. He is interested in the reality of apartheid, beyond the media-generated images and social prejudices. Over a long period of time he focused, in particular, on the people in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, and in the neighbouring country of Mozambique. This exhibition features his photographs from the late 1970s to the present day, presenting a view of a previously unknown African world. In his aesthetically and compositionally unusual photographs he combines reality with poetry. The exhibition is curated by Jacob Lebeko who joined the art world in 1993 when he enrolled at Wits for a B.A. (Fine Arts) degree. Lebeko qualified as an artist and art teacher at Wits University, whereupon he decided to go back to the township and teach art education. In 1998 he joined Funda Community College to teach History of Art from level 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3. In his capacity as assistant-curator at the Unisa Art Gallery in Pretoria, Jacob Lebeko co-curated a number of high profile exhibitions between 2003 and 2010. He has also collaborated with other renowned institutions and, in 2010, he co-curated Construct with Heidi Erdmann for the National Arts Festival. Dr. Ralf Seippel studied Art History, Archaeology, Pre- and Early History and Philosophy at the Ruhr-University-Bochum (doctorate in art history and art theory in 1987). From 1990 on he started working as a curator for national and international exhibitions. In 1993, he founded his first gallery in Cologne, Germany, followed by a second gallery in Johannesburg, in 1997, which both focus on international contemporary art. Also in 1997, he founded Art Culture, an agency for consulting in the field of national and international art and culture projects and programmes. In 2009, he and a partner opened the Bailey Seippel Gallery Johannesburg, a gallery for African photography. From the very beginning of his career, Dr. Ralf Seippel has also been working as publicist.

Ntsikana Gallery, Monument Open Daily

09:00 to 18:00

Ruth Simbao in association with the National Arts Festival presents

Making Way An exhibition of contemporary art from South Africa and China

aking Way is about forging new pathways physically, socially and conceptually.

In navigation terms, ‘making way’ suggests that a ship is moving through water with its own power – a sail or an engine. In a time of unmoored geographies, this nautical term can suggest physical progress across land too, for land is not as grounded as it used to be.

Artists Chen Qiulin Kudzanai Chiurai Randolph Hartzenberg Hua Jiming Dan Halter Doung Anwar Jahangeer Gerald Machona Dotun Makun Maleonn Brent Meistre Thenjiwe Nkosi Vulindlela Nyoni Qin Ga Lebogang Rasethaba Athi-Patra Ruga James Webb Wu Junyong

Movement is often represented in this exhibition through the body, which drags, scrapes and corporeally etches new trails. A number of artists based in South Africa refer to contemporary forms of global movement and southern African migration that fuel positive manifestations of cosmopolitanism as well as negative outbreaks of xenophobic violence. Social clusters of people are reshuffled as nations, governments and communities make way for new dispositions, new traditions, new accents and new outlooks. As such, ‘making way’ can be used as a metaphor for the making of socio-political, communal or personal progress. This progress is not necessarily linear with a clear goal ahead, but can simply be about movement, about progressing beyond stagnation. A critical example of contemporary social rearrangement is the rise of China on the economic landscape. Rapid change is underway as the ‘old China’ makes way for swift construction, large-scale global reach and multiple variations of hybrid traditions. While revived China-Africa relations have piqued the interest of economists, little cultural understanding exists, and Sinophobia is hot on the heels of Afrophobia. This exhibition seeks ways of opening up new conversations about cultural diversity, social tolerance and human understanding at a time of intense movement and change in the global south. Artworks include installation, photography, print, painting, video, animated film, and performance. Four new performances by Randolph Hartzenberg, Doung Anwar Jahangeer, Athi-Patra Ruga and Gerald Machona create conceptual pathways between three venues – the Alumni Gallery, the Provost and Fort Selwyn – encouraging viewers to make their own way through and beyond exhibition spaces as they engage with the public en route. Refer to pages 108 &109 for details on these performances. Chen Quilin Garden

The Alumni Gallery, Albany History Museum Fort Selwyn, Monument The Provost, Botanical Gardens Open Daily

09:30 to 17:00

PPC in association with the National Arts Festival presents

21 Years of Celebrating Concrete Art T

he annual PPC Young Concrete Sculptor Awards (YCSA), held in partnership with the Association of Arts Pretoria, is the longestrunning competition of its kind in South Africa. This prestigious competition gives emerging artists the opportunity to showcase their skill and creativity through the unique and challenging medium of concrete. It is aimed at artists who are either novices or have not been professionally established. Initiated in 1992, the competition has been a platform for many successful careers in art and a stepping stone for the winners. This year, the competition celebrates its 21st anniversary and has significant changes that will enhance the competition. This year’s theme for the PPC Young Concrete Sculptor Awards is “Reimagine Concrete”. PPC has chosen 21 of its previous YCSA winners to develop 21 sculptures that will be auctioned and the total proceeds from the exhibition will be donated to a non-governmental service organisation. Each sculptor was given the details of an NGO and was asked to develop an artwork reflecting the theme of the NGO’s work in the community. The 21 NGO’s who will benefit from the PPC Young Concrete Sculptor Awards exhibition are: The Love of Christ Ministries, Forest Town School for Children with Disabilities, QuadPara Association of South Africa, Rally to Read, FTH: K, Children’s Econ Training, Ubuntu, Leratong Children’s Home, Tswane Leadership Foundation, African Leadership Academy, Epworth Children’s Village, Ramokoka School, Wielie Walie crèche’, HIV Health Centre, Mokgalwaneng, Itsoseng Home for Disabled Children, and Thiboloha, Home for the Deaf.

concrete. Wiechers is currently working on a variety of public and private commissions and is also planning a solo exhibition in 2013. Marieke Prinsloo-Rowe, the 1999 winner of the award depicts the modern woman in society pursuing her dreams. As an artist she is a successful concrete sculptor. She balances her work and home life with two energetic children, being inspired and challenged by the new set of creative demands. Prinsloo-Rowe is drawn to sculpting the human form, specifically the female figure, as is reflected in her artwork. Prinsloo-Rowe’s passion for sculpting was almost shattered in an accident when she broke her back and doctors advised her not to sculpt anymore.

Some of the Artists: Lwandiso Njara, emerging artist, 2011 finalist and 2009 runner-up of the PPC YCSA competition. The Pretoria-based Fine Arts student, Njara is inspired by people around him and their struggle with the process of modernisation. His 2009 winning piece, ‘Industrial Action’ of nine bus drivers on a journey for a wage increase, is symbolic of the struggles of a working man, frustrated with his conditions and the violence, intimidation and disruption that he has to face. Njara is influenced by human existence within post-modern society and is motivated by life, photographs and his imagination. Depending on the message he wants to express, he uses various techniques and mediums including smooth or expressive. Roelf Daling walked away with the coveted title of the 2011 Young Concrete Sculptor Award, Roelf Daling, impressing the judging panel with his new media piece, titled ‘The hole we found’. Having graduated at the University of Pretoria with a Bachelors of Fine Arts, Daling has explored substantially in the field of new media art. He focuses on interactive installations, often using technologies like infrared lighting, lasers, projectors, mapping, computer vision, and software programming. Daling has also recently started experimenting with bronze sculpture and graffiti stencilling and hopes to combine these mediums in his new media artwork in the future. Sybrand Wiechers, the Pretoria-based sculptor was the 2006 Technical Excellence Award winner of the PPC YCSA. Last year, Wiechers pushed the limits of cement usage to new heights when he created massive concrete panels displaying messages by Mohandas ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi for Satyagraha House in Orchards, Johannesburg. Wiechers was selected for his special interest and expert skills in Transformation Gallery, Albany History Museum Open Daily Follow PPC on Twitter @PPCisCement

09:00 to 17:00

The National Arts Festival Think!Fest Programme in association with the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, presents

Kathy: The Man behind the Public Figure The Ahmed Kathrada Exhibition

his exhibition is a personal insight into Ahmed Kathrada and a celebration of the 22nd anniversary of his release from prison in 1989. Ahmed M. Kathrada is a veteran of the South Africa liberation struggle, one of the famous Rivonia trialists, a long-serving political prisoner on Robben Island and Pollsmoor Maximum Prison, who was honoured by the ANC with its highest decoration – Isitwalandwe Seaparankoe –in recognition of his contribution to the liberation struggle. When Mandela was arrested in 1962, Ahmed Kathrada came out into the open to launch the ‘Free Mandela’

Observatory Museum Open Daily

09:00 to 17:00

campaign which was to develop into one of the greatest international campaigns in later years. The name Ahmed M. Kathrada will be remembered with respect long after the inventors and executioners of apartheid are forgotten. This exhibition is a tribute to a remarkable hero of the South African freedom struggle. It is a personal insight into the veteran leader, portraying the person, “Kathy”, his sense of humour, his love of food, his many, many friends and comrades, his meticulous notes and his incredible memory. This is the first time that Kathy’s artefacts and letters from Robben Island will be on display in Grahamstown. Ahmed Kathrada will be presenting a talk as part of the Think!Fest ANC Centenary series on Friday 29 June at 14:00 at the Blue Theatre, Eden Grove. Please refer to page 137.

The National Arts Festival Think!Fest Programme presents

“One in Nine” by Tracey Derrick A photographic exploration of breast cancer, its treatment and survival.

reast cancer affects 1 woman in 9 in South Africa. I am the ninth woman and became the active subject of my own investigation by turning my camera onto myself. I sought out and photographed eight other breast cancer survivors as well, whose portraits together with my own symbolically represent “one in nine”. In looking at the representation of the female body and identity, my illness evolved into a healing process.

A full-time portrait and documentary photographer since 1992, Tracey’s projects are concerned with social and community issues. She has continually conducted photography workshops and participated extensively in exhibitions both locally and internationally. Her work has also been included in Blink, a book showcasing 100 contemporary photographers worldwide. Tracey Derrick will present a talk on this exhibition and her personal journey on Friday 6 June at 12:00 at the Blue Theatre, Eden Grove. Please refer to page 137.

Eden Grove Building Open Daily

09:00 to 18:00

www.traceyderrick.co.za

The National Arts Festival Think!Fest Programme presents

Out of Silence

Leopards & the Trapping Truth Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King, Jr.

hree powerful sculptures about the relationship between leopards, humans, money and choice expose the reality of gintrapping in South Africa. Life size and welded from gin traps Roberto Vaccaro’s leopard Apex of Evolution, and man Scar Tissue, stand sentinel with the Silent Scream by Simon Max Bannister. In metal, wood and words a clear voice speaks straight from the heart of the trapping truth.

Eden Grove Building Monday 2 to Saturday 8 July Open Daily

09:00 to 18:00

The exhibit has been curated by the Landmark Foundation as an awareness campaign to bring attention to the reality of trapping in South Africa and how everyone can help in changing this. Both Simon and Roberto have donated works to this cause. A Think!Fest lecture with the same title will be presented at the Blue Lecture Theatre, Eden Grove, on 6 July at 16:00. Refer to page 137.

The National Arts Festival Think!Fest Programme presents

2052 Karoo by Katie Barnard du Toit The bare earth and the burning sky, And the blank horizon, round and round Spread – void of living sight or sound. Thomas Pringle Artist’s statement: he controversial granting of an exploration license to the Dutch oil company Shell for fracking in the Karoo basin has raised questions around the widespread environmental damage caused through this process. This installation has been prompted by these concerns, and speaks of the potential for loss should fracking be allowed in the Groot Karoo – the place of my home, community and livelihood. Karoo 2052 focuses on a contemporary human condition – the impact of global capitalism and consumerism on individuals and small communities. Pringle’s poem leaves one with a sense of awe at the damage, emotional and physical scars, and the tragedy of man-made disasters – although the hope always remains that these will not be repeated. Poetry and visual artworks, such as Karoo 2052, form tools for expressive communication, to reach out beyond our most immediate sphere of understanding and lay bare our hope for humanity before others.

A Think!Fest lecture on Fracking in the Karoo will be presented by the artist on Friday 6 July at 10:00 in the Blue Lecture Theatre, Eden Grove. Refer to page 137.

The Landmark’s Leopard and Predator Project was initiated in 2004 and addresses the persecution of predators with a special focus on leopards in the Eastern and Western Cape. On farms they are still gin trapped, hunted with dogs and even poisoned. The Landmark Foundation works with progressive farmers to change this. By using improved livestock protection methods, losses are limited and predators are conserved as an essential part of the ecosystem. The project has established a leopard rescue, rehabilitation and release program. It has rescued 40 leopards, GPS collared 23 and has over 100 trail cameras in the field. It now has one of the largest studies on leopards in the world with a PHD underway looking at habitat corridors for genetic connectivity. See http://www.landmarkfoundation.org.za for more information

In this multimedia installation, the artist steps forward and claims a voice by going beyond her comfort zone to present a personal account which encourages political resistance. With her installation Barnard du Toit intends to transform the disquiet of artists and other citizens into visual narratives that make evident the contemporary undercurrents of existential anxiety in the Karoo. The artist’s skill and lived environment are intertwined territories and provide the visual grammar for this ambitious artwork. The art-making materials reference and predict the present and the future of the Karoo landscape. By defying citizens’ despair over lack of agency in important socio-political decisions, activist artworks such as Fear and Loss are able to open debate over broader issues within culture, art, politics and economics. Barnard du Toit’s personal position as an inhabitant of the Karoo has the ability to mobilise significant dialogue and political participation. From: Art as Activism: A review of Fear and Loss by Katie du Toit Barnard by Celia de Villiers

Baptist Church Hall, Bathurst Street Open Daily

09:00 to 17:00

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The Eastern Cape Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts & Culture in association with the National Arts Festival presents

My Freedom, My Expression

Tshova, B. Ngqoshela: This painting, which was on the 2011 Exhibition “A Century of Fallen Eastern Cape Visual Artists” , symbolizes the on-going struggle for economic emancipation by ordinary people. Medium: Oil on Canvas

ver the last one hundred years of the struggle for freedom, artists armed with their canvases and paints, cameras and screens, sharpened the sensitivity of the communities in which they lived. The dualism of the verbal and the visual elements resulted in mass awareness campaigns and the conscientisation of ordinary people who suffered under apartheid. My Freedom, My Expression is a follow up on the 2011 exhibition presented by the East Cape Department of Sports Recreation, Arts & Culture, Century of Fallen Eastern Cape Visual Artists, which paid tribute to those who fearlessly used their creative skills to speak out against apartheid. Their heroic roles in resisting socio-political atrocities contributed to the downfall of the apartheid ideology.

Foyer, Albany History Museum Open Daily

09:00 to 17:00

The struggle continues. It is a fallacy to believe otherwise. The human right to live free from issues of poverty, class distinction, HIV/Aids and other socio-economic challenges, has changed the landscape of artistic resistance from political to economic emancipation. The Province’s talented young artists and crafts practitioners express themselves to highlight the elusive freedom so desperately needed in a developing economy. The Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture’s remains committed to economic freedom, social cohesion and nation building through the visual arts and craft.

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e tur l u C The E rts & ast Cap A , n tio e Departme nt of Sports, Recrea ts esen in asso r p l a ciation wit v h the National Arts Festi

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here are a wide range of reasons that govern an individualâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desire to possess authentic South African craft. Often this grows from a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exposure to the opinions of others or to the socio-cultural milieu with which one is identified. Reasons are compounded in complexity by psychological forces that shape attitudes towards the creative industries in general. The Eastern Cape Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts & Culture positions itself as a front runner in the South African Craft Sector. The discerning collector is given a wide variety of craft to choose from. These range from craft for personal adornment to functional craft art that are unrivaled anywhere else in the world. Whatever the motive to possess Eastern Cape Craft, a visit to the Craft Fair Tent will offer the public the finest products from the most rural regions of the province and an interactive experience of observing and participating in real life production of the crafts at the exhibition. A wide variety of craft including beaded necklaces, flags and ceramics will be on sale at the 2012 Eastern Cape Craft Fair Tent, Village Green.

Village Green Open Daily

09:00 to 18:00

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Art enthusiasts can attend a series of Art Walkabouts in the company of artists or visual experts

Making Way

Retinal Shift

(See page 96 for exhibition details) Alumni Gallery, Albany History Museum Sunday 1 July Thursday 5 July

12:00* 14:00*

Saturday 7 July

12:00*

Clare Menck: Hidden Life

Mikhael Subotzky: 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist Award-winner (see page 91 for exhibition details) Monument Gallery Friday 29 June Sunday 1 July Tuesday 3 July

12:00* 16:00* 14:00*

Wednesday 4 July 16:00 Friday 6 July 14:00

Venus at Home

(see page 93 for exhibition details)

(see page 92 for exhibition details)

Grahamstown Gallery, Albany History Museum

Atherstone Gallery, Monument

Saturday 30 June Sunday 1 July

Friday 29 June Saturday 30 June

14:00* 10:00*

Tuesday 3 July Thursday 5 July

10:00 14:00

14:00* 10:00*

Friday 6 July Saturday 7 July

My Freedom, My Expression

Cedric Nunn: Call and Response

(see page 100 for exhibition details)

(see page 95 for exhibition details)

Foyer, Albany History Museum

Ntsikana Gallery, Monument

Saturday 30 June Tuesday 3 July

Friday 29 June Saturday 30 June Wednesday 4 July Thursday 5 July

16:00* 12:00* 12:00 16:00

10:00 14:00

16:00* 16:00*

Wednesday 4 July 10:00* Saturday 7 July 10:00*

PPC Young Sculptors Exhibition

Mariaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Story (see page 94 for exhibition details) Standard Bank Gallery, Albany History Museum Sunday 1 July Tuesday 3 July

14:00* 12:00*

Thursday 5 July Saturday 7 July

10:00* 12:00*

Walkabout Schedule Duration

50 minutes

Meeting point

Venue for each exhibition

Tickets

R25

* indicates that the artist / curator will be in attendance

(see page 97 for exhibition details) Transformation Gallery, Albany History Museum Wednesday 4 July 14:00*

Friday 6 July

12:00*

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The National Arts Festival presents

The Arena Art Exhibition of Exhibitions

ringe visual art is given centre stage in the Arena Exhibition of Exhibitions, which features a selection of artworks from the more than 60 Fringe art exhibitions. Designed to give Festival goers a sense of what is on offer in the plethora of rooms, halls and make-shift galleries all over Grahamstown, the Arena exhibition is a visual art appetiser – a place where visitors can see samples of work and design their own personal visual art meander. Hung in the Monument’s Yellowwood Gallery with its panoramic view of the city below, the exhibition will comprise sculpture, paintings, drawings, photography, cartoon work, ceramics, installations, fabric and fibre art, lino prints, graphic design, handcrafts and more. Chanelle Staude’s paintings focus on the natural beauty of the South African landscape, while fabric artist Lisa Nettleton’s innovative free-stitch technique challenges the traditional concept of sewing. Vukile Teyise’s black and white lino prints offer a glimpse into everyday township life and Charmaine Haines’ ceramic pieces portray and contextualise the familiar image of the human face. Vintage photography is Peter Kennedy’s turf as he offers a glimpse through history’s porthole; Nigerian art and craft, both modern and traditional, is on display by the Pacific Art Gallery; and a life-size statue made from gin traps is offered by the Landmark Foundation. The Egazini Art Project offers beautiful and practical hand-printed textiles, and photographs from Paul Greenway’s exhibition tell a 10-year anniversary tale of the Ubom! EC Company. Loni Drager’s quiet, sensual sculptures carved in wood are inspired by landscapes, and the bursts of colour and frivolity in Craft from Waste defy the origin of the material. Tori Stowe reflects on her 20-year career as an artist with an eclectic exhibition based on the theme, Rock, Paper, Scissors. The African sun and its rhythms and patterns inspire Wenkidu artists whose work is reflected in engravings, collaged layers and handmade papers. Sandile Goje’s works are in black and white with carefully marked fine lines that create a unique tone in the telling of the daily lives of South Africans. Work from these and many more artists make this exhibition a neat capsule of all that is good on the Fringe Visual Art Programme. Make sure you put aside an hour or two to browse through it before heading off to find the exhibitions that caught your fancy.

Yellowwood Terrace, Monument Open Daily

09:00 to 18:00

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Latitudes Contemporaines in association with the National Arts Festival presents Steven Cohen’s

The Cradle of Humankind

with Nomsa Dhlamini and Steven Cohen

This creation is dedicated to the memory of Merrill Plagis Concept and Set Design Assistant Lighting and Technical Manager Video Manager Costumes Execution of Costumes

Steven Cohen Elu Kieser Erik Houllier Baptiste Evrard Steven Cohen Léa Drouault

Team for the Video Shooting Director Performance Photography Film Assistants Video Editing Technical Manager Special Thanks to

Steven Cohen Nomsa Dhlamini Steven Cohen John Hodgkiss John Hodgkiss Steven Cohen Elu Kieser Léa Drouault Baptiste Evrard Erik Houllier Anselm Kangah

“I have been fascinated with Sterkfontein since I was young. It’s our birthplace. All of us.” Steven Cohen “The premise of my piece is essentially very simple. Being able to stand up is the first dance. Controlled fire is the first lighting. Maybe in these caves were the first performative actions. I wanted to work there and represent it because this site proves that we are all African, even though Africa is not seen as contributing to civilization. But in the piece I’m also talking about the Africa that has been raped and plundered, about colonialism, slavery, Saartjie Baartman.” Steven Cohen For 20 years Steven Cohen has created plastic works which were exhibited widely and were purchased by museums and international collectors. He also developed performance art pieces in different spaces, among them stages, museums, art galleries and unusual public spaces (taxi ranks, raceways, malls, dog shows, fascist rallies, etc.) and often in spaces where he was not actually invited. He shows up unexpectedly and is often not particularly welcome.

He uses his own body (and sometimes those of others), creating a “living art”, channelling sculpture, dance and drag performance – all at the same time. His performances explore many different means of expression, dealing with various identity questions linked to Jewishness, homosexuality and ethnic identity. Nomsa Dhlamini is Cohen’s 90-year-old co-performer in The Cradle of Humankind. She is the domestic worker who helped raise him. In a sense he re-invents Dlamini as a kind of Saartjie Baartman, the most famous of the Khoikhoi women from South Africa who were presented at freak shows in Europe in the 19th Century. By doing so he lobs an ethical bomb at the audience, who have paid to see her. But their relationship is what falls under the spotlight in this piece, especially given that Cohen grew up in the stifling apartheid system that saw women like Dlamini having to carry a pass document to allow her to go to town to work for his parents. As a homosexual and a Jew, Cohen speaks on behalf of the victims of such oppression. But in relation to Dlamini, he is a white man, a symbol of racial hatred in South Africa. These contradictions infuse all the work that he has made with Dlamini. Their’s is an odd and often humorous anti-apartheid love story. For a large portion of his childhood, Cohen’s mother was an alcoholic and it fell on Dlamini to provide for Cohen’s needs – physical and emotional. “I’ve known Nomsa all my life. From 1947 she cleaned my parents’ broken, lower-middle-class home. It’s like cleaning the uncleanable. She fed me, she nursed me, she looked after me. In South Africa many black women don’t raise their own children, they raise people like me and grandparents look after the children.” Steven Cohen The Cradle of Humankind premièred at Festival des Anticodes (Brest – France) in March 2011.

Rhodes Theatre Monday 2 July Tuesday 3 July Wednesday 4 July

20:00 20:00 20:00

Duration

1 hour

Age Restriction

PG 16 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

www.latitudescontemporaines.com

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Third World Bunfight in association with the National Arts Festival presents

Created by Brett Bailey Premiered Wiener Festwochen / Vienna Festival 2010

Exhibit A

‘Not until the native produces something of value in the service of the higher race, i.e. in the service of its and his own progress, does he gain any moral right to exist.’ Paul Rohrbach, ‘German Thought in the World’, (1912) Human zoos were major events from the mid-19th Century up until the Second World War. Tens of millions of Europeans and Americans flocked to these spectacles of colonial domination, where people from the non-Western world were exhibited in enclosures. De-contextualised and objectified, these ‘savages’ were positioned just above animals on a continuum that placed the industrialised West at its magnificent apotheosis. This was the heyday of racial classification. Anthropologists jostled to analyse these ‘Natives’, and to measure their skulls against those of white people. Their findings ‘proved’ that the ‘primitives’ were of a lower evolutionary order, and were used as justification for colonising their land, destroying their cultures and reducing them to servitude. ‘Exterminate all the brutes.’

Kurtz, in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’, (1899)

A century later, across the world – and here in South Africa – we continue to live in a world torn by notions of ‘Racial Difference and Otherness’. This exhibition of live Africans provides an opportunity for you to gaze at a variety of people from different parts of the continent – to have a good, hard look at ‘Difference’ – and maybe to reach some kind of understanding. Third World Bunfight presents the diverse works of South African artist, Brett Bailey: theatre productions, installations, opera, house music shows and sitespecific performances. His idiosyncratic, iconoclastic works focus a probing lens on the world we live in, with particular emphasis on the post-colonial landscape of Africa, and relations between Africa and the West. Managed by Barbara Mathers, Third World Bunfight has maintained its position at the forefront of South African performance throughout its sixteen-year history, and has a strong international presence. The company has a mission to create ground-breaking, multi-layered pieces that explore the beauty, the wonder, the darkness and the tragedy of our world; works that foreground issues, stories and situations that are all too often overlooked, suppressed or ignored. With thanks to the French Institute Gadra Matric School Thursday 28 June to Monday 2 July Daily at: 10:00, 10:45, 12:00, 12:45, 18:00, 18:45 ,20:00, 20:45 Duration

45 minutes

Age Restriction

12 years +

Tickets R55 (Full) R45 (Student / Scholar)

Photo: Gerald Machona

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Ruth Simbao in association with the National Arts Festival presents

From China, with Love with Gerald Machona

n 2011 Gerald Machona was selected by Business Day and the Johannesburg Art Fair as one of the top ten young African artists practicing in South Africa. Machona works with sculpture, performance, new media, photography and video, and the most notable aspect of his work is his innovative use of currency – particularly decommissioned Zimbabwean dollars – as an aesthetic material. Commenting on historical and contemporary migration patterns in southern Africa, he has produced a series of performances, including Ndiri Bouncer, Ndiri DJ and Ndiri Barber, that engage with constructions of national identity in relation to various occupations associated with African immigrants in South Africa. In this new performance Machona explores China’s rise as an industrial superpower, and its complex history of trade and new economic ties with African states. By stitching objects out of Zimbabwean dollars and then labeling them “Made in China” he raises important questions about China-Africa relations and global socio-economic shifts.

Alumni Gallery, Albany History Museum (Starts at Alumni Gallery and ends at The Provost. Restricted to 20 people only) Saturday 7 July

10:00

Duration

30 minutes

Age Restriction

None

Tickets R25

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Ruth Simbao in association with the National Arts Festival presents

Performance Obscura with

Athi-Patra Ruga in collaboration with Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art

Mikhael Subotzky

ell-known for his provocative work poised between visual art and contemporary performance, Athi-Patra Ruga was included in the Phaidon book Younger Than Jesus, which features 500 of the world’s best artists under the age of 33. Edgy with political backbone and often taking a stab at the fashion world, his interventionist approach slices open the ‘Western art library’. Previous performances have dealt with themes of sexuality, the body politic, initiation, HIV/ Aids and the history of image making. His new site-specific works engage with The Provost – a jail based on a panopticon design – and the camera obscura at the Observatory Museum. A collaboration between Athi-Patra Ruga and Mikhael Subotzky will link two of the visual arts exhibitions of the Festival Main programme – Making Way and Retinal Shift (Mikhael Subotzky’s Standard Bank Young Artist exhibition). The shared concerns of these two exhibitions are brought together in a unique performance (Friday 6 July) which can only be viewed through Grahamstown’s Victorian camera obscura – a panoptic device par excellence and 19th century precursor to contemporary surveillance systems.

The Provost (Starts at The Provost and ends at Fort Selwyn. Good walking shoes required. Restricted to 20 people only) Friday 6 July

16:00

Duration

30 minutes

The Observatory Museum (The audience will be expected to walk up the stairs to the camera obscura. Restricted to 8 people per performance – there will be four 15-minute performances between 10:00 and 11:30) Friday 6 July

10:00

Age Restriction

None

Tickets R25 With courtesy Whatiftheworld Gallery

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Ruth Simbao in association with the National Arts Festival presents

The OtherSide A ‘CityWalk’ with Doung Anwar Jahangeer

oung Anwar Jahangeer is a Mauritian-born architect/ artist/performer living in Durban. Extending beyond his ‘profession’ he broadens his definition of architecture, developing the notion of anarchitecturewithoutwalls. In 2008 he co-founded the NPO dala, an organisation that focuses on devising initiatives that engage art/ architecture for social justice. His work is multi-media and includes live performance, film/video, sculpture, painting, installation and architecture. He engages with the urban fabric often in an openly critical and sometimes provocative manner. In 2000 Jahangeer conceptualised and implemented ‘The CityWalk’ initiative as a way of directly engaging with

and observing the flux and mutability of his adopted city. The project now includes walks in Johannesburg, London, Belo Horizonte, Addis Ababa, Malmo, Marseilles, Amsterdam and Copenhagen. During the Festival Jahangeer will lead his audience / participants on a CityWalk that grapples with the site of Grahamstown – a city with a complex history of colonialism and violence – that is currently the subject of reflection as the city ponders on the 200 years since its founding. The CityWalk will start inside the Alumni Gallery and the audience / participants will walk into town with the artist. Each CityWalk is restricted to 10 people.

Alumni Gallery, Albany History Museum

Photo: Val Adamson

Ruth Simbao in association with the National Arts Festival presents

Three Days

Wednesday 4 July Thursday 5 July Friday 6 July

12:00 12:00 12:00

Duration

1 hour 30 minutes

Age Restriction

12 years +

Tickets

R40

with Randolph Hartzenberg

he impossibility of return is a recurring theme in the works of visual and performing artist Randolph Hartzenberg. In Road Zero (1997), for example, Hartzenberg embarks on a circulatory journey to nowhere, as he returns to the ‘salted land’ of District Six erased by forced removals. Three Days is an installation and performance in which Hartzenberg continues to explore the unease that results from humankind’s misdirected acts. Engaging with his own experience of living in South Africa he delves into the often dark places of an inner terrain that unravel situations of destabilisation, exile and return so common to our perpetual coming Fort Selwyn (The performance starts and going. inside Fort Selwyn and continues with a walk around the Fort) Grappling with the psychological Sunday 1 July 16:00 journeys of our Monday 2 July 16:00 contemporary Tuesday 3 July 16:00 times, this performance Duration 1 hour takes place inside Hartzenberg’s Age Restriction 12 years + installation at Fort Selwyn. Tickets R40

Photo: Adam Letch

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The Market Theatre in association with the National Arts Festival and supported by the Goethe Institute present the world premiĂ¨re of

Antjie in Berlin

Composer Pianist Production Designer

Rudiger Meyer Jill Richards Shaughn Macrae

Guy Butler Theatre (stage), Monument Tuesday 3 July 20:00 Wednesday 4 July 17:00 & 20:00 Duration

45minutes

Age Restriction

12 years+

Tickets R55 (Full)

R45 (Student/Scholar)

ntjie in Berlin takes the audience on an aural journey based on a number of letters written by Antjie Krog while on a residency in Berlin and included in her recent book Begging to be Black. Part sound installation, part concert performance, it brings the talents of Jill Richards, one of South Africa's premier pianists, together with those of sound technician Shaughn Macrae. Composer Rudiger Meyer builds on the music concealed within the spoken word, creating a space for reflection within a landscape of loudspeakers that take on a nearly sculptural aspect. As a point of departure he makes use of recordings of Antjie Krog reading aloud the letters originally written to her mother. The letters themselves cover topics from simple descriptions of daily life in a foreign town to deeper reflections on global issues and moral questions. It is however the particular quality of Antjie Krogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s specifically South African voice that plays a crucial role in the composition. How much atmosphere does a voice carry with it and what kind of melodies does it contain? What kind of music could it lead to? The speech melodies and rhythms of Antjie's distinctive readings are transformed into piano music, unfolded and commented on within a sound environment based on field recordings made in Berlin. Vocal fragments migrate from one end of the space to the other, bringing her voice close to the listeners and providing a counterpart to the piano performance while helping to establish the feeling of both presence and distance that can characterize communication over long distances.

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The First Physical Theatre Company and Rhodes University, in association with the National Arts Festival presents

Discharge an installation that asks a great deal from its audiences

Creators Production Manager

Gavin Krastin Alan Parker Rat Western Wesley Deintje

n Discharge, the audience is transformed into refugees who are among the very last survivors of a horrific, nameless global catastrophe. Discharge takes its audiences to the last possible outpost. There is nowhere else left to go after this final place of refuge.

First Physical Theatre Company’s resident choreographer, Alan Parker, as well as with Grahamstown-based digital artist and lecturer, Rat Western, for the creation of this multidisciplinary, site-specific performance.

Audiences will board emergency transport outside the Rhodes Theatre. From there, they will go through security checkpoints and then undergo the intake processing that will allow them to be admitted to the refugee shelter.

Two pioneers of South African physical theatre who are founding members of First Physical Theatre, Andrew Buckland and Juanita Finestone-Praeg, perform alongside current company member, Siyabulela Mbambaza, as well as a wealth of other local Grahamstown artists and performers.

The shelter has been created inside an airplane hangar on the grounds of the First City Regiment’s military base, just outside Grahamstown. New refugees will need emergency equipment – whatever supplies the shelter still has left will be issued to the audience as the newest arrivals at this refugee camp. Inside their emergency shelter, the audience will be surrounded by movement and digital imagery that explores the true meaning of becoming a refugee, one who must exist in a space that does not belong to them – or them to it. Discharge can be disorienting, unsettling, frightening and disruptive. Check your equanimity at the door. Before the scheduled performances, Festival visitors will sample tantalizing bits of Discharge as guerrilla street theatre action that will take place unexpectedly throughout the city of Grahamstown. These moments will foreshadow the full-scale work. Because of the nature of its contents and its performance, this work is suitable for individuals aged 16 and above only. This installation-performance piece has been specifically created by the First Physical Theatre to ponder on Grahamstown’s reflection of its 200-year history. Designer and choreographer Gavin Krastin received the Standard Bank Ovation – Encore Award last year. Here he collaborates with

First City Regiment Military Base (Meet in front of Rhodes Theatre) Tuesday 3 July Wednesday 4 July Thursday 5 July Friday 6 July Saturday 7 July

18:30 18:30 18:30 18:30 18:30

Duration

1 hour 30 minutes

Age Restriction

16 years+

Tickets R55 (Full)

R45 (student/Scholar)

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Rhodes University Drama Department in association with the National Arts Festival Think!Fest Programme presents

Polis An arena for the examination of a South African town Produced by Athina Vahla, Ford Evanson, Mark Wilby and Anton Krueger

he team that brought Topos: 10 Performances/10 Spaces to the Art Lounge at the 2011 National Arts Festival, this year interrogates the contested past and present of Grahamstown in its 200th year with five different performance presentations. Under the roof of the Nun’s Chapel, POLIS uses performance to challenge the presumptions we carry from our un-common history. The result is a fresh, if turbulent, perspective on Grahamstown and the forces shaping civic experience. Collaborating Artists/Academics: Trudy Meehan (Psychology) Richard Pithouse (Politics) Roddy Fox (Geography) Anna Christensen (Journalism) Andrew Buckland and Alex Sutherland (Drama) Juan Munoz (Music)

Programme Tuesday 3 July 18:00 ARENA: Arenas are spaces where forces contend and events unfold. Has Grahamstown’s divided history made space for a collective arena? Polis goes digging for a site of spectacle and communion. Wednesday 4 July 18:00 CELL: The cell is the arena divided; a place of captivity and meditation. Grahamstown’s history is one of prisons and sanctuaries. How does this trace reveal itself in a “city of learning”? Thursday 5 July 18:00 SPRING: Springs have always been places of temporary gathering. What were the stories that were told here? We are curious about spring as a source of interdependency, social bonding and storytelling. Friday 6 July 18:00 BORDER: The border separates and secures identity. Grahamstown’s past and present borders have created a landscape fraught with real politic. What is the border’s effect on senses of self, mobility and other? Saturday 7 July 18:00 MARKET: Public sites of exchange are crucial meeting points for South Africa’s newly democratized citizens. Where do we locate these places where communities criss-cross the city?

The Nun’s Chapel Tuesday 3 July – Saturday 7 July Duration

1 hour

Age Restriction

None

Tickets R40 (Full)

R30 (Student / Scholar)

18:00

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The Non Nova Company in association with the National Arts Festival presents Performer Dramaturgy Assistant Artistic direction, Choreography and Scenography Soundtrack Composition (using Claude Debussy’s music) Stage Manager and Wind Manager Lighting Design & Lighting Technician Scenography Design Set Construction Set Construction Assistants Costumes and Accessories Photographs Production Administration Production Assistant

Phia Ménard Jean-Luc Beaujault Phia Ménard Ivan Roussel Pierre Blanchet Alice Ruest Phia Ménard Phillipe Ragot Rodolphe Thibauld Samuel Danilo Fabrice llia Leroy Jean-Luc Beaujault Claire Massonnet Honorine Meunier

Vortex A Fight for Life T

he wind makes people uneasy, tense, jumpy. It is cold. It requires us to adapt to it, rather that it adapting to us. In this sense it obliges us to let go and avoid trying to control everything – “to throw caution to the wind”. The wind does things. It changes things all on its own, and often the effect is beautiful. In this production, director and choreographer Phia Ménard plays with the wind which in turn plays with the performer, Phia Ménard. Over the past three years, Non Nova Company has been testing the wind in a pragmatic way, using experiments that resemble craft projects more than scientific research. In this show created out of that research, the wind is given space to breathe and yet it is not given totally free rein. Even though in this performance, Phia Ménard tries to tame it, the wind remains a mystery.

Thomas Pringle Hall, Monument Thursday 28 June Friday 29 June Saturday 30 June Sunday 1 July

21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30

Duration

50 minutes

Age Restriction

Adults only

Tickets R55 (Full)

R45 (Students/Scholars)

The Non Nova company is a heterogeneous entity made up of people of different ages, backgrounds and sexes, all united in a passionate desire to make the audience experience moments they didn’t expect. Artistic director Phia Ménard enjoys inviting audiences to become involved in battles which they know in advance will be lost, rather than just watching them. Ménard tackles subjects in a radical manner and avoids any sort of didacticism in order to ensure the audience’s freedom of imagination. In the arena of a Vortex, Ménard explores beneath the layers we hide our true selves in order to tailor our public appearances. He wants to throw off the shackles and brave the different formations – the “sloughed skin” – to try and touch upon the freedom of being fighting against a moral code fuelled by fear and stigmatisation. In Vortex, he helps us all to perceive the abnormal as something other than pain and suffering.

Photo: Jean-Luc Beaujault

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The Non Nova Company in association with the National Arts Festival presents

Afternoon of a Foehn

n extraordinary adventure into the depths of imagination this performance art piece of choreography for puppets and their puppeteer, a ventilation system and a few props: a plastic bag, a coat, a pair of scissors, a roll of sticky tape, a walking stick and an umbrella, will have people of all ages fall in love with it. The work is accompanied by a soundtrack and composition created by Ivan Roussel using Claude Debussy’s music: Afternoon of a Foehn, Nocturnes and Dialogue of the Wind and Sea. A ballet mistress has created a piece of choreography performed by plastic dancers, propelled by currents of air. Without needing to touch the plastic dancers, or barely even brush against them the air creates a freedom of movement making the puppets seem more and more human by the second. The air streams through them like the flow of blood. Through the manipulation of the plastic bags, their evolution and their transformation, a relationship develops between progenitor and puppet. This is where the adventure starts. We witness encounters dictated by thermal phenomena, an etoile ballet dancer is born before our eyes, there’s a pas de deux here, a burst of fireworks there, and further down the track a monster may be lurking Afternoon of a Foehn is an ethereal and magical production that both children and adults will enjoy. (A Foehn is a dry wind)

Performer Artistic Direction, Choreography and Scenography Soundtrack and Composition Stage Manager and Wind Manager Lighting Design and Lighting Technician Scenography Design Set Construction Set Construction Assistants Costumes and Accessories Photographs Production Administration Production Assistant

Cécile Briand Phia Ménard Ivan Roussel Pierre Blanchet Alice Ruest Phia Ménard Philippe Ragot Rodolphe Thibauld & Samuel Danilo Fabrice Ilia Leroy Jean-Luc Beaujault Claire Massonnet Honorine Meunier

Thomas Pringle Hall, Monument Thursday 28 June Friday 29 June Saturday 30 June Sunday 1 July

10:00 & 12:00 10:00 & 12:00 10:00 & 12:00 10:00 & 12:00

Duration

38 Minutes

Age Restriction

4 Years +

Tickets R35 (Full)

R25 Students/Scholars)

Photo: Jean-Luc Beaujault

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The Diary of an Unknown Soldier (UK 1959) Director: Cast:

Peter Watkins Brian Robertson, Peter Watkins

An impassioned observation of a young man on the last day of his life as he prepares to go over the top, up from the trenches in WW1, to confront an enemy he does not know and never will. Winner of the Amateur ‘Oscar’ for Best Film. Duration Age Restriction

17 minutes PG (V)

The Forgotten Faces (UK 1960) Director: Cast:

Peter Watkins Frank Hickey, Michael Roy, John Newing

This reconstruction of the Hungarian revolution of 1956 won Watkins another amateur Oscar and to this day is praised in England as “one of the most memorable amateur films ever made”. Advancing his methods of realistic reconstruction, he paid particular attention to the feel of his photography. The Forgotten Faces are the close-ups of students, workers, children and grandmothers who stare out from the frame and incorporate us, the audience, into their world.

Peter Watkins Breaking the bonds of traditional cinema & resisting the monoform

eter Watkins is one of the great names of cinema. British by birth, but all but disowned by his native country, he wandered the globe making engaged, angry films, designed not to kowtow to popular conceptions, but to involve audiences in an intelligent, cognitive process of confronting the control of our lives by politicians, the church and the military, and the ongoing erosion of human rights and intrinsic freedoms of dissent and protest. He virtually invented the pseudo-documentary, whereby all his films are made as if they were documentaries, sometimes with camera crews importantly part of the action and the narrator, a voice both conspiratorial and as a witness. Watkins explains his use of the camera as follows: “You always see the air over the heads in Hollywood films. I close the air off over the head to stop the strength of the scene going out. You are forced to look at the person – into their eye.” Peter now lives in France and his son Patrick will represent his work at the Festival. Patrick Watkins will be accompanied by Caroline Lensing-Hebben. They are both prime movers of Rebond pour la Commune, an organisation which grew out of the production of the film La Commune. Programme Curator Programme Co-ordinator Head Projectionist / Technical Adviser

Trevor Steele Taylor Cedric Sundström Janadien Cupido

Duration

18 minutes

The War Game (UK 1965) Director: Cast:

Peter Watkins Michael Aspel, Peter Graham

By late 1964, Harold Wilson’s newly elected Labour Government had already broken its election manifesto to unilaterally disarm Britain and was, in fact, developing a full-scale nuclear weapons programme, in spite of wide-spread public protest. The BBC reluctantly green-lit Watkins’ proposed film about the effects of an atomic bomb being dropped in Kent. The BBC panicked when they saw the film and sought government consultation. Violating their own Charter of Independence, the BBC secretly showed the film to the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence and Wilson’s Cabinet, subsequently banning the film, but denying that it was due to government pressure. The BBC was further embarrassed when the film won an Academy Award for Best Documentary. Duration 47 minutes

The War Game, Forgotten Faces and The Diary of an Unknown Soldier Sunday 1 July Age Restriction Total duration

12:00 PG (V) 82 minutes

Olive Schreiner Hall, Monument (unless otherwise stated) Tickets: R25 Cullodon & The War Game: Free Screening dates, times, durations and age restrictions appear in the summary of each film. The following abbreviations are used: A = suitable for all ages S = sex L = language

N = nudity V = violence PG = Parental Guidance

For reasons of space, the synopses for the films in the programme are concise. A much longer and in depth description of the films is available on the National Arts Festival website: www.nationartsfestival.co.za/film

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Culloden (UK 1964) Director: Peter Watkins Cast: Olivier Espatalier-Noel, George McBean, Robert Oates Culloden is an extraordinary and intimate study of the bloody and brutal massacre of the ill-trained Highland conscriptees under Bonnie Prince Charlie by the English on Culloden moor. 5000 were slaughtered on the moor by the English, who only lost 50 troops. The English then went on into the Highlands, killing men, women and children with abandon, leading to deportations known, euphemistically, as the Highland Clearances. Watkins takes the audacious step of having a film crew on the moor, covering the action and the horror, with a narrator calmly noting “this is buckshot” and, as we see a Highlander losing a leg, “this is what it does”. Sunday 1 July 10:00 Age Restriction PG (V) Duration 75 minutes

The Gladiators (Sweden 1968) Aka: The Peace Game Director: Cast:

Peter Watkins Arthur Pentelow, Frederick Danner and Hans Bendik

A bleak satire set in the near future, in which the major powers, East and West, aligned and non-aligned, recognising the impending possibility of another world war, institute a form of Olympic War Games. Here, selected soldiers from competing countries fight to the death, with the battles being covered by global television, complete with sponsors and commercials. The film follows Game 256, during which an international group of monitors decide to eliminate a man and a woman from opposing teams – who reach out to each other – because they decide that such forms of communication would be the gravest threat of all to the stability of the existing world order. Tuesday 3 July Duration Age Restriction

10:00 105 minutes PG (V)

Culloden and The War Game Sunday 8 July Age Restriction Total duration

10:00 PG (V) 122 minutes

Privilege (UK 1966) Director: With:

Peter Watkins Paul Jones, Jean Shrimpton, Mark London

Edvard Munch (Norway 1973) Director: Cast:

Peter Watkins Geir Wetby, Gro Fraas, Johan Halsbog

In Watkins’ words – “the most personal film I have ever made. Its genesis lies in a visit to the Edvard Munch Museum in Oslo. I was awestruck by the strength of Munch’s canvases, especially those depicting the sad life of his family, and very moved by the artist’s directness. I also felt a personal affinity with his linking of past and present, such as in the large painting showing the anguish of his family as his sister Sophie is dying: the artist and his brothers and sisters are depicted as adults although the event had taken place twenty years in the past when they were children.”

Heavily attacked by the British press for being ‘hysterical’, the film is, all these years later, an incredibly prescient, clear-sighted prediction of how pop music would be used by the establishment – the government, the church and the military – to control the youth, working via religion, the mass media, sports, popular culture, the cult of celebrities to divert potential political challenge. At a time when onceoppositional rock stars, such as Jagger, are on the Queen’s honours list, it is not hard to see the truth in Watkins’ argument. The fact that everything which was shown or implied in the film came about in Britain in subsequent years – especially during the nationalistic period of Margaret Thatcher – has done nothing to change the status of Privilege as another marginalised film.

Monday 2 July 10:00 Duration 211 minutes Age restriction A

Friday 29 June 17:30 Sunday 8 July 12:30 Duration 90 minutes Age Restriction PG (V)

Friday 29 June Tuesday 3 July Duration Age Restriction

Punishment Park (USA 1970) Director: Cast:

Peter Watkins Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman and Katherine Quittner

In a desert zone in south-western California, a group of dissidents, mainly students, are sentenced by a civilian tribunal to an arduous run across the Bear Mountain National Punishment Park, pursued by armed police. Group 637 is followed by a British camera crew, observing their dehydration and ultimately violent stand-off with the police and the National Guard. This futuristic construct is all the more powerful for playing out in a very recognisable paradigm, and, now forty years on, it is still immensely prescient. 14:00 12:00 90 minutes PG (VL)

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La Commune (de Paris 1871) (France / Canada 1999) Director: Cast:

The Freethinker (Sweden 1992) Director: Peter Watkins Cast: Anders Mattson, Lena Settervall and Yasmine Garbi

Peter Watkins Eliane Annie Adalto, Pierre Barbieux and Caroline Esnard-Benoit

A masterwork of cinema – on the level of Abel Gance’s Napoleon or Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 – A Space Odyssey. But why a five and a half hour film of the shortlived anarchist government of 1871? Let Watkins explain: “We are moving through a very bleak period in human history – Post Modernist cynicism, sheer greed engendered by the consumer society sweeping many people under its wing, human, economic and environmental catastrophe in the form of globalisation, massively increased suffering and exploitation of the people of the so-called Third World, as well as the mind-numbing conformity and standardisation caused by the systematic audio-visualisation of the planet, have synergistically created a world where ethics, morality, human collectivity and commitment (except to opportunism) are considered old fashioned. In such a world as this, what happened in Paris in the spring of 1871, represented (and still represents) the idea of commitment to a struggle for a better world, and for the need for some form of collective social Utopia – which we now need as desperately as dying people need plasma. The notion of a film showing this commitment was thus born”. Venue Saturday 7 July Duration Age Restriction

Seminar Room 1, Eden Grove 10:00 345 minutes PG (V)

Watkins began work on what was to be a feature film on the life of August Strindberg and his relationship with his first wife Siri van Essen. After fifteen years the project was revived as a project for students at the Nordens Folk High School. The success of The Freethinker as a student production is unparalleled in the history of cinema, certainly it is beyond the level of anything ever dreamed of in the Swedish education system. Despite this, in the years since it was produced, the film remains boycotted by most of the Scandinavian educational institutions – including the Dramatic Institute of the Swedish Film Institute. Venue Seminar Room 1, Eden Grove Friday 6 July 10:00 Duration 276 minutes Age Restriction A

Evening Land (Denmark 1976) Aka: Aftonlandet Director: Cast:

Peter Watkins Bent Andersen, Mogens Andersen and Patricia Bay Andersen

Beginning with a strike at a shipyard in Copenhagen over the building of four submarines for the French navy: not only because the financially troubled management has proposed a wage freeze to secure the contract, but also because it is discovered that the vessels are to be fitted with nuclear missiles. At the same time, a summit meeting of European Common Market ministers takes place in Copenhagen, and a group of radical demonstrators kidnap the Danish EEC Minister in protest about the production of nuclear submarines in Denmark. The Danish police not only brutally attack a demonstration by the strikers, they also locate and rescue the kidnapped minister while killing some of the ‘terrorists’. Wednesday 4 July Duration Age Restriction

10:00 110 minutes PG (V)

Film Festival Premières Road to Nowhere (USA 2010) Director: Cast:

Monte Hellman Shannyn Sossamon Tygh Runyan Dominique Swain

There’s a murky, tenuous balance between reality and fiction – particularly when it involves a beautiful young woman, murder, a powerful politico, a missing fortune and suicide. A passionate filmmaker, creating a film based on a true crime, casts an unknown, mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue. Obsessed with the woman, the crime, and her possibly notorious past, he becomes embroiled in the disturbing complexity existing between art and truth. Friday 29 June Friday 6 July Duration Age Restriction

19:30 19:30 121 minutes 12 years + (VL)

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The Wicker Tree (UK 2011)

The Wicker Man (UK 1973)

Director: Robin Hardy Cast: Graham McTavish, Honeysuckle Weeks, Brittania Nicol and Christopher Lee

Director: Robin Hardy Cast: Edward Woodward Christopher Lee Britt Ekland

Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man is recognised as one of the 100 great British films of all time. Now forty years later Hardy returns with his next Pagan classic The Wicker Tree based on his own book Cowboys for Christ. Young Christians Beth and Steve, a gospel singer and her cowboy boyfriend, leave Texas to preach door-to-door in Scotland. When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom, they assume their hosts simply want to hear more about Jesus. How innocent and wrong they are. With his excellent feel for location, Hardy has created an intriguing pagan culture, at times sinister and at times gloriously seductive. We are delighted to welcome the director, Robin Hardy, to the National Arts Festival to introduce the film and to discuss both films between their scheduled screenings. Saturday 30 June Sunday 1 July Duration Age Restriction

19:00 (followed by interview with Robin Hardy) 18:00 90 minutes 16 years + (SVN)

And now for the original! The hapless Sgt Howie, of the Royal Highland Police, a Christian copper, is dispatched to the remote island of Summerisle, off Scotland’s coast to investigate an anonymous report of a missing young girl called Rowan Morrisson. The island is privately owned by the imperious Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee) and neither he, nor the locals, is inclined to be very helpful to Sgt Howie. Howie is horrified to discover that the old Pagan beliefs hold sway on Summerisle and that public fornication takes place in the parks of a balmy summer evening.

Saturday 30 June Duration Age Restriction

22:00 90 minutes 16 years + (SNV)

11 Amazing The First Grader (UK/Kenya 2010)

Another Earth (USA 2011)

Director: Cast:

Justin Chadwick Naomie Harris, Oliver Litondo

Maruge, an 84-year-old village elder, uses a government initiative to introduce free primary schools, to claim the education he has always craved. Although a former Mau-Mau fighter, he finds that when he arrives at the school gates, only the principal is sympathetic to his cause: her colleagues are unenthusiastic and her superiors appalled. Facing discrimination and downright hostility, Maruge has to fight for the education to which he is entitled. Thursday 28 June 12:00 Friday 6 July 17:30 Duration 98 minutes Age Restriction A

Mike Cahill Brit Marling, William Mapother and Matthew-Lee Eribach

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I Melt With You (USA 2011) Director: Cast:

Mark Pellington Thomas Jane, Rob Lowe, Sasha Grey

Four old college friends gather annually for a week in Big Sur to celebrate their friendship and catch-up on each other’s lives. They are typical middle-class males in their forties – all with careers, families and enormous responsibilities – but, like most people, there is much that boils in the sewers of their minds. As the week progresses, they go down the rabbit hole of excess as mountains of drugs are consumed and young women are shipped in – one of whom is a very knowing Alice, played by porn star Sasha Grey.

The talk of the last Sundance Film Festival, Another World is a truly sensational film and certainly one of the best of the year, co-written by director Mike Cahill and actress Brit Marling. On the night of the discovery of a new planet, seeming to be the duplicate of earth, the paths of an ambitious student and a talented electronic composer cross through a tragic accident.

Friday 29 June 22:00 Friday 6 July 22:00 Duration 129 minutes Age Restriction 18 years + (SNL)

Sunday 1 July Wednesday 4 July Duration Age Restriction

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20:00 12:00 92 minutes PG (S)

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Martha Marcy May Marlene (USA 2011) Director: Sean Durkin Cast: Elizabeth Olsen Sarah Paulson John Hawkes

First seen living in an isolated but seemingly idyllic commune in the Catskills, it is not long before Martha flees this surrogate family and takes refuse with her sister who she has not seen in two years. Martha is troubled by recurring visions of the coercive nature of the commune, and the charismatic but ruthless leader, and her paranoia and mental disarray begins to undermine her normality. The boundaries between past and present, memories and dreams begin to blur, and a sense of unease and foreboding hangs in the air. Tuesday 3 July 20:00 Thursday 5 July 10:00 Duration 102 minutes Age Restriction 16 years + (SLN)

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The Tree of Life (USA 2011)

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (China 2011)

Director: Cast:

Director: Wayne Wang Cast: Russell Wong Bingbing Li Archie Kao

Terrence Malick Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain

The winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and one of the most profound works of cinema this decade, the story of The Tree of Life is simple. A typical family in rural Texas – Mr O’Brien (Brad Pitt) is a stern disciplinarian. His wife is of a much softer disposition. Many years later his son (Sean Penn) remembers. The key is in Mrs O’Brien’s narration – one must choose between nature and grace. Nature is the real time of real life. Grace is the life of the spirit. That’s it. Simple! Or is it? Saturday 30 June 14:30 Sunday 8 July 20:00 Duration 139 minutes Age Restrictions 12 years + (SL)

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The Source (France/Italy/Belgium 2011) La Source des Femmes Director: Radu Mihaileanu Cast: Leila Bekhti Hafsia Herzi Biyouna The Romanian director of The Concert returns with a serious comedy about the subjugation of women. In a small town somewhere between North Africa and the Middle East, the women of the village stage a strike against male domination by refusing their men any sexual access until they take part in the fetching and carrying of water from a well in the hills. In La Source des Femmes, Mihaileanu once again demonstrates a wonderful sympathy with people who have been marginalised but are still prepared to take a final stand.

Based on Lisa See’s novel, the film unveils parallel stories between 19th century China and present day Shanghai. In the 19th century, seven year old girls Snow Flower and Lily are matched as laotong – bound together for eternity. Isolated by their families, they furtively communicate by taking turns writing in a secret language between the folds of a white silk fan. In a parallel story in the present day, the laotong’s descendents, Nina and Sophia, struggle to maintain the intimacy of their own childhood friendship.

Wednesday 4 July 19:30 Sunday 8 July 15:00 Duration 135 minutes Age Restriction PG (S)

Thursday 28 June 17:30 Saturday 7 July 17:30 Duration 104 minutes Age Restriction PG (S)

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Melancholia (Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany 2011)

Shame (USA 2011) Director: Steve McQueen Cast: Michael Fassbender Carey Mulligan James Badge All addiction is centred on compulsion, and although addiction to sex might appear somewhat more acceptable than addiction to heroin or crack, the chains of compulsion are the same. In Shame, director Steve McQueen (director of the acclaimed Hunger) has constructed a complex and terrifying, almost clinical look at a successful businessman driven by sexual compulsion. The film boasts great performances from Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan as his well chosen sparring-partner, the flaky and clearly damaged Sissy. Thursday 28 June 22:00 Saturday 7 July 22:00 Duration 101 minutes Age Restriction 18 years + (SNL)

Director: Lars von Trier Cast: Kirsten Dunst Charlotte Gainsbourg Kiefer Sutherland

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Trust (USA 2010) Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with the Earth. On the night of her wedding, Justine is struggling to be happy on, supposedly, the happiest day of her life while Melancholia, a blue planet hurtles towards the Earth. Claire, her sister, struggles to maintain composure in the face of impending disaster. Lars von Trier, himself a melancholic by nature has succeeded in showing the ultimate emptiness of our everyday rituals and the endless longing of the melancholic for joy with the unbearable helplessness of the condition â&#x20AC;&#x201C; like a bulletproof glass cocoon, muting all sounds and making colours dim. Monday 2 July: 22:00 Thursday 5 July: 19:30 Duration 136 minutes Age Restriction 15 + (SL)

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Astral City: A Spiritual Journey (Brazil 2010) Director: David Schwimmer Cast: Clive Owen Catherine Keener Liana Liberato

Nosso Lar Director: Wagner de Assis Cast: RenatoPrieto, Fernando Alves Pinto Rosane Mulholland

The seduction of under-age girls by predatory older men on the internet is the subject of this impressive, but certainly flawed, examination of one familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dilemma and pain. Fourteen year-old Annie, a lonely and alienated teenager, is flattered and finally bedded by a middle-aged family man who trawls the net for young girls. Her advertising executive father is so incensed that he goes in pursuit of the web-seducer. Directed by an actor from the long-running television series, Friends, the film provides a very good platform to promote debate.

The selfish Dr Andre Luiz dies and awakes in a kind of limbo called Umbral. After a painful and numb period in a gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought to Nosso Lar (meaning Our Home), a spiritual city. He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace working for the good of humanity, for self-evolution and awaiting reincarnation. Adapted from a book written by Andre Luiz himself delivered through a spirit medium Chico Xavier. The production incorporates futuristic architecture that would do Metropolis proud. The soundtrack by Philip Glass adds immeasurably to its power.

Monday 2 July 20:00 Friday 6 July 10:00 Duration 106 minutes Age Restriction 16 years + (SVN)

Sunday 1 July 16:00 Sunday 8 July 17:30 Duration 105 minutes Age Restriction A

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Definitely Out of the Ordinary Rradinokga – Father of Snakes (UK / South Africa 2011) Director:

Immo Horn

Adrian Boshier was a young Englishman who went to South Africa and found his calling as a shaman amongst the Sotho of the Transvaal. He discovered a particular affinity with snakes, with whom he was able to develop strange and complex relationships. A serious epileptic, he was warned by his shaman to progress to the next level of initiation which would appease the spirits and also cure his epilepsy. For some reason the special white man, the Father of Snakes who was also identified with the sacred Lightning Bird, would not do it. This fascinating documentary is a fitting companion piece to Lyall Watson’s acclaimed book on Boshier’s The Lightning Bird. Duration:

67 minutes

The Bowl (UK 2011) Director:

Julian Butler

Agents of misrule appear in the strangest of places and no stranger film could appear than The Bowl at the Bradford Film Festival in a programme on Film as a Subversive Art. Julian Butler goes for the gullet, finding the oddest representatives of British madness – a paranoid racist dressed in a flac jacket giggles while leading a tour of his specially constructed bunker; two representatives of the Ministry of Defence, with the combined intelligence of a rodent, explain the benefits of joining the British army, and, the piece de resistance, the extremely elderly members of the Bradford amateur filmmaking association meeting to watch their erotic 8mm movies. Age Restriction

18 years + (SNL)

Interactions: A Strategy Of Difference and Repetition (South Africa 2012) Director:

Aryan Kaganof

Commissioned by the Theater Institut Netherlands as “a film report on an expert meeting” of art professionals, the film, as delivered by non-linear filmmaker Kaganof, led to an exchange of e-mails which underline how the expectations of producers and the creative imagination of artists is so often at deviance. Featuring Ismail Mahomed and Malcolm Purkey amongst others,, and narrated by Mike van Graan, what is even more amusing is that the conference on which the “film report” was being made, was about artistic strategies.

On the Trail of Bowakazi (South Africa 2012)

Age Restriction

Director: With:

The Bowl and Interaction: A Strategy of Difference and Repetition

Nicole Schafer Richard Stanley, Bosvark

Richard Stanley goes in search of the Karoo Shapeshifting Monster. During his visit to the National Arts Festival in 2011, filmmaker Richard Stanley, director of the shape-shifting masterpiece Dust Devil, was amazed to be told that a shape-shifter, who alternated between dog and man, was terrifying the small Karoo town of Steytlerville. Deserting his post at the Festival, Stanley and filmmaker Nicole Schafer went off in search of what the locals termed Bowakazi. Duration:

20 minutes

Rradinokga (Father of Snakes) and On the Trail of Bowakazi Monday 2 July Friday 6 July Age Restriction Total duration

14:00 12:00 A 87 minutes (67 minutes and 20 minutes)

Sunday 1 July Thursday 5 July Total duration

22:00 22:00 113 minutes (80 minutes and 33 minutes)

Afrikaaps (South Africa 2 011) Director: With:

Dylan Valley Jitsvinger, Kyle Shepherd and Bliksemstraal

Afrikaaps breaks ground by boldly attempting to reclaim Afrikaans as a language of liberation. Hip hop poet and performer Jitsvinger, jazz pianist Kyle Shepherd and singer and poet Blaq Pearl trace the origins of Afrikaans back to the 1600s, and follow it through to the present day in a musical, captured by the film. By combining various musical styles, poetry and video, they set out to redefine the untold story of the language as it has developed over the years. In true hip hop style, incorporating beats and rhymes, glitches and scratches, this hiphopera looks at the language of the people of the Cape and its different influences. Age Restriction Duration

PG (L) 60 minutes

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Between The Lines (South Africa 2011)

Pumzi (Kenya/South Africa 2010)

Director: Thishiwe Ziqubu Cast: Purity Zihle Mkhize, Morne Nevelling and Siyabonga Buthelezi

Director: Cast:

Wanuri Kahiu Kudzani Moswella, Chantelle Burger

The story of a young woman – a broken-hearted book-lover – who journeys from love to love, catapulting into erratic promiscuity, before ultimately attaining true self definition through the art of release. An internal journey fuelled by books and the love of books. Age Restriction Duration

15 years + (S) 17 minutes

Afrikaaps and Between the Lines Tuesday 3 July Friday 6 July Total duration

14:00 14:00 77 minutes

The Terence Mckenna Omnibus 2012 (South Africa 2012) Director:

Duration

Mike Kawitzky

The Terence McKenna Omnibus 2012 is a pre-release of a 12 part series for the National Arts Festival. It is a series of loosely structured lectures by Terence Mckenna, Ethnonotanist, inventor of Novelty Theory and one of the originators of the Mayan 2012 ethos, which took place at Rustlers Valley in South Africa in 1996 Duration

Kenya’s first sci-fi film is visually breathtaking. In a post-apocalyptic future, years after World War III, where water is scarce, an African girl escapes the clutches of the underground facility where she works, with one of the last gleams of life, a small plant. A compelling film made by the producers of Alive in Joburg, the precursor to District 9.

50 minutes

21 minutes

The Terence McKenna Omnibus and Pumzi Sunday 1 July Wednesday 4 July Age Restriction Total duration

14:00 14:00 A 71 minutes (50 minutes and 21 minutes)

A series of films from Poland A glimpse into the contemporary cinema of the country which has given us Polanski, Skolomowski, Borowczyk, Lenica and Zulawski.

Snow White and Russian Red (Poland 2010) Wojna Polsko-Rusca

Carnage (France/Germany/Spain/Poland 2011)

Director Xawery Zulwaski Cast Borys Szyc, Roma Gasiorowska Maria Strzelecka

Director Roman Polanski Cast Jodie Foster Kate Winslet Christoph Waltz A new film from Roman Polanski is always an event. Turning his attention to the hypocrisies of the middle-classes, his crisp adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s The God of Carnage satirically skewers two New York couples who come together in a Brooklyn apartment dripping with good taste, to discuss the problems they are having with their children. What begins as a polite tête a tête over coffee and liqueurs turns ugly by degrees, and, as the hard plonk comes out, so does adult behaviour far worse than that of the children. Thursday 28 June Saturday 7 July Duration Age Restriction

16:00 20:00 79 minutes 13 years + (L)

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The son of one of the great émigré Polish filmmakers, Andrej Zulawski, Xawery Zulawski exhibits a fine slice of family talent. Dedicated ‘To Daddy’, the film is a frantic melange of drug-taking, sex and sheer energy. The film is a bit of a Polish Trainspotting, based on an equally cultish novel by Dorota Maslowska. Zulawski, like his father before him, never keeps his camera still for a moment, and the heady effect of the action, technique and pandemonium combine to take the viewer right into the fear and loathing before him. Tuesday 3 July Duration Age Restriction

22:00 108 minutes 18 years + (SNVL)

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Mall Girls (Poland 2010) Galerianki

Venice (Poland 2010) Wenecja

Director Katarzyna Roslaniec Cast Anna Karczmarczyk Dagmara Krasowska Dominika Gwit

Director Jan Jakub Kolski Cast Martin Walewski Magdalena Cielecka Agnieszka Grochowska

A film that caused something of a scandal in Poland, this is the story of a group of schoolgirls whose life revolves around going to the mall and picking up older guys, who will buy them accessories in exchange for sexual favours. Sadly touching in its examination of how pointless consumerism turns the heads and morals of perfectly normal young people, the film’s condemnation, in strictly Catholic Poland, is probably understandable. Monday 2 July Wednesday 4 July Duration Age Restriction

15:30 22:00 77 minutes 16 years + (SN)

The Dark House (Poland 2010) Dom Zly Director Cast

Wojtka Smarzowskiego Arkadiusz Jakubik, Marian Cziedziel, Kinga Preis

A story that takes place on two time planes – the first following the events of one autumn night in 1978 – Edward Srodon, a zoo technician, makes an accidental stopover in the farmhouse of the Dziabas family in a remote area of the mountains. He stays for the night and the initial distrust between the intruder and his hosts turns into camaraderie, intimacy and even friendship. But passion and lust surface with surprising and tragic consequences. The second plot is set on a winter’s day during Poland’s period of Martial Law. Four years after the crime, an investigating team of the People’s Militia are trying solve a multiple murder case. Wednesday 4 July Duration Age Restriction

15:30 105 minutes 16 years + (SV)

Venice is the ‘Lost Paradise of Atlantis’, the city of which young Marek dreams in 1939, as he trains to be a defender of his Polish home. His family desert him to the decaying family estate which serves as a refuge for aunts and cousins, where he continues his refrain of ‘I don’t want to be here’. A flooded cellar provides a temporary fantasy escape to an unreal Venice; stepping beyond its confines, he is introduced to the world of brutality and horror from Nazi invaders and the intimations that the Soviet liberators offer a threat of their own. Friday 6 July Duration Age restriction

15:30 110 minutes PG (V)

Zero (Poland 2010) Director Cast

Pawel Borowski Kamilla Baar, Malgorzata Bereza and Przemyslaw Bluszcz

4 Nights With Anna (Poland 2009 ) Czetery Noce Z Anna Director Jerzy Skolimowski Cast Artur Steranko Kinga Preis Jerzy Fedorowicz After a long period of silence, the masterful Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski, returns to cinema with this dark but touchingly erotic tale of Leon, a crematorium worker, who becomes obsessed with a Anna who lives in a nurses’ quarters in the grounds of the hospital. He is so driven by his infatuation that he climbs through Anna’s window every night and takes shelter under her bed, and does some of her housework after she departs for work in the morning. Does she know he is there? Does she leave her window unlocked on purpose? Tuesday 3 July Saturday 7 July Duration Age Restriction

15:30 16:00 87 minutes 16 years + (S)

A story about love and hatred, about those who cheat and who are cheated, about violence, sex, and the surprising secrets which we learn within these strange 24 hours. There’s an executive who hires detectives to get a photo of his wife having an affair; a poor family who need money for their son’s organ transplant; a pregnant porn-star and her deranged gangster boyfriend; a door-to-door puppet salesman; a creepy old man who says he’s from a children’s foundation, an old lady who needs sexual healing, and a male prostitute who wants to marry his girlfriend. Thursday 5 July Duration Age Restriction

15:30 110 minutes 16 years + (SNL)

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A Series of South African Films Black Butterflies (Netherlands/South Africa 2011) Director: Paula van der Oest Cast: Carice van Houten Rutger Hauer Liam Cunningham Included in the programme despite its considerable flaws, Black Butterflies is interesting primarily for it being a take on the life of the South African poet, Ingrid Jonker. She was the daughter of a Minister of Censorship; she had highly charged sexual liaisons with Sestiger poets Jack Cope and Andre P Brink; she inspired the high point of Sestiger literature Orgie; she committed suicide by drowning; and Nelson Mandela read her poem The Dead Child of Nyanga at his inauguration. Any film about Jonker, is worth consideration, and Black Butterflies does provide a ground for debate. Thursday 28 June Thursday 5 July Duration Age Restriction

20:00 12:00 100 minutes PG (S)

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Skeem (South Africa 2011)

My Hunter’s Heart (South Africa 2011)

Director: Tim Greene Cast: Kurt Schoonraad, Lilani Prinsen Terence Bridget

Directors:

Halfway home from a drug sale in Johannesburg, two wannabe gangsters run into trouble when their car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Forced to spend the rest of the night at a creepy old holiday resort, their problems escalate when unpacking their car, their box of cash splits open, spilling a million bucks in eye-catching bundles all over the driveway. They scoop it up but eyes are watching from the various other run-down chalets and the okes in them begin to skeem. Friday 29 June Monday 2 July Duration Age Restriction

12:00 17:30 90 minutes A

Snare (South Africa 2012) Director: Diony Kempen Cast: Ronnie Nyakele Justin Strydom Carmel Fisher

Craig & Damon Foster

Shot over three and a half years, the film explores the world’s most ancient shamanic culture, which is severely threatened as their traditional way of life and skills have been taken away from them. It tracks the Khomani San of the Southern Kalahari, the oldest living indigenous tribe in the world, who are genetically linked to every human being on planet Earth. In modern times, their traditional, nomadic way of life has changed, and westernisation has severed their link to the land and the animals. Thursday 28 June Saturday 7 July Duration Age Restriction

14:00 14:00 90 minutes A

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Breathe Again (South Africa 2012) Director:

Kurt Orderson

When a troubled ex-convict drops out of society and heads for the bush to find solace with nature, he teams up with a renegade poacher and an independent eco-warrior woman to bring a pair of corrupt game farm owners and the head of a rhino killing syndicate to justice. In South Africa, a rhino is killed every 24 hours. This film is a response to this crisis but it is also a thrilling entertainment that will make audiences think about the genocide of one of Africa’s greatest species.

As a young black man growing up in Bonteheuwel on the Cape Flats in the seventies, the oppressive voice of the apartheid regime annihilated all sense of freedom Derrick Orderson could hope to enjoy. As human beings, our sense of hearing beneath the water is altered. So he swam; because those voices that sought to remove his sense of freedom were distorted, and, for a brief moment, there was the revelry in the hope that they might not invade this space – this reprieve from the heat and dust of the Cape Flats. He went into serious training and reached Olympic qualifying times, but there was nowhere to progress in South Africa for black athletes.

Saturday 30 June Saturday 7 July Duration Age Restriction

Friday 29 June Thursday 5 July Duration Age Restriction

10:00 12:00 105 mins PG (V)

16:00 14:00 72 minutes A

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The Last Lions (South Africa/Botswana 2011) Director: Narration:

Dereck Joubert Jeremy Irons

Fifty years ago, there were close to half-a-million lions in Africa. Today there are around 20 000. To make matters worse, lions, unlike elephants, which are far more numerous, have virtually no protection under government mandate or through international accords. This is the jumping-off point for a disturbing, well researched and beautifully made cri du coeur, from husband and wife team Dereck and Beverly Joubert, award-winning filmmakers from Botswana, who have been Explorers-in-Residence at National Geographic for more than four years. Thursday 28 June Saturday 7 July Duration Age Restriction

10:00 10:00 80 minutes A

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Material (South Africa 2011) Director: Craig Freimond Cast: Riaad Moosa Vincent Ebrahim Joey Rasdien Cassim Karif is a young Muslim man, who works in his father’s fabric shop in Fordsburg, Johannesburg. In the family tradition, Cassim, as the only son, is expected to take over the family business from his father. He discovers a hidden talent for comedy as a stand-up comedian, a path which will not only bring him into conflict with his father but also with his other family members and most of his community. Local comics Moosa and Rasdien are great and it is wonderful to see Vincent Ebrahim back on these shores after his success in the UK in The Kumars at No 42. Saturday 30 June Wednesday 4 July Duration Age Restriction

12:30 17:30 90 minutes A

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31 Million Reasons (South Africa 2012)

Man On The Ground (South Africa 2011)

Director: Cast:

Director: Akin Omotoso Cast: Hakeem Kae-Kazeem Fabian Adeoye Lojede Fana Mokoena

John Barker Jack Devnarain, Trevor Gumbi, Neville Pillay

Cops, robbers and bloody hot curries – a home-grown heist movie with a touch of Bollywood. The director of the vastly successful Bunny Chow returns with a wonderful Indo-South African comedy about a corrupt cop, Ronnie, who has pretensions to being above the criminal classes and who desperately wants to clean up his act. Ronnie is given the chance to go legit as a cash-in-transit security guard but only if he orchestrates the biggest cash heist in South African criminal history. Friday 29 June Tuesday 3 July Duration Age Restriction

10:00 17:30 90 minutes A

A cross-hybridisation of police procedural thriller and Bergmanesque mediation on Intra-African immigration, Man on the Ground boasts some literally fantastic visual flourishes. The tale is essentially a missing person’s story about estranged brothers Ade, a London-based banker and Femi, a political activist who has been imprisoned, tortured, run out of his own country and last seen living on the street in Johannesburg. When Femi goes missing, Ade tries to find him. The film reconfirms Omotoso as one of most original filmmakers to be working in South Africa. He was the winner of the Standard Bank Young Award for Film in 2009. Saturday 30 June Thursday 5 July Duration Age Restriction

17:00 17:30 88 minutes 15 years + (V)

The Film Festival at Think!Fest

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Seminar Room 1, Eden Grove Complex

The prestigious Art Video Film Festival has taken place during the Cannes Film Festival since 2008. It is one of the youngest contemporary arts events and it will stop at nothing to make its mark. Directed by Christian Pouligo and curated by Camilo Racana, the event once again takes place in Cannes 2012, from 21 – 24 May. As the first step in a relationship between the AVIFF (Art Video Film Festival) and the National Arts Festival Film Festival, the AVIFF will feature a three-hour programme of the 2012 Cannes programme at the National Arts Festival.

Patrick Watkins will lead the audience through the process by which his father, Peter Watkins, made a mammoth film on August Strindberg, using a cast and crew of high school students to accompany the screening of the film. See The Activist Cinema of Peter Watkins section in the programme for the synopsis. Patrick will introduce the film and there will be several breaks for discussion and refreshments.

It is envisaged that in 2013 South African video artists will be profiled at the AVIFF. Artists interested in submitting should contact the National Arts Film Festival curator, Trevor Steele Taylor at tstflicker@gmail.com. 10:00 & 14:00 10:00 & 14:00 3 hours PG (LS) R25

La Commune Patrick Watkins and Caroline Lensing-Hebben of Rebond pour la Commune, an organisation which grew out of the film’s production, will lead the audience through a screening of the mammoth film about the Paris Commune of 1871. See – The Activist Cinema of Peter Watkins section for the synopsis. Patrick and Caroline will introduce the film and there will be several breaks for discussion and refreshments. 10:00 345 minutes (film) + 1 hour for discussions and refreshments PG (V) R45 (including refreshments)

The Media Crisis

Letters From the Sky The experimental film festival, Letters From the Sky, took to the screens as part of the COPART Cultural Action in November 2011. The festival, curated by Cape Town based Kai Lossgott, showcased a series of 17 film messages from artists and filmmakers from all over the world. The artists were briefed to present personal responses to the effects of climate change on their communities, families and lives.

Thursday 5 July Duration Age Restriction Tickets

Monday 2 July Duration Age Restriction Tickets

10:00 2 hours None R25

10:00, 12:00 & 14:00 70 minutes None R25

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Patrick Watkins, who has worked closely with his father, will present a mind-opening seminar based on Peter Watkins’ ideas. The session will be introduced by Mike van Graan. The session will be followed at 13:00 by a screening of a documentary on Peter Watkins The Universal Clock (80 minutes).

“The collective statement of these artists persuades us to cherish the world we live in, not only for ourselves - the seven billion - but also for generations yet to be born. In an art world often ruled by and motivated by money, every video artist whose effort is featured here stands up to be counted as a global citizen.” – Competition judge Jan Kather (curator, artist and educator, Elmira College & Cornell University, NY, USA)

The seminar will broadly cover the Media Crisis, mass audiovisual output (MAVM), Media Education, Popular Culture and Violence, Film makers, Film Festivals and Repression, the Role of the Global Justice Movement, Public Alternative Processes and Practices, and CNN – The Pravda of America.

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In 2003, the filmmaker and social critic, Peter Watkins, published The Media Crisis on the internet, which was translated into French by his son, Patrick, and then published in France. Watkins has updated this work over the years and his latest book should be ready by the Festival.

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Saturday 7 July Duration Age Restriction Tickets

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Friday 29 June Saturday 30 June Duration Age Restriction Tickets

10:00 276 minutes (film) + 1 hour for discussions and refreshments A R45 (including refreshments)

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In the words of Christian Pouligo, “Photography and Video Art are now recognised in their own right in a similar way that painting or sculpture have been. Thanks to private galleries who have picked up on these new methods of expression and who pushed cultural institutions, as well as foundations, to create appropriate exhibition spaces, the public can now admire these new forms of artistic practice where everything from the visible world can be seen with new emotion and sensitivity.”

Friday 6 July Duration Age Restriction Tickets

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The Freethinker MAIN

Art Show Cannes

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The Early Years StringCaesar

Home Sweet Home – Director: Norman Maake (30min) Triompheer – Director: JH Beetge (12min)

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Under the Rainbow – Director: Dean Blumberg (12min) Amabukwe We Strike – Director: Marthinus Lamprecht (12min) Black Sushi – Director: Dean Blumberg (12min) Lififent Lesedi Bafelong – Director: Norman Maake (12min)

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Screening of the film StringCaesar, followed by a discussion and Q&A.

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StringCaesar looks at the changing of laws and the formation of states during unknown and unexamined adolescence and the rise to power of the man who would become the emperor Julius Caesar. A timeless story of a young man’s struggle to survive by becoming a power broker, a manipulator and then a dictator – the genesis of a powerful man, with roots in politics, violence, and gang warfare told across the millennia from ancient Rome to modern day prisons by a group of great actors – be they professional or inmates – StringCaesar is filmed entirely within prison walls.

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Panelists will include: Paul Schoolman (Director/ producer) who has always passionately believed in the independence of media as tool for social change; Alice Krige – a Rhodes alumnus and film, TV and theatre actress, and a producer; Peter John Christians – actor, lyricist and rapper; Patrick Frieselaar – film lighting technician; Warren Adler – entrepreneur and actor who co-produced StringCaesar and plays the role of Caesar in the film.

Seminar Room 1 Saturday 30 June Total Duration: Tickets:

18:00; Wednesday 4 July 90 minutes R25

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The Oscar Nominees Sandiswe – Director: Grant Angus (12min) Our Ship – Director: Darren Campbell (24min) Windpomp – Director: Etienne Fourie (40min) In Return – Director: Mark Strydom (12min) Seminar Room 1 Sunday 1 July Total Duration: Tickets:

20:00; Thursday 5 July 88 minutes R25

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The Big Award Winners Bolombo – Director: Zwelezi Antuli (24min)

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Cast and crew that may join the discussion from the floor include John Kani, Nicola Hanekom, Nobuhle Ketelo, Grant Swanby, Greta Fox, Bo Petersen, Vaneshran Arumugam, Sahil Gill, Denwor Ohlson, Owen Jones, and Jonathan Nkala.

Ongeriewe – Director: Robin Kleinveld (12min)

Blue Lecture Theatre, Eden Grove Monday 2 July 17:30 Age restriction PG Duration: 2hrs Tickets: R40

Elaleni – Director: Tristan Holmes (24min)

In a Time of Love – Director: Mark Strydom (24min)

Seminar Room 1 Monday 2 July Total Duration: Tickets:

18:00; Friday 6 July 84 minutes R25

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Old Favourites

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The Afda Retrospective 1994 – 2011: Re-Inventing our local cinema voice This is a four-package collection of the best of AFDA films 1994 – 2011, documenting and tracking our new democracy over the last 15 years. Although many of these films of received critical acclaim worldwide, more importantly they have contributed to the emergence of a unique cultural voice (post 1994) and have been key to developing local South African talent like Norman Naake, Dean Blumberg, Martha Sibanyoui, Mandla Ndimande, Robert Malpage, Danie Bester, CA van Aswegen, Diaan Lanrenson, and others. Each film will be introduced by an AFDA lecturer, who will field questions at the end of the screenings.

Escudo – Director: Wolfgang Muller (24min) Wamkilikelele – Director: Doret Vuncic (24min) The Tupperware Party – Dir: Stacey Howell (12min) Electricity – Director: Nicolas Manneke (12min) Anders – Director: Wenner Coetzee (12min) Cake – Director: Phillipa Caddon (12min) Seminar Room 1 Tuesday 3 July Total Duration: Tickets:

16:00; Saturday 7 July 96 minutes R25

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2012 Think!Fest Programme Curator: Anthea Garman

Pick up a free Think!Fest brochure for full biographical details of all speakers plus any additional events, changes, cancellations and updates.

The Arts Lounge

17a Somerset Street Pick up the free Arts Lounge brochure or visit www.research-africa-arts.com

Duration: All talks are 1 hour; Panel discussions and debates are 1 hour 30 minutes

Tickets for all events: R20 (unless otherwise stated)

Ferial Haffajee

Xolela Mangcu

Ferial Haffajee is the Editor in Chief of the City Press newspaper. She was the first woman editor of the Mail & Guardian (from 2004 to 2009) and has served as chairperson of the South African National Editor’s Forum. Haffajee sits on the boards of the International Women’s Media Foundation, the World Editors Forum, the International Press Institute and the Inter Press Service. In this talk Haffajee will pick a hot issue and cast her investigative eye upon it to give a lecture that is bound to be controversial but, also balanced, intelligent and well-researched. The subject of this talk will be announced closer to the Festival – giving Haffajee the opportunity to select a highly-topical issue.

Known for his outspoken and fearless statements in public, academic, columnist, author, instigator, and all-round provocateur, Xolela Mangcu will tell us what is on his mind right now and should be spoken out loud. Mangcu is a guest lecturer at the Democracy and Diversity Institute at the University of Cape Town. He is a columnist for Business Day and the Sunday Independent. Mangcu holds a DPhil from Cornell University in the US and he is a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and the Rockefeller Foundation. Before moving to UCT he directed the Platform for Public Deliberation at Wits University. His recent book Becoming Worthy Ancestors urges South Africans to engage with the meanings of identity and citizenship, memory and archive.

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Friday 6 July 16:00

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Free Thinkers

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Venue: Blue Lecture Theatre, Eden Grove complex, Rhodes University (unless otherwise stated)

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Monday 2 July 10:00 ANC 100 years: Frank Chikane (132) 10:00 Grahamstown Voices (133) 10:00 Letters from the Sky (127) 12:00 Book Talk: Fiona Forde (136) 12:00 The Art of George Pemba(132) 12:00 Letters from the Sky (127) 14:00 Debate: Model C Schools (130) 14:00 Letters from the Sky (127) 17:30 Film & Discussion: StringCaesar (128) 18:00 Film: The Uprising of Hangberg (132) 18:00 AFDA Films: The Big Award Winners (128)

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Sunday 1 July 10:00 ANC 100 years: Frene Ginwala (132) 10:00 Grahamstown Voices (133) 12:00 The Oubaas and the Booitjie (132) 12:00 Book Talk: Tim Sandham (136) 14:00 Evolution in Black and White (130) 16:30 ANC 100 years: Fiona Forde (133) 20:00 AFDA Films: The Oscar Nominees (128)

Wednesday 4 July 10:00 The Ship of Theseus (134) 12:00 A City Within a City (134) 12:00 Book Talk: Chris Thurman (136) 14:00 Mariannhill: A Chain Broken (134) 16:00 Architechure, Space and Culture (134) 17:30 Being & Belonging: Zackie Achmat (131) 17:30 Debate: Culture and the Built Environment (134) 18:00 Polis: Cell (113/133) 20:00 AFDA Films: The Early Years (128) Thursday 5 July 09:30 Speaking Power’s Truth: Steven Friedman (131) 10:00 Film Discussion: The Media Crisis (127) 11:00 Debate: Mediated Citizenship in SA (131) 13:00 Film & Discussion: Dear Mandela (132) 14:00 Limits to Liberation: Steve Robins (131) 15:30 Debate: Activism and Agency (131) 18:00 Film & Discussion: Jerusalema (131) 18:00 Polis: Spring (113/133) 20:00 AFDA Films: The Oscar Nominees (128)

Friday 6 July 10:00 Fracking in the Karoo Katie du Toit Barnard (135) 10:00 Film: The Freethinker (127) 12:00 Stroke Survivor: George Scola (135) 12:00 Book Talk: Riaan Manser (136) 14:00 One in Nine: Tracey Derrick (135) 16:00 Free Thinker: Xolela Mangcu (129) 16:00 AFDA Films: The Big Award Winners (128) 18:00 Film: Cry the Beloved Country (132) 18:00 Performance/Talk: Home from Home (134) 18:00 Polis: Border (113/133) Saturday 7 July 10:00 Film: La Commune (127) 10:00 Beit Bridge to Cape Point (135) 12:00 Book Talk: Rosemary Smith (136) 12:00 Around Iceland on Inspiration (135) 16:00 Out of Silence (136) 17:30 Rhino Poaching (136) 18:00 Film & Discussion: Skin (132) 18:00 Polis: Market (113/133) 18:00 AFDA Films: Old Favourites (128) Sunday 8 July 10:00 Film: U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (131) 12:00 Making your Way in the Arts World (135) 14:00 Filming the Future (135)

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Saturday 30 June 10:00 Bosman’s Patriots (134) 10:00 Grahamstown Voices (133) 10:00 Film: Art Show Cannes (127) 11:00 Exhibition Tour: Ahmed Kathrada (133) 12:00 ANC 100 years: Barney Pityana (133) 14:00 Behind the Exhibits (133) 14:00 Film: Art Show Cannes (127) 12:00 My Life with the Jazz Greats (134) 16:00 ANC 100 years: Cheryl Carolus (132) 18:00 AFDA Films: The Early Years (128)

Tuesday 3 July 09:30 Writing and Staging Moffie (133) 11:00 Reworking Strindberg: Mies Julie (133) 12:00 Book Talk: Frank Chikane (136) 14:00 Debate: Cultural Boycotts (130) 16:00 AFDA Films: Old Favourites (128) 16:30 Debate: Arts Writing/Writing Arts (130) 17:30 Performance/ Talk: Subject to Citizen (134) 18:00 Polis: Arena (113/133) 18:30 Film & Discussion: White Wedding (131)

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Friday 29 July 10:00 Grahamstown Voices (133) 10:00 Film: Art Show Cannes (127) 12:00 Free Thinker: Ferial Haffajee (129) 14:00 Anc 100 years: Ahmed Kathrada (132) 14:00 Film: Art Show Cannes (127) 16:00 Mmmhhm! What is therapeutic about therapy? Gael Beckett (135)

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Big Debates

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Evolution in Black and White

Presented by the Palaeontological Scientific Trust (PAST) Sunday 1 July 14:00 Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

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Africa is the birthplace of humankind, the continent on which the ancestors of all people originated, and the place which preserves a fossil record of the origins of humans unmatched in its richness. Is it not ironic then that the continent has been home to some of the most divisive and cruel political processes in contemporary history? This womb as a symbol of life now represents death and destruction. What can the origin sciences say about these sociological and political travesties? What are your concerns about evolution and our common human origins in Africa?

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Andrea Leenen is Chief Executive Officer at PAST. She holds an Honours degree in Archaeology and Anthropology and a MSc degree in Palaeontology from the University of the Witwatersrand. Greg Melvill-Smith has worked in the performing arts for 27 years on stage and in film and television. With PAST, he initiated and has run The Walking Tall Educational Theatre Project. Robert Blumenschine is a Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He has co-led palaeo-anthropological research at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. He is PAST’s Chief Educational and Scientific Strategist. Craig Morris is one of South Africa’s foremost Physical Theatre exponents. He has worked with PAST for the last four years as Director on their Walking Tall Educational Theatre Project.

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Greg Melvill-Smith and Craig Morris conceptualised, and perform in, ReVerse, a Festival Arena production on the origins of Humankind, which can be seen at The Hangar from 28 June to 2 July – see page 29. PAST is a public benefit organisation that, since 1994, has been dedicated to the protection, preservation and promotion of Africa’s ancient cultural and natural heritage for the benefit of Africans and humankind in its entirety. www.past.org.za

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The End Of Model C Schools As We Know Them? Presented by the Legal Resources Centre Monday 2 July 14:00 Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

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Model C schools in South Africa are public schools which find themselves under enormous pressure over the number of children applying to be admitted, the number of children that the Government would like them to accommodate, and various judgments and regulations that are impacting on their autonomy. The Legal Resources Centre takes recent cases and government regulations as their starting point in this investigative discussion on the state of education in South Africa. Jonathan Godden is a former Superintendent General of the Eastern Cape Department of Education. He is now working as an education consultant in the Eastern Cape. Eusebius McKaiser is a political analyst and associate at the Wits Centre for Ethics. He writes widely in the local and international press on political and ethical debates. David Sewry is Professor of Information Systems and Dean of the Faculty of Commerce at Rhodes University. As a parent, he has served on a number of school governing bodies.

Cultural Boycotts – Are They Effective? Tuesday 3 July 14:00

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes In light of recent events in Israel, the arts community, the government and the global community, need to critically examine the use of cultural boycotts as a means to a political end. This panel will examine cultural boycotts and their effectiveness – taking the cultural boycott against South Africa during the apartheid regime as a reference point. This discussion will be chaired by Think!Fest convenor and Associate Professor in the Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies, Anthea Garman. J. Brooks Spector, Associate Editor of The Daily Maverick, spent three decades as an American diplomat specialising in international cultural and educational exchanges. In 1992 he led negotiations for the return of American cultural and educational exchanges with the emerging non-racial, new South Africa. Ian ‘Ewok’ Robinson is an actor and hip hop-flavoured, spoken-word artist. He is a signatory to the South African Artists Against Apartheid declaration and, in 2011, cancelled his performances at the Hilton Arts Festival saying he could not participate in an “event that enjoys the support and patronage of the Israeli Government in any form”. Mike van Graan is the Executive Director of the African Arts Institute. After the 1994 elections, he was appointed a special adviser to the minister responsible for arts and culture where he played an influential role in shaping post-apartheid cultural policies. Robert van Niekerk is Professor of Social Policy at Rhodes University and Director of the Institute for Social and Economic Research. He has a keen interest in social policy in post-apartheid South Africa. Salim Vally is the Director of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg. He serves on the boards of various professional organisations and NGOs, and is active in various social movements and solidarity organisations.

Arts Writing / Writing Arts Tuesday 3 July 16:30

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes In his recent book, At Large: Reviewing the Arts in South Africa, Chris Thurman suggests that recent years have seen the rejuvenation in South Africa of a “meta-critical conversation” about the arts. This stems from vexed questions about the role of arts critics in mediating the encounter between arts producers and arts consumers. Thurman will chair a panel of arts writers and practitioners to discuss this. Chris Thurman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature at Wits University and an author and freelance arts writer. Sean O’Toole is Editor of Art South Africa, an arts columnist and essayist, and, in 2012, guest editor for Cue. Percy Mabandu is a features writer for City Press, as well as an artist and musician. Anthea Buys is a writer and independent arts curator. Bruce Dennill is the Arts Editor at The Citizen and a musician. Robyn Sassen is a freelance arts writer, academic, book artist and printmaker.

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Being & Belonging in South Africa

Wednesday 4 July 17:30

Thursday 5 July 09:30

Mediated Citizenship in South Africa – A Panel Discussion Thursday 5 July 11:00

David Holwerk is the Charles F. Kettering Foundation Director of Communications. Holwerk worked for more than 30 years as a journalist at newspapers in Kentucky, Minnesota and California. Xolela Mangcu is a guest lecturer at the Democracy and Diversity Institute at the University of Cape Town. He is a columnist for Business Day and the Sunday Independent. Bongi Bozo is the co-ordinator for the Eastern Cape Communication Forum (ECCF). She holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences (BSS) in Industrial Sociology and Organisational Psychology and a Postgraduate Diploma in Media Management (PDMM) from Rhodes University.

Being & Belonging – films and discussion White Wedding – Directed by Jann Turner (2009) Blue Lecture Theatre Tuesday 3 July 18:30 A high-spirited modern day road comedy about love, commitment, intimacy, friendship, and the unbelievable obstacles that can get in the way of a fairy-tale ending. Jerusalema – Directed by Ralph Ziman (2008) Blue Lecture Theatre Thursday 5 July 18:00 The story of a self-made Sowetan entrepreneur climbing the Hillbrow criminal underworld ladder one rung at a time. U-Carmen eKhayelitsha – Directed by Mark Dornford-May (2005) Seminar Room 1 Sunday 8 July 10:00 Based on Georges Bizet’s 19th-century opera and filmed on location in a modern South African township setting.

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How do journalists see their role in facilitating democratic participation. How do they cover issues relating to social inclusion and political decision-making? How could they think differently about citizenship? Panellists include Steven Friedman, David Holwerk (chair), Xolela Mangcu and Bongi Bozo.

This multi-media installation uses video, sound, photography, cartoons, social media and words to engage the theme “Being & Belonging: mediated citizenship in South Africa”. It includes the work of South African photographers Roelof van Wyk and Sophie Smith, work from students of the School of Journalism and Media Studies, newspaper clippings and the visitors’ own comments. Audiences are encouraged to watch, listen, read, and respond to the range of work which gets them to see, hear, feel and think about citizenship in South Africa. Audiences can visit the voting booths, tweet, sms and use social media to respond to the media messages.

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Steven Friedman is Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Rhodes University and the University of Johannesburg. He is the author of Building Tomorrow Today, a study of the South African trade union movement, and the editor of The Long Journey and The Small Miracle (with Doreen Atkinson) on the South African transition.

Being & Belonging – An Interactive Exhibition 28 June to12 July Venue: The Debate Space, 2nd Floor Africa Media Matrix

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South African media constantly claim to be ‘speaking truth to power’. This expresses a self-image which sees the media as selfless campaigners for the powerless against the power of the state. Friedman will argue that the media speak for a private power which is every bit as unaccountable and overweening as the public power it opposes. And so, the really powerless remain without a voice.

This panel examines citizenship in South Africa from the point of view of activists and social movements. It will also look at how the media covers popular struggles and how social movements use media to mobilise and organise. Panellists include Steve Robins, Richard Pithouse (chair), Niren Tolsi, Harry Boyte and South African activists from the Unemployed Peoples’ Movement and Abahlali Base Mjondolo. Richard Pithouse teaches in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Rhodes University. His research focuses on popular struggles and the challenges to rethink an emancipatory politics. Niren Tolsi is a senior journalist with the Mail & Guardian. His main areas of interest include social justice, state violence and citizen protest, the constitution and the constitutional court, and the stories on the periphery of mainstream society. Harry Boyte is director of the Centre for Democracy Citizenship at Augsburg College, and Senior Fellow at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. He is also National Co-ordinator of the American Commonwealth Partnership, a coalition launched in the White House dedicated to “building democracy colleges for the 21st century”.

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Speaking Power’s Truth by Steven Friedman

Activism and Agency – a Panel Discussion Thursday 5 July 15:30

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Zackie Achmat is most widely known as founder and a chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). Achmat has since been instrumental in founding the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) and Equal Education and as a member of Open Shuhada Street, he works directly with Palestinians and Israelis resisting the Occupation through grassroots and non-violent methods. Achmat received the inaugural Desmond Tutu Leadership Award in 2001, the Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights in 2003, and the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights in 2003. In 2004, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Steve Robins is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch. He has published on a wide range of topics including the politics of land, “development” and identity in Zimbabwe and South Africa; the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC); urban studies and most recently on citizenship and governance. His books include From Revolution to Rights in South Africa: Social Movements and Popular Politics and Limits to Liberation after Apartheid: Citizenship, Governance and Culture.

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Opening Lecture: “Being & Belonging” by Zackie Achmat

Thursday 5 July 14:00

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If being a citizen in a democracy entails more than just voting every five years then how active and engaged are South Africans as citizens? What real say do they have in the shaping of their democracy? And what role does the media play in enabling them (and especially those previously disenfranchised) to be active partners in deepening democracy? The Rhodes University School of Journalism and Media Studies research project into citizenship and media (funded by the Mellon Foundation) hosts a series of talks and panel discussions in which these questions are opened up and debated.

The Limits to Liberation – Steve Robins

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Skin – Directed by Anthony Fabian (2008) Red Lecture Theatre Saturday 7 July 18:00 Ten year-old Sandra is examined by state officials, reclassified as ‘Coloured’, and expelled from her school. The story becomes an international scandal and media pressure forces the law to change, so that Sandra becomes officially ‘White’ again. Cry the Beloved Country – Directed by Darrell Roodt (1995) Red Lecture Theatre Friday 6 July 18:00 Alan Paton’s classic on film.

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Dear Mandela Seminar Room 1 Thursday 5 July 13:00 When their shantytowns are threatened with mass eviction, three ‘young lions’ take their government to the highest court in the land, putting the promises of democracy to the test.

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The Uprising of Hangberg Red Lecture Theatre Monday 2 July 18:00 A documentary on the human rights violations in Hangberg, Cape Town, created by filmmaker and artist Aryan Kaganof, Dylan Valley, the award-winning director of Afrikaaps, and community representative, Greg Louw.

Milestones

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The Art of George Pemba: Content and Reception – Brenda Schmahmann Monday 2 July 12:00

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2012 marks the centenary of the birth of South African painter, George Milwa Mnyaluza Pemba, in Korsten Village, Port Elizabeth. Educated at a mission school, Pemba qualified as a teacher at the Lovedale Teacher Training College in Alice in 1934. Providing insights about the lives of black South Africans over a six-decade period, his works are also informed by his critical engagement with a range of aesthetic ideas. But, while recognised in a post-apartheid context and awarded, posthumously, the Order of Ikhamanga in Gold, Pemba was marginalised not only by apartheid policies but also by an art world that viewed his works as parochial and insignificant. This lecture will provide an overview of this pioneering artist’s works, exploring factors that underpinned their content as well as shifts in their reception. Brenda Schmahmann is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Rhodes University. She recently completed the manuscript for her fifth book (on transforming visual culture at South African universities) as well as guest co-edited a special issue of the journal African Arts. An exhibition of Pemba’s early work will be on display in the Cory Library, Eden Grove building.

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The Oubaas and the Booitjie – Mannie Manim & Janice Honeyman Sunday 1 July 12:00

Mannie Manim and Janice Honeyman pay tribute to Athol Fugard in his 80th year. Manim and Honeyman give insight into Fugard as both a playwright and a man, in an informal talk on working with him, and, at the same time referencing his new play, The Blue Iris. Mannie Manim co-founded The Market Theatre, which he ran for 17 years. He has been the MD of PACT Drama, director of the Performing Arts Administration at Wits and of the Baxter Theatre Centre, and he was Executive Director of The Fugard Theatre in its inception year. Janice Honeyman has had a prolific and highly successful career as a director for stage, opera, pantomime and musicals, as well as a playwright and actress. Janice has directed a number of Fugard’s plays including Hello and Goodbye with Antony Sher and Estelle Kohler for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Exits and Entrances and the world première of Booitjie and the Oubaas.

The ANC Centenary Lecture Series The National Arts Festival reflects on the past 100 years of the African National Congress with a series of talks that reflect on different periods of the party’s history with speakers recounting specific moments from a personal perspective.

Ahmed Kathrada – Bannings and Jailings Friday 29 June 14:00

Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada was born on 21st August 1929 in Schweizer-Reneke. His childhood friends were white and black, but when he reached school-going age, the race laws prevented him from being admitted to the white or black schools, and he was sent to school in Johannesburg. This was his first personal experience of apartheid. In 1946, at the age of 17, he took part in a passive resistance campaign against a law that discriminated specifically against the Indian community. In 1954 he was placed under severe restrictions by the security police. In 1960, after the Sharpeville massacre, the ANC and the PAC were declared illegal and, at the end of 1961, the ANC switched to an armed struggle. This led to the well-known Rivonia Trial, at the end of which Nelson Mandela and seven others (including Kathrada) were sentenced to life imprisonment. Altogether Kathrada was in prison for over 26 years, 18 of which were on Robben Island.

Cheryl Carolus – The Mass Struggle Saturday 30 June 16:00

Cheryl Carolus has dedicated a large part of her life to the struggle for freedom and to public service. She has held senior leadership positions in the ANC under Nelson Mandela and has served as South Africa’s High Commissioner to Britain. As the CEO of SA Tourism she was central to the positioning of tourism as one of the top five economic sectors. In addition to her work at Peotona, Carolus is also involved in various civil society organisations such as Soul City Health Institute, International Crisis Group and WWF SA and WWF International.

Frene Ginwala – The Exile Years Sunday 1 July 10:00

Journalist, politician and former speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa 1994-2004, Dr Frene Ginwala spent almost 30 years in exile. She was instrumental in assisting Oliver Thambo, Nelson Mandela, Andrew Mlangeni, Raymond Mhlaba and Wilton Mkwayi, to exit and return to the country clandestinely. She worked in Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and the United Kingdom as an ANC official and as a journalist and broadcaster in East Africa and Europe. On her return to South Africa in 1991 she ran the ANC Women’s League and established the National Women’s Coalition and was also appointed as member of the secretariat in the ANC president’s office.

Frank Chikane – The ANC in Power Monday 2 July 10:00

The author of Eight Days in September, Frank Chikane was Secretary of Cabinet and Director-General of the Presidency in 2008 and, in that capacity, was responsible for managing the transition from Mbeki to Kgalema Motlanthe and then on to Jacob Zuma. He thus had a front row seat to the party in power. Frank Chikane is a Pastor of the Apostolic Faith Mission of SA (AFM) in Naledi, Soweto, and the President of AFM International. He is the Visiting Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Public and Development Management at the University of the Witwatersrand.

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Fiona Forde is an author, writer and political risk analyst for clients who have a vested interest in South Africa. She has covered South African politics acutely for a number of years, mainly for the Independent Newspapers group. She has also lent her name to a string of investigations into corruption amongst the political elite and has worked with leading investigative teams in exposing political scandal. In 2011 she published the best-selling political book, An Inconvenient Youth – Julius Malema and the ‘new’ ANC.

Behind the Exhibits – Brett Bailey with Anton Krueger

Sunday 1 July 16:30

Writing and Staging Moffie –

Bailey Snyman & Andre Carl Van Der Merwe Tuesday 3 July 09:30

Observatory Museum

Tuesday 3 to Saturday 7 July: Daily at 18:00 Tickets: R40

Saturday 30 June 11:00 Tickets: R30

The team that brought Topos: 10 Performances / 10 Spaces to the Arts Lounge at the 2011 National Arts Festival, this year interrogates the contested past and present of Grahamstown in its 200th year with five different performance presentations. Under the roof of the Nun’s Chapel, Polis uses performance to challenge the presumptions we carry from our un-common history. The result is a fresh, if turbulent, perspective on Grahamstown and the forces shaping civic experience. For full details of all performances / discussions, please see page 113. Collaborating Artists/Academics: Trudy Meehan (Psychology), Richard Pithouse (Politics), Roddy Fox (Geography), Anna Christensen (Journalism and Media Studies), Andrew Buckland and Alex Sutherland (Drama), Juan Munoz (Music).

Kathy, The Man Behind the Public Figure is a tribute to a remarkable hero of the South African freedom struggle. The exhibition portrays the person Kathy, his sense of humour, his love of food, his many, many friends and comrades, his meticulous notes and his incredible memory. It is the story of Kathy beneath the public veneer of a struggle icon; a personal insight into the veteran leader. Join Ahmed Kathrada for a personal tour of through the exhibition – book early – limited places available. For full details on the exhibition, please refer to page 98.

Grahamstown Voices The Nun’s Chapel

Friday 29 June to Monday 2 July Daily at 10:00 Stories from Grahamstown featuring storytellers, poets, musicians, academics, artists and politicians from Grahamstown who reflect on the past, some with nostalgia, some with regret, and imagine the future with hope and determination. Join local personalities in the Nun’s Chapel and hear and see Grahamstown’s history unfold. See Cue for details on who will be speaking each day.

Reworking Strindberg: Staging Yael Farber’s Mies Julie – Marcia Blumberg Tuesday 3 July 11:00

Strindberg’s Miss Julie is a modern classic that broke new ground in the theatre of the late nineteenth century. Yael Farber reworks the play and moves it from Sweden to a post-apartheid kitchen in the Eastern Cape Karoo. How does Farber’s thought-provoking new creation relate to her body of work? What are the ramifications when three characters, John, a black farm labourer, Mies Julie, the daughter of the farm owner, and Christine who has raised them both, are locked in an explosive struggle that involves personal and political issues in a post-traumatic society? Marcia Blumberg is an Associate Professor at York University in Toronto. She has published widely on contemporary theatre, especially South African theatre. For details on the production, Mies Julie, please refer to page 35.

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The Nun’s Chapel

Personal Tour of the Exhibition Kathy, The Man Behind The Public Figure

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Ahmed Kathrada –

Produced by Athina Vahla, Ford Evanson, Mark Wilby and Anton Krueger

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Polis: An Arena for the Examination of a South African Town

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Grahamstown’s Bicentennial A Time to Reflect and Imagine

Author of Moffie, Andre Carl van der Merwe was raised and schooled in Stellenbosch. After two years of national service with the SADF, he studied Fine Art in Cape Town. During his third year he started a clothing company which he ran for 15 years. Today he concentrates on writing and architectural conceptualization. Bailey Snyman is the 2012 Standard Bank Young Artist for Dance and choreographed the Festival dance piece Moffie, bringing Van der Merwe’s novel to life on stage. A graduate from Rhodes University’s Drama Department, he and Nicola Haskins co-founded the Matchbox Theatre Collective and have produced numerous works, including the 2011 Standard Bank Gold Ovation Award-winner, The Anatomy of the Weather. In this conversation author and choreographer discuss the book and the production, giving insight into personal and creative processes. For details on the production Moffie, please refer to page 19.

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One of the founding members of the South African Students’ Organisation, and an important figure in the Black Consciousness Movement with Steve Biko, Barney Pityana is an exponent of Black theology. A lawyer and theologian, he was a member of the African National Congress Youth League and Chair of the South African Human Rights Commission in 1995. He served on the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights at the Organisation of African Unity in 1997. He was Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of South Africa for ten years before becoming Rector at the College of Transfiguration in Grahamstown. Throughout his life, Nyameko Barney Pityana has remained focused on his unshakeable commitment to build a free, non-racial, just society and world.

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Saturday 30 June 12:00

Brett Bailey’s Exhibit series of ‘human installations’ is confronting Europeans – and now South Africans – with a hidden history of racism that has played out on the stages of slavery, ethnography, human zoos and imperialism. In this conversation with writer, filmmaker and theatre critic Anton Krueger, Bailey teases out the issues he has explored, gives insight into the often-difficult process of creating the pieces, and discusses responses to the works. For details on Exhibit A, please refer to page 106.

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Barney Pityana – The Silences and Gaps

Saturday 30 June 14:00

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My Life With the Jazz Greats – Jack Van Poll Saturday 30 June 12:00 DSG Auditorium

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Dutch/Belgian pianist, Jack van Poll has spent well over half a century as a professional musician, watching the genre of jazz evolving and being a central part of that development. He has worked with jazz greats like Ben Webster, Don Byas, Dizzy Gillespie, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Johnny Griffin, Clark Terry, Red Mitchell and Ed Thigpen and has performed and recorded around the world. He presents a solo performance combined with fascinating anecdotes about those relationships and other stories.

Bosman’s Patriots: A Scoundrel’s View Saturday 30 June 10:00

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Herman Charles Bosman wrote about Alan Paton, Jan Smuts, Andre Huguenet, Jan Hofmeyr and other iconic South Africans. He also covered some infamous figures, like Daisy de Melker, South Africa’s first serial killer. Tim Sandham and Angus Douglas pay tribute to some great South Africans of years gone by and discuss the unique and prescient literary perspective of Herman Charles Bosman. Angus Douglas is a television writer, director, playwright and actor. He was in charge of theatre at his alma mater Michaelhouse and directed and played in numerous productions for Capab, Napac and at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, before becoming a fulltime TV writer/director and part-time playwright. Tim Sandham is a teacher, librarian, playwright, and television writer. He taught and worked in the RAU library before becoming a full-time TV writer and part-time playwright. Douglas and Sandham perform in Platteland Patriots at the Masonic Hall between 28 June and 1 July – see page 202 for details.

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Subject to Citizen Nicholas Ellenbogen & Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi Tuesday 3 July 17:30 Red Lecture Theatre

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Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Tickets: R50

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Writer and director, Nicholas Ellenbogen, performer, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, and co-conspirator, Lawson Naidoo, interrogate the notion of citizenship in South Africa. Part performance, part discussion, they hope to ignite debate on the value of the Constitution and the meaning of being a South African citizen, using the 2013 elections as a focal reference point. Lawson Naidoo will instigate debate immediately after the performance. The full production of Subject to Citizen, directed by Ellenbogen and featuring Mkhwanazi, can be seen at Dicks Theatre between 29 June and 6 July – see page 178 for details.

The Arts Lounge Venue: 17a Somerset Street Daily from 13:00 The Arts Lounge is run by the Visual and Performing Arts of Africa research team at Rhodes University. Set in a historic cottage on Somerset Street, it provides an intimate space for art chats, contemporary performances, screenings, dialogues, art creations, poetry and interventions. Drinks and snacks are available at the Lounge. Entrance is free. The 2012 Arts Lounge programme features conversations with Cedric Nunn, Randolph Hartzenberg, Mikhael Subotzky, Doung Anwar Jahangeer, Usha Seejarim, Athi-Patra Ruga, and Siyabulela Mdoda; a Bollywood Film Festival; poetry and performances by Winslow Schalkwyck, Glen Arendse, Genna Gardini, Janet Botes, Jessica Foli and Nkule Mabaso; film screenings; art dialogues, and more. Pick up the free Arts Lounge brochure or go to www.research-africa-arts.com for full details of the programme, biographies on all participants plus additional events, changes, cancellations or updates.

Redefining Architecture: Culture and the Built Environment Since the 1960s the built environment has been subjected to a process of re-evaluation by sociologists, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, economists and, of course, architects. As a result, many have begun to question the conventional wisdom of interpreting architecture according to strict structuralist and stylistic principles. New interpretations have emerged which recognise that the buildings of a people embody the spiritual and cosmological values of their builders. This series of talks is presented by a group of architects and experts in the field of heritage conservation, whose vision of our natural built environment extends beyond the conventions of the past and who view it in terms of its symbolic value to our national identity. The Ship of Theseus and Heritage Today: The Changing Nature of Heritage Identification Dr Stephen Townsend: School of Architecture, University of Cape Town Wednesday 4 July 10:00 A City Within a City: Vestigial Memories of Colonial and Apartheid Durban Len Rosenberg: Durban University of Technology Wednesday 4 July 12:00 Mariannhill: A Chain Broken. Social Change and Material Challenges to our Heritage Robert Brusse: Conservation Architect, Durban Wednesday 4 July 14:00

Home From Home - Chris Mann & Janet Suzman

Architecture, Space and Culture Franco Frescura: University of KwaZulu-Natal Wednesday 4 July 16:00

This show is based on Chris Mann’s latest book, Home from Home, which explores the spirituality bound up in ordinary experiences of life. Featuring Janet Suzman, who was honoured in the Queen’s 2011 birthday list for her services to the stage, and has recently directed a production of Cleopatra in the UK and starred at the Baxter in a play by Lara Foot. She brings an edge and emotional intensity to Mann’s poetry that has enthralled audiences in Durban, Oxford and Cape Town. With large-scale artwork by Julia Skeen and live music, the performance will be followed by a discussion.

Panel Discussion: Culture and the Built Environment Chaired by Franco Frescura, this discussion will feature Stephen Townsend, Len Rosenburg, Robert Brusse and Omar Badsha, photographer and director of SAHistoryOnline. Red Lecture Theatre Wednesday 4 July 17:30

Presented by Spiritfest Friday 6 July 18:00

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Young and Hungry

Facing Life

Making Your Way in the Arts World

Mmmhhm, Mmmhhm! (Silence) What is Therapeutic about Therapy? – Gael Beckett

Sunday 8 July 12:00

Sunday 8 July 14:00

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Beit Bridge to Cape Point – George Scola Saturday 7 July 10:00

Saturday 7 July 12:00

One in Nine – Tracey Derrick Friday 6 July 14:00

Breast cancer affects one woman in nine in South Africa. This talk provides a personal glimpse into the journey of a breast cancer survivor who used her art, photography, to document her illness, and in so doing, her art evolved into a healing process. “I am the ninth woman and became the active subject of my own investigation by turning my camera onto myself. I sought out and photographed eight other breast cancer survivors as well, whose portraits together with my own symbolically represent one in nine.” – Tracey Derrick. A full-time portrait and documentary photographer since 1992, Derrick’s projects concern social and community issues. She has conducted photography workshops and participated extensively in exhibitions both locally and internationally. Her work has also been included in Blink, a book showcasing 100 contemporary photographers worldwide. For details of the exhibition, see page 98.

Environmental Thinking Fracking in the Karoo – Katie du Toit Barnard Friday 6 July 10:00

Katie du Toit Barnard’s installation exhibition, Karoo 2052, evolved out of the artist’s concern and passion for this widely-ignored part of our country. She hopes that it may raise a degree of awareness of the threat facing the Karoo and its inhabitants. Being from a small Karoo town, the issue of hydraulic fracturing is close to her heart and she will address some of the concerns her community has on their future, should fracking go ahead. The exhibition can be seen at the Baptist Church Hall in Bathurst Street. See page 99 for exhibition details.

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Riaan Manser has re-written the definition of tenacity and become the epitome of courage and determination. He rose to prominence when he became the first person to cycle the perimeter of Africa. For over two years, alone and unaided, he pedalled a staggering 37 000 km through 34 countries. In July 2009, Riaan set another world first when he circumnavigated Madagascar, the world’s fourth largest island, by kayak – also alone and unaided. March 2011 saw Riaan begin his next challenge. This time he took on mystical Iceland’s arctic waters with Dan Skinstad, who has mild cerebral palsy. “Around Iceland on Inspiration” saw the two paddle 2 300 km in a double sea kayak over a five-month period. Manser recounts the challenges, the frustrations, the inspiration and the triumph of his latest journey.

“As a slightly overweight, stressed business owner, I was not by any stretch of the imagination considered to be in ‘peak physical condition’. I was a light smoker, I was not a drinker, I did not have high cholesterol or blood pressure, but I was a passionate motorbike adventurer – doing a 400km ride almost every weekend and this was part and parcel of my busy lifestyle – the last thing I expected almost four weeks after I turned 37 was to have a stroke, brought on by high affinity haemoglobin.” George Scola talks about surviving a stroke – from the moment of the stroke to rehabilitation, re-learning the ability to walk, talk and lead a relatively normal life, to personal relationships and the lack of support for stroke survivors. Scola co-founded the Stroke Survivors Foundation, together with Charlene Murray in 2008, to provide a support network for stroke victims.

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Around Iceland on Inspiration – Riaan Manser

Friday 6 July 12:00

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George Scola, who had a stroke at 37 and recovered, walked from Beit Bridge to Cape Point to raise stroke awareness, to promote the Stroke Survivors Foundation, and to motivate fellow stroke survivors. The walk began on 15 August 2010 and he arrived at Cape Point on 26 February 2011 – a total of 2 473 kms. Scola tells us of his journey – the people he met, the places he went, and the challenges he faced. This inspiring journey is testament to Scola’s life philosophy – perseverance and determination, acknowledgement of your limitations, and patience with yourself and others.

Stroke Survivor: George Scola

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A screening of the film, The Neons, will be followed by a presentation by film-makers Jacobus van Heerden and Liam Magner on the film industry in South Africa. The Neons is a behind the scenes look at theatrical duo, The Neon Anthems’ attempt at creating a sell-out show for the National Arts Festival. They write, they rehearse, they enlist a black actor, and they hit Grahamstown running! But will they run out of steam? A daring, honest, gritty and moving film. See page 242 for details and the schedule of screenings.

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Tickets: R25

Psychotherapy, at once art and science, subject to rigorous confidentiality rules and hence only observable in the doing, is open to misperception. It has always stirred controversy and aroused powerful emotions. Once psychotherapy was perceived as for the severely troubled; now it is better understood as the foundation for effective post-modern living. Once taken as a luxury for the rich, it becomes increasingly recognised as crucial to enabling education, reducing crime and redirecting resources. What is psychotherapy, how effective is it and how does it work? Gael Beckett, clinical psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, says, “if it does not touch the heart, how can we call it therapy?” She will draw on poetry, literary prose, art, and current neurobiological research to argue that a society that embraces psychotherapy strengthens its fabric.

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Filming the Future – The Neons

Friday 29 June 16:00

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A panel discussion featuring Festival artists who describe their experiences on the road from wannabes to professionals in the arts industry. These talks are aimed at anyone wanting to pursue a career in the arts sector. Musician Shannon Hope, comedians Rob van Vuuren and Siv Ngesi, actor/directors James Cairns and Tara Notcutt, and filmmaker/comedian Jacobus van Heerden will regale you with anecdotes from their personal journeys and give you useful advice on what to avoid, what is a must, and who the best people to help you are.

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Out of Silence – Leopards and the Trapping Truth

Walking Tours

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Friday 6 July 16:00

Saints, Sinners and Students

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thursday 28 June; Saturday 30 June and Thursday 5 July at 10:00 Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Meeting Point: Albany Natural Sciences Museum,

Tickets: R40

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The last of the great predators still holds on in our mountain wildernesses, but for how long? Each year thousands of animals die in gin traps and organised predator extermination programmes. The effects on our biodiversity are huge. Join us for this talk with new leopard footage from Landmark Foundation’s trail cameras and data from 23 GPS-collared cats. Kate Muller runs Landmark Foundation’s education programme. She will be presenting information from the project’s advocacy campaign and wildlife friendly-farming initiative. Landmark has been rescuing leopards since 2004 and has an ongoing rescue and research programme which is identifying the landscape corridors needed for the leopard’s genetic survival.

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Rhino Poaching – Themba’s Story

Stately Homes and Old School Ties

Saturday 7 July 17:30

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The poaching of three rhinos in the Kariega game reserve, Kariega in February this year made international headlines. Dr Will Fowlds, a wildlife vet from Grahamstown, together with a team of medical experts, treated the two surviving rhinos as thousands of people followed the story of the rhinos’ tenacious battle for survival. Thandi, one of these rhinos, astounded her doctors with her sheer will to live; but Themba succumbed to his wounds 24 days after the attack. This discussion will throw the light on the ever-increasing number of rhino poaching incidents in South Africa; it will question government’s policies; and solicit solutions to the crisis. Video footage from the Kariega incident shot by Grahamstown videographer, Paul Mills, will be screened during the talk. All proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Save the Rhino Fund.

Conversations with Authors

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A series of informal conversations with authors of recently published books. Held in the intimacy of the Nun’s Chapel, these events provide audiences with the opportunity to talk one-on-one with some of South Africa’s finest authors. Books will be on sale at these events and authors will sign your copy on request.

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Tim Sandham on A Bosman Companion Sunday 1 July 12:00 Fiona Forde on An Inconvenient Youth – Julius Malema and the ‘new’ ANC Monday 2 July 12:00 Frank Chikane on Eight Days in September and No Life of my Own Tuesday 3 July 12:00 Chris Thurman on At Large: Reviewing the Arts in South Africa Wednesday 4 July 12:00 Riaan Manser on Around Africa on my Bicycle; Around Madagascar on my Kayak; and Around Iceland on Inspiration Friday 6 July 12:00 Rosemary van Wyk-Smith on Swimming with Cobras Saturday 7 July 12:00

Starting at the Albany Museum (the second oldest in South Africa), the tour includes an amazing variety of scenes and scenarios of 19th century military, judicial and religious life in Grahamstown. Of architectural interest are the buildings which include two gaols, two charming chapels, an orphanage, and a military hospital which became the Colony’s House of Parliament. Add to this, a secret garden and the second oldest Botanical Gardens in South Africa where a ghost resides. The tour covers the barrack beginnings of Rhodes University and ends with the fulfilment of Mother Cecile’s amazing dream of bringing education to South Africa.

Meeting point: St Andrew’s Museum, corner Somerset and Worcester streets. Friday 29 June; Monday 2 July; Saturday 7 July at 10:00 Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Tickets: R40 Gracing the romantic Worcester Street – the home of the Diocesan School for Girls and the first independent school in South Africa, St Andrews College – are the elegant residences of the noteworthy of a bygone era. Gothic arches, Victorian bow windows and rose-stained glass Chapel windows, signal the fineries of nineteenth-century British architecture having firmly rooted itself in the Eastern Cape. Besides the Herbert Baker designed Chapel and White-Cooper houses, reminiscence of the Edwardian era is not far off when one passes by the oldest working Victorian post box in South Africa, or visits DSG’s Edwardian library, once named Victoria Hall. St Andrews Chapel, St Figs, (alias the College of the Transfiguration a theological school), or even the ‘Bishops’ Palace’ , remind us of the import of these churchfounded schools and of the businessmen, teachers and students who began their careers along these tree-lined avenues.

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Meeting point: The Cock House, corner Market and George streets Tuesday 3 July; Wednesday 4 July and Friday 6 July at 10:00 Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Tickets: R40 The tour begins at The Cock House, a guest house, once the home of entrepreneur and Port Alfred Harbour visionary, William Cock. A mill stood opposite – hence its neighbouring street name: Mill Street. Passing by the Market Square – well used for over 150 years by farmers, marketers or travellers, comparisons with the painting by artist Thomas Baines lead to shocking conclusions about the slaughter of elephants, leopards and crocodiles for the skins and ivory trade. Visitors listen to a unique organ, stroll past story-book cottages, cobble stones, wagon stones and think of the rolling stones that inhabited this area. The first alms house and Baptist Church as well as a quaint stone Anglican Church transport us back to an age of both industry and piety. Sympathise with the challenges of erecting a double-storey house or the first hospital. Or join the retinues of unseen mourners of the past as you pay your respects at the glass-sided horse-drawn hearse, lovingly preserved at a historical undertaker. A story or two of skeletons in Settler cupboards completes this journey into the past.

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Blue Sky Productions in association with the National Arts Festival present the South African première of

Based on Princess Emma by Janet Hodgson Shortlisted for the African Play writers Project of the National Theatre in London 2011. Ingrid Wylde Masasa Mbangeni Amanda Nodada Thami Baba Thami Baba

David Dukas John Gamble Ashley Dowds Nick Pauling Sisonke Yafele

Thozamile Mngcongo Nomashawekazi Damasane Willow Gainsford Yolisa Nyoka and the voice of Nina Lucy Wylde

However History does not record her voice.

You will hear, in light and shadow, illuminating flashes of a voice silent for 152 years. How does a woman survive and find her own voice, in a clash of two cultures?

Princess Emma – Ukuzazi is performed using both English and isiXhosa.

Saturday 30 June Sunday 1 July Monday 2 July Tuesday 3 July

17:30 17:30 17:30 17:30

Duration

1 hour 30 minutes (including travel time)

Age Restriction

None

Tickets R40 (including return transport)

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St Philips Church, Fingo Village (Meet at Drostdy Arch)

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“A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.” Steve Biko

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This site specific performance is about a woman’s search for identity, the ambiguities of colonialism, the global world versus the fundamentalist world, how personal ownership of land restructures societies, and the painful process of dealing with change.

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‘Emma’ was born into the turmoil of the 100-year Wars of Dispossession. Daughter of a Xhosa Chief, she was an elegant Victorian lady, the great wife of Chief Stokwe, the first recorded black woman in South Africa to own land, and she was also threatened with death as a witch.

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ake a bus journey from the Drostdy Arch to Fingo Village. Be entertained en route by taxi-styled praise poets and singers who will prepare you for a memorable evening at one of Grahamstown’s most historical sites, St Philips Mission School. This is where the voice of Princess Emma will be heard. Come and listen.

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Written & directed by Princess Emma played by Poetry by isiXhosa language & voice coach Stage manager

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Princess Emma – Ukuzazi

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Lunchbox Theatre in association with the National Arts Festival presents

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The Tree Show Created & Directed by Stuart Palmer with Amanda Valela, Chrissie Cloete, Mncedisi Maurice Ncedani, Spida Matyhila, Siyabonga Zabo

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t’s a wedding day! Ons trou vandag! Siyatshata namhlanje!”, is the call that goes out from Lunchbox Theatre.

Using song, dance and interactive storytelling Lunchbox Theatre invites its audience to weave a bit of magic to help a wedding party challenge a group of greedy developers to conserve the natural environment. This family-focused production set at a wedding ceremony will make you laugh and cringe as you follow the wedding party to discover what spells can be cast by an old man who sits in the shade of a magical tree.

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The Tree Show captivates its audiences as it dazzles them with beautiful singing and dancing and the planting of trees to beautify the area where the wedding ceremony is expected to take place. During each performance, members of the audience join the wedding party to plant an indigenous tree and to discover the importance of how trees add value to our natural surroundings.

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Join the Lunchbox Theatre and the Centre for Social Development in ‘Greening Grahamstown’ and help ensure that the generations to come will continue to enjoy the benefits and the beauty of nature alongside the vibrancy of the arts.

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Venue – see cue for details Thursday 28 June 10:00 14:00 Friday 29 June 10:00 14:00 Saturday 30 June 10:00 14:00 Duration

40 minutes

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Tickets: Free Photo: Steve D’Elboux

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The National Arts Festival, with the support of the Embassy Of The People’s Republic Of China, presents

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The China Fujian Art Troupe

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hina’s vast cultural heritage comprises numerous art forms which are celebrated throughout different regions of the country. The Fujian Province has one of the longest histories of some of the more delicate art forms which have been handed down from one generation to the next.

Fujian, situated in southeast China on the coast of the East China Sea, is a province with a rich history, famous historical sites and beautiful natural landscapes. The China Fujian Art Troupe is committed to share the mystical and exotic beauty of Fujian in a series of performances and parades at the Festival.

They will mesmerise audiences with the intensity and skill with which their dancers, acrobats and musicians come together to create breath-taking spectacles. The Fujian Art Troupe is a celebration of art forms which have a history stretching back over 200 years.

Street Parade: Nombulelo Hall Saturday 7 July

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Street Parade: Dostdy Arch Sunday 8 July

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Full performance: Fountain Foyer, Monument Saturday 7 July Tickets Free

17:00

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The Fujian Art Troupe is an expert showcase of how ancient Chinese art forms can be rejuvenated by giving its younger generations the opportunity to acquire these masterful skills and to tour to various festivals around the world. Sponsored by the Government of Fujian Province of China to perform at the National Arts Festival, this multi-talented performance group ranks amongst the best in China.

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Colourful costumes, enchanting drum beats, splendid dancers! These are all significant elements of China’s intangible cultural heritage. These customs, rituals and traditional ways of celebrating culture continue to prosper at weddings, funerals, temple fairs, and New Year celebrations – and even in China’s down town teahouses.

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The National Arts Festival presents the

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eet up at the Art of Intersection. Experience the camaraderie of what makes the National Arts Festival so special. Immerse yourself in the depth and vibrancy of breaking superficial boundaries that separate one art form from another. Feel the energy of how the National Arts Festival impacts on local youth. Embrace the power of the Festival to unite the city in a common celebration.

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At the very Art of Intersection, it is the people of Grahamstown who celebrate the importance of the National Arts Festival and its impact on the city’s economic, political and social growth. Participants in the Art of Intersection come together from professional theatre groups, communitybased arts projects, schools and non-government organisations to build an amazing street procession to mark the end of the 38th annual National Arts Festival.

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The street parade is an inspiring spectacle of different colours, entrancing sounds, captivating sights and moving textures. Chinese acrobats from the Fujian Art Troupe, giant puppets, stilt-walkers, dancers and clowns, all coming through various development initiatives supported by the Festival, take ownership of the streets with twenty five cartoon characters who will delight children and adults. At the Art of Intersection, there’s a common bridge that allows everyone to be touched by the arts and to dance, sing, act and celebrate. The Art of Intersection is a testament of the healing, nurturing and creative power of the arts.

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Participants in this year’s street festival are supported by Troubadour Productions and the Stockton International Riverside Festival (U.K.).

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Starting at Dostdy Arch Sunday 8 July

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Oddbody Theatre Collaborative and the Makana Circus Development Initiative in association with the National Arts Festival present

Director Assistant Director

Richard Antrobus Tristan Jacobs

ollowing a successful première at the 2011 Festival, Tshini Kwedini returns to delight audiences – young and old – in this free outdoor theatre event.

Duration

50 minutes

Age Restriction

None

Tickets Free

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“It’s Ma Kana Show, Ek Sê!”

13:00 13:00 13:00

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Created and directed by Richard Antrobus and Tristan Jacobs, Tshini Kwedini is a local development initiative by the National Arts Festival and OddBody Theatre, which draws its performers from various Grahamstown (iRhini) drama, dance and cultural groups. Rather than competing for the stage, the Phezulu Project, Sakhuluntu, and other local artists/ groups team up in a uniquely ‘Makana’ collaborative ensemble to entertain Festival-goers and show off local talent in this tall tale of truth.

Friday 29 June Monday 2 July Tuesday 3 July

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Loosely adapted from the Antoine De Saint Exupéry’s “The Little Prince”, Tshini Kwedini takes you on the journey of a local herd boy who, tired of living in his tiny village and wanting to make a difference in the world, sets out on an adventure to far-away places in search of his destiny. His whirlwind quest leads him through strange, exciting and mystical lands of giants, curious folk ,fire, rhythm, infestation and other oddities that range from the sublime to the weird to the ridiculous, before reaching his final destination and finding his true purpose. With song, dance, clowning, music, stilts, juggling, acrobatics and other circus tricks, this family event has something in it for everyone.

Drostdy Arch Lawns

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The Return of Tshini Kwedini

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LES GRANDES PERSONNES in association with the NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL present

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Christophe Evette (France) Jean-Baptiste Evette (France) Fleur Marie Fuentes (Chile) Maurizio Moretti (Italy) Philippe Awat (France) Yabako Konate (Burkina-Faso) and artists from the Giant Match Association and South African arts projects

he collective Les Grandes Personnes was founded in 1998 in France. Its creations are a fusion of visual and performance arts which are often played in public spaces. The collective has mixed sculpture and folk art by building giant puppets and performing with them. These machines of the imagination shift the boundaries that separate one art form from another. In 2008, the collective, after a 15-day workshop with community-based artists in Orange Farm, an informal settlement outside of Johannesburg, created South Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first Giant Puppet Company. Born in 2010, the Giant Match Project involved over one hundred South African actors, musicians, dancers, puppeteers, visual artists and craftsmen from various communities in Gauteng as well as artists from Les Grandes Personnes. It culminated in a show that toured several cities in South Africa. These attractive and mesmerising giant puppets were presented at the National Arts Festival in both 2010 and 2011.

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Now in 2012, Les Grandes Personnes will return to Grahamstown to work with South African artists, historians and technicians from Grahamstown to create yet another enchanting and highly visual creation that will appeal to all audiences (from age 10). Ancestors is both a puppet show and an artistic innovation that will be centred around animated sculptures.

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Ancestors is a reflection on our origins. It will try to re-invent some of our experiences through the creation and animation of real or imaginary ancestors. While being visually engaging, Ancestors is embedded in a quest to allow artists and audiences to reflect and engage on complex themes that are interwoven with human settlement and personal histories. Presented as both a performance piece and as an exhibition, Ancestors will be a testimony to why over the past fourteen years Les Grandes Personnes has been a favourite at numerous festivals in Europe and in South Africa.

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Performances:

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Nombulelo School Friday 29 June Monday 2 July

13:00 13:00

Drostdy Lawn Saturday 30 June Sunday 1 July

13:00 13:00

Duration:

40 minutes

Age recommendation 10 years + Tickets: Free

Exhibition: Thomas Pringle Hall Thursday 5 to Sunday 8 July Open daily 09:00 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 18:00 Tickets: Free

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Come on… meet her and her special friends. Want to pet her? Want to try her candy?

The National Arts Festival presents

Nounouche – The Sideshow nspired by the 30’s French ‘Nounouche’ children’s comic books Toni Morkel, Nadine Hutton and Fred Koenig bring their personal 21st century wacky, funny and clever vision of this character who was, in 1930, traveling the world flying her own private little plane making friends with humans and animals by giving away candies ... Nounouche welcome back to Africa !

In Nounouche – The Sideshow, Fred and Toni use their unique brand of humour and their style of play, which is both provocative and fun, combined with Nadine Hutton’s experience of public art practice to explore this fine line between fascination and fear – speaking to issues of xenophobia, exploitation and neo-colonialism. Nounouche – The Sideshow in essence emulates a small travelling Side Show, much like the Side Shows of the grand circuses of the last century (Barnum and Bailey / Ringling Brothers Circus) where the public is invited to step inside. During the last weekend of the Festival, Nounouche – The Sideshow will stop at a variety of contrasting places catching the public by surprise and inviting them in to come in and play. Watch Cue for daily updates for possible sightings of Nounouche.

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In one of the comic books, Nounouche, the bear, is spotted at the zoo by a group of children who run up to her asking for autographs. She tells the children she is on a mission, hoping to stay incognito and excuses herself, hiding the tears in her eyes. Her mission: to rescue her father who is captured in the polar bear enclosure at the zoo and take him back to her heart-broken mother. Here we witness one of life’s dichotomies: What makes Nounouche a cute mascot? And her father a fearful scary creature fit only to be locked up and peered at?

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ARENA

Created by Fred Koenig, Toni Morkel and Nadine Hutton With Roberto Pombo, Ibrahim Medell and Mmakgosi Kgabi

SOLO SEASON

You might bump into them unexpectedly on a street corner, in a parking lot, outside your front door...”… ‘’

FRENCH/SA SEASON

The NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL with support from the FRENCH INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA “Roll up! Roll up! – come present see Nounouche, the French Bear.

Dance 147 Physical Theatre 158 Drama 164 Family Theatre 185 Comedy 188 Music Theatre/Cabaret 177 Classical/Recital 217 The Festival organisers have made every effort to ensure that everything printed in this publication is accurate. However, mistakes and changes do occur, and we do not accept any responsibility for them or for any inaccuracies or misinformation within advertisements. Artists provide images, logos and advertisements and we accept no responsibility for the quality of reproduction in this publication.

Contemporary Music 220

Pick up the FESTIVAL UPDATE for up-to-date info on all Festival events – cancellations, new shows, additional performances, changes and amendments.

Spiritfest 244

Visual Art 229 Cine-Mazing Film 241

Key to Fringe Listings Title of production Presenting company

Global Ballgame P Anex Theatre Productions

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R40 (Full) / R35 (Students) / R30 (Block Booking)

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Indicates that the performers have signed up for the Free Fringe Festival. See page 163 for more details.

This environmental theatre production attempts to create an awareness of the serious issues of global warming in an entertaining manner. Audience participation and a variety of staging techniques make this a production for the whole family to enjoy.

Show information 1hr Duration All Age restriction

Written & directed by Margot Wood Featuring Margot Wood, Gavin Wright & Shedrick Jacobs

1hr All Pro 2 English Oatlands School – Assitej Family Venue: 28 June 18:00; 29 June 18:00; 30 June 18:00; 1 July 18:00; 2 July 14:00; 3 July 20:00; 4 July 20:00; 5 July 18:00; 6 July 10:00; 7 July 18:00 Tickets: R40 / R35 / R30 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

All = All ages PG = Parental guidance 16/13+ etc. = Ages 16/13 & above Ad = Adults only

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Specially discounted performances

147 A Dance Interpretive

Stanza Dance Company

A Dance Interpretive channels a raw performance of live emotion targeting the human senses – it is not to be missed! Each audience member will relate and interpret the performance in a personal manner, creating an understanding of the benefits of working though a process regardless of age, gender, issue or experience.

African Rhythms

Bernarda

Thabisong Song & Dance Troupe

La Rosa Dance Company

African Rhythms is a vibrant dance musical that fuses a wide range of dance styles, including gumboot, kofifi and pantsula, to create an exciting expression of African culture. Choreographed by Dumsani Thusi

1h All SPro 11 City Hall: 1 July 10:00; 2 July 12:00; 3 July 15:00; 5 July 18:00; 7 July 22:00

Directed by Luke Brown Choreographed by Megan Black Featuring Megan Black, Luke Brown Tickets: R60 / R50 / R55 & Ciara Baldwin First performance FREE (Donations welcome!) 45m All English PJ’s: 28 June 14:30; 29 June 16:00; 30 June 18:00; 1 July 17:00; 2 July 19:30

Alice Who? This ain’t Wonderland P

Tickets: R40 / R35 / R30 UJ Arts and Culture First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome!)

African Languages with English ILAM Amphitheatre: 6 July 15:00; 7 July 12:30 & 15:00; 8 July 15:00

Tickets: FREE! (Donations welcome!)

1h15 13+ (LR) English

This all-dance theatre production features music from many genres in a thought-provoking re-imagining of the classic story. Alice thinks she is in a happy place but what does the White Rabbit grow in his garden and why does the Mad Hatter want Alice at his tea party? Follow Alice and her drug addiction down the rabbit hole and find out. “An excellent production all round” – Moria de Swardt, Artslink. Directed & choreographed by Owen Lonzar Adapted from: Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

1h PG (S) English Kingswood Theatre: 4 July 12:00; 5 July 18:00; 6 July 16:00 & 20:00 Tickets: R60 / R45 / R50

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30m All CT 1

Directed by Geoffrey Hyland Choreographed by Carolyn Holden Adapted from Frederico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba Music composed by Robert Jeffery & Yo Yo Ma et al Featuring Alexandra Parolis, Andrew Laubscher, Nicole Kleinhans, Kim Pretorius & Beth Jeffery

Tickets: R60 / R40 / R50 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome!)

Ntombethongo African Band

Written, choreographed & composed by Dibanisile Ntombethongo Tutsu Featuring B Khalala & Z Mndela

La Rosa, South Africa’s premier Spanish Dance Company, presents Bernarda, a fusion of flamenco dance, Asian aesthetic and heightened theatricality. Adapted from Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, this “all-women” cast explores the unappeasable longing of the individual pitted against the will of an oppressive society. “It is of the highest quality and yet could have been born nowhere else but the Western Cape”.

Centenary Hall: 3 July 19:30; 4 July 18:00; 5 July 22:00; 6 July 18:00; 7 July 10:00

African Music Renewal

This is a musical masikhanda/mbhaqanga show that will take you through an experience of self-discovery and a celebration of a new nation in the making. This music is infused with love, joy and nature, and of the human spirit longing for freedom and security. Plus a man dances in high heels and plays guitar on his back! Something that is not often seen in a live show!

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Emonti arts company Presents

“Ghetto Bang”

This is a riveting dance drama taking us on a journey to the origins of Pantsula dance. The play uses different forms of Pantsula dance routines from old school to new school. Isipantsula is an unique and proudly South African dance form that emerged from the ghettoes in the 50s. Isipantsula is the expression and the reflection of township life. This is a new genre PANTSURAMA as it combines quality acting and powerful dancing. A definite must see for entertainment at its best, fresh from the Eastern Cape.

FRINGE

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY BONGANI LINDA, Choreographed by Jabulani Dube AND Buyile Geza

VENUE: CITY HALL Tue Wed Tue Fri Sat Sun

Tickets: R60 03 July – 10h00 a.m. 04 July – 12h30 p.m. 05 July – 16h00 p.m. 06 July – 16h00 p.m. 07 July – 18h30 p.m. 08 July – 10h00 a.m.

Students: R50

149 Apartment 107 P

Birds

Enerchi Emporium Dance Company

Stage Decadence

An electrifying journey through the life of a home and the people that live there. Apartment 107 will enthral you with emotion, excitement, heartbreak and love expressed through the mesmerising power of dance, but in a dance show with a difference. This is a multi-genre performance showcasing Latin, ballroom, hip-hop, jazz and contemporary dance. Written & directed by Anthony Rau & Danielle Fish Choreographed by Anthony Rau, Danielle Fish, Marion Geale & Whitney Amon Featuring Jacinta Richards, Masonge Ngcaba & Jenni Hartman

45m PG English PJ’s: 5 July 17:00; 6 July 18:30; 7 July 12:30 & 20:30; 8 July 16:30 Tickets: R40 / R35 / R35

Join us on an auspicious journey into a world of beauty, and a magical place where the wind and the skies are the setting and the key to survival is spirit. A fusion of dance forms and puppetry, combined to bring you the ultimate in artistic experience. Directed by Sarah Hill Choreographed by Nicki-Ann Rayepen, Noleen Noel-Hefele & Sibusiso Dladla Written by Nicki-Ann Rayepen & Noleen Noel-Hefele Music composed & performed by SMI Productions Featuring Nicki-Ann Rayepen, Noleen Noel-Hefele & Nurit Graff

50m All Gymnasium: 28 June 16:30; 29 June 10:00 & 14:30; 30 June 16:30; 1 July 14:30 Tickets: R65 / R50/ R50 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome!)

Bliss!

Dance Spectrum

Diphala

Cape Academy of Performing Arts

National School of the Arts

University of Botswana Traditional Dance Troupe

Students of CAPA present an engaging performance filled with dynamic and highly talented young artists. This show has dance in all its guises, along with drama and song, and is sure to keep you inspired and uplifted. “CAPA exhibit polish, confidence and – most engaging of all – joie de vivre as they show their mettle in public performance” – Beverley Brommert, Argus, 2011.

The National School of the Arts Dance Department comes back to the National Arts Festival for a fourth consecutive year with a great new programme that includes ballet, contemporary and Spanish dance. Our talented dancers are here to show the diversity of our training. Our Dance Spectrum has, in the past, had great reviews. “The audience was left shouting for more after a great performance by the National School of the Arts learners” – CUE.

Directed by Debbie Turner

1h5m 5+ English Centenary Hall: 29 June 10:00 & 18:00; 30 June 12:00 & 20:00; 1 July 18:00; 3 July 17:30 Tickets: R55 / R45 / R45

Diphala Traditional Dance Troupe from Botswana features an electrifying series of performances of indigenous cultural dances representing the different ethnic groups, Ngwaketse, Sesarwa, Hambukushu, and Kalanga amongst many others. The traditional dance tells stories of the history and culture of Batswana and is colourful, energetic and sensuous all at the same time!

Directed & choreographed by Manuel Norambuena

Directed & choreographed by Oswald Kopi Featuring Diphala Traditional Dancers

55m All

30m All SPro 2

Centenary Hall: 28 June 16:00 & 22:00; 29 June 12:00 & 20:00; 30 June 14:00

SeTswana

Tickets: R50 / R40 / R45

ILAM Amphitheatre: 28 June 15:00; 30 June 12:30; 1 July 15:00; 2 July 15:00

Tickets: FREE! (Donations welcome!)

Engagement of Love P Orange Farm Dance Theatre

This dance piece is about the importance of conservation of water. This group of dancers engage with their love for water, they respect water in the way that they use it, like they were born from it. Water is something that we need and should respect then we can benefit from it as a mind and body strength provider. The dancers show their enjoyment of conserving water with a well-choreographed and performed dance piece. Directed by Nthabiseng Segoe Written & choreographed by Nthabiseng Segoe and Sonke Siyane Music composed by Nkosana Pembe

45m All English Centenary Hall: 28 June 20:00; 30 June 10:00 & 18:00; 1 July 22:00; 2 July 17:30 Tickets: R30 / R10 / R10 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome!)

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I Am An African P Kmad.com

Gauteng Provincial Government

Rhodes University Drama Department

Gauteng Motjeko Dance combines a mixture of contemporary and hip hop dance that is echoed in Gauteng. The show hosts The Reptiles from Soweto, Acid Lunatics from Diepsloot and Enlightment Club from Soshanguve. It will be a A theatrical dance explosion razzmatazz of dance from of rhythm, athleticism, Gauteng Motjeko. artistry and entertainment. Technically awe-inspiring Choreographed by dancers unfold the Matshidiso Mokoka intricacies and eccentricities of choreographic dance 50m All fusions. A foot-stomping, English nail-biting, hand-clapping audience will marvel at City Hall: the works of some of the 2 July 10:00; 3 July 16:30; proudest South African 5 July 22:30; 6 July 14:00; choreographers. This highly 7 July 14:00; 8 July 12:00 entertaining, proudly South Tickets: R20 / R17 /R17 African work is set to the First Performance FREE! hauntingly beautiful poem (Donations welcome!) I am an African by Wayne Visser.

Ghetto Bang

Intranceit 2012 – Erasure P

Emonti Arts Company

Directed by Kelsey Middleton Choreographed by Supa Zungu & Kelsey Middleton Music composed by Aubrey Featuring Supa Zungu, Thabiso Khomo & Muzi Buthelezi

It’s in the space that exists between an event and its aftermath. It’s that close contact. It’s that drunken whisper. Erasure is a love letter re-imagined and re-cycled. Choreographed by Nicole Theunissen

50m PG St 1 English Arts Lounge: 2 July 19:00; 3 July 19:00; 4 July 19:00 Tickets: R30 / R20 / R20

1h10m All 1

Isingqi Sabathembu

English

Philakukuzenzela Group

Victoria Theatre: 30 June 11:00; 1 July 12:30 & 19:30; 2 July 21:30; 3 July 12:30 & 19:30 This show reveals a cross-section of ghetto life where the good, the bad, and the ugly compete for territorial recognition. This is the battle field of ghetto dance, the contest of peri-urban subcultures like the Niggas, Pantsulas, and the Bhujwas. The ghetto way of life is about adjusting and adapting to harsh conditions. All of this is investigated through professional, high-energy, entertaining, yet thoughtprovoking dance, a cocktail of hip-hop, pantsula, and sbhujwa dance routines, fresh from the ghetto.

FRINGE

Written & directed by Bongani Linda Choreographed by Buyile Geza & Jabulani Dube Featuring Khanyisa Menemene, Masixole Kondile & Masibulele Dyakophu

1h 13+ English City Hall: 3 July 10:00; 4 July 21:30; 5 July 16:00; 6 July 16:00; 7 July 18:00; 8 July 10:00 Tickets: R60 / R50 / R50

Tickets: R60 / R55 / R55

Intonjane Masonwabe Traditional Dance

Isingqi SabaThembu is a celebration of the culture of Thembuland. It is understood that, in times of happiness, dance and song are the primary expressions of gratitude and appreciation for the cultural history of the AbaThembu people.

Choreographed by Nokhawulezile Msutu Adapted from Abathembu culture Music composed by This performance is based on the Xhosa rituals that see Nosizile Ngejane girls become Intonjane. The story is told through dance, All CT 1 music and indigenous ILAM Amphitheatre: movements. The show 3 July 15:00; 4 July 15:00; is presented by Thembu 5 July 12:30 & 15:00 women and is a vibrant, Tickets: FREE! colourful and dynamic (Donations welcome!) display of indigenous dance and music.

Choreographed by Nositho Maqukanya Adapted from Abathembu rituals Music composed by Nowongile Bilitane

All CT 1 ILAM Amphitheatre: 29 June 12:30; 30 June 15:00; 1 July 12:30 & 15:00

Tickets: FREE! (Donations welcome!)

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Northern Dance Project

Northern dance Project presents four new works this year including one by Bailey Snyman (2012 Standard Bank Young Artist Award-winner for Dance) and fellow choreographer, Nicola Haskins, based on Dante’s Divine Comedy. We also introduce two new choreographers, Cilna Marais and Anthea Turck, and artistic director, Deborah McFadden, presents a work that shines a positive light on the challenges of dealing with breast cancer. Directed by Deborah McFadden Featuring Roxanne Spangenberg, Chane van Zyl & Lmri Stoltenkamp

1h All English Centenary Hall: 28 June 14:00; 29 June 16:00; 2 July 15:30; 3 July 22:00; 4 July 12:00 & 20:30; 5 July 20:00 Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40

Isigekle Kwa-Ngono Rural Women and Youth Development Project

Itshawe Ensemble P

Mayhem

Vuyani Dance Theatre

Imbabala Cultural Group Performing Arts Centre of the Free State

Itshawe is a vibrant and This show is an exhilarating energetic traditional dance fusion of Isigekle and done by Amabomvana uShameni dance and music. boys and girls during their A cast of experienced and celebrations. In it, a number energetic performers will of different dances and thrill you with a dance poems are woven together piece that has performed with rhythmic movement throughout the province of and traditional costumes. i-Nkandla, as well as for King A thread of poetry and Zwelithini! narration helps the audience to access these cultural Directed by Israel M Makhaye Choreographed by Solephi Mkhize histories. Directed & choreographed by 45m All SPro 1 Zoliswa Mkangaye Adapted from Amabonvana Rituals City Hall: 2 July 16:30; 3 July 20:30; All CT 2 4 July 15:00; 5 July 12:00; 7 July 10:00 ILAM Amphitheatre: 2 July 15:00; 3 July 12:30; Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40 4 July 12:30 & 15:00 First Performance FREE! Tickets: FREE! (Donations welcome!) (Donations welcome!)

Live Wire: The Explosion

English City Hall: 28 June 20:30; 29 June 18:30; 1 July 12:00 & 22:30; 2 July 14:00; 3 July 22:30; 4 July 19:00; 5 July 20:00 Tickets: R50 / R40 / R35 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome!)

Bafokeng Arts Theatre

Cutting-edge dance works by award-winning choreographers, Gregory Live Wire: The Explosion is a conglomeration of exciting, Maqoma and Luyanda Sidiya of Vuyani Dance Theatre. This exotic and very youthful dance moves mixed with old revolutionary production is a cross-pollination of dance moves and further diverse elements extracted complimented by African from a pool of unique drum beat, a live band and African contemporary a live DJ. This piece takes a fresh look at modern dance styles fused into groundbreaking dialogues. as it is experienced in a A multidisciplinary approach cosmopolitan society. to silent motions on pressing Choreographed by Tshepiso Phetlho global phenomena.

1h30 10+

Moribo Wa Setswana

Moribo wa SeTswana is a joyous celebration of the rhythms of SeTswana dance and music, and a tribute to the culture and heritage of the Batswana people. The show is based on the four different styles of Batswana dance, namely: stapa, tsutsubi, borankana and phatisi. Written, directed & choreographed by Thabo Kgale

Choreographed by Luyanda Sidiya & Gregory Maqoma

All Pro 1

Gymnasium: 28 June 14:00; 29 June 12:00 & 21:00; 30 June 10:00; 1 July 18:30

Tickets: R40 / R30 / R32

1h15 All

Tickets: R90 / R45 / R81 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome!)

Nampri’s All in One Dancers

City Hall: 29 June 14:30; 30 June 10:00 & 16:00

Mvanda Let’s Dance Mvanda Dance and Drama Group

Mvanda Dance and Drama is a youth cultural Nampri’s All in One The Secret Achievers regeneration group that Dancers Theatre Company promotes artistic excellence. This group of robust youths The group performs an The secret that has been exhilarating musical with oodles of energy and kept for a very long time and it end up costing the life enthusiasm offer a showcase dance show that mingles indigenous, modern and of modern, traditional of an inocent girl and her contemporary dance pieces and sarafina dance. “We boyfriend want to see her to the accompaniment of want people to appreciate grave. this is a true african powerful drumming and the beauty of our cultural favour the creative sound of guitars diversity and we aspire to Directed by Wesley Makola transform the lives of young depicting the music art of Written by Refilwe Gcaleka boys. blood through dance.” English with SePedi Choreographed by Sindiswa Binase Directed by Nolupumzo Ncapayi 55m All SPro 2 Choreographed by Xolani Linganiso Music composed by Sithembele Yapi

Khupamarama

Kingswood Theatre:

29 June 10:00; 29 June 17:00; 30 June 12:00; 1 July 16:00

All isiXhosa

ILAM Amphitheatre: 4 July 12:30; 5 July 15:00; 7 July 12:30; 8 July 12:30

Tickets: FREE! (Donations welcome!)

FRINGE

ILAM Amphitheatre: 28 June 12:30; 29 June 15:00; Tickets: R30 / R25 / R20 30 June 15:00; 2 July 12:30 First Performance FREE! Tickets: FREE! (Donations welcome!) (Donations welcome!)

All CT 3

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Via Volcano

Okuya Phantsi Kwempumlo/The Meal P

Siyavuma Makhosi The Pride of Traditional Dance Abathembu Bumbane Cultural Women’s Project

Mamela Nyamza Before a meal is eaten, preparation is necessary. It depends on the ingredients needed for the recipe. The amount of the ingredients and the temperature of the heat depend on the individual’s belief of self. The Mzobane traces the most basic division in the township lifestyle. A kind of preparation needed township and its shebeen is between the creator and culture represent the South those who are being served. African ideal, a harmonious This piece examines the mix of cultures, colours, joyful process by which one races, art, music and life. becomes the meal. Director’s Mzobane, which means “old note: “…cannibalism. Eating school”, is a pantsula dance is essential = Art is essential. piece that debuted in the UK No meal no life, no Art no life.” at the Afrovibes Festival. Written, directed & choreographed Written, directed & choreographed by Mamela Nyamza by William Mbambo Music composed by South African Gospel Choir 1h All Featuring Mamela Nyamza English

40m 13+ (NS)

City Hall: 28 June 18:30; 29 June 21:00; Princess Alice Hall: 30 June 14:00; 1 July 18:30; 28 June 20:00; 29 June 14:00; 2 July 20:30 30 June 16:00; 1 July 18:00; Tickets: R50 / R25 / R20 2 July 20:00; 3 July 14:00; First Performance FREE! 4 July 16:00; 5 July 18:00; (Donations welcome!) 6 July 20:00; 7 July 14:00

Tickets: R50 / R30 / R25

Off the Beaten Path P Signatures The Foot Musicians

Formerly known as the Tap Talk Rhythm Company, The Foot Musicians journey off the beaten path in an explosive celebration of tap dance. Featuring the current World Female and Duo Tap Champions, this is metal-clashing, toe-tapping spontaneous combustion on the dance floor!

FRINGE

Choreographed by Sandra & Megan Rosenberg

1h All English Kingswood Theatre: 3 July 10:00 & 18:00; 4 July 20:00; 5 July 12:00; 6 July 14:00; 7 July 16:00; 8 July 12:00

Moving into Dance Mophatong

Two fertile imaginations create two very different works performed by the versatile Moving into Dance Mophatong Company. Fana Tshabalala’s The Gates of Hell is inspired by figures in a Rodin sculpture: “Two souls find themselves beyond and within the unknown”. Sifiso Kweyama’s The More finds its starting point in: “The more we change the more…” Directed by Sylvia Magogo Glasser Choreographed by Sifiso Kweyama & Fana Tshabalala

1h All Centenary Hall: 5 July 10:00 & 18:00; 6 July 14:00; 7 July 12:30 & 20:30

Tickets: R55 / R45 / R45 First Performance FREE! Tickets: R60 / R45 / R45 (Donations welcome!)

The Siyavuma Makhosi group was formed by Bongiwe Mdludlu and is driven by her vision and desire to endorse the heritage of the Xhosa nation. This show highlights the importance of Xhosa culture and religion through indigenous and traditional dance.

This is a dance work celebrating the life and times of the only king in Africa to sacrifice his life for the freedom and justice of his country and his people at large. Through music and dance, we pay tribute to our Comrade King, the pride of the Thembu nation. Directed by Nokutula Dalindyebo Choreographed by Nonyaniso Mtirara

All CT 3 ILAM Amphitheatre: 6 June 15:00; 7 July 15:00; 8 July 12:30 & 15:00

Directed by Ntombohlanga Mdludlu Tickets: FREE! (Donations welcome!) Choreographed by Bongiwe Mdludlu Music composed by Nomawethu Mabono

All CT 1 ILAM Amphitheatre: 28 June 12:30; 29 June 12:30; 30 June 15:00; 1 July 15:00

Tickets: FREE! (Donations welcome!)

Umtshikitsio Traditional Dance P Intsusa Community Developments Umtshikitsio is a traditional dance also known as Ndlame. It is a vibrant and energetic dance done by men and women during their celebrations.

The Genesis Project All CT P ILAM Amphitheatre: South African Performing Arts Conservatory (SAPAC)

The Genesis Project is the debut season of the South African Performing Arts Conservatory. While the company is new, the creative team behind this dance presentation have been involved in dance for sixteen years and are proud to return to the Festival with an exciting line-up of new contemporary dance works by established South African choreographers. Directed by Debra Gush

1h All English Centenary Hall: 4 July 10:00; 5 July 16:00; 6 July 12:00 & 20:30; 7 July 14:30

Umsino Ensemble Zanokuhle Cultural Dance A wonderfully colourful demonstration of traditional dance, this show pulses with the rhythms and movements that highlight the culture of the isiXhosa people. Choreographed by Sonwabile Maqokolo

All CT 1 ILAM Amphitheatre: 28 June 15:00; 29 June 15:00; 1 July 12:30; 2 July 15:00

Tickets: FREE! (Donations welcome!)

Umteyo Dalubuhle Cultural Group Umteyo is a vibrant and energetic traditional dance done by Amabomvana boys and girls during their celebrations. It has a number of different types of traditional dance and poetry woven together with rhythmic movement and adorned with traditional attire. A thread of poetry and narration allow for an easier understanding of cultural histories.

Written, directed & choreographed 28 June 15:00; 29 June 15:00; by Zoliswa Mkangaye 30 June 12:30 & 15:00 Adapted from Abathembu culture Tickets: FREE! All CT 1 (Donations welcome!) ILAM Amphitheatre: 2 July 12:30; 3 July 15:00; 4 July 15:00; 5 July 15:00

The Rebirth: From Darkness to Light P GP Productions – Lenin Shabalala

Sometimes, in our darkest moments, the most inspiring poetry and/or movement expression is born. The Rebirth is a dance theatre performance that incorporates contemporary, hip-hop and funk dance genres in an immersion of poetry, music, visual expression and song. This piece is a meditation on the discovery of one’s purpose, on moving from darkness into light.

Tickets: R50 / R35 / R35 Written & directed by First Performance FREE! Dedanizizwe Lenin Shabalala (Donations welcome!) Music composed by Maxwell, Peter Oakenfield, Massive Attack, Bayete and Lenin Shabalala Music performed by Lenin Shabalala & various artists

50m 13+ (LRP) English Dicks: 28 June 20:30; 29 June 14:00 & 22:30; 30 June 10:00; 2 July 16:00; 5 July 22:30; 7 July 13:00; 8 July 10:00 Tickets: R40 / R30 / R25 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome!)

Tickets: FREE! (Donations welcome!)

Umxhentso Wakwa-Ntu

Manzana Inkciyo Traditional Dance An energetic and exciting young ensemble group bring to the stage their enthusiasm and love for cultural dancing. A delightful performance for all. Directed by Albertina Saul Choreographed by Baxolise Gcanga

All CT 1 ILAM Amphitheatre: 3 July 12:30 & 15:00; 6 July 12:30 & 15:00

Tickets: FREE! (Donations welcome!)

Where’s Alice? P Starlight Studios

This production is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. A range of wacky characters are encountered in everchanging scenes, including a quirky white rabbit, a mad hatter, and a rockstar red queen, to name a few. The piece culminates in a mad, military, rocking card scene, after which Alice awakes... relieved! Written & directed by Colleen Kitching Choreographed by Colleen Kitching, Di Ross, Leilah Kirsten & Tenneale Millard Adapted from Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland

55m All English Centenary Hall: 28 June 18:00; 29 June 14:00 & 22:00; 30 June 16:00; 1 July 16:00 Tickets: R40 / R30 / R35

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ILAM Free Fringe Indigenous Music & Dance Festival 28 June 12:30 Nampri’s All In One Dancers 1hr Siyavuma Makhosi Traditional Dance 15:00 Diphala 1hr 30mins Umsino Ensemble Umtshikitsio Traditional Dance

3 July 12:30 Umxhentso Wakwa-Ntu Itshawe Ensemble 15:00 Isingqi Sabathembu Umteyo Umxhentso Wakwa-Ntu

1hr 1hr 30mins

29 June 12:30 Intonjane 1hr Siyavuma Makhosi Traditional Dance 15:00 Nampri’s All In One Dancers 1hr 30mins Umsino Ensemble Umtshikitsio Traditional Dance

Diphala 1hr Umtshikitsio Traditional Dance Nampri’s All In One Dancers 1hr 30mins Intonjane Siyavuma Makhosi Traditional Dance Umtshikitsio Traditional Dance

1 July 12:30 Intonjane 1hr Umsino Ensemble Intonjane 1hr 30mins 15:00 Diphala Siyavuma Makhosi Traditional Dance 2 July 12:30 Nampri’s All In One Dancers Umteyo 15:00 Diphala Itshawe Ensemble Umsino Ensemble

1hr 1hr 30mins

5 July 12:30 Isingqi Sabathembu Moribo Wa SeTswana 15:00 Isingqi Sabathembu Mvanda Let’s Dance Umteyo

1hr 1hr 30mins

6 July 12:30 Moribo Wa SeTswana Umxhentso Wakwa-Ntu 15:00 African Music Renewal The Pride of Abathembu Umxhentso Wakwa-Ntu

1hr 1hr 30mins

7 July 12:30 Mvanda Let’s Dance African Music Renewal 15:00 African Music Renewal Moribo Wa SeTswana The Pride of Abathembu

1hr 1hr 30mins

8 July 12:30 Mvanda Let’s Dance The Pride of Abathembu 15:00 African Music Renewal Moribo Wa SeTswana The Pride of Abathembu

1hr 1hr 30mins

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Traditional isiXhosa meals will be on sale at ILAM. All performances are free – but you are very welcome to make a donation on your way out. All donations are shared equally between the companies that perform.

Photos: Courtesy CuePix

30-Jun 12:30 30-Jun 15:00

4 July 12:30 Itshawe Ensemble Mvanda Let’s Dance 15:00 Isingqi Sabathembu Itshawe Ensemble Umteyo

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158 Bathongwa Land P Zanendaba Storytellers

This is about a village of people who lived happily and peacefully on their land, practising their customs and traditions until one day, when the white man came into their lives and laid claim to the wealth of their land. Not only did they lose their wealth but also their traditions and customs. Directed by Velaphi Mthimkulu Choreographed by Kagiso Molefi Featuring Lethiwe Shabalala, Rotondwa Netshidane & Nthabiseng Masondo

1h All Pro English, SeTswana & SeSotho Gymnasium: 28 June 11:00; 29 June 18:30; 30 June 18:30; 1 July 10:00

Chasing

University of Pretoria Drama Department Company

Chasing is a visual explosion with fastpaced choreography and an innovative physical language that explores the tragic and turbulent life of South African poet and icon, Ingrid Jonker. The production explores her experiences of marginalisation, desire and belonging as encapsulated by the intensity of her poetry. Choreographed by Nicola Haskins Featuring Chanél van Wyk

Devlin Mark Brown and Dark Laugh Productions

They say the signs and symbols heralding the coming events were there for all to see. Investigative journalist Frank du Toit did not get the message. He did however see the Morning Star fall from the sky to the earth, onto the quiet farming town of Bethlehem, South Africa. The end is naai… Written by Devlin Mark Brown Directed by Mongi Mthombeni Featuring Devlin Mark Brown

1h05 10+ (LV) 1h PG (S) Pro 2 Pro 10 English Centenary Hall: 5 July 14:00; 6 July 10:00; 7 July 16:30 & 22:30

Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40 Tickets: R50 / R30 / R40 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome) First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Fallen

English & SA languages Drill Hall: Daily: 16:00 Tickets: R45 / R35 / R35 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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159 Hats

Horn of Sorrow

OddBody Theatre & Boschwacked Productions

South African State Theatre

After sold-out shows at 11 festivals, critically acclaimed Hats returns to wow audiences with its fun-filled, fast-paced, whacky visual feast for the young and old. Buddy, a mime artist and Pal, a fine artist, along with the hats that changed their lives, share an intriguing story of a friendship so powerful it speaks without words. Written & directed by Pieter Bosch Botha Featuring Richard Antrobus & Tristan Jacobs

55m All Pro 9 St. Andrew’s Hall: 30 June 10:00; 1 July 12:00; 2 July 20:30; 4 July 14:30; 6 July 10:00; 7 July 14:30; 8 July 17:00 Tickets: R50 / R46 / R46

Horn of Sorrow, a moving play that speaks for itself, is a physical story incorporating music, dance, humour and heartache, all with a relevant theme. This award-winning production follows the plight of the rhino in its endless battle against extinction and the forces edging it along. Written by Nicholas Ellenbogen Directed by Miles Petzer Featuring Tsepo Mohlala, Mandla Masilela & Refilwe Leduka

1h All Pro English with isiZulu

Glennie Hall: 3 July 10:00; 4 July 18:00; 5 July 14:00 & 20:00; 6 July 18:00; 7 July 20:00

Intranceit 2012 – Tender Rhodes University Drama Department

Provocations, revelations and violence. Tender is the day the demons go away. An explosive exploration of South African life, experienced through a multiplicity of perplexed, curious and searching perspectives. Directed by Madele Vermaak Featuring Robert Haxton, Elisha Mudly & Nomcebisi Moyikwa

55m 16+ (LN) St 1 English with Afrikaans & isiXhosa PJ’s: 3 July 12:30; 4 July 17:00; 5 July 20:30

Tickets: R40 / R40 / R40 Tickets: R30 / R20 / R20 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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160 Intranceit 2012 – The Rusty Spoon Collective P Rhodes University Drama Department

“Investment is what happens when the performers before us seem bound up unspeakably with what they are doing. We are watching people, not representing something but going through something. They lay their bodies on the line and we are transformed, not as audience to spectacle but witnesses to an event”. Tim Etchells Choreographed by Alice Thompson

50m PG St 1 English Monastry: 6 July 19:30; 7 July 19:30; 8 July 19:30 Tickets: R30 / R20 / R20

Keepsake Minus 3 P

LifeCycle

University of Zululand

Nicola Elliott & Underground Dance Theatre

Memento. Reminder. Souvenir. Relic. Nicola Elliott and Underground Dance Theatre come together for the first time to bring you a programme of three sophisticated new works. Rooted in classical training, offset by postmodern aesthetics, Keepsake Minus 3 will inspire, provoke and lead you astray. Choreographed by Nicola Elliott & cast Featuring Steve van Wyk, Kristina Johnstone, Cilna Marais & Thalia Laric

45m 10+ (N) Pro 6 Glennie Hall: 28 June 16:00; 30 June 22:00; 1 July 10:00; 2 July 18:00; 3 July 18:00; 4 July 16:00; 5 July 22:00; 6 July 16:00; 7 July 18:00; 8 July 12:00 Tickets: R50 / R45 / R40 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Birth, death and beyond! Is life a cycle? What make the cycle complete? If it is a cycle, where does it start and does it ever end? LifeCycle is a physical theatre production that interrogates, imitates, explores and captures various moments of the human life cycle. Written & directed by Gift Tapiwa Marovatsanga Choreographed by Mathia Julius Music composed by Nomusa Seleke

55m All SP 4 English with isiZulu Gymnasium: 28 June 18:30; 29 June 16:30; 30 June 12:30; 1 July 12:30 & 21:00 Tickets: R30 / R25 / R20 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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161 Lovborg’s Women

Mafeking Road

Mother Milk

The Mechanicals

The Pink Couch

Andrew Buckland and Lucy Kruger

Lovborg’s Women is a spoofing of the theatrical genres of naturalism and realism. It is fast and furious, and its comical, physical feats define a reconsideration of naturalistic scenes seen through the eyes of Steven Berkoff, DV8 and Third World Bun Fight.

Winner of the Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award for Physical Theatre 2011, Mafeking Road is a not-tobe-missed whirlwind trip through the Groot Marico. Described by the Cape Times as “a brilliant piece of entertainment that will remind you of the magic of storytelling and the joy of physical theatre”, this is Bosman for the next generation.

Written & directed by Christopher Weare Featuring Tinarie van Wyk Loots, Andrew Laubscher & Mikkie-Dene Le Roux

1h10 10+(L) Pro 2 English Glennie Hall: 28 June 22:00; 29 June 14:00; 30 June 12:00; 1 July 20:00; 3 July 12:00; 4 July 12:00 & 22:00; 5 July 16:00; 6 July 10:00 & 22:00 Tickets: R65 / R50 / R40

Directed by Tara Notcutt (Adapted from the stories of Herman Charles Bosman) Featuring Andrew Laubscher & Mathew Lewis

This is the story of mother (motherly, motherlike, mothered, motherless, mother lode, motherf****r). And so the race begins. A disturbingly playful investigation of the mother/ daughter relationship. A marriage between complex choreography and intricate vocal scoring in which the underbelly of the “sacred” relationship is humorously exposed. A fearless and crucial collision. Choreographed by Lucy Kruger Featuring Jennifer Schneeberger, Nomcebisi Moyikwa & Lucy Kruger

55m All Pro 2 50m 16+ (N) SPro 4 English with Afrikaans Glennie Hall: 28 June 12:00; 29 June 18:00; 1 July 12:00; 2 July 12:00; 3 July 16:00; 5 July 12:00; 6 July 14:00; 7 July 16:00; 7 July 22:30 Tickets: R65 / R50 / R50

English

Centenary Hall: 28 June 12:00; 30 June 22:00; 1 July 20:00; 3 July 15:30; 4 July 14:00; 5 July 12:00; 6 July 16:00; 8 July 10:00 Tickets: R30 / R20 / R20

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162 Taming the Terroir P

The Dogs Must Be Crazy P

Juanita Daniel and Hannah Paton

UBOM! Eastern Cape Drama Company

A blend of beginnings, endings, lovers, cries, laughter, hope, pain, prayer, blessings, celebration, death and birth helps to crystallize the concept of terroir, “the landscape that influences and shapes the many characters of wine”. These “varieties” unfold in a carefully selected multilayered happening on stage. Photography, painting, installation and live music play their roles alongside heartfelt storytelling. The arts combine to celebrate the close union between man, woman and wine.

A satirical romp from a dog’s eye view! Each episode takes a look at some of the pressing concerns of our age, with hilarious and heart-aching results. Based on an original concept by Mike van Graan, and bristling with black humour, the show digs up many of our absurdities with an irreverent, energetic, and demandingly physical glee.

Written & directed by Hannah Paton & Liza Grobler

1h All Pro 1 SA languages & French Glennie Festival Centre: 29 June 10:00; 30 June 16:00; 1 July 21:30; 3 July 12:00; 4 July 10:00 Tickets: R80 / R50 / R50

Written by Mike van Graan Directed by Rob Murray Featuring Liezl de Kock, Ilana Cilliers & Sparky Xulu

The Tale of Qedusizi and The Rhino P Wickedhouse Productions

“And man will keep on taking and taking, until there is nothing left to take...” The Tale of Qedusizi and the Rhino draws critical attention to the plight of the rhino. In an explosion of drum beats, physical theatre and African storytelling, the sad reality of rhino poaching hits home. Written & choreographed by Pieter Human Music performance by Pule Motale Featuring Tristan McConnell, Brinsley Motsepa & Mona Monyane

1h5m PG (V) Pro 51m All Pro 1 14 English with isiZulu & PJ’s: 28 June 12:30; 29 June 22:00; 30 June 16:00; 1 July 19:00; 2 July 21:30; 3 July 19:00; 4 July 19:00; 5 July 19:00; 6 July 16:30; 7 July18:30

Tickets: R50 / R45 / R45 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

SeTswana

Vicky’s: 28 June 12:00; 29 June 18:00; 1 July 14:00 & 22:00; 2 July 16:00 Tickets: R50 / R45 / R45

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163 The Wedding

Kinetics Theatre

The Kinetic Theatre Collective proudly presents a deeply moving and physically charged new production from choreographer/composer, Nico Scheepers. The Wedding is an innovative, emotional look at the limitations of tradition and the veiled complexities of contemporary relationships. Written & choreographed by Nico Scheepers Featuring Chanel van Wyk

Transition explores what it is to be young and frustrated. It is set in a rehab institute, where two different people, from two different worlds, meet and find solace. Through these meetings a black comedy arises as ideals clash and the cocaine addict and the Christian boy begin to heal. Written by Madelaine Davis Directed by Verdarsha Singh

1h All Pro 3 English with Afrikaans

45m 13+ (L) Am English Dicks: 4 July 10:00; 5 July 16:00; 6 July 10:00 & 18:30; 7 July 15:00

Centenary Hall: 3 July 10:00; 4 July 16:00; 6 July 22:30; 7 July 18:30; 8 July 12:00 Tickets: R45 / R40 / R38 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Through Blue

Transition Stepping Stone Productions

UBOM! Eastern Cape Drama Company

Villain

First Physical Theatre Company/Rhodes Drama Department

Characters who can act, without hindrance or guilt, upon their whims and desires are not very nice people – are they? How does Villain dance her villainy? As they say, “the search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions”. Villain is this year’s New Voices production. Choreographed by Sonja Smit

50m 16+ (LNR)

Written & directed by Rob Murray SP 20 Adapted from a short story by Truman Capote English with Afrikaans & Featuring Andrew Buckland, isiXhosa Liezl de Kock & Ilana Cilliers Nun’s Chapel: 1h5 PG (N) Pro 29 June 14:00; 30 June 18:00; 14 1 July 17:00; 2 July 14:00; 4 July 21:30; 6 July 21:30 PJ’s: 28 June 16:30; Tickets: R40 / R30 / R35 29 June 18:00; 30 June 20:00; 1 July 15:00; 2 July 15:00; 3 July 14:30; 4 July 12:30; 6 July 12:30; 7 July 14:30; 8 July 12:30 Tickets: R60 / R50 / R50 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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How long can you survive before selling your dreams? A mouth-watering collaboration between Andrew Buckland (Mistero Buffo, The Well Being), Rob Murray (Pictures of You, Benchmarks), and Ubom! (Breed, Wreckage). This is a visual and clowning tour de force and a tragicomic, deeply moving, and exhilarating theatrical experience.

Tickets: R40 / R35 / R35 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

164 2Late

Ladimash Productions

A Moment When Love Hurts P

As You Were

Doggone-it Drama

Gauteng Theatre Practitioners & Gauteng Arts & Culture In the world of power, confusion, fear, hypocrisy and love you’ll find Kagiso and Ursular who have been stuck in a stagnant marriage for 25 years. The two face their demons while trying to A moving tale about work things out. This story teenage pregnancy and deals with themes of abuse, parental challenges. This is politics, power, fornication, the story of a young girl who apprehension, love and ignores all advice and falls hope…. The show unlocks in love with an older man the doors of hope to those who makes her happy. She women who are afraid of alienates everyone trying to moving on after an abusive advise her and, in the end, relationship. must face the consequences. Written by Thembisile Masilela Written & directed by Directed by Dipuo Makgobathe Mashupe Phala Featuring Kagiso Matlala, Featuring Mapuleng Maake, Thembisile Masilela Ronald Takalani Tshinesa & Peter Mathonsi Manganye, Abel Phongwako, Melita Makgoba & Mandla Mabena

55m 13+ (LN) Pro 3

1h 13+ (L) Pro English

English Glennie Festival Centre: 28 June 16:00; 29 June 14:30; 30 June 14:00; 1 July 16:30; 2 July 21:00; 3 July 18:00 Tickets: R50 / R43 / R45 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

A Gift From the Stones P

Library Hall: 2 July 10:00; 3 July 19:00; 5 July 18:30; 7 July 20:30; 8 July 10:00

Written & directed by Simphiwe Vikilahle Music composition by Khanyile Mngqwanci

1h All

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English with isiXhosa B2 Arena: 2 July 10:00; 3 July 18:00; 4 July 20:00; 6 July 20:30; 7 July 18:30 Tickets: R35 / R30 / R20

50m 14+ (L) SPro 6 Vicky’s: 30 June 10:00; 1 July 12:00; 2 July 22:00; 4 July 18:00; 5 July 10:00 Tickets: R45 / R35 / R35 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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Puppet Productions

Bantustan Lubikha Theatre Project

Mziviki Theatre Company Can the loss of Vunguza’s cows bring an end to the hostility between the two villages of Mpexeni? A hostility that emanated from the war that dethroned Chief Vunguza. Is Vunguza willing to live with Chief Mthetho in harmony, although he is being pursued by his son Luphumlo?

Featuring Nicci Hayes & Nicolene Badenhorst

English

Tickets: R35 / R25 / R25

Alright, Mrs Albright

“The past is prophetic” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Nicci Hayes and Nicolene Badenhorst’s engaging performance guides you through a series of vignettes about women whose lives intersect with transformative effects. A whimsical but poignant look at power, freedom and the ability to escape the scripts of our past.

This play was directed by Neville Tranter, who is internationally acclaimed and generally recognised as one of the best puppeteers in the world. The show has been a huge success in Switzerland and Germany, and Leon Malan now brings this play to South Africa for the first time. An unforgettable experience combining superb puppetry, mime and acting. Leslie Albright will captivate your heart.

Bantustan is a protest theatre piece that depicts the painful past of Charles Sebe and his brother Lennox Sebe. Used by the apartheid government to divide and rule, they ended up divided and Charles toppled his brother. Charles was later arrested and jailed, but then escaped. He was killed in an abortive coup attemp by Oupa Gqozo.

1h10m 13+ (L) Pro

Written by Michael Lubisi Directed by Darlington Michaels Music composition by Michael Lubisi Featuring Bongani Tshabalala, Kgotso Malatsi & Lebohang Setlhodimela

English

1h All Pro 8

Written by Leon Malan Directed by Neville Tranter Music composed by Leon Malan & Andreas Mockli Featuring Leon Malan

The Hangar: 28 June to 1 July Daily at 11:00 Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40

English with Afrikaans & isiXhosa Masonic Front: 30 June 10:00; 1 July 12:00; 2 July 18:00; 3 July 22:00; 4 July 14:00 Tickets: R70 / R65 / R65

165 Big Girl

Juliet Jenkin

Sylvia Smorkel’s gone up in the world, and not in the way she expected. Her world is shrinking – and fast. Sylvia’s always been a woman with a plan, but will her plans be big enough to save her? Juliet Jenkin’s Big Girl is a comedic fantasy of giant proportions. Written and directed by Juliet Jenkin

50m PG (L) Pro 6 English Vicky’s: 2 July 10:00; 3 July 22:00; 4 July 14:00; 5 July 20:00; 6 July 16:00; 7 July 14:00 Tickets: R60 / R45 / R45

Brothers in Blood P

By the Apricot Trees

Artscape

Ntsako Mkhabela

Winner of the 2009 Naledi Award for Best New South African Play produced, Brothers in Blood is an explosive drama about prejudice set within the volatile context of Muslim, Jewish and Christian relations in Cape Town, and against the background of PAGAD activities in the late 90s. Written by Mike van Graan Directed by Greg Homann Featuring David Dennis & Kurt Egelhof

1h30m 10+ (R) Pro English Gymnasium: 2 July 11:00; 3 July 11:00; 4 July 11:00; 5 July 11:00; 6 July 11:00; 7 July 11:00 Tickets: R55 / R40 / R40

Bound

Written & directed by Carla Harris in collaboration with Poko Productions Music composed by Riku Latti Featuring Chris van Rensburg, Buntu Tembani & Cindy Swanepoel

Alone in a prison cell seven steps long and three steps wide with nothing but a bucket and a light bulb called Alfred, TK tries to 55m 16+ (LP) Pro remember her humanity. All English with Afrikaans & she has are her memories; IsiZulu yet memory is sticky, tragic, sweet, funny and unreliable. Glennie Festival Centre: 5 July 16:00; 6 July 22:00; Written & directed by 7 July 12:00; 7 July 16:00; Ntsako Mkhabela 8 July 10:00 Featuring Molebogeng Modiba & Tickets: R45 / R35 / R35 Khutjo Nakinzi-Green First Performance FREE! 55m All Pro 2 (Donations welcome) English

B2 Arena: 1 July 10:00; 2 July 22:00; 3 July 14:00; 4 July 18:00; 5 July 20:30 Tickets: R45 / R40 / R35 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

…cell…

An original work of shadow Thambe Thespians theatre mixing drama and shadow puppetry exploring life in the new South Africa, where three people discover whether they can outrun the shadow of their past. An emotionally compelling and honest journey to find themselves, the truth and to break the ties that bind. ...cell… is a one-man show that explores prison life through the eyes of a man who spends three years in prison for a crime he did not commit. The tardiness of the justice authorities causes immense pain for the prisoner who was framed for rape by a spiteful exgirlfriend. The case ruins the man’s teaching career, while his fiancée gives birth to a baby boy in his absence. …cell… examines our justice system.

Choice of the Bleeding Hearts P Performing Arts Centre of the FREE State

Had Conrad known that the choice he made for love would haunt him later in his marriage to Gladys, perhaps his decision would not have been so hasty! It is another choice, one made by his son Martin after the death of his half-sister that carries the seeds of potential happiness. Written & directed by Moiloa Wits Lesenyeho

Written & directed by Mncedise Thambe Featuring Stanley Letebele

1h 13+ (L) Pro 4

1h All Pro 1

Masonic Back: 29 June 12:00; 30 June 14:00; 1 July 18:00; 2 July 20:00; 3 July 14:00; 4 July 12:00; 6 July 18:00; 7 July 10:00

English & SA languages PJ’s: 5 July 12:30; 6 July 14:30; 7 July 16:30; 8 July 14:30 Tickets: R35 / R16 / R15 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

English

Tickets: R50 / R30 / R35

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166 Choosing and Responsibility

Siyaya Theatre Production

Circle

Maserumule Productions

Crush Hopper

Dogyard

Dream Boy

Imibono Yethu Creative Arts Company

The Runaway Bunny Collective

Stallone Santino

Duncan Buwalda

Crush Hopper is a delightful true tale of a Xhosa girl, raised by her coloured great grandfather, dreaming of marrying a white boy who owns a farm. 2011 Cue called it “unpredictable, ironic, refreshing ... not a single cliché in 55 minutes”. This multi award-winning production returns to Grahamstown to celebrate before Ms Haarhof leaves for the US on a Fullbright scholarship. Enthralling poetry, movement and storytelling.

A therapist, specialising in taboo sexual practices, has plenty of naughty secrets himself. Join him as he exposes the obscure nature of various patients. This deeply dark comedy will have you out of your seat in laughter, and gasping for air at the topics buried deep in our private bedrooms.

Anything can happen if you dream hard enough. A riveting story of a boy who longs to be a performer. Stallone embarks on a journey in pursuit of a career in drama, without support. Obstacles await him on his journey, with an exciting twist that will leave the audience thrilled.

Winner of the Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award for Drama 2011. Nicholas and May lead a blissful life on an island paradise, neither quite sure how they got there, until a stranger arrives to break the news. Featuring Fleur du Cap winner for best actor Carel Nel.

Dream, Brother

South African people are very angry and, as a result, they are violent and display other social ills. How can we save the next generation from passive aggression? Written & directed by Thandazile Madinda Featuring Lucky Ngcani, Xasimpha Jodwana & Thandeka Budaza

Circle follows the life of a young man called Michael (played by Tau Maserumule). 1h 16+ (SR) CT 3 After being kicked out of university for organizing IsiXhosa a protest march against a proposed 33% fee increase, Vicky’s: he finds himself in dark 28 June 22:00; 30 June 20:00; 2 July 20:00; water. Having failed to justify his position with the 3 July 16:00; 6 July 22:00 university authorities, he Tickets: R25 / R15 / R15 gets a job at a construction First Performance FREE! site – where he finds himself once again standing up (Donations welcome) to injustices – and getting himself into even murkier water!

Written by Tau Maserumule Directed by Mncedisi Shabangu Featuring Tau Maserumule

1h15 All SPro 1 English with Sepedi Glennie Festival Centre: 28 June 18:00; 29 June 16:30; 30 June 18:00; 1 July 18:30

Written by Mandisa Haarhoff Directed by Ntokozo Madlala Featuring Mandisa Roelene Haarhoff

1h PG Pro 5 English with Afrikaans & isiXhosa

Written & directed by Robert Haxton Music composed & performed by Shaun Acker Featuring Shaun Acker & Jessica Harrison

50m All SPro English with Afrikaans

55m 16+ LVSP Pro 1

Masonic Front: 28 June 20:00; 29 June 12:00; 30 June 22:00; 1 July 18:00; 2 July 12:00

English with Afrikaans

Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40

B2 Arena: 29 June 10:00; 2 July 20:00; 3 July 12:00; 5 July 12:30; 7 July 12:30; 8 July 10:00

Dicks: 28 June 18:30; 29 June 20:30; Tickets: R45 / R35 / R40 30 June 15:00; 3 July 10:00; Tickets: R50 / R25 / R25 5 July 12:00; 6 July 12:00 & First Performance FREE! 16:00; 7 July 20:30 (Donations welcome) Tickets: R50 / R35 / R35

Written & directed by Stallone Santino

Written by Duncan Buwalda Directed by Tara Notcutt Featuring Carel Nel, Cintaine Schutte & Johann Vermaak

1h All Pro 3 English Masonic Back: 28 June 16:00; 29 June 14:00; 30 June 12:00; 2 July 14:00; 4 July 10:00; 5 July 16:00; 6 July 14:00; 7 July 18:00; 8 July 10:00 Tickets: R55 / R45 / R45 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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167 Eden

The Poor Artists Collective

A psychological thriller set in a world of rumours, nameless individuals, watchful eyes and eavesdropping ears. Imprisoned by authorities on an apple farm, a street sweeper attempts to learn the truth in order to escape, but struggles against the nature of power, secrecy and survival in a draconian state. Written & directed by Gabriella Pinto Music composed by James MacGregor Featuring Siya SikawutiIman Isaacs & Electra Hartmann

55m 13+ LV Pro English Princess Alice Hall: 28 June 16:00; 29 June 18:00; 30 June 20:00; 1 July 14:00; 2 July 14:00; 3 July 18:00; 4 July 20:00; 5 July 14:00; 6 July 14:00; 7 July 16:00 Tickets: R60 / R50 / R50

Falling Truths

On the Hill

Falling Truths is a play about a young woman forced to work in a mine – a very male-dominated working environment. It explores her battles at work but also her determination to find out the truth about what happened to the loved one she lost in the mine. All she has been told is that rocks fell; but her persistence reveals the truth of the fallen.

Things the sea washed up: a toy car; a length of rope; a rusty pair of pliers; four glass bottles (three containing messages); a tin box holding five old maps (orientation unknown); the rotting carcass of something monstrous! A two-man play exploring the depths of some very dark waters.

Written & directed by Nkululeko Maseko

1h 13+ LV Pro

40m 13+ LV SPro 3

Masonic Front: 29 June 10:00; 30 June 14:00; 1 July 16:00; 2 July 20:00; 3 July 14:00

English with SA languages

Written, directed & performed by Luke Carstens & Anthony Haenen English

Glennie Hall: 28 June 14:00; 29 June 10:00 & 20:00; 30 June 16:00

Tickets: R60 / R45 / R45

Tickets: R30 / R25 / R15

FREEdom Blues Ikhwezi Players

Finding Nemorena P The Graduates

F.A.T

Flotsam

Wits SDLU

Pieter Jacobs

FREEdom Blues looks at the issues that haunt postapartheid South Africa. It is a story about disappointment, but without taking the freedom that South Africa enjoys today for granted. A story of hope and triumph; a story of how freedom was achieved and how the blood bath was averted. Written, directed & performed by Ndizi Bedesho

1h15 PG Pro 2

English with Afrikaans & IsiXhosa NG Kerk Hall: 28 June 11:00; 29 June 21:00; 1 July 22:30; 2 July 20:00; 3 July 20:30 Tickets: R60 / R30 / R30 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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A presentational treat, featuring two young and vibrant performers weaving skilfully through multiple Terence is awesome. And characters and situations. Terence is terrible. He is an A crafted and fun-filled awe-inspiring athlete, and a terrible human being. But spectacle, featuring mime, don’t judge him too harshly. dance and song. A play F.A.T. excavates the complex, about searching for hope and finding much more than formative relationships expected. that shape us and our relationships to food, fitness, Directed by lovers, loved ones, and the Khayelihle Dominique Gumede world. Featuring Lamar Bonhmme & George Sotiropolos Written by Pieter Jacobs Directed by Jacques Bessenger 55m 13+ L SPro Featuring Pieter Jacobs English with Greek, 50m 13+ P Pro Afrikaans & isiZulu English Masonic Back: 30 June 10:00; 1 July 22:00; NG Kerk Hall: 2 July 18:00; 3 July 22:00; 1 July 12:00; 2 July 18:00; 5 July 10:00 & 20:00 5 July 20:00; 6 July 10:00; 7 July 12:00 & 18:00; Tickets: R45 / R35 / R30 8 July 14:00 First Performance FREE! Tickets: R60 / R40 / R40 (Donations welcome)

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Galeshewe Theatre Organisation

Goon takes place in Kimberley outside a coloured area called Colville. The play is based on five guys who illegally sift for diamonds at a mine dump. They tell the stories of their lives through humour, tears, song and dance. They are all looking for that elusive big rock (goon) to right the wrongs of their past, and live a dream life, all the while facing prejudice from the community and harassment from criminals and police. Written & directed by Moagi Modise Featuring Kagisho Shuping & Mbuyiselo Xesi

1h10 All Pro 5 English with Afrikaans & SeTswana Dicks: 2 July 10:00; 3 July 14:00 & 20:30; 4 July 14:00 & 22:30; 5 July 20:30 Tickets: R70 / R40 / R40 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Green Man Flashing

Artscape

Green Man Flashing, a political thriller by Mike van Graan, played to sold-out houses at its Fringe première in 2005, has won local and international awards, and is now studied at schools and universities. This new production by multiple award-winning director Hennie van Greuning is as relevant as ever. Written by Mike van Graan Directed by Hennie van Greunen

1h25 PG LV Pro 12 English with Afrikaans Gymnasium: 2 July 16:30; 3 July 16:30; 4 July 16:30; 5 July 16:30; 6 July 16:30; 7 July 16:00 Tickets: R55 / R40 / R40

Have you seen me? Hidden Closet P P University of Zululand

Hol

Hypnagogia

Artscape

Kamhlaba Productions

Liesbet hardlop op ‘n hol maag op ‘n trapmeul, ‘n rottewiel van haar holdersterbolder gedagtes. Sy sukkel om haar balans te behou. Sy strompel oor haar verlede. Hol is ‘n briljante nuwe stuk deur die bekende skrywer en teaterpraktisyn, Nicola Hanekom.

Exploring the metamorphosis from girl to woman, Hypnagogia challenges the audience to question its role in this transformation. Engaging the senses in an immersive experience, we explore the progression from Virgin to Prostitute to Mother, and from the slumbers of girlhood to the resurrection we call Woman.

University of Stellenbosch

Is it not shocking to discover a hidden closet in one’s own house after 25 years? Have you seen me? is a play Is it not rather painful that that explores the lives and many relationships are built testimonies of children on deceit? How well do who have been sent to seek you know your husband, safety in South Africa. Follow your wife, or your children? these six children as they Discovering a hidden closet unravel their heartfelt stories may lead to discovering as a means of remembering more secrets! their past and surviving their Written & directed by future. Gift Tapiwa Marovatsanga Written, directed & choreographed Featuring Nomusa Seleke & by Eduard de Kock Andiswa Hadebe Adapted from Glynis Clacherty’s The Suitcase Stories 55m 13+ LP SPro Music composed by Bastion & 4 performed by Lise Morrison English with isiZulu Featuring Elisha Zeeman, Andrea Frankson & Renaldo Shwarp Dicks: 4 July 20:30; 6 July 22:30; 1h All SPro 8 July 13:00 English with Afrikaans & Tickets: R40 / R30 / R25 Italian First Performance FREE! NG Kerk Hall: (Donations welcome) 4 July 10:00; 5 July 12:00; 6 July 22:00; 7 July 16:00

Written by Nicola Hanekom Directed by Fred Abrahamse Featuring Nicola Hanekom

1h 13+ L Pro 35 Afrikaans with a little English Gymnasium: 2 July 19:00;3 July 19:00; 4 July 19:00; 5 July 19:00; 6 July 19:00; 7 July 19:00 Tickets: R50 / R45 / R45

Directed by Anne Caroline Franklin Featuring Zohra Benzerga & Derek Graves

40m 13+ L 6 English Vicky’s: 28 June 14:00; 29 June 12:00; 30 June 14:00 Tickets: R20 / R15 / R17

Tickets: R30 / R25 / R25 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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Thetha Group

Fafa’s husband has recently passed away leaving several hundred pieces of his artwork. Webster – a happy-go-lucky man – can’t find a job and makes his living stealing. Interplay follows the story of Fafa and Webster as they learn how the Internet can create opportunities for them. Interplay features a bright young cast and director from Joza Township. Written by Thozi Ngeju, Susan Hansen & Linda Nelani Directed by Thozi Ngeju

55m All 1 isiXhosa with English subtitles Dicks: 28 June 14:00; 29 June 12:00; 30 June 18:30; 1 July 15:00

inTranceit 2012 – The Memory of Water P

I Salute Yesterday, Ithemba-Tattu Today & Tomorrow K-Cap P

Rhodes University Drama Department

Ubuntu Besizwe Production

Three sisters gather at the home of their recently dead mother and revisit the past in poignant and often hilarious ways. This bittersweet comedy, which proves that sometimes death can reveal the absurdity of life, is bound to surprise and delight audiences as it has done in the past. Written by Shelagh Stevenson Directed by Debbie Robertson Featuring Candice Gawler, Tyson Ngubeni & Michelle du Plessis

1h 13+ (L) St 1 English NG Kerk Hall: 28 June 18:00; 29 June 13:00; 30 June 18:00

Tickets: R30 / R20 / R25 Tickets: R30 / R20 / R20 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

This is a historical play that celebrates the women’s march against tough laws that took place in Pretoria on 9 August 1966. The story is told by military soldiers through flashbacks, monologues and music, and is presented in honour of the brave women who took the first steps towards change. Written by DV Ndlovu Directed by Sthembiso Zwane Featuring Noxolo Mathula, Mpilonhle Magubane & Ayando Sthole

1h All CT English with isiXhosa Library Hall: 28 June 21:30; 29 June 10:00; 30 June 18:00; 1 July 19:00; 2 July 12:00 Tickets: R50 / R30 / R25

This production carries a punchy, powerful message about the stigmas associated with HIV/AIDS, and the related abuses against women. According to Latoya of the Daily News this is “probably the most robust, poignant, humorous and memorable production dealing with the AIDS pandemic”. “Compelling performances…” – Caroline Smart. Written, directed & composed by Edmund Mhlongo Featuring Bongeka Mkhize & Philisiwe Ntintili

1h05 All Pro 2 English with isiZulu Masonic Front: 28 June 18:00; 29 June 16:00 & 22:00; 30 June 18:00; 1 July 14:00 & 20:00 Tickets: R60 / R30 / R40

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Just Business/Net Besigheid P

Scruffy Sessions Productions

Artscape

Journeying Home is a tribute to the search that we all embark upon in our lives to find happiness. We pack our luggage and remember, with fondness, the memories that were created and the people that helped to make them. We remember misplaced dreams, lost ambition, relationships gone astray. We reminisce as we check in our luggage, embarking on a new journey to a destination often unknown. Written & directed by Verne Rowin Munsamy Featuring Lauren Jones, Tamika Sewnarain & Ndabanhle Christopher Tobo

1h15 All Pro 1 English St. Andrew’s Hall: 4 July 10:00; 5 July 12:00; 6 July 14:00; 7 July 20:30; 8 July 12:00 Tickets: R50 / R30 / R30

This production premièred on the Main Festival programme as Hostile Takeover, produced by the Market Theatre in 2006. Now, updated and reworked by the writer, Mike van Graan, as Just Business/Net Besigheid, this satire on black economic empowerment will entertain and provoke in equal measure! Written by Mike van Graan Directed by Fred Abrahamse

1h20 PG (L) Pro English with Afrikaans Gymnasium: 2 July 14:00; 3 July 14:00; 4 July 14:00; 5 July 14:00; 6 July 14:00; 7 July 14:00 Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40

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Les Pigeons

Masidlale Productions

London Road

Lord Hamlet

KBT Productions CC

Clayton Boyd

Olova Productions This play tackles the notion of healing powers and the making of medicine, umuti, to help people get rich. Khotso Sethuntsa is a healer who is often approached for this specific purpose, for ukuthwala. The rituals and risks of ukuthwala are explored in this production.

A look into the underground world of ornithological communism, from within the minds of two in-patients. 1h PG (L) CT 4 Les Pigeons is awardwinning, revolutionary English with isiXhosa theatre where the birds-eye view of rebellion will leave B2 Arena: you on the vanguard of 28 June 12:00; 30 June 22:00; 1 July 18:00; paranoia. Wit and excellent comic timing disguise the 3 July 16:00; 5 July 16:30 uselessness of military Tickets: R30 / R25 / R25 intervention in times of First Performance FREE! change. “Beautifully crafted” – Artslink. (Donations welcome) Directed & adapted by Misumzi Thomas

Written by & featuring Ryan Mayne & Tristan Jacobs

45m 10+ (L) Pro 4 English Library Hall: 4 July 10:00; 5 July 16:30; 6 July 19:00; 7 July 18:30; 8 July 12:00 Tickets: R45 / R35 / R30

Winner of the 2010 Standard Bank Golden Ovation Award for Theatre, and 3 Fleur du Cap awards, London Road is an extraordinary story of two women whose lives collide with unexpected consequences. Funny, heartbreaking and inspiring.

Lord Hamlet is a one-man show depicting the inner turmoil of a man who can only speak the words of Hamlet. It explores Shakespeare’s Hamlet while at the same time exploring how the immortal words of the Bard affect people today.

Written by Nicholas Spagnoletti Directed by Lara Bye Featuring Robyn Scott & Ntombi Makhutshi

Collaged by Robin Malan Directed by Tara Notcutt Featuring Clayton Boyd

1h05 PG (L) Pro 2 English Glennie Hall: 28 June 18:00; 29 June 12:00 & 22:00; 30 June 18:00; 1 July 18:00; 2 July 16:00 & 22:00; 4 July 14:00; 5 July 10:00; 7 July 12:00; 8 July 10:00 Tickets: R85 / R70 / R75

1h15 16+ (V) Pro 2 English Library Hall: 28 June 13:00; 29 June 18:00; 30 June 20:00; 1 July 16:30; 2 July 20:30; 3 July 21:00; 4 July 21:00 Tickets: R55 / R40 / R45

Macbeth & Quo P Saint Thomas Aquinas School

Master of the Café Society Diplomatic Corpse

In this adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish play, a young Macbeth finds himself married to an overly ambitious wife, working for a woman, and with no chance of becoming a partner any time soon (there are two daughters waiting in the wings). What will happen? Certainly nothing expected...

Durban’s most awarded actors Darren King and Clare Mortimer (From My Point of View) return with a new adaption of Steven Berkoff’s Master of the Café Society. This is the bitterly funny, desperately lonely tale of Harry, great actor in his own mind and connoisseur of loss, lust and luncheon meat.

Directed by STAS Drama Club Music composed and performed by STAS Senior Marimba Band Adapted from Shakespeare’s Macbeth

Written by Steven Berkoff Directed by Peter Court Music performed by Christopher Duigan Featuring Clare Mortimer & Darren King

1h5 All SPro 1 English

50m 16+ (LS) Pro 11

Kingswood Theatre: 1 July 10:00; 2 July 12:00; 4 July 16:00; 6 July 18:00; 7 July 12:00; 8 July 16:00

English

NG Kerk Hall: 28 June 22:00; 29 June 17:00; 30 June 16:00; 2 July 12:00; Tickets: R35 / R25/ R25 5 July 10:00; 6 July 20:00; First Performance FREE! 7 July 14:00 & 22:00; (Donations welcome) 8 July 12:00

Tickets: R75 / R60 / R65

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Midwinter

Spoiled Brechts

A pedlar announces the war is over and as the soldiers return in the fragile peace that follows, the starving people are left to forge new identities. Written in a spare, lyrical language, Midwinter is a play about now, about love, self and a world made from conflict. Midwinter, written by acclaimed British playwright Zinnie Harris, was commissioned by the RSC in 2004.

This student production explores the various myths of Medea and her children. It questions and explores the validity of myth and the perception of Medea. Was Medea simply a vengeful wife, a desperate mother, or just a victim of the pressures of life? After all, truth is relative to its believers.

Jon Keevy

Written & directed by Benito Carelsen

English

Tickets: R45 / R35 / R30

Owl

Arts in Touch trading under Eytha Trading

1h PG Pro

30m 16+ (LS) Am

Tickets: R40 / R30 / R30 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Nthathu / Three

B&T Productions

Written by Zinnie Harris Directed by Leila Hendriques & K. Dom Gumede Featuring Mammatli Thakhuli, Masiza Mbali & Arthur Zitha

Vicky’s: 4 July 10:00; 5 July 14:00; 6 July 12:00; 7 July 20:00; 8 July 10:00

Library Hall: 4 July 19:00; 5 July 14:30; 6 July 17:00; 7 July 12:00; 8 July 14:00

My Bra se Tjirrie P

Former drug addict, Frankie, has come out of rehab with a mission: to turn his life around and to take care of his girlfriend Debbie. But while Frankie has been gone a lot has happened, and he and many other characters must pay a price.

Written & directed by Gabrielle Immelman Adapted from The myth of Medea, The Untold Ending English

The Soothsayers

55m PG (L) Am 4 English with Afrikaans Masonic Front: 28 June 14:00; 29 June 20:00; 30 June 20:00; 2 July 22:00; 3 July 12:00; 4 July 18:00 Tickets: R40 / R30 / R25

Forced into crime, fixated by love, fuelled by drugs. Nthathu / Three is a heartwarming tale about Lefu, Mpo and Bulelani, three childhood friends whose friendship is tested by the harsh realities of township life. Originally performed at the National Arts Festival in 2011. Written by Samantha Bell Directed by Melanie Rashbrooke Music composed & performed by Xola Kulati & Andiswa Mpitsha Featuring Mojalefa Koyana, Mfundo Zono & Boninkosi Jaceni

1h 13+ Pro 1 English with isiXhosa Library Hall: 28 June 19:30; 29 June 12:00 & 22:30; 30 June 14:00; 1 July 12:30; 2 July 14:00 Tickets: R30 / R20/ R10 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

When Olivia arrived in town with her Dad; she was the new girl, the weird girl. Then she met Kay, the girl with the scar. A one-woman show about growing up different in the middle of nowhere. A story about climbing trees, punching boys and kissing girls. Written & directed by Jon Keevy Choreographed by Fiona Du Plooy Music composed by Brydon Bolton Featuring Briony Horwitz

1h 13+ (LS) Pro 4 English Princess Alice Hall: 28 June 14:00; 29 June 16:00; 30 June 18:00; 1 July 20:00; 2 July 16:00; 3 July 16:00; 4 July 18:00; 5 July 20:00; 6 July 16:00; 7 July 18:00 Tickets: R70 / R60 / R50

Plasma

Izandla Productions A theatrical piece that comments on parenting in the time of cyberspace. Plasma interrogates the role of 21st century parents and the relationships they have with their children, in a digital age when children are often left to be mentored by the media without guided intervention. Written & directed by Xolisa Ngubelanga Music composed by Mkhonto Gwazela Music performed by Ritual Melodies Featuring Xolisa Ngubelanga, Mkhonto Gwazela & Sisanda Jacobs

50m All Pro 1 English with isiXhosa B2 Arena: 28 June 16:00; 29 June 14:00; 30 June 18:00; 1 July 14:00; 2 July 14:00 Tickets: R40 / R30 / R27

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Candice Lynn Williams

Princess Mkabayi P Khula Arts Centre

Relativity: Township Stories P Wits School of the Arts

Warrant Officers Lee and Singer must move fast to track down a vicious serial killer and their search leads them straight to roommates Paula and Ashley. But, when Warrant Officer Singer becomes involved with prime suspect Ashley, the race to catch a killer becomes a matter of love and death. Written & directed by Candice Lynn Williams Featuring Inger Janseen & Ashwill Roman Peterson

1h 16+ LVS SPro 1 English NG Kerk Hall: 1 July 10:00; 2 July 14:00; 3 July 12:00; 4 July 22:30; 6 July 14:00; 7 July 10:00 Tickets: R45 / R35 / R40

Power of Love Kagiso Productions

Princess Mkabayi is an epic story of an unsung hero, a great woman warrior who single-handedly formed the Zulu nation to be the strong nation it’s known as today. The story is told through powerful acting, music and dance. It’s a celebration of an African woman. Written by Bhekani Thabede Directed by Xolani Dlongolo

1h All CT IsiZulu with English City Hall: 28 June 14:00; 29 June 16:30; 30 June 18:00; 1 July 16:30 & 20:30 Tickets: R35 / R20 / R15 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Relativity is the silence in our heads, the humdrum that fixes our stomachs in knots, and the anxiety that wearies us when we ask, “is this the future?” Relativity, in its uncompromising stance of a slice of life, poses the question, “what must first happen, before we stand up, and speak b(l)ack?” In the existing leadership vacuum, Relativity threatens to reveal a society that has lost its compass and now settles on making less, more. Written by Paul Grootboom & Presley Cheweneyagae Directed by Tsepo Wa-Mamatu Featuring Zabalaza Albert Lerato

1h30 18+ (LVNS) SPro 7

Purple Passage P

PJs: 1 July 12:30; 2 July 12:30 & 17:00; 3 July 16:30 & 21:00; 4 July 14:30 & 21:00; 6 July 20:30

Baalbeck Productions

English, IsiZulu & SeSotho

Tickets: R50 / R40 / R30 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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Power of Love is about Valerie (a Christian) who kicks her brother, Ronald, out after being released on parole. Their mother dies of a heart attack because of her children’s deeds. Valerie refuses to allow Ronald to attend his mother’s funeral and tells him she regards him as a dead person. Ronald eventually gets married and becomes financially advantaged. Valerie asks for help and forgiveness from him. Written by Mareme Stephens Mokadi Directed by Johannes Mashishi Featuring John Surprise Cindi

1h All Pro 3 English B2 Arena: 28 June 14:00; 29 June 16:00; 1 July 20:00; 2 July 16:00; 3 July 20:00 Tickets: R40 / R30 / R30

Magosi Productions Baalbeck Productions makes its debut with a captivating story, Purple Passage. Two old friends, two young hearts, one small garden and many little paper boats. Directed by Carien Viljoen Featuring Ursula Foster & Steve Larter Through physical theatre this play examines how English difficult it is to commit to a course and suddenly Masonic Front: become a victim/perpetrator 3 July 10:00; of the same course. It is 4 July 12:00 & 20:00; based on stories of men who 5 July 18:00; 6 July 12:00 find themselves committing Tickets: R40 / R35 / R35 treason against their fellow First Performance FREE! brothers in South Africa. Who is to be blamed for this (Donations welcome) political manslaughter?

50m PG Pro

Written & directed by Jones Chisekula Featuring Onkaetse Maclean

1h20 All Pro 3 English Glennie Festival Centre: 28 June 21:00; 29 June 12:00 & 21:00; 30 June 20:30; 2 July 14:30 Tickets: R30 / R30 / R30 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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Risiko

Seashells

Lionel Newton

Indy Spirit Worx

Artscape

After a year with the Royal Shakespeare Company, award-winning actor, Lionel Newton is back at the Festival with an exquisitely crafted one-man show featuring the poignant madness of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, and the astounding poetry of Robert Browning. An extraordinary theatrical treat not to be missed.

Imelda seems to have it all: a rich husband, a fast car and a big mansion. When she meets Johan, a “risk analyst” with unnerving abilities, she finds a perfect match for her darker, destructive desires. Risiko is a noir psychological thriller about taboos.

Seashells tells the funny, sad and mystifying story of Ella, an identical twin with a collection of seashells, and, an even bigger collection of secrets. Fred Abrahamse directs Anthea Thompson in this quirky, black comedy that’ll have you glued to your deck-chair.

English

Imelda het alles: ryk man, vinnige kar, groot huis. Wanneer sy Johan, ‘n “risikoontleder” met senutergende vaardighede, ontmoet, vind sy die volmaakte metgesel vir haar donker, vernietigende drange. Risiko is ‘n noir riller oor begeerte en taboe.

Victoria Theatre: 30 June 16:00; 1 July 15:00; 2 July 12:30 & 19:30; 3 July 10:00 & 15:00

Written & directed by Schalk Schoombie Featuring Dominique Fourie & David Konrad

Tickets: R50 / R45 / R45

Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40

1h 18+ (VS) Pro

She Died Dreaming P

Written by Samuel Beckett, Robert Browning & Lionel Newton Featuring Lionel Newton

1h05 All Pro 10

Afrikaans

Risk

Vulture Productions

B2 Arena: 4 July 10:00; 6 July 12:00 & 16:30; 7 July 14:30; 8 July 12:00

Written by Rafiek Mammon Directed by Fred Abrahamse Featuring Anthea Thompson

1h PG (L) Pro 35 English Gymnasium: 2 July to 7 July Daily at 21:00

Abangani Theatre Group

Tickets: R60 / R50 / R55 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Written & directed by Jeremeo Le Cordeur Featuring Clayton Evertson, Tarryn Lea Sessions, Isabel Byers, Shamilla Ismeal, Othello Tyhulu & Jeremeo Le Cordeur

1h PG (LV) SPro 1 English with isiXhosa

Sê-My-Alles Imbewu

The story of a woman who lives in a dream land: she is a glamorous woman, clever, ambitious, dedicated and wild; she is very outspoken, a people-pleaser, and a go-getter; she’s always had things planned in her life, and her friends believe everything she says. She’s in love and plans a wedding with someone who does not exist. She Died Dreaming is fast paced with utterly believable characters. Like a glass of Champagne bubbly, you don’t want it to end.

For the first time, Francois Bloemhof’s award-winning radio drama, Sê- my-alles, is brought to life! This original performance uses Artaudian Written & directed by techniques to explore how Jullian Seleke Mokoto our vulnerability can affect the choices that we make. 1h10 13+(L) Pro 17 Experience this dark and English thrilling première. NG Kerk Hall: Written by Francois Bloemhof 29 June 11:00; Directed by Cheri-Lee Blackie 30 June 10:00; 1 July 14:00; Featuring Natasha Dryden, 4 July 18:00; 5 July 16:00; Angela Inglis & Pierre Nelson 6 July 18:00

55m 16+ (LV) Pro Tickets: R70 / R40 / R50 Vicky’s: 28 June 18:00; 29 June 16:00; Afrikaans with English 30 June 18:00; 1 July 10:00; NG Kerk Hall: 2 July 14:00 2 July 10:00; 4 July 12:00; 5 July 22;00; 6 July 12:00; Tickets: R55 / R45 / R45 First Performance FREE! 8 July 10:00 (Donations welcome) Tickets: R50 / R35 / R35 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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A behind-the-scenes drama in which a group of ambitious television producers develop a controversial reality game show where six contestants play Russian roulette on live television. Risk is a dark comedy, media satire depicting the obsessions people have with money, power and fame, and what they are willing to risk to get these. A multi-media experience with enough twists and turns to keep your heart racing. Adapted from Bill Guttentag’s Live!

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Simfonia

Abstr(ACT) Productions

School of Hope

A powerful play that tells the story of a woman struggling to raise her two children without any help from her drunkard and abusive husband. His son Khaya, is sucked into the crime world, peddling drugs, stealing and becoming a nuisance. His sister Angie died of HIV/ Aids after being exploited by ‘jacket-and-tie’ men, who seduce young women in the township with the lure of illegally gained money. Written & directed by Sibongiseni Myana Featuring Evans Bungu, Pholani Moyakhe & Grace Ndlovu

45m PG SP 1 English Vicky’s: 3 July 10:00; 4 July 16:00; 5 July 12:00; 7 July 16:00; 8 July 12:00

Johann Smith, winner of the ATKV C.R. Swart Prize for Scriptwriting, presents this inspirational Afrikaans production. It is a story about Oliver, who writes a musical about Simfonia, a place where the sun shines, and where the people dance and sing from dusk till dawn. That is, until Alloroc intervenes, and then everything suddenly seems to be out of place – especially for Oliver. Van bekroonde skrywer Johann Smith (Wenner van ATKV C.R. Swart Prys vir Tekste) kom die inspireerende verhaal van Oliver wat ‘n musiekblyspel skryf oor Simfonia. Die plek waar die son skyn en waar daar van vroegoggend tot laat gesing en dans word. Tot Alloroc intree – dan blyk dit dat alles nie pluis is nie. Ook nie vir Oliver nie…

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1h15 All Pro 12 English with German Drill Hall: 28 June to 8 July at 18:00 Tickets: R70 / R60 / R60

1h All Pro English Glennie Hall: 2 July 10:00; 3 July 14:00; 4 July 20:00; 5 July 18:00; 6 July 12:00; 7 July 14:00

Spontaneous

Tickets: R40 / R30 / R35 Reunion P First Performance FREE! Shukume Theatre (Donations welcome) We are often caught up by our hunger stimuli driven by uncalculated retaliation.

Bapa Theatre Productions

Written by Jame Cairns Directed by Tamara Guhrs Featuring James Cairns & Taryn Bennett

Written by Lucille Fletcher Directed by Keamogetswe Moeketsane Adapted from the Radio Play Sorry Wrong Number

NG Kerk Hall: 28 June 16:00; 29 June 19:00; 30 June 14:00; 1 July 18:30

Sobukwe my Husband

“Sie Weiss Alles is great work performed brilliantly. See it” – meganshead.co.za. “There is something so pleasing about watching well-crafted, confident and relaxed work – these actors are so in The Zone” – Artsblog.co.za. Winner of the 2011 Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award. Don’t miss it.

The haughty, wealthy invalid, Leona Stevenson, waits home alone impatiently for her husband. When she call his office, the wires get crossed and she overhears what thinks is a murder plot. As a sheer exercise in melodrama and in cumulative suspense, this play has highly vivid episodes and a grimly exciting finale.

Tickets: R40 / R40 / R40 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

James Cairns Productions

South African State Theatre

Directed by Quintin Wils Tickets: R40 / R35 / R32 Featuring Vianney Farmer First Performance FREE! 55m PG (L) SP (Donations welcome) Afrikaans

Sie Weiss Alles

Sorry Wrong Number

This play is based on the life of the late Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. The story, set in a semi-rural area, centres around a love-triangle and all the heartache that it creates. Meet Mrs Sobukwe and her neighbour Mfenyana, who is the catalyst for Mrs Sobukwe’s story. Written & directed by Given Jikwana

1h All Pro 1 English with Nguni B2 Arena: 3 July 10:00; 4 July 14:00; 5 July 22:30; 6 July 18:30; 7 July 20:30 Tickets: R50 / R40 / R38

Written & directed by Mbini Mthetheleli Adapted from Stimulus A Vengeance Hunger

50m All Am English City Hall: 6 July 10:00; 6 July 20:00; 7 July 20:00; Tickets: R35 / R30/ R31

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Catch Nicholas Ellenbogen and Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi in an interactive discussion on the Think!Fest Programme on citizenship in South Africa. Tuesday 3 July at 17:30 at the Eden Grove Complex.

Tactics

The Captain’s Tiger P Anex Theatre Productions

The Framework

Our heroine, after generations of subjugation and acceptance of her role as a rural woman, suddenly has had enough and demands a life. Her journey takes her from the discomfort of village life into the lunacy of bureaucracy and all its roadblocking of her “rights”. She discovers she is in fact as bright as any city slicker and sets out to stamp her mark as a citizen. A show that will get you thinking, and hopefully out loud. Written by Nicholas Ellenbogen Directed by Nicholas Ellenbogen & Pieter Bosch Botha Featuring Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi

1h All Pro 23 English with isiXhosa & isiZulu Dicks: 1 July 19:00; 2 July 14:00; 4 July 16:00; 5 July 18:30; 6 July 14:00 Tickets: R90 / R55 / R70

The production of this Fugard play won the prize for best production at the 2011 Fugard Festival. It deals with the young author at the start of his writing career as he sets out on a journey of discovery aboard Spontaneity, danger, revelation, invention, daring, a merchant ship sailing the Pacific Ocean. vulnerability, playfulness, three actors, five texts. You’ll Written by Athol Fugard see the whites of their eyes, Directed by Margot Wood the sweat of their brows and Featuring Dawie Fourie, their hearts in their mouths. Benita Retief & Shedrick Jacobs They don’t know what happens next, but they risk 1h10 All Pro all to find out. They will play English with Swahili to win. Glennie Festival Centre: Written by The Framework 1 July 12:30; Directed by Nina Lucy Wylde 2 July 19:00; 3 July 16:00; Featuring James Cairns, Nick 4 July 14:30; 6 July 16:00 Pauling & Hayley Roberts Tickets: R55 / R50 / R50

1h All Pro 1 English Drill Hall: 28 June to 7 July 20:00 Tickets: R55 / R55/ R55

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The Handkerchief P

Badda Pictures

Performing Arts Centre of the FREE State

The Prophet Isomi Creative Arts Space The dramatisation of life and work of Nehemiah Tile, the founder of Thembu Church, the first African independent or Seccesionist Church. Written & directed by Sonwabile Mfecane Featuring Thukela Poswayo, Vusumzi Matomane & Amanda Mangxola

The dance of the redeemed is a powerful narrative of the mysteries of God’s hand in our lives. It reminds us of the blessings God has immeasurably granted us. It details our individual battles to retain a semblance of the presence of these blessings. Sit through this, reflect on your own life, and see how the moments taken for granted are mysteries written in the paths of men. Written by Sonke Bungane Directed by Esther Manenye Featuring Leballo Mahanke, Tshegofatso Eister and Tumi Mkhondo

1h All Am English Kingswood Theatre: 2 July 10:00; 3 July 12:00; 5 July 22:00; 7 July 14:00; 8 July 10:00

It’s his graduation day and Brendon Peterson is unknowingly on his way to a surprise party. But en route to the taxi rank he gets attacked by a mugger and dies at the scene. The mugger’s handkerchief is left lying next to Brendon’s corpse. To what extent would you be willing to forgive someone who has taken something precious away from you?

Written & directed by Vusumzi Busakwe

45m All St 2 English with IsiXhosa

Glennie Festival Centre: 3 July 10:00; 4 July 18:30; 6 July 18:00; 7 July 22:00; 8 July 12:00

Tickets: R60 / R40 / R40 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

1h Ad (L) Pro 3

Revolution 360

Afrikaans Masonic Back: 28 June 12:00; 29 June 22:00; 30 June 18:00; 1 July 16:00; 3 July 18:00; 4 July 16:00; 6 July 10:00; 7 July 16:00

The Pain

Witness the souls that never realised that Satan exists in our lives. .

Glennie Festival Centre: 1 July 10:00; 2 July 12:00; 3 July 22:00; 4 July 12:00 & 20:30

The Streets of Mangaung

Walter Sisulu University

English with isiXhosa

Written by Winston Ramananela Directed by Moila Wits Lesenyeho

Tickets: R40 / R35 / R30 Tickets: R55 / R35 / R35 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

The Graveyard P

1h15 All Pro

Khanyiso Billy Dakada This is an experimental play based on the politics of the past and present South Africa, remembering the heroes of the struggle and the roles they played. The shocking experiences in the play are the new challenges we are facing today in terms of crime, corruption and greed in our society. Written & directed by Khanyiso Dakada Featuring Khanyiso Billy Dakada

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Tickets: R30 / R25 / R20 1h All CT 6 First Performance FREE! English (Donations welcome) Masonic Front: 5 July 10:00 & 22:00; 6 July 20:00; 7 July 12:00; 8 July 16:00

Tickets: R40 / R25/ R40

In Mangaung there are four streets; Matlhomola, Vuil, Diphumutswe and Nyokong Streets. These streets are etched in the minds and hearts of young and old alike, and are either damned or cherished by both residents and strangers. Meet four characters from these streets, who have committed a crime so gruesome that Mangaung will never be the same again. Written by Modipa wa Ntlha Directed by Kingdom Moshounyane Featuring Obakeng Kgwasi, Vusi Msiza, Thapelo Sebogodi & Tshepo Seagiso

1h 16+ (LVR) Pro 1 English with SA languages Glennie Festival Centre: 5 July 18:00; 6 July 10:00; 7 July 14:00 & 20:00 Tickets: R55 / R35 / R40

181 The Thoughts

Bahlodi Youth Theatre Organisation Written by Khanya Lehobye Directed by Mahlodi Matlala Music composed by Mahlodi Matlala & Khanyi Lehobye

Tough Love

Gauteng Theatre Practitioners Committee Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture

The story is centred on a young girl aged 17, who is ambitious, talented and sensitive to her surroundings. Her dream English with SeTswana is to become a scientist, Glennie Festival Centre: but she ends up being a 30 June 10:00; 1 July 14:30; professional dancer due to 2 July 17:00; 3 July 20:00 financial challenges. Her biggest problem is within Tickets: R50 / R30 / R40 her family – they don’t give First Performance FREE! her moral support, she is (Donations welcome) misjudged and deprived, particularly by her father. However, she manages to deal with this by following her talent. She becomes an Tonight Neither artist and gains respect and Hamlet P acknowledgement from her father. KBT Productions CC Written & directed by / Dowling Sisters Lindiwe Mzolo Productions

Truth Heals

Eager Artists in association with Umsindo Theatre Projects

Wintersweet

The Runaway Bunny Collective

1h5 18+ (LV) CT 2

1h All 2 English Masonic Back: 28 June 22:00; 29 June 10:00; 1 July 14:00; 2 July 22:00; 3 July 16:00

A young girl is forced to negotiate her way through South Africa alone after Set in the nineties and told through powerful dialogue, her mother is arrested monologue and verse, Truth for murder. A startlingly Heals portrays the hardships humorous journey through faced by some families and the idiosyncratic nature communities in a time when of vibrant South African freedom was only a dream. women that lands an explosive theatrical punch. . Written & directed by Written by Genna Gardini Musawenkosi Shabalala, Adapted from Janet Fitch’s Bongumusa Shabalala & White Oleander Xolani Dlongolo Directed by Robert Haxton Choreographed by Xolani Music performed by Shaun Acker, Dlongolo Featuring Thamsanqa Slindana, Madele Vermaak, Lucy Kruger & Ilana Cillier Thabani Gwala & Featuring Jessica Harrison, Lindokuhle Ndlovu Pumelela Nqelenga & 50m 13+ (V) Pro Madele Vermaak

2 English

Tickets: R35 / R25/ R25 Library Hall: First Performance FREE! 3 July 10:00; 4 July 12:00; (Donations welcome) 5 July 22:30; 6 July 14:30; 8 July 16:00

What happens behind the scenes? A broken leg, a cancelled show, and a curtain puller intent on clearing up. Township the The limelight proves Night P irresistible, he weakens, and the audience sees a TUT Pretoria Campus remarkable performance Drama Society as the frustrated actorturned-curtain puller reveals a world the audience doesn’t normally see. Witty, surprising and intriguing. Written by Rainer Lewandowski Directed by Christopher Weare Featuring Guy de Lancey

1h10 PG (L) Pro 2 English

Tickets: R85 / R70 / R75

An innovative production, full of exuberant song and dance, that explores a range of South African dance forms born out of the townships. How willing are we to acknowledge the hidden secrets and buried skeletons of the past that come back to haunt us? Written, directed & choreographed by Calvin Seretle Ratladi Music composed by Thandeka Magagula

1h All St 5 English with isiXhosa City Hall: 5 July 10:00; 6 July 12:00 & 22:00; 7 July 16:00 & 8 July 16:00 Tickets: R40 / R35 / R30

English with Afrikaans B2 Arena: 28 June 22:00; 30 June 16:00; 1 July 12:00; 4 July 12:00; 6 July 10:00; 8 July 14:00 Tickets: R45 / R35 / R40

Whilst We Were Dreaming P Eager Artists

Xenophobia

Whilst We Were Dreaming is Central University of Technology Drama an unashamedly powerful and gripping South African Society two-hander set in the 1950’s in a men’s hostel. In an attempt to escape an organised marriage, Dolly Ndlovu flees her rural village in KwaZulu-Natal to pursue her dream to become a jazz singer. Presented in association with Apple Sun Trading and Projects. Written, directed & music composed by Bhekani Biyela Featuring Bhekani Biyela

1h 13+ Pro 2 English with isiZulu B2 Arena: 29 June 18:00 & 22:00; 30 June 14:00; 1 July 22:00 Tickets: R50 / R30 / R30

This is a physical play that focuses on different kinds of people both from South Africa and immigrants. It examines the treatment they are given in South Africa – on the plot, in the streets, in tuck-shops, in Parliament, but mostly in the informal settlements. Written & directed by Itumeleng Sethuntsa

1h All St 1 English with Afrikaans & SeSotho Kingswood Theatre: 3 July 20:00; 5 July 14:00; 6 July 10:00; 7 July 18:00 & 22:00 Tickets: R50 / R35/ R30 ! First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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Princess Alice Hall: 28 June 18:00; 29 June 20:00; 30 June 14:00; 1 July 16:00; 2 July 18:00;3 July 20:00; 4 July 14:00; 5 July 16:00; 6 July 18:00; 7 July 20:00; 8 July 12:00

Tickets: R50 / R30 / R30

55m PG (LS) Pro 1

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Stuperstition

Stuart Lightbody with Stuart Lightbody with Follow Spot Productions Follow Spot Productions

Beyond Belief

Brendon Peel

Beyond Belief is an illusion act like none other, as all the magic is in the mind. See metal bending and predictions of the future with your very own eyes. Brendon Peel will take you on an entertaining and unforgettable journey of the mind. Witten, directed & performed by Brendon Peel

50m 12+ (R) 1 English Masonic Back: 28 June 18:00; 29 June 18:00; 1 July 12:00; 3 July 20:00; 4 July 20:00; 5 July 12:00; 6 July 22:00; 7 July 12:00; 8 July 12:00

Impossible, amazing and unnerving! This darker look at magic and illusion comes from Stuart Lightbody, the Silver Ovation Award-winning creator of Stuperstition. For psychologists the ink-blot test reveals hidden thoughts and dark urges. In Dark Imaginings the entire audience is part of the experiment. So what do you see?

Back by popular demand, Stuperstition is a Standard Bank Silver Ovation Awardwinning show. Sleight of hand expert Stuart Lightbody takes a skeptical look at superstitious and magical thinking. Filled with impossible feats and thought-provoking demonstrations, it is both controversial and entertaining. Miss it and you’ll curse your luck.

Written, directed & performed by Written, directed & performed by Stuart Lightbody Stuart Lightbody

55m 13+ Pro 3 55m 10+ Pro 3 English The Highlander: 29 June 16:00; 1 July 16:00; 3 July 16:00; 5 July 16:00; 7 July 16:00 Tickets: R65 / R50 / R40

English The Highlander: 28 June 16:00; 30 June 16:00; 2 July 16:00; 4 July 16:00; 6 July 16:00; 8 July 16:00 Tickets: R65 / R50 / R40

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184 Rapid Fire Fairytales SCP3

Ajobi

The Epicene Butcher World Revolution and Other Stories Thembani Onceya for Consenting Adults P

Flying Lessons P Flying House

inTranceit 2012 – Hydrolunatics

Directed by Bongani Diko Written by Thembani Onceya Music composed & performed by Nqabakazi Mountain Featuring Thembinkosi Gosani, Thembani Onceya & Abongile Tembani

Being creative is like learning to fly. First you dream it, then you plan it, then you take the dive. If you are an aspiring actor, writer or theatre-maker, these drama workshops help you find your feet... and then your wings! Run by professional dramatists, these workshops are nothing like you’ll get at school.

Taken to the streets of Grahamstown in the form of a parade/procession, consisting of musicians playing handmade recycled instruments as well as mobile, recycled sculptures, this work focuses on the water crisis our country and the rest of the world is currently facing.

50m 16+ (LVS) Pro 3

50m All CT

Written, directed & performed by Tamara Guhrs

1h All St 1

English with Japanese

English with isiXhosa Masonic Front: 28 June 12:00; 29 June 14:00; 30 June 16:00; 6 July 10:00; 7 July 18:00; 8 July 14:00

1h30 12+ Pro 9

Zintsomi Communications

Ajobi theatre is based on storytelling traditions. It highlights parallels and contractions between humans, animals and the planet. It explores elements of Ubuntu through different stories that are told in narrative, mixed with light humor, juxtaposed with exciting multimedia images of our times. It is innovative, entertaining and suitable for the whole family. Written & directed by Tale Motsepe

1h All SPro 2 English with isiZulu, SeTswana, isiXhosa NG Kerk Hall: 1 July 20:30; 2 July 22:30; 3 July 18:30; 4 July 16:00; 5 July 18:00 Tickets: R45 / R35 / R40

Following the success of Tellin’ Tales in 2010/11, Gavin returns in 2012 taking his mix of music, storytelling and lightning-speed improvisational poetry to new heights! The Herald said of Gavin, “Seriously, seeing is believing!”, and Motion Mag called him “Master Storyteller”. Check out audio and video material on www.gavinbonner.com. Directed by Gavin Bonner

50m 10+ (P) Pro 2 English Glennie Festival Centre: 28 June 14:00; 29 June 19:00; 30 June 12:00; 2 July 10:00; 3 July 14:00 4 July 16:30; 5 July 22:00; 6 July 14:00; 7 July 10:00

Through the Japanese medium of Kamishibai, artist and performer Jemma Kahn relates the tragedy of The Epicene Butcher, a man who died because he ate what he loved. Other stories include Japanese classics and unwholesome tales of immoderate desire. Expect beautiful pictures and horrible ideas. Directed by John Trengove Conceived by Gwydion Beynon & Jemma Kahn Featuring Jemma Kahn

World Revolution is a captivating story of villagers who revolt against their colonizer to establish a land of peace and justice. They organize a meeting where they tell their colonizer that enough is enough. The meeting ends in tragedy for all. This show is about revolution and its changes – miss it and you’ll miss out.

Masonic Back: 30 June 16:00; 2 July 12:00; 3 July 10:00; 4 July 14:00; Tickets: R55 / R35 / R40 5 July 18:00; 6 July 20:00; First Performance FREE! 7 July 20:00; 8 July 14:00 Tickets: R25 / R15 / R25 (Donations welcome) Tickets: R50 / R45 / R45 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

English Drill Hall: Daily @ 09:30 Tickets: R150 / R150 / R120

Produced by Whitney Turner English Drostdy Arch: 28 June 13:00; 5 July 13:00; 7 July 13:00

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185 A Tale of Horribleness The Space Behind The Couch

A Tale of Horribleness tells the story of the second-toyoungest Whomper child with a big imagination who, along with the irritating Mymble girl from next door, and his toy ferret Gary, travels through made-up worlds and battles strange and horrible creatures in order to rescue his baby brother from the dreaded Aichump.

Global Ballgame P

Of Birds and Beasts

Anex Theatre Productions

Theatre for Africa

A celebration of African storytelling by Theatre for Africa’s Liz Szymczak and Nhlandla Mkhwanazi. They have toured the world together sharing awards and many honours, and now they share their love of the African bush, here in Grahamstown, in this concise collection.

Tickets: R55 / R45 / R40

Written & directed by Margot Wood Directed: Pieter Bosch Botha Adapted from a compilation of 20 Featuring Margot Wood, Gavin plays by Nicholas Ellenbogen Wright & Shedrick Jacobs Featuring: Liz Szymczak & Ndlandla 1hr All Pro Mkwanazi English 40 m All Pro 22 Oatlands School – English Assitej Family Venue: Oatlands School 28 June 18:00; Assitej Family Venue: 29 June 18:00; 30 June 18:00; 1 July 18:00; 28 June 14:00; 29 June 14:00; 30 June 14:00; 2 July 14:00; 3 July 20:00; 1 July 14:00; 2 July 18:00; 4 July 20:00; 5 July 18:00; 3 July 14:00; 5 July 14:00; 6 July 10:00; 7 July 18:00 6 July 18:00; 7 July 14:00 Tickets: R40 / R35 / R30 Tickets: R50 / R25 / R40 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Eco-Wolf and the Three Pigs

Kitchen Fables in a Cookie Jar

Directed by Merryn Carver Written by Beren Belknap & Merryn Carver Music composed & performed by Gabriel Marchand Featuring Beren Belknap, Joanna Evans & Gabriel Marchand

1h All Pro 1 English Princess Alice Hall: Daily @ 10:00

Ubom! Eastern Cape Drama Company

Baba Yaga Theatre

Eden College Durban

From Ovation Awardwinning company, Baba Yaga Theatre. Under a not quite ordinary kitchen table, a girl finds kitchen tools and ingredients come alive. On her explorative journey, objects transform into weird creatures and dreamy landscapes. Creating magical pictures through non-verbal physical storytelling, dance, lights, sound … and smell!

Join eccentric Professor Twiddle and the Jones Quad Squad on their amazing travels through time. Meet the Ug-g Clan, spell-binding Cleopatra, and the world’s most famous inventors. You will be thrilled and enthralled by this interactive theatrical journey. Fantastic theatre for kids by kids. Don’t miss this one!

Directed by Rob Murray Adapted from Laurence Anholt Featuring Liezl de Kock, Ilana Cilliers Director, Writing & Photography: & Sparky Xulu Jori Snell Artistically advised by 45m All Pro 14 Caroline Calburn & Nicky Visser English with SA languages Oatlands School – Assitej Family Venue: 28 June 10:00; 29 June 10:00; 30 June 10:00; 1 July 12:00; 2 July 12:00; 3 July 12:00; 4 July 10:00; 5 July 10:00 Tickets: R45 / R40 / R40 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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Written & directed by Jean van Elden

45m All SP 15

50 m 6+ Pro 3

St. Andrew’s Prep Memory Hall: 30 June 14:00; 1 July 10:00; 2 July 12:00; 3 July 14:00

English

Tickets: R45 / R30 / R30

Oatlands School – Assitej Family Venue: 1 July to 8 July Daily at 10:00 Tickets: R45 / R40 / R40

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In a treat for kids of all ages, Laurence Anholt’s book is jolted to life by the energetic and ever-inventive Ubom! Theatre Company. An ecowolf is forced to save his beautiful valley from three greedy pigs who threaten to ruin it forever with their pollution. “Noisy, good stomping fun!” – Cue.

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Tales From the Brothers Grimm The Actors Co-Operative

Adlib Musical Productions

A magical, musical children’s story about the power of imagination as seen through the eyes and ears of two special friends who encounter a crazee caterpillar called Pitterpat. The performance also features audience participation that engages, empowers and enlightens children of all ages to the power of music and imagination. Written & directed by Lynn Joffe & Adam Howard Featuring Lynn Joffe, Adam Howard & Michael Richard

45m All Pro 6 English Oatlands School – Assitej Family Venue: 28 June 12:00; 29 June 12:00; 30 June 12:00; 1 July 20:00; 2 July 20:00; 3 July 18:00; 4 July 14:00 & 18:00; 5 July 20:00 Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Wacky Wizard

This children’s holiday treat relies solely on voice and movement to convey the Grimm’s most well-known tales: Ashputel, Little Red Cap, and Rumpelstiltskin. Robyn Wells holds the attention of the audience with ease, putting in a high-energy, engaging performance. At an hour, this is ideal entertainment for the young ones. Written & directed by Garth Anderson Adapted from stories of Jacob & Wilhem Grimm Featuring: Robyn Hailey Wells English Oatlands School Assitej Family venue: 28 June – 7 July Daily at 16:00 Tickets: R50 / R50 / R45 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Shirley Kirchmann

Bethvale Primary School

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Director & Writer: Benito Carelsen

45m All SP 1 English St. Andrew’s Prep Memory Hall: 2 July 10:00; 3 July 12:00; 4 July 14:00; 5 July 12:00 Tickets: R30 / R25 / R20

Meet piglet, Tallulah Belle, who lives with her mom and sisters. One day Tallulah Belle has to move farms. Now she has to make new friends and find her new place. Is she a horse? Is she a cow? And does she have to be defined by being a pig? Director: Catherine Kirchmann Writing: Shirley & Catherine Kirchmann (Adapted from the book Tallulah Bell by Shirley & Catherine Kirchmann) Featuring: Shirley Kirchmann

50m All Pro 8 English St. Andrew’s Prep Memory Hall: 29 June 10:00; 30 June 16:00; 1 July 14:00; 3 July 10:00; 4 July 16:00 Tickets: R37 / R37 / R37

Director & Writer: Paul Malek Featuring: Wacky Wizard

40m All Pro 7

1hr All Pro 3

Tallulah Belle

With audience participation, Wacky Wizard’s Comedy Magic Show is a babble of fun! Wacky Wizard is 1000 years old and hails from a wacky place called Wizmania. He was born at a young age and was close to his mother at the time.

English

Timmy Big Ears P Timmy is everyone’s favourite little boy and is loved by everyone in the village. He, however, has extremely big ears and is not happy them. He hears of the village Princess Jessmean who has the power to heal people and he then sets out on a journey to see if she can make his ears normal. Timmy meets many friends along the way. Come join Timmy and Joey, the clever mouse, on their quest to make Timmy’s big ears normal!

Wacky Wizard Comedy Magic Show

Memory Hall: 30 June 10:00; 1 July 12:00; 2 July 14:00; 3 July 16:00; 4 July 12:00; 5 July 16:00; 6 July 14:00; 7 July 12:00; 8 July 10:00 Tickets: R45 / R35 / R35 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

MEMORY HALL Sat 30 June 10:00 Sun 1 July 12:00 Mon 2 July 14:00 Tue 3 July 16:00 Wed 4 July 12:00

Thu 5 July 16:00 Fri 6 July 14:00 Sat 7 July 12:00 Sun 8 July 10:00

188 2012 – The Mayan Angels and Aliens Autopsy Raiders P P Captain Midnight Theatre for Africa

Disaster. Predictions. Chaos. Global warming. Market collapse. Depression. The end of the world. This all proves a rich feeding ground for this greedy world conglomerate. With all this in the air, a world takeover is imminent. Can they be stopped before the world order is toppled? Miss Raiders and you miss the Festival! Directed by Andrew Brent Written by & featuring Nicholas Ellenbogen

1h30 All Pro 22 English PJ’s: Daily at 10:00 Tickets: R90 / R60 / R70

Andrew Simpson Productions

Bench

Brent Palmer

Best Medicine

Bitches Be Crazy P

Mark Palmer Stand-Up Comedian

The Woods Media Group

Productions

Whimple’s Mortuary, a once proud family business has fallen into disrepair. Follow the bumbling Dr Winston Whimple as he navigates the final days of his failing morgue where power, professionalism and manipulation give way to something far more sinister in a dark and comical tale. Business is booming!

Bench is a gritty comedy drama about two small-time crooks sat on a park bench, on the brink of their most daring job to date. However, when one of them gets a crisis of conscience and begins to question the job, the planning takes an interesting turn.

Mash together a lesbian rock star, Mary Scary from New York, and a Namibian socialite, Champagne Le Roux, and you have Bitches Be Crazy, a drag rock show that reinvents the perception of improv theatre. Catch comedian and 2oceansVibe Radio DJ, Rhys Woods, as he portrays two of South Africa’s most badass characters in one show.

Stand-up comedian Mark Palmer, described by Zane Who are we? Why are we Henry of The Argus as “clean, here? Who let the dogs classy and clever”, is back in out? You are invited into Grahamstown this year with the madcap imagination Best Medicine. Great comedy of Andrew Simpson as with no harmful side-effects. he explores life’s greatest No vulgarity. No cringing. questions. Described as No embarrassing situations! Jeff Dunham meets Monty Python, Simpson channels Written by & featuring Brent Palmer From the perils of married life to baby-sitting other an assortment of weird 1h10 10 +(L) Pro 2 people’s kids, teenagers, and wonderful characters! Written & directed by Josh Martin your first car, renting DVDs, With fantasy, comedy and Featuring Ed Pepperel, Candice English with Afrikaans modern technology and adventure, this is a feel-good Gawler, Roscoe Ratangee & general social commentary Library Hall: must-see. Tristan Jacobs on life and the world we 28 June 15:30; Written by & featuring live in, Mark talks about 29 June 14:00; 1h 13+ (V) SPro Andrew Simpson 30 June 16:00; 1 July 21:00; everything. English 3 July 12:30; 5 July 20:30; Written, directed, & performed by 1hr PG Pro 2 Gymnasium: 6 July 21:00; 7 July 10:00 Mark Palmer 28 June 20:30; 30 June 14:30 English Tickets: R60 / R50 / R50 & 21:00; 1 July 16:30 1h All Pro 1 Masonic Front: First Performance FREE! 1 July 10:00; 2 July 14:00; Tickets: R40 / R35 / R30 English (Donations welcome) 3 July 16:00; 4 July 22:00; Scout Hall: 5 July 12:00; 29 June 18:00; 30 June 7 July 10:00 & 20:00 19:30; 1 July 21:00; Tickets: R60 / R40 / R35 2 July 22:30; 4 July 18:00; 5 July 16:30; 6 July 16:30; 7 July 12:00 & 19:30

Directed by Stacey Howell Written by Stacey Howell & Rhys Woods Featuring Rhys Woods

1h 16 + (LS) Pro English Scout Hall: 28 June 19:30; 29 June 15:00; 30 June 15:00; 1 July 12:00; 2 July 18:00; 3 July 13:30

Tickets: R55 / R45 / R50 First Performance discount: R35

Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40

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190 Big Boys Don’t Dance

Boet ‘n Swaer

Bru Masidlale Productions

Follow Spot Productions

Gaaauuuwwwwd! They’re back! Boet ‘n Swaer, the hilariously funny, This multi award-winning politically incorrect, sexist South African comedy comedy returns after 5 sensation is back by massive years of Festival drought. popular demand for its International tours and final year at the National raconteur fame bring this Arts Festival. Big Boys has deadpan duo back to become infamous as a Grahamstown. Delightfully feel-good, energetic and wicked and awfully dry, this refreshing piece that the Eastern Cape humour brings whole family will enjoy. tears to a sour veld tortoise’s Ash and Brad invite the eye. Festino’s will cry with audience into their world of laughter! boyish banter as they tackle pre-wedding obstacles and Directed by Alan Weyer prove that “real men dance”. Written by & featuring Alan Weyer This is one show that cannot & Brian Mullins be missed. Pre-booking is 1h15 13+ SPro 10 highly recommended. Directed, choreographed & written English with Afrikaans & isiXhosa by Vanessa Harris & Ash Searle Featuring Ash Searle & Brad Searle

1h PG Pro 3 English The Highlander: Daily at 12:00 St Andrew’s Hall: 6 July 16:30; 7 July 16:30 Tickets: R65 / R55 / R60

A two-man act about the perils of displacement. Join two Saffas as they escape their purgatory of the big city in search of the freedom of the waves. The play is a fusion of acting, song, mime and dance as a pair of talented young actors transform themselves into myriad characters. “Very creative, humorous physical theatre…impressive acting” – Cue, 2011. Written & directed by Josh Martin Featuring Sandi Dlangalala & Mike von Bardeleben

50m 13 (L) Pro 4 English

St. Andrew’s Hall: 29 June 18:30; 30 June 20:00; 4 July 18:30; 6 July 18:30; 7 July 18:30

NG Kerk Hall: 28 June 20:00; 29 June 15:00; 30 June 12:00; 2 July 16:00; 3 July 16:30

Tickets: R70 / R70 / R70

Tickets: R45 / R35 / R30

Bridezilla!

Butlers & Bunny Chows P

Sunshine Coast Studios

Slick ‘n Sleeve

Body Language Gaëtan Schmid

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A hysterical romp down the aisle past a host of hilarious characters: fascist priests, obsessive brides, loutish best men, Sold out in 2011! Your body inappropriate grannies, a malicious mother-in-law and talks and talks and talks loads more. Charge your and doesn’t shut up! Ever. Unless you’re dead. Hilarious glasses to the lighter side and informative, the wacky of matrimonial madness! “Hilarious from beginning to Belgian, Gaëtan Schmid, is end!” – Rhodes Music Radio. back to fascinate you with the secret language of the Directed by Colin Ward human body. “… a solo tour Written by & featuring de force …” – The Sunday Nicola Barbour Times. Directed by Lara Bye Written by & featuring Gaëtan Schmid

1h5 16 Pro 11 English Princess Alice Hall: Daily at 12:00 Tickets: R75 / R40 / R65

1h PG (L) Pro 3 English

B2 Arena: 30 June 10:00; 1 July 16:00; 2 July 12:00 & 18:00; 3 July 22:00; 4 July 16:00 Tickets: R60 / R50 / R50

It’s the audience that decides throughout the show what happens next! When an ex-Bollywood movie star is thrust into an undercover operation in the household of a wealthy crime boss, a thrilling chain of events is set in motion where anything can happen. Suspicious characters, outrageous antics and twisting plots right up to the final scene! Written & directed by Justin Wilkinson Featuring Evelyn Brink, Rameez Nordien & Justin Wilkinson

1h 10+ Pro 13 English Vicky’s: 29 June 14:00; 30 June 12:00 & 22:00; 1 July 16:00; 2 July 12:00; 3 July 20:00; 4 July 12:00; 5 July 16:00; 6 July 20:00; 7 July 12:00 Tickets: R59 / R45 / R40

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Caught In The Act

Shirley Kirchmann

A ColaborArt Project

Comedy with Khanyisa Bunu

Cooked

Follow Spot Productions

Bread and Butter Entertainment

“Her physical comedy is the equal of her intellectual sharpness” – The Citizen. “Totally hilarious … a power performer with great comic timing. I laughed my heart out.” – Megan’s Head. “Funny, very funny, intelligent and endowed with a razor sharp wit…highly entertaining… timing that even the Swiss would admire” – Cape Times.

A man, a woman, a bed – what’s so hard to figure out? A comedic frolic for two trapped characters. Sassy, funny and fresh. A must-see featuring Barbie Meyer and Graham van der Merwe.

Directed by Catherine Kirchman Written by Shirley Kirchmann & Catherine Kirchmann Featuring Shirley Kirchmann

1h 16 (S) Pro 5

1h 16 (L) Pro 8 English Dicks: 28 June 16:00; 29 June 16:00; 30 June 22:30; 2 July 12:00 & 20:30; 4 July 12:00; 5 July 10:00; 7 July 18:30; 8 July 15:00 Tickets: R55 / R55 / R55

Directed by Marke Meyer Written by Bruce Kane Featuring Barbie Meyer & Graham van der Merwe English Dicks: 28 June 12:00; 29 June 18:30; 30 June 13:00; 1 July 21:00; 3 July 12:00; 5 July 14:00; 6 July 20:30; 7 July 10:00 & 22:30

Follow Spot Productions has cooked up a show dedicated to the young and This show features a the young at heart. Enjoy 45 collaboration between a minutes of manic mess and very funny comedian and mayhem with the well oiled a group of poets. Bunu duo, Richard Lothian and provides comic bantering Alex Tops, as they display either side of performance poetry sketches. “A stand-up their legendary family comedy show highlighting entertainment skills. A South African experiences” handful of acrobatics, a dash of disaster, and a gallon of – Cue 2011 fun makes Cooked a recipe Directed by Phumeza Mni of unmissable theatrics. Can Written by & featuring you handle the heat in this Khanyisa Bunu kitchen?

1h All Pro 1 English with isiXhosa Scout Hall: 6 July 12:00 & 21:00; 7 July 13:30; 8 July 12:00

Tickets: R50 / R40 / R45 Tickets: R60 / R50 / R45 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Written & directed by Vanessa Harris & Ash Searle Featuring Alex Tops & Richard Lothian

50m All Pro 3 English The Highlander: Daily @ 10:00 Tickets: R65 / R40 / R60

David Newton – Best of Fest

David Newton – Dysfunctional

David Newton Productions

Undeniably the most mentioned and featured comedian in other performers’ shows at Festival 2011. Showcasing the all-time best laughs of Newton’s four comedy specials, Politically Incorrect, Laugh, Defending The Laid Man and Dysfunctional, in a never-done-before format, where audiences choose their favourite Newton jokes before he steps on stage. No two shows the same. Be a part of it.

Set to hit the Hollywood big screens in a movie entitled The Marker! See it here first. “A roaringly funny stand-up performance by one of the best comedians in the business” – Grocotts 2011. Ever wondered what dysfunctional upbringing makes a comedian?

Written, directed & performed by David Newton

St. Andrew’s Hall: 28 June 14:00; 29 June 16:30; 30 June 16:00; 1 July 18:30; 2 July 16:30; 3 July 17:00; 5 July 10:00; 6 July 12:00 & 22:30; 8 July 10:00

1h30 PG Pro 7 English St. Andrew’s Hall: 28 June 20:30; 29 June 21:00; 1 July 22:30; 3 July 12:00; 4 July 21:00; 5 July 14:30; 7 July 10:00; 8 July 14:30 Tickets: R75 / R65 / R65 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Written, directed & performed by David Newton

1h PG Pro 7 English

Tickets: R65 / R55 / R55 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Book for either of David Newton’s shows before 27 June 2012 and you’ll get R10 off the full ticket price!

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Discounted

The Mob

Podium… The Comedy Merchants

Centrestage

Five shop workers prepare for customers in a place David Kibuuka is regarded as where people have long one of the most prominent gone. The manager motivates, in the hope comedians performing that tourism will pick up, in South Africa today. His but struggles to hide the impressive body of work truth as events unfold. With spans live stage, television world debt as a source of and film, and includes inspiration, Discounted is a impressive credits such as brilliant physical comedy the Pure Monate Show and Late Nite News on television, not to be missed. and films Bunny Chow and Directed by Helen Iskander Blitz Patrollie. This is his first Devised by the company ever one-man show. Featuring Lamar Bonhomme, Ben Bell & Simeen Whisgary Written by & featuring David Kibuuka

55m PG Pro English Masonic Back: 2 July 10:00; 3 July 12:00; 4 July 18:00; 5 July 22:00; 6 July 12:00 Tickets: R50 / R40 / R45

Dr Stef’s SideSplitting Hypnosis

Gino Fabbri and Donna Africa in Funni Galore

55m All SPro English Drill Hall: Daily @ 14:00 Tickets: R50 / R40 / R35 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Etty Spaghetti

Outrageously hilarious and quite certifiable by all accounts, comediansingers Gino Fabbri and Donna Africa bring a brand new selection of madcap characters and crazy antics to life in their latest musical comedy romp. While not setting any new cultural benchmarks or in fact teaching you anything at all, Funni Galore is jam-packed with irreverence which will have you rolling around with laughter. Directed by Gary Hemmings Written by Gino Fabbri & Gary Hemmings Featuring Gino Fabbri & Donna Africa

1h All Pro 7 English

Etienne Shardlow

Stef

Bowling Club: 28 June 17:30; 29 June 19:30; 30 June 15:30; 4 July 19:30; 6 July 15:30; 7 July 13:30 Tickets: R75 / R65 / R65

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Extreme, fast-paced and suitable for all ages! Informative, wacky and hilarious. An amazing journey into the world of the subconscious. Crazy reactions from volunteers who Dr Stef helps on stage. Regularly sold out. The funniest show you will ever see! Rated “Of the worlds best hypnotists’. Come see why! www.DrStef.co.za Written & directed by Stef

1h15m All Pro 18 English with Moon Language Cave Language Victoria Theatre: 29 June 21:30; 30 June 13:30; 30 June 20:30; 1 July 10:00; 1 July 22:00; 2 July 14:30; 3 July 17:00 Tickets: R69 / R59 / R59

Etienne Shardlow’s comedy characters are unsavoury, bitter, dipped in sarcasm and served on a bed of whacky concepts, tangled word-play and twisted thought processes. A oneman, multiple personality stand-up comedy show.

Centrestage

Written by & featuring Etienne Shardlow

The ever-popular, crazy Centrestage funnyman and Italian stallion, Gino Fabbri, English and his side-chick Donna Africa, combine off-theDicks: wall comedy antics with 29 June 10:00; 30 June 20:30; 1 July 13:00; certifiable characters and musical fun in a highlights 2 July 22:30; 3 July 18:30 combination of something Tickets: R30 / R20 / R25 old and something new First Performance FREE! taken from their hit shows Toast and Nuts. (Donations welcome)

55m 16+(LSRP) Am

Directed by Gary Hemmings Written by Gino Fabbri & Gary Hemmings Featuring Gino Fabbri & Donna Africa

1h All Pro 7 English Bowling Club: 29 June 15:30; 1 July 15:30; 5 July 19:30; 7 July 11:00 Tickets: R75 / R65 / R65

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Dark Laugh Theatre in collaboration with Fresco and KBT

Directed by James Cuningham Designed by Jenni-Lee Crewe Featuring Helen Iskander, Taryn Bennett & Dorian Burstein

1h5 10 (L) Pro 10 English Drill Hall: Daily @ 12:00

Live and Kicking Late Night Comedy returns with three different top local and Eddie is a salesman with a international comics nightly. flashy car and a moustache Still the best value comedy he adores. Crystal is a show on the fringe: never croupier with a bit of a thing the same show twice! for Sean Connery. These Unplanned, uncensored and two would-be lovers spend unbelievably funny. Book a weekend attempting now. This show has sold out to spark romance. Will three years running! opposites attract or should Eddie have stayed at home See daily line-up in Cue with his mum? www. 2h 18 + (LVNSRP) 4 kissingsidjames.co.za English, Afrikaans & Directed by Greg Homann isiXhosa Written by Robert Farquar Featuring Graham Hopkins & Louise Cuervo Music Room: Saint Claire 29 June 22:00; 30 June 22:00; 1h30 Adults only 6 July 22:00; 7 July 22:00

Pro 4

Tickets: R70 / R60 / R60 English First Performance FREE! Kingswood Theatre: (Donations welcome) 29 June 12:00; 30 June 16:00; 1 July 20:00; 2 July 14:00

Tickets: R60 / R40 / R40

King of Old Trafford is one man’s tale of life, love and Manchester United. Dhaveshan Govender flits between colourful characters in an hour that attempts to explain the die-hard United fan. A must for spouses trying to understand their sportobsessed partners. Directed by Shika Budhoo Written by & featuring Dhaveshan Govender

1h 13+ (LP) Pro 5

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Love @ First Fight Follow Spot Productions

Le Chop Royale P Neon Anthems

He can be compared to Sacha Baron Cohen, Jack Black and Chris Lilee – but that’s only his opinion. Nevertheless, Le Chop goes all out with songs, skits, and guest appearances in what he calls “the greatest comedy show of all time”. Outrageous, extravagant and hilarious – but that’s also just his opinion.

Tickets: R50 / R45 / R40 First Performance FREE! Directed by Mark Edwards (Donations welcome) Written & performed by Jacobus van Heerden

Tickets: R70 / R60 / R60

Dhaveshan Govender

English

Mark Sampson

Afroasia Management LTD

In a country that has seen many decades of war, two brothers live peacefully on the Mediterranean Sea. Then a foreign occupation disrupts their lives in unimaginable ways. With exquisite clowning, Kaput is “superb... mesmerising... a total gem” – Cue.

King of Old Trafford

Live and Kicking

1h PG Pro 7 English Scout Hall: 30 June 13:30; 2 July 15:00 & 21:00; 3 July 16:30; 4 July 12:00; 5 July 15:00; 6 July 22:30; 7 July 21:00 Tickets: R60 / R50 / R35

Ash (Big Boys Don’t Dance) and Vanessa (Running Riot), the “perfect” couple, take off on a date night from hell exposing the foolish facts, highlights and low blows of a committed relationship. This wet-your-pants comedy, created by the multi award-winning Follow Spot Productions is the prequel to the sell out sensation Big Boys Don’t Dance. Directed by Follow Spot Productions Choreographed by Ash Searle Written by & featuring Ash Searle & Vanessa Harris

1h PG (S) Pro 3 English The Highlander: Daily @ 14:00 Tickets: R65 / R55 / R60

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…miskien

Nothing Funny P

The Pink Couch

Two Men & A Dog Productions

Bauke Snyman This is a site-specific performance of four of Fernando Arrabal and Edward Albee’s one act plays. This comic production uses absurdist gallows humour, clowning, physical theatre and spectacular staging techniques to take us on a rollercoaster ride across battlefields, torture chambers, sunny beaches and wastelands. Directed by Bauke Snyman (winner of the Sanlam Prize for Afrikaans Theatre Award in 2009), the show will feature Richard Antrobus, winner of the 2011 Standard Bank Ovation “Encore” Award. Directed by Bauke Snyman Written by Fernando Arrabal & Edward Albee Featuring Richard Antrobus

The story of two best friends which “leaves one breathless and hardly daring to breathe” – The Cape Times. The internationally acclaimed, controversial, intimate and multi awardwinning ...miskien returns from a 5-star run at the Amsterdam Fringe 2011 and Fringe World in Perth earlier this year for its final National Arts Festival run.

1h20 13+ (N) Pro 4

Directed by Tara Louise Notcutt Written by Albert Pretorius, Gideon Lombard & Tara Notcutt Featuring Albert Pretorius & Gideon Lombard

English

55m 13+ (L) Pro 2

St Andrew’s Drama Studios: 3 July 19:00; 4 July 19:00; 5 July 19:00; 6 July 19:00 Tickets: R80 / R60 / R50

English with Afrikaans Vicky’s: 28 June 20:00; 29 June 22:00; 1 July 18:00; 3 July 18:00; 4 July 22:00; 5 July 18:00; 6 July 18:00; 7 July 10:00; 8 July 14:00

When two dim-witted actors find themselves on stage with no script, they foolishly attempt to entertain the audience, only to find out that they are starring in a tragic masterpiece. Can they stay alive until the end of the show? A play about death, meaning and underpants. Written & directed by Damon Berry Featuring Joe Vaz & Damon Berry

55m 10+ (L) Pro 4 English Masonic Front: 4 July 10:00; 5 July 14:00; 6 July 16:00; 7 July 16:00 & 22:00; 8 July 12:00 Tickets: R55 / R30 / R40 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Tickets: R65 / R50 / R50

Martin Evans and the F.B.P.K

One-Woman Farce P Money’s Too Tight to Mention P

Theatreshop Productions

Stuart Taylor

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Award-winning storyteller and comedian, Martin Evans, returns to stage with his hilarious new show, Martin Evans and the FBPK. Winner of a 2011 Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival, Martin has been described as one of the brightest, funniest comics of his generation. “Take it from me, he had us rolling in the aisles and weeping with laughter” - Comics’ Choice awardwinner and actor, Rob van Vuuren. Directed by Rob van Vuuren Written & performed by Martin Evans

1h 16+ (LR) Pro 3 English Scout Hall: 28 June 15:00; 29 June 16:30; 30 June 18:00; 1 July 19:30; 3 July 12:00; 4 July 15:00; 5 July 19:30; 6 July 15:00; 7 July 18:00 Tickets: R55 / R45 / R55 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

One-Woman Farce is a new play written by Greg Homann for the formidable Award-winning comedian comic actress, Louise SaintStuart Taylor and director Claire. The Hodgkins family Heinrich Reisenhofer have home tries to adapt to the teamed up to explore the ups and downs on the roller- arrival of Granny, a spirited woman who is young at coaster ride of aspiration. heart and who appreciates The show gives a fresh and hilarious perspective on the an early morning brandy to get the day started. way we deal with money and the crazy things we do Written & directed by Greg Homann to get ahead in life Featuring Louise Saint-Claire Directed by Heinrich Reisenhofer 1h5 PG Pro 10 Written & performed by Stuart Taylor English

1h 16 + (L) Pro 5 English St. Andrew’s Hall: 28 June 16:00; 29 June 12:00; 30 June 14:00; 1 July 20:30; 2 July 14:30; 3 July 21:00; 4 July 12:30; 5 July 17:00 Tickets: R60 / R45 / R50

Scout Hall: 4 July 19:30; 5 July 13:30 & 22:30; 6 July 19:30; 7 July 16:30; 8 July 13:30 Tickets: R60 / R40 / R30

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The Space Behind the Couch

Handspring awardwinning company, The Space Behind The Couch, presents a steam-punk, Boer War, bromantic comedy about flying machines, assassination attempts, friendship and koeksisters. Out of Order meshes quirky comedy and comic books to create some of the most unbelievable war stories you have ever heard. Written & directed by Beren Belknap Featuring Gabriel March & James MacGregor

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2 Tone Productions

Podium… The Comedy Merchants

Winner of a 2011 Ovation Award! One day, Bobby Jones knocks over a vase filled with the late Mrs Moodley’s ashes. What follows is a series of unfortunate yet very amusing events which finds Bobby using his detective tactics to uncover some facts that were best kept under the rug. Directed by Liam Magner Written by Grant Jacobs & Liam Magner Featuring Grant Jacobs

50m PG Pro 10

1h PG (L) Pro 1 English Masonic Back: 28 June 14:00; 29 June 20:00; 30 June 22:00; 2 July 16:00; 4 July 22:00; 5 July 14:00; 6 July 16:00; 7 July 22:00

English Vicky’s: 28 June 16:00; 29 June 20:00; 1 July 20:00; 3 July 14:00; 5 July 22:00; 6 July 10:00; 7 July 22:00 Tickets: R50 / R50 / R45

Tickets: R60 / R50 / R45 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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South Africa’s premier ventriloquist, Conrad Koch, brings his critically acclaimed one-man show, Puppet Asylum, to Grahamstown. Conrad’s comic genius comes from being able to weave between cutting-edge comedy and world-class puppetry, leaving audiences spellbound and in complete hysterics. Puppet Asylum is a comedic work of art Directed by Heinrich Reisenhofer Written by Conrad Koch & Heinrich Reisenhofer Featuring Conrad Koch & Chester Missing

55m 16+ (L) Pro 1 English St. Andrew’s Hall: 28 June 12:00; 30 June 12:00; 1 July 10:00 & 16:30; 2 July 12:30 & 22:30; 3 July 10:00 & 19:00; 5 July 21:00 Tickets: R60 / R45 / R50

Words & Pictures

Pants on Fire!

Race Card

IAMSIV

Rob van Vuuren and Martin Evans

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Platteland Patriots is a multi-media journey into the psyche of South Africa. Using rare archival material the play takes a poignant and, at times, hilarious look at South Africa from the Two 2011 Standard Bank perspective of its greatest Ovation Award-winners writer, Herman Charles team up to host this late Bosman. Platteland Patriots night comedy revue club is nostalgic and heartwith a twist. Featuring Rob van Vuuren, Martin Evans, a warming – an exquisite mystery celebrity guest, and piece of theatrical Afrikaner. a host of guest comedians in Written & directed by Tim Sandham a show that promises to be Featuring Angus Douglas the pulsing heartbeat of the festival. Book now! 55m All Pro 10 Written by & featuring Martin Evans English with Afrikaans & Rob van Vuuren Masonic Back: 1h30 16 Pro 17 28 June 20:00; 29 June 16:00; English 30 June 20:00; 1 July 10:00 & 20:00 Princess Alice Hall: 28 June to 7 July Tickets: R50 / R30 / R40 Daily at 22:00 Tickets: R60 / R40 / R40

Catch Tim Sandham & Angus Douglas talking Herman Charles Bosman on the Think!Fest Programme on 29 July at 10:00 – Eden Grove Blue Lecture Theatre

Siv Ngesi, the knockout star of the hit comedy Dekaf, is back with a brand new show. Based on the bestselling book, The Racist’s Guide to the People of South Africa, Race Card is set to expose all the wacky “truths” about the colourful people of our country. Guaranteed to make you laugh till you cry. Directed by & featuring Sivuyile “Siv” Ngesi. Written by Sivuyile “Siv” Ngesi & Simon Kilpatrick

1h 13 Pro 5 English Scout Hall: 2 8 June 21:00; 29 June 13:30; 1 July 13:30; 2 July 12:00; 3 July 18:00; 4 July 22:30; 5 July 21:00; 6 July 18:00; 7 July 22:30 Tickets: R60 / R50 / R60

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Seriously? Amehlo Productions

Rob van Vuuren

The smash hit 2011 Standard Bank Ovation Awardwinning show is back by popular demand for 7 shows only. Join 2011 Comics Choice Breakthrough Act Award-winner Rob van Vuuren as he gives you a hilarious and personal insight into his ridiculous life. Funny. Beautiful. Bizarre. Written, directed & performed by Rob van Vuuren

St. Andrew’s Hall: 29 June 10:00; 30 June 18:00; 2 July 18:30; 4 July 16:30; 5 July 19:00; 6 July 20:30; 7 July12:30 Tickets: R70 / R40 / R40

Shika-Land!

Shika Budhoo

Lynita Crofford

How does a small-town white boy become a big-city rap act?! Join award-winning Iain Ewok Robinson as he takes you on a weird journey from eMpangeni to New York and back again, in this comic coming-of-age story. Part comedy, part musical, part multi-media motivational spoken-word extravaganza! Seriously?! Directed by Karen Melissa Logan Written by & featuring Iain Ewok Robinson

1h 16+ (L) Pro 17 1h 13+ (L) Pro 10 English

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English NG Kerk Hall: 3 July 10:00 & 22:30; 4 July 14:00; 5 July 14:00; 6 July 16:00; 7 July 20:00 Tickets: R50 / R50 / R50

A sexy comedy directed by Tara Notcutt featuring Lynita Crofford. A young man, an older woman. She is fast approaching 50 and is determined, after a decade’s drought, to embrace her sexuality. After multiple revelations and accompanying shocks (including an electrical one!) they reach the conclusion that blood is thicker than water Directed by Tara Notcutt Written by Francois Toerien Translated by & featuring Lynita Crofford

1h15 13+ (L) Pro 2 English Library Hall: 1 July 10:00; 2 July 18:00; 3 July 14:30; 4 July 14:30; 5 July 12:00; 6 July 10:00; 7 July 14:00 Tickets: R50 / R40 / R45

Everyone’s Googled their own name before to see what comes up. ShikaLand!, a one woman show, presents the lives of five women named Shika. At the Mercury Durban Theatre Awards 2011, Shika-Land! was nominated for Best New South African Script, Best Actress and Strictly Solo. “This is a must see” – Roland Stansell. Directed by Dhaveshan Govender Written by & featuring Shika Budhoo

50m 16+ (LS) Pro English Masonic Front: 28 June 16:00; 29 June 18:00; 30 June 12:00; 1 July 22:00 Tickets: R50 / R45 / R40 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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Warren Robertson

Starwors: The Final The Brothers Parody P Streep: Stand-Up Musicians P Slick ‘n Sleeve The Brothers Streep

With his inbox swamped with kitten-illustrated poems on friendship from his mom, it would’ve been easy for Comics Choice Nominee, Warren Robertson, to miss the uninvited, regular newsletters from allAmerican family, the Lunts. Luckily he didn’t, resulting in this surreal, clever, hilarious show about life, death and, ultimately, spam. Written, directed & performed by Warren Robertson

They’re back for one last run in Grahamstown – so don’t miss it! Fans and newcomers alike, catch the hilarious parody that retells the entire Star Wars saga in under 60 minutes! It’s Spaceballs on steroids! So get your tickets today and “May the wors be with you!” Written & directed by Justin Wilkinson Featuring Evelyn Brink, Justin Wilkinson & Rameez Nordien

50m 13+ (LS) Pro 1h PG Pro 13 English

Masonic Front: 2 July 16:00; 3 July 20:00; 4 July 16:00; 5 July 20:00; 6 July 18:00; 7 July 14:00 Tickets: R45 / R35 / R35

Join The Brothers Streep for their debut full-length comedy show on their home ground. With the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (****) and their appearances on The Graham Norton Show and SA Idols behind them, they’re ready to take to the Grahamstown stage with their harmonious blend of comedy and music. Written, directed & performed by Dylan Hichens & Simon van Wyk

English

1h All Pro

Vicky’s: 29 June 10:00; 30 June 16:00; 2 July 18:00; 3 July 12:00; 4 July 20:00; 6 July 14:00; 7 July 18:00

English

Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40

Albany Cabaret Club: 28 June 15:00; 29 June 13:00; 30 June 15:00; 1 July 21:00; 2 July 13:00; 3 July 15:00 Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40

The Neons Documentary

Sandcastle Studios / Neon Anthems

A behind the scenes look at theatrical duo, The Neon Anthems’ attempt at creating a sell-out show for the National Arts Festival. They write, they rehearse, they enlist a black actor, and they hit Grahamstown running! But will they run out of steam? A daring, honest, gritty, moving film. Directed by Mark Edwards & Jacobus van Heerden Featuring Jacobus van Heerden, Liam Magner & Loyiso Macdonald

1h 13+ (L) Pro 7 English Eden Grove Blue Theatre: Schedule to be confirmed Tickets: R25 / R25 / R25

The Chilli Boy – 10th Anniversary

The Durban Comedy Invasion

Geraldine Naidoo

Smash Time Comedy and Durban School of Comedy

The Chilli Boy is one of the most successful shows in South African theatre history. Celebrating its triumphant 10-year anniversary, the play returns to the Festival where it enjoyed its first performance. Featuring multi award-winning actor Matthew Ribnick, the show is a definite must-see for anybody craving superb entertainment. Written & directed by Geraldine Naidoo Featuring Matthew Ribnick

1h10 13+ Pro 11

Four of Durban’s best stand-ups are a deadly comedic A-team, invading the Festival for a second year, with wit, mind-blowing stories and mirth-grenades being their weapons of choice. “Easily one of the funniest shows at the Fringe” – Cue. Directed by Gareth Woods Written by The Durban Comedy Invasion Music composed by The La Els Featuring Gareth Woods, Glen Bo & Jem Atkins

English with Afrikaans

50m 16+ SPro 1

Glennie Hall: 28 June 20:00; 29 June 16:00; 30 June 14:00 & 20:00; 1 July 16:00; 2 July 14:00; 3 July 22:00; 4 July 10:00; 6 July 20:00; 7 July 10:00

English Scout Hall: 29 June 12:00; 30 June 21:00; 1 July 22:30; 2 July 19:30; 3 July 15:00; 4 July 13:30

Tickets: R70 / R70 / R70

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Twelve

Jem Atkins

Dhaveshan Govender

A fascinating glimpse into surviving divorce, the corporate grind, and a chronic fear of dating, all whilst raising “the world’s sweetest little boy” – alone! Hilarious and heart-warming stand-up comedy from one of Durban’s best comics.

It’s the end of the world, but who’s to blame? Rhino poachers? Jacob Zuma? Cell C? You? Award-winning Durban actresses Mpume Mthombeni and Shika Budhoo, perform Dhaveshan Govender’s comedic take on Armageddon. Will you run, hide or pray? Where will you be when the sun goes out?

Team Best & Friends

By Hashlite law, you are required to attend The Evening Service, a one-act musical comedy set in the sordid realm of fledgling cult The Holy Temple of Hashlah. Written & directed by Team Best & Friends Featuring Patrick R Schulmann, William Samson & Kevin Morule

50m Adults only Pro 5 English Albany Cabaret Club: 28 June 17:00; 29 June 19:00; 1 July 11:00; 2 July 17:00; 3 July 21:00; 4 July 15:00; 5 July 17:00; 6 July 13:00

Written, directed & performed by Jem Atkins

50m 13+ SPro 1 English Scout Hall: 28 June 13:30 & 18:00; 30 June 12:00; 2 July 16:30; 3 July 22:30; 4 July 16:30

Written & directed by Dhaveshan Govender Featuring Mpume Mthombeni & Shika Budhoo

50m 16+ (RP) Pro 5 English

Dicks: 1 July 10:00; 2 July 18:30; Tickets: R45 / R38 / R40 3 July 16:00 & 22:30; First Performance FREE! 4 July 18:30 (Donations welcome) Tickets: R50 / R40 / R45 Tickets: R50 / R45 / R40 First Performance FREE! First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome) (Donations welcome)

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Wrong Day

You Sit I’ll Stand

Tsholofelo Motsikoe

Dale Amler

Typical of farce, Wrong Day survives on spontaneous reactions and corrections of mistakes. Moagi is not the boss but he has to pretend to be one to all the people he lies to, and he has to work fast to avoid being discovered!

You sit I’ll stand returns to Grahamstown even funnier than last year. Dale shares his experiences and observations of religion, love, life and more. “You will laugh in spite of yourself” – Cue. “Dale’s material comes from his own experience, making it much more personal, and very funny” – David Batzofin.

Smash Time Comedy

After 13 years in stand-up comedy, only three of them knowing the love of a woman, Vittorio Leonardi has had plenty of time to build up a reservoir of anger, loneliness and resentment. He has also fixated on relationships between the sexes and wondered why so many of them resemble the last moments of the Hindenburg. Now he turns his cartooned, surreal eye to the things luckier people take for granted. Written, directed & performed by Vittorio Leonardi

1h 16+ (LS) Pro English Library Hall: 28 June 17:30; 29 June 20:30; 30 June 12:00 & 22:30; 2 July 16:00; 3 July 17:00; 5 July 10:00 Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40

A comedic behind the scenes look at the rise and fall of Gareth Woods. Is he an “unknown superstar” or a “famous nobody”? This comical exposé will reveal the truth behind the 5FM national comedy competition winner. Witness this rags-to-riches-to-rags story featuring video interviews, original music performances and live comedy.

Directed by Tsholofelo Motsikoe Written by Mufunanji Magasi Featuring Hamilton Dhlamini, Mandla Gaduka & Barileng Malebye Written & directed by Dale Amler Featuring Dale Amler

50m 13+ Pro 4

Written, directed & performed by Gareth Woods

English with isiZulu & SeTswana

50m PG SPro 1

B2 Arena: 5 July 10:00; 6 July 14:00 & 22:30; 7 July 10:00; 8 July 16:00

English Scout Hall: 28 June 16:30; 29 June 22:30; 30 June 16:30; 1 July 15:00; 3 July 19:30; 4 July 21:00 Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40

50m 16+ SPro 1 English Scout Hall: 29 June 19:30; 30 June 22:30; 1 July 16:30; 3 July 21:00; 5 July 12:00 & 18:00; 6 July 13:30; 7 July 15:00

Tickets: R50 / R30 / R45 First Performance FREE! Tickets: R45 / R35 / R40 (Donations welcome)

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Before the Sin and Fall of Man P Iqula Performing Arts This is a show about the origins of Creation, the interference of evil forces to create chaos, the fall of man and the destitute state of mankind. It contemplates the heavenly intervention by the Creator to bring restoration to all creation and the human race.

Big Band to Centrestage’s Nuvo Children of the Soil Clora P Hollywood – Bublé Retro Topsy Turvy Melisizwe Community Jade Bowers Design and Management takes Centrestage Music Show P Theatre Children of the Soil is a mini P Centrestage

musical play reflecting the plight of abandoned children found in different places like toilets, taxi ranks and the veld. Watch as these children grow up in a home where they are taken care of from an early age, to where they achieve The multi award-winning their dreams of becoming Follow Spot Productions Directed by Zukolufikile Mjali a lawyer, a teacher, a social is proud to bring back Choreographed by Sibulele Mjali Musical styles, arrangements worker, a policeman and an Absolucy by popular Featuring Bongo Mgolombane, entertainer. and time periods are demand. An astonishing Sporting every bit of Betenjwa Maphipha & Anda turned on their heads in a one-woman vocal the charm, charisma Written & directed by Sontange swashbuckling mash-up performance with a comedic and superb vocal timbre Darlington Michaels of medleys as our modern but tender storyline about required to pay tribute Music composed by Michael Lubisi 45m All Am 1 song book is given a a woman passionate about to the fabulous Michael Featuring Cordelia MkhizeLadi & complete work over! Turn English with isiXhosa the bottle. Lucy portrays Bublé, Centrestage’s Thuba PhofuXolani Hlatswhayo back time and time-warp the story, highlighting Myeki brings an excitement B2 Arena: into the future as the NRTT each scene with flawless 1h All Pro 15 and effervescence to the 4 July 22:00; renditions of popular cover 5 July 14:30 & 18:30; maestro who simultaneously Music Show keeps you English with isiZulu & guessing as your whole songs from Tina Turner to reimagined the big band 7 July 16:30 & 22:30 SeSotho musical experience is Lady Ga Ga, the Beatles to songbook and created Tickets: R30 / R15 / R15 titillated, invigorated and Glennie Hall: Mary Poppins. It’s not hard timeless hits of his own. turned completely upside 30 June 10:00; to see why everyone is First Performance FREE! Written & directed by down! 1 July 14:00 & 22:00; addicted to Lucy. (Donations welcome) Gary Hemmings 2 July 20:00; 3 July 20:00 Directed & written by Written & directed by Alex Tops Featuring Thuba Myeki Gary Hemmings Tickets: R70 / R65 / R65 Choreographed by Vanessa Harris Featuring Donna Africa, & Ash Searle 1h All Pro 7 Thuba Myeki, Tara-Jane Metzler & Featuring Lucy Tops English Jace Bowren Bowling Club: 50m PG Pro 3 28 June 13:30; 2 July 15:30; 1h All Pro 7 English 3 July 15:30; 5 July 17:30; English The Highlander: 6 July 11:00 Bowling Club: 28 June to 7 July 18:00 daily Tickets: R60 / R50 / R50 28 June 21:30; Tickets: R65 / R55 / R60 30 June 17:30; 1 July 19:30; 3 July 21:30; 4 July 17:30; 6 July 19:30 Centrestage

Tickets: R75 / R65 / R65

Incorporating elements of cabaret and stand-up comedy, the ancient totem of the drag queen is channelled in a performance that weaves storytelling and music into a theatrical remix with little more than a purple wig, a handful of musical theatre anthems, high heels, lots of spangles and loads of sequins. Directed by Jade Bowers Music performed by Ashraf Johaardien Featuring Daniel Geddes

55m 13+ (L) Pro English with Afrikaans Albany Cabaret Club: 28 June 21:00; 29 June 17:00; 30 June 11:00; 1 July 13:00; 2 July 19:00 Tickets: R60 / R55 / R50

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213 Coward & Cole P Rolska Productions

Defining a Meaning

Face the Music P

TZK Cultural Youth Group

Four hands, two pianos, one show you dare not miss! Featuring the talented fingers and voices of award-winning artists Godfrey Johnson and Roland Perold. Noel Coward and Cole Porter’s timeless masterpieces delight with witticisms, social commentary and innate absurdity! See www.rolska.co.za for more information. Written by & featuring Godfrey Johnson & Roland Perold

55m All Pro 2 English Albany Cabaret Club: 29 June 11:00; 30 June 21:00; 1 July 17:00; 2 July 11:00; 3 July 19:00; 4 July 19:00; 5 July 13:00; 6 July 15:00; 7 July 11:00 Tickets: R60 / R45 / R45

Two ex-convicts take us on a journey through the apartheid era. They share their hideaways, sleepless nights and life in prison as black men convicted for all the wrong reasons. A story with humour that transforms to anger and grief, leaving the audience with a reason to cry. Written & directed by Ncedo India Choreographed by Kwanda Mda Featuring Mo-Stly

1h PG CT English with isiXhosa & Tsotsi slang Kingswood Theatre: 5 July 10:00; 6 July 12:00; 8 July 18:00

Hear the Music P

Follow Spot Productions Belles & Beaux

Who sang the theme from Top Gun? Who’s won the most Grammys? Have you got the brains to take our quiz? The multi award-winning Follow Spot Productions brings another crowd pleasing hit – a spectacular music trivia game show! Our talented, charismatic trio perform the greatest chart topping hits from the past 50 years with powerful harmonies, slick choreography and tons of attitude. Play the game or be a spectator – the choice is yours – just don’t miss this show!! Written, directed & choreographed by Vanessa Harris & Ash Searle Featuring Vanessa Harris, Lucy Tops & Leani Ekermans

1h All Pro 3

Tickets: R35 / R15 / R15 English First Performance FREE! The Highlander: (Donations welcome) 28 June to 7 July 20:00 daily

“Lana English has star quality and a glorious voice… She leads her talented and well-trained team through a range of much-loved songs, from musicals and opera, for 80 well-filled and happy minutes...four outstanding performers” –Michael Whisson, Cue, 2010. Written & directed by Lana English Featuring Victor Siljeur, Lana English, Renee Osbourne & Jean Halls

Her & Him

Chloe Kiley Her & Him is a humorous look at the unique relationship between a brother and sister. From provoking to protecting, the story was work-shopped and devised using songs from contemporary musical theatre and singer/ songwriters. It’s a piece we all can relate to, be it through love, loss or sibling rivalry.

1h20 All SPro 4

Directed by Cheri Lee Blackie Musical direction by Jeremy Quickfall Featuring Chloe Kiley & Steven van Wyk

English with Italian, German & French

1h10 PG (L) Pro

St. Aidan’s Chapel: 3 July 13:00; 4 July 17:00; 5 July 19:00; 6 July 17:00; 7 July 13:00

English Albany Cabaret Club: 28 June 11:00; 30 June 19:00; 1 July 15:00; 2 July 15:00; 3 July 13:00; 4 July 21:00

Tickets: R60 / R50 / R55 First Performance FREE! Tickets: R65 / R55 / R60 (Donations welcome) First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

How would you “Handel” the Messiah? P Stanford Lake College Arts School This musical parody is an active and interactive interpretation of the timeless work written by Georg Frederic Handel in the late 19th century. Handel’s Messiah has become one of the most famous works ever written and has been performed the world over in various formats. What makes this particular production peculiar and indeed intriguing is that it performed as a musical work within another musical performance. Directed by Tate Mhunduru Written by J. Holloway Adapted from Handel’s Messiah

50m All SPro English Albany Cabaret Club: 6 July 11:00; 7 July 13:00; 8 July 17:00 Tickets: R30 / R25/ R25 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Tickets: R65 / R55 / R60

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214 Khanyisa Cultural Group P

Limpopo the Musical

Memories in the Park P

Mpande Zabangoma

Khanyisa High School Arts and Culture

LTM Shows

Together as One Community Development Organization (TAXIDO)

Mthakathi Theatre

Limpopo the Musical is a high-energy theatrical music A showcase of dances, show that tells the beautiful songs and poetry ranging story of Limpopo Province from traditional to modern in music, poetry and dance. isiXhosa and isiZulu showcasing the vibrancy of A Gauteng visitor with false, negative information about our heritage. Limpopo is taken on a tour Directed by Siyambonga Fatyela that changes his view of the Choreographed by Siyambonga and Province. Ntombikhona Written & directed by Abel Kunutu 1h All SPro Featuring Jacob Lekatse, Paul Digashu & Tolerance Kgole Isixhosa with English Kingswood Theatre: 28 June 12:00; 30 June 10:00; 1 July 12:00; 1 July 21:30 Tickets: R40 / R25 / R30

Laddered Fishnets P Fish Hoek High School

A pulsating musical journey into the life and practices of AbaNgoma, the indigenous experts of traditional Two “orphaned” teenagers, medicine. In African raised under difficult tradition, culture is not just conditions, fall deeply a matter of convenience in love. Their love nest is but a way of life. This is a a park at the city centre where a group of homeless tale told through breathtaking musical harmonies, people have taken refuge. Both dream of finding their grounded in the African soil and pulsating with parents. Knowing the life the rhythms and dances of poverty, they help the destitute, homeless people which have come to be worldwide as the 1h30 All Pro 1 they interact with every time known motifs of South African they meet in this park. English with Sepedi musicals. In a class of its Directed by Mkhomazi Mashinini & own, this show addresses Kingswood Theatre: Jerry Zwane the delicate power of 28 June 18:00; Featuring Nombulelo Mcwerah, ancestry as an important 29 June 21:00; 2 July 19:00; Thabiso Matlala & Zandile Mnisi component of African origin, 4 July 22:00 and the consequences of 1h15 All CT 2 Tickets: R60 / R45 / R50 disrespecting this. First Performance FREE! English with SA languages Directed, written & composed by (Donations welcome) St. Andrew’s Hall: Thapelo Mthakathi Motloung 28 June 18:00; Featuring Siyabonga Hlatshwayo, 29 June 14:00; Mamotsepe Motsepe & June 22:30; 1 July 14:00; Nkosinathi Malinga Linda P 30 2 July 10:00; 3 July 14:30 1h30 All Pro 12 Ikhaya Theatre Company Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40 Nguni with SA languages Our race doesn’t need a First Performance FREE! swift or a strong woman, but City Hall: (Donations welcome) a woman who will endure 28 June 16:00; the rest of time until the 29 June 12:00; word “win” is said. Women 30 June 20:00; 2 July 22:30; have fought for their rights 3 July 12:00; 4 July 12:00 through the ages but there Mix Tape P Tickets: R60 / R40 / R40 are still some struggles Bloom & Stone that face them, including First Performance FREE! the right to wear mini (Donations welcome) skirts, and equal access to employment.

From the eye of the beholder, moving up, down and under the ladders of life and time, they capture life in its different nets. You will experience these characters Directed by Bongani Diko with their witty, comic and 1h PG (L) CT 6 satirical play on words and music. Come, take your seat. English with isiXhosa Directed by Carlo Fourie & Library Hall: Rulandi Muller 28 June 11:00; 29 June Featuring Devon Florence, 16:00; 30 June 10:00; 1 July Lucinda Conradie & Kelsey Carson 14:30; 6 July 12:30; 7 July 16:30 & 22:30

Pantsula Van Tuka Af Via Kasi Movers

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Three people: different, but the same. One childhood. So many songs. So many mixed 1h 10+ (P) St tapes. Three unlikely friends Tickets: R40 / R35 / R30 English with Afrikaans & growing up in 80’s South isiXhosa Africa. What tunes were playing in their heads? Mix Albany Cabaret Club: Loyile P Tape is a hilarious musical 3 July 11:00; 4 July 17:00; journey, featuring three of 6 July 17:00; 7 July 21:00; Newcastle Arts SA’s hottest comedy and This show depicts the 8 July 13:00 Development musical theatre talents. history of Pantsula dance, Tickets: R60 / R45 / R50 Loyile is sixteen when she where it comes from and Directed by Terri Ella discovers she has a calling, how it was formed. The Written by Vanessa Frost & but she rejects it. Trapped story also shows you how Kristy Suttner by the ideals of a western amaPantsula of Sophiatown Featuring Vanessa Frost, and the comforts Kristy Suttner & Mortimer Williams were different from the Living Dead P education of modern living, she tries amaPantsula of today. Nquthu Arts Programme to ignore the visions and There is some Kofifi dance 1h15 13+ (L) voices in her head. Will and Rootwork. The story of The play concentrates on Pro 14 Loyile fight the spirit and Pantsula dance – a fun, lively the challenges facing South break the curse to save her and energetic dance which English Africa over abortion; it sends soul? Or will she finally listen is enjoyed by many South a strong message about the Graham Hotel: to her ancestors and journey Africans. danger of abortion. 1 July 10:30; 2 July 13:00; to a place of healing and 4 July 17:00; 5 July 21:00; Written & directed by spirituality? Directed and written by 6 July 11:00 Ayanda Nondlwana Siyabonga Mthembu Directed by Ntshieng Sithe Choreographed and composed by Tickets: R60 / R56 / R54 Featuring Camascar Dlamini, Thozamile Mngcongo 45m All CT First Performance FREE! Mpilonhle Mathunjwa & English with isiZulu (Donations welcome) Paballo Sithe 1h All CT 3 Kingswood Theatre: English with Tsotsi Taal and 1h All SPro 28 June 21:00; isiXhosa 29 June 15:00; English with isiZulu City Hall: 30 June 21:00; 1 July 18:00 Kingswood Theatre: 4 July 10:00 & 17:00; 28 June 16:00; 29 June Tickets: R20 / R10 / R15 5 July 14:00; 6 July 18:00; 19:00; 30 June 19:00; 1 July 8 July 14:00 14:00 Tickets: R40 / R20/ R40 Tickets: R40 / R30 / R30 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Revival

Storielied

Mzini Dramatic Arts

Luna Paige

Nomazwe is a long-suffering and obedient wife. For all her kind demeanour and accommodating nature, she has the misfortune of having an uncaring husband, uBabu’ Gatsheni. He has a mean and cold streak despite his Christian grounding. Childless and miserable, Nomazwe thinks long and hard about her plight, and finally decides to go on a spiritual quest in which she is forced to ask questions about Christianity and its various divisions.

In die uitsonderlike produksie dink Luna Paige saam met Ingrid Winterbach oor evolusie en godsdiens; sing oor vuur en verbode liefde op grond van Andre Brink se Ambassadeur; haal ‘n lewensles uit ‘n Margaret Bakkes roman en sing oor ‘n Boesman-gelykenis soos beskryf deur Elias P Nel. Sy identifiseer met Dana Snyman se hartseer oor sy ouma en skryf ‘n wiegelied vir een van Chris Barnard se sterwende karakters. Sy dans tot dagbreek toe saam met die bevryde slawe van Raithby. ‘n Moet vir liefhebbers van woord en klank!

Written & directed by Duma Mnembe Featuring Sibongile Nkosi, Thakane Matoni & Zethu Joyisa

1h20 All Pro 24 English with isiZulu & SeSotho NG Kerk Hall: 28 June 13:30; 30 June 20:00; 1 July 16:00; 3 July 14:00; 4 July 20:00 Tickets: R60 / R40 / R50

Simply Broadway P Brett de Groot

Written & performed by Luna Paige With Schalk Joubert, Kevin Gibson, Jan-Hendrik Harley & Piet de Beer

1h10 All Pro 1 Afrikaans Bowling Club: 5 July 11:00; 6 July 17:30; 7 July 15:30 & 19:30 Tickets: R100 / R80 / R70 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Stories of Crime and Passion P KBT Productions CC

Starring the East Cape Opera company’s Brett de Groot, Simply Broadway is a tantalizing tribute to the greatest stage musicals of all time. With music from the likes of Les Miserables, Chicago, Rocky Horror and Wicked, audiences will experience show-stoppers in their simplest and most exquisite form. Prepare to shiver with antici...pation! Directed by Brett de Groot & Gwyneth Lloyd Featuring Brett de Groot, Jacques du Plessis & Ally Christos

50m 13+ SPro

Godfrey Johnson turns his talent to tales of love, featuring vengeful mariners, scorned soldiers and death row choruses. The line-up of love, murder and revenge features artists like Johnny Cash, Aerosmith, the Decemberists, Nick Cave and Tori Amos rearranged to his signature piano and vocal style, as well as original compositions. Directed by Jonathan Keevy Featuring Godfrey Johnson

English

1h PG (VS) Pro 2

Beethoven: 28 June 18:00; 29 June 10:00; 30 June 17:30; 1 July 14:00

English with French

Tickets: R45 / R40 / R42

Albany Cabaret Club: 28 June 19:00; 29 June 21:00; 30 June 13:00; 2 July 21:00; 4 July 13:00; 5 July 11:00; 6 July 19:00 7 July 19:00; 8 July 15:00 Tickets: R70 / R60 / R60

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The Best of Success The Frank Sinatra P Tribute Show

Buffalo City Artists

Success Music and Drama Institution This is a play about the Xhosa legend of Nongqawuse and the great Cattle Killing, but it is a new take on the famous legend with a shocking twist and a different interpretation. The production promises to be thought-provoking, and proves that our heritage is as strong as ever and that we should never forget our past. A powerful and innovative The young, energetic cast musical play that involves will entertain and inspire emotional, inspirational and audiences. educational elements. It will Written & directed by Pierre Perold surprise the audience with its powerful use of dance, Choreographed by Daluxolo Papu poetry, dialogue and acting, Featuring Nonzolo Ngethu, and will take the audience Buyile Geza & Simpiwe Botile on a journey of how sounds 1h All Pro 9 have evolved from the beginning of creation until English with isiXhosa & today. Afrikaans Written, directed & composed by Kingswood Theatre: Israel Sipho Makoe 2 July 21:30; 3 July 16:00; 4 July 14:00; 5 July 20:00; 45m All CT 1 7 July 10:00 English with isiZulu & Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40 SeSotho First Performance FREE! Kingswood Theatre: (Donations welcome) 28 June 14:00; 30 June 14:00; 2 July 17:00; 3 July 14:00; 4 July 18:00; 5 July 16:00

Tickets: R35 / R25 / R25

The Horn – The Musical

The Tina Turner Songbook P

Dale McCann

Platinum Nomads

Centrestage

This show pays tribute to the greatest swing and jazz singer who ever lived, Frank Sinatra. Like Frank, with his dapper dress style and confident persona, Dale’s unique vocal abilities will entertain audiences of all ages. His show contains many of Sinatra’s hits from the 50s, 60s and 70s.

Nnunu had singing talents, but alcohol has stolen her gift and left her with cirrhosis of the liver. At the age of 15, she sells her body to older men for money in an effort to relieve her impoverished conditions, but this comes to an end when her single mother finds out. Nnunu’s story unfolds through song and dialogue.

Centrestage’s delightful songstress, Donna Africa, tells the tumultuous Tina Turner story of heartbreak and celebration through the songs of the undisputed queen of rock ‘n roll.

Directed & choreographed by Dale McCann Music performed by Dale McCann

1h All SPro English Bowling Club: 3 July 11:00; 4 July 13:30; 5 July 15:30 & 21:30; 6 July 13:30; 8 July 13:30 Tickets: R80 / R65 / R60

Written & directed by Gary Hemmings Featuring Donna Africa

1h All Pro 7

English Written, directed, choreographed & Bowling Club: composed by Tshepo Makinita 28 June 15:30; 2 July 19:30; Featuring Stanley Letebele, Neo Morule & Mogomotsi Khumalo 3 July 19:30; 4 July 21:30; 5 July 13:30

1h All CT

English with SeTswana Kingswood Theatre: 4 Jul 10:00; 6 July 22:00; 7 July 20:00; 8 July 14:00 Tickets: R40 / R35 / R40

The Shadow of Brel P KBT Productions CC

Tickets: R60 / R50 / R50

Vuma Bo

Msinga Arts

Witness the battle between African religion and Christianity. Bongekile, the born-again medical doctor graduate is chosen by her father, who is a great traditional healer, to take over from him. But this is against Bongekile’s Christian faith. This show is about her fight against what she calls the evil spirits. The story is told through acting, dance, and amazing a cappella music. Directed, choreographed, written & composed by Bongani Linda Featuring Phelelani Mzimela, Nokuthula Sibiya & Sanelisiwe Mandla

1h All Pro 24 English with isiZulu

Viva! Pop Opera P Afroasia Management Thailand LTD

City Hall: 29 June 10:00; 30 June 12:00; 1 July 14:30; 2 July 18:30; 3 July 18:30; 7 July 12:00 Tickets: R60 / R50 / R50

We Strive / 2 Move A Double Bill P Bridgetown Theatre Company

Directed by Sanjin Muftic Featuring Godfrey Johnson

1h PG (VS) Pro 2 English with French Albany Cabaret Club: 28 June 13:00; 29 June 15:00; 30 June 17:00; 1 July 19:00; 3 July 17:00; 4 July 11:00; 5 July 15:00 & 19:00; 6 July 21:00; 7 July 15:00 & 17:00; 8 July 11:00 Tickets: R70 / R60 / R60

1h All SPro 7 English with Afrikaans Bowling Club: 1 July 11:00; 2 July 21:30; 3 July 13:30; 4 July 15:30; 7 July 17:30; 8 July 11:00 Tickets: R30 / R25 / R20 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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Award-winning musician, composer, actor, and singer Godfrey Johnson performs his acclaimed solo show of Brel’s greatest works, from the classics to some of the lesser-known songs. A gem of a show, evocative, exciting and entertaining – it’ll give you goose bumps within two bars!

Pop and opera explode in an entertaining feast of music with Thailand’s sensational super voice band VIVA! Featuring five singing superstars from Thailand’s first pop-opera musical ensemble, these classically trained songbirds will have everyone joining them in their selection of traditional, We Strive 2 Move – a fantastic opera and pop classics. music and dance double bill Musical direction by Mark Cheyne that will please everyone Choreographed by Oat and bring out the dancer, actor and singer hiding 1h10 All 3 in each of us. Comprising English & European two separate comical and languages dramatic stories that display some unconventional and Bowling Club: imaginative theatrical 29 June 11:00 & 17:30; staging techniques, some of 30 June 19:30; 1 July 13:30 which are pure invention. Tickets: R60 / R40 / R45 Directed by Theo E. Davids Music composed by Justin Gordon & Ricky Williams Featuring Anrea Scott, Shameerah Francke & Lyndsay Jantjies

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217 Beautiful Classical Melodies P South African Vocal Ensemble

Children Playing P

Marimba Magic

Keiskamma Music Academy

Saint Thomas Aquinas School

SAVE (South African Vocal Ensemble) is a project that creates a platform for trained past and current voice students of the University of Zululand. The repertoire consists of beautiful melodies selected from different musical periods. There’s also a touch of South African Jazz and Indigenous music.

Children Playing explores the music of childhood from multiple traditions, travelling the worlds of Directed by Nomusa Seleke Featuring Nosipho Langa, Thandeka classical and jazz music before coming home to the Mbatha & Ashan Peiris Xhosa village. Audiences will be transported through 1h All Pro scenes of childhood by a English with Italian talented ensemble of young musicians who perform Beethoven Room: on recorders, orchestral 3 July 10:00; 4 July 12:00; instruments, and traditional 5 July 14:00; 6 July 16:00; marimbas, uhadi bows, and 7 July 18:00 drums. Tickets: R50 / R35 / R35 Directed by Jen Hoyer Music composed by Ravel, Schumann, Chick Corea with Xhosa traditional Music performed by Keiskamma Music Academy

50m All SPro 1 English with isiXhosa St. Aidan’s Chapel: 6 July 13:00; 7 July 16:30; 8 July 11:00 Tickets: R50 / R35 / R40

No Strings Attached

Johannesburg Youth Orchestra

Four marimbas and a djembe play the music you love to hear, from Miriam Makeba to Bruno Mars. Selected as the number one school Marimba group in 2010, this group just keeps on getting better! Come listen and feel the rhythm with us.

They’re young, they’re talented, they’re passionate about music. Come and hear some of Johannesburg’s finest young musicians playing repertoire from the classics, hits from the movies and music with a beat of Africa. Conducted 1h All St by Etienne Mecloen, this St. Aidan’s Chapel: inspiring group ranges in 1 July 13:00; 2 July 19:00; age from 12 to 25. Winners 3 July 11:00 & 17:00; of the SASMT Festival Trophy 4 July 20:00; 5 July 13:00 for Best Ensemble for the last two years running, these Tickets: R30 / R20 / R20 dynamic performers offer an First Performance FREE! exhilarating performance. (Donations welcome) Conducted by Etienne Mecloen Music performed by Johannesburg Symphonic Wind Band

1h All SPro 2 English Cathedral: 2 July 16:00; 3 July 17:30

Ping, Sing & Sting P

Barbara-Ann and Allan

Hoërskool Randburg Choir

The multi award-winning guitar duo, CH2, recent winners of an international competition hosted by the legendary guitarist Lee Ritenour, and the 140 voice Hoërskool Randburg Choir, with famed choirmaster Richter Grimbeek, combine in a musical celebration. This unique concert features compositions from CH2’s new album Ping!, a variety of other favourites, and songs by Sting. Conducted by Richter Grimbeek Music performed by CH2 & Hoërskool Randburg Choir

1h All SPro 2 English St. Aidan’s Chapel: 28 June 19:00; 29 June 13:00; 30 June 17:00; 1 July 19:00; 2 July 13:00

Tickets: R40 / R30 / R35 First Performance FREE! Tickets: R45 / R38 / R38 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome) (Donations welcome)

Reflections

“It is truly an experience to watch this pianist play various pieces with such passion and pleasure” – Cue 2010. This year, BarbaraAnn shares the stage with Allan, who adds his own compositions to an eclectic mix of soulful and evocative piano music, including works by Einaudi and Debussy. Directed by Barbara-Ann Horsfield Music composed by L. Einaudi, C. Debussy, F. Mompou & A.J. Horsfield Music performed by Barbara-Ann & Allan

55m All Pro 2 English Beethoven: 30 June 10:00; 1 July 12:00; 2 July 14:00; 3 July 15:00 Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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218 Tsa Lapeng Youth Jazz Orchestra P

Udumo with Khanyisa Nkantsu P Khanyisa Nkantsu

The Tsa Lapeng Youth Jazz Orchestra was founded in June 2009, to create job opportunities for unemployed muscians in rural settlements. It is the only ensemble in the outskirts of Gauteng (in Stinkwater) promoting the use of classical woodwind and stringed instruments to create a unique Afro-Jazz Sound. It is a 28-piece ensemble. Music Composed by Sinky Sewela, Rully Moloisane & Leroy Selahle

1h All Urban Lounge: 3 July 17:00; 4 July 12:30; 6 July 14:00 Tickets: R40 / R30 / R35 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Khanyisa is an inspiring gospel singer from Mdantsane, Eastern Cape, who has been involved in music for many years. Besides singing for entertainment, she glorifies God as well. She has six albums ro her credit. Khanyisa recently had a successful tour of the Grahamstown and Port Alfred areas with her group Khanyisa. Directed by Mzi Sabuka Music composed by Khanyisa Nkantsu Featuring Khanyisa Nkantsu

1h All Pro 1 IsiXhosa with English & isiZulu St. Aidan’s Chapel: 29 June 17:00; 30 June 13:00; 1 July 11:00 & 17:00; 2 July 17:00 Tickets: R50 / R35 / R35 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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Contemporary Music

Afro-Sessions with Below Ice Take Note Take Note

All contemporary music performances are 1 hour long unless otherwise stated. No age restrictions apply, although venues with liquor licences do not allow under U18s The performances listed here are the bands’ solo perfoirmances – check out The Gig Guide on page 225 for session gigs with 3 or more bands. Tickets for all gigs are R50

Acoustic Soul presents Afro 21

This rock band was formed in 2009 and consists of five members who Enjoy original contemporary are all in Grade 10 at St South African jazz beats Stithians Boys College in and melodies, distinctly Johannesburg. Below Ice indicative of the heydays of will thoroughly entertain South African jazz of the 50s you with their energetic and 60s; and sounds that repertoire of popular local signify the ever-evolving and international rock vocal tradition of Afro-Soul. covers as well as their CAUTION: Take Note has a own phenomenal original record of blowing fans away! compositions. Directed by Thandile Petshwa Featuring Steve Van Wyk, Tshekiso Kepadisa, Mathew Basson, Urban Lounge: Chad Kennedy & Craig Howden 3 July 15:30; 4 July 15:30; 6 July 17:00; 7 July 12:30; Cuervo Music Room: 8 July 14:00 1 July 21:30; 7 July 11:00 Tickets: R50 / R35 / R40 Prime: 2 July 15:00

Afrikwetu band

Acoustic Soul breaks down artificial boundaries between musical genres, and between people and cultures to create a new brand of African music. We present Afro 21, music that reflects true unity in diversity.

The Afrikwetu Band, former Afrikali Band, was formed at the end of 2003. The eight bands members all come from different parts of Tanzania and were initially in different bands. They decided to establish a new band to join forces and experiences and expand their skills.

B-Traq

Prime: 5 July 15:00 Tickets: R45 / R40 / R40 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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B-Traq is an exciting new funk-pop band to hit the South African music scene, Afro-Fusion with a sound that is fresh Hazel Mamela and funky. B-Traq’s original music fuses several genres Afro-Fusion is a band that delivers love and strength to – funk, R&B and rock. The weak souls. It’s a traditional band’s performance is highenergy, fun and infectious, kind of music with jazz including the best numbers rhythms. We make these from their debut album out beats to build unity and a time, which they released change people’s negative in 2011. minds. We strongly believe in Love, Peace and Harmony. Featuring Fazza Naami & Featuring Mamela Cengani, Makati Molekwa Lucky Jobe & Noludwe Qegu Prime: Urban Lounge: 6 July 15:00 28 June 15:30; Tickets: R35 / R25 / R25 29 June 12:30; 30 June 11:00; 1 July 12:30

Best of Durban Hip Hop & Poetry I

Tickets: R30 / R30 / R30

Cuervo Music Room: 4 July 12:00

Tickets: R40 / R30 / R25 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Urban Lounge: 28 June 17:00; 30 June 14:00; 1 July 11:00

Featuring Sebastian Jamieson & Elijah Madiba Urban Lounge: 2 July 15:30

Tickets: R40 / R30 / R30 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

This show has it all, from the sultry Zulu rap on jazz and energetic funk beats by Manelisi, to the catchy and soulful sounds of Ntsika. All this is interlinked by the presence of a DJ and thought-provoking poetry from Tumelo and Deshan. Featuring Champ, Abdus & Skye Wanda Urban Lounge: 29 June 11:00; 1 July 17:00; 2 July 12:30 Tickets: R30 / R30 / R30 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

221 Best of Durban Hip Centrestage Hop & Poetry II Extravaganza

Chris Chameleon

This show has the raw Hype Mag Award-winning lyricism of Abdus, set to the detailed, vibey raps of Champ. The soulful approach of Skye Wanda in rap and singing sets up a perfect runway for Siya the poet to take off.

Chris Chameleon’s career, spanning three decades, was catapulted into the mainstream in the last seven years by virtue of his Afrikaans work. But much of this consummate artist’s body of work has been in English and the National Arts Festival is the ideal platform to present his notso-often performed work from Blue Chameleon, Boo! and his solo career.

Featuring Manelis, Ntsika, Tumi & Dashen Urban Lounge: 29 June 17:00; 30 June 12:30; 3 July 11:00

The now legendary Centrestage Extravaganza is back with a selection of Centrestage Festival highlights – as well as the traditional Centrestage AllStar band party! Always sold out so be sure to book your tickets early for the ultimate feel-good Festival comedy, cabaret and party show from PE’s favourite entertainment company.

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Tickets: R30 / R30 / R30 Bowling Club: First Performance FREE! 29 June 21:30; (Donations welcome) 30 June 21:30; 6 July 21:30; 7 July 21:30

Tickets: R100

Chameleon Productions

Composed & performed by Chris Chameleon Featuring Chris Chameleon Cuervo Music Room: 6 July 18:00; 7 July 13:00; 7 July 18:00 Tickets: R90 / R85 / R85

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222 Claudia Mohr: My Music

Conscious Marimba Davyn and the Band Rhinos

D-Seven

Down on the First

Eliezer Lance Herman

Claudia Mohr

The Conscious Marimba Band was formed on the A most intimate introduction to a new talent! 1st January 2002 in Site C, Having received her Master Khayelitsha, Cape Town by Nkosikhona Nyawula. of Music degree (UCT), The band has performed specialising in vocal jazz, at the World Summit on Claudia Mohr returns to Sustainable Development her true passion with her in Gauteng in 2002, and at original music, which she several festivals, including calls “adult contemporary the Cape Town Festival. The soul” Expect to be band has also performed enamoured by the warmth abroad. and originality of this true artist. Featuring Nkosikhona Nyawula, Sandile Dikeni & Simphiwe Mathole Music composed & performed by Claudia Mohr Featuring Wayne Joshua

Graham Hotel: 29 June 11:00; 30 June 13:00; 1 July 21:00; 2 July 15:30; 3 July 15:00 Tickets: R50 / R42 / R40 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

This band works with an original sound, our focus being on the music, how we deliver it, and how it’s received. We work off the concept of higher life, which goes beyond the music, leaving our listeners inspired and empowered. See www. davynfouriemusic.com for better insight into my solo career, backround and music. Prime: 29 June 15:00

D-Seven is an all-male a capella vocal performance group from Cape Town. They have performed with top national and international artists, establishing themselves as a premier entertainment act in South Africa. They have created a bold, exciting, unique performance that has wowed thousands of fans across hundreds of stages. Bowling Club: 28 June 19:30; 29 June 13:30; 30 June 13:30; 1 July 17:30; 3 July 17:30

Urban Lounge: Cuervo Music Room: 28 June 14:00; 29 June 20:00 29 June 14:00; 30 June 15:30 Tickets: R30 / R20 / R10 Tickets: R60 / R40 / R30 Tickets: R45 / R30 / R30 First Performance FREE! First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome) (Donations welcome)

Laurie Levine

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Lize Wiid

Live at the

Cuervo

Music Room 4th July: 21: 30 5th July: 16: 30 7th July: 20: 00 8th July: 12: 00

Silver Ovation Award winner www.laurielevine.co.za

Their songs consists of the interesting spiritual and awakening guitar riffs of lead guitarist Wayne Schell and also incorporates his classically trained guitar technique into acoustic shows with ease. With the beat and bass section keeping a solid paced beat, and the deep soul of trucker’s lyrics, Down On The First is one of the up-andcoming bands in Cape Town making an impact. Urban Lounge: 28 June 12:30; 29 June 15:30; 1 July 14:00

Eliezer is the solo project of Cape Town musician Lance Herman (Fly Paper Jet, Ginsburg & Herman). Musically, it explores minimal folk: songs to express a certain romantic, melancholic yearning for place, for love, for self-transformation. The performance is lucid and sincere, with a sense of setting out to sea. A meditative experience of lyrics and groove. Graham Hotel: 28 June to 1 July at 19:00

Tickets: R40 / R20 / R20 Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

223 Encore

Fingo Festival

Encore is an eclectic and unique group from Durban, South Africa, that has a vision of combining musical genres in a fresh and sophisticated way. Classical and rock musicians have merged their talents to produce a sound and brand that South Africa has yet to experience. The classically trained violinist, flautist and percussionist have extensive orchestral (local and international) experience, as well as performing regularly at weddings and corporate functions. The rock element is a highly experienced guitarist, who has enjoyed international and local success as a recording rock artist.

The Fingo Festival Project is a festival devoted to the creation of a platform within Fingo township for the hosting of workshops and dialogues for children and young people during the mornings of each day of the festival followed by afternoon professional performances including dance, music, drama and poetry. The focus this year will be on reflecting on the 200th anniversary of Grahamstown and on the 100th anniversary of the African National Congress and how the arts were traditionally used as a cultural weapon in the past and their potential to be used to promote social cohesion and more inclusive dialogue amongst diverse cultures in the present.

Featuring Ralitza Matcheva, Petra Conrads & Stephane Pechoux Cuervo Music Room: 30 June 15:00; 1 July 15:00; 2 July 11:00; 3 July 18:00; 5 July 20:00 Tickets: R70 / R40 / R60 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

The Essence of Sounds

All CT 1 Raglan Road MultiPurpose Centre: 1 to 7 July from 09:00 to 17:00

Garth Taylor Stripped Down Afroasia Management LTD

Gary Thomas

Guess This is Why They Call it the Blues

Guitar Legends & Graham Gillot Band

Guy Buttery

Graham Gillot Band

“An uberdextrous wunderkind...a rare breed of genius” – 24.com. “Electrifying...rupturing the conventional One-Man Guitar/Vocals Mould” – Mail & Guardian. “Manipulating guitar strings so they converse in a new language…a psychedelic one-man anti-folk jamming machine” – Cape Argus. “Wizardry, the definition of an artist” – Levi’s Music Mag. “Spellbinding, haunting… the audience is mesmerized” – Your LMG. “Armed with mastery” – Mahala. “Beautiful, emotive” – SL. “Superb” – The Mercury. “Brilliant” – Go & Express. Graham Hotel: 28 June 21:00; 29 June 15:00; 30 June 17:00; 3 July 21:00; 5 July 11:00; 6 July 21:30 7 July 17:00; 8 July 15:00 Tickets: R60 / R50/ R50

Gerald Clark & Luna Paige

Who has all the answers to the questions we struggle to ask? Be it about life, love, happiness and sorrow, the immortal lyrics of Elton John encompass all. Join us, Marcel Corson and Jo Stemmet, for an acoustic piano journey down the Yellow Brick Road, as if you were with the Rocket Man himself! Cuervo Music Room: 3 July 12:00; 4 July 18:00; 6 July 15:00; 8 July 13:30 Graham Hotel: 5 July 13:00; 7 July 15:00 Tickets: R35 / R32 / R30

Take a trip down memory lane. Climb the Stairway to Heaven. Stroll along the Parisienne Walkways. Fly on the Little Wing. Dance with the Sultans of Swing. And hear how the Guitar Gently Weeps. The Guitar Legends show features the music of the world’s greatest guitarists of all time: Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Gary Moore, Jimi Page (Led Zepplin), Eric Clapton, The Edge (U2), Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani, Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits), George Harrison (The Beatles) and even the Gypsy Kings. Each song is expertly performed with the greatest attention to detail in order to recreate the unique sound and feel of each of these legendary players. All the world’s Guitar Hero’s in one unforgettable show!

One of the finest acoustic guitarists to ever emerge from the South African music industry, Guy Buttery is something of a national treaure. This travelling whirlwind has toured across four continents in over a dozen countries alongside some of the world’s finest artists. Guy has won numerous National Awards including Best Instrumental Record of the Year at the South African Music Awards and two Ovation Awards, including the Golden Ovation Award for Best Music Production. Cuervo Music Room: 30 June 16:30; 2 July 19:30; 5 July 15:00; 6 July 12:00; 7 July 15:00 Tickets: R70 / R45 / R60

Featuring Graham Gillot & Darryl de Lange Cuervo Music Room: 29 June 16:30; 1 July 20:00; 3 July 13:30; 4 July 13:30 Tickets: R50 / R50 / R45

This band consists of eight highly talented musicians who have a strong background in mainstream jazz and have, in their own individual capacities, shared the stage with the “who’s who” of the music industry. They transcend in African jazz, fusion and gospel, and will be rendering their own compositions and will also be open to accepting special requests from the audience. Urban Lounge: 4 July 17:00; 7 July 11:00

Garth Taylor, popular singercomposer brings all his hits plus some new insightful songs to the musical table. A deeply up close and personal evening with one of South Africa’s best singer songwriters. Garth Taylor, with his band –all the hits! www.garthtaylor.com Featuring Garth Taylor & Louise Saint Claire Bowling Club: 30 June 11:00; 1 July 21:30; 2 July 13:30; 2 July 17:30

Cuervo Music Room: 5 July 18:00; 6 July 13:30; 8 July 15:00 Tickets: R60 / R45 / R45

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Tickets: R40 / R20 / R30 First Performance FREE! Tickets: R60 / R40 / R40 (Donations welcome)

“The blues ain’t nothing but the feelings that consists between a male and female that’s in love” –Son House. Gerald Clark and Luna Paige play with Son’s sentiment in this show. With two powerful voices, passion, a piano, two guitars, a stomp box & a telephone, they ensure a fun and sexy show for all blues & country lovers to enjoy. This duo has managed to obtain loyal followers wherever they perform and guarantee a great show!

224 Jenna Lee

Kenaz: A SightLaisses and-Sound Journey Meri Kenaz

Jenna Lee is a classically trained musician who took up song-writing in 2008. Hailing from Los Angeles, she studied at the Thornton School of Music. She plays many different instruments and uses them in thoughtfully assembled and unique arrangements. She draws inspiration from life and love. Featuring Jenna Lee, Emily Westerlund & Mmapali Mokapela See the GIG GUIDE for performance details

John Ellis

We are a band that combines catchy, foottapping electro beats with With guitar on the back seat, a vocal tweak leading the a camera and microphone music into the realms of in hand, Meri Kenaz is jazz and opera. Our other exploring the magical influences are dubstep, parts of South Africa and uplifting rave and a slight its surrounds. All the while splash of psychedelic trance. interpreting her experiences We use lighting to give the through the songs she show a more theatrical feel, writes, she now brings to the as well as make-up and Festival an artfully woven costumes which aid the multi-media experience; a experience. sight-and-sound journey Prime: that paints life through a 1 July 15:00 musician’s lens. Music composed & performed by Merike Meiring

Urban Lounge: 8 July 12:30

Graham Hotel: 30 June 11:00; 1 July 17:00; 2 July 19:30; 4 July 13:00 & 21:30

Tickets: R30 / R25 / R30 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Tickets: R60 / R50 / R50

Kgafela le Marabele John Ellis is an acclaimed singer-songwriter-guitarist from Durban, South Africa. Having spent many years touring the world fronting award-winning Tree63, John returned to SA to begin a solo career, which kicked off with his 2010 SAMA-nominated debut Come Out Fighting. His new acoustic album Rural is due for release in 2012.

Kgafela le Marabele are a group of artists who individually have a world of experience as performers. Graham Hotel: This musical genius outfit 28 June 17:00; includes an indigenous 29 June 17:00; music instrument player, 30 June 15:00; a versatile bass player, 2 July 17:30; 3 July 17:00 an international combat spoken-word artist, and Tickets: R40 / R20 / R25 other talented musicians. First Performance FREE! Guaranteed entertainment (Donations welcome) for the free minded.

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Featuring Kgafela Oa Magogodi, Makati Molekwa & Tebogo ‘Bra Tebza’ Tshotetsi Urban Lounge: 2 July 11:00; 3 July 14:00; 5 July 12:30 Tickets: R35 / R25 / R30

Laurie Levine & Lize Wiid

Standard Bank Silver Ovation award-winning duo, singer-songwriter Laurie Levine and musician Lize Wiid, return to Grahamstown with their haunting harmonies and emotive contemporary folk music. Their pareddown sound, textured with accordian, banjo, mandolin and other acoustic instruments, underscores the lyrical beauty of their original songs. Cuervo Music Room: 4 July 21:30; 5 July 16:30; 7 July 20:00; 8 July 12:00 Tickets: R50 / R25 / R40

225 Leave a Mark Envoy Productions

Leave a Mark is a collective of 10 musically different artists who sought to fuse elements of each South African genre into one. Made up of rappers, RnB vocalists and producers, we use an electro based sound to get a positive message across. Featuring B-ref & Ken-b Cuervo Music Room: 28 June 15:00; 30 June 18:00; 3 July 20:00; 4 July 15:00; 5 July 13:30

Little Hartmut & an Lolo Rollins Expression FM

Acoustic slow-folk, performed by Little Hartmut (Robert Volker), accompanied by original short story renditions, written and performed by An Expression FM (Chris Robertson). A cultured performance, showcasing two young alternative artists’ refreshing approach to live entertainment. A moment to allow the festival to sink in. Featuring Robert Volker & Chris Robertson

Graham Hotel: Tickets: R60 / R30 / R60 4 July 11:00; 5 July 15:00; First Performance FREE! 6 July 17:30; 7 July 21:00; (Donations welcome) 8 July 17:00

LoveGlori

Lolo Rollins takes you on a world music trip with his fusion of styles and rhythms from all corners of the world. This multi-instrumentalist will be performing most of the works from his latest album, Maluju Africa. Featuring Lolo Rollins Cuervo Music Room: 5 July 21:30 Prime: 7 July 15:00

Get fired up with Lucy Featuring Nozuko “Glori” Mapoma & Kruger, a new talent who Lerato “ Love” Moiloa brings a fresh take to local indie-rock with easy, See the GIG GUIDE for honest songwriting and performance details a sexy, crooning voice. Her debut album Fired Up! features innovative SA artists including Inge Beckmann, Schalk Joubert and Albert Frost. Enjoy her foot-tapping, sensual performance.

Tickets: R40 / R30 / R35 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Tickets: R30 / R20 / R20

Nate Maingard and Tim Hutchinson are acoustic indie-folk musicians exploring the archetypal stories of humanity. The lilting lyricism and passion in their performances inspires a depth of authentic emotion in their audiences. With music both softspoken and raw, these two singer-songwriters invite you to join them in an experience of unadulterated humanness. Graham Hotel: 28 June 15:00; 29 June 21:00; 1 July 15:00; 3 July 19:00

Urban Lounge Maingard & Hutch, John Ellis One Minute Later, Wordsuntame, Davyn & the Rhinos John Ellis, Encore Paige Mac, The Muffinz, Maingard & Hutch Gary Thomas, Encore & John Ellis Maingard and Hutch, Davyn & the Rhinos, Guess this is why... The Muffinz, Paige Mac, John Ellis Gary Thomas, One Minute Later Jenna Lee, Davyn & The Rhinos, Paige Mac Little Hartmut, One Minute Later, Below Ice Encore John Ellis, Jenna Lee, Little Hartmut Jenna Lee, Trystan, Gerald and Luna Lucy Kruger, B-Traq, Lolo Rollins Lucy Kruger, Laurie and Lize, Wordsuntame Acoustic Soul, Trystan B-Traq, Little Hartmut Lolo Rollins, Trystan, Wordsuntame Little Hartmut, Acoustic Soul, Essence of Sounds Mo Molemi and Mo Miles, Prototype, Guess this is why...

Tickets for all gigs: R50

28 June 21:30 Down on the First, Best of Durban Hip Hop & Poetry 1, LoveGlori 29 June 18:30 Conscious Marimba Band, Shoelace, Afro-Fusion 21:30 U-Diverse, Down on the First, Best of Durban: Hip Hop & Poetry II, LoveGlori 30 June 18:30 Below Ice, Shoelace, The Afrikwetu Band 21:30 Best of Durban: Hip Hop & Poetry II, U-Diverse, Natasha Meister Band, Ndigo Johwa 1 July 18:30 Kgafela le Marabele, Conscious Marimba Band, Shoelace 21:30 Natasha Meister Band, Love Glori, U-Diverse, The Afrikwetu Band 2 July 18:30 Below Ice, Up Beat, LoveGlori 21:30 Ndigo Johwa, Down on the First, Prototype, Seswagga 3 July 18:30 Shades of Blackness, Conscious Marimba Band, Seswagga 21:30 Essence of Sounds, Ological Studies, Laisses, Best of Durban: Hip Hop Poetry I 4 July 18:30 Tsa Lapeng Youth Jazz Orchestra, Tia Anam, Ndigo Johwa 21:30 Mo Molemi and Mo Miles, Laisses, Ological Studies, Seswagga 5 July 18:30 Rhythmic Hearts, Tsa Lapeng Youth Jazz Orchestra, Up Beat 21:30 Radi, Kgafela le Marabele, Shades of Blackness, Prototype 6 July 18:30 Ndigo Johwa, Tsa Lapeng Youth Jazz Orchestra, Tia Anam 21:30 Radi, Rhythmic Hearts, Laissies, Essence of Sounds 7 July 18:30 Up Beat, Ndigo Johwa, Radi 21:30 Ological Studies, Mo Molemi and Mo Miles, Acoustic Soul, B-Traq

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29 June 12:00 16:30 30 June 12:00 16:30 1 July 12:00 16:30 2 July 12:00 16:30 3 July 12:00 16:30 4 July 12:00 16:30 5 July 12:00 16:30 6 July 12:00 16:30 7 July 12:00 16:30 8 July 12:00 16:30

Graham Hotel: 6 July 19:30; 7 July 11:00

Maingard & Hutch

Tickets: R40 / R30 / R30 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Tickets: R20 / R10 / R10 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Prime

Lucy Kruger

We are a female duo that aspires to entertain, heal and motivate through music and the message of love and peace. We play with a 5piece band and with each member unique contribution an authentic sound is born that moves audiences to both past and future.

226 Mo Molemi and Mo Miles

Nibs van der Spuy & Guy Buttery

Mo Molemi can undoubtably be considered one of the truly exceptional South African Motswako hip-hop artists. Collaborating with supertalented Mo Miles and his band from Mafikeng, they bring a hip, fresh, live sound that is reflective of Tswana vibrancy and a modern hiphop sound.

After over a decade of writing, recording and touring together, Nibs van der Spuy and Guy Buttery have finally released their first ever collaborative album In The Shade of the Wild Fig. These internationally renowned guitarists will be touring their brand new show across SA & Europe in 2012.

Featuring Mo Molemi, Ntirelang Berman & Mo Miles

Cuervo Music Room: 1 July 12:00; 3 July 15:00; 4 July 16:30

Urban Lounge: 5 July 14:00 Tickets: R35 / R25 / R30

The Lowlander: 29 June 20:00; 1 July 20:00; 6 July 20:00; 7 July 20:00 Tickets: R90 / R55 / R75

Natasha Meister Band

Nibs van der Spuy

Ndingo Johwa (Satjilombe) Ndingo Johwa (Satjilombe) is Botswana’s finest traditional musician, uniquely characterized by Ikalanga Folklore, his deep voice, baboon dance, and his two backup singers with their unique donkeygalloping dance. The Band has made in roads in the music industry in Southern Africa and abroad. Featuring Peter Mazenza, Chedza Majwabe & Basopani Pretty Mothobi See the GIG GUIDE for performance details

Paige Mac Paige Mac is a musical phenomenon waiting to happen. Mature, emotionally charged songwriting from an undeniable new young talent. Paige’s indescribably beautiful voice is brought to the fore in this exciting collaboration with multitalented muso Garry van Vuuren and director Rob van Vuuren. Cuervo Music Room: 28 June 16:30; 29 June 13:30; 1 July 13:30; 2 July 17:30; 4 July 20:00 Tickets: R35 / R25 / R25 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Afro Sessions with

Take Note

Urban Lounge: 3 July 15:30; 4 July 15:30; 6 July 17:00; 8 July 14:00

Canadian born Natasha Meister, since arriving in SA, has wowed audiences wherever she goes! She is the first woman to be endorsed by Fender (USA) as well as Lakewood (Germany) guitars. Come watch Natasha and her veteran band for the first time at the Festival on their debut album tour. Featuring Natasha Meister, Paul Tizzard & Roger Bashew Cuervo Music Room: 28 June 18:00; 29 June 12:00; 29 June 18:00; 30 Jun 13:30; 2 July 14:30

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Tickets: R35 / R25 / R25 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Nibs van der Spuy’s virtuosic acoustic guitar style and a mesmeric whispering voice have attracted global acclaim for their intelligent folk, world and pan-African overtones. Nibs perform in theatres and on festival stages around the world and is a true South African treasure. Cuervo Music Room: 30 June 12:00; 2 July 16:00; 5 July 12:00; 6 July 16:30; 7 July 16:30 Tickets: R60 / R40 / R45

Ological Studies

This 2011 SAMA-winning band in the contemporary jazz category, are a group of musicians who explore contemporary music. The music has traces of jazz, soul, R&B and funk. Improvisation to head-nodding beats brings about a fresh, almost hip-hop, jazzy sound. Featuring Sibusiso Dlamini & Phumlani Mtiti Urban Lounge: 3 July 12:30; 5 July 11:00; 7 July 15:30; 8 July 17:00 Tickets: R30 / R20 / R20

227 One Minute Later

Radi A show from a hard worker and a passionate and dedicated producer, composer, arranger and songwriter who recently won 3 out of 4 categories at the annual Free State Mokete Music Awards: Best Producer, Best Composer and Best Jazz Album.

As finalists in the Emerging Sounds competition and semi-finalists in the UK Songwriting Competition, this band has showcased serious offerings and has enjoyed warm responses from local audiences, not least due to the broad depth of their sound and compositions. With R&B backing vocals to colour the delivery, a strong contemporary feel, and a collection of intimate acoustics, the set holds its own in a wide range of settings.

Urban Lounge: 4 July 11:00

Featuring John Stephen, Juliet Paulse, Johann Lombard & Wilson Paulson

Tickets: R45 / R35 / R35

Rhythmic Hearts Their original sound and style has led them to share the main stage with great music luminaries like George Benson, Hugh Masekela, and Jimmy Dludlu. Urban Lounge: 7 July 17:00; 8 July 11:00

Shoelace

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Shades of Blackness is a band based in Nelson Mandela Bay that does a unique, crispy-fresh and cutting-edge fusion of jazz and hip-hop. Featuring Dumile Dabula, Mkhangeli Matiwane, Malcom, Deon Manell & Dumile Manxoyi Cuervo Music Room: 3 July21:30 Prime: 4 July 15:00

Tickets: R30 / R20 / R20 Tickets: R40 / R30 / R35 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Prime: 30 June 15:00 Cuervo Music Room: 30 June 20:00

Shades of Blackness

Shannon Hope Seswagga

Tickets: R30 / R20 / R20 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

A shoelace is a symbol of love and being together. Shoelaces tie things together and they don’t easily come undone. Rocker Soul is our kind of music – it’s pop rock with African elements, blues and soul, sung mostly in English but also in Xhosa. Featuring Shoelace Rockers Band Urban Lounge: 2 July 17:00 Tickets: R30 / R18 / R20

The Lowlander “The festivals hidden secret”. Tucked away underneath the Highlander in Worcester Street, the Lowlander is a rustic and relaxing pub oozing atmosphere, drinks flowing and food tantalizing. Enjoy live music daily or simply chill with friends. It’s ‘the place to be’. Worcester Street: Daily from 10:00

The Sound Kiln is an outdoor venue which hosts a variety of live music, DJ’s, comedy, film screenings and workshops. There are licensed bars, huge bonfires, food stalls and a fully waterproof/weatherproof entertainment area. A great place to relax after the day’s festivities and enjoy some of SA’s talented performers. Featuring Felix La Band, the Brother Moves On & Mr Cat & the Jackal

16 + Pro English 3 Chimneys Farm, Worcester Street: 28 June to 08 July from 18:00 to 04:00

Tia Anam

Prototype

The Monastery Poetry, music, comedy – full bar and eatery; outside pub and gazebo. Soak up the atmosphere – enjoy. New Street: Daily from 10:00

The Muffinz

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The Muffinz is a Joburgbased eclectic urban band, mixing up the beautiful sounds of light indie jazz, soul and afro-funk with a li’l touch of genius to create a new type of band. Cuervo Music Room: 1 July 16:30 Prime: 3 July 15:00 Tickets: R30 / R20 / R20 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

Acoustic guitar guru and legend, Tony Cox, will live, breathe, and talk the guitar at you and right through you for this, his 18th appearance at the National Arts Festival. Be prepared to lower your jaw-lines suddenly and rock back in your seat with mirth while you take in one of South Africa’s finest all-round musicians and world-class performers. Do not miss this show! Music composed & performed by Tony Cox Graham Hotel: 2 July 11:00; 3 July 13:00; 4 July 19:30; 5 July 19:00; 6 July 13:30; 7 July 19:00; 8 July 13:00 Tickets: R80 / R65 / R70

Trystan Upbeat rock style and comedic storytelling acoustic music, based on life stories working in a backpackers’ hostel, travelling and being Welsh. Graham Hotel: 5 July 17:00; 7 July 13:00

Tickets: R40 / R25 / R25 First Performance FREE! Tia Anam is an exceptionally (Donations welcome) talented young lady born in East London. Together with a hip and jazzy band this energetic songstress/lyricist U-Diverse is going to move crowds at the Festival. She and Bantu Entertainment Xokelelo, on bass guitar, will be playing along with some great musicians. Tia believes that music is her calling to heal and educate young women through her indigenous lyrics, soulful sound and powerful delivery. Tia is the definition of versatility.

Featuring Bantu Xokelelo, Ncera & Tia Anam Urban Lounge: 5 July 17:00; 6 July 11:00 Tickets: R35 / R20 / R25

U-Diverse Entertainment is a pool of diversity made up of different genres, from your soothing neo-soul melodies with a hit of classic, to a blend of R&B with a bit of pop here and there to get you dancing, all mixed up with hip-hop to get everyone and anyone bouncing. Featuring Talent, Fix, Kwakhanya & Junior Cuervo Music Room: 28 June 20:00; 29 June 15:00 Urban Lounge: 30 June 17:00; 1 July 15:30 Tickets: R50 / R25 / R30

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Delivering an intensely personal commentary in a vocal epic that has Seswagga continues to mesmerised audiences broaden his audience using countrywide, 2011 Standard an apt combination of Bank Ovation Award-winner, authentic lyrics and vibrant Shannon Hope, returns beat selections. From the to the festival for a third hills of the Free State all the season, with her intriguingly way to the futuristic clubs powerful heart-songs. of Indonesia, music lovers “This solo pianist and singer have been dazzled by this is dramatic, fearless, even versatile hip-hop rising star. Prototype is a trio of likeferocious on stage as she minded artists in the hipperforms her emotional Urban Lounge: hop music genre. This group 7 July 14:00; 8 July 15:30 music” – Therese Owen, The was formed in 2011 by the Star 2012. “Hope captivates three current members Pro- Tickets: R30 / R20 / R20 the audience with her Ike, Tee-Ow and Tee-H. We First Performance FREE! accessible melodies and currently compose, write, beguiling stage presence” – (Donations welcome) produce and perform all our Rowan Roux, Cue 2011. own music. Graham Hotel: Featuring Pro-Ike, Tee-Ow & Tee-H 28 June 13:00; 29 June 13:00; Urban Lounge: 30 June 21:00; 1 July 13:00; 2 July 14:00; 5 July 15:30; 2 July 21:30; 3 July 11:00; 6 July 12:30 4 July 15:00; 6 July 15:30; 8 July 11:00 Tickets: R40 / R25 / R25 First Performance FREE! Tickets: R50 / R40 / R40 (Donations welcome)

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228 Up Beat

Wordsuntame

Up Beat is a professional band that draws on a range of different cultural experiences to create a world-class sound that will feel familiar to the ear. The band’s music genre derives from the uniquely different life-experiences of its members.

This duo rides a wave of energy created by their experienced lyrical content which is expressed freely through the rhythm of an acoustic guitar and the sounds of a synthesiser, creating a relaxing atmosphere for the listeners. “Lyrically the music is full of talent and one can tell they share real stories in their songs” – Cue 2011.

Featuring Lebogang Mashigo, Leonard Buda and Sandile Latha Urban Lounge: 4 July 14:00; 6 July 15:30

Featuring Bulelani Booi & Sanelisiwe Singaphi-Booi

Tickets: R50 / R30 / R40 Cuervo Music Room: First Performance FREE! 6 July 20:00 (Donations welcome) Prime: 8 July 15:00

Tickets: R40 / R35 / R35 First Performance FREE! (Donations welcome)

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229 0>40 and Everything in between

2052 Karoo

8arts8

Katie Barnard du Toit & Co-artists

Ronswa Art School

Tori Stowe

Katie Barnard Du Toit and co-artists predict 40 is a landmark age at the future of the Great which one measures oneself Karoo in 2052. With an as a fully-fledged adult. This evocative multimedia exhibition is something of installation including videos, a retrospective, reflecting animations, a real-time Tori’s eclectic 20-year career interactive projection and as an artist. It focuses on poignant wall works in three spheres of creativity: various media, serving as rock (ceramics), paper a vote against hydraulic (drawing & graphic design) fracturing after Shell’s recent and scissors (fabric). All application to explore fossil inspiration for the imagery gas in the heater Karoo of the exhibition is drawn basin. The visual experience from these three words: alludes to the irreversible rock, paper, and scissors. destruction this process We’ll be seeing rock spiders would generate. on paper planes, gliding Photographs, lino prints, through paper plantations sculpture, drawings, populated by rock stars. Paper boats sailing jauntily paintings, installation in stone bowls, bobbing on & multi-media, stocka sea of scissored fabric. And frame animations, video, more. Rock on! projection Ceramics, photographs, All St graphics, fabric art, hand Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily crafts & drawings Baptist Church Hall, All Pro 11 Bathurst Street Open: 10:00 to 17:00 daily

The 8arts8 exhibition has been assembled by Rona Zwarts. Her vision sees all branches of the arts being used by God to restore the image of humanity He outlines in Genesis 1:27. Africa and her youth are the driving force behind this vision, parts of which are recorded in the exhibits. Photographs, drawings & paintings

All Pro 2 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Oatlands Assitej Family Venue, African Street

Johan Carinus Art Centre, Beaufort Street

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230 A Karoo Moment Relived

A Tribute to Linga Diko

Nikki Thomson

Egazini Outreach Project

About Africa

African Heartbeat

Age of Loneliness

alone: together

Sonnett Olls

Wenkidu

Dez Weeks & Gill Maylam

Ayanda Mji, Jimmy Ndlovu, Sue Hoppe

Paintings from impressions to abstracts, the artist studies the subject by doing a series of paintings and captures the soul, which becomes the essence of these paintings. The subjects are the people and their passion, African landscapes, strength in a fragile flower and the magic of San art. Workshops available, cell: 0828207383

Being African painters we are inspired by the colours that speak of the African sun and its rhythms and patterns. The work is mythical, musical and full of the joy of life. Much of it includes collaged layers and handmade papers. There is also a unique selection of engravings and sculpture.

The region surrounding Grahamstown is a hotspot of biodiversity. This rich ecological landscape is being depleted, damaged through over-population and littered with the products of ‘civilization’. We are on the cusp of the Eremozoic, the ‘age of loneliness’, the halving of life forms through extinction. Our human made products and debris are destined to become the fossil legacy of this age.

As individuals, we have concerns that we address through our art, coloured by our unique paths through life. When independently generated works of sympathetic artists come together, they create a dialogue that is more powerful than the sum of its parts.

A tribute to Linga Diko, this exhibition is a showcase of Diko’s most recent work. All artworks will be shown to the public and his family and friends for the first time. Photographs, sculpture & fabric art

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Captured in time by artist Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Nikki Thomson, her love for the Karoo can be seen in her Victoria Girls High School, paintings in still life, portrait, Beaufort Street animals and landscapes from oil and acrylic to watercolour, ink and brush. All share in the peace, tranquillity and splendour of this beautiful part of our country. Drawings & paintings

All Pro 2 Open: 09:00 to 18:00 daily Steve Biko Building, Prince Alfred Street

Drawings & paintings

Graphics, sculpture, paintings & fine Intaglio prints (Etchings)

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Open: 08:30 to 17:00 daily

Open: 09:00 to 18:00 daily

Rennie Wing, Albany Science Museum, Somerset Street

Steve Biko Building, Prince Alfred Street

Photographs & paintings

All Pro 4 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Johan Carinus Art Centre, Beaufort Street

Ceramics, photographs, drawings & paintings

All Pro 8 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Carinus Annex, Donkin Street

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232 ART: 4X4 Seasons Anthony Harris

Arts and Crafts by Vukile Teyise Vukile Teyise An exhibition of linocuts, mostly in black and white, in varying sizes selected randomly from the artist’s portfolio and also handprinted textiles, paintings and handcrafts.

ART: 4x4Seasons is an exhibition curated by Anthony Harris. Work by leading contemporary artists will be showcased in Port Elizabeth’s newest gallery ART, an intimate gallery space. The gallery and exhibition forms part of the ARTS Journey – Nelson Mandela Bay. Ceramics, photographs, graphics, sculpture, drawings, paintings & mixed media

Lino prints, fabric art & hand crafts

All Pro 8 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Victoria Girls High School, Beaufort Street

Johan Carinus Art Centre: 2012 Exhibitions The Johan Carinus Art Centre invites you to sample from a rich selection of various disciplines from top quality artists such as Tori Stowe, Dez Weeks, Gill Maylam, Martin Haines, Loni Drager, Peter Parrish and Charmaine Haines. Ceramics, photographs, lino prints, graphics, paintings & mosaics

All Pro Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Johan Carinus Art Centre, Beaufort Street

Blue & White Studio Potter, Martin Haines

Classical Curiosities Peter Parrish

All Pro 10 Open: 10:00 to 16:00 daily ART Gallery, Port Elizabeth

Art Comix Project Art Comix Team

For Blue & White studio potter, Martin Haines, produces handmade tiles as part of an earthenware, flatware range that includes plates and platters within a rich decorative and rustic peasant pottery style. Ceramics

All Pro 10 Open: 09:00 to17:00 daily The Art Comix Project is an exhibition that showcases a collection of the art comix participators own artwork and documentation of the process in developing a hard-copy comic that teaches the youth about the importance of public art in general and, specifically, Route 67 in Port Elizabeth.

Johan Carinus Art Centre, Beaufort Street

A collection of classical oil paintings featuring curious objects imaginatively organized and traditionally painted. These still-life paintings seek to stimulate the intellect while pleasing the eye. All pictures are painted after the Flemish and Dutch methods of picture making, and are constructed in calculated layers, using the finest materials.’ Paintings

CLIVIS – activities, declivities, proclivities Loni Drager

Photographs, graphics, sculpture, fabric art, drawings, paintings & video footage

All SPro Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily

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Athenaeum, Port Elizabeth Up slopes, down slopes, secret hills and valleys. An exhibition of quiet, sensual sculptures carved in wood. Subtle forms, lines and tendencies inspired by landscapes, succulent bodies and plants. Sculpture

All Pro 3 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Johan Carinus Art Centre, Beaufort Street

All Pro Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Johan Carinus Art Centre, Beaufort Street

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234 Craft from Waste

Earth

Egazini Expressions Extended Family

Fired Earth

Ilitha lomso

Anthony Harris

Egazini Outreach Project Mathias Chirombo

Donve Branch

Brian DV Hammond

Egazini Expressions is an exhibition by a local art centre. The exhibition is a veritable showcase of life and includes hand printed textiles created by Violet Booi and Nomathemba Tana, and lots of linocuts by Papama Lubelwana. Our concept? Well-made art from waste. Using old waste products, like brightly coloured detergent plastic bottles, we create beautiful works, like animal heads, bead screen curtains, mirrors, flowers, jewellery, etc. This project is driven by a group of eight women in Masiphumelele. Most of these products have been exhibited in places like London, Australia and Paris. Hand crafts

All CG Open: 09:0 to 17:00 daily Oatlands Assitej Family Venue, African Street

My work has always been motivated by nature, from microscopic to panoramic. I use the landscape, in particular the Karoo and Richtersveld, as a metaphor. I enjoy exploring the complexity of the landscape in ways that challenge the viewers’ own boundaries and conventions of romanticising the landscape. Paintings & mixed media

All Pro 7 Open: 08:00 to 19:00 daily Trinity Hall, Hill Street

Lino prints, fabric art & hand craft

All Pro 10 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Victoria Girls High School, Beaufort Street

God’s Perfect Palette

This exhibition comes out of Shona ontology, offering a different viewpoint of life and family from a spiritual level. It examines the extended family, exploring relationships and spiritual transformation from one form to another between people, nature and ancestors. This familial connection to nature and animals influences the way people treat their natural surroundings Paintings & collagraphy prints

All Pro 4 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Green Gallery, Albany Science Museum, Somerset Street

My work is a crossover between classical thrown shapes and the traditional firing of Africa. I work in a white clay, which I then place in a pit with a mixture of combustible material such as pine, straw and dung.

Open: 08:00 to 19:00 daily

This lifelong farmer, Brian Hammond, has become a heartfelt capturer of frames in nature. In each painting Brian portrays a blend of colours that speaks of a keen eye for creation as well as a deep comprehension of Mother Earth’s beauty. Any of these images will serve to enhance your home and nurture your spirit.

Trinity Hall, Hill Street

Paintings

Ceramics

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All SPro Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Carinus Annex, Donkin Street

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235 Home

Imprints

NMMU

Pangolin Press [Alma ITA Chantelle Mullins Vorster & Helen Brent Cooper]

The experiment will destabilize the finite construct of ‘home’ as a structure/object and compel us to imagine a fluid, unstable notion that is re/ made by the people/things that inhabit or are outside its domain. Through the interplay and juxtaposition of the works, using visual forms as catalyst, a kinetic energy will agitate/activate Move a little closer and look the works. deeper than the surface, and beyond, to where the Ceramics, photographs, merging of process and paintings, installations, concept leave an imprint. performance & fashion Discover the exciting All Pro world of printmaking in this collection of prints by Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily two Fine Art printmakers, Athenaeum, Port Elizabeth who use traditional and experimental print making techniques.

Impressions of the Karoo Pierre Botha

Sculpture, printmaking & mixed media collage

All Pro Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Carinus Annex, Donkin Street

Inner Necessity

This exhibition offers a range of diverse works from sculpture to paintings, drawings and photography. Shifts in scale, materials and methods create an encompassing range of visually eye-capturing work, ranging from abstract mixed media work, to more realistic, captivating paintings. Themes of spirituality, life and people pervade the exhibition. Photography, sculpture, drawings, paintings & a handmade dragon marionette puppet

All Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily The Cube Gallery, Albany Science Museum, Somerset Street

In Praise of Vessels/ Treasures Friends of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Imaginative paintings expressing the appreciation Art Museum & Ceramics of the Karoo, and specifically SA - Eastern Cape the Camdeboo with its plains and magic mountains. Tranquil and serene. Far, far away from the commercial hustle and bustle where there is freedom for mind and matter.

It’s all about Light RD McKenzie

Paintings

All SPro 5 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 Christ Church, Speke Street

Ceramics & hand crafts

All SPro Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, Port Elizabeth

I’m often asked what my favourite subject is to paint. Over the years it’s become clear to me that it’s not so much about the subject, but more about how and where light falls. This exhibition is a celebration of this light, captured in a variety of subjects. Paintings

All Pro Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Steve Biko Building, Prince Alfred Street

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Two exhibitions in one. Artists are challenged to respond to either one or both of the themes. The Friends of the Art Museum’s craft theme is entitled Treasures, and the Ceramic SA – Eastern Cape theme is entitled In Praise of Vessels. Both exhibitions will be showcased alongside each other at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum in Port Elizabeth.

236 Kaleidoscope Les Bird, Anne-Mari Burger & Jenny Maltby

These three well-known local artists have put together a wonderful exhibition combining colour, light and texture. Each artist has remained true to her particular style resulting in an exciting exhibition including representation, impressionist and abstract works. Paintings

All SPro 11 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Carinus Annex, Donkin Street

Landi Raubenheimer & Paul Cooper: Recent work

This is an exhibition of recent work by artists Paul Cooper and Landi Raubenheimer. In this body of work, consisting of sculptures and hand made paper artworks, the artists explore themes such as place, time, landscape, photography and the selfconscious act of collecting. Sculpture & hand crafted paper work, framed & for wall mounting.

All Pro 1 Open: 10:00 to 15:00 daily Steve Biko Building, Prince Alfred Street

Local Artists’ Exhibition This exhibition includes works by a number of local artists whose varied styles and talents can’t fail to enchant you. We offer you a selection of reasonably priced, high quality, watercolour, oil and acrylic paintings, as well as ceramics and hand-painted cards. Make us part of your Village Green experience by using our quiet space to revitalise and recharge your body and soul. Ceramics, drawings & paintings

All Am 4 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Steve Biko Building, Prince Alfred Street

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237 Love for Nature Piet & Dieuwie Holthuysen

Ndilamba Njani (Why should I suffer?)

Off the Wall Rossouw Modern Art Gallery

Mzwabantu Kanzi

Dieuwie and Piet Holthuysen have been painting for the last 35 years in all mediums of wildlife, land and seascapes, and have had exhibitions in the Netherlands, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Botswana. They are now living in Port Alfred, South Africa, and are enjoying painting the Karoo, the Cape and seascapes, and have sold a lot of paintings all over the world. Painting

Ndilamba Njani is a documentary that focuses on art forms of the Eastern Cape (drama, poetry, visual art, music, etc.), and looks specifically at provincially acclaimed, established artists who still do not earn profit from their art. Drawings, paintings & installation

All CG 1 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Victoria Girls High School, Beaufort Street

New Paintings Jacqueline Griffin-Jones

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A group of Western Cape artists delight the senses. Modern and refreshing, with a somewhat cheeky curator! Works by acclaimed artists John Botham, Jeanne Hendriks, A.S. de Lange, Bas van Stenis and Hugo Maritz are showcased with upcoming artists Obert Jongwe, Sandy Diogo and more. Not to be missed! See advert. Sculpture & paintings

All Pro 2 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily

Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Steve Biko Building, Prince Alfred Street

Open Spaces Gordon Legg

molo mimi Lisa Nettelton

molo mimi works with a technique called free-stitch, creating unique fabrics, which are designed and illustrated onto a multitude of innovative applications. The traditional technique of sewing has been deconstructed with recycled fabrics. Precious sentiments are being challenged in favour of a more accessible approach. Fabric art

All Pro 4 Carinus Annex, Donkin Street

Paintings

All Pro 8 Open: 10:00 to 17:00 daily High Corner Guest House, 7 Florence Street

Watercolour and acrylic landscapes and seascapes by Gordon Legg.

All SPro 13 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Coffee Shop, Albany Science Museum, Somerset Street

Out of Silence: Leopards and the Trapping Truth Landmark Foundation Three powerful sculptures about the relationship between leopards, humans, money and choice exposing the reality of gin trapping in South Africa. Life size and welded from gin traps, Roberto Vaccaro’s leopard “Apex of Evolution” and man “ Scar Tissue” stand sentinel with the “Silent Scream” by Simon Max Bannister. In metal, wood and words a clear voice speaks straight from the heart of the trapping truth. Sculpture

All CG 1 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Eden Grove building, Lucas Avenue

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Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily

My paintings are expressive and introspective, dealing with settlements, no-man’s land, commonage and open fields. Landscape is treated metaphorically and there is often a sense of unease. The raw Eastern Cape bush is often a starting point for much of the work and the process becomes more important than the end product. There are also small intimate still-lifes on view.

238 Pacific Art Gallery

Phall♂s

The Present Past

Ambimbola Olaniyan

Various Artists

Uyanda Justice Tom An exhibition of lino prints by Uyanda Justice Tom. Lino Prints

All SPro 3 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Victoria Girls High School, Beaufort Street An exhibition of the arts, culture and tourism products of Nigeria. Hand crafts & paintings

All Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Oatlands Assitej Family Venue, African Street

Pastel & Pixels Lin Opperman Various digital imagery, photographs as well as pastels and paintings on people and life Photographs, drawings & painting

All SPro 2 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily The Long Room, Carinus Annex

Phall♂s, a symbol of power, is showcased at its best: beautiful, aggressive and powerful. The exhibition is set amongst phallic and priapic garden features. Art for sale includes paintings, sculptures, pottery, graphics, etc. A menu of delicious treats, phallic food, compliments the theme. Fully licensed bar available. Ceramics, photographs, lino prints, graphics & food art

Adults Pro Open: 10:00 to 18:00 daily Yellow Piano Inn @ Burg Lengling, Farm 5, Manley Flats

Rhodes Fine Art Student Exhibition Rhodes University Department of Fine Art

Romancing the stone: A Shona Sculpture A collection of Shona sculptures, each piece carefully chosen to reveal the ‘miracle’ that happens when the inner aspect of man and his outer aspects interlock. These sculptures capture unique relationships, equivalents of each artist’s most profound experience of life. The sculptures appear still and motionless, yet they are full of pulse! Sculpture

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Inspired and innovative Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily work in a range of Gazebo, Albany Science traditional and new media by undergraduate students Museum, Somerset Street of the Rhodes Fine Art Department. Always a Fringe highlight of the Visual Art section. Photographs, graphics, sculpture, drawings, paintings, installation & digital arts

All St Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily

Salzmann Art André Salzmann

Sacred Steps Duncan Stewart

Sandile Goje

A collection of paintings, drawings and sculptures inspired by the journey of a lifetime: trekking up the Baltoro Glacier in Pakistan. From the pristine beauty of the world’s tallest peaks, to the squalor of overpopulated cities – the destiny of our planet, and her children, will require us taking sacred steps. Photographs, sculpture, drawings & paintings

All Pro Open: 10:00 to 16:00 daily

Ron Belling Art Gallery, We exhibit art. Mostly oil Port Elizabeth paintings of recognized and established artists. We are dealers in investment art. We buy and sell.

Rhodes Art School Gallery, Paintings Somerset Street

All Pro Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Carinus Annex, Donkin Street

Sandile Goje’s Solo Exhibition

Sandile Goje’s works are in black and white with carefully marked fine lines that create a unique tone that has become a signature in all his work. He will show a series of themes that are interconnected in telling the daily lives of South Africans. Lino prints

All Pro Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Dakawa Art Centre, Currie Street

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239 Small Pieces

Synchro-Psyche

Grahamstown Fabric Artists

aMan & Bruno

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Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Carinus Annex, Donkin Street

Chanelle Staude

Talking Heads Charmaine Haines

Primarily a painter of recognisable Eastern Cape landscapes, Staude often works in impasto, using the pallet knife to produce textual work, which conveys her view of the world. Unpretentious and realistic, her exhibitions have become a regular on the fringe programme and are a must-see for any art enthusiast. Drawings & paintings

All Pro 14 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Carinus Annex, Donkin Street

Under the South African Skies

Wild Arts & Crafts

Xpressions 2012

Jennefer Ann

Art Events

Jennefer is currently one of South Africa’s most promising realistic wildlife and landscape artists. Colour is one of Jennefer’s greatest attributes. She paints in various mediums. She will also have various fabric art pieces on display, like placemats, runners and table clothes.

The XPRESSIONS 2012 exhibition is a curated biannual exhibition that represents 22 professional artists living in Nelson Mandela Bay (Port Elizabeth). The exhibition showcases contemporary work by leading South African artists specialising in their own genres of painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics and mixed media.

artEC EPSAC Community Daniel Novela Art Centre Daniel Novela, one of the leading and most loved artists in South Africa, exhibits recent landscapes in oil paintings, drawings, etchings, linocut and silkscreens.

Get entertained and The members of this group enlightened at Bruno and are all working professionals aMan’s. This eclectic team represents so much art in the Grahamstown that we should be calling community, but they are it a museum! Both men also fabric artists. Each paint, traveller Bloom person uses fabric, colour photographs, Bruno films, and texture in their own way. Some pieces are by the aMan re-arranges found objects, Capetonian Brincat students at Kuyasa School invents. Plus prints, books, who are taught by Elisma shirts. A general (art) store Hallier. in store for you! Fabric art Ceramics, photographs, All SPro fabric art, drawings, paintings & assemblages, Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily giclée prints, books & DVDs P4 Gallery, High Street

Staude Landscapes

The artEC 93rd Annual

These ceramic pieces reflect the artist’s intention to portray and contextualise the familiar image of the human face. By exploring the potential of the image through observation and gesture, the artist attempts to capture the various emotions it evokes through abstraction and symbolism. Ceramics

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The artEC/EPSAC Annual has been the major exhibition in the Community Art Centre’s calendar for the last 93 years. It is an adjudicated open exhibition, with no restriction on medium or subject, thus offering an interesting cross section of the best work submitted by Eastern Cape artists each year.

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Ceramics, photographs, lino prints, sculpture, drawings & paintings

Peter Kennedy

Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Class Room, Albany Science Museum, Somerset Street

Vintage Photography

Fabric art, handcrafts, drawings & paintings

All Pro 2 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Steve Biko Building, Prince Alfred Street

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Trinity Hall, Hill Street

artEC Gallery, Port Elizabeth

Ubom! Stage to Paper is a photographic exhibition that coincides with the tenth anniversary of Ubom! Eastern Cape Drama Company. Paul Greenway has been photographing the company for much of this time and the exhibition is a selection of high-end professional portraiture and production images produced by the artist over the last eight years. Photographs

All Pro 1 Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily St. Patrick’s Church Hall, Hill Street

All Pro 10 Open: 08:00 to 19:00 daily

Open: 09:00 to 16:00 daily

Ubom! Stage to Paper

Ceramics, photographs, lino prints, graphics, sculpture, drawings & painting

Wiles Gallery Paintings A selection of fine vintage photography by Peter Kennedy.

Jane Wiles

Your Signature, My Life Matilda & Eylene Clifford

Photographs

All SPro Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Steve Biko Building, Prince Alfred Street

Where are the Fathers? Single Hand Project Artistic Encounters& African Diaspora Where are the Fathers? is an exhibition of women who are raising children alone. It’s part of a project called Single Hand Artistic Encounters Project and African Diaspora. This is a story of courage, resilience and foolishness, a story that is lived by millions of women around the world, especially, in Africa, by black women. This is a story that begs the question, “Where are the fathers?” Photographs & mosaics

10+ CG Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Victoria Girls High School, Beaufort Street

The Wiles Gallery of Bathurst presents paintings by W.G Wiles, Brian Wiles, Lucy Wiles and Jane Wiles of the wellknown Eastern Cape family. Oils, watercolours and pastels will be on display. Paintings

All Pro 3 Open: 10:00 to 16:00 daily St Aidan’s Guest Cottage, Cnr Constitution / Milner Streets

What shapes us? Makes or breaks us? These are questions to consider when viewing Your Signature, My Life. This is an interactive exhibition where viewers are invited to leave a permanent impression on sculptures. The artists explore the extent to which these, and other external impressions, shape their work. Sculpture

All Am Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Steve Biko Building, Prince Alfred Street

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Open: 09:00 to 17:00 daily Johan Carinus Art Centre, Beaufort Street

Lino prints, drawings, painting, etching and silkscreens

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Behind Every Rastaman

Margot and the Dolls

Forthcoming Entertainment

Behind Every Rastaman is a documentary film that explores the dedication of Mammatle Thakuli in the cultural advancement of her community. This presentation looks at her role as a black woman within a Rastafarian community and the significance of motherhood in the passing of knowledge to the next generation.

An absent father, a slightly deranged mother, and a daughter trying to find her place in a world that moves and dreams without her. This short film explores the ebb and flow of family; the passing of genes, the instability of life. Directed by Hannah Lax Featuring Megan Wright, Jennifer Schneeberger & Anton Krueger

8m 13+ (LR)

Directed by Terrance Nzuza Featuring Mammatle Thakhuli

17m All

Fractography Underground Dance Theatre

In the rural Eastern Cape, Wushe, a traditional Xhosa man, has always believed that every misfortune is a result of witchcraft. On the eve of his wife’s funeral he finds it imperative to communicate with his ancestors about his problems with his adult children. Directed by Thembisile Mzamo Featuring Malwande Blayi, Kwanele Ntlikithi, Sinethemba Kilana, Sisipho Tsholosi & Olwethu Rhawu

There Are No Heroes

Drew, a young single mother must fight to survive in a dystopian future in Cape Town, ruled by a sinister pharmaceutical company. Directed by Kyle Stevenson Featuring Chanel Smit

48m 13+ (LV)

Dearly Departed

Total duration: 58 minutes Eden Grove Seminar Room: 28 June 18:00; 3 July 10:00; 8 July 12:00 Eden Grove Blue Theatre: 5 July 20:00 Tickets: R20

A teenager moves with his senile grandfather to a retirement village, where he soon discovers a handful of elderly neighbours with an ancient windmill endowed with mystical powers, forcing him to choose between growing up and a girl.

In a world without electricity, paraffin is the new currency. A rising paraffin shortage threatens the township with darkness.

Directed by Etienne Fourie Featuring Armand Greyling & Michaela van Seydlitz

48m 16+ (L)

Directed by Miklas Manneke Featuring Thokozani Ngoma & Rethabile Mokhele

12m PG

Total duration: 1hr

Eden Grove Blue Theatre: 30 June 18:00; 1 July 18:00; 2 July 22:00 Tickets: R20

My Victory (Uloyiso) Ezaselokshini Movie Pictures This is a story about Makhosi, who has grown up with his two older brothers without adult supervision since the death of their mother when they were still young boys. Years later, Makhosi has married and has two kids by artificial insemination (because Prissila, his wife, is HIV positive).

Electricity

Eden Grove Seminar Room: 29 June 20:00

20m All

Single Hand Artistic Enounters Project & African Diaspora

Die Windpomp

Two distant sisters must learn to co-exist when their dearly departed old aunt sends them on a complicated journey to bury her body that will ultimately rescue or ruin the sisters’ already fragile relationship.

How to get AMAZ!NG everywhere

Directed by Ellidh Goosen Featuring Lebo Takedi and Nokwazi Gumede

12m 13+ (L)

Directed by Luzuko Yafele Featuring Masixole Heshu

30m 13+ (L)

Total Duration: 1hr

Total duration: 50 minutes

Eden Grove Seminar Room: 1 July 10:00; 2 July 20:00; 3 July 14:00

Eden Grove Seminar Room: 28 June 16:00; 8 July 14:00 Eden Grove Blue Theatre: 1 July 22:00; 6 July 20:00 Tickets: R20

Eden Grove Blue Theatre: 29 June 20:00

Tickets: R20

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10m PG (VS)

Advanced Dimension Designs

With a Single Hand...

With a Single Hand… is a documentary about five women who are rasing In engineering, their children alone. These fractographic methods are generally used to determine talented women do their damndest to keep their the cause of failure in dreams alive while being engineering structures. the best mothers they can Fractography tells the possibly be! story of two lovers and the tensions created by a Directed by Lungile Mdluli & third person, an intruder. Samkela Yolande Stamper Recognising that every Featuring Nyeleti Maluleke, person experiences fracture Thabang Mojapelo & Pebbles or rupture in some form, Fractography becomes a 23m PG place of confrontation, vulnerability and exposure. Directed by Steven van Wyk, Kristina Johnstone, Jamila Rodrigues & Mandilakhe Yengo Featuring Steven van Wyk, Kristina Johnstone & Jamila Rodrigues

Isikhalo Sendoda

242 Hare Roperopehe Feela

Sacred Woman

Goiwil Productions

Sipho Mutsi, “The Barefooted Comrade”

The Neons

Why Are We Here?

Sandcastle Studios / Neon Anthems

Andrew Simpson Productions

A behind the scenes look at an attempt by theatrical duo,The Neon Anthems, to create a sell-out show for the National Arts Festival. They write, they rehearse, they enlist a black actor, and they hit Grahamstown running! But will they run out of steam? Daring, honest, gritty, moving.

Described as the feel-good movie of the year! Ariel is a young girl who goes in search of the meaning of life, and meets ghosts, angels, devils, singing Elvises and her true self. You’ll laugh, dance, cry and fall in love with this charming tale. An absolute must-see!

Letsema La Tsela with Zeptepi Entertainment

Ha Jabulane Goiwil Productions

Our townships have certain things in common. For instance, some people go to taverns and night clubs, while others choose to go to a “spot” or “spottong”. All of these people meet at Jabulane’s Place. Directed by Goitsemang Pholo Featuring Karabo Mokoena & Luckyboy Mosebi

55m 13+ (L) Eden Grove Seminar Room: 1 July 16:00; 3 July 12:00; 4 July 18:00

A group of traditionalists move away from city life to a rural area where they TK is an artist who can’t find reconnect with the ancients a stable job. Bra Touch wants through the healing waters to help, but TK has other of the village river. interests. Will he finally get Directed by Mandla Mbothwe what he wants? Featuring Warona Seane & Directed by Goitsemang Pholo Ferry Jele Featuring Goitsemang Pholo & Lehlohonolo Mokejane 1h30 PG

1h10 13+ (L) Eden Grove Seminar Room: 1 July 14:00; 4 July 16:00; 6 July 18:00 Eden Grove Blue Theatre: 3 July 20:00 Tickets: R20

Eden Grove Blue Theatre: 30 June 20:00 Eden Grove Seminar Room: 1 July 12:00; 3 July 18:00; 5 July 16:00 Tickets: R20

A poetic and thoughtprovoking documentary film depicting the life and times of young South African political activist, icon and artist, Sipho Mutsi. Mutsi died in 1985 at the Odendaalsrus police station in the Free State at the age of 17, making him the youngest detainee to die in police custody. Directed by Jerry Tsie Featuring David Phetoe

1h30 All

Eden Grove Blue Theatre: 2 July 20:00

Eden Grove Seminar Room: 28 June 14:00 Eden Grove Blue Theatre: 30 June 22:00; 4 July 20:00; 7 July 20:00

Tickets: R20

Directed by Mark Edwards & Jacobus van Heerden Featuring Jacobus van Heerden, Liam Magner & Loyiso Macdonald

1h 13+ (L) Eden Grove Seminar Room: 29 June 18:00; 30 June 20:00; 1 July 18:00; 2 July 16:00; 3 July 20:00; 4 July 14:00; 5 July 18:00; 6 July 20:00; 7 July 20:00 Tickets: R25

Directed by Andrew Simpson Featuring Ama Qamata, Scott Moabelo, Andrew Simpson, Baden Dowie & Kyle Sheehan

2h All Eden Grove Seminar Room: 28 June 20:00; 4 July 11:00 Eden Grove Blue Theatre: 1 July 20:00; 3 July 22:00 Tickets: R20

FRINGE

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FRINGE

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Music

Note: All events take place in the Cathedral unless stated otherwise. Retiring collections taken will be in aid of the Cathedral Restoration Fund.

Corporate Acts of Worship The Festival Eucharists All are warmly invited to join us for these acts of worship and celebration Sunday 1 July 09:30 Eucharist with choral setting of the Mass, with organ and instrumental accompaniment. Featuring: Barbara Stout and the Cathedral Young Choristers. Preacher: Revd Prof N. Barney Pityana GCOB

Gospel Music Concerts 29 June & 30 June 19:00 Tickets: R30 (payable at the door)

30 June Retiring Collection

St. Michael’s Marimbas

Barney Pityana

(Entrance Free)

Frans Boekkooi

Enjoy a variety of sacred and secular music from Africa and abroad played by the St Michael’s Marimba groups. This is our 7th year at the Festival. 3 July & 5 July 13:15 Duration

45 minutes

FRINGE

Andrew-John Bethke

Organ Recital

6 July

18:00

Duration

1 hour

Tickets: R50 (available at Computicket or at the door)

Don’t miss this feast of organ classics, including works from Bach, Alain and Mendelssohn. These will be performed by Andrew-John Bethke, who holds a Fellowship diploma in Organ Performance from Trinity College, London; an MA in Sacred Music, and is completing his PhD in Liturgical Musicology. He has performed widely in South Africa and internationally. A must for all music lovers! 3 July

15:30

Duration

45 minutes

Retiring collection

Featuring Janet Suzman, who was honoured in the Queen’s 2011 birthday list for her services to the stage, and has recently directed a production of Cleopatra in the UK and starred at the Baxter in a play by Lara Foot. She brings an edgy and emotional intensity to Chris Mann’s poetry that has enthralled audiences in Durban, Oxford and Cape Town. Their latest collaboration is no exception. With large-scale artwork by Julia Skeen and live music. The performance will be followed by discussion. Blue Lecture Theatre, Eden Grove Building

Catholicism:

Film Series (5 episodes): Robert Barron’s highly acclaimed new five-part TV series on the foundations of the Christian faith. Introduced by Francis Williamson. 29 June 13:00 Catholicism Episode 1: Amazed and Afraid. Jesus both God & Human. 30 June 13:00 Catholicism Episode 2: The Mystery of God. 1 July 13:00 Catholicism Episode 3: Peter and Paul. The Indispensable Men. 4 July 13:00 Catholicism Episode 4: Liturgy & Eucharist. Communion with the Lord.

Karoo Angel, a bronze sculpture. Cathedral

6 July 13:00 Catholicism Episode 5: The Fire of His love. Prayer and the Life of the Spirit. Duration

1 hour

Pierre Botha & Frans Boekkooi Paintings by Pierre Botha and sculptures by Frans Boekkooi

8 July 09:30 Marimba Mass

Simon Tibbs

Exhibitions

This show is based on Chris Mann’s latest book, Home from Home, which explores the spirituality bound up in ordinary experiences of life.

Duration 1hr

Retiring Collection for Marimba players

Combined Churches Gospel Music Service Sunday 1 July 19:00

30 minutes per tour (max 12 people)

Retiring collection

14:30

St Michael’s Marimba group

Preacher: Revd Dr Simon Tibbs

Duration

Home from Home

Choral Music Concert A concert of Choral music, sacred and secular, from the repertoire of the Cathedral Choir, featuring the Young Choristers who are part of the Choir School scheme, initiated in 2009, led by Barbara Stout, Cathedral Director of Music. Items include the Allegri Miserere, Ireland’s Greater Love, The Holy City, choral music old and new, as well as items by the young singers, such as John Denver’s Perhaps Love.

30 June; 2 & 4 July 12:30 &13:00

Chris Mann

A celebration of the arts in the context of the Christian faith.

Multi-Media Presentation

Janet Susman

SPIRITFEST

Climb the 65 Cathedral Tower steps to view the oldest of South Africa’s seven bell towers and see how the bells are rung.

Roadmap to Apartheid

Open daily 09:00 to 17:00

New 94-minute documentary addressing the theological motivations for apartheid in South Africa and Zionism in IsraelPalestine and, in both cases, the misuse of religion. Introduced by Terry Crawford-Browne.

Spiritfest Lectures

2 July 13:00 Duration 1 hour 34 minutes

Christ Church Hall, Speke Street

Venue for all events: Cathedral Chapter House Room Retiring Collection will be taken after each event. 2 July 11:00 Terry Crawford-Browne Roadmap to Apartheid: The parallels of South Africa and Israel-Palestine? 3 July 11:00 Keith Matthee Why all the fuss about a Christian Chief Justice? Something rotten in the state of Denmark or is it much ado about nothing? 4 July 11:00 Celia Jameson Dying in Christ: A panel discussion on palliative care vs. assisted suicide. 5 July 11:00 Steve Meintjes Putting an end to poverty. Change the tax system! 6 July 11:00 Peter Rose Has Secular Modernism run its course? The perfect storm of Environment, Finance and Resources

Book Launch Our Land Our Rent By Steve Meintjies In this new book, Steve Meintjes argues that the root causes of poverty, including the erosion of the middle class position, are closely linked to the existing taxation system. Profound reform is needed to get out of this trap. 5 July

12:00

Bookstall Open daily in the Cathedral See our website: http://www. grahamstowncathedral.org

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The Art of Opportunity is … ...about creating pivotal pathways to position the arts to attain the Millennium Development Goals by giving artists the tools to fulfil their social responsibility through creativity and growth in the arts economy. The National Arts Festival champions The Art of Opportunity by allowing artists to develop their human capacity. The Art of Opportunity is a principled strategy and a powerful platform for promoting democracy and good governance because the arts build partnerships to support and assist individuals for socio-economic empowerment. The following projects showcase The Art of Opportunity at the National Arts Festival:

Hands On! Masks Off! This is a dynamic series of workshops, seminars and hands-on demonstrations mentored by successful practitioners who share their wisdom and knowledge with an emerging generation of arts practitioners to enable them to become sustainable artists and to reach even loftier heights.

The Remix Laboratory

Photo: Suzy Bernstein

The Art of Opportunity The ARTReach Project This is based on the principle of the Arts for All campaign by presenting a select number of Festival productions at prisons, hospitals, old age homes, children’s homes and in the surrounding rural areas. Marginalised individuals are encouraged to benefit from the healing potential of the arts while artists at the Festival give philanthropically to those individuals and communities who often have the least access to the arts.

The Art Factory The Art Factory responds proactively to the needs of vulnerable and marginalised youth. Operating throughout the year, The Art Factory uses the therapeutic and rehabilitative qualities of the arts to provide vulnerable youth with alternatives to seeking refuge in the streets of Grahamstown.

The Phezulu Stilt Walkers The Phezulu Stilt Walkers is a remarkable success story about six unemployed township youth who were taught the art of stilt-walking and are now gainfully employed throughout the year by performing at school fêtes, church bazaars and product launches. This year, the Phezulu Stilt walkers will return to the Festival with Tshini Kwedini.

Arts Guides This is an initiative to enable fine art students to acquire practical hands-on experience by working as art assistants at the Festival’s various exhibition venues.

Partnership Opportunities The National Arts Festival partners with a range of agencies and organisations who share a vision on how the arts can advocate and empower social change. By giving more artists the opportunity to find, flourish and use their creative voices, the National Arts Festival is investing in a nation that is committed to endowing its next generation with a prosperous future. The Remix Laboratory is a stimulating residency programme for community artists participating in a programme of creative arts workshops mentored by professional writers, directors, designers, actors and stage managers who are passionate about empowering community artists with the techniques that will enhance the ways in which they can grow their productions.

Individuals, organisations and agencies wanting to contribute their resources towards a visionary social responsibility partnership with the National Arts Festival are invited to become a part of The Art of Opportunity. Please contact the Festival Director, Ismail Mahomed, for more information: ismail@nationalartsfestival.co.za

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Festival Accommodation Accommodation for the Festival is made up of different categories:

Formal Sector Accommodation

Accommodation providers with year-round accommodation dedicated for the use of visitors in hotels, guesthouses, bed & breakfast or self-catering establishments.

Informal Sector Accommodation

Accommodation in family homes, either on a vacant house basis, where residents vacate their homes for the use of visitors, or on a bed and breakfast (homestay) basis, in rooms in homes where visitors share facilities with the host family.

University Residences

Two Festival ‘Hotels’ (in adapted modern residences); plus single rooms in Rhodes University residences.

School Hostels

Kim’s Bedfinder (Member) Guesthouses, Bed and Breakfast, Self-catering Houses, Flats, Budget Accommodation and selected Schools (Hoërskool PJ Olivier and Victoria Primary School) Contact: Kim Price Tel/Answering Service: 046 622 2441 Cell: 082 457 6307 Fax: 086 262 6595 E-mail: book@bedfinder.co.za Website: www.bedfinder.co.za Go Travel (Member) Self-catering Houses, Flats and Bed and Breakfast accommodation Contact: Tony King Peppergrove Mall, Grahamstown Tel: 046 622 2235 Fax 046 622 3982 E-mail: tony@gotravel.co.za

a variety of rooms (single, twin-bedded, semi-private and dormitory style) in the boarding hostels of local schools.

Hotel and Guesthouse Accommodation

Backpackers/Caravan And Camping Sites

Independent Hotels In Grahamstown

Grahamstown Hospitality Guild The Grahamstown Hospitality Guild represents a large sector of Grahamstown’s permanent B&Bs, Self-Catering and Guest House accommodation. These establishments are all graded, either by a national grading association or by the local grading system, which is represented by pineapples awarded according to specified standards. To book with one of the GHG members, please visit their website: www.grahamstown-accommodation.co.za The Grahamstown Hospitality Guild calls for efficient service, accurate descriptions of accommodation offered, and defined conditions of hire. To protect Festival visitors from accommodation providers who are inexperienced, opportunistic or careless about standards, visitors are encouraged to book through one of these offices or agencies. The Grahamstown Hospitality Guild is available to act on complaints by visitors against any one of its members. Written complaints will be dealt with without delay and should be addressed to: The Chairperson, Grahamstown Hospitality Guild, 30A Somerset Street, Grahamstown 6139 or e-mail: info@grahamstown-accommodation.co.za. (The following agencies are also members / affiliates of the Grahamstown Hospitality Guild) Makana Tourism (Affiliate) Contact Makana Tourism for accommodation enquiries Office hours: Monday to Friday 08:30 to 17:00 and Saturdays 09:00 to 13:00 63 High Street, Grahamstown 6139 Tel: 046 622 3241 Fax: 046 622 3266 E-mail: info@grahamstown.co.za Website: www.grahamstown.co.za – this site has a comprehensive list of accommodation establishments Stanley J Dold Festival Accommodation (Member) Self-catering Houses, Flats, and Bed and Breakfast accommodation Also an agent for the College of the Transfiguration Contact: Doug Read 39 New Street, Grahamstown 6139 Tel: 046 636 2455 Fax: 046 636 2473 Cell: 082 573 3679 E-mail: info@festivalaccommodation.co.za Website: www.festivalaccommodation.co.za

Evelyn House*** & Graham Hotel*** 046 622 2366 www.afritemba.com Oak Lodge*** 046 622 9123

www.afritemba.com

For a comprehensive listing of accommodation in Grahamstown, visit www.grahamstown.co.za

Game Reserves Amakhala Game Reserve 046 636 2750 www.amakhala.co.za Coombs View Lodge 082 784 6805 www.coombslodge.com Kariega Game Reserve 046 636 7904 www.kariega.co.za Kichaka Private Game Lodge 046 622 6024 www.kichaka.co.za Kwandwe Game Reserve 046 622 7897 www.kwandwe.com Kwantu Private Game reserve 042 203 1400 www.kwantu.co.za Lalibela Game Reserve 041 581 8170 www.lalibela.net Pumba Private Game Reserve 046 603 2000 www.pumbagamereserve.co.za Shamwari Game Reserve 041 509 3000 www.shamwari.com

Approximately 40km From Grahamstown Assegaai Trails 046 622 8619

www.assegaaitrails.co.za

Bushman Sands**** 042 231 8000 www.riverhotels.co.za Fish River Sun**** 040 676 1101 www.suninternational.com Fraser’s Camp Motel 082 789 3301 Intaka Lodge*** 046 636 7908

www.intakalodge.co.za

248 Langholm Country Estate 083 528 1816 www.langholmcountryestate.co.za

Homestays

Mpekweni Beach Resort**** 040 676 1026 www.mpekweni.com

Entabeni Homestay / B&B (A True African Experience) Offers neat, comfortable homes and a warm welcome. Scrumptious breakfasts and meals available on request. The accommodation, situated in safe areas in Grahamstown East, is not graded. Contact: Welekazi Hloyi Makana Tourism, 63 High Street, Grahamstown Tel: 046 622 3241 Fax: 046 622 3266 E-mail: kwambookings@grahamstown.co.za

Summerhill Inn ** 046 625 0833 www.afritemba.com The Pig & Whistle Hotel 046 625 0673 www.pigandwhistle.co.za

Port Alfred River Hotels Group 0861 748374 www.riverhotels.co.za My Pond Hotel **** 046 624 4626 www.mypondhotel.com Port Alfred Tourism Office 046 624 1235 www.portalfred.co.za Kenton-On-Sea Tourism Office 046 648 2411 www.kenton.co.za

Rhodes University Stay in South Africa’s most beautiful university residences for affordable and vibrant accommodation. For full details see booking page insert Form C2. Contact: Conference Manager, Residential Operations Division, P O Box 94, Grahamstown 6140. Tel: +27 46 603 8772/8901/8138 Fax: +27 (0)865796092 E-Mail: rufest@ru.ac.za www.ru.ac.za/conferences

Kwam eMakana Bed and Breakfast in emerging homestays in Grahamstown East Contact: Welekazi Hloyi Makana Tourism, 63 High Street, Grahamstown Tel: 046 622 3241 Fax: 046 622 3266 E-mail: kwambookings@grahamstown.co.za Umso Accommodation Bed and Breakfast, self-catering and budget accommodation A range of accommodation offered in safe, easily accessible areas in the township, five minutes drive from the CBD. Try us for a township experience. Transport can be arranged. Contact: Thabisa Xonxa 228A Joza, Grahamstown 6139 Tel: 083 245 0496

Backpackers Wethu Backpackers Dormitory-style accommodation as well as double en suite rooms 6 George Street, Grahamstown 6139 Contact: Lee Tel: 046 636 1001 Cell: 072 571 3047

School Hostels Victoria Girls’ High School School Hostel accommodation R195 per person B&B (Bring your own linen) Contact: Sharon Dampies Tel: 046 636 1561 business hours – 08:00 to 16:30 Cell: 072 996 2279 E-mail: beauforthouse@vghs.co.za Hoёrskool PJ Olivier and Victoria Primary School For bookings at Hoërskool PJ Olivier and Victoria Primary School Contact: KIM PRICE Kim’s Bedfinder (Member of the Grahamstown Hospitality Guild) Tel/Answering Service: 046 622 2441 Cell: 082 457 6307 Fax: 086 262 6595 E-mail: book@bedfinder.co.za Website: www.bedfinder.co.za Hoërskool PJ Olivier Skyrove hotspot (internet), Pick-of-the-Cue pub and eatery (PJ’s) available. A short walk to Rhodes venues, exhibition venues and the Victoria Theatre complex. Two-bed bedrooms; 24-hour security at the hostel and for vehicles on campus. Room key deposit R50 (refundable). For full details on school hostel accommodation please see the booking page insert Form C1 Victoria Primary School Centrally situated and within walking distance of the city centre, Village Green and Main Festival venues. All rates include linen and continental breakfast. For full details on school hostel accommodation please see the booking page insert Form C1 We wish to remind guests that these are school hostels and we advise you to bring an extra blanket or duvet and pillow. We rely on your co-operation in reserving accommodation and trust that your stay in our Grahamstown schools will be enjoyable.

Caravan and Camping Sites Makana Resort & Conference Centre Self Catering Chalets & Caravan Park all with individual ablutions Contact: Shirley Black Tel: 046 622 2159 Fax: 086 618 9301 E-mail: reservations@makanaresort.co.za Hoërskool PJ Olivier Contact: Gerrie Warren Tel: 046 622 3322 (from 08:00 to 15:00) Email: admin@pjolivierhs.co.za Albany Sports Club Contact: J. Brandt Tel: 046 622 7304 (between 08:00 – 16:30) E-mail: admin@bsgaccountants.co.za

Fax: 046 636 1027

PLEASE NOTE: Victoria Primary School and Graeme College will NOT offer camping in 2012.

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Travel Information Air Travel

Avis Car Hire

Festival visitors can fly with SAA, British Airways, 1time or Kulula.com to Port Elizabeth or East London. We advise you to book early to get the best discounts. Bookings can be made through any ASATA travel agent or on the respective airlines’ websites. Note: the Festival shuttle service is only available between Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth. If you are flying into East London, you will need to make your own road transport arrangements to get to Grahamstown.

AVIS is the Festival’s preferred car rental company for 2012. Their sponsorship of some of the vehicles for Festival use is gratefully acknowledged. Please contact Clinton at Go Travel Grahamstown on 046 622 2235 or email: clinton@gotravel.co.za for a competitive Avis Car rental rate.

Avis Van and 4x4 Rental

To qualify for special Festival rates on van and 4X4 rentals please call Central Reservations on 0861 021 111 and quote ZX

Blunden’s Inter-city Transport

Bus/Coach Transport Grahamstown is accessible by scheduled coach services. Please consult your travel agent for details.

Hopper Service

The Festival has partnered with Blunden’s who will operate an inter-city bus service between Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown. Please check-in at the Blunden’s desk in the arrivals hall of Port Elizabeth airport. Tickets for the inter-city service can be purchased through Computicket, or by filling in the appropriate section of the Booking Form. Booking is essential, and closes 24 hours before the time of travel each day.

Don’t have a car? The Festival Hopper Service makes it easy to get around Grahamstown during the Festival, without having to worry about parking and traffic jams. Virtually every Festival venue is within a 5-minute walk from a Hopper stop, the Hoppers run frequently throughout the day and there is a convenient night bus until 1am. The Hopper enquiry number is 082 403 7281.

Single fare: R200 Return fare: R400

Festival Hopper tickets can be purchased on the bus. See the foldout map in the Programme for the Hopper route and timetable.

Inter-city Timetable:

Tickets: R5 per trip

See the schedule below for the inter-city timetable which applies daily 28 June – 8 July 2012)

Taxi Service Blunden runs a 24-hour taxi service across Grahamstown during the Festival for R30 a trip. To book the taxi, please phone 082 403 7281

The schedule below applies daily between 28 June 2012 – 8 July 2012

Bus 1

Bus 2

Bus 3

Bus 4

Bus 5

Bus 6

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Blunden High St Grahamstown

06:00

08:00

10:00

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14:30

17:00

Grahamstown Monument

06:05

06:15

08:05

08:15

10:05

10:15

12:05

12:15

14:35

14:45

17:05

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PE Airport

08:15

08:45

10:15

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12:15

13:00

14:15

14:30

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Grahamstown Monument

10:45

11:00

13:30

13:45

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17:45

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Blunden High St Grahamstown

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Transnet Village Green Fair

Fiddler’s Green & Church Square

The Village Green Fair is home to some of the best craft and crafters South Africa has to offer. Handpicked for their fine work and dedication to their craft, most of these artists will be present to talk to you, and to showcase their work. Give yourself a couple of hours (or days!) to wander the maze of marquees at the Fair. Explore the amazing talent of some extraordinary artists, and pick up some of their work to take home with you. It’s unquestionably the most interesting collection of tastes, sights and sounds you’ll ever find in one place. Then, when you’re on the verge of dropping from all the shopping, you can get a meal from the food court, or enjoy some spontaneous outbursts of AMAZING! The kids play area will feature performances, clowning, puppet shows and activities to keep them occupied throughout the day.

Fiddler’s Green, in the heart of the city, is our family-friendly playground featuring a fun fair, a full Box Office, food stalls and a world of fun for everyone. A short stroll from Fiddler’s will bring you to Church Square where you’ll find more traders and crafters.

If you’re wondering where to find the latest sporting action, the Beer Garden includes flat screen TVs so you don’t need to miss a single second. The adjacent Steve Biko Building houses a host of exhibition venues, a box office, a restaurant and the Cuervo Music Room, and will be wi-fi enabled, making sure that those who want to stay connected with the outside world have plenty of opportunity to do so.

Photo: TAD Images

Photo: CuePix/Nikki Brand

Photo: CuePix/Simone Landers

Art strives to express; craft strives for excellence. Good art has good craft, good craft is artistic. Within every craft there exist artists. Within every artist there is craft. Ralph Reichenbach & Doug Madill

2012 Booking Procedures Booking opens nationwide on 7 May 2012

ArtBucks members ArtBucks members have a preferential booking window from 30 April – 6 May 2012, during which time they may reserve their tickets by completing the booking forms and faxing or emailing them back to us.

Booking for the National Arts Festival is a simple process Go through the Programme, or the online schedule at www.nationalartsfestival.co.za, and choose the performances for which you’d like to purchase tickets. Once you have compiled your list, you have several options: 1.

Go to your nearest Computicket outlet or Shoprite Checkers branch with your list, and make your purchase, collecting your tickets immediately.

Complete the enclosed Booking Form, following the instructions it contains for returning it to us and making payment. Once your booking has been made, you will be given a reference number. You can take that reference number to the Monument Ticket Office in Grahamstown during the Festival, with an identification document, to collect your tickets.

Phone 046 603 1100 or 046 603 1103 between 10:00 and 14:00 Monday to Friday and ask for the Booking Office. Once your booking has been made, you will be given a reference number. You can take that reference number to the Monument Ticket Office in Grahamstown during the Festival, with an identification document, to collect your tickets.

Go to Computicket’s website at www.computicket.com and book your tickets online or call their call centre on 083 915 8000 (Open Mon to Sat 08:00 – 20:00). Once your booking has been made, you will be given a reference number. You can take that reference number to any Computicket outlet or Shoprite Checkers branch, or to one of the Box Offices in Grahamstown during the Festival, with the credit card you used, to collect your tickets.

Grahamstown Box Offices

Late Arrivals

Monument Box Office (1820 Settlers National Monument) From 7 May: Mon to Fri 09:00 –14:00; Sat 09:00 – 12:30 From 27 June: 08:30 – 19:15 daily

We regret that we cannot refund tickets for late arrivals at performances.

Village Green Box Office (located in the Steve Biko Building) From 27 June 09:00 – 18:00 daily

Discounts

Fiddlers’ Green Box Office From 27 June 09:00 – 17:00 daily Rhodes Theatre Box Office (servicing the Rhodes Theatre and Box Theatre only) From 28 June 09:00 – 22:00 daily

The following discounts are made available to selected Main and Fringe events – where available, discounts are indicated in the Festival Programme alongside the ticket price for each production. Students and Scholars (registered full-time only) – ONE discounted ticket per performance

Tickets, if still available, may be purchased half an hour prior to performance starting times at all venues on a cash only basis.

Members of the Festival’s ArtBucks loyalty programme need to quote their membership number at the time of purchasing tickets to ensure that their purchase is recorded. At the end of the Festival the amount of credit due to the member, as per the rules of the programme, will be calculated.

Visitors with a Disability

And don’t forget that all tickets for shows on Sunday 8 July will be discounted 50%

Wheelchairs can be accommodated in most venues. Please contact the Box Office Manager on telephone 046 603 1103 who will discuss your requirements and arrange assistance for you where necessary.

Look out for the FREE Fringe icon which indicates first performances of productions are free. Donations welcomed.

2012 Festival Programme Update Refunds Refunds for Main and Fringe events will be made only in the event of programme alterations or cancellations. The National Arts Festival cannot make other refunds or undertake to resell or exchange tickets. The Festival organisers cannot be held responsible if a production runs longer than the advertised duration. This information is supplied by the performers and is published as a guide. Allow at least 50 minutes between performances.

We will be publishing an update to our Programme, which will be available in Grahamstown throughout the Festival, at all of our Ticket Offices and Information Kiosks. This will contain all information regarding both Main and Fringe performances and events: a daily diary, restaurants and food outlets, and a colourcoded map. This is a must for all festival goers.

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The National Arts Festival

2013 Call for Proposals The National Arts Festival calls for proposals for performances and exhibitions to be presented on the Festival’s Main Programme from 27 June to 7 July 2013 We are looking for new and compelling work that raises the bar of excellence and innovation in the performing arts, visual arts and cross-disciplinary arts. Artists, companies and presenters intending to submit a proposal can either access a proposal brief from the website www.nationalartsfestival.co.za or email the Festival Director: ismail@nationalartsfestival.co.za. The Festival Director, Ismail Mahomed, is available for consultation for further guidelines about submitting proposals. Call 046 603 1103. Proposals must reach the Festival Office no later than Friday 18 August 2012. All proposals must be submitted as per the revised proposal brief available on the website. For detailed information, log on to www.nationalartsfestival.co.za Winners of 2012 Standard Bank Ovation Awards will be invited to submit an application to be presented on the 2013 National Arts Festival Arena Programme. Fringe applications will be available in October 2012 and registration will close on 19 January 2013. Forms and information booklets will be available on-line at www.nationalartsfestival.co.za. Enquiries should be addressed to the Fringe Manager, Zikhona Nweba, on 046 603 1177 or email zee@nationalartsfestival.co.za

The Standard Bank Ovation Awards recognize excellence on the National Arts Festival Fringe and are awarded to those productions that are innovative, original and creatively outstanding. The Awards are proudly sponsored by Standard Bank. Productions are nominated by accredited members of the media and adjudicated by a panel led by Adrienne Sichel. Standard Bank Ovation winners are invited to submit applications to the Festival’s Arena programmme for a window period of two years. Gold, Silver and Encore award-winners also receive a cash prize. Award-winners are announced daily in Cue – look out for the ovation sticker on posters and in Cue to see the productions that represent the ‘pick of the Fringe’ 2012.

2011 Standard Bank Ovation Award-winners were:

Chris Chameleon; Ubom! Eastern Cape Drama Company with the Baba Yaga Theatre; The Matchbox Theatre Collective; Nicola Haskins; Flatfoot Dance Company; Mandisa Haarhoff & Ntokozo Madlala; Deeply Fried Man; Iceman Productions; Martin Evans, Rhodes University Drama Department, Laurie Levine and Lize Wiid; Brink Scholtz; The Pink Couch; 2 Tone Productions; Sibikwa Art Centre; Tony Cox & Steve Newman; Rob van Vuuren; James Cairns and Taryn Bennett; Stuart Lightbody; Free Voice Productions; Shannon Hope; Umsindo Theatre Projects. The 2012 Arena Programme includes the following productions from Standard Bank Ovation Award- winning companies (page reference number in brackets): Southern Exposure (28) ReVerse (29), Fragile (29), The Three Little Pigs (46); Callum’s Will (46); The Origins – Ekugaleni (77) and Laurie Levine & The Folk Collective (77).