General booking for the 2012 National Arts Festival opens on Monday 7 May at Computicket branches across South Africa (although ArtBucks members have had a whole week of preferential booking!). Make sure you're quick off the mark to secure your front row seats at this year's AMAZ!NG Festival. Here are some highlights.
The Standard Bank Jazz Festival takes place alongside the annual National Arts Festival, held from 28 June to 8 July 2012 in Grahamstown. This year, the programme is developed around six distinct Jazz genres - Youth, World Music/Gospel, Cross-over, Mainstream, Modern and Afro-Jazz.
Award winning jazz saxophonist, Moreira Chonguica has been invited to perform at the 13th Cape Town International Jazz Festival on Friday, 30 March 2012 taking place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.
Nicky Schrire, one of Cape Town's gems will be making some rare, not to be missed SA performances in March 2012 at the following venues:- The Mahogany Room - 16th / 17th; Hiddingh Hall - 20th, SAJE at SA College of Music 25th - 27th; her tour will be rounded of at the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music in Durban on 28th.
The five most popular Afrikaans productions which sold out at the Woordfees in Stellenbosch earlier this year, take to the stage at the Baxter Golden Arrow Studio, for two weeks only from 14 to 28 May. The season is called the Fees van die Uitverkooptes.
Gripper returns to Cape Town for the launch of the digital release of his latest recording, One Night on Earth: Music from the Strings of Mali, featuring music by legendary Malian kora (21 string harp) virtuoso Toumani Diabaté, who visited Cape Town in 2009.
On Wednesday 2nd May, Cape Town theatre personalities, writers, diplomats and invited guests gathered at Magnet Theatre, Observatory to recognise the South African winners of the inaugural Theatre in Translation initiative organised by Proyecto 34°S.
General booking for the 2012 National Arts Festival opens on Monday 7 May at Computicket branches across South Africa (although ArtBucks members have had a whole week of preferential booking!). Make sure you're quick off the mark to secure your front row seats at this year's AMAZ!NG Festival. Here are some highlights.
Following its phenomenal success at Syracuse Stage in Central New York, the powerful drama The Brothers Size by one of America’s hottest young award-winning literary voices, Tarrel Alvin McCraney, comes to the Baxter Flipside for three weeks only from 18 May to 9 June at 7pm nightly.
Inspired by the story of two small time crooks, and curious to know what motivated them, Brent Palmer’s new play “Bench” is to have a play reading before it goes to the 2012 National Arts Festival. The reading is on Sunday 13 May 2012 at 5pm in the Baxter Studio and directed by Michael Kirch.
Born out of South Africa’s North West province comes a fresh, exciting new talent in the form of young contemporary poet Abueng Junior aka Abueng Ntsimane, whose current passion is to provide fellow South African’s with an insight into a man’s heart through his compilation of modern-day love poems presented in the form of a beautifully illustrated debut book and lyrical CD titled ‘in the scheme of things’.
Jon-Pat Myers, South African born stone sculptor has just returned from representing the country in Huian China. Huian is China’s stone carving capital and Jon-Pat was one of 20 foreign sculptors chosen from countries around the globe. Countries participating in this year’s event included Russia, USA, Taiwan, Lithuania, Georgia, Italy, Albania, Turkey, Germany, Bulgaria, Japan, South Africa and of course China with participants representing each province.
Khadija Tracey Carmelita Heeger born Cape Town, South African, raised on the Cape Flats in the township of Hanover Park, started performing at the age of nine years. The goal was always to become an actress, however at age 15 this changed and writing became the medium for expression. An inward journey was imminent.