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• The Naming and Claiming of Space Tour

  Naming and Claiming of Space is doing an alternative history tour of Cape Town on Friday, 19th February. The route/plan is as follows:
  11am-11.20am
  1. Deer Park (area of natural beauty, from where a river once flowed down into the sea) – introduction to the tour and the collecting of small stones that travelers will take with [...]

• Festival News IV- Letter

  Dear ITC,
  I confess, I am mad about you.
  As you have developed over the past three years you are one of the best things that has ever happened to Cape Town and to the milieu of the performance arts in Southern Africa.
  You provide the very necessary alternative spaces for artists to make new and challenging work; [...]

• Festival News IV- Off the Wall

  Sean O’Toole visits the Wishing Wall
  Two years ago, Johannesburg artists Landi Raubenheimer and Paul Cooper visited Yeoville, a tatty, bohemian suburb neighbouring on Johannesburg’s inner city. Their attention was momentarily diverted by a large, dissonant notice board that had asserted its right to exist on a bare stretch of wall facing onto Rocky Street.
  “Walking alongside [...]

• Festival News IV-Disinfecting Stigma

  5.4 million South Africans live with HIV. Windows Into A World tells the story. Yazeed Kamaldien goes behind the scenes.

  It isn’t always comfortable talking about HIV/Aids in a country where pointing fingers at the reasons could get you on the wrong side of the politically correct fence. But ignoring this pandemic won’t change the fact [...]

• Festival News IV- Tied and Tested

  Collaborating on Meet Market is multi-media performer, Lerato Shadi. Atiyyah Khan met this dynamic young artist.
  She may be one of the youngest artists at Infecting The City (ITC), but as far as pushing boundaries goes, visual and performance artist Lerato Shadi is no stranger to difficult and uncomfortable situations. In a piece, titled Mmitlwa, Shadi [...]

• Festival News IV-Slaving Away

  Melvyn Minnaar reviews Meet Market
  How interred history reawakens to haunt the present is vividly (and spookily) visualised in the famous opening sequence of Lars von Trier’s 1994 TV soap series Riget (The Kingdom). Something of that charged ambience, mysterious and engaging, wretched and comical, is evoked by the wilted lawn that temporarily carpets Church Square [...]

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• Not to Be Missed: The Gathering of Clouds

  The Gathering of Clouds
  Deer Park
  Friday the 19th of February, 11am
  A guided tour of //Hui!Gaeb (Where the rain clouds gather) will be given by Bradley van Sitters of the Khoe San Active Awareness Group, accompanied by traditional Khoe healers, herbologists and the chief of the Gorachoukhoe. The tour lasts approximately two hours, and includes a hands-on [...]

• Festival News III- Ukosulela isixeko

  Kumbindi wesixeko sasekapa ngomhla we 13- ukuya kumhla we 20th kulenyanga sikuyo, sifikele esixekweni sinabisa intatho nxaxheba sidyobha, siyosulela – hayi ngentsholongwane nangezifo ntonje sibhiyoza kuluchulumanco kumnyadala wenkcubeko namasiko.
  Lomcimbi ubuyimpumelelo engumangaliso kulonyaka uphelileyo ngemiboniso nemidlalo yeqonga yodidi oluphezulu nelinganiselwe nakumazwe angaphesheya. Abakwa AFRICA CENTRE banemibono yokwakha ukonwatyelwa wenkcubeko wamasiko nezithethe zabemi nabahlali besixeko.
  Yibakhona phakathi kwangcungela [...]

• Festival News III- No Right or Wrong

  Johannesburg artist Anthea Moys is a collaborator on Quiet Emergency. Laetitia Pople finds out what is integral to her work.
  Drawing on the talents of possibly one of the most diverse groups of participants ever involved in a public art event in Cape Town,   Quiet Emergency is staged as an interactive ritual. The Lwandle theatre [...]

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