As you may be aware, the Infecting The City Festival offers a unique opportunity to bring music, dance and performance out of theatres and galleries and into the streets of Cape Town’s CBD. Its aspirations are to challenge audiences, breach boundaries, shifts perspectives and help make sense of the public spaces we occupy. The Infecting The City Festival’s vision is to develop a public art festival that grapples with the social issues pivotal to both the South African and, more broadly, human condition.

This is a call to visual and performing artists to submit works that have either been staged or are completely new. The work can be a full ensemble piece, an intervention, a live performance, a visual art installation or some other form newly imagined. All works should translate to or work within a public environment, and should actively engage intentional and incidental audiences. There is no specific theme, only the intention to ‘infecting the city with the awe, provocation and dynamism of art’.

If you or your company has an artwork in mind that fits with the Infecting The City Festival vision, please submit a detailed concept document (max. 500 words) and a one page C.V.

Please email all applications or queries to info@infectingthecity.com. The deadline for submissions is Friday, 6th October 2011.

For more information about last year’s Festival, please look at this site, view the Facebook page, view the YouTube videos, or contact Felicia on 021 422 0468.

amazing

beautiful

creative

inspirational…

zany

interesting

fun

a sexy way of expressing yourself

insane

sick

LEGENDARY

Facilitator: Winslow Schalkwyk

You are a poet and you know it

People want it

Treasure is baie kwaai

Life is art

Treasure your life

Pirates

Mermaids

Treasure your Love

You can’t own the best treasure

Treasure is aweh!!!

Treasure is here —>

We are treasure

We are the future.

Facilitator: Ernestine Deane

We were all nervous but hoping to have fun

We saw different kinds of beer bottles in a circle of bricks

It made us feel purple

The shacks gave us a different outlook on life

The poetry was so beautiful that it enlightened us

at the end of the day it was all about learning

and accepting art no matter what form

and very exciting

cultures known and unknown

all so interesting

history is alive

in a performance on a stage

and when we touch

Madiba’s cage

in art we express

both sadness and pain

emotions so real

as we start to feel again

Facilitator: Lucille Greef

music a window in a soul

art is the inspiration of life.

Beautiful,

so many people.

What an exciting day.

Free,

free for interpretation to accept differences

So many forms of inspiration,

treasures discovered in places I’ve never been.

Adrenalin pumping,

rushing through my veins,

anxiety kicks in as we walk through the tunnel on our walk to freedom.

it is the creativity of the person

it is a thing made up of other things

it is a living thing like a person

Art is a form of expressing your feelings and emotions

Art is your skill

it involves painting, drawing, acting, music and singing

it is about how you feel and doing something with your hands

Art is giving life to another

Art is your talent!!!

Langa High School

Facilitator: Winslow Schalkwyk

the rhythm of life

when light in my eyes

you’ll find fire and glow

in darkness my stomach

twists and turns with

it’s knife

without art I feel pain

without it no gain

so if I express myself

I know I will find

an eternity’s wealth.

Elsies River High School

Settlers High School

Facilitator: Lucille Greef

with our positive spirits.

Inspiration, taking, infecting, treasure

unusual to the normal eye.

Looks fabulous no matter what it is.

Natural beauty is man mane?

Putting your emotions out there for the world to see

My hyper activeness ran away with me.

We live in creation of another, not knowing it but seeing it

Living a lifestyle according to your own imagination,

when suddenly it turns into a perfect demonstration

Making art with trash, this is about treasure

and making art together.

Art is about what you feel, think or what you do and how you do it.

Different faces wearing dresses in slum places.

Was amazed at how many things you can make out of rubbish!

Your past doesn’t determine your future.

I treasure the sum of my parts.

Cherish something you have

because once you lose it

you’ll never get it back!

Elsies River High School

Settlers High School

Facilitator: Jill “Jazz” Levenberg