Arts Festival

Arts Festival

Jokes aside, Chester Missing pulls no punches in ‘White Noise’

White Noise is not your typical stand-up comedy show. Aside from the cool tech-savvy multimedia elements — from cartoon animations to video inserts and slides — added to make ...

Arts Festival

Van Vuuren’s show a tonic during tough times

If there's anything to take from SA Comedian, actor and writer Rob van Vuuren's latest one man show at the National Arts Festival it is this — the ...

Arts Festival

Cracking up over some wicked lockdown humour

We could all go blue in the face repeating just how different, odd and maybe even “lacking” a live-streamed performance can be, but the first ...

Arts Festival

Fully virtual National Arts Festival kicks off on ...

More than 250 artists from the Eastern Cape will showcase their talent at the virtual National Arts Festival starting on Thursday.
Arts Festival

Bookings open for National Arts Festival

The 2021 programme for the National Arts Festival’s Makhanda Live has opened for bookings.
Arts Festival

SA’s theatre greats lend their voices to help save much-loved arts festival

Theatre heavyweights John Kani, Athol Fugard, Nthati Moshesh, Fiona Ramsay and Gcina Mhlophe have lent their voices to ...

Arts Festival

Message within a message

A WhatsApp theatre performance. Who would have thought? Written by 2017 National Arts Festival Gold Ovation winner, ...

Arts Festival

African value systems affirmed by Pitika Ntuli’s art

Pitika Ntuli’s landmark exhibition Azibuyele Emasisweni, (Return to the Source), a result of three years' work, debuts ...

Arts Festival

‘Net art’ production puts the world on pause

Time. There are moments when it seems to stand still and others when it seems to pass us by too quickly and too ...

Arts Festival

Operatic Macbeth set in central Africa may surprise and impress

Witches, a prophesy, and lots of death. Macbeth is the quite possibly the bloodiest of Shakespeare’s plays, and one of ...

Arts Festival

A cry into the wind: four girls, four different experiences

With everything going on in the world — and right on our doorstep — from the recent Black Lives Matter movement ...

Arts Festival

Moving solo performance about getting over heartbreak

To stumble across The King of Broken Things at the Virtual National Arts Festival's Fringe programme is to find a ...

Arts Festival

Vibrant discourse weaves a variety of influences and styles

“Lento yam”. This is my thing. Siseko Pame, while billed as a jazz artist, gives the audience so much more than ...

Arts Festival

Fani full of soul despite sound balancing poser

Right from the start of this performance, one is immediately drawn to Port Alfred resident Monde Fani’s remarkable ...

Arts Festival

An energy of sound across the loved genres

“We will be taking you on a musical journey.

Arts Festival

‘Making Grace Amazing’: a haunting history of slave trade

Composer/Director: Neo Muyanga; Soprano: Tina Mene Chorus of We the People: Legítima Defesa; Video and Animation: Neo ...

Arts Festival

Defying all we know about space and gravity

To create a production like Voyager required artistry — and a lot of it. The hour-long dance piece is the first ...

Arts Festival

'Soul-inspiring performance' from jazz phenomenon

In 2016, four-time Grammy Award winner Jacob Collier was quoted in The Guardian as saying “this room is my instrument”, ...

Arts Festival

‘Airman’ takes flight on virtual stage

Fascinating, unique and even mesmerising at times,  David Middendorp’s Airman is an incredible collaboration of modern ...

Arts Festival

Virtual festival kicks off in style

The best is yet to come. That was the feeling of some artists and organisers of the 2020 Virtual National Arts ...

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