Category: Arts
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Fest in retrospect
This blog has been sadly neglected lately. This is a piece I started writing on a plane on the third of July and only got back to now. So, my impressions of this year’s National Arts Festival… late, but still… … The sunset sky is fading as we leave Grahamstown. After a while, the darkness…
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Fest begins
Began, really. First show last night. Sie Weiss Alles. Really interesting piece – surprising even. Don’t think the write-up does it justice. Worth seeing and entertaining as well as serious. Today begins with breakfast at the booking tent – can’t wait. Then at least 4 shows. Maybe 5. I am sad to be have to…
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A developing multi-culturalism for South Africa – Rhythms of the Eastern Cape
Something special is happening in the Eastern Cape. Or at least, something special is happening at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown later this month/early next month: the beginnings of the disaggregation of the catch-all categories, that have plagued and defined South Africa’s history, into self-selected, fluid, fascinating groupings. For years (decades? generations?) South African…