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Kala Ghoda arts festival in Mumbai, photo by Lisa Burnell

29 April 2013

Making the case for arts festivals

From Edinburgh to Mumbai, Cologne to Kampala, the growth in number and scale of arts festivals  indicates a global shift to reclaim the means of cultural production. This heightened awareness of celebrating and promoting local creativity gives societies an opportunity to redefine urban identities, form new communities, and express and share their unique individual and [...]

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16 April 2013

Freedom Day concert: McCoy Mrubata, Moreira Chonguica and Paul Hanmer at City Hall

City Hall Sessions will be back on Saturday 27 April, with a Freedom Day special headlined by Paul Hanmer, McCoy Mrubata and Moreira Chonguica. All three have a special relationship with the Mother City: Hanmer and Mrubata were born here while Maputo-born Chonguica studied at UCT’s College of Music. Amaryoni – a five piece vocal group [...]

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16 April 2013

Infecting the city with sound

Several performances during the recent Infecting the City public arts festival, which took place from 12 to 16 March 2013, used music and sound to create arresting or unusual city experiences. Here’s just a taste. Tshikona flash  For the 2013 Infecting the City, Pedro Espi-Sanchis – a well-known musician, performer, teacher and storyteller – orchestrated [...]

"Power" by iKapa, one of the performances from Infecting the City 2013. Image: ©Sydelle Willow Photography

3 April 2013

Public art: a right or a privilege?

What does a city look like when it is animated with public art, a mixture of people and imagination? Here’s a glimpse: This is Cape Town over the course of Infecting the City 2013: a city alive with music and dance, where public spaces became stages and our urban landscape formed the backdrop to performances [...]

Scary Beautiful

30 March 2013

Leanie van der Vyver: Local designer on a global stage

Leanie van der Vyver didn’t just graduate top of the 2013 class at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam – the video she produced as part of her thesis project titled Scary Beautiful has been viewed more than four-million times on Vimeo and propelled this Cape Town-based designer into the international design limelight. Not only did Leanie receive coverage [...]