The newly announced Standard Bank Young Artist Award winners for 2010 embody a group of artists that are multi-talented, collaborative and eclectic. These artists personify the era of creative cross-pollination that is fast becoming the new standard of artistic expression ...

The National Arts Festival, Grahamstown recently released a report on the 2009 “Cacadu Artreach Project” indicating that, during the 2009 Festival, 351 Fringe performers from 23 productions volunteered their time to take the joy of the arts to those who, ...

As proof of their staying power in the industry, four previous Standard Bank Young Artist Award (SBYAA) winners took the lead in directing and choreographing the extravagant opening event of the 4th World Summit on Arts and Culture, hosted by ...

Brink Scholtz, one of the participants of the National Arts Festival’s 2009 Writing Beyond the Fringe programme, is the third South African writer who will be leaving for Belgium in March 2010 to take part in a fully funded exchange ...

A National Arts Festival delegation is on its way to Edinburgh, Scotland, to share SA’s top festival with the best of the global arts-world, and to see what ...

In May this year, budding young hip-hop poet Natasha Tafari attended a Hands On! Masks Off! Workshop, hosted by the National ...

To Grahamstown and beyond... 30 July 2009

The 2010 National Arts Festival is going to be a massive global celebration of the Arts – as we welcome thousands of international visitors to our shores ...

The National Arts Festival Grahamstown Releases Outstanding Results For 2009 GRAHAMSTOWN -- The 2009 ...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Standard Bank Young Artist Awards. These awards are granted to emerging, young South African artists who have demonstrated exceptional ability in their chosen field. The list of Young Artist Award winners from ...

In many religious traditions art in its various forms is viewed as a vehicle for the expression of worship. At Spiritfest at the National ...

Writer Phillippa Yaa de Villiers recently returned from an international residency at the Possa Porta writer’s festival in Belgium. This was part of her prize as the first winner of the National Arts Festival’s Writing beyond the Fringe programme. “Attending ...

Street artists who take up their positions in the streets during the National Arts Festival will be standing much taller this year. Thanks to the The Phezulu Project which is a new development initiative supported by the National Arts Festival, ...

The 2009 comedy line-up for the National Arts Festival Fringe (2 – 11 July, Grahamstown) sparkles with energy, mystery, magic and mayhem. Lay off the tummy crunches for a while – the Fringe comedians are standing in line to give ...

Performance poet Lemn Sissay’s Something Dark will pioneer a new move which will bring performance poetry onto the National Arts Festival’s Main programme. Something Dark is a journey through Lemn Sissay’s incredible life, driven by his two hundred words a ...