S. Toni. Umntu Akazibanguli. (IsiXhosa). Poems of loss & healing after a tragic car-accident.

uNomalanga is a spiritual leader in a village of traditionalists. This village is in conflict with itself battling to preserve its inheritance in the modern time. The village river is the source of nature that connects the people with those ...

Puppet design by Janni Younge Set Design by Illka Louw Puppets' & actors' costumes designed by Hillette Stapelberg Lighting Design by Paul Abrams Sound Design by Uebu Jemasu Photography by Christine Nachmann Actor Puppeteers: Roshina Ratnam, ...

Starting at the Albany Museum (the second oldest in South Africa), the tour includes an amazing variety of scenes and scenarios of 19th century military, judicial and religious life in Grahamstown. Of architectural interest are the buildings which include two ...

Scenes from Soweto is a descriptive performance of Soweto. It takes the audience into the ins and outs of the sizzling, tintilating life of Sowetans. This is done in upbeat music that represents the style and ambiance of township Soweto. ...

Top young jazz players from around the country flock to Grahamstown each year to try their luck for the national bands, and attend the Festival sometime as established ensembles. First up tonight is the St. John's College jazz band from ...

The UCT Vocal Group, led by vocal lecturer and pianist Amanda Tiffin, harnesses the excellent young voices of the next generation of singers studying jazz at university. Sharing the bill is Útvarp, featuring Karl Nyberg (sax), Karl-Magnus Andersson (piano), Josefin ...

There is a limpid quality to the air in this quiet forgotten little corner of the Eastern Cape approximately 22km from Grahamstown where the Blaauwkrantz Pool, in the Blaauwkrantz Nature reserve, is situated. This tranquil pool, sparkling in the sunlight, ...

Sekelmaan started out in 2004. Their first album was recorded in 2008. They are planning a new album this year and also a tour. In 2009 they played at the Hansa Powerade Fish River Canoe Marathon Bands alongside Prime Circle ...

Guitarist, composer and producer Selaelo Selota grew up in a rural village near Polokwane, and in 1997 he graduated from UCT with a Jazz Degree, majoring in Jazz Composition and Improvisation. In 2001 he collected two South African Music Awards ...

Selaelo Selota (guitar) returns, featuring one of South Africa's leading vibraphone and marimba players - Ngwako Manamela - who boasts a career of over three decades of performance and recordings with musicians including Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Zim Ngqawana and ...

'Ewok, I repeat, is a dangerous talent' Giselle Turner, Daily News Meet a rapper. Not just your average rapper (never busted a cap, never dealt crack, never given a Ho a slap) but a rapper... from eMpangeni. Seriously? Proudly ...

The tour begins at The Cock House, a guest house, once the home of entrepreneur and Port Alfred Harbour visionary, William Cock. A mill stood opposite – hence its neighbouring street name: Mill Street. Passing by the Market Square – ...

It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, family sounds fill the air. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has ...

Shackles & Bones are an indie rock band from Grahamstown. Formed in mid-2010 the band consists of David Glover (guitars & vocals), Luke Clayton (guitars & vocals), Neil Van Zuydam (bass) and Alex Williamson (drums & percussion). After reaching the ...

Direction, Set & Lighting Design by Fred Abrahamse Costume Design by Marcel Meyer Cast: Rory Acton-Burnell Marcel Meyer Alistair Moulton Black James MacGregor "SHAKESPEARE'S R&J, a vibrant, hot-blooded new adaptation of Romeo and Juliet... pulsates with an adolescent ...

"...as she started to play, I instantly pictured her on a dark stage, lit by a single spotlight in an auditorium filled with thousands of fans." (Fiona Gordon, Cue 2010). Critically-acclaimed for her performances at the Festival last year, pianist ...

"...as she started to play, I instantly pictured her on a dark stage, lit by a single spotlight in an auditorium filled with thousands of fans." (Fiona Gordon, Cue 2010). Critically-acclaimed for her performances at the Festival last year, pianist ...

Shoelace is a four piece band made up of young black expressive musicians from Motherwell. The music is a combination of rock and soul. The band’s goal is to create a new and different sound of music throughout the Nelson ...

A Keep the dream T/A Catalina UNltd presentation Weddings and funerals have always been a time for bittersweet reflection. Jehan Singh, while attending the funeral of his cousin Ishaan, tells the comic and tragic story of his life growing up ...

Shubnum Khan. Onion Tears. Innovative novel exploring the lives of SA Indian Muslim women.

Berlin, 1945. An SS officer's orders are to question a young woman. Who is she? Someone who just wants to stay alive. As the interrogation proceeds, he remembers where he's seen her before... With James Cairns (Dirt, Sitting Man, Brother ...

Take a bunch of matric boys from one of South Africa’s top all-boys rugby school like Bishops College and imagine them singing modern and classic hits acapella style. If that’s hard to imagine, then you’re in for not only a ...

The story is set at the Ubuntu Centre where people from different races and cultures live in harmony under the concept of ubuntu characteristics. This culture is lost over the generations, and the characters of this play try to restore ...

Exhilarating and downright sexy! Dance just grew an attitude! With intense high levels of energy and pulse-pounding choreography, Sinsation is a must to watch. The raw spirit and sizzling costumes will leave you having a hard time just staying in ...

Four streetwise kids had their lives changed, perhaps saved, by a chance meeting with Mablavana, an old man. That was many years ago! His death brings them back together again but they are now men and their stories are transformed ...

Siyavaya, a township colloquial for "we are going/ moving" is a theatrical jazz dance show. "Through the mouths of babes...", in this case a 13 year old girl. It depicts a typical lifestyle in the townships in modern day South ...

Bongiwe Mdludlu formed this group because she had a vision to endorse our heritage as a Xhosa nation. This group shows the importance of our culture and religion through indigenous and traditional dance.

Sky Like Sky is a collaboration between Rwandan and American women artists (actors, directors, dancers, poets, puppeteers) questioning bodies, borders, nations, wilderness and the unknown. This multi-lingual modern day praise poem asks how do we find each other in this ...

Skyn is an Afrikaans production that walks the tightrope of one man's harrowing personal journey of love, family and religion. An experimental production created by Ruan Britz and Nico Scheepers.

25 years on a revival of a South African Anti-war classic Credits Written by Anthony Akerman Directed by André Odendaal Costume, sets & lighting by Kosie Smit Stage manager: Joanna Borton Cast (In order of appearance) David Levitt - Glen Biderman-Pam Trevor ...

"As long as I am regarded as a non-white, then I can never be a full human being in the context of my everyday existence". Soon after he made this statement, Strini Moodley, co-founder of the Black Consciousness Movement was ...

Using data from the Human Sciences Research Council’s nationally representative SASAS survey (2005), this talk investigates young people’s attitudes to governance and societal institutions, satisfaction  with democracy, feelings of South African identity and perceptions of life satisfaction. A second part ...

Britain’s most cutting-edge MC and saxophonist, Soweto Kinch, struts his stuff in front of a killer line-up of serious South African jazz players - Bokani Dyer (piano), David Ledbetter (guitar), Shane Cooper (bass) and Kesivan Naidoo (drums) – for a ...

British saxophonist and MC/rapper Soweto Kinch is one of the most exciting and versatile young musicians to hit the British music scene in recent years and he is one of only a few artists whose appeal traverses underground and mainstream ...

Spirit and Bones is a musical production that unashamedly sings the praises of Abongoma through dance, music and drama. It celebrates their roles within our society from days gone by to the present and being the individuals who uphold and ...

Most teenage girls go on shopping sprees. I went on a killing spree. Imagine gripping the hot plate of a stove; waiting until your fingerprints are melted clean like wax. Delve into the mind of a teenage killer. Do an ...

The singer, vocal acrobat and composer Andreas Schaerer is one of the busiest Swiss vocalists and he impresses not only with his expressive voice - covering an extraordinary range - but also employs a seemingly infinite variety of vocal sounds. ...

Ross McCreath is a matric pupil at St Andrew’s College in Grahamstown and a Gold Award participant in the President’s Awards. In 2007, at the age of 14, Ross founded the Tiger Titans development cricket club amongst the youth of ...

REVERB returns to the National Arts Festival to take you on a theatrical rollercoaster of emotions. Spring Board is a programme of three new works choreographed by Sharon Sepala and Sian Billinge featuring Underground Rebellion: a menacing and dark explosion ...

COURTESY OF NU METRO 1990 - and two major events are about to happen - the release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, its Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school. John Milton is ...

Enjoy a variety of sacred and secular music form Africa and abroad played by the St Michael's marimba groups. This is our 6th year at the Festival.

Staff Room is about activities taking place at the school including abuse of learners that leads to dysfunctional situation.

The Standard Bank National Schools' Big Band will show you the strides being made in the jazz education programmes in high schools around South Africa. The band brings together the best young school players in the country under the guidance ...

The Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band is this year led by one of South Africa's leading jazz musicians and educators - McCoy Mrubata - who will put a small elite combo of the nation's very best young players under ...

Pianist Bokani Dyer, Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz 2011, is a very impressive young musician, technically skilled beyond his years and artistically creative in a wide array of jazz genres. He grew up in Botswana, went to school in ...

Gracing the romantic Worcester Street – the home of the Diocesan School for Girls and the first independent school in South Africa, St Andrews College – are the elegant residences of the noteworthy of a bygone era. Gothic arches, Victorian ...

These performers put the combination of the Caribbean Steel pan music and local dance choreography to a whole new level. Complex beat sessions done in tandem with ease and synergy, between gumboots, tap dance, drum & bass and steel pans ...

Hypnotherapy is an excellent means of helping people overcome unwanted habits (like smoking and nail biting), and it assists with weight redution, stress relief, trauma and phobias. In fact, hypnosis, when correctly used, is one of the safest and most ...

Hypnotherapy is an excellent means of helping people overcome unwanted habits (like smoking and nail biting), and it assists with weight redution, stress relief, trauma and phobias. In fact, hypnosis, when correctly used, is one of the safest and most ...

Steuart Pennington is co-editor and publisher of nine books on South Africa and Africa, starting with of South Africa – The Good News in 2002 and most recently the Promise of Leadership in 2009, published for the Nelson Mandela Foundation. ...

The hilarious Ryan Dittmann teams up with himself to tell an outrageous tale inspired by true events during his past years as a restaurateur extraordinaire. We meet the whacky and uncanny characters who form the kitchen crew - run like ...

In Stuperstition sleight of hand expert Stuart Lightbody takes an entertaining look at superstitious and magical thinking, from broken mirrors and bad luck to homeopathy and astrology. It's occasionally controversial and always entertaining, filled with impossible feats and thought-provoking demonstrations. ...

Where the water hole is reached only in order to leave it behind; every point existing only as a relay. This production is one of the three pieces for Intranciet, performed by Masters' students from the Rhodes Drama Department. INTRANCEIT: ...

An exciting showcase of IsiHlubi and IsiXhosa cultural traditions and rituals illustrated through beautifully performed dances and music, in full traditional costume.

A panel discussion with Steuart Pennington, Les Aupiais and Cedric Tyler chaired by Owen Skae, Director Rhodes Business School Cedric Tyler sits on the board of US-based BusinessGenetics Inc and a number of other companies. He invented and developed the ...

Production: Elizabeth Triegaardt Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky Lighting: Shamiel Abrahams Original set and costumes: Peter Cazalet Set for this production co-ordinated by: Charles Petersen Production Manager: Charles Petersen Stage Manager: Tim Harding Accompanied by the KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Naum Rousine Cast: Odette / Odile: ...

A delightful look at a small life where truths have been magicked away, rules smartly broken and adventure self-styled. Norrie's is a surprising story of survival, told with love and candour, in the umbrella of her subconscious. "A magnificent work ...

A Tribute to Syd Kitchen featuring Tony Cox, Steve Newman, Nibs van der Spuy, Greg Geordiades, Guy Buttery, Marc Duby and Ashish Joshi. Syd Kitchen, musician, poet, nonconformist, and skollie of note, much loved by all who knew him, has ...