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FestForward Podcast: 6 July 2012
We are slowly coming to the end of another Festival, but there's still a lot of AMAZ!NG left, so catch today's podcast for all your Festival news. FestForward: keeping you ahead of the Fest! [audio:http://www.nationalartsfestival.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/FestForward12_06-07.mp3|titles=FestForward Podcast: 6 July 2012]
FestForward Podcast: 4 July 2012
Want to get the best of Fest? Well tune in to today's podcast to find out about family theatre as well as Steven Cohen's The Cradle of Humankind. FestForward: keeping you ahead of the Fest! [audio:http://www.nationalartsfestival.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/FestForward12_04-07.mp3|titles=FestForward Podcast: 4 July 2012]
FestForward Podcast: 30 June 2012
Festival is in full swing and FestForward is here to help you make all the right decisions so that you can get the very best of Fest. Take a listen for some info on Brett Bailey's Exhibit A and on the intellectually stimulating Think!Fest. FestForward: keeping you ahead of the Fest! [audio:http://www.nationalartsfestival.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/FestForward12_30-06.mp3|titles=FestForward ...
FestForward Podcast: 29 June 2012
Fest Forward, bringing you everything you need to know about Fest. Today's podcast looks at the Children's Art Festival, the South African premiere of Red and, of course, the regular features of Fest Buzz and the Dish of the Day. Fest Forward: Keeping you ahead of Fest.[audio:http://www.nationalartsfestival.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/FestForward12_29-06.mp3|titles=FestForward Podcast: ...
Anatomy of Weather and Miskien chosen for Amsterdam
A ragged mix of media and artists dragged themselves to the Monument restaurant at 10am on this, the last day of an 11-day orgy of creativity, despair, love and loss, to hear who won the silver and gold ovation awards. Only 11 days, but feels like that Thursday June 30 is already a short lifetime away. I was told about ‘the festival minute’ a few days ago, apparently founder of the most ...
Dashing
Squeamish about spelling? Move on.Yesterday did History Boys -- whoah, what hotties those boyos were. Ripping script, deep and also shocking. Nice one Swirdles -- the barded one he looks chuffed on the High Street pavement. His crew had a big night out after their last festival performance.ThenI was off to Benchmarks, human puppets and mime doing a heart-squencher about love across ...
Artists respond to artists
Re.sponse, NMMU exhibition (Atherstone Gallery, Monument)This fascinating collection of artistic gems, hidden away on the top floor of the Monument, is probably one of the most worthwhile exhibitions at this year’s festival.The exhibition is part of a bigger exhibition instigated by the NMMAM in Port Elizabeth last year, when local artists were invited to create an art work in response to ...
Watercolour wonderworld
Alan Crump: A fearless vision, walkabout, Albany MuseumFor many people, like myself, Alan Crump meant the Chairman of the National Arts Festival and Wits University Head of Fine Art for many years. So it was with a certain curiosity that I went along to view this exhibition and attend the Walkabout by Antoinette Murdoch from the Johannesburg Art Gallery, which curated this exhibition earlier ...
Schweet new festival ‘Hopper’ infrastructure still standing amid gale
[caption id="attachment_1596" align="aligncenter" width="1024" caption="The Festival Hopper, now being run by Blundens, has a new set of bustops -- benches made from recycled plastic. They look lekka! It's what festival CEO Tony Lankester promised at the start of festival -- a jazzed up hopper inter-festival transport system, and thanks to a few days of wild weather, the system has been put ...
Hey ho, it’s off to work I go
By Simon Cooper, producer and owner of the Kalk Bay TheatreIt used to be so easy - pitch up, settle in, have a few glasses of decent wine, sleep a bit and hit the first show. I didn't appreciate the work that performers, techies, producers and a host of others were doing so that when you did pitch at 10h00 on day one, there is a show to watch. I have learnt the lesson in the last few years ...
