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Siyahluma – Simanye is a group of isiXhosa women who perform traditional music and dance wearing cultural attire. Songs are written in our language and celebrate our heritage, culture and traditions.
Director: Sindiswa Tshafuza Written By: Sindiswa Tshafuza Choreographer: Mr Phikela Music Composed By: Sindiswa Tshafuza Featured Artists: Ntabeni N, Sobekwa N, Maxama N, Qaba D. Company: Siyahluma – simanye
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Join the live audience for this exciting morning TV-show! It’s election season and we have five special guests from across the political spectrum. It is bound to get heated! So, if you enjoy the occasional online rant or some rigorous debate, you’re in for a treat! Or are you?
Director: Loraine Beaton Written By: Loraine Beaton Featured Artists: Philani Mokoena, Ziyanda Mbodla, Jone Oosthuizen, Philangezwi Nxumalo Company: Prompt
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FRUIT follows a fragile life of a little girl called Matlakala in a township ravaged by crime and poverty. Matlakala finds hope in the hopeless situation, she is claiming her innocence back.
Director: Paul Noko Written By: Paul Noko Featured Artists: Matshidiso Mokoteli Company: Sketch production
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SWARM THEORY is a playful theatrical investigation into the possibilities of collective human intelligence. Swarming the streets of Makhanda, an agglomeration of physical performers engage with their environment as a single collaborative organism, exploring the street corners, green spaces and market places of life. Each swarming is unplanned, immediate, dynamic and unique to its ecosystem of sounds, smells, rhythms and people. The swarm manifests a group mind — self sufficient, yet undirected and unpredictable, an adaptive, self-organising critical mass at the edge of chaos.
Created and directed by Well Worn Theatre Co’s Kyla Davis and physical theatre practitioner and theatre maker Daniel Buckland.
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The Eastern Cape Jazz Showcase (Dakawa Jazz Series) is a stunning showcase of the best Eastern Cape jazz talent, presented by the Eastern Cape Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts & Culture. It is an exciting platform that aims to
connect the old with the new, with the programme featuring accomplished jazz artists as well as the up-and-coming ‘new kids on the block’. At #NAF2019, the programme is deeply Afrocentric, and the line-up features artists such as Mandisi Dyantjies, Wandile Mbambeni, Yankee Brothers, Sizwe Yaze, Isingqi Sengingqi as well as other inspiring artists from the Eastern Cape.
Gary Baseman & Toby – The Power of Purr / Photo: Mark Wessels
Gary Baseman & Toby – The Power of Purr / Photo: Mark Wessels
Gary Baseman & Toby – The Power of Purr / Photo: Mark Wessels
Toby – The Power of Purr / Photo: Mark Wessels
Gary Baseman & Toby – The Power of Purr / Photo: Mark Wessels
Gary Baseman & Toby – The Power of Purr / Photo: Mark Wessels
Gary Baseman & Toby – The Power of Purr / Photo: Mark Wessels
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Explore the “Power of Purr” as illuminated by US-based multidisclipinary artist Gary Baseman. In reaction to what the artist sees as his homeland country’s widespread anxiety about a crumbling democracy and growth of diviseness and racism, Baseman gains inspiration and wisdom from his pet companion Blackie the Cat, a long-time muse that inspired iconic Baseman characters ChouChou and Ahwroo who both represent the need for love.
Starting In 2018, The Purr Room presented in Los Angeles and London has shared Blackie’s meditative “triple purr” with thousands, encouraging all to pause, re/focus on goodness, and feel the healing power of purr.
Featured Artists: Gary Baseman Company: Creativate
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THE BOAT is a new collaborative piece led by choreographer and dancer Themba Mbuli. It is inspired by the African migrants who have crossed – and are still crossing – the seas from Africa to Europe in search of ‘a better life’.
Guided by true African stories, the work remembers the human cost and what has been lost – the heritage, culture, humanity and wealth of African people – while celebrating the light that still remains in Africa. By focusing on the sense of belonging – in our own skin, in our own land and in our own communities – it brings up issues of mental and spiritual indoctrination, colonialism, borders, power and domination as well as sociopolitical interaction and culture. Written by Billy Langa (Tswalo), the stories are embodied through dance, with live music by Xolisile Bongwana.
Themba Mbuli was the Standard Bank Young Artist for Dance in 2016. Mbuli is an associate project manager and a co-founder of Broken Borders Arts Project, together with Fana Tshabalala and Thulani Chauke.
Director: Themba Mbuli and Billy Langa Written By: Billy Langa Choreographer: Fana Tshabalala and Thulani Chauke Music Composed By: Xolisile Bongwana Featured Artists: Themba Mbuli, Fana Tshabalala, Thulani Chauke, Billy Langa and Xolisile Bongwana Company: Broken Borders Arts Project
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
The Bubble Show – Maxwell The Bubbleologist / Photo: Mark Wessels
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Maxwell the Bubbleologist will blow bubbles and your mind with breathtaking beautiful bubble displays from bubbles inside bubbles to bubble cubes and dodecaheadrons and bubbles on fire to humans inside bubbles. The Bubble Show will show you what you never thought possi-bubble.
Director: Graham Maxwell Choreographer: Graham Maxwell Featured Artists: Graham Maxwell Company: The Bubble Empire
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The Mother of All Eating is a satirical play that explores the debilitating culture of corruption and greed known as ‘eating’. This culture has become synonymous with corrupt state officials who enrich themselves by abusing government funds. This timeless classic, written by acclaimed playwright and author Zakes Mda, centres on a character called The Man, the principal secretary to a government minister. The Man is corrupt to the core, and has enriched himself as he’s moved through the ranks of government.
Set in Lesotho in the 1980s, the play exposes the catastrophic effects of greed and the tragic effects that accompany unchecked corruption.
Director: Christopher Weare Written By: Zakes Mda Company: CYBTT (Changing your Business through Theatre)
