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Public Arts Festival6th-10th March 2012Cape Town City Centre

your cape town. your space. your art. free.

Programme

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Contents

2 Africa Centre

4 Curator’s Note

6 Schedule

11 Map

14 Athi-Patra Ruga Ilulwane

15 Cape Philharmonic Orchestra Cape Classics

16 Cape Philharmonic Youth Wind Ensemble

Serenading the Station

17 Cape Town City Ballet Invasion

18 Chas Unwin Orange Book Infected Edition

19 Dada Masilo Death and the Maidens

20 Diana Page Ek Sê

21 Discussion: Towards a Public Art Policy

for a World Design Capital

22 Erin Bosenberg Spaces

23 Esti Kruger, Leonard Shapiro & Yasmin Ezzideen

My Dream

24 Gloria Mbhele Cooking Info in the Streets of iKapa

25 Isgak Stemmet Stop, Start, Continue

26 Jackie Job & Emilie Lelouch We All Matter

27 Jacques Coetzer Jack and Juli take to the streets

28 Jazzart Cantico

29 Julia Raynham Phylum and Phoenix

30 Justin Krawitz Cape Tone

31 Leán Coetzer My Sound Is Too Big For This

Confi ned Space & The Cape Doctor

32 Leila Anderson & Stan Wannet The Diagnosis

33 Mandisi Shindo The Sacrifi ce

34 Mandla Mbothwe Uvuko! Resurrection

35 Nicola Hanekom Lot

36 Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya Abawon: Stains

37 Ole Hamre Capeofon

38 Ruth Levin-Vorster Celia’s Story

39 Sanjin Muftiç Bricolage

40 Siwela Sonke Cityscapes

41 Sello Pesa & Vaughn Sadie teka munyika

42 UCT Choir Flash Mob of Note

43 UCT Opera School The Rake’s Progress

44 Victorine Müller Bodies in Light

45 Vincent Mantsoe NTU///

46 Arts Aweh! Development Programme

48 Festival Funders

50 Festival Partners and Credits

52 Index

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Africa Centre

Infecting the City is presented by the Africa Centre.

Founded in 2005, the Africa Centre provides a

platform for exploring contemporary Pan-African arts

and cultural practice as a catalyst for social change.

The Africa Centre has been structured to: formulate

innovative models for presenting, debating and

encouraging cultural production and the pursuit of

knowledge; provide broad access to the creative work

and ideas of historical and contemporary

African thought leaders; and re-examine the role,

identity, transience and creation of cultural expression.

For more information visit www.africacentre.net

Infecting the City is one of multiple Africa Centre

projects, which include:

• Artist in Residency Programme – in partnership, this

project awards, across artistic disciplines,

10 residencies each year;

• Badilisha Poetry X-Change – an online radio station

that celebrates the languages, cultures and styles of

Pan-African poetry;

• Talking Heads – a multi–layered platform that profi les

the ideas and manifestations of the extraordinary

people living in Africa; and

• WikiAfrica – an international collaboration that uses a

range of interventions to redress the critical imbalance

of factual information about Africa on Wikipedia.

The Africa Centre has previously presented such

seminal projects as Spier Contemporary, Pan African

Space Station and the Space for Pan African Research

Creation and Knowledge.

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Public art has always been part of who we are on

this continent and in this country given our history

of public ritual, public protest and celebration. The

interconnectedness of the African “us” meets challenge

after challenge in a public, social way, brought to life in

artistic expression. There is too that part of our history that

impeded this public interconnectedness, throwing people

apart and far away from each other, a physical and psychic

separation still waiting to be healed. Infecting The City is a

small attempt at igniting this interconnectedness.

Invited this year to curate, my fi rst impulse was to say

‘give me two years’. I didn’t. Instead I took this on as

an experiment with several new ideas embedded in the

programming that may inform later incarnations. I decided

to go without a theme, move part of the programme into

the evening and to embrace a diverse range of work –

from the cutting-edge contemporary to the classical; from

restaged work given new breath in surprising spaces to

performances devised especially for the spaces they are

performed in; from full-length works to fl eeting fragments;

from the serious to the whimsical, the profound to the

profane, the beautiful to the disturbing, the enigmatic to the

absolutely unfathomable.

This year the works follow a series of routes, positioned

next to each other along different routes, mapping the City

with art.

There were the challenges: How to programme work that

attracts the festival-goer as well as the passer-by? How

to deal with the emptying out of the City at twilight,

when people have last trains to catch, but also the time

when the magic of performance thrives?

Curator’s Note

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What cruel irony for a public art festival! How to deal with

issues of public transport, access and mobility that make

it so hard to be truly social across class and race in our

public spaces? There are no easy answers. We trust

that the The Public Art Discussion will take these real

questions further.

The provocations and extraordinary achievements of

our artists provide assertive directions and inspiration

for public engagement. And that, ultimately, is why

the Infecting The City Festival exists. And for a lot else

besides and that is for you to fi nd out.

Enjoy.

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Schedule

Red Route: Tuesday 6 pm – 10 pm

Title Artist Venue

Death and the Maidens Dada Masilo IZIKO SA Museum Steps

The Rake’s Progress UCT Opera Rose Garden, The Company's

Gardens

Bodies in Light Victorine Müller Taj Hotel Balcony

Welcome & Exhibition Opening Upper St George’s Mall

Capeofon Ole Hamre Upper St George’s Mall

Exhibition viewing Anderson & Wannet, Shop 3 Allianz House, Castle St

Levin-Vorster and Bosenberg Mandela Rhodes Place Gallery

Orange Book Infected Edition Chas Unwin Groote Kerk Alley, Church Square

Orange Route: Wednesday 1 pm – 5.30 pm

Title Artist Venue

Invasion Cape Town City Ballet Golden Acre Atrium

Flash Mob of Note UCT Choir CT Station Concourse

Cape Tone Justin Krawitz CT Station Concourse

Abawon: Stains Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya CT Station Forecourt

We All Matter Jackie Job & Emilie Lelouch CT Station Forecourt

Uvuko! Resurrection Mandla Mbothwe CT Station Forecourt

Ek Sê Diana Page CT Station Forecourt

My Sound Is Too Big Leán Coetzer Long St (Btwn Castle St & Hout St)

for This Confined Space

Bricolage Sanjin Muftiç Slave Church, 40 Long St

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Green Route: Wednesday 6.30 pm – 9.30 pm

Title Artist Venue

NTU/// Vincent Mantsoe IZIKO SA Museum Steps

Ek Sê Diana Page IZIKO SA Museum Steps

Cantico Jazzart IZIKO SA Museum Steps

Bodies in Light Victorine Müller 15 On Orange

Ilulwane Athi-Patra Ruga Long Street Baths

#Blue Route: Thursday 1 pm – 5 pm

Title Artist Venue

The Cape Doctor Leán Coetzer Eduardo Villa Sculpture, Old Marine Dr.

Cooking Information Gloria Nozipho Mbhele Adderley St Fountain Robots

on the Streets of iKapa & Environs

Jack and Juli take to the streets Jacques Coetzer St George’s Mall / Waterkant St

The Sacrifice Mandisi Shindo St George’s Mall / Strand St

My Dream Esti Kruger, Leonard Shapiro St George's Mall / Castle St

& Yasmin Ezzideen

Stop, Start, Continue Isgak Stemmet St George's Mall / Castle St

Flash Mob City Varsity St George’s Mall / Castle St

The Diagnosis Leila Anderson & Stan Wannet Shop 3 Allianz House, Castle St

Bricolage Sanjin Muftiç Slave Church, 40 Long St

* Ek Sê Diana Page Middle Long St Area

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Schedule

Death and the Maidens Dada Masilo IZIKO SA Museum Steps

The Rake’s Progress Cape Town Opera Rose Garden, The Company’s Garden

Bodies in Light Victorine Müller Taj Hotel Balcony

Capeofon Ole Hamre Church Sq

Classics on Church Cape Philharmonic Orchestra Church Sq

Orange Book Infected Edition Chas Unwin Groote Kerk Alley, Church Square

Invasion Cape Town City Ballet Golden Acre Atrium

Flash Mob of Note UCT Choir CT Station Concourse

Cape Tone Justin Krawitz CT Station Concourse

Abawon: Stains Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya CT Station Forecourt

We All Matter Jackie Job & Emilie Lelouch CT Station Forecourt

Uvuko! Resurrection Mandla Mbothwe CT Station Forecourt

Ek Sê Diana Page CT Station Forecourt

My Sound Is Too Big Leán Coetzer Long St (Btwn

for This Confined Space Castle St & Hout St)

Bricolage Sanjin Muftiç Slave Church, 40 Long St

Orange Route: Friday 1 pm – 5.30 pm

Title Artist Venue

Red Route: Thursday 6 pm – 10 pm

Title Artist Venue

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Public Art Policy Discussion: Friday

Time Subject Venue

Green Route: Friday 6 pm – 10 pm

Time Artist Venue

9 am – 12.30 pm Towards a Public Art Policy Hiddingh Hall

**Lot Nicola Hanekom Moravian Church, District Six

Bodies in Light Victorine Müller 15 On Orange

Cantico Jazzart IZIKO SA Museum Steps

Ilulwane Athi-Patra Ruga Long Street Baths

#Blue Route: Saturday 9 am – 1 pm

Title Artist Venue

Flash Mobs UCT Choir St George's Mall / Castle StActing Flash Mob City Varsity St George's Mall / Castle StMy Dream Esti Kruger, Leonard Shapiro St George's Mall / Castle St & Yasmin EzzideenStop, Start, Continue Isgak Stemmet St George's Mall / Castle StThe Sacrifice Mandisi Shindo St George's Mall / Strand St Jack and Juli take to the streets Jacques Coetzer St George’s Mall / Waterkant StCooking Information on the Gloria Nozipho Mbhele Adderley St Fountains Robots & Streets of iKapa Environs The Cape Doctor Leán Coetzer Eduardo Villa Sculpture, Old Marine Dr.Serenading the Station Cape Philharmonic Youth Orchestra CT Station Forecourt

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Schedule

Programme Notes

• Productions follow one after the other on routes. Start at the beginning or join in.

• Each route is repeated twice except the final route on Saturday evening.

• Each Production has at least two performances with a few exceptions.

• Exact starting times and duration appear on each production's page.

* On Thursday, Ek Sê can be heard from street level, but viewing space is limited. Please book in advance (info pg 20).

** Lot is off-route at the Moravian Church in District Six. There is a shuttle bus from town to Lot, but seats must

be booked in advance. Details on pg 35.

# Blue Route: Saturday morning is the reverse route of Thursday morning.

Installations (Orange markers): Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 9 am – 5 pm

The Diagnosis Leila Anderson & Stan Wannet Shop 3 Allianz House, Castle St

Celia’s Story Ruth Levin-Vorster Mandela Rhodes Place Gallery

Spaces Erin Bosenberg Mandela Rhodes Place Gallery

Abawon: Stains Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya Station Forecourt, across the City

Purple Route: Saturday 6.30 pm - 10 pm

Title Artist Venue

** Lot Nicola Hanekom Moravian Church, District Six

Bodies in Light Victorine Müller Fan Walk, Waterkant / Buitengracht

teka munyika Sello Pesa/ Vaughn Sadie Prestwich Place, Waterkant /Buitengracht

Phylum and Phoenix Julia Raynham Prestwich Place, Waterkant /Buitengracht

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Red and Green Routes

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Orange and Blue Routes

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Purple Route and off-route map

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in advance.

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IlulwaneBy: ATHI-PATRA RUGA

Long Street Baths at night, bathed in red light. An operatic noise soundtrack composed by Spoek Mathambo and Athi-Patra Ruga. Rising above synchronised swimmers is the “Ilulwane”, performing a discordant aria against this soundscape.

Literally translated from Xhosa as “one who fl oats at night”,Ilulwane is the derogatory term for a Xhosa male who has been circumcised in a hospital rather than in the traditionally sanctioned initiation ceremony. The fi gure of the ilulwane, recognised as neither boy nor man, creates a space in which masculinity, masquerade, identity and sexuality can be interrogated and the tension between tradition and modernity explored.

Drawing on diverse yet interlinking themes, this performance was originally inspired by Alvin Baltrop’s photographs of homosexual and “outsider” encounters in New York in the 1970s and 80s. Ruga provocatively links the Xhosa initiation with another rite of passage: “cruising”.

Performed by: Athi-Patra Ruga, with synchronised swimmers coached by Sue Manners-WoodPresented by: The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts in association with Whatiftheworld GalleryDuration: 45 minutes

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Classics on ChurchBy: CAPE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

A stone’s throw from Parliament, reverberating off

monuments to a darker past, Bizet, Dvorak, Strauss

and Tchaikovsky transport Church Square into a mega

symphonic experience.

Under the direction of conductor Brandon Phillips, the full,

highly-acclaimed Cape Philharmonic Orchestra will perform

a programme of various classical works in a fi rst-of its-kind

concert under the Cape Town stars.

Presented by: The Cape Philharmonic Orchestra

Duration: 45 minutes

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Serenading the StationBy: CAPE PHILHARMONIC YOUTH WIND ENSEMBLE

A usual Saturday under the trees on the Cape Town

Station forecourt. Then the Esprit de Corps, The Thunder,

and the Semper Fidelis March draw the attention of

Saturday shoppers.

The Cape Philharmonic Youth Wind Ensemble presents

a diverse programme, ranging from well-known military

marches to Frank Sinatra, and even takes you back to

“The Summer of 69”!

Performing a full complement of lyrical gems, from the

classics to the contemporary, this highly acclaimed

orchestra of young musicians show their versatility and

keep their nerve, surrounded by the swirling Cape Town

Station on a Saturday morning.

Presented by: The Cape Philharmonic Orchestra

Duration: 45 minutes

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InvasionBy: CAPE TOWN CITY BALLET

The oldest and one of the most diverse malls in South

Africa is transformed into an auditorium for the body in

motion and stillness.

Excerpts include Robin van Wyk’s lauded ballet The Italian

Affair, set in sensuous Rome, and Night and Day, featuring

the music of Cole Porter. These works, performed in the

middle of the bustling Golden Acre, will provide an invasion

and infection of their own.

The Company is celebrated for the diversity of works in its

repertoire, and its dancers for their inimitable energy and

style – characteristics that stamp it as uniquely South African.

Presented by: The Cape Town City Ballet

Duration: 30 minutes

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Orange Book Infected EditionBy: CHAS UNWIN

Orange Book is an ongoing series that reconfi gures with

each edition a series of core concepts, motifs and actions,

on themes of historical dispossession and the ongoing

presence of war in our social distribution.

Orange Book animators claim ‘adjacent territory’ within

a public space, and play there with signs and processes

attached to the particular site. In this vein the work’s 4th

edition Orange Book Infected Edition investigates a

binding antogonism of sacred and profane in a genesis of

meanings and matters, bread and wine.

Duration: 20 minutes

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Death and the MaidensBy: DADA MASILO

What drives women to madness, suicide and even murder? In this astonishing performance, Standard Bank Young Artist Award Winner Dada Masilo scrutinises the complex histories and motivations of tragic heroines from a female perspective.

With a company of women performers, including members of the Tshwane Dance Theatre, Masilo riffs Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman’s celebrated play Death and the Maiden. Taking as her starting point the poignant music of Franz Schubert, Masilo creates a fresh vocabulary of movement that fuses existing dance techniques to explore female anguish, desolation, oppression, marginalisation and, even, retaliation. Masilo’s “maidens” are not victims, and death is not necessarily masculine. In Death and the Maidens, Masilo continues an engagement with the heroines of literature and drama that began with her acclaimed solo work The Bitter End of Rosemary.

Performed by: Dada Masilo, with Kristin Wilson, Liyabuya Gongo,

Laura Cameron, Ipeleng Merafe, Bafi kile Sedibe and

Nicholas Aphane

Lighting design by Suzette le Sueur

Duration: 40 minutes

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Ek SêBy: DIANA PAGE

Echoing above the crowds, defi ning the skyline with sound, are voices, calling from one roof to another, giving expression to various thoughts, feelings and impressions.

Ek Sê is the third instalment of a global trilogy exploring home and exile, longing and belonging. The fi rst instalment, Kadinin Sesleri (“Women’s Voices”), resonated across the rooftops of Istanbul in 2007. The second instalment, Pitch Blue, was performed on the roofs of New York City in 2008. With Ek Sê, Page returns to her home, Cape Town.

Ek Sê is a momentary encounter: its performers meet for the fi rst time on a Cape Town rooftop, speaking, singing and dancing their way into the piece, gathering the sounds and sights of the surrounding city into a vivid spectacle. Performers include acclaimed poet Gabeba Baderoon, originally from Cape Town herself; Hlenghiwe Mkhwanazi, opera singer, and Turkish dancer Ziya Azazi, a master of the traditional Sufi whirling dervish dance techniques.

Please note: space is limited, please book for the Thursday performance by emailing [email protected]

Performed by: Gabeba Baderoon, Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi, Ziya Azazi

Duration: 30 minutes

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DiscussionTOWARDS A PUBLIC ART POLICY FOR A WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL

The challenges of urbanisation and the development of cities have both inspired and disillusioned public artists. The inspiration is borne out of the myriad possibilities for representation of, and engagement with, a public freshly re-confi gured and continually morphing, in accordance with shifts in densities, identity markings and spatialities. The disillusionment has arrived from the diffi culties in negotiating bureaucracies that are mainly wrapped up in regulating public space as a backdrop for commercial interests. How does a simple act of art-making survive in a public space of little reward? How do artists negotiate these structures?

In an effort to answer some of the questions above, the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA), the Africa Centre and Creative Cape Town will host a discussion that addresses public art policy as it exists internationally and nationally. Given that the policies created and managed by city governments regarding public art have become pivotal instruments for negotiating how public life is enriched through art, particular consideration will be given to: the questions and principles behind such policies; the development and implementation strategies for these policies; the public art policy initiatives underway in Cape Town; and initiating a road map toward completing and implementing a policy within the World Design Capital.

Free admission

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SpacesBy: ERIN BOSENBERG

Cape Town’s faces captured in their most signifi cant and

important places. When combined with interviews with

the occupants of these spaces, the installation creates an

intimate and unexpected collage of Cape Town.

A multi-media documentary project, Spaces uses

interviews and photographs to create direct and intimate

connections between random individuals and the city that

they live in.

Each face has chosen one spot in the city that is

particularly signifi cant to them, and has been interviewed

and photographed in that space. Supplying their name,

occupation and the name of the space, each interviewee

focuses on the signifi cance of the space. During the

interview the sounds of the space are collected. Spaces

creates an arresting visual portrait of the city’s multiple

faces, and presents critical and engaged voices.

Opens: Tuesday 8 pm

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My DreamBy: ESTI KRUGER, LEONARD SHAPIRO, YASMIN EZZIDEEN

Pick up a piece of colourful chalk, close your eyes, think,

dream. Then make your mark on the streets of Cape Town.

In My Dream, members of the public participate in a

collective public intervention to produce their own temporary

artwork. Leonard Shapiro, Yasmin Ezzideen and Esti Kruger

invite passers-by to write a short response to a very simple

question. Each person is asked the same question, and

each person writes their response on the brick paving at the

intersection of St George’s Mall and Castle Street.

My Dream builds on Local (2011) a similar, highly successful,

community-driven art project by the same team.

Performed by: you (the audience member, the passer-by)

Duration: Variable

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Cooking Information on the Streets of iKapa By: GLORIA NOZIPHO MBHELE

Creating a centre of calm and creation in the hustle and

bustle of the Central Business District, an artist works

tirelessly over the week on a wire and papier-mâché

construction.

Part art in process, part performance, Cooking Information

on the Streets of iKapa sees Mbhele using fl our, a

domestic kitchen staple, to bind the City’s digested and

discarded news into sculptural form. Mbhele’s sculptures

comment on gender roles at the same time as she

redeploys our current affairs, selecting the important, the

unimportant, the urgent, the banal, the superfl uous – the

audience are invited to form their own opinions.

Look out for four of Mbhele’s sculptures of women, in

various poses – carrying babies, looking through binoculars

– dotted around the city centre.

Duration: Variable

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adderley st fountains robots & environs

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Stop, Start, ContinueBy: ISGAK STEMMET

A person approaches you. They are conducting a survey.

They ask a few simple questions: What would you like the

city to stop doing? What would you like it to start doing?

What is working in the city, and what should continue?

From simple, face-to-face interaction over the duration of

the Festival, these City evaluators gather and collate the

collective voice of the City about the City. The thoughts,

hopes and fears of the City’s inhabitants are set down on

multicoloured notice boards, each labelled “stop”, “start”

or “continue”.

The results of these interviews with the public are paraded

through the City streets in a growing mobile installation:

a collective train of thoughts, expressions, feelings, ideas

and aspirations of the citizens for its city.

Duration: Variable

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st george's mall /castle st

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We All MatterBy: JACKIE JOB & EMILIE LELOUCH

Ethereal, seemingly untethered to the vagaries of the

daily grind, a lone woman fl oats, spins, twirls and unfurls

against the Cape Town skyline, her aerial performance

shadowed by an earth-bound dancer.

Too concerned with the tedium of life, people have

forgotten how to dream. Everyone looks down, no longer

glancing upward, daring to imagine. There is no hope. But

the fi rst step to hope is to look up and dream…

Through skilled and sensitive body language, dance and

aerial arts, fantasy and fact, two performers, one South

African and one French, explore the intricate relationships

that connect us all.

Aesthetically communicating our intimate interconnections

and, indeed, our deep need for each other, the

performance broadens our horizons: physically, socially,

artistically and culturally.

Duration: 10 minutes

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ct station forecourt

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Jack and Juli take to the streetsBy: JACQUES COETZER

At a busy street junction, a respectably dressed burgher

troubadour plays his guitar.

A seven-year-old girl, his daughter, holds out a hat, but

she is not asking for money.

Performed by: Jacques & Juli Coetzer

Duration: Variable

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lower st george’s mall

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CanticoBy: JAZZART

Invading the public space, evoking personal and collective identity, diverse personal stories, universal, local, emerge dynamically through music, movement and dance.

Against an emotive musical landscape, comprised of musical pieces of the dancers’ own choice, Cantico relates the individual journeys of its eight cast members. Cape Town is signifi cant to each story, and the experiences recounted resonate with its inhabitants. Cantico not only tells the stories of its performers, but portrays the City’s dynamic, ever-changing nature.

With Cantico, the Jazzart Dance Theatre pays tribute to its rich legacy and draws on its pioneering institutional history, affi rming the power of the performing arts to transform society.

Presented by: Jazzart Dance Theatre

Directed by: Faniswa Yisa

Choreographed by: Jackie Manyaapelo, Ina Wichterich-Mogane,

additional contributions by Ananda Fuchs

Performed by: Thabisa Dinga, Douglas Griffi ths, Adam Malebo,

Refi loe Mogoje, Rozendra Newman, Vathiswa Nodlayiya, Shaun

Oelf and Nkosinathi Sangweni

Duration: 60 minutes

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iziko south african museum steps

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Phylum and PhoenixBy: JULIA RAYNHAM

In this once-off performance, seated on a rotating surface, undergoing a visual, transformation, the artist sits as Peter the Haircutter, blindfolded, ritually cuts her hair with a combination of cutting tools.

In Phylum and Phoenix, Raynham metamorphoses her body into a sculptural assemblage made up of materials drawn from the basic elements: air, earth, fi re, plant, animal, mineral. Raynham’s live transformation is backed by cinematic snippets, shot at three Cape Town locations. In the Strand Street fragments, we see lines of unemployed men, Raynham among them, her hair extensions woven into the ubiquitous South African fabric of fencing and barbed wire. In the dream-like Hout Bay sections, fi lmed at night, Raynham is cocooned in the dunes. In the surreal Happy Valley clips, she stands among shacks and telephone poles, her hair extensions rising vertically to connect into the electrical wiring. Phylum and Phoenix invokes the mythical phoenix – symbol of death, transformation and regeneration – and the biological phylum to explore questions of transformation.

Performed by: Julia Raynham & Peter Assad

Duration: 30 minutes

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prestwich place, cnrwaterkant / buitengracht

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Cape ToneBy: JUSTIN KRAWITZ

Classical piano inside the station. A grand piano rests on

the gleaming white tiles of the station concourse on which is

being performed the world premiere of celebrated composer

Hendrik Hofmeyr.

Drawing on his work as a 2011 Donald Gordon Creative

Arts Fellow at the University of Cape Town, Justin Krawitz

will present a short programme of piano works by two Cape

composers: Arnold van Wyk and Hendrik Hofmeyr.

Representing opposite poles of composition in South Africa,

Van Wyk (1916-1983) is widely considered the father of South

African classical music, while Hofmeyr (b.1957) is among

the younger generation of composers and is active in the

contemporary musical scene. The performance will begin

with Van Wyk’s cycle Tristia, and will culminate with the world

première of Hofmeyr’s new Piano Sonata, written expressly

for Krawitz on commission by the South African Music

Rights Organisation.

Presented by: The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts

Duration: 30 minutes

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My sound is too big for this confi ned spaceBy: LEÁN COETZER

Endless rows of cars lie

between you and your

family. A traffi c jam, again.

Annoyingly, the car next to

you begins reverberating

with sound. You look over.

The driver is contorting into

all manner of expressive

ways. This is going to be a jam like no other.

What looks like simple, impatient, fi nger-tapping, progresses

into an expressive, “how-does-she-do-that?!”, limb-extending

dance across the dashboard and the seats of the car. The

performers are responsible drivers, always keeping an eye on

the fl ow of traffi c, but they own good sound systems and get

carried away by the music. It begins as a dance in their heads,

but becomes a reality in the confi ned space of their sedans.

Duration: Variable

The Cape DoctorBy: LEÁN COETZER

Cape Town’s “doctor”

is loved and loathed.

It blows from the

south-east, clearing

the City of pollution,

it is a Cape constant,

the accompaniment

to hot summers.

This performance,

accompanied by live

drums and fl ute, uses

ribbons, dresses,

fl ags, smoke, bubbles

and balloons to allow the wind to show itself as the star of

the dance, revealing itself through all it traverses. The Cape

Doctor celebrates the wind as a free and spirited life force

that rejuvenates and cleanses the City. This performance is

weather permitting.

Duration: Variable

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eduardo villa sculpture, old marine drive

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4.45 pm4.45 pm

long street (between castle & hout)

venue

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The DiagnosisBy: LEILA ANDERSON & STAN WANNET

Deep in the City centre, locked inside a shop window, is a

mechanical installation. By day, the artists inhabit an inner City

shop, on display as they recover from their night-escapades,

sleeping the light hours away in a laboratory still-life.

By night, the artists activate a series of nocturnal performance

interventions in various locations around the City – a sequence

of absurd, unsettling, intimate, comical and public nocturnal

actions, picked straight from the subconscious.

The daytime installation is intimately accessible to the scrutiny of

the public. In this space, the bodies of the sleepwalkers rest and

the preparations for, and documentary records of, their nightly

exertions are presented for inspection.

Reversing the rhythms of consciousness and unconsciousness,

enacting the nonsensical automations of ordinary life, The

Diagnosis is an experimental sleepwalk. Expect unpredictable

locations, assorted actions, and dream-like durations.

Opens: Tuesday 8 pm

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The Sacrifi ceBy: MANDISI SHINDO

Using rich imagery, this duet between two men engages in

a public battle between tradition, truth and reconciliation.

The work is accompanied by a traditional choir, evoking an

intense and moving sensorial experience.

The work takes as its main metaphor a captured

bull, ready for slaughter, drawing on the vulnerability

and tactics of the animal before the traditional Xhosa

slaughtering ritual takes place.

The actual killing is not the end but the beginning of the

real battle. Victory brings little relief or reward as the

force of deeper feelings of guilt and regret overcome and

threaten to annihilate.

No animal is hurt in the process….

Performed by: Siyabulela Macbeth Sikawuti, Mandla “Spikiri”

Sibeko, Mandisi Arnold Shindo.

Duration: 30 minutes

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st george's / strand st, andst george's / riebeek st

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Uvuko! ResurrectionBy: MANDLA MBOTHWE

Dramatic. Magnetic. Performers lead a procession through the streets of Cape Town, conjuring up the deep-seated local stories that lie dormant, pulling us inexorably to a sacred space.

Leading local director Mandla Mbothwe evokes the spirit of African performing arts by invoking the past to remind us of who we are in relation to the City. The eight cast members of the Steve Biko Centre traverse various sites, calling out their internal monologues, expressing their poetry, singing spiritual songs that allude to historical events, heroes and leaders, intermingled with the names of their villages and their personal histories. Meanwhile, images of love, caring, commitment and promise are released from mother to daughter.

When the performers are ritually bathing in containers of water, encircled by a ring of fi re, a praise singer and drummer appear, a whistle is heard, and the guardians lead the audience towards the fi nal destination of this site-specifi c performance.

Uvuko! is a multi-media, interdisciplinary multiple site-specifi c artwork.

Performed by: The Steve Biko Centre and the Remix Dance Company

Presented by: The Steve Biko Centre

Duration: 30 minutes

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LotBy: NICOLA HANEKOM

Open ground is transformed into a strange halfway station to the other side, a desolate “lot”. Here, people walk around with one foot already in the grave, and an eye cocked at the stars.

Three cars arrive in front of a gate in the middle of nowhere. The passengers, not yet aware of their unfortunate fate, begin a tragic-comic journey of realisation and protestation that ends in silence as they come to accept their metaphoric “lot in life”.

Lot is multi-lingual, mixing Afrikaans, English and Setswana, and combines text with surreal imagery and physical theatre. It is part fairy tale, part Hitchcock. This multi-award winning performance is the second in a trilogy of site-specifi c works written and directed by Nicola Hanekom.

Lot won three Kanna awards at the 2011 KKNK Festival and it has recently been nominated for fi ve Fiesta awards.

Please note: If you don’t have transport, there will be a shuttle from Hiddingh Campus (Fri) and Prestwich Place (Sat) to the Moravian Church. Spaces are limited on the shuttle, please book via email to [email protected]

Performed by: Neels van Jaarsveld, Stian Bam, Bronwyn van Graan, Lerato Motshwarakgole, Tinarie van Wyk Loots, Jacques Theron, Brendon DanielsDuration: 60 minutes

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moravian church,district six

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Abawon: StainsBy: OLANIYI RASHEED AKINDIYA (AKIRASH)

From Lagos, posing as a person on the margins of society, Olaniyi explores how the City responds to its neglected and abjected others.

Impersonating a pregnant, mentally-impaired woman, and carrying a baby on his back and pushing a wheelbarrow, Olaniyi will scour the streets, working his way through the City’s stores, offi ces, public spaces, supermarkets, schools, malls and parks. Finally, he will create a black and white durational installation and combine the logos, signs, symbols and patterns of contemporary city dwelling and of the cultural heritage of the Ndebele, Adinkra, Arewa, Uli and Bamu on himself and his incidental audience. Using thread and wood, he will also entwine himself in his installation, from which his audience will eventually be invited to free him. Through a series of provocative interventions, Abawon: Stains invites us to explore how we react to waste, gender equality, the mentally impaired, people living with HIV/AIDS, and disability.

Duration: Variable

Opens: Wednesday 9 am

Orange Route: Wed, Fri at 2.45 pm

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CapeofonBy: OLE HAMRE

Individuals representing the full spectrum of Capetonians

intone into a video camera. Ole Hamre curates and

orchestrates each tone into a stunning, multi-media

ensemble called Capeofon.

Following in the footsteps of his hugely popular Norwegian

Folkofon project, Hamre captured the sights of Cape Town

and the vocalisations of Capetonians.

Hamre has documented singing Capetonians of every

age, and from a wealth of backgrounds. Each note on

Hamre’s custom-built keyboard is linked to an intoning

local person. Hamre “plays” the choir on the huge screen,

accompanied by live musicians and Umculo choral

participants from Kenmere Primary School and Hlengisa

Primary School. Capeofon is a brand new instrument by

the citizens for the Mother City.

Performed by: citizens of Cape Town, Umcolo Chorus from

Kenmere Primary School & Hlengisa Primary School

Duration: Variable

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8.00 pmchurch sq

st george's mall,church square

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Celia’s StoryBy: RUTH LEVIN-VORSTER

A debilitating illness pitches the critical personal responsibility

to sustain health of mind, body and spirit against the fallibility

of medical experts.

The cinematic debut of artist and 2011 GIPCA fellow, Ruth

Levin-Vorster, Celia’s Story tells the story of a woman’s

journey through chronic illness. Entwined in the fi lm, lies the

provocation of taking responsibility for one’s own health and

the reality that doctors, while experts, are fallible.

Exploring collaborative possibilities between Western

and Eastern medicine, Levin-Vorster probes the lack of

communication between these two sciences under the

fi rst law of medicine, “Do No Harm”. Combining expressive

gesture with the language of fi lm, Celia’s Story is a visually

arresting art fi lm accompanied by an evocative sound score

that creates a journey into a complex emotional landscape, to

create a haunting and hopeful work of visual poetry.

Presented by: The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts

Duration: 7 minutes

Opens: Tuesday 8 pm

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mandela rhodes place gallery

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BricolageBy: SANJIN MUFTIÇ

Monologues, movements, music, spoken text, dance

sequences and visuals are re-used, re-cycled, and

re-visited by their original performers.

Samples from previous productions are restructured to create

a fresh story and a new live performance. By developing an

original narrative from previously performed material, Bricolage

stages performance samples alongside, on top of, and in

conversation with, one another in order to relay the story of a

specifi c space in the City.

The multi-disciplinary performance engages with the idea

that there is a shared pool of themes and motifs in our

performance history. Through the interaction of diverse

elements of live performance, it highlights our common

struggles in building a home.

Bricolage is the culmination of Muftic’s yearlong Donald

Gordon Creative Arts Fellowship research project.

Presented by: The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts

Duration: 20 minutes

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5.00 pm5.00 pm

slave church, 40 long st

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CityScapesBy: SIWELA SONKE

Evocative, edgy combination of contemporary

performance, dance and traditional imagery breathes life

into architecture and public spaces.

Choreographed by the performers, the works bring the

smells, sights and sounds of KwaZulu Natal and re-invokes

these on Cape Town streets. Often happening in between

other performances, the CityScapes provide pathways,

links and bridges, and points of intersection, meeting

and departure.

Presented, in part, through funding from the National Arts Council

Performed by: Sibusiso Gantsa Nkhanyiso Kunene, Sandile

Mkhize Mxolisi Nkomonde and Neliswa Rushualang

Duration: Variable

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teka munyika By: SELLO PESA & VAUGHN SADIE

The collaboration looks at everyday movements of the body

performed in public space and how these are impacted by

space and the elements that constitute it – light, architecture,

material and surface.

teka munyika (meaning to take and give in Tsonga) was fi rst

commissioned for Johannesburg’s 1st Conference on Public

Art, held at Main Street Life. The performance juxtaposes the

social practices that exist in the area against those that are

introduced with the infl ux of newer, middle-class residents.

The work explores commonplace actions such as braai-ing,

hairstyling and sun tanning by bringing them together and

contrasting then against a formal event to create an absurd

and surreal experience that brings into question notions of

cultural or leisure practices in the context of urban renewal

and gentrifi cation.

Presented by: The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts

Performed by: Sello Pesa, Brian Mtembu, Humphrey Maleka

and Murray Kruger

Duration: 45 minutes

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8.15 pm

prestwich place, buitengracht / waterkant

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Flash Mob of NoteBy: UCT CHOIR

Playing off the traditional fl ash mob idea, UCT singers

ignite public spaces with their renowned singing.

The UCT Choir, under the musical direction of John

Woodland, has the distinction of being a most diverse

musical group, exposing its singers and its audiences to

a rich variety of a cappella works from early classical to

contemporary genres, both sacred and secular. They take

this repertoire to the streets, squares and station, creating

moments of syncopated awe.

Presented by: The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts

Duration: Variable

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10.00 am–

11.00 am

1.45 pmstation

station concourse &st george's mall / castle st

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The Rake’s ProgressBy: UCT OPERA

Opulent, overblown, outlandishly costumed libretto swells alongside the rose blooms of the Company Gardens. A lone aria resonates along the full-length of Parliament Avenue. The Rake’s Progress with a Cape twist.

Excerpts from Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, inspired by Matthew Wild’s 2011 production, have been re-imagined as a promenade event at sites across the CBD. With musical direction by Kamal Khan, this tale of urban moral corruption fi nds fresh resonances for Stravinsky’s neoclassical score, as his witty take on 18th century London collides with contemporary Cape Town.

An encounter with William Hogarth’s paintings in 1947 inspired Stravinsky to commission the libretto for his fi rst English-language opera. Collaborators W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman concocted a brilliant variation on Hogarth’s moral narrative: after mysteriously inheriting a fortune, Tom Rakewell leaves his sweetheart Anne Trulove, and begins a hard-partying “progress” through the brothels and mansions of London. This costs him his fortune, his true love and ultimately his sanity.

Presented by: The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts

Directed by: Matthew Wild, musical direction by Kamal Khan

Duration: 60 minutes

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6.50 pm

rose garden, the company's gardens

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Bodies in LightBy: VICTORINE MÜLLER

Zurich-based artist Victorine Müller’s installation work

focuses on the mise-en-scène of the body and its

energetic status. Her body is her medium, poetic

stimulator and ally.

In her work she challenges again and again issues of

subjectivity and notions of the body, to transform them

into something new.

“Müller’s performances and sculptures differ in a number

of ways from traditional examples of these genres: while it

seems on the surface that nothing is happening, because

there is no obvious action, her sculptures are not so much

static fi gures as living breathing creatures whose form is

only maintained by constant infl ow from an airpump. And

with her own human breath she ensouls the sculpture,”

Christoph Vögele, Kunstmuseum Solothurn.

Presented by: Pro Helvetia

Duration: Variable

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7.15 pmorange

7.45 pmfan walk

8.45 pmorange

taj hotel balcony, 15 on orange, fan walk

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NTU///By: VINCENT MANTSOE

Internationally acclaimed, Paris-based Mantsoe brings

to Cape Town his latest solo that has been described by

the New York Times as a performance “so extraordinarily

contained that the end effect is like seeing the shape, the

fi gure, push its way free of encompassing clay.”

I am listening, I am watching, I am learning, and I am Mu-ntu:

NTU///

The notion of “NTU” is saturated with the idea that even if

nothingness pervades, there is always something taking

form. It talks about what may be created in your own

mind, yet there can be nothing else inside NTU/// except

the path it is destined to take on its own.

Music by: Hamayoun Shajarian and Dastan Ensemble

Lighting Design by: Serge Damon

Duration: 35 minutes

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iziko south african museum steps

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Arts Aweh! Education Programme

Arts Aweh! is the youth-focussed, educational component

of the Infecting The City Public Arts Festival that each day

of the Festival hosts approximately 120 grade 10 to 12

learners drawn from communities across Cape Town.

Led by local artists, these learners gain exposure to the

cutting-edge public arts performances, interventions and

installations that the Festival showcases through creative

workshops and interactive guided tours of the Festival

circuit. The learners are given the opportunity to express

their own creativity and critical opinions of what they

encounter.

Grounded in an experiential learning approach Arts Aweh!

is intended also to raise awareness of the arts as a tool

for social commentary and transformation, as a potential

career path and as a means to nurture future audiences for

the arts within our City.

Tailored to the content and variety of genres of this year’s

Festival, the Arts Aweh! programme of activities will

provide participating learners with a concise and engaging

introduction to fundamental concepts and themes such as:

• Visual Language/ Iconography: how do we ‘read’ what

we see?

• Classical vs. Contemporary visual & performance art:

myths, perceptions, prejudices.

• Public Art: issues of exclusivity/inclusivity, social & cultural

dynamics, accessibility, collaboration, public involvement in

art via e.g. fl ash mobs, public sculpture, murals, graffi ti art.

• Site–specifi c Art: innovative ways of using space,

environmental considerations, being resourceful and

imaginative within our urban landscape

• Arts activism: awareness raising through and socio-

political relevance of the arts.

• Multi-media: what goes into the making of video art,

installations, performance art.

On Saturday, a limited number of participants will

collaborate in a fl ash mob or improvised site–specifi c

performance as a celebratory culmination of their Festival

experience, putting some of what they have learned into

action!

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Without the generous contributions from our Funders, Infecting

The City would not be possible. With respect, we thank:

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Festival Funders

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The University of Cape Town’s Gordon Institute for Performing

and Creative Arts (GIPCA) facilitates new collaborative and

interdisciplinary creative research projects in the disciplines of

music, dance, fi ne art, drama, creative writing, and fi lm and

media studies. Interdisciplinarity is a key theme of the Institute

and projects are imbued with innovation, collaboration and

dialogue with urbanism and community.

Projects bring together diverse entities and the Institute actively

seeks partners both outside of the University and within it, in

an effort to enrich the research and development of creative

work and to make such work available to all communities.

GIPCA was launched in December 2008 with a substantial

grant from Sir Donald Gordon, founder of Liberty Life.

www.gipca.uct.ac.za • +27 21 480 7156 • fi [email protected]

Festival Partners

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In addition, our other vital partners include:

• Artscape

• Cape Philharmonic Orchestra

• Cape Town City Ballet

• Jazzart

• Remix Dance Theatre

• Steve Biko Centre

Infecting The City is designed as a collaborative model

where our partners contribute artistic content, publicity and

other valuable resources to make the Festival happen. Our

partners for 2012 include:

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Festival Partners Festival Credits

Curator: Jay Pather

Festival Manager: Felicia Pattison-Bacon

Project Manager (GIPCA): Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton

Marketing Manager: Isla Haddow-Flood

Technical Manager: Izan Greyling

Technical Manager (GIPCA): Themba Stewart

Arts Aweh! Programme Manager: Malika Ndlovu

Festival Generalist: Ernestine White

Technical Support: Corinne Swanepoel

Fundraising: Ivana Abreu

Offi ce Manager: Ethel Ntlahla

Financial Manager: Zenobia de Kock

Executive Director: Tanner Methvin

Board of Directors: Derek Carelse, Adrian Enthoven,

Dominique Enthoven, Ralph Freese, Tanner Methvin

Publicity and Marketing Support: Mango-OMC

Graphic Design and Layout: Creative Flood

Website Development: Zero Zero One

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Index

Abawon: Stains 36

Africa Centre 2

Arts Aweh! 48

Athi-Patra Ruga 14

Bodies in Light 44

Bricolage 39

Cantico 28

Cape Philharmonic Orchestra 15

Cape Philharmonic Youth Wind Ensemble 16

Cape Tone 36

Cape Town City Ballet 17

Capeofon 37

Celia’s Story 38

Chas Unwin 18

CityScapes 40

Classics on Church 15

Cooking Information on

the Streets of iKapa 24

Curator’s Note 4

Dada Masilo 19

Death and the Maidens 19

Diana Page 20

Discussion: Public Arts Policy 21

Ek Sê 20

Emilie Lelouch 26

Erin Bosenberg 22

Esti Kruger 43

Flash Mob of Note 42

Funders 48

Gloria Nozipho Mbhele 24

Gordon Institute of Performing Arts 50

Ilulwane 14

Invasion 17

Isgak Stemmet 25

Jack and Juli take to the streets 27

Jackie Job 26

Jacques Coetzer 27

Jazzart 28

Julia Raynham 29

Justin Krawitz 30

Leán Coetzer 31

Leila Anderson 38

Leonard Shapiro 23

Lot 35

Mandisi Shindo 33

Mandla Mbothwe 34

Map 11

My Dream 22

My Sound Is Too Big for

This Confi ned Space 31

Nicola Hanekom 35

NTU/// 45

Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya 36

Ole Hamre 37

Orange Book Infected Edition 18

Partners 50

Phylum and Phoenix 28

Ruth Levin-Vorster 38

Sanjin Muftiç 39

Schedule 6

Sello Pesa 41

Serenading the Station 17

Siwela Sonke 40

Spaces 22

Stan Wannet 32

Stop, Start, Continue 25

teka munyika 41

The Cape Doctor 31

The Diagnosis 32

The Rake’s Progress 43

The Sacrifi ce 33

UCT Choir 42

UCT Opera 43

Uvuko! Resurrection 34

Vaughn Sadie 41

Victorine Müller 44

Vincent Mantsoe 45

We All Matter 26

Yasmin Ezzideen 23

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