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It might be a fiendishly cold run-in to Spring Day this week, but that doesn’t stop Durban dancers and entertainers from getting in the mood.

JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience is an annual festival honouring performance artists working in the dance space. Taking place under the title Border Crossings, this year’s festival interrogates physical, spiritual and performative boundaries. After presenting numerous works to the festival with the Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre group, Jay Pather will headline this year.   Like they did in 2020, the Centre for Creative Arts is gearing itself up for its second digital iteration of the JOMBA...

Artist Thania Petersen has embarked on a project to bring art into minibus taxis. As a pilot for the project, she covered a taxi in artwork that interrogates the construction of ‘Cape Malay’ and ‘Coloured’ identity and proposes a way forward.

LOOK: Minibus taxi becomes a moving masterpiece Share Acclaimed multi-disciplinary artist Thania Petersen who has turned a minibus taxi into a moving masterpiece that can be appreciated by passengers enroute, says she wanted to make artwork that would be accessible to everyone. The mobile artist intervention is part of the UnInfecting the City public arts festival currently underway in Cape Town. Athlone-born Petersen, who has studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art in London and exhibi...

Ozelwe embethe, 2020. Cow dung, oil paint and gesso on canvas. 170 x 300cm. ( © Mawande Ka Zenzile. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town. Photography Mario Todeschini ) The decolonisation of art and art studies has received a boost following the publication of the 49th issue of OnCurating. The issue is titled Decolonial Propositions and co-edited by Nkule Mabaso and Jyoti Mistry. Set against the growing urgency for transformation in art institutions and universities, it propo...

South Africa’s longest-running public arts festival has been renamed (Un)Infecting the City for 2021 to reflect the thematic focus on the psychological and social impacts of living through this tumultuous period of history. (Image courtesy of Mud & Fire Parables.) In partnership with the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Institute for the Creative Arts (ICA), Infecting the City is back. Infecting the City is South Africa’s longest-running public arts festival. This edi...

Story Nicole Forrest. Read time 6 min. South Africa’s longest-running public arts festival has been renamed (Un)Infecting the City for 2021 to reflect the thematic focus on the psychological and social impacts of living through this tumultuous period of history. Photo Image courtesy of Mud & Fire Parables. In partnership with the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Institute for the Creative Arts (ICA), Infecting the City – South Africa’s longest-running public arts festival ...

Share In partnership with the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Institute for the Creative Arts (ICA), Infecting the City – South Africa’s longest-running public arts festival – is back for its 12th edition, taking place from 8 May to 30 June 2021 throughout Cape Town’s city centre, in locations across the Cape Flats, and online. Now renamed for its thematic focus on the psychological and social impacts of living through this tumultuous period of history – and the strict mask and soci...

(Un)Infecting the City expands beyond Cape Town this year Share Cape Towns famous public arts festival, Infecting the City, now renamed (Un)Infecting the City, makes a comeback this month. Another exciting aspect is the fact that it will expand beyond the borders of Cape Town as organisers have included new digital and virtual elements that can be accessed from anywhere in the world. Each year, the free-to-the-public festival brings art, music, dance and performance out of theatres and gallerie...

Public arts festival (Un)Infecting the City to take place May and June Former Spur CEO Pierre Van Tonder in critical conditionSpur Corporations recently retired CEO, Pierre Van Tonder, is in critical condition in a Cape Town hospital after an apparent suicide attempt on Sunday. BREAKING: Duke Group launches DuchessIn a first for female empowerment and for South African business, the Duke Group has launched Duchess - a 100% Black female-owned, Level 1 BBBEE-compliant, full-service production fa...