Maandag 06 Augustus 2012
Afrikadey! Festival in Calgary
Calgary's Afrikadey! is a week-long celebration of the music, food, dance, theatre, film, literature and visual arts of Africa and her descendant cultures.
South Africa central at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world and takes place every August for three weeks in Scotland’s capital city. The festival caters for everyone and includes theatre, comedy, dance, physical theatre, musicals, operas, music, exhibitions and events. The Assembly programme has an eight-show strong programme of work from South Africa including the Market Theatre's And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses and Woza Albert!, Baxter Theatre's Miss Julie and Wordsmith's The Sewing Machine.
Diverse zomeractiviteiten in Afrika Museum
Tijdens het zomerprogramma kunnen bezoekers dagelijks deelnemen aan (theatrale) rondleidingen en workshops. Aansluitend bij de tentoonstelling ‘Goddelijk en Griezelig – Het Geheim van de Slang’ vinden onder meer de theatrale tour ‘Bang voor de slang’, de voorstelling ‘De Grote Wijze van het woud’ en de creatieve workshop ‘de Regenboogslang’ plaats. In de workshop ‘Afrikaanse muziek’ maken de deelnemers kennis met Afrikaanse ritmes en instrumenten. Verhalenverteller Sjoerd neemt kinderen mee op een tocht door het Buitenmuseum in theatrale tour ‘Kofi kan niet zweten’. Let op! Niet elke activiteit vindt dagelijks plaats.
South Africa Women's Arts Festival 2012
The Playhouse Company’s highly anticipated 16th South African Women’s Arts Festival (SAWAF), runs at The Playhouse in Durban from Friday, 3 August until Sunday, 11 August 2012.
Artscape Women’s Festival celebrates humanity
Stage productions, workshops and exhibitions. This year’s fare offers a continuance of last year’s Gender Equality Discussion Panel with a report back of the 2011 audit and further discussion facilitated by The Triangle Project.I Stand Corrected is physical theatre responding to homophobia and transphobia, hate rapes and murders. For the first time in Afrikaans, Die Vagina Monoloë gives a voice to women (and men!) to voice their secret and suppressed fears. A jazz concert, The Eve ‘A Celebration of the curve of humanity’ brings together original music, unique arrangements of jazz standards and poetry, paying homage to the human spirit. And much more!
