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SPECIAL EVENTS
Infecting the City
Venue: Throughout Cape Town. Tel: (021)
447 3197.
Time: -
Price: -
Performances: 13 - 20 Feb 2010
Genre: Festival
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The Festival promises to transform Cape
Town into a vast and contagious cultural happening that infects the
squares, pavements, nooks and crannies of the inner city with
thought-provoking, dynamic public art. During a vibrant Festival week (13
– 20 February 2010) artists from South Africa and around the world will
explore the theme ‘Human Rite’ with a variety of free performances,
interactive installations and interventions. The theme asks these artists
to orientate their work towards ritual, transformation, healing and
celebration.
Some of the programme highlights include
the two new collaborative site specific works (Meet Market and Quiet
Emergency); Windows into a World – a choreographic dramatisation of the
stories of people affected by HIV/AIDS; and Imperfections, a performance
art work that revisits and re-imagines the meanings behind two of the
City’s almost forgotten historic sites.
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A number of the works invite public participation. The
Wishing Wall asks people to engage with artists in making a collective
artwork out of their hopes and memories. In an investigation of how we
rename urban landmarks and streets, Treacle Theatre encourages the public
to contact them with alternative names for places in the City (contact
treacle@infectingthecity.com
or visit them at Talk-TV Café at 100 Bree Street in the weeks before the
Festival).
Mandala for Healing is a symbol of
reconciliation made from the soil of local sites of trauma. The mandala
will evolve over the Festival week in St George’s Cathedral and people are
urged to contribute material from their own sites of sorrow for inclusion
in this work. And Jump invites you to kick off your shoes and
bounce your cares away on a bed that roams the CBD.
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