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Event Calendar Details - Okuya Phantsi Kwempumlo (The Meal) at Infecting the City

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Event 

Okuya Phantsi Kwempumlo (The Meal) at Infecting the City
Title:
Okuya Phantsi Kwempumlo (The Meal) at Infecting the City
When:
11 March 2013 - 13 March 2013 18.00 h - 21.00 h
Where:
Iziko South African Museum - Cape Town
Category:
Theatre

Description

Returning from sold-out performances in London, highly acclaimed choreographer and Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellow, Mamela Nyamza, presents a startling dance performance Okuya Phantsi Kwempumlo (The Meal), for which she received a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival 2012. Conceptualised, choreographed and directed by Nyamza, the work is performed together with Dinah Eppel and Kirsty Ndawo. Okuya Phantsi Kwempumlo considers cooking, eating, art, love and sex. It celebrates the creative capacity of young South Africans to subvert and transform instruments of oppression and denigration into expressions of ecstasy and beauty; and reflects on the relationship between women from different generations and races.

At ITC 2013 Okuya Phantsi Kwempumlo appears amongst a dazzling array of site specific performances, including work by the acclaimed visual artist Marcus Neustetter and Swiss choreographer Jozsef Trefelli, and Horácio Macuácua’s award-winning Orobroy...

Venue

Iziko South African MuseumMap
Venue:
Iziko South African Museum   -   Website
Street:
25 Queen Street, Cape Town
ZIP:
8000
City:
Cape Town
Country:
Country: sa

Description

Heritage Day, 24 September, at Iziko Museums promises to be a day filled with art, food, and fun. Explore the diversity of our cultural heritage with free entry to all our museums, including the Castle of Good Hope and Planetarium. Iziko’s Heritage Day celebration kicks of at the Iziko South African Museum at 10:00. A multi-faceted programme of performances, storytelling, public dialogues and exhibitions will be hosted at the ‘hearth of our heritage. ’

Conclude your heritage day celebrations at the Free SUNSET concert. Roll out your blanket and get comfortable on the lawns of the Company’s Garden in front of the Iziko South African Museum. Join Cape Town comedian and master of ceremonies, Wayne McKay and experience a blended variety of rhythms and sounds from 16:30 until 18:30.

The Cape Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and the Cape Philharmonic Youth Wind Ensemble, instead of formal wear, will perform in their own cultural outfits. Poetry performance by Tony Stua...