A ragtag group of society misfits, two ill-starred lovers from the great Can Themba’s literary canon and a gaggle of nosy neighbourhood gossips were the big winners at the 2012 Student Theatre Festival....

Relocation, written by Hulisani Ndou, is a surreal play about how for some township residents, life has not improved since freedom in 1994. Director Thabiso “Vetis” Malebye and two actresses...

Fear is chilling subject matter.  It is relentless, lurking in the shadows of our psyches, often in the most subtle and unnoticeable ways. Are we ever truly free of it? This is the question Athena Mazarakis...

From their first sensitively executed phrases, the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus conductor Anne Tomlinson coaxed a finely controlled vocal blend from the ensemble. Throughout their performance, perfectly...

An exhilarating sonic journey, Soul of Fire – a conceptual collaboration between Zanne Stapelberg (soprano) and Kathleen Tagg (piano) – more than explores the music of Spain and Latin America; it enters...

In a programme that was as much a reflexive commentary on the vocal career of singing sensation Sibongile Khumalo, as an homage to her father, the late Prof Khabi Mngoma, and exploration of her heritage...

Observing the dancers’ powerful lifts and impressive floor work, one would never guess that the Dance and Movement course of the South African Performing Arts Conservatory (SAPAC) is not yet one year...

Last night I found myself in Ster City. And I was Lindiwe Matshikiza’s granny from St Helena. Well, she said I reminded her of her grandmother, as the tiny video camera mounted on the end of a pole captured...

Two young French choreographers based in New York in 1984 found themselves alienated by the stylistic conventions of the Manhattan dance world.

Lucas Bambo’s black and white lino-prints have been a feature of the Festival for the past four years. He sets up shop at the Carinus Art School, and on a good day sells seven prints. This year, he stuck...

My trip to the penis farm begins, as these things often do, over good chicken schnitzel and bad red wine. We’re sitting outside the Theatre Café, eating lunch. A friend notices one of the Festival posters...

Some look a bit confused, some have frowns, some contemplate what to write, other people are just happy,” said sculptor Eylene Clifford, whose sculptures are part of the exhibition Your Signature, My...

It is always a bit hard to classify my father. Some call him a communist, others an anarchist, but I would say ultimately he is a pacifist,” said Patrick Watkins during a review of The Universal Clock:...

When you abandon a special retrospective held in honour of your work to rather find a real life monster, the line between fact and fiction becomes very blurred.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!” the English film director Derek Jarman once said. But given some movie buffs’ comments, he might have been the only one in the audience at this year’s...

The Standard Bank Jazz Festival, Grahamstown 2013 incorporates a variety of disciplines into its programme. Blues/Funk/World Music is one of the genres that will be highlighted at the festival this year,...

The Michaelis School of Fine Art and Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) are pleased to announce a series of evening drawing workshops, open to members of the public, to be presented...

The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) and UJ Arts & Culture are pleased to invite proposals from South African practitioners to present case studies at the upcoming “Creative Currencies” conference,...