National Arts Festival
The National Arts Festival is one of the most important events on the South African cultural calendar, and the biggest annual celebration of the arts on the African continent.
The Festival consists of a Main and Fringe programme both administered by the National Arts Festival Office. The programme comprised drama, dance, physical theatre, comedy, opera, music, jazz, visual art exhibitions, film, student theatre, street theatre, lectures, craft fair, workshops, tours (of the city and surrounding historic places) and a children’s arts festival.
As no censorship or artistic restraint has ever been imposed on works presented in Grahamstown the Festival served as an important forum for political and protest theatre during the height of the apartheid era, and it still offers an opportunity for experimentation across the arts spectrum. Its significance as a forum for new ideas and an indicator of future trends in the arts cannot be underestimated.
Source: Wikipedia
Venue: Grahamstown, Eastern Cape
Contact: See ‘Contact Us‘ page on our website.
Phone: 046 603 1103
Email:
Website: www.nationalartsfestival.co.za
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