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Spier Light Art 2025 to set the night sky alight this March
The annual Spier Light Art exhibition will take place from 21 March to 21 April 2025, once again transforming Spier Wine Farm into an immersive space of nocturnal adventure. With 16 site-specific installations activating the landscape, you're invited to wander, discover, be immersed in the play of light and the stories that each artwork tells. Tours and tastings Guided tours will be available on Tuesday and Thursday evenings.
A play about Cape Town’s history of slavery
What Remains is one of the most successful South African plays of recent years. Written by Nadia Davids and directed and choreographed by Jay Pather, both artists and academics from the University of Cape Town, it has won numerous awards. Most recently Davids received the prestigious English Academy of Southern Africa Olive Schreiner Prize for Drama for the published text.
Play touches hearts and nerves about Cape Town’s history of slavery
What Remains is one of the most successful South African plays of recent years. Written by Nadia Davids and directed and choreographed by Jay Pather, both artists and academics from the University of Cape Town, it has won numerous awards. Most recently Davids received the prestigious English Academy of Southern Africa Olive Schreiner Prize for Drama for the published text. What is the play about?
The award-winning play that touches hearts and nerves about Cape Town’s history of slavery
What Remains is one of the most successful South African plays of recent years. Written by Nadia Davids and directed and choreographed by Jay Pather, both artists and academics from the University of Cape Town, it has won numerous awards. Most recently Davids received the prestigious English Academy of Southern Africa Olive Schreiner Prize for Drama for the published text. We asked them about creating the work that shines a spotlight on South Africa’s history of enslaved people.
The award-winning play that touches hearts and nerves about Cape Town's history of slavery
Article 1 HOUR AGO LISTEN Buhle Ngaba as The Student holds Shaun Oelf as The Dancer. - Source: Yazeed Kamaldien/What Remains What Remains is one of the most successful South African plays of recent years. Written by Nadia Davids and directed and choreographed by Jay Pather, both artists and academics from the University of Cape Town, it has won numerous awards . Most recently Davids received the prestigious English Academy of Southern Africa Olive Schreiner Prize for Drama for the published text.
The award-winning play that touches hearts and nerves about Cape Town's history of slavery
What Remains is one of the most successful South African plays of recent years. Written by Nadia Davids and directed and choreographed by Jay Pather, both artists and academics from the University of Cape Town, it has won numerous awards. Most recently Davids received the prestigious English Academy of Southern Africa Olive Schreiner Prize for Drama for the published text. We asked them about creating the work that shines a spotlight on South Africa’s history of enslaved people.
Crossing borders from the convenience of a couch
In the arts, especially dance, we celebrate longevity. Why, you ask? Anyone working in this realm knows the uphill struggle artists face due to the lack of financial resources. Lest I mention the profound impact a global pandemic has had on this field as well. Those who find sustained success do so because they possess passion, flexibility, intuitiveness and sheer tenacity. The JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience, now entering its 23rd year, is a glowing example of this steadfastness.
MAVERICK LIFE OP-ED: The fine art of infecting a city
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - MARCH 13: Mandisi Shindo at St. George's Cathedral on March 13, 2013, in Cape Town, South Africa. Infecting The City, a public arts festival hit the streets of Cape Town this week. (Photo by Gallo Images / The Times / Shelley Christians) Cape Town’s acclaimed public art festival Infecting the City returns from November 18-24, when public spaces will host artworks that inspire, provoke, disrupt, stimulate, intrigue and bring citizens together.
Live Art Network, an introduction
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Right of Reply: UCT is not a closed and controlled gallery
In any institution, be it a museum, art gallery or educational institution, artworks are routinely removed based on shifting contexts and themes. Some may emerge again later in a different context; others remain in storage. Any gallery or museum curator will tell you that some artworks in their collection have never been displayed. By JAY PATHER.
Op-Ed: Live Art 2017 reflects the crises that are besetting the world
The relevance of live art today as an appropriate retort to the irrationality of much of what is happening globally and nationally is plain to see, and will emerge more clearly still at the Institute for Creative Art’s Live Art Festival which is running from February 10-26 across the Mother City. By JAY PATHER.
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