Sponsors & Acknowledgements Published on June 12, 2020 SPONSORS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PRESENTING SPONSORS STRATEGIC PARTNERS
Send us your ideas for a Virtual National Arts Festival Published on March 21, 2020 This year we go digital – 2020 sees our first-ever big bold step into a virtual National Arts Festival. We are inviting all artists, producers and anyone else whose imagination we’ve sparked to tell us how they could be part of Virtual NAF2020. Fill in the online form and share with us: Details about your
Stand by for the first-ever virtual NAF Published on March 17, 2020 A special announcement from Monica Newton, the CEO of the National Arts Festival So here’s the thing… The National Arts Festival 2020 won’t be cancelled, but it will be different. We at the National Arts Festival have been worrying, thinking, worrying, arguing and thinking some more about what we do about the Coronavirus pandemic sweeping
NAF CEO to step down, new board members appointed Published on July 11, 2019 Makhanda – The National Arts Festival has announced that its long-serving Chief Executive Officer, Tony Lankester, will be stepping down from the position later this year after more than a decade at the helm of the country’s leading, and the continent’s biggest, arts festival. He is set to take up an appointment in the UK
Collaboration and innovation the way forward Published on July 14, 2017 The National Arts Festival, which ended in Grahamstown last Sunday, has reported its final attendance figures for the year. “We experienced a 10,2% drop in attendance to our various events and performances, with overall Festival attendance settling to 202 643” Festival CEO Tony Lankester said. “While the drop isn’t pleasant, it isn’t surprising given the
Opinion: Grahamstown, we have a problem Published on July 15, 2016 (The following piece, written by Festival CEO Tony Lankester, was featured in Grocotts Mail on Friday 16 July 2016) Dear Grahamstown Firstly – thank you to everyone who played a role in making this past National Arts Festival a success. From those who worked in our guesthouses, taverns and restaurants, who opened their homes to
BASA/National Arts Festival Arts Journalism Award winners Published on November 30, 2015 JOHANNESBURG — The National Arts Festival and Business and Arts South Africa announced the winners of the 2015 Arts Journalism Awards in Johannesburg today, naming freelance writer Lwandile Fikeni overall Arts Journalist of the Year. The winners list includes ten gold and 23 silver awards made to individual journalists, and a gold and three silver
Load Shedding Published on June 25, 2015 Download the Festival/July load shedding schedules for Grahamstown City 1 and City 2 here The National Arts Festival and Makana Municipality have reached agreement regarding load shedding and electricity supply during the 2015 Festival. – Grahamstown is divided into three areas for the purposes of load shedding: City 1, City 2 and Rhini/Joza. – The
