MY FESTIVAL SHOWS
Here are the shows you have purchased for the vNAF 2020 Festival
My Day Pass Purchases
Spha Mdlalose
Moves effortlessly from gritty township jazz to soulful gospel grooves
Nixon in Agony
Cinema legend Steven Berkoff plays an American President going mad and about to be impeached. World premiere from a Grammy Award winning production team.
Expressive Dimensions
A 3D virtual exhibition – visit the gallery to view the work of expressionist painter and sculptor Michael Roderick Wedderburn.
isitimela Sendaba - The Story Train: Latozi and her uHadi
11 days, 11 vibrant storytellers bring you a daily dose of African stories to engage and delight! Come journey with us on the ASSITEJ SA story train.
Dumza Maswana Quartet
This special performance by Dumza Maswana offers several new songs not performed before, as well as favourites from his album Molo.
Afropolitan Comics: from South Africa to the continent
An online exhibition that focuses on African comics, putting comics from South Africa ‘in conversation’ with those from other African countries.
The Bach Cello Suites - Peter Martens
Bach’s six suites for solo cello are profound and sublime. Leading South African cellist, Peter Martens performs the entire cycle.
The Rise of Afro-Manga
Razor-Man artist Bill Masuku will guide participants through his methods and the journey of an Afro-Manga revolution, crafting Afrocentric stories with Manga’s unique aesthetic flair.
My Inner Wolf
My Inner Wolf is an online tool for mapping your inner worlds.
Refiguring Space
Committed to the exploration of technology and the visual arts, TMRW presents a web-based virtual reality experience.
RECLAMATIONS: A Tierney Retrospective
An exhibition about the longest-running mentorship programme in the history of African photography by the Tierney Fellowship at the Market Photo Workshop.
Ukuhlolwa kwePhupha
An experimental film exploring daily routine, a dreamscape and technologies that obscure the malleable line that divides these experiences.
Tlhago
A commentary on loss & grieving and the processing thereof within the current epoch and a reflection on the debilitating feelings of powerlessness.
Deep Spacer, 433 Eros album launch
433 Eros is the new album by Johannesburg electroacoustic trio ‘Deep Spacer’. Poly-genre improvisations are mediated through responsive audio technologies and supported by visual transformations.
Who Do We Come To H(a)unt
An interactive art project that uses drawing to disrupt the culture of statues, monuments and memorials commemorating colonial and imperial rulers still standing in many cities.
Frequencies of a birthmark – Episode 2
A revisitation through collages and animated videos of an 1895’s image of Godide, the last ruler of the Gaza Empire.
META | m o r p h
- An interactive online experience fusing dance, music, projection art & animation, to ideate digital disruption of the human experience.
Futurabilities
Watch a conversation unfold as a programmed bot reads to other chatbots who, in turn, answer and learn from the conversation about our relationship with technologies.
IN LIMBO
What if the internet could dream of itself?
Human Study #1 from a distance
Human Study #1 is an installation in which humans took part in online streamed performances in which they were drawn live by robots located in Belgium.
Blood and Snow Manifesto
A praise poem to the transformative power of trauma, the unique aesthetic of the disabled body, as well as a preemptive swan song to mortality.
Bhacasoul Music
A showcase of Bhacasoul music by Joliza Magayiyana and his band.
In Tandem: Poetry to Imagery
Experience the beauty of Makhanda through the interplay of poetry and imagery ‘In Tandem’ with renowned local artists Harry Owen and Roddy Fox.
Chaotic Pleasure
This exhibition serves as both an observation and a form of confronting complex issues of power and abuse.
Standard Bank Jazz Festival Q&A with the Artists
An opportunity to virtually meet some of the big name musicians from the 2020 Standard Bank Jazz Festival
The Very Big Comedy Show
Rob van Vuuren hosts a line up of stellar comedians who share some of their craziest gig experiences.
Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz – Sisonke Xonti
Urban, erudite, international and skilled, but rooted in his culture
Sakhile Simani: People of My Community
Paying homage to his cultural roots, while propelling the jazz art form forward
isitimela Sendaba - The Story Train: Mosidi the Girl Child
11 days, 11 vibrant storytellers bring you a daily dose of African stories to engage and delight! Come journey with us on the ASSITEJ SA story train.
Lovechild
Sit back and relax to the soulful, contemporary grooves of LoveChild, a singer, songwriter and guitarist from Kwazakhele, Nelson Mandela Bay.
Afropolitan Comics: from South Africa to the continent
An online exhibition that focuses on African comics, putting comics from South Africa ‘in conversation’ with those from other African countries.
The Bach Cello Suites - Peter Martens
Bach’s six suites for solo cello are profound and sublime. Leading South African cellist, Peter Martens performs the entire cycle.
Izithombe 2094
A collection of short audio and video documentaries from a site-specific, participatory theatre project performed in inner-city suburban Johannesburg in 2016.
Giving Poetry Wings 3
A showcase of collaborative work between 10 poets and digital artists based in South Africa and Malawi.
Mechanical Souls
An entertaining social experience where the viewers work together to reconstruct the story in its entirety.
Basic Intro to Modular Synthesis using Virtual CV Rack software
Learn about the power of modular audio synthesis first hand with an amazing free and open source piece of software called Virtual CV Rack.
Human Study #1 from a distance
Human Study #1 is an installation in which humans took part in online streamed performances in which they were drawn live by robots located in Belgium.
Ponte Maputo Durban
South African Jazz sound meets recreated traditional chopi music in an energetic stage performance that travels between Durban and Maputo and gives colour to a unique landscape of musical dialects.
Pest Control
Mamela Nyamza is hell-bent on exposing the sordid underbelly and bureaucratic cronyism of the arts and culture institutions in South Africa.
The Solo Ball
It’s a ball and you’re invited. The doors of this queer cultural phenomenon are open and everyone is welcome. Vogue and strut, the stage is yours.
Introduction to Spark AR Studio: Augmented Reality and the Arts
I will be presenting an introductory course on how to create Instagram and Facebook filters using Spark AR Studio.
isitimela Sendaba - The Story Train: The Calabash Kids
11 days, 11 vibrant storytellers bring you a daily dose of African stories to engage and delight! Come journey with us on the ASSITEJ SA story train.
Xolani Faku
Xolani Faku, who hails from New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, continues his journey with the trumpet. A Xhosa vocalist, composer and arranger, Faku also plays indigenous instrument.
Azibuyele Emasisweni: Return to the Source
Pitika Ntuli’s Azibuyele Emasisweni leads the viewer to reflect on South Africa’s current spiritual landscape through a unique and original use of material, form and symbolism.
The Bach Cello Suites - Peter Martens
Bach’s six suites for solo cello are profound and sublime. Leading South African cellist, Peter Martens performs the entire cycle.
Izithombe 2094
A collection of short audio and video documentaries from a site-specific, participatory theatre project performed in inner-city suburban Johannesburg in 2016.
Giving Poetry Wings 3
A showcase of collaborative work between 10 poets and digital artists based in South Africa and Malawi.
Mechanical Souls
An entertaining social experience where the viewers work together to reconstruct the story in its entirety.
Human Study #1 from a distance
Human Study #1 is an installation in which humans took part in online streamed performances in which they were drawn live by robots located in Belgium.
Using technology to realise your creative vision
A masterclass on the creative use of technology for artists of any discipline. Adam Donen, the inventor of the ‘holographic drama’ art form, explores how to use technology to serve a creative vision.
The Eye of Rre Mutwa
The Eye is Blind That Cannot See – An Afrocyborg homage to Credo Vusamazulu Mutwa (1921-2020)
Character and Creature Design with Caroline Vos and Ben Winfield
Ben Winfield and Caroline Vos present their process for creating unique characters and concept design.
Die Dans van my Heenkoms: The Bolero Stories
A timeless performance restaged for our time; Hinkel’s signature choreography finds yet another iteration in response to the current climate.
Steve Smith
A perfect performance of arrogance chopped off at the knees.
Jazz & Opera by the Charl du Plessis Trio
A selection of standards and opera arias specially arranged for this award-winning musical ensemble.
Emanzini
A 6-piece band accompanies Afro jazz songbird, Andy Ndlazilwana in this exploration of African jazz rhythms.
Breathing Space
A glimpse into the life of Olive Schreiner and her elusive quest for breathing space for all.
Gloria Bosman – Beyond Talent Ensemble
Vocal star Gloria Bosman teams up with the sensational AusTebza
Jacob Collier
4 Grammys by the age of 25!
Afropolitan Comics: Comics Culture in Africa
A look at the current comics climate in the African continent, and the success of the Bilili BD festival in Congo and other platforms.
Standard Bank Jazz Festival Q&A with the Artists
An opportunity to virtually meet some of the big name musicians from the 2020 Standard Bank Jazz Festival
isitimela Sendaba - The Story Train: Two Goats on a Bridge
11 days, 11 vibrant storytellers bring you a daily dose of African stories to engage and delight! Come journey with us on the ASSITEJ SA story train.
Swing City
Three of SA’s best-loved singers pay tribute to the Swing tradition
Ramon Alexander
Leading exponent of Cape jazz
Siseko Pame
East London-born violinist, songwriter and vocalist Siseko Pame has an emotive, earthy voice with a smooth, husky tone. Tune in to hear this SAMA Award winner’s performance.
OPERA IN VIRTUAL REALITY: No Stage, no Problem!
Using digital content creation tools and realtime game render engines to stage opera.
Nzinga
The world burns… Nzinga 17th century warrior queen of Ndonga / Angola looks over her continent… Nzinga sighs… What time is it?
Clickclickclick.click
In this experience, everything, even the most tiny movement that we assume not worth mentioning gets measured, recorded and valued.
Jopolo: Spaceships from pre-colonial Africa
In this interactive graphic novel by storyteller Dilman Dila, a grief-stricken man travels to the stars to search for his dead wife. A surprisingly inspirational tale.
After God's Own Heart
What wouldn’t you say to secure your afterlife? Join this interactive multilingual WhatsApp performance directed by Palesa Matabane. Free
Human Study #1 from a distance
Human Study #1 is an installation in which humans took part in online streamed performances in which they were drawn live by robots located in Belgium.
Cake the Movie
This cake is not as sweet as it looks…
Zaf'ingane Ancestral Jazz
Liso the Musician is undoubtedly one of the greatest talents to emerge out of Khayelitsha in recent years.
LOCKDOWN WENT WRONG
In this short horror, a finalist in the Britflicks Lockdown Film Fest, taking a selfie turns into something a lot more sinister.
Poems in Times of Distress
Ayanda Billie performs his recent volume of published poetry exploring his life in his home town KwaNobuhle.
SWAN SONG
The journey of a young Tswana woman born with a winged scapula – a symbol of a constant struggle for a sense of belonging.
isitimela Sendaba - The Story Train: Human Bones
11 days, 11 vibrant storytellers bring you a daily dose of African stories to engage and delight! Come journey with us on the ASSITEJ SA story train.
Mzwanele Maqhosha - Blaze Jazz Band
Blaze Jazz Band, formed by Mzwanele Maqhosha in 2015, has performed with the cream of South African jazz – now these festival regulars are performing for you!
My Inner Wolf
My Inner Wolf is an online tool for mapping your inner worlds.
Screen Saver
A visual poem in which you can feel time flex beyond the constraints of seconds and minutes. This work is a love poem to the screen saver – a net art throwback to an old technology.
Ukuhlolwa kwePhupha
An experimental film exploring daily routine, a dreamscape and technologies that obscure the malleable line that divides these experiences.
Frequencies of a birthmark – Episode 2
A revisitation through collages and animated videos of an 1895’s image of Godide, the last ruler of the Gaza Empire.
Futurabilities
Watch a conversation unfold as a programmed bot reads to other chatbots who, in turn, answer and learn from the conversation about our relationship with technologies.
After God's Own Heart
What wouldn’t you say to secure your afterlife? Join this interactive multilingual WhatsApp performance directed by Palesa Matabane. Free
Human Study #1 from a distance
Human Study #1 is an installation in which humans took part in online streamed performances in which they were drawn live by robots located in Belgium.
Making Grace Amazing
The work reconsiders the dark and obscured past of the black diaspora protest hymn, ‘Amazing Grace’ .
Woolworths
Woolworths is a dark and hilarious choral satire on middle-class South Africa presented as an epic radio play.
The Wretched
”Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity” – The Wretched of the Earth
How to create Augmented Reality Artworks the easy way
If you are a digital or visual artist, this workshop is for you.
Unfathomable
2019 Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award winner Unfathomable is a poetic play between materials, body and words exploring liveliness in death, ghostliness in life.
The Rebirth of IQHAWE
A short experimental dance film, exploring the potential to hybridise Sibeko’s Butoh-inspired performance practice into the film form.
Vuma Levin - Antique Spoons
One of South Africa’s most promising guitarists and composers
UNESCO ResiliART: Reimagining festivals in the Global South
Festivals offer a unique opportunity for celebration and for showcasing artistic excellence and experimentation to diverse audiences. Five festivals in the Global South consider possibilities and share practice in the new context.
A HOWL IN MAKHANDA: THE CONVERSATION
Dean Hutton, Mbali Williams and Tiisetso Mashifane wa Noni discuss themes from the play A Howl in Makhanda.
Lettres du Congo / Letters from Congo
They live and dream in Kinshasa or Lubumbashi. Crisis has gone through. Five artists share their daily lives and reaffirm more than ever the urgency to create.
isitimela Sendaba - The Story Train: The Chicken on my Window
11 days, 11 vibrant storytellers bring you a daily dose of African stories to engage and delight! Come journey with us on the ASSITEJ SA story train.
Monde Fani
Hailing from Port Alfred, Monde Fani is an Afro soul singer and songwriter who has been singing since he was a young child, honing his skills in his local church.
A HOWL IN MAKHANDA
A Howl in Makhanda is a semi-autobiographical work about two black and two white South African teenagers at an elite all girls boarding school who break the rules and how the disciplinary board deals with them.
The Bach Cello Suites - Peter Martens
Bach’s six suites for solo cello are profound and sublime. Leading South African cellist, Peter Martens performs the entire cycle.
Refiguring Space
Committed to the exploration of technology and the visual arts, TMRW presents a web-based virtual reality experience.
Lo-Def Film Factory: Open Time
An experimental WhatsApp video workshop by young creatives from Cape Town made inside their homes and communities during lockdown. Be-Kind-Rewind-style amateur reenactments: low-budget film realness.
Azibuye - The Occupation: Working in VR/360° video
A workshop with award-winning filmmaker Dylan Valley on the challenges and possibilities of working in the 360 video format.
Jigsaw
Simon has something in his head. Paul has lost someone. Jigsaw is a reunion of two close friends as they attempt to reconnect, to assemble the pieces of their lives, and to unpack thermodynamics. Free.
Human Study #1 from a distance
Human Study #1 is an installation in which humans took part in online streamed performances in which they were drawn live by robots located in Belgium.
Dancing with my past
The young and old light up the stage with music and dances found only in the Eastern Cape. A flagship product of the Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture
Posthuman
Posthuman explores the idea of intersections metaphorically questioning whether humanness, as it has been known to us, is currently at a crossroad.
Something from nothing: music with no instruments and a cellphone
Create an entire song using only sounds generated from everyday household objects, recorded using a regular smartphone, and processed entirely using free software.
Linda Sikhakhane’s IsaMbulo
Skilful, powerful and soulful
Scenes from the South
The first major exhibition of papers and artefacts from the JM Coetzee archives at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, and Amazwi South African Museum of Literature in Makhanda, to mark the occasion of JM Coetzee’s 80th birthday.
isitimela Sendaba - The Story Train: Taku the Caterpillar
11 days, 11 vibrant storytellers bring you a daily dose of African stories to engage and delight! Come journey with us on the ASSITEJ SA story train.
Nathi Bantu
Afropolitan Comics: Drawing on Folklore
African comics creators discuss the success of the graphic medium for storytelling and keeping mythology and folklore alive in the contemporary world.
Lo-Def Film Factory: Open Time
An experimental WhatsApp video workshop by young creatives from Cape Town made inside their homes and communities during lockdown. Be-Kind-Rewind-style amateur reenactments: low-budget film realness.
FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809 – 1847) OCTET IN E-flat, Opus 22
The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, established originally more than 100 years ago, is in the forefront of quality classical music and education in South Africa.
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1897 -1828) Piano Quintet in A, D 667, 'Trout'
The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, established originally more than 100 years ago, is in the forefront of quality classical music and education in South Africa.
VUKAZITHATHE (Maskandi Documentary)
Standard Bank Young Artist for music offers a reflective documentary celebrating the music and life of maskandi artist Bhekizenzo Cake, aka Vukazithathe, from Dweshula, Kwa Zulu Natal, who has acted as a mentor and musical collaborator to Mokgata since 2012.
The Cosmic Egg
Follow the Cosmic Egg through space on an adventure from the past to the musical future.
Virtual Black Out: Experiments in the Future of Form
POPArt and Fakugesi Festival come together on a project that engages form as the spark for new collaboration in digital theatre making.
How to Pitch An Animated Show Idea
Join Mike Scott (creator of Moosebox for Nickelodeon International and Dogshow with Cat for DisneyXD) as he explains how to pitch your animated show idea.
Virtual Black Out: Discussion with the Artists
Join in a live session on collaboration between theatre makers and digital artists.
After God's Own Heart
What wouldn’t you say to secure your afterlife? Join this interactive multilingual WhatsApp performance directed by Palesa Matabane. Free
Human Study #1 from a distance
Human Study #1 is an installation in which humans took part in online streamed performances in which they were drawn live by robots located in Belgium.
Macbeth
“One of the most brilliantly conceived and executed theatrical productions I have seen anywhere in many years…” DC Metro Theater Arts, Washington
Curating for the Digital Age
A short look at curatorial practices and exhibition models that operate as platforms for displaying, producing and disseminating artwork through and with the use of digital technologies.
Ami Faku
One of South Africa’s fastest-rising Afro-soul stars
In the Works: Discussion
Young audiences deserve fresh work which speaks directly to their contexts and experiences. In the Works is an ASSITEJ SA initiative to take these plays from idea to page to stage.
In the Works: Playreadings for Young Audiences
A taste of new plays for young audiences, “in the works”, featuring Zwelitsha by Saneliswe Yekani and Little Fists, Big Heart by Lereko Mfono. The project is an initiative of ASSITEJ SA.
Standard Bank Jazz Festival Q&A with the Artists
An opportunity to virtually meet some of the big name musicians from the 2020 Standard Bank Jazz Festival
isitimela Sendaba - The Story Train: The Boerewors Man
11 days, 11 vibrant storytellers bring you a daily dose of African stories to engage and delight! Come journey with us on the ASSITEJ SA story train.
Kora X
Lo-Def Film Factory: Open Time
An experimental WhatsApp video workshop by young creatives from Cape Town made inside their homes and communities during lockdown. Be-Kind-Rewind-style amateur reenactments: low-budget film realness.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 – 1891) Divertimento in D, K 136
The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, established originally more than 100 years ago, is in the forefront of quality classical music and education in South Africa.
Antonin Dvořák (1841 – 1904) Serenade in D minor, Opus 44
The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, established originally more than 100 years ago, is in the forefront of quality classical music and education in South Africa.
Edward Elgar (1857 -1934) SERENADE FOR STRINGS, Op. 20
The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, established originally more than 100 years ago, is in the forefront of quality classical music and education in South Africa.
Mošate
An exploration of the Sepedi language through song by BLK JKS band member, Tshepang Ramoba
Another Kind of Dying: Virtual Experience
A 3d volumetrically-captured 360 video which imagines scenes from Distell National Playwright Competition’s 2020 award-winning play Another Kind of Dying by Amy Louise Wilson.
The Shopping Dead
A normal day at the store turns deadly for a few store employees. A customer with an innocent seizure turns out to be carrying a deadly load. Watch it all unfold through their group WhatsApp chat.
Advanced Modular Synthesis Techniques
Come and learn about the power of modular audio synthesis firsthand with an amazing free and open source software called Virtual CV Rack.
Avatars in Zoom for All! A hands-on tutorial
How can you be anyone in ZoomSpace? Learn how recently released open source code allows for live real time deepfake in Zoom and Facebook Live.
Mother's Grimm
Goldilocks, Cinderella and Snow White all come together in this coming of age story.
After God's Own Heart
What wouldn’t you say to secure your afterlife? Join this interactive multilingual WhatsApp performance directed by Palesa Matabane. Free
Jigsaw
Simon has something in his head. Paul has lost someone. Jigsaw is a reunion of two close friends as they attempt to reconnect, to assemble the pieces of their lives, and to unpack thermodynamics. Free.
Human Study #1 from a distance
Human Study #1 is an installation in which humans took part in online streamed performances in which they were drawn live by robots located in Belgium.
Ziza Muftic: Shining hour
Balkan rhythms, thoughtful lyrics and jazz-infused melodies
RECLAMATIONS – The Conversation
Sharing the success of the Tierney Fellowship, which has launched the careers of award-winning African photographers.
isitimela Sendaba - The Story Train: The Lion and the Mouse
11 days, 11 vibrant storytellers bring you a daily dose of African stories to engage and delight! Come journey with us on the ASSITEJ SA story train.
Sakhile Simani
Pepper's Ghost at the Centre for the Less Good Idea
The Centre for the Less Good Idea introduces audiences to the hybrid analogue and digital technologies of the Pepper’s Ghost, playing with illusion through live performance and projected recordings.
The Bach Cello Suites - Peter Martens
Bach’s six suites for solo cello are profound and sublime. Leading South African cellist, Peter Martens performs the entire cycle.
Heroes and History
Comics creators discuss the importance of comics in telling the stories of famous historical figures at different levels and for different, wider audiences.
Lo-Def Film Factory: Open Time
An experimental WhatsApp video workshop by young creatives from Cape Town made inside their homes and communities during lockdown. Be-Kind-Rewind-style amateur reenactments: low-budget film realness.
Bru & Boegie: The Movie
South Africa’s first full-length 2D animated film.
The Shopping Dead
A normal day at the store turns deadly for a few store employees. A customer with an innocent seizure turns out to be carrying a deadly load. Watch it all unfold through their group WhatsApp chat.
PfutaPfuta
PfutaPfuta is a curious case of extraterrestrial manifestations in Zimbabwe.
Beethoven 250
Jill Richards and Waldo Alexander perform three of Beethoven’s Sonatas for Violin and Piano, celebrating 250 years since his birth.
IN LIMBO
What if the internet could dream of itself?
Jigsaw
Simon has something in his head. Paul has lost someone. Jigsaw is a reunion of two close friends as they attempt to reconnect, to assemble the pieces of their lives, and to unpack thermodynamics. Free.
Human Study #1 from a distance
Human Study #1 is an installation in which humans took part in online streamed performances in which they were drawn live by robots located in Belgium.
Novel-Script Writers' Development Project
One starting point, six writers, six days, six short scripts. Readings of short new scripts created during an intensive mentored writing workshop.
Digital Transformation for Artists and Theatre Practitioners
Now is the time to bring your art online. Learn to craft your digital transformation journey so your work can thrive in the online space.
PGPoetry Workshop
PGPoetry workshop is a mix between an algorithmic poetry workshop and a crypto party, celebrating the aesthetic, poetic, and political possibilities of PGP encryption protocol.
Michael Bester
Skilled, cosmopolitan guitarist offering his debut album
Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz – Sisonke Xonti (II)
Urban, erudite, international and skilled, but rooted in his culture
We Exist! We Live Amongst You
The Black Power Station, located at the Old Power Station in Makhanda’s industrial area, hosts various events in the city throughout the year. They bring their extensive community of creatives together to present Artists Speak and Silence Speaks.
Standard Bank Jazz Festival Q&A with the Artists
An opportunity to virtually meet some of the big name musicians from the 2020 Standard Bank Jazz Festival
isitimela Sendaba - The Story Train: Tselane and the Giant
11 days, 11 vibrant storytellers bring you a daily dose of African stories to engage and delight! Come journey with us on the ASSITEJ SA story train.
Vuyolwethu Nyangwa
Mlungisi Gegana
Self-taught bass guitarist Mlungisi Gegana trajectory has seen him move from pop music with The Black Slaves, to live club appearances to becoming a loved South African jazz name.
Umthombo
The Bach Cello Suites - Peter Martens
Bach’s six suites for solo cello are profound and sublime. Leading South African cellist, Peter Martens performs the entire cycle.
THE INVISIBLE STAGE - The magic of digital compositing for operatic productions
The nitty gritty of visual digital elements in theatre productions.
Lo-Def Film Factory: Open Time
An experimental WhatsApp video workshop by young creatives from Cape Town made inside their homes and communities during lockdown. Be-Kind-Rewind-style amateur reenactments: low-budget film realness.
Future Nostalgia Soundsystem
Multimedia explorations with Future Nostalgia celebrating music and the culture of listening through records in the form of DJ mixes, sonic lectures, visual art and journalism.
Lesedi: The rise of Lulu Mlangeni
A beautifully shot documentary film offering a window to Lulu Mlangeni’s journey into dance, and her reflections on the journey ahead.
The Shopping Dead
A normal day at the store turns deadly for a few store employees. A customer with an innocent seizure turns out to be carrying a deadly load. Watch it all unfold through their group WhatsApp chat.
Nyege Nyege
Listening sessions and performances from the Kampala-based music incubator that promotes the continent’s musical diversity, especially endogenous micro-scenes and independent producers.
Who Do We Come To H(a)unt
An interactive art project that uses drawing to disrupt the culture of statues, monuments and memorials commemorating colonial and imperial rulers still standing in many cities.
The Texture of Silence
The Texture of Silence explores the interface between composed and improvised music and visual art, bringing together jazz, indigenous instruments and the visual musings of Mzwandile Buthelezi.
Preservation
Explore the ancient art of food preservation across the world while addressing the food shortage problems of the present and future through shared cross-cultural dialogues of food preservation.
forgetting. and memory
A poetry and film meditation and ritual that asks: what must we remember, of who we are, if we hope to heal, and create new futures, especially in this moment of global change?
Human Study #1 from a distance
Human Study #1 is an installation in which humans took part in online streamed performances in which they were drawn live by robots located in Belgium.
Novel-Script Writers' Development Project
One starting point, six writers, six days, six short scripts. Readings of short new scripts created during an intensive mentored writing workshop.
Algorithmic Autobiographies (and Fictions)
Have you ever wondered who Facebook really thinks you are? This workshop invites participants to creatively engage with their data-selves as we discover our algorithmic identities on social media.
Thandiswa Mazwai
Defying categorisation, her sound incorporates African Traditional, Jazz, Afrosoul and House
Late-Night Album Launch - Lana Crowster
Sounding the Land
Locked down, but pursuing – if warily – lines of flight enabled in this new era of digital technologies, Sounding the Land listens back across the ground of 200 years to find our bearings now, in 2020.
Seen Pha kwa J.B!
J Bobs is back. A sketch, a faux concert which plays out as a collection. Of Prose. Of Poems. Of Plays.
Women on Aeroplanes
The presence of absent books is one aspect of the ongoing project Women on Aeroplanes. This series of short voice notes about missing books is narrated by Isabel Hofmeyr, Sarah Nuttall, Mapule Mohulatsi, Tinashe Mushakavanhu and Connie Joseph
dumile feni: 4 provocations
Four seminal performance artists of our time: nora chipaumire; Chuma Sopotela; Dorothée Munyaneza, Nadia Beugré each in turn respond to the work and life of South African visual artist, Dumile Feni.
isitimela Sendaba - The Story Train: Omode Meta Nsere (Three Children at Play)
11 days, 11 vibrant storytellers bring you a daily dose of African stories to engage and delight! Come journey with us on the ASSITEJ SA story train.
Vinnie Mak
Vocalist and composer Vinnie Mak (Xola Vincent Makeleni) is a versatile artist who works across genres – from hip hop to abstract yet soulful blues.
Personal Storytelling
This workshop, led by artist Kit Beukes will focus on how to tell personal stories meaningfully and effectively through the medium of comics.
INFERNO and ARCADIA: From the depths of hell to the Elysian Fields
Lo-Def Film Factory: Open Time
An experimental WhatsApp video workshop by young creatives from Cape Town made inside their homes and communities during lockdown. Be-Kind-Rewind-style amateur reenactments: low-budget film realness.
Future Nostalgia Soundsystem
Multimedia explorations with Future Nostalgia celebrating music and the culture of listening through records in the form of DJ mixes, sonic lectures, visual art and journalism.
GUISEPPE VERDI (1813 – 1901) MESSA DA REQUIEM
The Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, established originally more than 100 years ago, is in the forefront of quality classical music and education in South Africa.
The Cosmic Egg
Follow the Cosmic Egg through space on an adventure from the past to the musical future.
Nyege Nyege
Listening sessions and performances from the Kampala-based music incubator that promotes the continent’s musical diversity, especially endogenous micro-scenes and independent producers.
Azibuye - The Occupation
A stereo 360 documentary about two homeless black artist/activists who take up residence in a crumbling mansion, vacant for 20 years, in an affluent part of Johannesburg.
After God's Own Heart
What wouldn’t you say to secure your afterlife? Join this interactive multilingual WhatsApp performance directed by Palesa Matabane. Free
Human Study #1 from a distance
Human Study #1 is an installation in which humans took part in online streamed performances in which they were drawn live by robots located in Belgium.
Novel-Script Writers' Development Project
One starting point, six writers, six days, six short scripts. Readings of short new scripts created during an intensive mentored writing workshop.
Introduction to 3D Animation in Blender
An introduction to open-source software for animation and visual development, followed by a practical animation exercise using free 3D computer graphics software toolset, Blender 3D.
The Eye of Rre Mutwa
The Eye is Blind That Cannot See – An Afrocyborg homage to Credo Vusamazulu Mutwa (1921-2020)
Mete Erker & Jeroen van Vliet
Consummately skilled Dutch duo
Mi Casa
Everyone’s favourite urban house band. In your living room!
