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27 JUNE TO 07 JULY TWENTY NINETEEN Recommended Retail Price: R75 4 Festival Messages 6 Acknowledgements 9 Standard Bank Young Artist Award Winners 16 2018 Featured Artist 20 Curatorial Statement & Curatorial Team 22 Curated Programme 27 Main Programme 155 Fringe Programme 235 Travel and Accommodation 236 Booking Procedures 238 Index 241 Map We will be publishing an update to our Programme which will be available in Grahamstown throughout the Festival, at all of our Box Offices and Information Kiosks. This update will contain the latest possible information on performances and events, changes, cancellations and additional shows, a daily diary, map, local emergency services number, etc and is a must-have for all Festival-goers. Latest Programme changes and updates available at www.nationalartsfestival.co.za Images from left to right: Gas Lands (58), Moonless (31) and Wanderer (63) MAIN MAIN PROGRAMME FRINGE PROGRAMME Cover image: 27 155 Birthing Nureyev by Theatre Theatre leftfoot productions Director: Andre Odendaal Performer: Ignatius van Heerden 39 181 Designer: Gustav Steenkamp (Gustav-Henri Designstudio) Student Theatre Comedy Disclaimer: The Festival organisers have made 43 199 every effort to ensure that Comedy Illusion everything printed in this publication is accurate. However, mistakes and 46 203 changes do occur, and Public Art Family Theatre we do not accept any responsibility for them or for any inaccuracies 48 208 or misinformation within advertisements. Artists Family Theatre Dance provide images, logos and advertisements and we accept no responsibility for 57 214 the quality of reproduction Dance Music Theatre & Cabaret in this publication. 64 218 Visual & Performance Art Music Recital 82 220 Music Contemporary Music 105 224 Jazz Poetry 121 225 Film Festival Film 130 227 Critical Consciousness Visual Art 145 233 Creativate Spiritfest 4 Welcome to the Eastern Cape – the “Home of Legends”! 2019 sees the 45th edition of the National inspired. And that you’ll be a stranger no more. Arts Festival on Eastern Cape soil, and we’re Thank you for your support of this beautiful humbled and excited to welcome you once and important celebration of our country’s arts more to our Province. and culture. It is a gem in South Africa’s crown, From our rugged and unspoiled coastlines, a vital part of the Province’s creative economy, to our mountains, farmlands, natural wonders, and the lifeblood of Makhanda, its home city. and cosmopolitan cities… all that we have is We’re proud to call it our own! open to you to explore during your visit and, whether you are chasing the Big 5 or getting From the Eastern Cape Government – Office your Festival fix on the streets of Makhanda, of the Premier, Treasury and Eastern Cape we know you will leave exhilarated and Parks and Tourism Agency NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2019 Taking the pulse of modern times and provoking new thought We love the arts and with each edition of the National Arts Festival, we experience an incredible bouquet of observations, thoughts, emotions, stirrings and more. We are challenged, motivated, provoked, inspired, emboldened, and educated, and, most significantly, we grow. The Festival is maturing and is bearing rich fruit. On this 35th anniversary of our partnership and involvement, we cannot wait to delve into and savour the delights of the 2019 offering. The Festival’s heritage and pedigree continue to deliver a solid and powerful programme while each production will ensure that visitors are delighted and moved. Taking the pulse of modern times, pushing artistic boundaries and provoking new thought. We look forward to the Standard Bank Jazz Festival, now in its 32nd year. South African jazz is exciting – bursting with youthful and aspirant musicians – and the festival showcases a thrilling line-up from here, the rest of the continent and abroad. Ranging from various big bands, unconventional jazz ensembles, and performances by the youth, you will have to plan carefully to take in as much as possible. We encourage you to catch Mandla Mlangeni, the 2019 Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz. His, is a coming of age story of sorts and an illustration of an achievement by our youth jazz development programme – Africa’s largest development programme produced and administered by artists themselves. The 2019 edition of the National Arts Festival will once again take us to a higher level: from the Children’s Festival to the Creativate Digital Arts Festival, the 2019 Standard Bank Young Artists’ productions, world-class jazz, theatre, visual arts, dance and contemporary music productions. On behalf of Standard Bank, I encourage you to experience and take in as much as you can. In Africa, the audience is as much a part of the production as the practitioners – so you too should reflect, engage and show your #AfricanheArt. Desiree Pooe – Head of Sponsorship at Standard Bank 5 A Festival to lift your spirits and feed your soul The Eastern Cape is one of the world’s most exciting, diverse, vibrant and culturally rich regions, and it gives me great pleasure to welcome you once again to our wonderful flagship event – the National Arts Festival. Our Province is vast: it spans over 168 000km2 and is the second biggest in the country. Its sheer size makes it home to a rich diversity of people, cultures, practices and languages. As 2019 has been declared the International Year of Indigenous Languages by the United Nations, I urge you to spend some of your time with us exploring some of this richness. During the Festival it will be showcased through our literature, craft, theatre, dance, music and film, in a spectacular series of events that gives you many opportunities to discover and sample some of what our Province has to offer. Our welcome is extended to all who are visiting, and all who call this Province home. We know that the Festival will lift your spirits and feed your soul, and NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2019 we thank you for being here with us. We ask only that you leave with a promise to return, and look forward to welcoming you as a friend again in years to come. Ms Bulelwa Tunyiswa – MEC: Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture, Eastern Cape A rich feast for us all to enjoy 25 years ago our nation entered a new age of democracy – with a Bill of Rights and Constitution that enshrined so many principles that, before, our people had been denied. Foremost among those is the principle of ‘Freedom of Expression’. Today our artists, writers, performers, dancers, and musicians give life to that hard-fought right by taking to our stages to give expression to a diversity of views and perspectives that are as plentiful as there are people in our country. It is in celebration of that spirit that I welcome you to our crown jewel – the National Arts Festival. These eleven days are an opportunity to reflect, celebrate, commiserate, hope and dream. We have come a long way as a nation. And we have so much more ahead to embrace and conquer. It is my hope that you will find, on our stages, something new; something familiar; something challenging. And I hope that, throughout it all and whatever you find, you will be entertained and will leave Makhanda richer than when you arrived. On behalf of our Board I would like to thank all of our supporters and funders. Those who engage with us, those who offer advice, who contest the things we take for granted and, mostly, those who choose to spend their time and resources in search of AMAZ!NG. Our team has prepared a rich feast for us all to enjoy, and I’m as excited at the prospect of sitting down to share it as you are. Enjoy every moment! Ayanda Mjekula– Chairman: National Arts Festival Board 6 THE NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS PRESENTING SPONSORS NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2019 STRATEGIC PARTNERS SUPPLIER SPONSORS 7 With thanks to: The managements, presenting Albany & Bathurst Engineering companies, galleries, artists BOARD OF DIRECTORS and technical staff whose talent, Albany Museum Group Ayanda Mjekula professionalism and creativity make the Alliance Français Southern Africa (Chairperson) Arts Council Norway Festival a pleasure to produce, and an Cadar Printers amazing 11 days for our audiences to Elinor Sisulu Child Welfare, Grahamstown experience. Paul Bannister Churches of Grahamstown Grahame Lindop CoCreate – The Netherlands The Schools and Colleges of Albie Sachs Concerts South Africa Grahamstown: Sikkie Kajee Carinus Arts Centre, Diocesan School DALRO Jay Pather for Girls, Graeme College, Kingswood Department of Culture of Emilia- College, Nombulelo Secondary Hleze Kunju Romagna Region School,Ntsika Secondary School, Khutliso Harry Dugmore Electrosonic South Africa Daniels Secondary School, P J Olivier Sizwe Mabizela Embassy of France Hoërskool, St Andrew’s College, St Michelle Constant Embassy of the Republic of Korea Andrew’s Preparatory, Victoria Girls’ High Annabell Lebethe School, and Victoria Preparatory School. Embassy of Spain Tony Lankester (CEO) Embassy of Switzerland The Citizens of Grahamstown for their Embassy of the United States hospitality, support and encouragement. East Norway Jazz Centre NATIONAL ARTS European Union Commission National Arts Festival Team: FESTIVAL ARTISTIC E.T.C Europe Tony Lankester (CEO) COMMITTEE 2019 Everard Read Gallery Ashraf Johaardien (Exectuve Producer to French Institute in South Africa (IFAS) 28/02/2019) Chairperson: Brett Bailey Nobesuthu Rayi (Acting Executive Goethe Institute Vice Chairperson: Producer) Grahamstown Hospitality Guild Ernestine White