DEPARTMENT OF SPORT, RECREATION, ARTS AND CULTURE Private Bag/Ingxowa Eyodwa/Privaatsak X0020, BHISHO 5605 The Department Our Programmes The Department of Sport, Recreation, Arts and The programmes of the Department are Culture gives due regard to provincial priorities designed to render services in the following by ensuring that its mission caters sufficiently areas: for youth, women, the disadvantaged and ; Sport and Recreation the disabled. The guiding principles for ; Arts and Culture programme development are based on the 10- ; Libraries and Information Services year Provincial Growth and Development Plan. ; Museums and Heritage Our Vision A united, active, and winning province Contact details: through sport, recreation, arts and culture MEC Mrs Xoliswa Tom Member of the Executive Council: Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture Our Mission Tel: 043 – 604 4101 To develop and promote Sport, Recreation, Fax: 043 – 604 4093 Arts and Culture for spiritual, intellectual, physical and material upliftment of the people of the Eastern Cape Mr Mzolisi Matutu Head of Department: Our Values Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture ; Unity of purpose Tel: 043 – 604 4019/20 ; Respect for self and others Fax: 043 – 642 5309 ; Commitment to service delivery ; Loyalty to the organisation and the people we serve ; Work ethics Ms Naledi Nkula ; Honesty General Manager: Cultural Affairs ; Communication Tel. 043 – 604 4013 ; Equity Fax. 043 – 642 5386 SISONKE SINAKHO 2 CONTENTS 4 Festival Messages 6 Acknowledgements 8 Index 12 Standard Bank Young Artist Award Winners 16 French Season in South Africa 17 Main Programme 145 Fringe Programme 245 The Art of Opportunity 252 Village Green 254 Children’s Arts Festival 19Dance Theatre 29 Physical 31 Theatre Theatre 48 Student 246 Accommodation 250 Travel 257 Map 258 Booking Procedures 259 2013 Call for Proposals 259 Standard Bank Ovation Awards Arena Programme 28 Dance 29 Physical Theatre 46 Theatre 77 Music 103 Exhibitions French Season in South Africa 26 Dance 45 Theatre 73 Music 114 Performance Art 142 Public Art Eastern Cape Showcase 74 Music 100 Exhibitions Solo Season 41 Theatre 147Dance 158Theatre Physical 164Drama 185Theatre Family 2012 Festival Programme Update 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 will contain updated information on performances and events, changes, cancellations and additional shows and a daily diary. The Festival organisers have made every effort to ensure that everything printed in this publication is accurate. However, mistakes and changes do occur, and we do not accept any responsibility for them or for any inaccuracies or misinformation within advertisements. Artists provide images, logos and advertisements and we accept no responsibility for the quality of reproduction in this publication. Front cover photograph: © JL Beaujault 3 Public SpiritFest 137 Art 244 Think!Fest Cine-Mazing Film 241 129 Film Visual 116 229 Art Performance Contemporary 105 Art Music 220 Exhibitions Classical / 217 Recital 91 Jazz Music Theatre / 78 Cabaret 212 Music Comedy 53 188 4 Ayanda Mjekula NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL BOARD CHAIRMAN elcome once again, on behalf of the welcome the partnership to the Festival, Suzy Bernstein WBoard of the National Arts Festival, to the knowing that it will make both our audiences 38th edition of this amazing feast of the arts. and our artists richer for the experience. Photo: Photo: Whether you are planning on visiting for a The Board is grateful to our sponsors, funders, day or for a week, I know that you’re going to partners, critics and friends for continuing be blown away by the variety on offer, and to invest time, money, passion and creative the thread of excellence that runs through energy into the Festival. We’re particularly this year’s programme. Our stages truly have grateful to our presenting sponsors: Standard something for everyone: from traditional Bank, National Lottery Distribution Trust to classical, through to contemporary. Fund, National Arts Council, Eastern Cape Work that will make you laugh, cry, gasp, Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts and sympathise, roar, shriek and shudder. There Culture, MNet and our new print partner, are performances from South Africa’s best, City Press, for believing in the Festival and in our newest, our rising and our hopeful stars, the power of the arts. We salute you for your peppered with gems from around the world in contribution, and hope that your investment is every genre. considered money well spent. This year we celebrate the launch of the French Finally, the management of the Festival join Season in South Africa in Grahamstown, the me in welcoming you to Grahamstown, hoping result of a bilateral agreement between our that, when you leave, you will do so with two countries and an extraordinary partnership exhilarating memories, new friends, and a across the arts sector and government. We promise to return Jay Pather NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN ace is not important. Not to art. RExcellence matters. With this in mind the Artistic Committee is hard-pressed to develop ways of I wondered about this as I sat in an selection and curation. While the open overwhelmingly white audience through call is still priority, and so is excellence, the Fleur du Cap Awards earlier this year. Out we are committed to looking closely at of 72 nominations in the various categories repetitive patterns of absence and skewed there were four black artists and with demographics and other more concerted those odds, no black winners. What ever ways of programming are in place. happened? Should we be taking notice? This year’s programme is packed with Should race matter? excellence and innovation. It is an abundant and diverse programme. Most importantly, In our deliberations at the National Arts it makes conscious attempts to extend Festival, the number of applications that the range of work to the cutting-edge we receive is demographically skewed. It is contemporary. Several inter-disciplinary a sad reflection of how far we have come works and collaborations, and a whole new (or rather, not) in attempts at education category of performance art that blurs inventive performers on the streets of and development, redress and funding boundaries between genres and invites out Grahamstown, all bear testimony to a wealth opportunities. A disturbing trend recurs. the box thinking, mark a programme that in our nation beyond the hyperbole. It is Young black artists emerge with powerful, secures the classical and the tried and the incumbent on us to get the absences right. groundbreaking work. This is seemingly tested but that invites works that break new where the growth stops. A vehicle that ground. An artist creates in a moment of risk and mediates, and carefully grows these precious great vulnerability. When they fly, they buds into strong and sustainable forests is Several international works including those carry all we ever believe in. It is both a missing. A sad disconnect exists here and from the much-anticipated French Season responsibility and a liberation. I trust that we as much I want this address to be full of in South Africa, as well as national works have provided enough support to make the epithets of positivity, there are moments across the disciplines, walk a tightrope of flight robust and confident. In this regard, when things reach a head that we simply edgy aesthetics. A veritable feast from far I want to sincerely thank the hardworking cannot ignore. We should look at this more flung sources in one space. From Think!Fest, Artistic Committee, Ismail, Tony, the Festival closely. Because in the absence of some which features provocations for intellectual office and the Technical Team. clearly defined mechanism to safeguard this, engagement in lectures from culture to the strange habitual repetitiveness of a time politics, to a startling Arena programme and Now it is only left to you, our valuable we thought we left behind occurs without one of the biggest Fringes we have had, the audiences, to experience and enjoy these warning and in this unfortunate pattern, it is programme is truly a national body of work. remarkable journeys by our artists, these impossible to ignore race. And so as much as The palpable passion and talent of the artists magicians of our soul, our intellect and our excellence in the arts does, race matters. featured here to the young, increasingly dreams. 5 Jacko Maree GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE, STANDARD BANK GROUP he National Arts Festival, always a the National Lotteries Distribution Trust Fund Tbarometer of the country’s cultural and the National Arts Council. landscape, plays an important role in the artistic development of our society. We We are delighted that this partnership has value any contribution we can make to ensured that the future of the festival is enhance the growth and enrichment of secure and we trust that it will continue South Africa’s cultural heritage, especially to do so. Standard Bank has made a firm through the annual Young Artist Awards as commitment of support for the next well as the Standard Bank Jazz Festival and its three years as we believe in the significant accompanying Youth Jazz component. contribution of this cross-cultural showcase which reflects a truly national character. Our association with this iconic cultural event dates back to 1983 when Standard Bank first As a financial institution we try to position became the title sponsor of the Festival. The ourselves as being relevant to the societies in partnership has endured over a period of which we operate and the arts constitute one 30 years although it has taken on a slightly of the core pillars of our involvement with Grahamstown, as well as the support of the different guise in the past ten years since the communities.