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SING OUT - The Loneliness of The Long Distance Diva Choreopoem by Carol Leeming A Project Part of the Cultural Olympiad 2012
SING OUT – Opportunities To Develop Your Singing as part of East Midlands Cultural Olympiad 2012 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Diva Choreopoem - multi-artist Carol Leeming’s,...Posted by diva, 09/07/2012
Writer speaks about the impact of first stage of the South African New Plays Writing Programme
Soon after taking part in the SANPWP (South African New Plays Writing Programme) workshop in Johannesburg in January Napo Masheane began work on a project with drama students. Napo believes...Posted by Pervaiz Khan, 01/06/2011
South African writers are invited to apply for the second phase of the South African New Plays Writing Programme
SA New Plays Phase 2 New writers are invited to apply for the second phase of the South African New Plays Writing Programme. The South African New Plays Writing...Posted by Pervaiz Khan, 07/05/2011
Getting Phizzical, funding enables Sustained Theatre East Midlands member to work with South African Theatre Company
Sâmir Bhamra has been awarded kick start research and development funding from British Council for a new collaboration with the South African theatre company, Hearts and Eyes. Sâmir...Posted by anonmant, 23/03/2011
South African Minister of Arts and Culture launched the SA New Plays Writing Programme
Last night was the South African New Plays Writing Programme Wits Theatre Press Release " The Minister of Arts and Culture, Mr Paul Mashatile, launched the SA New Plays Writing Programme at the...Posted by Pervaiz Khan, 26/01/2011
Grahamstown - Summing Up
Whiteface Street Dancers A week later & I can say that the Grahamstown Festival was a fantastic...Posted by segun, 11/07/2010
Football, Football. The most accessible practice in the world ? by Sharon Watson
Football, Football. The most accessible practice in the world? OK so I am now on my way back from The Grahamstown Festival. I am knackered, I have 7 Vuvuzelas in my bag, all the t-shirts I...Posted by Pervaiz Khan, 01/07/2010
Home by Marcia Layne
Home by Marcia Layne Part One The day I flew to South Africa I had only hours before ran the 5k race4life at Don Valley stadium. Some people thought I was crazy but I was determined to run in the...Posted by Pervaiz Khan, 29/06/2010
Grahamstown Mon 28th June - Day 4
Ahh, this morning I awake and the sun has returned. Good job, cos I need brightening up. I had weird violent nightmares. Too much cheese & wine last night? As I recall through the red...Posted by segun, 28/06/2010
Skorokoro
I have to dedicate my first day to Mpumelelo Nikiwe and Simthembile who helped me in my hour of need. Here’s how the story goes.. Having travelled thousands of miles, there is nothing worse...Posted by Padma Rao, 28/06/2010
I've gone all spoken word by Amanda Huxtable
26.6.2010 Excuse me , I said excuse me I've gone all spoken word. I was eating at the Fiddlers Green and wandered into the events tent yesterday when UK and South African spoken word artists fed...Posted by Pervaiz Khan, 28/06/2010
a great deal to seen and numerous people to talk to... by Sharon Watson
The 2010 World Cup football hype is overwhelming, and how can it not be? One of the worlds biggest sporting events and for the first time on African soil. Fortunately or unfortunately which ever way...Posted by Pervaiz Khan, 28/06/2010
Africa is big. by Amanda Huxtable
20 June 2010 Father's Day. Africa is big. Ok for an opening statement this is ridiculous but it is. On the plane we finished with Europe within three hours of our flight and we still had...Posted by Pervaiz Khan, 28/06/2010
27 June very, very cold
Today was cold, not ice-cold like England but miserably cold like….er, England. Everything was grey like England but wait, England is, apparently, swelteringly hot. So it’s...Posted by felix, 27/06/2010
26 June
Krunch by Talawa’s Young People’s Theatre. A show I’d seen before at the Bernie Grant Centre and enjoyed very much. This time, under more basic technical surroundings it was still...Posted by felix, 27/06/2010
Day 3 - Talawa's Young People Theatre
Not seen much today but it was great to see Talawa Young People's Theatre and Krunch. Fantastic write up in Cue, and a wonderful experience for the young people. The local...Posted by Pawlet Brookes, 27/06/2010
Grahamstown Sun 27th June - Day 3
Grey drizzly morning & goddamn it's cold & windy! "Why oh why didn't I bring UK winter clothes?" I ask myself (not for the last time). I finally get a wireless password for...Posted by segun, 27/06/2010
Urban Lounge reading - Keorapetse Kgositsile South African Poet Laureate
Urban Lounge reading - Keorapetse Kgositsile South African Poet Laureate
Posted by Pervaiz Khan, 27/06/2010
Waiting for a workshop to start - Felix Cross & Phillippa Yaade Villiers
Posted by Pervaiz Khan, 27/06/2010
Morning meeting - Felix Cross, Jenni Lewin Turner & Sharon Watson
Posted by Pervaiz Khan, 27/06/2010
My Fantastic Music day continued:
The next great music thing today following on from The Soil: Nearly 30 years ago, way before I became a black theatre icon, I had a different life as a musician. Much of it was as the leader of an...Posted by felix, 26/06/2010
Jam packed....
Sustained Theatre is walking the streets of Grahamstown once again.While South Africa is the focus of the world's football fans the National Arts Festival (Grahamstown) is in full swing. From...Posted by Pervaiz Khan, 26/06/2010
Day three
But today was really about music! Fabulous music!! First, I finally got to see The Soil. Three young guys from Soweto singing a cappella songs in a smooth, lyrical, heart-rending style, complete...Posted by felix, 26/06/2010
World Cup Free & Cape Dance Co.
Grahamstown is a relatively World Cup free zone; the odd vuvuzela piercing an otherwise tranquil atmosphere that has been the first couple of days at the festival. I wanted to find a bar full of...Posted by felix, 26/06/2010
The First Two Days - a Tragi-comedy
I have arrived in SA a couple of days earlier than everyone else specifically to see The Rivonia Trials by Aubrey Sekhabi, Mandla Dube and Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom. Aubrey and Paul are two of the...Posted by felix, 26/06/2010
Grahamstown Sat 26th June - Day 2
First thing in the morning, I get up & shiver in the communal showers, then hustle down to the accomodation information point to confirm where I'm being moved to. Worst luck, it is...Posted by segun, 26/06/2010
Pawlet's blog -
From Heathrow to Grahamtown A fantastic start to my journey seeing Stevie Wonder at the airport but unfortunately my temporary phone for the trip is a dinosaur – so no pictures. Sharon...Posted by Pawlet Brookes, 26/06/2010
Grahamstown Fri 25th June - Day 1: The Shows
The Dust - Three Brighton Players. This blurb for this theatre show was intriguingly opaque: "Our parents raised us in difficult circumstances in order for us to get a better life, a better...Posted by segun, 25/06/2010
Grahamstown Fri 25th June - Day 1: Settling In
Only three of us left in Atherstone House, me, Padma Rao and Jenni Lewin-Turner. Padma and I go for breakfast at 9.30 with Padma from Newcastle in a huge student refectory called Jan Smuts Hall....Posted by segun, 25/06/2010
Grahamstown Thu 24 June - The Road is Long
I feel like singing like Etta James, "At laaaaast!". After 27 hours of travelling by train, plane & automobile (well, minibus), I'm here in Grahamstown to attend the South African...Posted by segun, 24/06/2010
'On Reflection' by Oscar Watson
I returned to my home in Newcastle at 4pm on Thursday 8th July, having left Grahamstown at 12pm on Wednesday. I can’t remember ever having spent so much time waiting for things: taxis,...Posted by Web manager, 24/05/2010
'Grahamstown Notes' by Jenni Lewin -Turner
It was a real honour to be selected for the Grahamstown Festival delegation and to be amongst such an impressive, dynamic and experienced peer group. The trip was really relevant to both my...Posted by Web manager, 24/05/2010
Johnathan Mann
This was my first visit to South Africa and the Grahamstown festival. I grew up hearing about the horrors of the apartheid struggle leading to the euphoric release of Nelson Mandela. However I...Posted by Web manager, 24/05/2010
'Communicating, Creating and Debating' by Keith Saha
I arrived in Port Elizabeth 2 days before the festival. Dazed and confused after being awake for 22 hours, I headed for the beach to see Africa… I walked out to Nelson Mandela Bay. A sunny...Posted by Web manager, 24/05/2010
'South Africa and I' by Sâmir Bhamra
It was an incredibly random moment when I heard an answer phone message from Simon Fitch talking about an opportunity to travel to South Africa to attend the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. I...Posted by Web manager, 24/05/2010
Tyrone Huggins
My time in Grahamstown involved a lot of meetings. My previous visit here had been paid for on a credit card when I could not secure any funding. On that occasion I was seeing about six or seven...Posted by Web manager, 24/05/2010
Felix Cross
As a mixed race person it is interesting to spend a little time in a country where everyone is defined primarily by his or her race. Other than here and in Vienna I have probably felt this nowhere...Posted by Web manager, 24/05/2010
Donna Briscoe - Greene
Just arriving in Grahams town filled me with so much excitement that the grueling journey here just disappeared.The selection of shows I wanted to experience was 1 from all styles of performance...Posted by Web manager, 24/05/2010
Karena Johnson
I must really be in South Africa – strange that it feels so much like being in the Europe, weather, concrete and the number of white faces. I decided to start with the familiar and a company...Posted by Web manager, 24/05/2010
Audio Interviews by Bea Bop
Nottingham based hub member, Bea Bop interviews people she meet during her South Africa’s, Grahamstown Festival visit. People interviewed were either part of the Sustained Theatre delegation...Posted by Web manager, 24/05/2010