From the screening of Oscar winning film “Ida”, to the 10th anniversary of 99% Zulu Comedy, the Mail & Guardian rounds up some of the country’s hot ticket events.
These are the hot ticket events for CAPE TOWN.
♦ Themed “Happy me, happy you”, the fourth Ubuntu Festival returns after a two-year absence. Under the auspices of the South African Ubuntu Foundation, the Amy Biehl Foundation is the beneficiary. The headline act is Mi Casa and the supporting act is Chad Saaiman. There will be food trucks, dance musical showcases from Russia, Lithuania, the United States and India, as well as children’s activities.
WHEN March 21 from 11am. WHERE Maynardville Park, Wolf Street, Wynberg 7800 Cape Town
♦ The Fugard Theatre will screen Ida, the Oscar winner for best foreign language film co-produced by the Fugard’s founder, Eric Abraham. Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski and written by Pawlikowski in collaboration with Rebecca Lenkiewicz, the film is set in Poland in 1962 and is about a woman on the verge of taking vows as a nun. Orphaned as an infant during World War II and the German occupation, she now meets her aunt, who tells her that her parents were Jewish. The two women embark on a road trip into the countryside to learn the fate of their family. The film penetrates “the darkest, thorniest thickets of Polish history, reckoning with the crimes of Stalinism and the Holocaust”.
WHERE The Fugard Theatre, Corner Caledon & Lower Buitenkant Street, District Six, Cape Town, 8001 WHEN March 21 at 7:30pm. COST Tickets at R100 will be available from the Fugard Theatre box office on 021 461 4554 or at Computicket
via Mail & Guardian
