The Mail & Guardian rounds-up this week’s hot-ticket events – and this is the selection for Cape Town.
♦ The Artscape Theatre Centre raises the question of identity in its 2015 heritage festival. The theatre hopes people will rekindle and reclaim stories about our country’s heritage. The programme includes poetry, a new piece by Indoni Academy Dancers, Inkundla (August 27 to 30), and Siembamba (September 3 to 12), a multilingual play about the life of a black domestic worker and the white child she helped to raise. Freshlyground’s Zolani Mahola, rock artist Karen Zoid and soprano Zanne Stapelberg will perform in Zanne, Zoid and Zolani.
WHEN August 28 to September 27. WHERE Artscape Theatre, Cape Town 8001. TICKETS Computicket or Artscape Dail-a-Seat on 021 421 7695 . INFO Visit Artscape
♦ Fracking comes under the spotlight in the collaborative art installation Karoo Disclosure. The exhibition explores notions of heritage, culture, ownership and legitimacy in the political and economic landscape. The exhibition comes after news that the government has given the fracking assignment in the Karoo the go-ahead. Included in the exhibition are the film Karoo Disclosure, artefacts and fossils from the Iziko natural history collection found in the Karoo and works by the artists Deborah Weber, Damien Schumann, Elgin Rust, Gina Waldman, Margaret Stone, Maxim Starcke, Lisa Bauer, Michelle Liao, Tom Glenn, Peet van Heerden, Hendrik Dudumashe and Paula Kingwill. [see Karoo Disclosure blog]
WHEN Until November 15. WHERE Iziko South African Museum, Queen Victoria St, Cape Town 8001. INFO Visit iziko
via Mail & Guardian
