“We are excited to announce some of the highlights of this year’s HEAT Winter Arts Festival, staged in multiple venues across Cape Town from 6–15 August.
Over the 9 days, you can revel in the myriad of art forms, spanning visual art, music, theatre and immersive film, dance, comedy and opera. Here are a few highlights to whet your appetite, before limited Early Bird tickets go on sale.”
ART
Across the city, 15 incredible art exhibitions will speak to the Ctrl + Z theme, with a standout presentation by Dutch artist Thirza Schaap at Berman Contemporary All Women’s Gallery. Architect Peter Cohen draws from his craft for an exhibition at Aspire Art and Ayobola Kekere-Ekun (pictured above) will be showing her extraordinary sculptural works at AVA. Tshepiso Moropa and Abduus Salaam, two notable rising artists, are showing at THK Gallery. A behind-the-scenes look at the second installment of the Matereality exhibition at the Iziko SA National Gallery curated by Andrea Lewis will also engage art lovers.
Exhibition & Museum Partners
AVA Gallery, Christopher Moller Gallery, Untitled Art, Eclectica Contemporary, Everard Read/Circa Gallery, Thomarts, SMAC Gallery, WORLDART, House Union Block/Spier Arts Trust, Berman Contemporary All Women’s Gallery, Nel Gallery, Aspire Art Auction House, Peffers Fine Art, Strauss & Co, THK Gallery, 33Bree by Artists Gallery, Iziko SANG, Iziko Old Townshouse, Norval Foundation and Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art.
THEATRE
Fleur du Cap judge Nkgopoleng Moloi has curated a diverse programme that includes a work, Gauteng (For Ebenhaezer), developed at the Centre for the Less Good Idea by Melusi Mnqobi Molefe and Qondiswa James. This work is paired with Ghoema: Rediscovering the Journey of Me, performed by MNIX, on a double bill, which should not be missed! The programme is headlined by the renowned Swiss theatre-maker Boris Nikitin (pictured above), who is presenting Essay on Dying, a moving real-life account that lays bare the essence of theatre and the role of text.
MUSIC
Quiet Life have curated another stellar line-up that will be headlined by Internet Athi (pictured above) alongside other rising stars on the Cape Town scene such as Mfazwe Yamwezi, Mishy Kope, Wren Hides Band and Francesca Biancoli.
Opera UCT, led by Jeremy Silver, are returning to the festival, performing a programme titled Rewind, which resonates with the art by Tshepiso Meropa at the venue, THK Gallery.
DANCE & IMMERSIVE FILM
Baba Yaya, the renowned Cape Town-based dance company, is bringing the highly acclaimed dance work Yasuke (pictured above), a dramatisation of the story of the first African samurai warrior. The costumes, music and striking choreography all work in evoking the role culture plays in shaping identity and the body.
HEAT programme at the digital dome at the Iziko Planetarium centres on the relationship between nature and technology and will feature Entangled Structures, a cutting-edge digital work by Austrian artist Marion Essl, which brings into focus the interplay between the natural world and digital expression.
SAVE THE DATE – and keep warm with the HEAT Winter Arts Festival!
WHAT: HEAT Winter Arts Festival,
WHERE: Cape Town | See locations above
WHEN: 6–15 August
BOOKING: Quicket
INFO: HEAT Winter Arts Festival VISIT
