Deadline:
August 21, 2017, at 19h00
The Cape Town Buskers Festival will be
returning to the V&A Waterfront and the call has gone out for street
performing talents to audition to be on the bill.
Now in its fourth year, the Cape Town
Fringe (CT Fringe) will take place across the Mother City from September 21 to October
8, 2017. A live multi-arts festival and an annual celebration of local and
international creativity, the CT Fringe encourages experimentation, collaboration
and innovation. In 2017 the CT Fringe will be extending its footprint into a
Fringe Circuit, which will see the CT Fringe bring exciting work closer to many
of the city’s neighbourhoods. The CT Fringe acknowledges the generous support
of the City of Cape Town and Standard Bank.
Forming part of the annual Cape Town Fringe
Festival, the Buskers Festival will bring international and local performers,
singers, dancers, clowns, mimes, illusionists and more into the popular V&A
Waterfront across four stages and over 80 performances for crowd-funded theatre
at its best.
The Buskers Festival is calling for
freelance performers who have an act of approximately 45-minutes that can be
performed at least twice a day to apply. In keeping with busking traditions
worldwide, the act should be self-contained with quick set up and strike times.
The Buskers Festival will provide marketing
and promotion for the event as well as all staging and logistical elements,
providing a nominal stipend and permit to perform at the V&A Waterfront.
The Festival is a “hatting” event, meaning
that Buskers will encourage their audience to give them tips – all of which
they keep.
How performers can get involved:
-Come along to one of the audition days at
the V&A Waterfront Amphitheatre on August 15, 17 or 19, 2017, anytime
between 12 noon and 16h00, to give the panel a taste of what you can do.
-or buskers who can’t make those auditions
can grab their phones and film a short video of their performance
Regardless of the method of audition, all
entrants need to complete the application form at
www.capetownfringe.co.za/buskers on August 21 before 17h00.
More information on buskers@ctbuskersfestival.co.za
For more visit
http://www.ctbuskersfestival.co.za or follow the social media channels. Twitter
- @CTbuskersfest; Instagram - @ctbuskersfest or Facebook – Cape Town Buskers
Festival
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