Early
bird deadline for entries: December 31, 2018
Artists and performers from South Africa
and beyond are invited to submit their work for the 2019 National Arts Festival
Fringe. The 45th iteration of South Africa’s biggest and most diverse arts
showcase will take place from June 27 to July 7, 2018, in Makhanda (formerly
Grahamstown) in the Eastern Cape.
Says National Arts Festival Fringe Manager,
Zikhona Monaheng, “In 2019, the National Arts Festival Fringe will be focusing
on accessibility and we invite all the artists, producers and theatre
organisations that produce and/or work with artists living with any disability
to apply. As an open-access festival, our aim is to create more opportunities
and encourage artists living with disability to showcase their talent. The
Festival Office will waive the application fee for these production companies.
However, there are a limited number of performance spaces available.”
Monaheng continues, “We are looking for
bold, exciting and interesting work - everything from experimental,
genre-busting innovation to pure entertainment, family theatre and
crowd-pleasing shows.”
Monaheng says the Fringe is always
unexpected and even unpredictable. “We know that some of the shows are going to
do well with audiences, but every year there are these wonderful surprises …
It’s always exciting to watch these plays come to life through the audience’s
reaction.”
Fringe festivals across the world are marked
by their independence, freedom of expression and experimental content – and the
National Arts Festival Fringe is no different. Many well-known artists also
return to the Fringe with successfully travelled work, revisiting and extending
it; while other artists have been performing on the National Arts Festival
Fringe for decades, bringing crowd-pleasing favourites.
International artists, producers and
independent theatre makers both perform and scout at the National Arts
Festival, often striking up collaborative ideas when they are at the Fringe.
Artists, musicians, singers, dancers,
performance artists and other creatives can submit their applications online at
www.nationalartsfestival.co.za
An application fee of R3,000 is payable but
artists who beat the December 31, 2018, early bird deadline will receive 10%
off. Applications close on January 21, 2019.
The National Arts Festival programme
comprises largely of a curated and selected Main Programme and an open,
unsolicited Fringe. These two key elements are supported by numerous special
programmes, projects and performances that make up the entire Festival
featuring hundreds of shows and thousands of performances.
(To
link direct to the NAF site click on the large banner that runs across the top
of this blog or visit https://www.nationalartsfestival.co.za or visit Facebook:
www.facebook.com/nationalartsfestival; Twitter: @artsfestival or Instagram:
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