1. Aside from celebrating your own cultural identity you can share in many more at the following performances.
1.Born Around Here is presented by the Maitsong Theatre Company from Gaborone, Botswana. The play follows Zakes, a South African refugee who flees to Botswana to escape the apartheid regime. After marrying a Botswana citizen he becomes an underground operative. This love story woven with politics examines where and what home and heritage are.
2.After the Alvin Ailey Dance Company burnt up the floor it's Lingua Franca's turn to scorch the stage with Iziyhilelo Zobuze. This extraordinary spoken word and musical production excavates sites of pain and celebrates ways of being. Slam poets including Koleka Putuma ,Lwanda Sindaphi Mbongeni Nomkonwana join musicians Lumanyano Unity Mzi, Lwandolwethu Bam and Zama Qambi.
3.Nhlakanipho Gamede and Mpilo Khumalo perform an epic comic fantasy story about a young boy, Samira, who is chosen to save the dying cow herds of his people. In Last Cow Standing a strange sickness has mysteriously infected the cows, killing countless numbers over the years. From being challenged in an initiation ceremony to being dumped into a dungeon, he meets various South African comic characters on his journey.
4. "Ontwrig" examines the body in a post-apartheid South Africa .It is a multi-modal exploration using dance, theatre, puppets and other multimedia in a visceral sensory experience which dissects cultural labels and norms and their relationship with each other.
5. A lone white man traipsing down the highway. Who is Johnny Boskak and where does he belong? Is he a white trash dinosaur? Or is he the last cowboy hero in boots and blue jeans? In search of love, redemption, an AK47 and the quickest way out of Secunda Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny , aren't you?
6. Sinoxolo Cezula directs Ndendile, performed earlier this year at the Zabalaza Festival at the Baxter Theatre. The story of a man who travels to the city and falls in love with Bongile. His quest to marry him in a traditional ceremony questions who makes the cultural rules.
7. The Voëlvry tour of 1989 celebrated Afrikaans music and culture which didn't quite match the status quo. For one performance only the Gereformeerde Blues Band, Francois van Coke, Valiant Swart, The Kerels, and van der Want Letcher will revisit that epic tour and pay tribute to Johannes Kerkorrel and James Phillips (along with his alter ego Bernoldus Niemand),
8. Thola Antamu directs and performs Exhibit S, Ode to Saartjie Baartman,at the Alexander Upstairs a poetic performance art piece inspired by misrepresention, art and the story of a woman. The history of Saartjie Baartman who was from a khoikhoi ethnic group in the Eastern Cape was born exactly 200 years before the actress in 1789. Antamu tells her story through speech, skin and movement.
9. Karen Zoid and Zolani Mahola are two of South African music's superstars. Together they are set to create a magical night of music celebrating their different styles and common excellence.
10.Anele Rusi is a word warrior and he is bringing the battle to the stage. Words of WAR is a collection of inspiring poems & songs of celebration. This is a story of a child, haunted by voices & visions of the spirits from the other side, a celebration of our scars & where we come from. Stories of our history & heritage, told through music & poetry.
All the performances are part of the Cape Town Fringe Festival and the Artscape Heritage Festival
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