National Arts Festival 2024
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Event Details
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Various times, different events
Is this a repeating event?
No
Short Description (Excerpt):
Africa’s largest and most colourful cultural event offers a choice of the very best of both indigenous and imported talent…
Description:
The Grahamstown National Arts Festival: Africa’s largest and most colourful cultural event offers a choice of the very best of both indigenous and imported talent. Every year for 11 days (June/July) Grahamstown’s population almost doubles, as over 50 000 people flock to Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape for a feast of arts, crafts and sheer entertainment. Every hall or large room becomes a theatre, parks and sport fields become flea markets, normally quiet streets have to be managed by an army of temporary traffic wardens, and every available bed in the city is booked. The festival offers more than 500 shows from opera, cabaret, drama and jazz to stand-up comics and folk music. From theatre to dance, opera to cabaret, fine art to craft art, classical music to jazz, poetry readings to lectures, every art form imaginable is represented in one of the most diverse festivals in the world. And there’s something for every taste, with techno raves, mediaeval banquets, craft fairs, cyber cafes, carnivals, buskers and walking tours.
Venue / Location
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Various Venues in Makhanda
Address:
Makhanda, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Province:
Eastern Cape
Region:
All Eastern Cape Regions
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Other Eastern Cape Towns
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Pricing & Booking Information
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Online Tickets sales will open in early May with in-person sales in Makhanda available from early June.
All information regarding Performances and Exhibitions will be available on the website.
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Event Organiser
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National Arts Festival
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Website/URL:
https://nationalartsfestival.co.za/
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