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Grahamstown in the news: Feast of Arts Fest Shows to Play the Alexander Bar Upstairs Theatre in Cape Town

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Feast of Arts Fest Shows to Play the Alexander Bar Upstairs Theatre in Cape Town: Cape Town’s Alexander Bar, Café and Theatre will host a series of seven productions starting on 20 June, all of which are en route to the 2016 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. Satire, stand-up comedy, drama, physical theatre, musical theatre …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

The National Arts Festival’s Think!Fest to Offer Fascinating Food for Thought: As a host of open and frank conversations, Think!Fest encourages all Festival-goers and Grahamstown residents to participate in a discussion on the role of a national arts festival in contemporary South Africa. The session will be co-ordinated by Festival …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

FIGRAISING Fundraiser for UCT Drama’s Fourth-year Theatre-making Studio Production, FIGS: The fourth-year theatre-making studio of the University of Cape Town’s Drama Department will stage FIGRAISING, a fundraising evening dedicated to helping them take their production, FIGS, to the Grahamstown National Arts Festival in July. A key feature of …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Port Stephens Council approves Ferodale Sports Complex for Medowie: A construction certificate will be required before work can start. Hunter Water will need to sign off on the facility’s storm water provisions since it sits next to the Campvale Drain that leads to Grahamstown Dam.
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

The Revolt Of Mandela’s Grandchildren By Okey Ndibe: I traveled to South Africa to speak at a conference at Rhodes University in Grahamstown—one of the flashpoints of the struggle—and to give a reading at a bookstore in Johannesburg. The Rhodes event, whose theme was “Transformation of Higher Education …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

South African campus updates: Hundreds of students took to the streets of Grahamstown demanding that the university take action against rapists and sexual offenders. The university was shut down by protestors and many of the entrances to the campus were blockaded. Instead of dealing …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

Nomsa Xaba: An evergreen talent: Xaba’s performing arts exploits saw her gracing stages at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, the Playhouse in Durban and the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town, attracting full houses. In the 1990s, Xaba worked with renowned producer Barney Simon at the …
Source: “Grahamstown” – BingNews.

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