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Very Real Time 3

Various artists at Various venues around Cape Town

Very Real Time has been happening in various forms, mostly in Cape Town, South Africa, since 2003. The main objective is to try and set up suitable conditions for meaningful exchange between artists working in a contemporary and global context. For exchange to be meaningful as well as ongoing, the intimate and interpersonal dimension becomes a central component to the project’s content. Visiting artists live in the homes of local artists and in this way quickly become implicated the networks and interpersonal dynamics of the city.  In this way the project has nourished personal relationships and artistic exchanges between local and visiting artists, which remain active to this day.

Previous residents include : Bridget Baker (SA) James Beckett (SA, The Netherlands), Michael Blum (Austria), Jo O’ Connor (SA), Cinthia Marcelle (Brazil), Thembinkosi Goniwe (SA), Jean Meeran (SA), Jimmy Robert (France), Mieke Van de Voort (NL), Sung Hwan Kim (Korea), Conrado Tostado and Jeannine Diego Medina (Mexico) and Ed Young (South Africa).

The 3rd Very Real Time residency runs from March 20 – April 20 2012, in Cape Town. Participating artists are: Claire Harvey (UK, NL), Julia Rosa Clark (SA), Milena Bonilla (Colombia, NL), Leonid Tsvetkov (RU, NL, USA), Kianoosh Motallebi (IR, NL), James Beckett (SA, NL).

20 March 2012 - 20 April 2012

'Infecting the City'

Various Participants at Various venues around Cape Town

The Africa Centre presents 'Infecting The City' for the fourth year in a row, a public performance festival in which Cape Town’s plazas and squares become theatres, the pavements turn into art galleries, and, this time, even a rubbish truck will be used as a stage.

This year’s 'Infecting The City' theme, ‘Treasure’, is about making art something to which everyone can relate. You’ll find sufi rituals, b-boy duels, sari wrapping, stick fighting, and even drummies in the mix with opera, sculpture and other performance art.  he big new square in front of the Cape Town Station – the ‘Station Forecourt’ – will serve as the Festival Hub, where much of the action is taking place. If you catch a train into the City you’ll find various bands playing there first thing in the morning, again at lunch and in the late afternoon. There are also visual and performance artists working there throughout the day. Although the Station is the Festival Hub, the entire Central Business District will be full of 'Infecting The City' events throughout the Festival week.

Visit www.infectingthecity.com to get more detail on the programme and the map, which locates all the Festival’s activities.

21 February 2011 - 26 February 2011