Artscape youth programme gets a boost & Arts Update
Riaan
Visman - Artscape School Liaison Unit Manager joined us on the line.
We were talking about the Artscape youth programme.
Cape Town learners are set to get an enormous boost from this year’s Artscape
youth programme, following the return of the Grade 12 isiXhosa set-work play
Amaza, an Artscape youth development skills production to be held from the 13th – 24th of May 2013 at 10h30AM at
the Artscape Theatre. Amaza is a 17 cast member
thriller set in a rural village in the Transkei . The
production will serve as a basis for the upcoming High School Mini Drama
Festivals to be held at various schools on 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th,
31st May 2013, 01st and 03rd June 2013.
It will give learners an opportunity to create and present an original drama on
a professional stage while also learning the discipline to being a performer.
This year’s theme is Against all odds/ Teen oorwig van waarskynlikheid/ Noba kumnyama entla!
Schools
entering the competition are required to prepare a 35 minute original
production based on their own interpretation of the theme and 10 minutes of the
play should be presented at the mini festival as an abridged version of the
original production. Out of approximately 60 entries, 16 are selected to
participate in the main festival at the Artscape Arena from 12th to 15th August 2013 followed by the award ceremony which will
take place the morning of the 17th of
August 2013 in the Artscape Arena. For more information on production and ticket bookings (at R40.00 per
person), contact Riaan on (021) 410 9927 or send an email to slu@artscape.co.za
Nigel Vermaas was Instudio for the Arts update.
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