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Monday, 22 November 2010

Grahamstown, the 'Festival City'

posted to: Activities and Things To Do, Eastern Cape, Reviews and Visitors' Perspectives
Main Street Grahamstown

Main Street Grahamstown

Grahamstown is renowned as “the Festival City”, as it is host to the largest arts fest­ival in Africa — the National Arts Festival. Most people visit the town dur­ing the fest­ival period, and exper­i­ence the crazy bustle of thou­sands of tour­ists jost­ling their way down High Street, dodging between the hawkers tout­ing their African wares, and on to the next fant­astic show. In-between fest­ival time, Grahamstown is a sleepy town. Grahamstown is also known for its many schools, and Rhodes University, and the town’s pop­u­la­tion seems to swell dur­ing term time when the stu­dents return to this quiet town that many stu­dents refer to as “the bubble.” Continued

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Article by: The Team @ SA-Venues
Thursday, 29 May 2008

The Grahamstown Festival

posted to: Annual Events and Festivals, Eastern Cape
For the cur­rent National Arts Festival Programme please see National Arts Festival Programme. 
Grahamstown Festival

Grahamstown Festival

It was open­ing night and adren­alin and lack of sleep were fuel­ing an unhealthy intens­ity in the house we were stay­ing in. We had arrived in Grahamstown after a ten hour drive which ended with the act­ors in the back seat trad­ing more elbow jabs and knees to the mid­sec­tion than in a Thai kick­box­ing match. We were in Grahamstown, a small town in the Eastern Cape, for the National Arts Festival, a high­light on South African arts cir­cuit occur­ing at the end of June/ begin­ning of July every year.

The first thing to know about Grahamstown is that it is abso­lutely freez­ing, which only seemed to give the the­at­rical types more reason for hys­teria and may­hem, little dra­matic dynamos gen­er­at­ing their own internal sources of heat. For the rest of us proper winter cloth­ing is essen­tial. Stretched over about 10 days, the fest­ival is a melt­ing pot of the most bril­liant, cre­at­ive and utterly strange things the coun­try has to offer. At the cent­ral mar­ket, which serves as the hub for the day­time activ­it­ies, you’ll be accos­ted by everything from half-naked hyp­not­ists and hard­selling Hare Krishnas to act­ors evan­gel­ising about why their par­tic­u­lar play will change your life. The mar­ket is also home to a cor­nu­copia of traders selling everything from did­jeri­doos to cures for arth­ritis, so it’s a pefect place for unusual gifts. Continued

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