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SATURDAY 21 FEBRUARY MONDAY 23 FEBRURARY TUESDAY 24 FEBRUARY WEDNESDAY 25 FEBRUARY THURSDAY 26 FEBRUARY FRIDAY 27 FEBRUARY
09H45 LIMBO (30 mins) 10H30 INGCWABA LENDODA 10H30 INGCWABA LENDODA 10H30 INGCWABA LENDODA 10H30 INGCWABA LENDODA 10H30 INGCWABA LENDODA
VENUE: CHURCH SQUARE (60 mins) VENUE: THE ASSEMBLY (60 mins) VENUE: THE ASSEMBLY (60 mins) VENUE: THE ASSEMBLY (60 mins) VENUE: THE ASSEMBLY (60 mins) VENUE: THE ASSEMBLY

10H30 AMAKWEREKWERE 10H30 AN HISTRIONIC (45 mins) 10H30 AN HISTRIONIC (45 mins) 10H30 AN HISTRIONIC (45 mins) 10H30 AN HISTRIONIC (45 mins) 10H30 AN HISTRIONIC (45 mins)
(30 mins) VENUE: THIBAULT SQUARE VENUE: CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE VENUE: CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE VENUE: CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE VENUE: CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE VENUE: CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE

11H15 EXILE (30 mins) 10H30 EYTON ROAD (60 mins) 10H30 EYTON ROAD (60 mins) 10H30 EYTON ROAD (60 mins) 10H30 EYTON ROAD (60 mins) 10H30 EYTON ROAD (60 mins)
VENUE: ADDERLEY STREET FOUNTAINS VENUE: DISTRIX VENUE: DISTRIX VENUE: DISTRIX VENUE: DISTRIX VENUE: DISTRIX

12H00 LAUNCH EVENT (40 mins) 11H45 LIMBO (30 mins) 11H45 LIMBO (30 mins) 11H45 LIMBO (30 mins) 11H45 LIMBO (30 mins) 11H45 LIMBO (30 mins)
TUNING INTO THE VOID VENUE: CHURCH SQUARE VENUE: CHURCH SQUARE VENUE: CHURCH SQUARE VENUE: CHURCH SQUARE VENUE: CHURCH SQUARE
VENUE : RIEBEECK SQUARE
12H30 AMAKWEREKWERE 12H30 AMAKWEREKWERE 12H30 AMAKWEREKWERE
SPIER HARVEST FESTIVAL 12H30 AMAKWEREKWERE 12H30 AMAKWEREKWERE (30 mins) VENUE: THIBAULT SQUARE (30 mins) VENUE: THIBAULT SQUARE (30 mins) VENUE: THIBAULT SQUARE
AT SPIER FROM 2 TILL LATE (30 mins) VENUE: THIBAULT SQUARE (30 mins) VENUE: THIBAULT SQUARE
13H00 CALL CUTTA* (70 mins) 13H00 CALL CUTTA*(70 mins) 13H00 CALL CUTTA* (70 mins)
13H00 CALL CUTTA* (70 mins) 13H00 CALL CUTTA* (70 mins) VENUE: CAPE TOWN CBD VENUE: CAPE TOWN CBD VENUE: CAPE TOWN CBD
VENUE: CAPE TOWN CBD VENUE: CAPE TOWN CBD
13H15 EXILE (30 mins) 13H15 EXILE (30 mins) 13H15 EXILE (30 mins)
13H15 EXILE (30 mins) 13H15 EXILE (30 mins) VENUE: ADDERLEY STREET FOUNTAINS VENUE: ADDERLEY STREET FOUNTAINS VENUE: ADDERLEY STREET FOUNTAINS
VENUE: ADDERLEY STREET FOUNTAINS VENUE: ADDERLEY STREET FOUNTAINS
14H30 AN HISTRIONIC (45 mins) 14H30 AN HISTRIONIC (45 mins) 14H30 AN HISTRIONIC (45 mins)
14H30 AN HISTRIONIC (45 mins) 14H30 AN HISTRIONIC (45 mins) VENUE: CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE VENUE: CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE VENUE: CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE
VENUE: CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE VENUE: CASTLE OF GOOD HOPE
14H30 EYTON ROAD (60 mins) 14H30 EYTON ROAD (60 mins) 14H30 EYTON ROAD (60 mins)
14H30 EYTON ROAD (60 mins) 14H30 EYTON ROAD (60 mins) VENUE: DISTRIX VENUE: DISTRIX VENUE: DISTRIX
VENUE: DISTRIX VENUE: DISTRIX
16H30 MAKING SENSE (60 mins) 19H30 TALKING HEADS
15H30 TUNING INTO THE VOID 15H30 TUNING INTO THE VOID VENUE: THE NEW SPACE THEATRE
44 LONG ST
VENUE: CITY HAL
(40 mins) VENUE: RIEBEECK SQUARE (40 mins) VENUE: RIEBEECK SQUARE

16H00 MAKING SENSE (60 mins)

*CALL CUTTA begins daily at 13H00 and ends at 18H00. Each performace is a one-to-one experience
VENUE: THE NEW SPACE THEATRE 44 LONG ST
and requires 70mins of the audience member’s time. The last show starts at 16H50.
Location to be disclosed when you book your ticket with Felicia on 021 422 0468.
After the Festival Opening on Saturday, 21st February, the Infecting The City schedule is essentially
the same on each day. The performances are sequential, which allows you to either spend a CHECK OUT WWW.INFECTINGTHECITY.COM FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
leisurely day on a tour through town taking in the entire programme or simply catch a few
performances each day. Look on page 16 to see the tour map. Infecting The City has been specifically designed to be accessible to everyone. Many of the
Look out for the spectacular TUNING INTO THE VOID, which only has three performances (the 21st, performances are free. Those that are ticketed are very reasonably priced. Buy tickets at the door
23rd and 24th), and TALKING HEADS on Thursday, 26th that has one performance. or contact Felicia at info@infectingthecity.com or phone her on 021 422 0468.
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PRESENTING THE FESTIVAL INTRODUCING THE FESTIVAL

INFECTING THE CITY (ITC) - THE SPIER PERFORMING ARTS
LOOK AT CAPE TOWN WITH FRESH EYES
FESTIVAL is presented by the Africa Centre. The Africa The arts have transformative power, the ability to widen our perceptions, open our imaginations,
Centre was born in 2005 to provide a new arts and culture and show us the world from different perspectives: they belong in the centre of society.
voice in Africa, for Africans. INFECTING THE CITY (ITC) is a festival of innovative, high-quality commissioned and collaborative
works accessible to people from all walks of life. Performances are not staged in theatres, but
Based in South Africa, the Africa Centre is both a physical entity and an ongoing philosophical in sites like public squares, fountains and on moving vehicles; becoming part of the living flux
project. Among its objectives, the Africa Centre aims to become a major international of the city. They are like fleeting monuments to the historical moment we live in.
organisation that celebrates both the visual and performance heritage of Africa formulating “Home Affairs” – named after the government department that processes immigrants to our
innovative models for presenting, debating and encouraging the production of art. It also country – is the ITC theme for 2009. The works on the programme are artistic responses to the
expects to provide broad access to the creative work and ideas of historical and contemporary complex and often disturbing issues of human displacement and migration that characterise
African artists and re-examine the role, identity, transience, performance and creation of art. our society.
Infecting the City is part of a series of festivals produced by the Africa Centre that delivers For a week ITC transforms Cape Town into a city-sized gallery exhibiting provocative, cutting-
innovation and excellence and builds new audiences. The Festivals create a platform for edge international and local artworks that resonate with one another within the urban
showcasing, promoting and developing African artists, and exploring the meaning and landscape; a huge theatrical happening to stimulate discussion and disturb the humdrum and
context of African art. Other festivals include Badilisha! An African Poetry X-change and the concrete.
Pan-African Space Station (Music). Other Africa Centre projects include the Spier Contemporary,
a biennale exhibition of over 100 South African artists; and a pan-African artist-in-residency On behalf of the ITC team I urge you to spend a day or two viewing our wonderful city with
programme. To find out more about the Africa Centre and its programmes and approach, visit new eyes, imbibing diversity, culture and history, and enjoying delicious food at our partner
www.africacentre.net restaurants. Get infected!
Brett Bailey (artistic curator)
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ERNESTO ALFABETO NHAMUAVE (1973-2008), killed in xenophobic violence. (Courtesy: Gallo Images)

THE ITC 09 THEME:

HOME AFFAIRS
“SOUTH AFRICA BELONGS TO ALL WHO LIVE IN IT.” With citizens anxious about cultural dilution, limited resources and unemployment, states
The Freedom Charter, 1955 fortify their walls to check the inflow of foreign nationals and relinquish their responsibility
to protect them.

Cape Town has tens of thousands of African foreign nationals. Many of these people are still INFECTING THE CITY 09 has asked artists to grapple with the tensions around “Home Affairs”, to
scarred by the terrible events that drove them to this city. They are battling to make a new delve into the subject matter and to deepen our understanding around these complex issues
home for themselves amid an often-hostile population and in spite of a forbidding state that haunt our country and our psyches.
bureaucracy.
DESCRIPTIONS OF PEOPLE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES:
In May 2008 xenophobic fury exploded across South Africa. Mobs of angry citizens took to the
streets to vent their frustrations on the foreigners who lived amongst them. Several thousand IMMIGRANT OR FOREIGN NATIONAL: a person who lives outside his or her home country.
African immigrants – men, women and children – fled in terror. People were beaten and UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANT: is a person in South Africa who does not have the legal
raped, sixty-four were murdered, houses and businesses were looted and destroyed, and documentation required to live in the country.
refugee camps were established in several cities. The nation was appalled. REFUGEE: a person who has been granted refugee status by the Department of Home
Affairs. People who qualify for refugee status have to show that they are unable to return
Across the world in this ‘Age of Exile’ millions of people are on the move or have resettled. home because they are being persecuted due to their race, religion or political beliefs.
They depart from their homelands in search of better opportunities, or to escape persecution, ASYLUM SEEKER: a person who has applied for refugee status but is waiting for his or her
war or disaster. These refugees, exiles and asylum seekers leave behind families and friends, application to be finalised. Asylum seekers waiting for a decision on their status have the
dreams, status, histories and homes. Often traumatised and depressed, they enter a twilight right to work, study and have access to health care.
zone of long queues, uncertainties, hardships and minimal rights. By the Treatment Action Campaign
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TAKE A CHILD TO ART NEW COLLABORATIVE WORKS

One vital sector of the population that has very little opportunity to see exciting, challenging In the four weeks prior to ITC, twelve talented theatre-makers from around the world have been
performances is our school learners. We think that it is vital that young people are working in Cape Town to make three ‘New Collaborative Works’. Artistic collaboration involves
stimulated, inspired and educated, and have a sense of the complex relationships between sharing diverse skills, views and approaches to create an artwork or a performance piece.
history, society, architecture and the arts. A stimulating and challenging process, the spin-offs are the enrichment of the collaborating
artists, and the forging of long-term creative relationships.
ITC approached the corporate sector to sponsor 50 senior phase learners to attend the festival
each day. These learners are from from Arts and Culture Focus Schools across the Cape Peninsula. These new site-specific works are inspired by the “Home Affairs” theme, and are titled LIMBO,
AMAKWEREKWERE and EXILE. Each piece is the result of collaboration between four artists: two
The scholars will be led on a guided tour of the city from performance to performance, South Africans, one from a Southern African Development Community (SADC) country, and one
snapping photos for an online archive, enjoying a lunch, and finally participating in a facilitated from beyond the SADC borders.
workshop to discuss and analyse their experience in terms of the “Home Affairs” theme.
These youths are the future artists and creative thinkers of our city. They will be the custodians There is very little tradition of site-specific and outdoor theatre in southern Africa. Over the
of the treasures of Cape Town. We applaud the investment the sponsors have made in the next few years we will host collaborating artists that are well-established in the genre from
development of these learners and in our heritage. Each day of ITC is named in honour of the all corners of the world. In this way we intend to make Cape Town into a melting pot of artistic
sponsor for that day. exchange, and develop a lively culture of this engaging genre of performance.

Individuals are also able to sponsor a child as part of this initiative. If you wish to sponsor The members of the three teams have been e-mailing each other since last year. Their
a young learner, and possibly change their perception of their future by being part of this attendance on a specifically-designed “Home Affairs” information course – meeting refugees,
structured schools programme, then please contact Felicia on 021 422 0468. academics and activists – has stimulated their creative juices.

‘INFECTED’ RESTAURANTS & CAFES We are grateful for the artistic gifts that our six foreign guests have brought to our city, and
thank the donors who have so generously sponsored their residencies:
A number of Cape Town’s delightful cafes and eating-houses have partnered with ITC. Enjoy PRO HELVETIA, ROYAL EMBASSY OF THE NETHERLANDS,
a bite to eat between performances while reflecting on what you have seen and watch the FRENCH INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA, BRITISH COUNCIL.
passing theatre of the city.
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AMAKWEREKWERE HEETEN BHAGAT: An unclassically/anarchically trained

CREATED BY arts professional, Heeten has experience in design,
STEVE BANDOMA dance, film and education. Currently he is working on
HEETEN BHAGAT creative educative projects that are specifically looking
at ways in which culture [present/past/future], and its
BRIGITTE DEFAIX innate value, can be incorporated in a new post-surreal
ATHI-PATRA RUGA Zimbabwe.
WHEN
SAT 21 AT 10H30 ‹‹‹ HETEEN BHAGAT ›››
DAILY MON 23 TO FRI 27 AT 12H30 BRIGITTE DEFAIX: Director and performer of mime/
DURATION
movement theatre, Dutch artist Brigitte works in and
30 MINUTES outside the Netherlands. She was with site-specific
‹‹‹ STEVE BANDOMA››› WHERE theatre company Griftheatre Amsterdam for 13 years
THIBAULT SQUARE before joining up with SLEM Landscapetheatre, and
TICKETS produces her own work through Stichting ZOOM.
FREE EVENT
A new collaborative work that stares ATHI-PATRA RUGA: Working in the fields of performance,
into the face of prejudice and intolerance. photography, video installation and fashion, Jo’burg-
based Athi-Patra describes his working method
as resulting from ‘the clash between material and ‹‹‹ BRIGITTE DEFAIX ›››
“Amakwerekwere” is a derogatory South African term to describe African immigrants. This
work explores xenophobia. In a social climate characterised by extreme inequity and scarcity memory’, but notions of utopia and dystopia also
of resources and employment, particularly amongst the black working class, xenophobia in form a common thread. His works have been exhibited
South Africa is rife. Citizens’ responses to immigrants are characterized by prejudices and extensively in Africa and Europe.
stereotypes: foreign nationals are blamed for theft, unemployment, sex crimes, spreading
AIDS, illegal drugs, stealing girlfriends, undercutting businesses … The participation of Brigitte Defaix has been made
possible by the Royal Embassy of the Netherlands, and
STEVE BANDOMA: Born in D.R Congo, Steve obtained his BA (FA) degree from Academies des that of Heeten Bhagat by Pro-Helvetia.
Beaux-Arts University of Kinshasa, and moved to South Africa in 2005. He has participated in
Thibault Square: Today’s busy Thibault Square celebrates a famous
numerous group exhibitions both locally and internationally, and had his first solo exhibition Cape Town landmark… and Louis-Michel Thibault, a military engineer
in Cape Town in 2008. who arrived in the 1780s and never left. The famous landmark was ‹‹‹ ATHI-PATRA RUGA ›››
the small but smelly Roggebaai fishing village that vanished forever
during the Foreshore land-reclamation scheme of the 1930s. For more
fascinating titbits on Cape Town’s history, go to www.infectingthecity.com
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NAME

AN HISTRIONIC KOGGELMAN DIE KIERIEVEGTER [AKA ANDRE LAUBSER]:

PRODUCED BY After retiring as an informant from the SAP reservists
THE ERF [81] CULTURAL COLLECTIVE Koggelman has worked at purifying his role as a fifth
AND ANNE HISTORICAL columnist, voyeur and cunnilingust. He is an esteemed
creator of rumours and art not for public consumption.
PERFORMED BY
He breeds pigs.
BETTINA MALCOMESS
ANDRE LAUBSER BETTY HALF-TEEF [AKA PETER VAN HEERDEN]:
PETER VAN HEERDEN A confused-gender dramaturg, Betty flings himself ‹‹‹ PETER VAN HEERDEN ›››
WHEN into history using historical landscapes as her backdrop;
DAILY MON 23 TO FRI 27 AT 10H30 AND 14H30 often a painful but cathartic journey. As a live artist
‹‹‹ ANDRE LAUBSER ››› DURATION
he challenges and explores her masculine confused
45 MINUTES
identity as a white male half-bitch.
WHERE
CAPE TOWN CASTLE
ANNE HISTORICAL [AKA BETTINA MALCOMESS]:
TICKETS
R30.00 A Russian art historian, Anne Historical is self-taught
Call Felicia on 021 422 0468 across several disciplines, and has worked in South
Africa on intelligence projects since the 80’s. Her
“Kom vier fees by die Kasteel! Experience a rich blend missions are to evoke the past, test the limits of the ‹‹‹ BETTINA MALCOMESS ›››

of histrionic military ceremonies, craftsmanship and present, and ignite the future.
architecture at the oldest building in South Africa.” The Castle of Good Hope: The Castle, completed in 1679 and our oldest surviving building, is a monument not to
colonialism but to commerce: it was built to protect the small Cape outpost from being hijacked by the Dutch East India
For one week the Castle will be set alight. You are invited to pick the scabs off History as Anne Company’s English and French rivals. Some famous people, like Adam Tas, spent time in its lightless dungeon, the
Historical, Koggelman die Kierievegter en Betty Half-teef take you on a cultural tour to explore “Black Hole”, thoughtfully located next to the torture chamber. The Castle’s most famous political prisoner was King
the invisible workings, the familiar and strange, of this bastion of colonialism: this “paranoid Cetewayo of the Zulus. For more fascinating titbits on Cape Town’s history, go to www.infectingthecity.com
pimple on the beach”. The mysterious material of history will be knitted together, tangled
and un-ravelled, as this award-winning anarchic team mines the labyrinths of nationalist
mythology.
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NAME
strikes up a conversation with you. The person seems

CALL CUTTA IN A BOX

AN INTERCONTINENTAL PHONE PLAY
to know the room you are sitting in, even though he is
about 10 000 km away. The voice belongs to a call centre
agent from Calcutta, India. He and his colleagues usually
PRESENTED BY
sell credit cards and insurance on the phone to people
PRO HELVETIA on the other side of the globe, or provide navigational
PRODUCED BY help in cities that they have never been to themselves.
RIMINI PROTOKOLL
WWW.RIMINI-PROTOKOLL.DE
But this time you are not supposed to buy anything.
DIRECTED BY
RIMINI PROTOKOLL: HELGARD HAUG, STEFAN KAEGI AND ‹‹‹ STEFAN KAEGI ›››
HELGARD HAUG DANIEL WETZEL studied at the Institut für Angewandte
STEFAN KAEGI Theaterwissenschaft in Giessen and work together as
‹‹‹ HELGARD HAUG ››› DANIEL WETZEL Rimini Protokoll. They are recognised as among the
WHEN leaders and creators of the theatre movement known
DAILY MON 23 TO FRI FROM 13H00 TO 18H00
as “Reality Trend” (Theater der Zeit), which has exerted
DURATION
a powerful influence on the alternative theatre scene in
70 MINUTES
Germany. They have attracted international attention
WHERE
IN THE CBD* with dramatic works that take place in the grey zone
between reality and fiction.
TICKETS
‹‹‹ DANIEL WETZEL ›››
A story is about to develop and you’ll R30.00
Call Felicia on 021 422 0468
soon realise that a call centre agent in
Calcutta and you and your city are the Funded By European Cultural Foundation and Der Regierende Bürgermeister Von Berlin -
Senatskanzlei - Kulturelle Angelegenehieiten. Brought to South Africa by Pro Helvetia.
very first protagonists of the plot.
Imagine you are buying a ticket at the box office for an individual show on a specific day, but *Pick up your ticket and a map from a mystery location in the CBD. Location to be disclosed
are not led to the auditorium of the theatre. Instead, you receive a key for a room and a sketch when you book with Felicia on 021 422 0468. Last show at 16H50 to end at 18H00.
of how to get there.

It might be a room in the theatre, an office, or an apartment somewhere close by. You open
the door and find a phone ringing. You pick up the phone and a person with a strange accent
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NAME

EXILE MICHAEL LISTER: Director of Avanti Display Theatre

CREATED BY Co, UK. A street theatre pioneer, veteran of many
ALFRED HINKEL collaborative theatre productions and survivor of many
MICHAEL LISTER Arts Festivals. Michael made his international reputation
touring as the “Spurting Man”. He now specialises in
MARY MANZOLE site-specific theatre and dynamic spectacle.
PENELOPE YOUNGLESON
WHEN
MARY MANZOLE: A Zambian performer and performer-
SAT 21 FEB AT 11H15 ‹‹‹ MICHAEL LISTER ›››
DAILY MON 23 TO FRI 27 AT 13H15 facilitator trained in Theatre for Development
DURATION
methodologies, Mary uses her skills to disseminate
30 MINUTES information to marginalised people through the arts.
‹‹‹ ALFRED HINKEL ››› WHERE She has just completed her BA Honours Degree in
ADDERLEY STREET FOUNTAINS Applied Drama at Wits University.
TICKETS
FREE EVENT PENELOPE YOUNGLESON: Hailing from Durban, Penelope
A New Collaborative Work about loss, is a theatre maker currently studying at UCT. Her
which haunts Cape Town’s iconic Adderley Street Master’s course focusses on the intersection, distillation
and installation of Performance and Fine Art disciplines
fountains while the traffic circles. within her specific socio-geographic, historical and ‹‹‹ MARY MANZOLE ›››
philosophical context.
The notion of national identity has become fluid in the 21st century. What defines our national
identity? Is it the place we were born, or the place we live in, or the place we call ‘Home’?
The participation of Michael Lister has been made
And what if we can never return to that place, if the only Home we have is Nowhere; in the
possible by the British Council, and that of Mary
memories, dreams and stories we carry within us?
Manzole by Pro Helvetia.
“Being displaced between worlds, existing between a lost past and a fluid present, presents Adderley Street: Originally the Heerengracht, or “Gentlemen’s
the most fitting metaphor for modern consciousness.” (Caroline Moorehead in Human Cargo) Canal”, this was where Jan van Riebeeck planted the first seedlings
of the Company’s Garden. For many years it had a rubbish-filled canal
ALFRED HINKEL: ‘A grumpy old man’, a celebrated choreographer, and since 1986 the artistic running down it. A favourite thoroughfare for the Cape’s population,
one of its public entertainments used to be provided by criminals ‹‹‹ PENELOPE YOUNGLESON ›››
director of JAZZART: ‘the South African dance company with something valid to say.’ being flogged outside the jail. When the fountains were built in the
1960s they were said to be South Africa’s ugliest. For more fascinating
titbits on Cape Town’s history, go to www.infectingthecity.com
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NAME

EYTON ROAD EYTON ROAD employs live music, installation, video

DIRECTED BY projection and sculpture to take you on a journey
TALYA CHALEF through personal stories, from survival in the Holocaust
PERFORMED BY
to arrivals at Melbourne Pier and Cape Town Harbour.

TALYA CHALEF TALYA CHALEF: An independent theatre-maker working
ANDREW GREY in cross art-form original performance work, Talya
DRAMATURGE has spent the past five years working and living in
KELLY SOMES Melbourne, where she completed a postgraduate ‹‹‹ ANDREW GREY ›››
SOUND DESIGN programme at the Victorian College of the Arts. Her
JARED DAVIS research interests include memory, history, identity and
‹‹‹ TALYA CHALEF ››› LIGHTING DESIGN liminality.
BRONWYN PRINGLE
WHEN
ANDREW GREY: An Australian actor/facilitator and co-artistic director of Melbourne Playback
DAILY MON 23 TO FRI 27 AT 10H30 AND 14H30 Theatre Company, Andrew trained at the Victorian College of the Arts and has studied at the
DURATION Michael Howard Acting Studio in New York, and with Ruth Zaporah’s Action Theatre in Berkeley,
60 MINUTES California.
WHERE
“My grandparents were forcibly DISTRIX La Mama Theatre (Melbourne, Australia) has supported the development and premier season
removed from their homes during TICKETS of this work.
R30.00
World War 2, endured concentration Call Felicia on 021 422 0468 Distrix: Distrix evokes the spirit of District Six, Cape Town’s sprawling underbelly, which was demolished by the
camps and displaced persons camps. government in 1966. “The District” was a place of legend; it nurtured fine musicians, prize-winning writers and many

Displacement runs deeply solid citizens – as well as savage gangsters whose fights sometimes left the streets strewn with casualties, so that in
the days before vehicle patrols policemen used to go about in twos so that they could fight back to back. For more
through my family.” Talya Chalef fascinating titbits on Cape Town’s history, go to www.infectingthecity.com

South African/Australian artist Talya Chalef and Australian actor/facilitator

Andrew Grey perform EYTON ROAD, a moving performance piece that explores parallel journeys
of home, belonging, and place across generations, gender and time.
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NAME

FLEET OF ART
CREATORS
HEETEN BHAGAT
STEVE BANDOMA
BRIGITTE DEFAIX
FABRICE GUILLOT
ALFRED HINKEL
BRIAN GEZA
MICHAEL LISTER
KAI LOSSGOTT
MARY MANZOLE
On 21 February 2009, Spier celebrates its inaugural Spier Wine Harvest Festival. From 10am to JULIA RAYNHAM
3pm, families and fun-lovers can join the Harvest Fair at the Spier Deli. Taste Spier’s award- ATHI-PATRA RUGA
PENELOPE YOUNGLESON
winning wines and pair them with scrumptious specialty foods to create the ultimate wine
WHEN
picnic. A custom-made play area enables children and parents to interact and learn more
SAT 21 FROM 10H30
about the winemaking process. There will also be grape stomping and other games relating DAILY MON 23 TO FRI 27 FROM 11H30
to the harvest. Be sure to dress with the theme in green and white!
DURATION
120 MINUTES
As the sun sets, discerning foodies and wine-lovers can relish a prized seat at the Spier Harvest WHERE
Table. A long table under the oak trees will be laden with delectable cuisine complemented by SREETS OF CAPE TOWN
Spier wines. Tickets are strictly limited so book early! TICKETS
FREE EVENT
The Spier Harvest Legends Concert at the amphitheatre in the evening will feature legendary
South African performers including Judith Sephuma, Koos Kombuis, Melanie Scholtz, Zanne Fleet of cars. Fleet of foot. Fleet of art… A performance
Stapelberg and Nomfusi Gotyana, dubbed the next Miriam Makeba. This stellar line-up will art work coming to a traffic light near you.
share the stage, accompanied by the handpicked Harvest Festival Symphony Orchestra. Each of the artists participating in the New Collaborative Works has been commissioned to
make a low key, ‘invisible’ performance installation to tour the streets of Cape Town on the
TICKETS back of a bakkie. The old man in the yellow oilskins eating offal beneath a blue umbrella on the
Spier Harvest Legends Concert: R250, R200, R180 from computicket bakkie in front of you in Long Street might just be a work of art. But then again, he might not …
Harvest Table: R200 from computicket
Harvest Fair: R50 for entrance and wine tasting or games for kids (Buy tickets at the entrance) Bakkies are courtesy of Two Oceans Car and Truck hire
Cape Town’s Street Grid : Cape Town has had a street grid from the earliest days, when it was still a tiny hamlet. The
“Caabsche Vlek” was a carefully planned outpost designed to render repair and supply provisions to ships plying
between Europe and the East. By 1652 the Dutch East India Company was 50 years old and its directors, the Lords
Seventeen, knew exactly what they needed - namely, a 17th-Century version of a “truck stop” of modest size. For more
fascinating titbits on Cape Town’s history, go to www.infectingthecity.com
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NAME

INGCWABA LENDODA Drawing inspiration from African traditions and urban

LISE CANKWE NDLELA
(THE GRAVE OF THE MAN IS NEXT TO THE ROAD)
rituals, ‘INGCWABA LENDODA’ explores the physical,
emotional, spiritual and intellectual dislocation of
PRODUCED BY
young black South Africans whose origins lie a long
MAGNET THEATRE way down the N2 in the Eastern Cape.
WWW.MAGNETTHEATRE.CO.ZA
DIRECTED BY
MAGNET THEATRE has been operating in and out of
MANDLA MBOTHWE South Africa for 20 years. Foregrounding the language
of the body, they create innovative and sophisticated ‹‹‹ FANISWA YISA ›››
CHOREOGRAPHED BY
theatre that engages with conditions in South Africa.
MAXWELL XOLANI RANI
‹‹‹ MANDLA MBOTHWE ››› MUSIC BY
MANDLA MBOTHWE: Associate Director for the Magnet Theatre Educational Trust, Mandla is
NOLUFEFE MTSWABE currently working for the University of Cape Town as a drama lecturer and researcher. He has
FEATURING directed and created work for many community-based organisations, and last year directed
FANISWA YISA ‘Isivuno sama phupha’ (Harvest of Dreams) for ITC.
WHEN
DAILY MON 23 TO FRI 27 AT 10H30 FANISWA YISA: Since graduating from UCT with a diploma in Speech and Drama in 2000,
DURATION Faniswa has worked as a freelance actress with Janice Honeyman, Brett Bailey, Lara Bye, James
60 MINUTES Ngcobo and others. She has performed in CARGO and EVERY YEAR, EVERY DAY I AM WALKING
A stirring, vibrant multi-media THE ASSEMBLY
WHERE with Magnet Theatre.
work produced by one of the TICKETS The Assembly Night Club: Long ago The Assembly Night Club in Harrington Street was a granary. Poor people from
country’s top performance companies. R30.00 every conceivable place and race, runaway soldiers, sailors who had jumped ship, practitioners of every religion under
Call Felicia on 021 422 0468 the sun (or none at all), craftsmen practising many trades and crooks of all descriptions called the area “Kanaladorp”.
On the long road of life we are all searching for somewhere to This was the place where you helped your neighbour, even if you had almost nothing. For more fascinating titbits on
Cape Town’s history, go to www.infectingthecity.com
belong. We will still be searching when we die. Home – the concept
and the location – is central in African cultures. It is associated with
the fall of the umbilical cord, the grave, history, clans and ancestors.
Without a home you are not fixed, you are not protected, you are
like the wind.
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FABRICE GUILLOT: Poetic choreographer, designer and

LIMBO dancer Fabrice is a founder member of French company,

Retouramont (1990). Before that he worked with the
CREATED BY Roc In Lichen Company, and with Kitsou Dubois. In
BRIAN GEZA 1992 he created his first ‘public space’ performance, on
FABRICE GUILLOT top of a building in Paris. Fabrice is the designer and
JULIA RAYNHAM choreographer of TUNING INTO THE VOID (page 30).
KAI LOSSGOTT
WHEN KAI LOSSGOTT: A South African writer and visual artist
SAT 21 AT 9H45 working in video, performance and experimental film, ‹‹‹ FABRICE GUILLOT ›››
DAILY MON 23 TO FRI 27 AT 11H45 Kai is currently the artistic director of City Breath, a
DURATION collaborative urban video poetry and performance
30 MINUTES festival for the Cape 09 Biennale. He has lectured at a
‹‹‹ BRIAN GEZA ››› WHERE variety of South African universities.
CHURCH SQUARE
TICKETS JULIA RAYNHAM: Embracing fashion and ritual plant
A New Collaborative Work about today’s FREE EVENT medicines as subversive catalysts in her image making,
foreigners that dangles breathtakingly above the Square where in Julia takes ‘the body’ as artistic agent, with its capacity
to navigate cityscapes and terrains in flux, and engage
the past white slave-owners once bought their foreigners. with augmented states of consciousness. Based in Cape ‹‹‹ KAI LOSSGOTT ›››
Town, she works across disciplines of performance,
“Limbo” can be defined as suspended, postponed, pending, on ice; unresolved, up in the air,
composition, cinema and divination.
uncertain.
An exploration of the suspended reality of refugees/exiles/immigrants in South Africa: a reality The participation of Fabrice Guillot has been made
characterised by often dangerous journeys from the home country; waiting in eternal queues; possible by the French Institute of South Africa, and that of
tangles of red tape; uncertainty; applying for papers, visas, social grants, work permits …; lack Brian Geza by Pro Helvetia.
of access to bank accounts, health services and education, etc.; repatriation camps; subjection
to official bribery, arrest and intimidation. Church Square: Built where hippos once snorted in a vlei, Church Square
is the centre of Cape History. Facing onto it is the Slave Lodge, home
to generations of those in bondage; between it and the Groote Kerk
BRIAN GEZA: Creatively stimulated by social issues, Brian is the founder and director of is Spin Street, site of a failed silk industry. The stump of the infamous
Zvishamiso Arts, a dance, music and theatre outfit with a mandate to ‘edutain’ its audiences. tree under which slaves were reputedly auctioned is still there. Gone
is the cemetery which gave the name of Grave Street (now Parliament ‹‹‹ JULIA RAYNHAM ›››
He was a member of Zimbabwe’s premier dance company Tumbuka for 6 years until 2006.
Street). Parliament, the launch-pad for South Africa’s worst and best
laws, is still right next door to the square. For more fascinating titbits on
Cape Town’s history, go to www.infectingthecity.com
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MAKING SENSE TALKING HEADS:

Feeling blown away SPEAKERS “THESE ARE THE TIMES THAT Speed dating for your
by what you have seen BRENT MEERSMAN WE’RE TALKING ABOUT” brain: spend an evening
at the Festival? EDGAR PIETERSE PRESENTED BY in the living archive of
MARIANNE THAMM SPIER Cape Town.
Get a deeper AND THE CREATORS OF WORKS ON THE FESTIVAL CO-ORDINATED BY
understanding of the WHEN KAREN JEYNES
TUES 24 AT 16H00, WED 25 AT 16H30
performances from critical WHEN
thinkers and the artists DURATION
90 MINUTES
THURS 26 AT 19H30
themselves. WHERE
DURATION
120 MINUTES
THE NEW SPACE THEATRE, 44 LONG STREET
WHERE
TICKETS THE CITY HALL
FREE EVENT
TICKETS
Art does not exist in a vacuum. The performances in ITC are artistic responses to the calamity R100.00
of displacement that afflicts millions of people across the world and in South Africa. We have Call Felicia on 021 422 0468
invited renowned critical thinkers to spend a day attending the Festival and to present an
analysis of how the body of works reflects the convoluted society we live in. Three of the artists We live in convoluted and exhilarating times. But, battling to keep our heads above the wash
will also speak about their works and will respond to your observations and questions. of information, we seldom get more than a general picture. These are the times that we’re
BRENT MEERSMAN: A writer and performing arts critic for the Mail and Guardian, Brent was the talking about. At TALKING HEADS, 60 experts from a diverse range of fields and backgrounds
Campaign Manager for the Independent Democrats in 2004 . will share their knowledge and opinions on the world we live in.
EDGAR PIETERSE: Director of the African Centre for Cities at UCT, Professor Pieterse holds a PhD
from the London School of Economics. He is the author of the book, ‘City Futures: Confronting A bell marks the time and you will move from table to table engaging in four intimate 20
the crisis of Urban Development’. minute interactions with … a cosmologist, a trends analyst, a sex worker, a nuclear physicist,
MARIANNE THAMM: A columnist, author and journalist who lives in Cape Town, Marianne loves an ecologist … who knows who you’ll meet and what you’ll learn? Amongst 55 others, you
to consume the magic that others make. could talk to...Sheryl Ozinsky, Pearlie Joubert, Peter Hayes, Justin Nurse or Owen Kinahan. Only
120 tickets are available for this opulent affair. Dress with flair. Spier wines will be served.
With thanks to The New Space Theatre and The Grand Daddy Hotel
Background on site: In 1976 upper Long Street was a night-time desert inhabited mainly by boozers leaving the The Cape Town City Hall: Built of imported Bath limestone in 1905, the City Hall stands at Cape Town’s historical ground
Mountain View pub and shady ladies from the adjacent Carnival Apartments. Then Brian Astbury and Yvonne zero. During the turbulent 1970s and 1980s many demonstrations, some very violent, took place on the Parade and then
Bryceland moved their avant-garde Space Theatre from Bloem Street to the first floor of the former YMCA building at spilled over into Darling Street; a “Free Mandela” political rally was actually in progress there when it was announced
44 Long Street and opened their seats to patrons of all colours in spite of the segregation laws. For more fascinating in Parliament that he would be released. Nowadays the only noise comes from the stall-holders on the Parade loudly
titbits on Cape Town’s history, go to infectingthecity.com hawking their wares. For more fascinating titbits on Cape Town’s history, go to www.infectingthecity.com
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TUNING INTO THE VOID Three dancers from France’s celebrated aerial dance company bring this suspended sculpture
PRESENTED BY to life, setting up a graphic dialogue between their black figures and the pyramid of ropes.
THE FRENCH INSTITUTE OF
SOUTH AFRICA RETOURAMONT COMPANY: based in Paris, France, the company was formed in 1995 by dancer-
PRODUCED BY
choreographers Geneviève Mazin and Fabrice Guillot, both of whom come from contemporary/
classical dance backgrounds. Since then Retouramont has created and toured with 12 original
RETOURAMONT COMPANY works, many of them site-specific.
WWW.RETOURAMONT.COM
DESIGNED / CHOREOGRAPHED BY
FABRICE GUILLOT: Poetic choreographer, designer and dancer Fabrice is a founder member of
FABRICE GUILLOT French company, Retouramont (1990). In 1992 he created his first ‘public space’ performance,
PERFORMED BY
on top of a building in Paris. Fabrice is one of the collaborators behind LIMBO (page 26).
FRANCISCA ALVAREZ
SEVERINE BENNEVAULT
OLIVIA CUBERO
MUSIC BY
DURATION RENÉ MICHEL & BRUNO LE ROUZIC
40 MINUTES TECHNICAL MANAGER
WHERE MICHAEL POYET
RIEBEECK SQUARE WHEN
TICKETS SAT 21 AT 12H00, MON 23 AT 15H30
FREE EVENT TUES 24 AT 15H30 ‹‹‹ OLIVIA CUBERO ››› ‹‹‹ SEVERINE BENNEVAULT ››› ‹‹‹ FRANCISCA ALVAREZ ›››

Riebeeck Square: Riebeeck Square used to be known as “Hottentot Square”

A vast animated sculpture suspended from a crane where, up to 1847, criminals were publicly flogged until complaints about the
screeching forced the authorities to inflict punishment elsewhere. It features
against Cape Town’s dramatic skyline. South Africa’s first purpose-built theatre, completed in 1800 at such cost that
the then governor was fired. For more fascinating titbits on Cape Town’s
history, go to www.infectingthecity.com
A void is like an invisible body suspended in mid-air. It is the space between two objects,
between two bodies, serving to distinguish two visible forms that move side by side. But pay
heed to that “in-between”; and it thickens, becomes almost palpable, moving, shrinking,
stretching and tipping over. ‹‹‹ FABRICE GUILLOT ›››
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CREDITS
INFECTING THE CITY
CURATOR: BRETT BAILEY
FESTIVAL MANAGER: FRAN COX
TECHNICAL MANAGER: IAIN NORTH
PUBLICITY: RABBIT IN A HAT COMMUNICATIONS
FESTIVAL & PROGRAMME DESIGN: TWOSHOES GRAPHIC DESIGNERS
WEBSITE DESIGN: TENACITY WORKS
HOME AFFAIRS COURSE COORDINATOR: SAM PEARCE
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT (HOME AFFAIRS COURSE): KAREN JEYNES
FESTIVAL ADMINISTRATION: FELICIA PATTISON-BACON
HISTORICAL INFORMATION: WILLEM STEENKAMP

AFRICA CENTRE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
DEREK CARELSE, ADRIAN ENTHOVEN, RALPH FREESE, TANNER METHVIN
FINANCIAL MANAGER: JASON BROWN
GENERAL MANAGER: BABALWA SOGA-SIKUMBA
MARKETING MANAGER: ISLA HADDOW-FLOOD
FUNDRAISING MANAGER: CAROLINE NENGUKE