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National Arts Festival Features
Nibs van der Spuy and Guy Buttery play together at this year National Arts Festival. The duo play guitars and mbira with lucid harmonics that giving their songs a brilliant mystical aura. Their close relationship and almost telepathic jamming is testament to their partnership of some twelve years.
Report by Candice Ford & Kelley Wake
Ancestors is a collaboration between French company Les Grandes Personnes and local performers. It combines stories created by the performers to produce a narrative told by delightful puppets. The audience follows the storytellers and puppets around a large outdoor space. This imaginative production includes an exhibition of the various puppets used.
Princess Emma -- Ukuzazi takes the audience on a journey through the life of one woman who overcame singular struggle and achievement in the Eastern Cape. The daughter of a Xhosa Chief, she was taken away from her family to be educated as a Victorian woman and became the first black woman to own land in that era. Yet her real name has never been recorded or her story really told. Ingrid Wylde's production presents Emma's epic in the perfect setting in St Phillip's Church in Fingo Village where she taught and is a triumph of the National Arts Festival
Nearly all of us have been touched by cancer in some way. cueTV looks at two artists who have used their creativity to express and heal the pain cancer can cause. 1 in 9 photographer, Tracey Derrick, was diagnosed with cancer and used her photography to document her journey of survival through cancer. Northern Dance Project's director and choreographer, Deborah Mc Fadden, uses dance to express the struggle of surviving and living with breast cancer.
Guy Buttery & Nibs van der Spuy
Ancestors
Princess Emma
Cancer and the National Arts Festival