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EXPRESS YOURSELF THROUGH PASSION
Disciplined through dance, Kuyakhanya cultivates role models. It is important for a child to grow up in an environment that nurtures self expression. The Kuyakhanya Primary School Arts Project in Crossroads creates a space where all children fit in by standing out....
Marching your way to success
When you march, you feel a strange sort of power that flares up within you, when you march together, you feel a sense of unity. This is the sense I get from the Western Province Marching Association (WPMA), an exceptional marching band and organisation that focuses...
Discovering personal power through Belly dancing
The pressure on women to conform to unreasonable ideas of beauty is unforgiving in the age of filters, Instagram, photoshop and all the rest. Loving yourself for who you are is a journey of discovery and one of the life learnings encouraged by Aphrodite Belly Dancing...
Marching and dancing to the same beat
If you were in a band, what instrument would you play? Would you drum, play marimbas, cymbals, or trumpet? How would you fill in those gaps with your unique sound? Or would you move to the rhythms in your body? In Macassar, there is a world filled with music and dance...
We challenge South Africans to remember the promise of freedom and to creatively imagine an African future
The power of thinking differently to imagine a different future on the eve of Freedom Day. We held the seventh of our monthly online Cultural Creative workshops for 40 community performance groups and individuals this past Saturday Focused on imagining a future by...
Empathy and openly acknowledging their vulnerabilities are driving women to successfully navigate incredible change.
The enormously popular Cape Town Carnival has been forced to contend with unprecedented challenges in how to remain viable in an era of social distancing, limited crowd capacities and, depending on the level of lockdown restrictions of the day, a banning of public...
Cape Town Carnival scheduled for March 2021 postponed to next summer
Due to the impact of Covid-19 restrictions, the Cape Town Carnival scheduled for 20 March 2021 will not take place. The Cape Town Carnival looks forward to hosting its exciting new live-event format in five access-controlled locations in the city during summer of...
A huge, huge thank you!
It’s thanks to our incredibly generous sponsors that we’re able to host this free event every year.
We just can’t say thank you enough.
