Cape Town’s Infecting the City is shifting from an annual event to a biennale public arts festival. We believe this approach is the only way we can collectively create a socially engaged, high quality and abundant festival that has sustainable relevance. The call for applications will go out in March 2018 for the Festival to be hosted in March 2019. Keep up to date via Facebook as the planning progresses. …
Now it it’s 10th year, Infecting the City will once again engage the communal spaces of Cape Town’s central business district between the 5 and 8 April 2017. A collaboration between the Africa Centre and the Institute of Creative Arts, the 10th iteration of ITC is firmly focused on making Cape Town a more public city by …
After much deliberation, we are thrilled to share the 2017 Infecting the City artists shortlist! This year we received a total of 220 applications from across the country and have been impressed by the continued quality and diversity of the those received. After a thorough selection process that invited the curatorial team and panel of …
Based on funding constraints, the Africa Centre has regretfully had to cancel Cape Town’s Infecting the City Festival for 2016. Every year since its inception in 2008, audience attendance, artist participation and media attention has increased, as the Festival emerged into one of Cape Town’s signature artistic events. Its audience numbers peaked in 2015 with …
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We received an extraordinary number of high quality applications for Infecting The City 2016. From these applications, we have shortlisted the following artists for the Festival. Someone from the curatorial team will be contacting you over the next few weeks to discuss your application in more detail. A. Mmaka, Valentina Acting for Camera Department, CityVarsity …
From 9 – 14 March, the Infecting the City public arts festival will inject the City of Cape Town’s public spaces with music, visual and performance art, dance, video and art forms without definition. The Festival includes a curatorial panel this year rather than a single curator. Curators Farzanah Badsha, Nadja Daehnke, Mandla Mbothwe and …
From 10 – 15 March 2014, Cape Town came alive with dance, music, large-scale visual art, performance and theatre during the Festival’s seventh iteration. Featured works included existing, re-staged productions from participating arts organisations and groups; a selection of new works created specifically for ITC 2014; and collaborative pieces conceived under the guidance of the …
Infecting The City spread its wings earlier this year when it staged a new public art intervention in January 2014 in the form of ITC Mbombela. Infecting the City curator Jay Pather commented on the receptiveness of the Mbombela public to the festival, where audience members deliberately sought out performances. “People were so excited, you …
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