Beyond beauty: a city of possibilities
Bulelwa Makalima-Ngewana, managing director of the Cape Town Partnership, recently wrote about what Cape Town’s Infecting the City public arts festival means to her, and what it could mean for the city. Originally published in the Cape Times on 12 March 2013 under the headline “Artists help us dream about what our city could become”, the opinion piece can be read in full here.
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Infecting the City video: Bringing the soul back into Cape Town
In the month of March every year, Cape Town’s streets are filled with the awe-inspiring, the beautiful and the unexpected during Africa Centre’s Infecting the City public arts festival. The festival provides an opportunity to push the limits of what we believe is possible on our streets and in our lives, and everyday city users gather with artists from all over globe to reimagine the space. We took the opportunity in 2013 to capture some of the magic that happens. Continued…
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Scrabbling the city: a City Views cover story
On the cover of the March issue of City Views we give you a taste of what is to come during the free public arts festival Infecting the City from 11 to 16 March. The featured work, Scrabbling, is based on the popular word game Scrabble and invites audience and passersby to express themselves and collectively create a temporary artwork. Creator Guto Bussab is the founder and owner of MUTI, a parent brand for Muti Films (film production), Muti Photography (commercial photography) and TheMutiGallery art gallery). City Views traded letters with the artist.
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Art to animate Cape Town CBD
Annual public arts festival Infecting the City will explode on to the streets of Cape Town from 6 to 10 March 2012 – helping audiences to see, hear and smell the extraordinary and take a fresh look at the Mother City and its citizens. Continued…
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Africa Centre opening up the city through art
Tanner Methvin is the executive director of the Africa Centre, the organisation that hosts the public arts festival Infecting the City in Cape Town each year. Continued…
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Don’t be caught uninfected
This month sees the return of the much-loved Infecting the City festival. Infecting the City is a public arts festival that stages and exhibits thought-provoking and boundary breaking works in the City of Cape Town’s communal spaces. Continued…
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