OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: MIXTAPE PUBLIC ARTS PROJECT GRAHAMSTOWN NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL FESTIVAL
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
So, after a year of proposal writing, planning, talking and much panicking, we have finally done it: the Mixtape Public Arts Project is happening at this year's National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, and you can still be a part of it!
For anyone who has been to Grahamstown Festival recently, you may have noticed the lack of engagement not only with contemporary visual art, but also with public art generally - everything is expensive, inaccessible and a long walk up a hill. Mixtape Public Arts Project is changing that, introducing art and performance that is public, interactive, multidisciplinary and collaborative.
At the same time, most of the people who actually LIVE and produce work in Grahamstown and its sorrounds rarely get to experience anything of the Arts Festival, and certainly there are a lot of prohibitions that make it difficult for the majority of Grahamstonians to contribute meaningfully to the Festival programme. Mixtape's Public Art Project aims to bridge the gap between East and West Grahamstown; engaging in meaningful, collaborative projects with people and institutions who represent Grahamstown's community arts and culture projects. As well as working with artists, cultural producers and community leaders, Mixtape's projects and events will encourage festival goers to move from the usual three-street radius that the National Arts Festival centers around, bringing the festival audience to Grahamstown's broader community and vise versa.
The next few posts will detail our projects for the festival; these will be added to, changed, expanded etc in the next few weeks - Please, wherever or whoever you are, comment with ideas, criticisms and anything else you want to share with us.
And if you're in Grahamstown or Cape Town, get in touch with either of us here, or on facebook and come join in our meetings, we're looking for interesting people to think, help, and work together!
P.S by 'us' (as in get hold of), I mean the Project coordinators, myself Linda Stupart (Cape Town) or Craig Groenewald (Grahamstown)
Yay.
For anyone who has been to Grahamstown Festival recently, you may have noticed the lack of engagement not only with contemporary visual art, but also with public art generally - everything is expensive, inaccessible and a long walk up a hill. Mixtape Public Arts Project is changing that, introducing art and performance that is public, interactive, multidisciplinary and collaborative.
At the same time, most of the people who actually LIVE and produce work in Grahamstown and its sorrounds rarely get to experience anything of the Arts Festival, and certainly there are a lot of prohibitions that make it difficult for the majority of Grahamstonians to contribute meaningfully to the Festival programme. Mixtape's Public Art Project aims to bridge the gap between East and West Grahamstown; engaging in meaningful, collaborative projects with people and institutions who represent Grahamstown's community arts and culture projects. As well as working with artists, cultural producers and community leaders, Mixtape's projects and events will encourage festival goers to move from the usual three-street radius that the National Arts Festival centers around, bringing the festival audience to Grahamstown's broader community and vise versa.
The next few posts will detail our projects for the festival; these will be added to, changed, expanded etc in the next few weeks - Please, wherever or whoever you are, comment with ideas, criticisms and anything else you want to share with us.
And if you're in Grahamstown or Cape Town, get in touch with either of us here, or on facebook and come join in our meetings, we're looking for interesting people to think, help, and work together!
P.S by 'us' (as in get hold of), I mean the Project coordinators, myself Linda Stupart (Cape Town) or Craig Groenewald (Grahamstown)
Yay.
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