By Abdi Ali
Published May 11, 2021
Enjoying the ongoing (Un)Infecting the City public arts festival (May 8 – June 30, 2021)?
The second programme of this free-to-the-public arts festival that bring art, music, dance and performance out of theatres and galleries and into the public spaces of Cape Town
The second of the eight festival programmes of (Un)Infecting the City on May 11 and 12, on the theme ‘locked in, looking out’, continues to mesmerise festivalgoers both online and offline.
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Reimagined as a crowd-free event and taking place across multiple outdoor venues, (Un)Infecting the City also incorporates digital and virtual elements that can be experienced by anyone with access to the Internet, and from anywhere.
Hey, read more about the Festival’s programme, artists and artworks on the (Un)Infecting the City 2021 website
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Meanwhile, Institute of Creative Arts (ICA) of University of Cape Town, that is also presenting the (Un)Infecting the City 2021 festival, Institute of Creative Arts of University of Cape Town invites lovers of the arts, culture and entertainment to the Zoom launch of its 2021 Great Texts/Big Questions Online Lecture Series with award-winning writer, Zukiswa Wanner, on May 12, 2021 at 1:00 PM.
The Kenya-based, South African journalist and novelist is expected to present her lecture on Creativity in the face of crisis.
“I will touch on how stories in their many forms – music, film, books – have helped and continue to help us as we live; how the artist’s voice has been amplified as it has become more needed, but against some very tough odds,” Zukiswa Wanner says. “I will also touch on the killings of Collins Khoza, George Floyd and Joao Pedro Matos Pinto, and how artists have reacted to their deaths. As well as the very real ‘loss upon loss’, not just of family members and income by artists, but how even the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme (PESP) has been handled shoddily. And still artists create in spite of, and South Africa and the world continue consuming art in spite of that.”
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The event, to be broadcast via zoom, shall be facilitated by ICA Director, Professor Jay Pather, and Wanner’s lecture will be followed by a Q&A with online viewers.
Join the event at 1:00 PM on May 12 via this Zoom link,
Oh, a little more information about presenter Warner won’t hurt, will it?
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Zukiswa Wanner is the author of four novels, four children’s books and two books of nonfiction. She has been a columnist for True Love (SA), The Star and Nation (Kenya), New African and Mail & Guardian and has written for publications like the New York Times and The Guardian. As a publisher, Wanner counts among her authors Mukoma wa Ngugi from Kenya and Angolan writer Yara Monteiro. She is the founder and curator of Artistic Encounters, Afrolit Sans Frontieres and Virtually Yours. In 2020, Wanner became the first African woman to win the Goethe Medal, an official decoration by the German government conferred to non-Germans for outstanding service for international cultural relations. She was also selected by New African as one of Africa’s 100 Most Influential Africans and by literary journal Brittle Paper as the 2020 African Literary Person of the Year.
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