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The Makhanda Massed Choir performs at the opening ceremony of the National Arts Festival 2019. The Masicule! Massed choir event will take place in an outdoor setting as part of the Festival’s 2021 offering. Photo: Sue Maclennan Makhanda welcomes live Festival’s return
The National Arts Festival Experience will revive its live 11 day National Arts Festival in its home city of Makhanda from 8-18 July (Makhanda Live) and stage a National Arts Festival Online which will be entirely online in July. And, for the first time ever, the National Arts Festival will present a series of shows, in partnership with Standard Bank, in cities across the country. The collection, called Standard Bank Presents, will give audiences across the country a taste of what the Festival has to offer from 17 June to 4 July 2021.
The National Arts Festival, in the form that Makhanda residents know best, it is back – live and on stage – in July 2021. But that’s just part of what this town’s biggest annual event is offering in its 48th edition.
The National Arts Festival Experience will revive its live 11 day National Arts Festival in its home city of Makhanda from 8-18 July (
Makhanda Live) and stage a
National Arts Festival Online which will be entirely online in July. And, for the first time ever, the National Arts Festival will present a series of shows, in partnership with Standard Bank, in cities across the country. The collection, called
Last year the National Arts Festival took the eleven-day experience online in response to Covid-19 lockdown regulations.
As a result the festival has evolved into a hybrid experience taking place both online and in person.
For example this year, for the first time ever, the festival will stage a series of shows in cities across the country.
The National Arts Festival has announced that it will present a multi-layered arts experience for its 2021 edition. The National Arts Festival Experience will revive its live 11 day National Arts Festival in its home city of Makhanda in the Eastern Cape from 8-18 July (Makhanda Live) and stage a National Arts Festival Online which will be entirely online in July. And, for the first time ever, the National Arts Festival will present a series of shows, in partnership with Standard Bank, in cities across the country. The collection, called Standard Bank Presents, will give audiences across the country a taste of what the Festival has to offe
The 2021 edition of the National Arts Festival (NAF) will include an in-person, virtual and countrywide programme.
The arts festival will revive its live 11-day programme in its home city of Makhanda in the Eastern Cape from 8-18 July (Makhanda Live) and stage a National Arts Festival Online, which will be entirely online in July.
Birthing Nureyev at the 2019 National Arts Festival in Makhanda
Additionally, for the first time, the National Arts Festival will present a series of shows, in partnership with Standard Bank, in cities across the country. The collection, called Standard Bank Presents, will give audiences across the country a taste of what the festival has to offer from 17 June to 4 July 2021.
National Arts Festival to present a multi-layered experience this 2021
Introducing the National Arts Festival, a hybrid festival of the arts, anchored in Makhanda, accessible online and coming to you in cites across South Africa.
Curating a more intimate festival
Yes, the National Arts Festival will revive its live 11-day festival in its home city of Makhanda in the Eastern Cape from 8 to 18 July 2021 and later stage a festival online as well. The festival will also present a series of shows, in partnership with Standard Bank, in cities across the country. The collection, called Standard Bank Presents, will give audiences across the country a taste of what the festival has to offer from 17 June to 4 July 2021.