Moving the TUT Arts Festival from Good to Great

Moving the TUT Arts Festival from Good to Great

Moving the TUT Arts Festival from Good to Great. As staff and students prepare for the TUT Arts Festival from 26 to 28 September, excitement is in the air at Tshwane University of Technology’s Arts Campus.

TUT Arts Festival is part of the Faculty of Arts and Design’s dynamic academic programme, providing students with the opportunity to rub shoulders with industry partners, learn the latest technology and trends, and put their knowledge into practice, resulting in future-ready graduates.

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Moving the TUT Arts Festival from Good to Great

Through creativity, responsible citizenship, and social awareness, students will demonstrate how they address challenges this year’s theme, ARTIVISM.

During the Festival, the Faculty celebrates and showcases the remarkable talent of its students, staff, alumni, and community through the generous support of MGG Productions and Bespoke Entertainment Solutions, which sponsor the technical equipment for our open stage area.

Visit our city campuses to take part in our Arts Festival activations.

A lighthearted opera by Gaetano Donizetti, L’elisir D’amore (The love potion), will kick off the Festival. A contemporary setting of this popular opera was created by the Department to make it more accessible to a young, modern audience and to draw attention to some historical Tshwane facts.

It has therefore been renamed Bhekamina, a performance that takes place on Heritage Day in Marabastad, instead of being set in a village in rural Italy. A special matinee performance will be offered on September 27 at 1:00 p.m. to allow festivalgoers to schedule it as part of their day program, as the production will continue to be performed in Italian at the Breytenbach Theater, 137 Gerhard Moerdyk Street, Sunnyside.

A pre-African Film Festival, Tigritudes, will be hosted by the Department of Visual Communication as part of our Film and Talk Fest. This festival will feature a screening of Kentridge’s 11 Drawings for Projection Film and a panel discussion following.

The selection of feature films from the Tigritudes Film Fest will be followed by a one-day selected work screening. This anthology of 126 films, 40 countries, and 66 years of cinema history traces pan-African subjective and chronological development.

In collaboration with the Forum des Images, directors Dyana Gaye and Valérie Osouf have conceived of an art cycle that explores a cinematic form that is still largely unknown. Mauritania, Algeria, and South Africa will be represented in the TUT leg of the festival.

Our book launch event this year will feature Prof Keyan Tomaselli and Richard Green (with a preface by Ntshaveni Walaruli) launching the seminal book on South African audio-visual production, Richard Green in South African Film Forging Creative New Directions.

The authors will be joined by key industry figures for a panel discussion. Several international universities who offer film courses still require Tomaselli’s seminal book, The Cinema of Apartheid (1989), as a required text.

Our students will learn from master blowers while Ngwenya Glass gives the public a behind-the-scenes tour.

 This exciting line-up includes masterclasses, technical talks, student film festivals, industry and alumni talks, exhibitions, demonstrations, performances, flash fashion shows, big band jazz performances, and open classes, covering the arts in all their facets, from design to fine art to performing arts.

As part of an exciting sport and recreation journey, the Faculty of Management Sciences and the Sport and Recreation Management section of the Department of Marketing, Supply Chain and Sport Management will collaborate to activate ARTIVISM. The Festival will take on a new dynamic this year as a result of this.

Among the activities will be wall climbing, dodgeball, “art”chery, which will promote problem-solving skills, teamwork, creativity, collaboration, as well as mental and physical health.

It is a great opportunity for students interested in the creative industries to check out what is on offer and gain first-hand information that will assist them with future career decisions. Group bookings are welcome for schools. There is a limited number of spaces available each day.

Take a break, network and get inspired from new, up-and-coming young creatives, invest in original artwork, scout new talent, or just support new, up-and-coming young creatives.

Ticket sales are available through Webtickets or at your nearest Pick n Pay. 

 The cost of a daily campus access ticket is R50, or the cost of a three-day campus access ticket is R120. Staff and students at TUT can purchase tickets for R10 for daily campus access with their staff/student cards.

Bhekamina (L’Elisir D’Amore)

The public ticket price is R70 and the student ticket price is R35. There is a price of R50 per ticket for block bookings of 10 tickets. Bookings must be made online. Space is limited.

Tie-Dye Workshop

You can tie-dye or make Shiburi on a sarong or T-shirt (you can take your product home with you). You will need to pay an additional R150 per 1-hour session with a maximum of 10 participants per session at 10:00, 12:00, and 14:00 daily. It is essential to book online.

Dance Masterclasses

For daily access tickets (R50 per day) or three-day access tickets (R120), online booking is required. Each session can accommodate up to 50 participants.

  • 26 September @ 10:00 – 11:30 Tap with Megan Rosenberg
  • 27 September @ 10:00 – 11:30 AfroPop with Tumisang Rapoo OR Horton Technique with Nicola Haskins & Jeannette Ziady
  • 28 September @ 10:00 – 11:30 Ballet repertoire with Christopher and Tanja Montague OR Jazz with Pinto Ferreira

Theatre Arts and Performance Workshops & Master Classes

Online booking is essential for R50 per session (your daily access ticket) or R120 (three-day access ticket). Maximum of 40 participants per session.
  • 26 September @ 10:00 – 11:30  Theatre/Drama workshop with Gale Moabi & 3rd-year  Applied Theatre Students
    • 13:00 – 14:00  Applied Theatre workshop with Ndivhuwo Mushanganyisi & Gale Moabi
    • 13:30 – 15:00   Physical Theatre Masterclass with Gifter Ngobeni & Janine Lewis
  • 27 September @ 10:00 – 11:30   Theatre/Drama workshop with  Gale Moabi & 3rd-year Applied Theatre Students
    • 12:00 – 13:00    Viewpoints Acting Masterclass with Gifter Ngobeni & Janine Lewis
    • 13:00 – 14:00    Applied Theatre workshop with Ndivhuwo Mushanganyisi & Gale Moabi
  • 28 September @ 10:00 – 11:30   Theatre/Drama workshop with Gale Moabi & 3rd-year Applied Theatre Students
    • 13:00 – 14:00     Applied Theatre workshop with Ndivhuwo Mushanganyisi & Gale Moabi
    • 13:30 – 15:00    Physical Theatre Masterclass with Gifter Ngobeni & Janine Lewis

Click here to buy your ticket: TUT Arts Festival (webtickets.co.za)

Limited space available. No campus access without a ticket. No cooler bags.

Visit www.tut.ac.za; www.tutfadshowcase.ac.za for updates, or email [email protected] for more information or to make your school bookings.

For more information on the Tshwane University of Technology, please contact Phaphama Tshisikhawe, Corporate Affairs and Marketing.

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