National Arts Festival Makhanda
Venue: Makhanda
Dates: 23/06/2022 to 03/07/2022
Times: Various Times
The Grahamstown National Arts Festival: Africa’s largest and most colourful cultural event offers a choice of the very best of both indigenous and imported talent. Every year for 11 days (June/July) Grahamstown’s population almost doubles, as over 50 000 people flock to Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape for a feast of arts, crafts and sheer entertainment.
Every hall or large room becomes a theatre, parks and sport fields become flea markets, normally quiet streets have to be managed by an army of temporary traffic wardens, and every available bed in the city is booked. The festival offers more than 500 shows from opera, cabaret, drama and jazz to stand-up comics and folk music.
From theatre to dance, opera to cabaret, fine art to craft art, classical music to jazz, poetry readings to lectures, every art form imaginable is represented in one of the most diverse festivals in the world. And there’s something for every taste, with techno raves, mediaeval banquets, craft fairs, cyber cafes, carnivals, buskers and walking tours.
Venue Details & Map
Makhanda
Physical Address: MakhandaTelephone: +27(0)46 603 1103 Email: info@nationalartsfestival.co.za Latitude: -30.069094 Longitude: 24.65332