Nelson Mandela Bay will come alive today when the Mandela Bay Arts Festival opens on Friday 16 February 2024. The Festival puts regional and globally well-known artists under the spotlight for 10 days up until 25 February. Reveals will be staged throughout a number of places, consisting of the Mendi Arts Centre, The Athenaeum, The One Room Music & & Comedy Club, The Savoy Theatre and The Black Box Theatre with a selection of efficiencies that will leave audiences ruined for option. Art will likewise be on display screen at the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Art Museum, and pop-up craft stores can be discovered at the Mendi Arts Centre and The Athenaeum.
Khanyisa Bunu will share the stage with Mandisi Dyantyis and Skank and the Roots this weekend in a sold out show at Roof Garden Bar.
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A weekend emphasize sees leading Eastern Cape artists return home for the Mandela Bay Arts Festival. On the 17th February, Mandisi Dyantyis, reggae band Skank and the Roots, and comic Khanyisa Bunu offered out program Groove and Comedy Concert in the very first in a series of 3 Festival Garden Party occasions at Roof Garden Bar. The other Festival Garden Party occasions sees Iyeza strike maker Zain SA and regional favourites MissJay, Thembi Mona and Despatch duo King Jade & Baby Joe come together on 23 February for a once-off Bass and Beats Session.
On 24 February, famous SA entertainer Simphiwe Dana will be reside in performance with Belato and Siya Seya for a Soul & Comedy experience. These extra shows were enabled with financing from the Presidential Employment Stimulus Programme administered by the National Arts Council.
The Mandela Bay Arts Festival is a task of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality and is produced by the National Arts Festival. States Cllr Bassie Kamana (MMC for Sports Recreation Arts and Culture) “Artists specify the character of our area and this Festival exhibits the skill and imagination in our middle. We are thrilled that, as a City, we have actually developed this platform for them to display their skill. The program was curated through an extensive procedure of assessment, application, evaluation and choice with a concentrate on promoting regional skill in the Bay. We eagerly anticipate the programs ahead and this event of the arts.”
The complete program is on the Festival site www.mbaf.co.za. Tickets are currently on sale– and can likewise be scheduled online from the very same site. Tickets can likewise be purchased package workplaces at The Athenaeum and Mendi Arts Centre from 13 February and at the different Festival locations one hour before the program.