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This is a significant year for Cape Town as it celebrates both 20 Years of Democracy and Freedom and being World Design Capital 2014. In recognition of this, Infecting The City will be marking the year with its most ambitious festival to date.
Jay Pather, curator for the third year in a row, said: "Between 2008 and 2013 Infecting The City grew from just over 10 artworks to 54 artworks and performances. This year the programme comprises around 40 works with more large-scale, substantial works. Again, the productions range from the popular and entertaining to the conceptual and thought-provoking. This year there are also many works of authority to mark the political and social importance of 2014 for all South Africans."
Audiences can expect a mix of works across all artistic disciplines, some of which include:
The works will be spread throughout the public spaces of Cape Town and designed to encourage audiences to discover, define and experience the city's private and public environments.
Tanner Methvin, executive director of the Africa Centre, said: "Infecting The City allows us to create an alternative to daily life in Cape Town. It puts new ideas out in the open. Freely accessible to anyone who is interested, iIt makes beauty and wonderment as common as shop fronts and it gives proof to the idea that we all can decide for ourselves what is possible and what reality we want to create."
Councillor Grant Pascoe, Mayoral Committee Member for Tourism, Events and Marketing, said: "The City of Cape Town is thrilled to host the seventh edition of Infecting The City. The festival will once again bring Cape Town's public spaces to life with a variety of acts, installations and imaginative artworks. This year's festival is expected to be bigger and bolder than before and comes at a time when Cape Town celebrates its status as the World Design Capital 2014. A unique component of this festival is the audience participation, which allows residents to get involved in, and even influence, performances and designs. The event is an opportunity for citizens to showcase their creative brilliance."
The programme will have day and evening components over the course of the festival week. The daytime programmes includes both designated routes that feature larger scale works that audiences can follow from one to the next and non-route-based work that is both scheduled or simply must be stumbled upon.
The evening programme will only be route-based. The full programme is available on www.infectingthecity.com
The Festival Hub is situated at 6 Spin Street, Cape Town where copies of the programme and other information will be available throughout the festival period.
As part of the Infecting The City youth-development programme, Arts Aweh! 400 high school scholars from across greater Cape Town will be transported to the city centre to engage and interact with the festival and its artists.