Arts in the city

The Mother City's official arts, culture and heritage festival kicks off on Monday 6 March and this year the focus is on the Cape Town International Performing Arts Festival, a 19 day multi-cultural extravaganza of contemporary dance, theatre, comedy, poetry and music, held at 12 of Cape Town's top music and theatre venues. The festival programme is available on the website www.capetownfestival.co.za.