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ArtsAbility Festival 2022

  • Ticket Cost

    R120
  • Start Date

    Nov 29 2022
  • Theatre

    Theatre

PRODUCTIONS

UNCLEAR (PG18) – 30 Nov @ 19h30
DUST TO MAN and DIVERSITY IN DANCE –          1 Dec @ 19h30
CHINK IN A RUBBER WALL – 2 Dec @ 19h30
LISTEN TO MY HANDS and DIVERSITY IN DANCE – 3 Dec @ 15h00

 

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Launch Performances – 29 November @ 7:30pm

The ArtsAbility Festival celebrates its 8th year and continues to use the arts to drive social transformation, addressing the issues that people with disabilities experience in their lives.  It challenges what it means to be human and highlights the significance of accessibility and intergration into the arts.

The launch will feature the collaboration with our dynamic international partners, Sensorim Ex from the USA and Diversity in Dance from the UK

 Also featuring on the programme is our in-house company, Unmute Dance Theatre with the production Timelapse/We are Here, which looks at how human beings experience constant change from the day we are born.  We experience many moments, some that remain with us as memories, some life in our bodies as feelings and others we forget.  This piece uncovers how these moments move through time and space, what we do now and how it affects what comes next. 

PRODUCTIONS

UNCLEAR (PG18) – 30 November @ 19h30 

Unclear’ by queer disabled artist Louise Westerhout, in their first performance piece since stage 4 cancer and hip/femur replacement from February this year. Louise recounts in forensic detail the symptoms she remembers before, during, and now as a perhaps futile effort in clarifying when it started, what caused it, where next. Unclear exposes the uncomfortable, shifting realities of our mortal existence and our erroneous need for meaning. As a multimedia installation it offers nuanced diagnoses, on the personal, but also the socio-cultural pathologies which perpetuate illness, such as ableism, misogyny, ageism and queer phobia.

Unclear is made in conversation with Craig Leo.

DUST TO MAN and DIVERSITY IN DANCE – 1 December @ 19h30

Dust To Man is inspired by the Islamic story of Adam and Hawa (Adam and Eve).  The production looks at the beginning of Adam’s purpose and what he was meant to do for man on Earth.  “Caretaker, answer, rename and lead man’s doing today”.  He was then influenced by what is forbidden which led to change and life as we know it.  ‘When the Lord said to the angels:  I am going to create a human (Adam) from sounding clay of altered black smooth mud.  So when I have fashioned him and breathed into him (his) soul created by Me, then fall prostrate to him”.

The Diversity in Dance Project, funded by the British Council, is a partnership between Artscape and Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Unmute Dance Theatre will host 3 dancers from the UK for 2 months to work on creating new work.  The collaborative work will see able and disabled bodied dancers create and showcase what they’ve created at the Edinburgh Carnival in July 2022.  The project will culminate again at the ArtsAbility Festival at the end of the year where dancers will showcase  what they’ve been working on throughout the year.

CHINK IN A RUBBER WALL – 2 December @ 19h30

Italian artist Alessandro Schiattarella who is based in Switzerland returns to South Africa in 2022 to create a new work with the company dancers for the ArtsAbility Festival.  Alessandro’s working relationship with Unmute began in 2016 with his first residency in SA with the company and since then this relationship developed with exchanges and two of his works “Altrove” and “One at a Time” which was performed at the ArtsAbility Festival in 2018.  This year we are delighted to have him back with a new work.

LISTEN TO MY HANDS and DIVERSITY IN DANCE – 3 December @ 15h00

In September Unmute celebrated Deaf Awareness Month with a new work to create awareness for this month and sign language.  The work brings out a world full of communication through his hands.  He’s been in a quiet place finding it difficult to communicate with people who can listen – he is inviting us into his world where hands are louder than the voice.

This time he will be doing this work in collaboration with Jazzart Theatre

 The Diversity in Dance Project, funded by the British Council, is a partnership between Artscape and Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Unmute Dance Theatre will host 3 dancers from the UK for 2 months to work on creating new work.  The collaborative work will see able and disabled bodied dancers create and showcase what they’ve created at the Edinburgh Carnival in July 2022.  The project will culminate again at the ArtsAbility Festival at the end of the year where dancers will showcase  what they’ve been working on throughout the year.

Details

Start:
29 November, 2022 / 8:00 am
End:
3 December, 2022 / 5:00 pm
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Underground Parking

Parking is available at the Cape Town Civic Centre’s basement parking, Mondays to Fridays between 6pm and 11pm. Parking will be available on Saturdays and Sundays as well as public holidays, for matinee and evening performances. Access to the parking area is via Jan Smuts Street.

• No cash will be accepted/handled at the entry point;
• Payments can be made with Debit/Credit card;
• The parking fees are as follows: - Normal fee: R40.00; - Pensioners: R30.00;
• The gate to the parking will be closed 15 minutes after the starting time of a performance and opened after the performance;
• For security reasons, patrons will be required to inform the attendant which production they are attending, you may also provide proof of a reservation to a production or an event, or proof of invitation to a production or event, at the entry point;
• Patrons are to contact the emergency number (021) 400 2828 in the event of an emergency;
• For your safety a security guard will be stationed at the garage entry

Wheelchair Access

Limited facilities for wheelchairs are available in the Opera House and Theatre in accordance with safety regulations. Wheelchair seats can be booked at the Artscape Box Office, at any Computicket outlet, or through the Computicket call centre. Please note that the Arena is not wheelchair friendly. Toilets for wheelchair-bound patrons aresituated in the Marble and Chandelier Foyers of the Opera House and on the lower level of the Theatre Foyer. Limited parking bays are available for bona fide Disabled Parking Disc Holders in the tunnel area opposite the Stage Door entrance, and in the staff parking area. A drop-off facility is available in the tunnel area for patrons who have difficulty walking. Prior arrangements in all regards should be made with the Theatre Manager.

Wheelchairs

Disabled Parking and Wheelchairs are available on site but should be pre-booked by contacting Artscape Dial-a-seat on 021 421 7695

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