Grahamstown National Arts FestivalBy | Monday, May 14  2012 at  14:06

The Grahamstown National Arts Festival, one of Africa's cultural events offering a choice of the very best of both indigenous and imported talent is back on the cards. Every year for 11 days (June/July) hundreds flock to the city that is in the Eastern Cape for a feast of arts, crafts and sheer entertainment.

Through the festival, 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.

While many come to take in the arts, others simply want to be here for the spectacle or to market products ranging from tie-dyed T-shirts and woven rugs to handmade jewellery and customized telephones.

Source: sa-venues.com

Dates: June 28 to July 8, 2012
venue: Grahamstown