My Body My Space: Public Arts Festival coming soon
Find yourself in the theatre.
The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative (FATC) and Ebhudlweni Arts Centre will present the My Body My Space: Public Arts Festival (MBMS), in public spaces throughout the Emakhazeni Municipality in rural Mpumalanga from April 23 to 28.
Anchored around Freedom Day, on April 27, MBMS 2019 is a creative platform that will celebrate and interrogate the notion of freedom, through dance performances, theatre, music, land-art, workshops and visual arts and crafts.
This year’s festival, which is funded by the National Arts Council of South Africa, marks and celebrates 25 years of South Africa’s democracy.
The My Body My Space festival has grown considerably in popularity since its inception in 2015. MBMS is a hugely anticipated event attracting award-winning national and international artists and organisations, plus a large and diverse audience from around South Africa and the globe.
Mozambique, Madagascar, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Switzerland are some of the countries represented by MBMS artists this year.
The festival is made up of three programmes: The Arteries Programme, the Central Nervous System Programme (CNS) and a workshop and training programme. The Arteries programme is the Fringe programme in the shape of community activations in Machadodorp, Belfast, Dullstroom and Waterval Boven.
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It will take place from April 23-26 and features performances and workshops for children and youths presented by Wits University’s Drama For Life. It also includes collaborations between MBMS artists and local artists.
Entrance to all events is free of charge.
The workshop and training programme includes skills exchange workshops, arts processes and mini-training programmes offered by visiting artists, facilitators and technicians. This component of the festival is focused on youth, children, women and people with disabilities.
Annually FATC works to unlock an extensive network and community of funders, sponsors, partners and collaborators from a range of national, provincial, local and international public and private sector organisations as well as individual arts practitioners. Core to the realisation of this large scale international festival is the invaluable contribution of each partner.
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