Performance details for each festival are below: See you there!
UMLAZI FRESHA FESTIVAL EXTENSION
DATE: 28 JANUARY 2023 / TIME: 10 AM TO 4 PM / VENUE: KWAMNYANDU MALL PARKING – UMLAZI
HOSTS: URBAN ARTS ENTERTAINMENT
Programme line-up
Parade
Open dance class – Free open workshop (Spakeme) Dance for everyone!
Grateful Singers – Music (Grateful Singers) Acapella music with the sweet melody to touch your soul
Boy and the dog – Performance (Rooted Twins Productions) A dog teachers a boy about responsibility
Karate – demonstration and open class (Tholinhlanhla) An open karate class for everyone
Ant zombies – Performance (Nansi Impumelelo) The movement of the ant zombie generation back to their ancestral land.
Smile Maroro – Performance (Brightness productions) A man waits for a girl does not arrive for a date because it is her wedding day
Usiko Mpilo – Traditional dance (The Living Culture) Traditional dance
The Goal – Performance (Township Arts) A soccer match without a ball between boys and girls
Inkilo Le – Performance (Inyathuko Arts Development) A story of a pastor who is a con artist with extraordinary powers
Ikhehla Elingembethe – Dance (Siwele Sonke Dance Theatre) Contemporary dance about knowing yourself and your roots
Samora – Stilt Walker (Samora Nkundla)
One Room Problems – Performance (Agaduzela Production) One man with an unexpected visitor starts to cause problems at midnight
Zebra – Street performance (Gerard O): Sometimes you just have to walk the line.
Crazy man – Performance (Unyezi Theatre) An old karate teacher tries to instruct his community – but who is the protector now?
Iqiniso – Music (Iqiniso Gospel Group) Gospel music to close the festival
Fire-fighters – Performance (Urban Arts Entertainment) Three fire-fighters are trying to impress a woman
EDENDALE FRESHA FESTIVAL EXTENSION (PIETERMARITZBURG)
DATE: 29 JANUARY 2023 / TIME: 9 AM TO 4 PM / VENUE: DUMBUZA ERINGINI – PMB
HOSTS: UNYEZI THEATRE PROJECT
Programme line-up:
Street parade
Imap Band – Music (Impap Band) Traditional instruments fused with contemporary music
Umuntu – Performance (Afika Ziqubu) Two young man of different backgrounds trying to find the balance in life
Fire-fighters – Performance (Urban Arts Entertainment) Three fire-fighters are trying to impress a woman
Underpants – Street performance (Gerard O) Uncovering the point of a poem
3 Chairs – Performance (Khulekani Mtshali) For us to change who we are…who are we waiting for? We can make a different in our lives on our own.
Amapiano – Music (Emmanuel Mkhize) Amapiano music
Crazy man – Performance (Unyezi Theatre) An old karate teacher tries to instruct his community – but who is the protector now?
Ant zombies – Performance (Nansi Impumelelo) The movement of the ant zombie generation back to their ancestral land.
Welcome to SA – Performance (Isizwe Arts Project) Our wrong doings can change the environment in our society.
Hang-up – Street performance (Gerard O) Everyone has problems
Purified Zulu Dance – Dance (Ofeleba) A mixture of traditional dance and modern dance
Street magic – Magic (Lindo the street magician) Amazing audiences with magic
Dustbins – Performance (Thandimpilo Theatre) When your garbage fights back …
DH Wha – Music (DJ Wah) Street music to celebrate the festival!
MANGUZI FRESHA FESTIVAL EXTENSION (KOSI BAY)
DATE: 4 FEBRUARY 2023 / TIME: 10 AM TO 2 PM / VENUE: ISIBANI SASEKHAYA – MANGUZI
HOSTS: NANSI IMPUMELELO
Programme line-up:
Street parade
Unicorns – Dance
Bathabile – Dance
Overload – Performance: an unknown tribe journeys to an unknown place (Ibika drama)
Fire-fighters – Performance (Urban Arts Entertainment) Three fire-fighters are trying to impress a woman
Crazy man – Performance (Unyezi Theatre) An old karate teacher tries to instruct his community – but who is the protector now?
Classical corner – Classical music interlude
Sibambo – Performance (Sibambo) A celebration of fishing culture
Me for You – Dance (Flatfoot Dance Company) A journey into celebrating male friendships and proposing a kinder and more supportive way for men to connect. choreographed by Sifiso Khumalo, this work is also a celebration of the real and lived friendships between the three dancers. The trio offers some dangerous and gravity defying partnering and will leave your breathless at the sheer skill of this trio of male dancers.
Ant zombies – Performance (Nansi Impumelelo) The movement of ant zombies generation back to their ancestral land.
Zebra – Street performance (Gerard O): Sometimes you just have to walk the line.
Izembe group 12:55 15 minutes: Music and dance
Flat foot dance open dance workshop: A chance to get everybody moving!
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