The Cape Town Festival

The Cape Town Festival An annual city-wide festival of arts, taking place in various venues during March.

Also called the One City, Many Cultures Cape Town Festival.

See also Festivals in South Africa

The existing festival came into being in 2001, having grown out of the One City Many Cultures initiative, launched 1999 by Ryland Fisher, during his tenure as editor of the Cape Times, with the aim of achieving cultural, religious and racial tolerance, through a celebration of culture and creativity.

The One City, Many Cultures Cape Town Festival will celebrate its 19 th birthday in a new venue.

The annual event on Human Rights Day, 21 March, will this year be hosted at the Castle of Good Hope and not the Iziko Museums/Company Gardens precinct as in previous years.

The festival was born out of the One City, Many Cultures project and seeks to promote a greater understanding of different cultures in the Western Cape.

The event will include musical and dance performances, among them salsa dancing, where members of the public will be encouraged to learn how to salsa. As usual, we will be busing in members of communities throughout the Cape Flats who will gain free entry to the Castle on the day. Some of the community members, who will come from Atlantis, Delft, Heideveld, Langa and Mitchells Plain, among others, will also perform on the day.

There will be a kiddies’ play area, vendors selling a variety of food and craft, and we will encourage festival attendees to visit the exhibition, A Decolonised History of the Third World in World War II, which looks at the role of third world countries in the war. This exhibition is currently on at the Castle. We will also host the Iziko Mobile Museum. Entry to Iziko Museums will also be free on the day.

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