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		<title>Cape Town’s streets, buildings, billboards and taxis are set to come alive with (Un)Infecting the City, a free-to-the-public arts festival running from 8 May – 30 June 2021</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abandon Netflix and take to the streets of Cape Town for the ultimate screening experiences, performances and installations this May and June! The longest-running public arts festival in South Africa, Infecting the City, renamed (Un)Infecting the City for this year, offers a unique opportunity to bring art, music, dance and performance out of theatres and galleries and into public spaces. The 2021 festival, presented by the University of Cape Town’s Institute for Creative Arts (ICA), upholds its public-hearted spirit, but has updated its format to allow for social distancing. In previous years, the festival has reimagined transport and shopping hubs, squares, gardens and public walkways as transformative stages. It showcased an array of multi-disciplinary art forms, and created a platform for artworks that engage with historical and contemporary narratives relevant to the city and its people. As South Africa grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, and more recently, the fires in Cape Town and at UCT, this year’s (Un)Infecting the City will have a thematic focus on the psychological and social impacts of this time. COVID-19 in itself has led to a dramatic loss of human life nationwide, and the beginning of 2021, in particular, has seen many people having to come to terms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SA’s next-gen textiles debut at NEXT21</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 06:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keen to discover the next generation of local textile designs? Look no further than NEXT21, the Craft and Design Institute’s (CDI) fourth annual trade exhibition of the hottest new export-ready South African designs. For 2021, NEXT features 7 outstanding textile producers who are launching new fabrics, homeware items and accessories as part of the exhibition, which sees a total of 24 local design houses put forward their best new ranges to the market via an online platform. Over the last four years, NEXT has developed a sterling reputation as a go-to sourcing point for international buyers, exporters, retailers, interior designers and decorators. This year is no different. Yet NEXT21 is made particularly exciting by the wide range of fresh textiles made by producers from across South Africa. Virtual visitors can expect to see the latest from Africa Ignite, Barrydale Hand Weavers, African Jacquard, Cape Alpaca Products, Cotton Tree, Amelia Jackson Industries and Chic Fusion. Africa Ignite ignited local imaginations when they burst onto the scene with ultra-colourful, hand-embroidered products employing recycled maize bags as the base for dazzling geometric patterns. For NEXT21 the KwaZulu Natal-based award winning rural development agency has launched a new range of scatter cushions in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Better Living Challenge Showcase Launch</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Better Living Challenge’s signature Showcase event will be taking place in October and November 2014, comprised of an exhibition at the V&#38;A Waterfront and life-size interactive displays, talks and debates at the Cape Town Station Forecourt. On show at both events is a display of solutions by the finalists and exhibitors whose projects form the Better Living Challenge Showcase. These innovative, affordable and green solutions aim to address some of the problems faced by people living in low income communities. The V&#38;A Waterfront exhibition will feature a number of plinths offering information and product and prototype displays. The plinths will be placed in the main retail area of the V&#38;A Waterfront with the aim of communicating to a broader audience interested in sustainability. This exhibition will be taking place from Monday, 6 October to Sunday, 26 October 2014. The Cape Town Station Forecourt exhibition is an interactive event taking place from Tuesday 28, October to Saturday, 8 November 2014. The exhibition will be officially opened by Premier Helen Zille, MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela (Human Settlements) and MEC Alan Winde (Economic Opportunities) on Thursday, 30 October 2014. There will be lunchtime talks and debates taking place from Wednesday, 29 October 2014. [...]]]></description>
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