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Press Release
The GREAT Walk and MORE Arts Festival has been generously funded by the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund. It will be hosted by the Greatmore street studios and will showcase newly created site specific and live art in the surrounding area of GREATMORE Street, Woodstock. This two day interactive festival will bring contemporary art into the community of Woodstock by featuring art works, live art performances, sound installations, projections, music and street performances.
The event will offer visitors a chance to experience and explore one of Cape Town's oldest communities. It will be an opportunity to witness the strong Woodstock community spirit and vibrant culture. Visitors and residents will be encouraged to walk around the designated area to experience an entirely different and unusual art Exhibition while having the chance to interact with this unique and fascinating community.
As part of the run up to the exhibition, Greatmore is again partnering with Thupelo Cape Town in hosting a two week international workshop which will culminate in various site specific art works. The Thupelo Workshops are celebrating their 30th workshop with participation from 23 artists from 11 different countries. The workshops encourage exchange and interaction between local and international artists. By participating with the community of Woodstock and the surrounding area these artists and their work will be part of the two day festival.
During the festival there will be an interactive exhibition in the Greatmore street events space. It will showcase text-based artworks created by local poets, writers, graphic novelists and visual artists around the theme of changing the world we are living in. Visitors are invited to participate in this exhibition. “The Laboratory of Recycled Revolutions’’ has been curated by visiting sound artist/composer Isa Suarez.
Various local artists, groups, studios and galleries have been invited to participate in the festival thus providing an opportunity to highlight what is on offer in other parts of Woodstock.
The participants include:
- Local residents
- Local businesses & shops
- The Woodstock Starlight’s
- “Loud” from Cape Town Society for The Blind
- The Khoi Khonnexion
- Word of Art Gallery
- Word of Art
- Cape Codes
- local story-teller Gabriel Arteros ( Editor of The Whisperer local newspaper)
- Young people from Lawrence House & Percy Bartley House
- The New Teenagers Gospel Choir from Khayelitsha
- The One Minute Foundation
- Artists from Greatmore Studios and Thupelo
FRIDAY 25TH JUNE: 6.30pm– 9pm
- 6.30pm -7pm
Woodstock Starlights - Kaaps Klopse parade
(from the corner of Albert and Greatmore Street , to the corner of Regent Road and Greatmore Street ) - 7pm - 9pm
Live music & film projections
(In the car park behind The Woodstock Community Learning Centre - Corner of Regent Road & Greatmore Street)
- 7pm : Khoi Khonnexion (band)
- 8pm : Loud (band)
SATURDAY 26th JUNE: 11am– 4pm
- 11am
The New Teenagers Gospel Choir perform Walking Voices
joined by young people from Lawrence House and youth from Percy Bartley House
(Departing from the corner of Victoria Road and Greatmore Street , and ending at The Old Biscuit Mill - Albert Road )
- 11am-3pm
Site-specific and live artworks by local, international and Thupelo artists
(In the shops on Victoria Road , as well as shops and residents’ stoeps on Greatmore Street ) - 12pm
Paper Girl ride - artists distribute rolled art pieces by bicycle to random passers-by in the Woodstock Streets.
(Departure at 12pm from the Word of Art Gallery - Woodstock Industrial Centre – 66 Albert Road) - 1pm – 3pm
The Laboratory of Recycled Revolutions Interactive multimedia exhibition
Greatmore Studios Gallery - 47- 49 Greatmore Street - 2pm – 4pm
Tour of Woodstock
2pm & 3pm departures from Greatmore Studios – 47-49 Greatmore Street
Each tour lasts 1hour and takes you on a historic site-visit of Woodstock with local story teller Gabriel Arteros, and ends with tea/coffee at the local artists’ studios of Wonder Marthinius and Lizette Chirrime
Greatmore Studios
Greatmore Studios brings together artists from diverse cultural backgrounds under one working environment to encourage new ideas and stimulate professionalism, creativity and productivity.
Local artists work together with international visiting artists in an atmosphere of cooperation, interaction and cultural exchange. Through this approach, artists are given the opportunity to follow new directions and push themselves beyond the boundaries of their own practice.
All artists in residence at Greatmore, whether local or international, are required to participate in our outreach programme as well as exhibit their work in Greatmore's gallery space.
Greatmore Studios forms part of the Triangle Arts Trust, a United Kingdom based organisation that initiates and facilitates an international network of artist-led workshops and residencies. This association affords artists access to information and opportunities to exchange ideas and skills with other artists around the world.
Residencies
Greatmore Studios offers Permanent Artist, Visiting Artist, Curating and Mentoring Residencies.
Exhibitions
A s part of Greatmore's 3 phase redevelopment programme, a brand new Gallery Space houses regular exhibitions throughout the year.
Participation in the Arts Programme
Over the next year Greatmore is expanding its arts education programme and workshops. For a trial period, new workshops and classes are being held in the newly built exhibition space. Workshop leaders are encouraged to submit proposals for programmes they would like to implement.
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