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Umculo / Cape Festival is an international music organisation that supports lasting social change through music in South Africa . Launched in 2010, Umculo / Cape Festival makes an international network of leading music institutions available to South African music education initiatives through showcase events, partnerships, and conferences.
Umculo Cape Festival 2012 presents:Capeofon
Tues 6th 8.15pm | Thurs 8th 8.00pm Tues: St George's Mall | Thurs: Church SquareIndividuals representing the full spectrum of Capetonians intone into a video camera. Ole Hamre curates and orchestrates each tone into a stunning, multi-media ensemble called Capeofon.
Following in the footsteps of his hugely popular Norwegian Folkofon project, Hamre captured the sights Cape Town and the vocalisations of Capetonians. Hamre has documented singing Capetonians of every age, and from a wealth of backgrounds. Each note on Hamre's custom-built keyboard is linked to an intoning local person. Hamre "plays" the choir on the huge screen, accompanied by live musicians and Umculo choral participants from Kenmere Primary School. Capeofon is a brand new instrument by the citizens for the Mother City.
Performed by: citizens of Cape Town, Umcolo Chorus from Kenmere Primary School
Presented by: Cultural Fund of Norway Capefon is brought to Cape Town by the Umculo Festival, an international music organisation that supports lasting social change through music in South Africa. Umculo Cape Festival 2012 presents:
Henry Purcell - The Fairy Queen
If love's a sweet passion, why does it torment?
Join us for a musical journey into Shakespeare's world of midsummer magic and madness.
23, 24*, 25* March 2012, UJ Theatre, Johannesburg
30, 31* March, 1* April 2012, Joseph Stone Theatre, Cape Town
* = matinee performance
Tickets: Computicket, available from 20 February
Subsidies available for transport and tickets.
Gerben Grooten: Conductor
Robert Lehmeier: Director
Thando Lobese: Costumes
Michael Maxwell: Lighting
Dramaturg: Laura Ellersdorfer
Stage Manager: Tatjana Dachsel
Zandile Gwebityala, Siyabonga Maquango, Melissa Gerber, Brenda Thulo, Charles Ainslie, and others.
The Bloekombos Secondary School Choir (conductor: Siyabulela Sulelo)
Members of the South African National Youth Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra.
Umculo's education team offers free 3-hour interactive preparatory workshops for groups of up to 20 teenagers or adults.
For details please contact Nosipho Singiswa, speicks@gmail.com, tel: 0783 625 203.
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The 2011 Cape Festival is supported by the Hilti Foundation and the Goethe Institut.
