Jackson Malatji
Being it my first time at the National ArtsFestival, my experience has been outstandingly overwhelming and I’ve learnt to
embrace art more than I did before and being there as a journalist covering stories for RMR and Cue newspaper helped me to also express my artistic skill through writing and compiling news packages for radio!
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| Thembeyi Cultural Group drinking Red-bull after their perfomance |
I enjoyed every show I’ve seen more especially ‘She Bellows’ which is a well
written and directed, the play is for
both men and females, where vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held
up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming men for the way they treat
and perceive women as their "dolls". Another first time experience
was seeing Lira’s live in concert show, well I knew some of her songs but was
never really a fan but after last night’s show I’m definitely a fan and going
to start going to her shows. To see so many young black people embracing art
like the Thembeyi Cultural Group I ran onto, a young Xhosa cultural music group
wearing cultural clothes and the girls were topless made me to appreciate ad
respect other cultures.
I wish the festival was happening twice a year
because it’s not every day that you get to see actors, musicians, painters,
designers, dancers and performers all in one place showcasing their talents to
a mass audience.
Some shows
were boring but there’s always a room for improvement. Oh before I forget, the
food was so good but expensive (sigh).
To conclude I believe the festival brings people
from all sorts of lives, different sexes, religion and races together, that’s
the beauty of art!
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