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Cold Case: Revisiting Dulcie September
6 Aug, 2015 @ 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Artscape Theatre is celebrating its 9th annual Women’s Arts Week from the 6th – 9th August 2015. The Woman/Humanity Arts Festival was borne out of the need to honour and give a platform to the countless women, who tirelessly work and strive towards achieving a society where women are acknowledged and treated with the respect they deserve. The Artscape Theatre will come alive with theatre productions, a humanity walk followed by a humanity meal, business, social media and law workshops, a dialogue, film screenings, exhibitions, Pink Drive free breast examinations, CANSA will be conducting breast screenings, blood pressure and blood glucose level testing and TBHIV health screenings and much more.
Venue: Arena
Dates: 6 August: 19:30, 7 August: 15:00 and 19:30
Ticket Price: R80.00
Cold Case is a play produced and performed by actress, Denise Newman and directed by Basil Appollis. It debuted at the National Arts Festival Grahamstown 2014 where it won the Standard Bank Ovation Award and the winner of the Adelaide Tambo Award for Celebrating Human Rights through the Arts. As recent as May 2012 a Cape Times article about the assassinated ANC activist, Dulcie September, is headlined: “Who Killed Dulcie September”? 26 years later no-one has taken responsibility for her death and speculation today is as rife as it was then. Did the five bullets to her head come from a French mercenary? Was it the South African death squads operating in Paris? As a theatrical presentation Cold Case, doesn’t try to solve the mystery but it goes some way to present the various scenarios already in the public domain. At the same time it is a celebration of this legendary Cape Town school teacher turned freedom fighter that was deemed dangerous enough to be assassinated.
The Women of Cape Town will be taking to the streets again this year to celebrate Women’s Day, Sunday August 9th. Following the success last year of WOMAN ZONE’s Women’s Humanity Walk – this time it’s going to be even bigger and stronger! The Walk will start at The District Six Homecoming Centre and finish at the Artscape Piazza where there will be music and speeches followed by a Humanity Meal sponsored by The Next 48 Hours newspaper. Woman Zone will also be launching their book, Being a woman in Cape Town: Telling your story and an Open Mic Short StoryShare + Clean Sheet for festival attendants to write “What It Means To be a Woman in Cape Town”. The 2015 Artscape Women/ Humanty Arts Festival will end on a high note with a Gospel Concert. The line-up will include artist like Neville D, Rouchelle Liedemann, Tertia Hendricks, Michelle Botha, Anele Tame.
For more information check www.artscape.co.za. For ticket bookings contact Computicket on 086-915-8000 or Dial-A-Seat on 021-421-7695. Artscape Theatre Centre, DF Malan Street, Cape Town.
