{"id":461846,"date":"2011-07-15T16:52:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T16:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/15\/south-african-arts-festival-to-go-global\/"},"modified":"2011-07-15T16:52:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T16:52:03","slug":"south-african-arts-festival-to-go-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/15\/south-african-arts-festival-to-go-global\/","title":{"rendered":"South African Arts Festival to Go Global"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"22.2130624093\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/allafrica180.jpg\" alt=\"allAfrica.com\" title=\"Visit allAfrica.com\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adiel Ismail<\/p>\n<p>15 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Grahamstown \u2014 South Africa&#8217;s pioneering annual National Arts Festival &#8211; which this year featured about 2,500 performances of 600 shows &#8211; plans to take some of its shows to similar festivals elsewhere in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Lankester, chief executive of the arts festival, told allAfrica.com: &#8220;We have established two alliances&#8230; to create an opportunity for cultural exchange&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"21.9428571429\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/csi\/00171433_69267b39ead93e39eb33ec210279e8b2\/w260x.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"195\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/\">Adiel Ismail\/Allafrica<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A miniature truck made by hand from steel wire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;One with the World Festival Alliance to perform seven festivals around the the world, and one with &#8216;AfriFesNet&#8217; which is going to be an alliance of festivals on the [African] continent&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Lankester said: &#8220;Each year over 300 festivals are held but it only contributes one percent to the global arts economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Best practices&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the new alliances is to network and to promote global art.<\/p>\n<p>Lancaster explained that taking the festival to Kenya, for example, could herald new marketing tactics that can be used in Grahamstown. &#8220;It is to make the festival better by sharing experiences&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The festival committee has approached the European Union for funding and details of the alliances will be announced at the 2012 arts festival, Lankester said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107151123.html\" title=\"South African Arts Festival to Go Global\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South African Arts Festival to Go Global<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Adiel Ismail 15 July 2011 Grahamstown \u2014 South Africa&#8217;s pioneering annual National Arts Festival &#8211; which this year featured about 2,500 performances of 600 shows &#8211; plans to take some of its shows to similar festivals elsewhere in Africa. Tony Lankester, chief executive of the arts festival, told allAfrica.com: &#8220;We have established two alliances&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>South African Arts Festival to Go Global - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/15\/south-african-arts-festival-to-go-global\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"South African Arts Festival to Go Global - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Adiel Ismail 15 July 2011 Grahamstown \u2014 South Africa&#039;s pioneering annual National Arts Festival - which this year featured about 2,500 performances of 600 shows - plans to take some of its shows to similar festivals elsewhere in Africa. 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