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#DidYouKnow there are several local events happening alongside #NAF2025?
Take Red Cafe Makhanda / Grahamstown now based at the historic Albany Club (114 High Street). During the National Arts Festival Makhanda, it transforms into a vibrant art gallery and performance space, showcasing the incredible talent rooted right here in Makhanda.
Enjoy daily live performances of music, poetry, hip hop, comedy, afro-soul, and more – featuring local artists, including Rhodes University staff, students, and alumni.
Driven by Makhanda-born artist and entrepreneur Louise Boy, Red Café is more than just a venue – it’s a creative incubator, a support hub, and a community stage where young talent thrives, during Festival season and beyond.
#RUatNAF2025
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'A Childhood in Chalk' earned an Ovation Award yesterday at the National Arts Festival Makhanda, which recognises excellence, innovation, and fearless storytelling on the Fringe programme.
This production is a bold, inter-disciplinary collaboration between the Rhodes University Drama and Education Departments.
Raw, unflinching, and deeply moving, 'A Childhood in Chalk' explores the period of school boycotts in Fingo Village (in Makhanda, formerly known as Grahamstown) from 1975 to 1985.
This latest win continues a proud tradition: Rhodes University student productions consistently shine at the Festival, affirming the power of creative teaching and exceptional talent nurtured here.
Anelisa Njinge
Phemelo Hellemann
Thembela Madliki
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Rhodes University alumnus Jonathon Rees returns to Makhanda with 'Stillness', his captivating exhibition of live jazz photography portraits. #RUatNAF2025
This former Rhodes JMS student, who first picked up a camera and experienced the National Arts Festival Makhanda in 1987, has come full circle with 'Stillness', born from the very place that ignited his passion almost 40 years ago. Watch our exclusive interview to hear his story.
Read more: tickets.nationalartsfestival.co.za/en/events/1069/stillness-live-jazz-portraits
Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology
Rhodes University Fine Art Department
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The Dinner is a #RUatNAF2025 unflinching look at a love so consuming, it threatens to shatter everything it touches. As many consuming things do, it started subtly – a slow burn of passion that promised to forge an unbreakable bond. However, as this play masterfully reveals, such intensity rarely exists without consequence.
While beautiful in its ferocity, the consuming love between the two protagonists subtly began to fray the delicate threads of their individual lives. As the cracks inevitably began to show, the force that had bound them together became destructive. Director Swelihle May brilliantly stages this unravelling, as the raw power that once united them now threatens to pull them apart with equal, if not greater, force.
Set over a single, climactic dinner, this Rhodes University Drama Department production, which premiered at #NAF2025, exposes how devotion can morph into suffocation, and investment can turn to possession. It's a gripping, visceral experience that questions the true cost of an all-encompassing love.
The Dinner is a powerful, must-see exploration of passion, pain, and the perilous line between commitment and catastrophe.
📸 Siqhamo 'Hlubi' Jama
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First-year Master's student Swelihle May makes his professional debut as writer/director at #NAF2025 with a play called The Dinner, a true "cage fight" of emotions inspired by José Olivarez's quote: "I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry that love is violence."
Follow the climactic dinner conversation of a couple with an 11-year age gap, whose love has reached a terrifying tipping point. Infidelity, negligence, and the transformation of passion into suffocation drive this raw, realist work.
Will their investment in each other lead to salvation or utter ruin? Find out how far they'll go to protect what they've built.
#RUatNAF2025
🎥 Siqhamo 'Hlubi' Jama
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A powerful start to #NAF2025! Rhodes University PhD candidate Belinda de Villiers opened the Festival with 'Echoes Across Continents – a musical journey from Europe to Africa'.
Performed in tribute to the late Prof. Joseph Stanford, who passed away earlier this week, this deeply personal concert connected past and present, artist and audience.
Read more here: www.ru.ac.za/latestnews/echoesacrosscontinents-1.html
Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology
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#DidYouKnow!? Dance is a powerful form of art, a conversation without words, a story told through movement.
You've seen pictures of Liminal and heard the background story told by Nicole Joka, Director & Choreographer, and a proud Rhodes University alumna. But have you seen how the performers move?
WATCH THIS!
🎥 Thabo 'Inferno' Mathebula
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The reimagined Eastern Cape Literature Festival (#litfest) opening at the Monument last night, moderated by Rhodes University alumna and author, Unathi Nkayi, was truly unforgettable. Attendees sat enthralled by the dialogue between two legendary storytellers, Drs John Kani and Jerry Mofokeng Wa Makhetha. What a start to a signature event, first launched at the National Arts Festival in 1974.
Find the full #litfest programme here: tickets.nationalartsfestival.co.za/en?programme_type_id=16 #naf2025 #ruatnaf2025 #Makhanda
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