WINTER ARTS FESTIVAL
KALASHNIKOVV | CAPE TOWN | 11.07.24
HEAT Winter Arts Festival
HEAT is coming to Cape Town this winter. This 12-day winter arts festival takes place in Cape Town's city centre from July 11 to 21, taking the edge off the cold weather with an array of art looking at what brings communities together.
Free Entrance to Kalashnikovv Gallery throughout.
Ticket purchases are available for special events part of the HEAT winter festival programming. To view the events and purchase tickets please visit the official HEAT site.
With 14 participating art galleries, the main feature of the HEAT festival is constituted of the curated exhibitions that speak to the theme of this inaugural festival edition, Common Ground. The theme and festival programming have been curated by Voni Baloyi, Mary Corrigall, Andrew Lamprecht and Nkgopoleng Moloi.
Common Ground is a fitting framework for the HEAT festival as it has been conceived to connect galleries, artists, performers, venues, collectors, and theatre practitioners during Cape Town’s cold and quiet month of July. The featuring artworks, exhibitions, performances, conversations, walkabouts, music, and dance classes encourage and reflect on community and collaboration.
The venues are intentionally all within walking distance of each other, enabling festival goers to navigate the offerings on foot encouraging connection between the spaces, and connection with the inner city. The festival allows the public to engage directly with some artists and curators during Meet-the-Artist events of which the first will be staged at the Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel.
The exhibitions consider themes around the formation of community and their strengths. The theme has turned a light on the communities that artists have created, which often coalesce around the galleries, studios, institutions, and other networks that support their work. The multicultural and interdisciplinary practices of the artists reach to many intersecting communities, and we hope to provide space and opportunity for networks these to coincide and converge.
Complementing the visual arts are opera, jazz, and theatre programmes featuring young performers. Highlights include operas curated by Jeremy Silver, from Opera UCT, a jazz programme curated by Slowlife that includes Operation Khataza and The Johnny Wxlf Experience, and theatre works by Rob Van Vuuren, Double Impact, Furies & Co, Andi Colombo, Aldo Brincat, Sue Pam Grant, Okwamanzi Arts Junction, and Pichi Keane.
PARTICIPATING GALLERIES