Past, Present, and Future Collide: The 40th Annual National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa by HowlRound

By Paul Adolphson. The 40th anniversary of the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa (July 3-13, 2014) was characterized by this collision of past, present, and future. It makes sense that questions of legacy and history were central to much of the 2014 festival program. Nelson Mandela's death in December 2013 and the April 2014 celebration of the twentieth anniversary of South Africa's first democratic…

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