The Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) presents the Hot Water Festival in Cape Town from 14 to 16 October 2011.
Brining together artists and scientists, the festival programme will probe the relationship between the threat of climate change and the way that it is presented in the creative and performing arts.
As the natural environment is increasingly threatened by a general lack of sensitivity for the planet, Hot Water aims to emphasise that the arts are well placed to develop a consciousness of habits of destructive behaviuor.
Dance icon Tossie van Tonder, director Kyla Davis, poet Mbali Vilakazi, artist Fritha Langerman and filmmaker Jacqueline van Meygaarden will come together alongside respected scientists Peter Johnston, John Parkington and Babatunde Aboidun to consider the big environmental question at hand.
The Hot Water Festival programme also includes panel discussions, performances, installations, workshops and a kinetic polar bear fire-sculpture operated by two hooded puppeteers.
For more information on the full Hot Water Festival programme, phone the GIPCA office on + 27 21 480 7156 or email fin-gipca@uct.ac.za.
