It's here....on 20 June 2010 Grahamstown will be filled with AMAZ!NG sounds, sights, lights, colours and creative spirit as the National Arts Festival gets under way.

So what's on the menu? With close on 500 productions being staged this year, it is impossible to cover everything on a single page. In the box on the right are PDFs of the complete kit or section-by-section downloads.

From 26 April you'll be able to go along to your nearest Standard Bank branch or select Computicket and Exclusive Books branches and pick up a dead-tree version of the kit in glorious technicolour (don't worry - the pages have been recycled once already, and can be again)

Meanwhile...here's a taste of some of our programme highlights.

This year's Festival will offer visitors a smorgasbord of national, continental and world premieres in theatre, dance, music and visual art. At the same time, some of South Africa's best productions over the past year have also been included in the programme to give international visitors a window into what gives South African art its vibrantly pulsating heartbeat.

Over the next few days we will be uploading new sections here - covering Music, Film, Jazz, the Fringe and more. For now here's an overview of our Theatre and Dance programmes for this year.
THEATRE

Theatre-lovers are in for an treat with 15 productions ranging from reinterpretations of the classics, to new cutting edge work that pushes the boundaries of theatre by allowing it to intersect with a broad range of new media.