INFECTING THE CITY
CALL FOR RESIDENCY APPLICATIONS & NEW WORK SUBMISSIONS INFECTING THE CITY (the Spier Performing Arts Festival) is a theme-orientated festival that presents free site-specific and public performance works in inner city Cape Town, South Africa. Entering its 3rd year in this form, the dates for ITC 2010 are Saturday 13 Feb to Saturday 20 Feb. In 2009 ITC carried the theme ‘Home Affairs’ in response to the xenophobia that grips South Africa. For more information on the 2009 festival see our website: www.infectingthecity.com. The theme for Infecting the City 2010 is “HUMAN RITES” Here in South Africa – and in many countries in the region – we straddle an angry moment characterized by festering feelings and inflamed issues: betrayal, violence, hatred, powerlessness, inequality, greed, corruption, poverty, intolerance and desperation. Many African countries are grappling with the issue of social healing. In all its various forms, ritual has been used for millennia, across the world, to re...