Current News
Current News
Wed, 25 Sep 2019 - 17:30
The Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies (CTDPS) and the ICA are proud to announce two new Honours specialisation streams: Live Art and Public Art
Fri, 13 Sep 2019 - 12:00
Infecting the City (ITC) is back! The six-day long public arts festival, presented as a series of daytime and nighttime events, will take place from Monday the 18th of November to Sunday the 24th of November 2019.
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 - 11:45
The Institute for Creative Arts invites applications for MA Study in Live Art, Interdisciplinary and Public Art from 2020-2021.
Tue, 02 Jul 2019 - 12:30
The Institute for Creative Arts invites chapter summary submissions for the ICA’s forthcoming peer-reviewed publication Restless Infections: Public Art in South Africa. Submissions will be accepted until 4pm on Friday 2 August.
Fri, 07 Jun 2019 - 14:30
The fifth Black Art and Communities at Heart (BACAH) conversation, titled Exploitation of Black Bodies in the Arts, takes place on 16 June, 2pm–6pm.
Tue, 09 Apr 2019 - 15:15
Following a highly successful series of interdisciplinary workshops held over three weeks, 25 participants will show short performance excerpts and concepts for live art works.
Wed, 27 Mar 2019 - 13:30
The ICA and Africa Centre announce a call for proposals to present at the Infecting the City public arts festival 2019, which will run from 25 – 30 November 2019. The longest running public arts festival in South Africa, Infecting the City (ITC) offers a unique opportunity to bring art, music, dance and performance out of theatres and galleries and into the streets and public spaces of Cape Town.
Wed, 13 Mar 2019 - 14:45
The ICA's final Great Texts/Big Questions lecture in this 2019 series takes place on Wednesday 20 March with filmmaker Nadine Cloete. The event will feature a 30 minute screening of Nadine Cloete's documentary, Story of a Small Town: Grabouw, after which Nadine will be in conversation with journalist & documentary filmmaker Yazeed Kamaldien.
Thu, 07 Mar 2019 - 14:30
The fourth lecture in the ICA's 2019 Great Texts/Big Questions series takes place on Thursday 14 March with political writer and former COSATU trade unionist Dr Ebrahim Harvey.
Mon, 04 Mar 2019 - 19:45
The third lecture in the ICA's 2019 Great Texts/Big Questions series -- entitled ‘To consent not to be a single being’ -- takes place on Thursday 7 March with artists Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum and Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. In this public conversation, Sunstrum and Nkosi discuss collaboration as politics, as friendship, as a means of preserving life in the face of forces mobilised against it.
Sat, 23 Feb 2019 - 14:45
The second lecture in the ICA's 2019 Great Texts/Big Questions series takes place on 28 February, with novelists Masande Ntshanga, Mohale Mashigo and Lauren Beukes.
Fri, 22 Feb 2019 - 11:30
The ICA kickstarts its 2019 Great Texts/Big Questions series with a lecture by Nelson Maldonado-Torres.