The 12th Hermanus FynArts Festival is only three months away and ticket sales will be opening soon. The Old Harbour Sunset Concert on Saturday 16 March will celebrate the launch of the glossy festival programme booklet, with ticket sales opening for the general public on the same day.
This year’s festival from 7 to 17 June will again offer a bumper programme of events ranging from art exhibitions and performances, to talks and presentations, workshops, and food and wine events.
Tickets for the hugely popular Sunset Concert featuring the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Chad Hendricks, with soloists Lukhanyo Moyake (tenor) and his wife, Siphamandla Moyake (soprano), once again sold out within a few short days.
Hermanus FynArts Director Mary Faure said the organisers were extremely grateful to Pam Golding Properties Hermanus and the Golding family for making this concert possible. The first launch concert was staged at the iconic Old Harbour in March 2022 to celebrate 10 years of FynArts and, with the support of Pam Golding, will be presented for the third year in a row this month.
After the Sunset Concert on 16 March, the 2024 FynArts programme booklet will be available at selected outlets, including the Hermanus Tourism Bureau, the FynArts Gallery, restaurants, shops and galleries in Hermanus and further afield. These outlets will be listed and updated regularly in the coming weeks. The details can be found via a link on the home page of the FynArts website, hermanusfynarts.co.za.
The full programme will also be available online at hermanusfynarts.co.za. Tickets can be booked via the website, at Webtickets, Pick n Pay stores countrywide, as well as Hermanus Tourism and the FynArts Gallery.
The 2024 FynArts Legacy Award will be presented to internationally acclaimed artist William Kentridge, who will also be the opening speaker of the Strauss & Co Series of Talks and Presentations.
“We are honoured that William will accept the FynArts Legacy Award this year and that he has agreed to be the Opening Speaker for 2024,” says Mary. This award is presented annually at the discretion of the FynArts Advisory Board in honour of a longstanding and distinctive contribution to the arts in South Africa and beyond.
Known for his drawings, films, theatre and opera productions, William’s work spans a diverse range of artistic media. Through painting, drawing, writing, performance, animation, film, puppetry, printmaking, tapestry and sculpture, he creates art grounded in politics, science, literature and history, transmuting significant events into powerful poetic allegories.
William is the 2023-’24 Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University. Apart from his work having been seen in major galleries and museums around the world, he has designed and directed a number of acclaimed theatrical performances and operas staged in, amongst others, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, La Scala in Milan, English National Opera in London, Opera de Lyon, Amsterdam Opera and the Sydney Opera House.
The Kentridge presentation on Saturday 8 June will be followed by the opening of the three major FynArts exhibitions – the ceramics exhibition at the Windsor Hotel titled Chromatic Clay, the flagship outdoor exhibition at Gearing’s Point, Sculpture on the Cliffs and the exhibition of photographic work by Mikhael Subotzky, this year’s FynArts Festival Artist, in the FynArts Gallery.
Curated by the Subotzky Studio and Goodman Gallery, this exhibition draws from Subotzky’s early photographic works as well as more recent related collage and works on canvas. As an artist working in film, video installation and photography, as well as more recently in collage and painting, his works are the result of his fractured attempts to place himself in relation to the social, historical and political narratives that surround him.
