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Press Release

The GREAT Walk and MORE Arts Festival has been generously funded by the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund. It will be hosted by the Greatmore street studios and will showcase newly created site specific and live art in the surrounding area of GREATMORE Street, Woodstock. This two day interactive festival will bring contemporary art into the community of Woodstock by featuring art works, live art performances, sound installations, projections, music and street performances.

The event will offer visitors a chance to experience and explore one of Cape Town's oldest communities. It will be an opportunity to witness the strong Woodstock community spirit and vibrant culture.  Visitors and residents will be encouraged to walk around the designated area to experience an entirely different and unusual art Exhibition while having the chance to interact with this unique and fascinating community.

As part of the run up to the exhibition, Greatmore is again partnering with Thupelo Cape Town in hosting a two week international workshop which will culminate in various site specific art works. The Thupelo Workshops are celebrating their 30th workshop with participation from 23 artists from 11 different countries. The workshops encourage exchange and interaction between local and international artists. By participating with the community of Woodstock and the surrounding area these artists and their work will be part of the two day festival.

During the festival there will be an interactive exhibition in the Greatmore street events space. It will showcase text-based artworks created by local poets, writers, graphic novelists and visual artists around the theme of changing the world we are living in. Visitors are invited to participate in this exhibition. “The Laboratory of Recycled Revolutions’’ has been curated by visiting sound artist/composer Isa Suarez.

Various local artists, groups, studios and galleries have been invited to participate in the festival thus providing an opportunity to highlight what is on offer in other parts of Woodstock.

The participants include:

• Local residents
• Local businesses & shops
• The Woodstock Starlight’s
• “Loud” from Cape Town Society for The Blind
• The Khoi Khonnexion
• Word of Art Gallery
• Word of Art
  
• Cape Codes
• local story-teller Gabriel Arteros ( Editor of The Whisperer local newspaper)
• Young people from Lawrence House & Percy Bartley House
• The New Teenagers Gospel Choir from Khayelitsha
• The One Minute Foundation
• Artists from Greatmore Studios and Thupelo

FRIDAY 25^TH JUNE: 6.30pm– 9pm

• 6.30pm -7pm
  Woodstock Starlights - Kaaps Klopse parade
  (from the corner of Albert and Greatmore Street , to the corner of Regent Road and Greatmore Street )
• 7pm - 9pm
  Live music & film projections
  (In the car park behind The Woodstock Community Learning Centre - Corner of Regent Road & Greatmore Street)
  - 7pm : Khoi Khonnexion (band)
  - 8pm : Loud (band)

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• 11am
  The New Teenagers Gospel Choir perform Walking Voices
  joined by young people from Lawrence House and youth from Percy Bartley House
  (Departing from the corner of Victoria Road  and Greatmore Street , and ending at The Old Biscuit Mill - Albert Road )

• 11am-3pm
  Site-specific and live artworks by local, international and Thupelo artists
  (In the shops on Victoria Road , as well as shops and residents’ stoeps on Greatmore Street )
• 12pm 
  Paper Girl ride - artists distribute rolled art pieces by bicycle to random passers-by in the Woodstock Streets.
  (Departure at 12pm from the Word of Art Gallery - Woodstock Industrial Centre – 66 Albert Road)
• 1pm – 3pm
  The Laboratory of Recycled Revolutions Interactive multimedia exhibition
  Greatmore Studios Gallery -  47- 49 Greatmore Street
• 2pm – 4pm
  Tour of Woodstock
  2pm & 3pm departures from Greatmore Studios – 47-49 Greatmore Street
  Each tour lasts 1hour and takes you on a historic site-visit of Woodstock with local story teller Gabriel Arteros, and ends with tea/coffee at the local artists’ studios of Wonder Marthinius and Lizette Chirrime

With grateful acknowledgement to M-Photo, Exposure Gallery, Orms Pro Photo and Thupelo Cape Town, Greatmore was able to run yet another successful mentoring programme during the month of April. The unique opportunity allowed eight talented young artists to explore the medium of Lomography under the guidance of M-Photo’s Fernando Badiali.

The programme ran over 3 weeks and encouraged many new ideas, stimulated creative experimentation and productivity. The structure was left open so that the workshop could be led by the needs of the group allowing the mentees to mould the workshop to their personalities. This approach worked very well and received positive feedback from the collective.

Visual artist Willie Bester walks away with the Johnnie Walker People’s Choice Award – The result? A R100 000.00 grant for Greatmore Studios!