The Annual Taung Cultural Calabash is a unique youth based arts festival held annually in Taung, North West province and it sets out to discover new talent through a series of auditions held at district level. Amateur and semi-professional artists are identified in Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Arts.
This year the Calabash is bigger and better than previous years. The National Lottery Distribution trust fund came on board for this years’ Taung Cultural Calabash.Mr Moatlhodi Dilotsotlhe CEO of Mmabana Arts, Culture & Sports Foundation urged all North West residents to bring their children to the Cultural Calabash Festival to celebrate the heritage and culture of North West. He hoped that new talent would emerge during this year’s calabash where various categories are concerned.
The Department of Culture, Arts and Traditional affairs, MEC Tebogo Modise announced that Bojanala Platinum District, Dr. Ruth Mompati District, Ngaka Modiri District and Dr. Kenneth Kaunda District, are amongst the districts where auditions and competition eliminations will be held served by the Department of Arts & Culture.
Ogone Sybok and Scotch Mankruajang gave us a beautiful Latin dance piece, showing us that there will be diversity at the auditions leading up to the festival. The Mmabana Young Cultural Group also blew the audience away with a genuine performance demonstrating what is to be excepted at the festival due to take place on the 26th – 28th September 2014.
The auditions are open to all male and female participants residing in North West from 16 years of age.
Audition details are as follows:
Ngaka Modiri Molema District16 August 2014
Mmabana Mahikeng
Dr. Kenneth Kaunda District
23 August 2014
Klerksdorp Hall
Bojanala District 30 August 2014 Mmabana Rustenburg
Dr. Ruth Mompati District
06 September 2014
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