#WomensMonth: Playhouse CEO talks 23rd South African Women’s Arts Festival

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EXCITING drama, music and dance as well as crafts, topical discussions and fun, free entertainment have been confirmed by Durban’s Playhouse Company for the 23rd South African Women’s Arts Festival (SAWAF), an event coinciding with August being Women’s Month. Celebrating works performed, created or inspired by women, this year’s event will be held, as usual, in various venues in the city-centre Playhouse complex, from Wednesday to Saturday, August 7 to 10. The festival is an annual highlight on the calendar of The Playhouse Company, an agency of the Department of Arts and Culture, which embraces the government’s principles of social cohesion and nation-building.
1 Aug 2019 English South Africa Society & Culture · Personal Journals

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