Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees (KKNK)

The Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees (Afrikaans for Little Karoo National Arts Festival and commonly abbreviated to KKNK) is an Afrikaans language arts pageant that takes region every year withinside the South African metropolis of Oudtshoorn. The pageant consists of each of the visible and the appearing arts and is formally diagnosed by the South African authorities as a countrywide arts pageant. Based on the wide variety of visitors, it's also the biggest South African arts pageant.

The first pageant happened in 1994 and turned into the concept of a businessman from Oudtshoorn, Nic Barrow, and a former Public Relations Manager for the South African publishing organization Naspers, Andrew Marais. Annually the KKNK draws extra than 1,000 artists appearing or displaying in extra than two hundred productions and exhibitions over 8 days; commonly on the stop of March or the start of April. The pageant has come to play a crucial position in Afrikaans degree productions - new productions are commonly first staged on the KKNK and are then done all through the relaxation of South Africa all through the relaxation of the year.

Economically the KKNK has been a source of boom for the metropolis and its surrounding region, with many personal people and establishments benefitting from renting out accommodation, halls and grounds all through the pageant.

Time: March

Location: Oudtshoorn