The National Arts Festival

The National Arts Festival (NAF) is an annual competition of emerging arts in Grahamstown, South Africa. It is the biggest arts competition at the African continent and one in all the biggest appearing arts fairs withinside the global way of means of vacationer numbers.

The competition runs for eleven days, from the ultimate week of June to the primary week of July each year. It takes the vicinity withinside the small college town of Grahamstown, withinside the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The NAF contains a Main programme and a Fringe competition, each administered by means of the National Arts Festival Office, a non-income Section 21 Company. The Festival programme consists of appearing arts (theater, dance, stand-up comedy and stay music), visible artwork exhibitions, films, talks and workshops, a huge meal and craft honest and ancient excursions of the town. The NAF runs a kid's arts competition over the identical duration and some of different fairs take place in Makhanda over the duration of the NAF, consisting of the National Youth Jazz Festival.

Performances take place throughout the town in about 60 venues (consisting of theaters, churches, schools) in addition to numerous out of doors places for the road performances. The Festival draws great numbers of neighborhood and global traffic and is one in all the most important participants to the economic system of the region.

Time: June, July

Location: Grahamstown