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CRADLE OF CREATIVITY

A 12 day event with 1390 delegates from around 70 countries attending

A World Congress involving official representatives from over 54 countries and 4 international networks, over 4 days

A ten-day Conference on Intercultural exchange in TYA, 2 day academic conference and 8 Focus days involving more than 209 presenters

An eleven-day International Theatre Festival

 

FESTIVAL:

63 productions involving

464 artists

In 3 main venues (Artscape, Baxter, City Hall) and 4 Cultural Hubs (Atlantis, Langa, Phillipi and Vrygrond)

29 South African Productions

6 International/SA collaborative productions

11 African (non-SA) productions and collaborations

17 non-African International productions

 

ATTENDANCE:

18 562 tickets through Computicket

1247 attending Rocking the Cradle

2500 attending the Cultural Hubs

Actual attendance of productions ranged between 60% and 100%, due to artists being able to access all productions for free, if there was space in the auditorium.

7850 children/ youth attendances, with 2859 sponsored learners

32 sponsored buses

At least 1960 attended the special events (Opening, Auction, Awards Evening, Closing).

 

MEDIA REACH:

More than 56 discreet media articles

Over 100 documented items produced by Dialogue for Community

Over 3,6 million impressions on the internet

17,900 unique visitors to the website over April/May

Over 1000 new likes on Facebook