Africa Centre's Public Arts Festival INFECTING THE CITY Launches Crowdfunding Campaign

The Africa Centre has launched a new partnership with the crowdfunding platform Thundafund to expand the scope and scale of artworks showcased in Infecting the City (ITC) 2015. This will be the eighth iteration of this annual multi-disciplinary public arts festival, scheduled to take place in the public spaces of Cape Town in March 2015.

A selection of artists shortlisted for ITC 2015 is participating in this campaign with the goal of raising 50% of their production costs. The Africa Centre will match this, securing their place in the final ITC 2015 programme.

Infecting the City's crowdfunding campaign will run for roughly 6 weeks, until 16 December 2014. Each one of the eleven artworks for which we are currently crowdfunding has a unique profile on the Thundafund website. These include: Dubito ergo by New World Dance Theatre; Ellipsis by Siphumeze Khundayi, Sethembile Msezane and Sonia Radebe; FeedBack Loop by the Rhodes University Fine Arts Department; I Am A Sex Worker by the Umzekelo Drama Group; Iqhiya Emnyama (The Black Cloth) by Cindy Mkaza-Siboto, The Open City Project by Wesley Pepper and Andrew Whisper, Picturing The City by Rose Mudge, Surface Passing by Galina Juritz, Roger Young and Kurt Human, Trapped by Themba Mbuli, Un-mute by Unmute Dance Company and Yellow Sunday by Koleka Putuma and Nicole Fortuin.

Donors are invited to browse the artworks on offer and support their favourite projects by making an online donation. Each donation category entitles donors to a unique set of rewards in acknowledgement of their generosity. For more information about Infecting the City, visit websites for the Africa Centre or the arts festival itself, or follow Infecting the City on Twitter (@InfectingtheCT), using the hashtages #ITC2015 and #InfectingCT, Facebook or YouTube.