Lack of funds keeps Cape Town artists from Infecting the City as festival canned
Cape Town’s Infecting the City Festival for 2016 has been cancelled because of a lack of funds‚ the organisers Africa Centre announced on Thursday. The festival - one of the Mother City's signature artistic events - was scheduled to have been held in March.Africa Centre said that every year since its inception in 2008‚ audience attendance‚ artist participation and media attention had increased. Its audience numbers peaked in 2015 with over 38‚000 people‚ but unfortunately this popularity had not translated into fundraising success.“Raising money for the Festival is always a 12-month occupation and never without its challenges. This past year we have done an exhaustive search for funders‚ but unfortunately have not been able to secure enough to hold the Festival in its traditional format‚” the organisers lamented. But they added: “With support from the City of Cape Town however‚ we plan to launch the Infecting the City series. This will include a range of large and small monthly public art interventions that take place in the city’s shared spaces.“The series will start in March and the full schedule will be released in the next three weeks.”..
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