{"id":1469,"date":"2015-05-09T12:18:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T10:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2015-05-09T12:26:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T10:26:54","slug":"extensions-granted-for-cape-town-fringe-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2015\/05\/09\/extensions-granted-for-cape-town-fringe-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Extensions Granted For Cape Town Fringe Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/CityHallCapeTownFringe.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1471 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/CityHallCapeTownFringe.jpg?resize=400%2C148\" alt=\"City Hall Cape Town Fringe\" width=\"400\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/CityHallCapeTownFringe.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/CityHallCapeTownFringe.jpg?resize=300%2C111&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National Arts Festival, producers of the Cape Town Fringe Festival, have announced a one-week extension on production proposals from artists wishing to take part this year. The second edition is once again being staged in the Mother City from 24 September\u2013 4 October 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The original deadline of 4 May has been extended to close of business on Thursday 14 May,\u201d explained Artistic Director Ismail Mahomed, giving artists a full week and an extra weekend to &#8220;sharpen their pencils, refine their ideas and put together powerful, creative proposals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The programming brief and application form is available at www.capetownfringe.co.za<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe extension came about by request from a number of artists who said they needed more time as a result of the recent spate of public holidays and short working weeks. In the interests of getting the best possible selection of productions to choose from we are happy to accede to the request,\u201d Mahomed said.<br \/>\nA large number of proposals have already been received, according to organisers, predominantly from theatre and dance practitioners. \u201cAs we discussed at the recent engagement forum with artists in Cape Town, we are assembling a broad team of people to review the proposals and make some recommendations to us. It is going to be an exciting process to develop the 2015 programme,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The final programme for this year\u2019s Fringe will be announced around the end of July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Arts Festival, producers of the Cape Town Fringe Festival, have announced a one-week extension on production proposals from artists wishing to take part this year. The second edition is once again being staged in the Mother City from 24 September\u2013 4 October 2015. &#8220;The original deadline of 4 May has been extended to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2015\/05\/09\/extensions-granted-for-cape-town-fringe-applications\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Extensions Granted For Cape Town Fringe Applications<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}