Music
5 Years, 5 Musicians
PentaFusion
Five years. Five creative minds. One unforgettable PentaFusion.
Theatre
A Childhood in Chalk
Ubom! Eastern Cape Drama Company, Rhodes Drama Department and the Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education
What the years forgot
Cabaret & Musical Theatre
Afrika Sings! The Late Legends
Sonwa Sakuba Institute for the Performing Arts
Celebrating the Legends. Inspiring the Future.
Theatre
All Protocol Observed
Department of Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts and Design, Tshwane University of Technology
When corruption meets protocol, chaos takes minutes.
Music
BREATHE: African Consciousness
Kgalalelo Creatives
Where untold stories come to light & music transforms silence into understanding
Cabaret & Musical Theatre
BRENDA AND I
Wela Kapela Productions
To love a legend is easy. To become yourself is the real song.
Theatre
Beneath The Soil
Unsung Artists Foundation
In the stillness of the grave, the heart learns to speak.
Cabaret & Musical Theatre
Call me a Diva
Origen Productions
Honouring the queens of music, past and present.
Cabaret & Musical Theatre
Dear Son: A Letter from My Absent Father
Tseko Thukani
A Choreopoem where silence learns to sing
Cabaret & Musical Theatre
Dear Tata... What Makes a Man a Man?
Living Glory Entertainment
Questions of manhood asked by a son to his father.
Theatre
Dikgang Tsa Merafe: Kgosi Sechele The Great
Dramatic Scholars
Who wants Mosielele can come and fetch him out of my stomach."Ke mo yele"
Theatre for Children & Young People / Family Fare
Disney's Aladdin JR
Sonwa Sakuba Institute for the Performing Arts
An Adventure Awaits
Music
Going Up The Memory Lane...
Tinklay Productions
A Musical Journey of Becoming, Collaboration & African Musical Innovation
Theatre for Children & Young People / Family Fare
Heitsi-eibib
SAINT SIMON STREET
A legendary tale of choices, courage and Khoikhoi magic.
Theatre
Igazi Lase Senqu II (R5 Cow)
Pioneers Arts Movement
Untold Stories from the source of the Orange River
Dance & Physical Theatre
Igazi lika nina
Tyhala Pty(Ltd)
A tale of resilience in the face of cruelty
Theatre
In(hair)itance
N/A
The Girl Child navigates an identity crisis, rooted in her relationship with her hair.
Illusion & Magic
It's All In Your Head
Morgan Blake Productions
Not everyone leaves in the same role they arrived in
Illusion & Magic
It's a Kind of Magic
Li Lau - One Crazy China
Discover the Magic Within the Impossible.
Dance & Physical Theatre
January 21, 1960
Maraba Adi-Arts Laboratory NPC
Remembering the past, honoring the lives and inspiring the future.
Comedy
Jayden Brand, My Life, My Stage
Jayden Brand
Laugh, live, and relate – Jayden Brand shares stories from his life!
Theatre
KHOIKHOI REBELLION OF THE EASTERN CAPE
Nama Khoi Productions and Munanai theatre
Her Resistance. Her Power. Her story.
Music
Live with ICON Tshedi Malaika (Dorah’s Dancers) featuring Maleh and Viwo Kulati
Black community radio bcr
Where African Voices Rise in Bold Harmony.
Theatre
Love me, Feed me, Never Leave me
Origen Productions
The modern dating play you never knew you needed.
Theatre
Many Women's Tales
Emalahleni Civic Theatre HUB in collaboration with Bokamoso Youth in Theatre
#redemption unfolds
Theatre
Markus (en die brandblusser op die derde verdieping)
Spark in the Dark
This isn’t a “slice if life”…It’s the crumbs under the toaster.
Theatre
Midnight in Pyjamas
Department of Creative Arts University of Zululand
Prisoners of our own dreams
Theatre
Mqambi weNyembezi Vuka
Isiba Arts Collective
A poignant exploration of love, loss, and the enduring power of family.
Dance & Physical Theatre
My Long Lost Father
Walter Sisulu University Buffalo City Campus
Igazi Liyathetha
Cabaret & Musical Theatre
Neurospicey
Tarryn Light Productions
The story of a spicy neurodivergent theatre kid...
Cabaret & Musical Theatre
Nina - the high priestess of soul
Wela kapela Productions
A powerful experience celebrating the life, music, and legacy of Nina Simone.
Dance & Physical Theatre
ONTNEEM/BEREFT/UYOLUPHALA
First Physical Theatre Company
a prelude to a life without them
Theatre
Please, I Promise
Spark in the Dark
Is it lost if it’s still in front of you, can you grieve if they haven't gone?
Theatre
Prison to Prison
Monganeng Theatre and Dance Movement
A descent into the mind's darkest corners.
Theatre
SIREN: ECHOES OF THE WATER
N.K PRODUCTIONS in collaboration with TSL Music
Where vulnerability rises, and the water remembers
Comedy
Sophie Joans is (not) a Real Comedian
Rondebosch
She’s done many things. But now she’s doing stand up.
Comedy
Stuck In Dubai
Dalin Gerard Oliver
SA’s favourite “official unofficial international news correspondent” who saw live missiles while Stuck in Dubai
Comedy
TEASING with TEECEE 3
Sesiu Media Production
A hilarious tease with TeeCee to strip you of your stress!
Theatre
THE UNSEEN - SYMPHONY OF SILENCE
SOUTH AFRICAN THEATRE PRACTITIONERS
Fragments of Silence Stitched into Motion
Dance & Physical Theatre
Tears of Revolution
ACASS iYunivesity Walter Sisulu
Victory was declared, reality disagreed
Music
That's The Way It Goes: Music for Saxophone and Piano | Novo Duo
Novo Duo
Classical, Contemporary, and Everything in Between: A Recital by Novo Duo
Theatre
The 8th Bag
Wits Theatre
A metaphor for the toxic cycle of masculinity, which is repeated, inherited, normalised.
Theatre
The Fool's Guide ... to living and dying...
Mouthpeace
the fool meets tech... what could possibly go wrong...?
Cabaret & Musical Theatre
The Piano has Something to Say
CASSTI - Campus and Schools Safety Training Institute
Eighty-eight keys, ten fingers, and one hilarious conversation
Theatre
The Ugly Noo Noo
Mouthpeace
A classic of South African physical theatre and political satire
Theatre
Ubaba - The Father
Chillies Records And Entertainment Media
How can a man create his own killing machine?
Theatre
Uthunzi Lo'Thando
The Brand Poet South Africa In Partnership With Emalahleni Civic Theatre.
One Way Road To Love
Cabaret & Musical Theatre
Welcome to Burlesque
Tarryn Light Productions (pty) Ltd
Show a little more, show a little less, add a little smoke, welcome to BURLESQUE
Theatre
You Should Go In
Origen Productions
This is a story about forgiveness - and the complicated road toward it.
Dance & Physical Theatre
(Co)Ruption
Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative
When a human right is for sale, who really pays the price?
Visual Art
A safe house
Brent Meistre / Analogue Eye
An autobiographical experimental film conjuring the redacted traumatic witnessing of childhood.
Music
Betusile Mcinga in Concert
Betusile Mcinga
Betusile awakens Makhanda with his songs and messages.
Theatre
Bhayi Lam, The Musical
Mandela Bay Theatre Complex
Inspired by the music of Sizwe Zako and Pure Magic.
Music
Concord Nkabinde with Friends | Songs that Move Us
BNAS Artist Management
A journey across continents through song.
Theatre
Cry Of Winnie Mandela
Market Theatre Foundation
Hearty, haunting, and critical conversations reflecting on the historical struggles of women.
Theatre
Dear Museum! The Truth of the Matter it Seems Everything Was Better When We Were Not Telling the Truth
Albert Ibokwe Khoza and African Entertainment
A love letter and farewell letter to ethnological museum practice.
Film
EVERYBODY DIGS BILL EVANS by Grant Gee
Mister Smith Entertainment
The story of one of the most influential and gifted figures in 20th century music.
Theatre
FAMEHUNGRY
Arts Council England
Blending live art, serious artistic enquiry, social experiment and digital chaos
Visual Art
Holding sp(l)ace for the in____between
MTN & UJ New Contemporaries
A space where intervention and collective participation becomes possible.
Performance Art
I Have a Story That Seems Like Mine
Tetembua Dandara
A performance where stories are cooked, shared, celebrated, and lived.
Visual Art
I Hope this Finds you Well/ From the Bottom of My Black Art
Mothla Pula
Exploring how black art histories might be preserved, activated, and experienced.
Dance & Physical Theatre
It’s Like a Finger Pointing a Way to the Moon
KVS
A layered performance that moves between memory, encounter, and transformation.
Film
LOST LAND by Akio Fujimoto
Rediance Films
This intimate portrait documents one of the world's most persecuted ethnic groups.
Dance & Physical Theatre
MAJAIVAN: A movement story of the life of Lee-Ché Janecke
Lee-Ché Janecke
An emotional interpretation of Lee-Ché Janecke’s life journey.
Film
MY FATHER'S SHADOW by Akinola Davies Jr
The Match Factory
A semi-autobiographical tale set over the course of a single day in Lagos.
Film
NO OTHER CHOICE by Park Chan-wook
CJ ENM Co., Ltd
A happy life is destroyed when Man-su is fired from his job.
Music
Nontokozo Mkhize and Nomfundo Moh Performance
Wawee Music Production
South Africa's beloved young voices come together for one extraordinary evening!
Film
SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier
MK2
An exploration of family dynamics where unhealed history ripples into the present.
Music
Sounds from a Black Girl
Gabi Motuba
Gabi Motuba brings a brand new ensemble to the 2026 National Arts Festival!
Visual Art
Stop It… Is It Not the Same Gaze?
Megan Mace
Bringing together artists to examine the dynamics of the Gaze through the lens of Sino-African connections.
Music
Strings of the Nation: 30 Years of the Soweto String Quartet
Soweto String Quartet
30 years of the Soweto String Quartet
Film
TRIAL OF HEIN by Kai Stänicke
Heretic
'At its core, it’s a personal meditation on belonging.' - Kai Stänicke
Visual Art
Ta a-b kobab ada kāxu-da, ti khoe-du’e
Bronwyn Katz
The retrieval of lost language through material process.
Music
The Bala Family with the Masicule Youth Choir
NAF
A moving collaboration that celebrates unity, legacy, and the power of music across generations.
Theatre
The Gabrielle Goliath People's Tribunal
Theatre Duo
A series of urgent debates on political art, freedom of expression, and censorship in contemporary South Africa
Theatre
The Public Servant
Mandela Bay Theatre Complex
A scalpel through the body politic and a conscience of a Civil Servant in South Africa today.
Film
VARIATIONS ON A THEME by Jason Jacobs & Devon Delmar
Kraal Stories
A portrait of waiting, endurance, and loss.
Visual Art
EC CRAFT EXHIBITION | CRAFT MATTERS
ECDSRAC
Craft tells a story, and every story matters.
Visual Art
EC Visual Art | Inherited Fires
ECDSRAC
A powerful exploration of intergenerational memory, resistance, cultural survival, and storytelling through visual art.
Literature
EC LitFest | Day One | The Politics of Translation: Who Gets to Read, Belong and Be Heard?
ECDSRAC
A rich exploration of translation as both a literary and cultural act.
Literature
EC LitFest | Day Two | Between Belief and Becoming
ECDSRAC
Reflecting on LGBTQI+ lived realities shaped by faith, traditions and social expectations.
Literature
EC LitFest | Day Two | Can You Question God Without Losing Your Faith?
ECDSRAC
Exploring faith under pressure.
Literature
EC LitFest | Day Two | What Happens After The Life You Planned Ends?
ECDSRAC
Reflecting on what it means to rebuild.
