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EVENTS: TAUNG CULTURAL CALABASH FESTIVAL 2014

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By Mr Gift Gavinko

“A 20 year celebration of youth and SA Talent”
Taung Cultural Calabash Festival 2014 – Celebrating 20 years of discovering new talent in the world of Arts & Culture.

Mmabana Taung Centre, a center for children who are more creative in arts could not have proved to be a better and fitting venue for the media launch.
The Annual Taung Cultural Calabash is a unique youth based arts festival held annually in Taung, North West province and it sets out to discover new talent through a series of auditions held at district level. Amateur and semi-professional artists are identified in Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Arts.
The purpose of the media launch was to inform the media and the people of Taung that the Calabash is bigger and better than before as seen in the previous years. The National Lottery Distribution trust fund came on board for this years’ Taung Cultural Calabash.
Mr Moatlhodi Dilotsotlhe CEO of Mmabana Arts, Culture & Sports Foundation urged all North West residents to bring their children to the Cultural Calabash Festival to celebrate the heritage and culture of North West. He hoped that new talent would emerge during this year’s calabash where various categories are concerned.
The Department of Culture, Arts and Traditional affairs, MEC Tebogo Modise announced that Bojanala Platinum District, Dr. Ruth Mompati District, Ngaka Modiri District and Dr. Kenneth Kaunda District, are amongst the districts where auditions and competition eliminations will be held served by the Department of Arts & Culture.
The entertainment for the day included the Mmabana Young Cultural Group who blew the audience away with a genuine performance demonstrating of what is to be excepted at the festival due to take place on the 26th – 28th September 2014.
Ogone Sybok and Scotch Mankruajang gave us a beautiful Latin dance piece, showing us that there will be diversity at the auditions leading up to the festival.
The auditions are open to all male and female participants residing in North West from 16 years 



DISTRICTS
DATE
 
VENUES

Ngaka Modiri Molema District
16 August 2014
 
Mmabana Mahikeng

Dr. Kenneth Kaunda District
23 August 2014
 
Klerksdorp Hall
Bojanala District
30 August 2014
Mmabana Rustenburg
Dr. Ruth Mompati District

06 September 2014

Mmabana Taung
 

The Taung Cultural Calabash Festival is sponsored by the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, North West Department Culture, Arts and Traditional AffairsMmabana Arts Culture & Sport Foundation and the Greater Taung Local Municipality.
There will be accommodation available for anyone wanting to make a weekend of it and this information can be obtained from www.mmabana.org.za
Tickets for the festival events are available at Shoprite or Checkers. For more details and the programme, visit www.mmabana.org.za
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