FUTURE FESTIVALS

Participate in international collaborative research project and stand a chance to win

Share your views and opinions on what the KKNK would look like in 2030 and stand a chance to win fantastic prizes, with a total value of R60 000.

This collaborative research project, known as Future Festivals South Africa: Possibilities for the Age of Covid-19

is developed by King’s College London (UK) and Rhodes University (South Africa). The study is funded by the British Arts and Humanities Council. It aims to investigate the impact of Covid-19 on arts festivals in South Africa, building a new knowledge base – and a collaborative network – to enable festivals to survive these challenging times, and to thrive in the future.

The project partners with some of the country’s most important festivals to develop a broad and inclusive network of stakeholders.

You are invited to participate. Reimage the future of the KKNK, by creating a Letter from the Future. Your letter in this research project has two aims:

To provide a creative way to understand how people involved in the KKNK have experienced the pandemic, and how they anticipate it will affect the festival in the next few years.
To provide an opportunity for people involved in the KKNK to creatively imagine new possibilities for the festival in the future.

The letters are an important part of the data set for this research project. The findings will be published in project reports and journal articles. This Future Festivals South Africaproject will furthermore use the letters as the basis for collaboratively developing ideas – alongside festival partners – for practical steps that could be taken to enable South African festivals to survive and thrive.

How to create your letter

Imagine that it is now the year 2030, and you have just attended the KKNK as a participating artist, audience member, Oudtshoorn community member, KKNK sponsor or KKNK organiser.
Write a letter from 2030 back to yourself in 2021, explaining what your experience of the festival was like.
Your letter can be as short or long as you like.
To help you write your letter or create your image, we have created a set of guiding questions which you may wish to respond to, based on your involvement in the festival as a participating artist, audience member, Oudtshoorn community member, KKNK sponsor or KKNK organiser. Click on the link below to see the questions and take part in the project.
Your contribution can be in Afrikaans or English.
To help you write your letter or create your image, we have created a set of guiding questions which you may wish to respond to, based on your involvement in the festival as a participating artist, audience member, Oudtshoorn community member, KKNK sponsor or KKNK organiser. Click on the link below to see the questions and take part in the project.

You can win fantastic prizes to the total value of R60 000 if you participate and tell us how you see the future. Winners and prizes will be announced following a random draw on 17 September 2021.

How to submit your letter and be entered into the draw

For more details on how to submit your Letter from the Future and some guidelines in creating your letter.

The prizes are:

A weekend away for two to Oudtshoorn to attend Coenie de Villiers and Deon Meyer’s Karoo Suite (Karoo Kersfees) with accommodation at Buffelsdrift. Accommodation includes breakfast and dinner; a safari and elephant encounter as well as a spa session; Cango Ostrich Farm tour; hot air balloon ride; Klein Karoo gift set; Ons Karoo; including flights to George (return) and vehicle hire.
A weekend away for two to Oudtshoorn to attend Dowwe Dolla: Nou of nooit! (her last tour) with accommodation at Berluda Farmhouse and Cottages with breakfast and dinner included as well as a meerkat tour; Karusa Wine tasting; a visit to the Cango Wildlife Ranch; Klein Karoo gift set; including flights to George (return) and vehicle hire.
A weekend away for two to Oudtshoorn to attend Dowwe Dolla: Nou of nooit! (her last tour) with accommodation at the Queen’s Hotel, breakfast and dinner included; Karusa Wine Tasting; a visit to the Cango Caves; Klein Karoo gift set; including flights to George (return) and vehicle hire.
Five (5) gift hampers that include a Klein Karoo gift set/pack, ReWOLusie products, a Maskers en mure anthology and four tickets to KKNK online theatre productions.