{"id":815,"date":"2009-04-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.africanews.it\/english\/?p=815"},"modified":"2009-04-10T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T06:00:00","slug":"south-africa-klein-karoo-festival-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/south-africa-klein-karoo-festival-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Klein Karoo festival ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.africanews.it\/english\/images\/stories\/CULTURE\/kkfestival.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;margin: 6px;float: left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.africanews.it\/english\/images\/stories\/CULTURE\/kkfestival.jpg?w=100\" alt=\"kkfestival.jpg\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"summary\">The <strong>Klein Karoo National Arts<\/strong> festival 2009 will end tomorrow 11 April in Oudtshoorn, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>This year the venue hosted a great variety of artists. Among them: <strong>Johnny Clegg<\/strong> and <strong>Jack Hammer<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<p>As stated on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.istc.org\/sisp\/index.htm?fx=event&amp;event_id=104307\">Ictc.org<\/a>, &#8220;First launched as an Afrikaans-only culture event, the<strong> Klein Karoo National Arts Festival <\/strong>(KKNK) in <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Oudtshoorn&amp;sll=-29.630771,25.620117&amp;sspn=9.905095,19.775391&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=-32.398516,23.972168&amp;spn=9.178515,19.775391&amp;z=6\">Oudtshoorn<\/a> has evolved into a multi-cultural and multi-lingual arts festival, playing host to an enormous amount, and huge variety, of South African artists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some of these have included <a href=\"http:\/\/kooskombuis.wordpress.com\/about\/\">Koos Kombuis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valiant.co.za\/\">Valiant Swart<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnnyclegg.com\/\"> Johnny Clegg<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miriam_Makeba\">Miriam Makeba<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackhammer.co.za\/\">Jack Hammer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johannes_Kerkorrel\">Johannes Kerkorrel<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antongoosen.co.za\/\">Anton Goosen<\/a> to name but a few.<\/p>\n<p>As written on the event&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/eng.kknk.co.za\/artikel\/more-than-just-afrikaans\">website<\/a>, the <strong>Klein Karoo festival <\/strong>gathered differents arts like outdoor theatre, dance, classical music and visual arts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to the CEO of the festival, Brett Pyper, despite the challenging economic context, the emphasis of the programme lies on <strong>quality<\/strong> and <strong>inclusivity<\/strong> in the art forms for which the festival is best known, offering festival-goers a more focused and distinctive experience&#8221;, so is written in the media section of the festival website.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=640\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Klein Karoo National Arts festival 2009 will end tomorrow 11 April in Oudtshoorn, South Africa. This year the venue hosted a great variety of artists. Among them: Johnny Clegg and Jack Hammer. As stated on Ictc.org, &#8220;First launched as an Afrikaans-only culture event, the Klein Karoo National Arts Festival (KKNK) in Oudtshoorn has evolved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanews.it\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}