PIETER DIRK-UYS PERFORMS FOR DRAMA FOR LIFE ANNUAL FUNDRAISING

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(Free-Press-Release.com) July 13, 2011 --

The Drama for Life programme at Wits kicked off to much fanfare earlier this year and we invite you to continue with the festivities. Join Drama for Life (DFL) in hosting Pieter Dirk-Uys, internationally acclaimed artist, comedian, performer extraordinaire and one of DFL’s very own patrons, taking to the stage to perform For Fact’s Sake, especially adapted for its annual fundraising event.

This once-off spectacular takes place on Thursday, 28 July 2011 at 18:30 for 19:00 at the Market Theatre in Newtown.

Drama for Life was established in 2006, with the goal of using applied drama and theatre practices in the fight against HIV and AIDS in Africa. Today, this ambition remains as relevant as ever, and Dirk-Uys’ performance all the more appropriate. With Dirk-Uys’ artful ability to infuse serious social and political issues with comedy, the evening is bound to have a hilariously enlightening outcome.

In For Fact’s Sake Uys speaks to us about the roller coaster ride of sex, HIV and AIDS in a contemporary society. After a ten year work-in-progress throughout schools, colleges, reformatories and retirement villages in South Africa – and one and a half million learners – Uys shares the facts and fictions about this great fear in the lives of all of us: dying of love. Much of the information made up the core of his internationally-acclaimed award-winning performance – foreign aids – and this presentation of For Fact’s Sake promises to be a most memorable, not-to-be-missed event.

Dirk-Uys’ performance is in aid of raising funds for the DFL Scholarship Programme and the DFL Site Partners. DFL has financially supported 81 postgraduate scholars from 15 different African countries over the past four years. Additional funds are also needed to feed directly into the ongoing work that DFL implements through different partnerships in community and education sites in and around Johannesburg. These include the Hillbrow Theatre, Soweto Kliptown Youth (SKY), Rainbow Sparrow Orphan Village, DFL Partnership with schools, and the Ndlovu Care Group in Elandsdoorn, Limpopo Province.

All of the work done by DFL has performance art at its core, and uses this to negotiate and interact with social issues, especially those around HIV and AIDS, human rights and social justice, environmental sustainability and diversity and transformation.

The event will also feature guest speakers Dali Tambo, the Chairman of the DFL Advisory Board; and DFL patron Justice Edwin Cameron who will share their insight on the work that DFL engages in, as well as the general issues posed by HIV and AIDS in South Africa today. The evening will close with a cocktail function where guests can mingle and network.

This prestigious event is made possible by DFL’s partnership with the Market Theatre, GIZ, Goethe Institut, Business and Art South Africa and Wits, with sponsorship from Distell and support from Computicket.
Tickets cost R250 and are available at Computicket. For more information email lonwabo.mavuso@wits.ac.za or call (011) 717-4735.

*Also be sure to catch Dirk-Uys’ special performance of Adapt or Die on 29 July 2011 the Market Theatre, as part of the Apartheid Archive Project showcasing. Tickets cost R160 at Computicket.

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