Tony Lankester

How do local creatives use their craft to sustain them for the remaining 354 days when there isn’t an international audience in Makhanda?

The National Arts Festival, due to be held at the end of June, has released details of its 2013 programme.

This year, the current team at the helm of the National Arts Festival has entered its third year of steering the festival’s course.

Amid the genteel theatre-goers and rowdy privileged schoolkids, there are dozens of poverty-stricken children in fixed poses, faces painted white.

Changes from the top and fresh energy are invigorating the National Arts Festival. Brent Meersman speaks to Tony Lankester, the new chief executive.