Drama for Life ‘Sex Actually’ Festival

SEX Actually 2011

31 August– 9 September

To view the complete programme of the 2011 DFL Sex Actually Festival click here.

DFL Festival is a unique cross-community HIV and AIDS arts education, activist and therapeutic intervention.  Through the performing and visual arts, the festival seeks to speak to the soul of our nation.  The DFL Festival believes in a world of love, compassion and mutual respect, a world free from fear, discrimination and prejudice. 
This year Sex Actually is bridging space, asking questions and sharing stories. Sex Actually explores how intimacies cross spaces and inhabits spaces in Johannesburg.  Love happens here. Love infects our city.  Where do we as individuals, partners, lovers and people place our expressions of love, and how do we mark and remember our loves. Sex Actually finds new ways to communicate about these issues in an inclusive and supportive manner.
Sex Actually interrogates how, in different communities, we engage or disengage around the complex topics of sex, sexuality, relationships and of course HIV and AIDS. We can no longer separate these things. They hold hands, they make out, they love and hurt; they have the power to create or to destroy.
DFL Sex Actually Festival creates spaces for the people of Gauteng to come together, to witness, to travel and to cross boundaries.
My story is your story is our story.
Sex Actually, our look at real life.

The highlights of the 2011 DFL Sex Actually include:

• Bonfire Theatre Company [Interactive Theatre Intervention]
• Congruent Directed and choreographed by Tracey Human, in collaboration with Renos Spanoudes
• I should have asked but didn’t By Siwela Sonke
• Life, Breath, Movement, Pleasure Facilitated By Dr. Ava Avalos
• Love Happened Here Directed by Warren Nebe in collaboration with the cast
• Amagwinya By Sello Pesa and Vaughn Sadie
• DFL Playback Theatre Company [Interactive Theatre Intervention]
• Where Do I Stand and Beyond the Line By Themba Interactive

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The DFL Sex Actually Festival is presented with financial support from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Goethe-Institut, GIZ, Arts Alive, Business and Arts South Africa, University of Johannesburg, Wits Theatre and the University of the Witwatersrand.”

For further details on Sex Actually Festival, contact DFL Projects Office on +27 11 717-4734/5 or email levinia.jones@wits.ac.za

For further details on DFL Lover + Another Poetry Competition, contact Ntombi on +27 11 717-4734/5 or email ntombinkuna@gmail.com

For further details on Life Beats. Arts. Journalism. HIV, contact DFL Projects Office on +27 11 717-4734/5 or lonwabo.mavuso@wits.ac.za

Other important Festival dates:

26 August – Regional Final: DFL Lover + Another poetry Competition

2 September – National Final: DFL Lover + Another poetry Competition

Life Beats. Arts. Journalism. HIV Workshop - Please note that the Life Beats. Arts. Journalism. HIV Workshop is postponed until further notice!

31 August – 2 September – Sex Actually @ UJ