The University of Johannesburg presents the inaugural online arts festival Unfestival from May 26 to June 9 in partnership with Business Arts South Africa (BASA). A symbolic concept in aid of the UJ FADA Dean’s Bursary Fund and BASA's artist relief efforts, the festival is themed ‘counterintuitive’ with participating artists dedicating their performances to the sense of life and connection that the pandemic has taken from us. All ticket sales go towards bursaries for artists. 

The week-long line-up of events streamed online from the 'Theatre of Nothing' include: multi-award-winning creative Jade Bowers's Balambile a new work about the conflicting complaints of the poor and the middle-class during the Covid-19 crisis, Breathe a truncated reworking and post-modern digital reconstruction of Samuel Beckett’s famous one-minute play, Breath, STIL a 48-hour, uninterrupted, sustained silent reading series by a collective of artists from the Free State and ‘PSYCH: Escape from Reality’, moderated by Swiss celebrity curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist and presented by and featuring two famous guest speakers who will Zoom in from their permanent residence at Westpark Cemetery.

See the full schedule of performance and book online here.