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WHAT IS CITY WALK SATURDAYS
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INFO SHEET FOR ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, STUDENTS, ETC.1 CITY
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ImAGINE CITY WALK SATURDAYS! Imagine the streets of the inner city full of people
playing – playing chess, making art installations,
ball-room dancing, hunting treasure, singing from
balconies, reading poetry, dressing up, dressing
down, kicking a ball around. Imagine children
interviewing passersby for a radio insert, or a choir
singing folk songs, or old men playing dominoes.
Imagine teenagers dressed to upset, or a group
of street people demonstrating how to live in in-
between spaces, or a group of artists knitting a
jacket for a tree. Imagine a couple boxing, kids
jumping in a castle, or actors pretending to be the
victims of an accident.
Imagine shop-fronts temporarily designed by
design students, or paper sculptures threading
their way along the streets, or pigeons eating
seeds in the shape of a giant skull and crossbones.
If you can imagine this, you’re warming up to the
idea of City Walk Saturdays: a chance to come out
and seriously play with the rest of the city.
CITY WALK SATUR
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CITY WALK SATURDAYS TOOLKIT
1WHENThe 3rd Saturday of every month, between 10am
and 2pm.
WHEREThe pedestrian corridors of the inner city:
Waterkant/Fanwalk; St Georges Mall;
the Company’s Garden
WHOYou and your connections. You and your
students. You and your peers. Citizens, groups,
organizations and projects are encouraged to
show up at Play Saturdays, and do something
playful or creative. It can be something small,
something last-minute, something ultra-low
cost. As long as you tidy up behind yourself, and
anticipate all kinds of people being in the city on
Play Saturdays, your contribution to the public
life of the inner city will make a difference.
HOWThe event is being facilitated and championed by
Cape Town Partnership, but is a citizen-led
project. As the months go by, more and more
people will find ways of using Play Saturdays to
learn, play, and connect. Use what you have.
Take small risks. Make it better every month.
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CITY WALK SATURDAYS ARE
A MONTHLY, DAYTIME EVENT TO
ENCOURAGE PEOPLE FROM EVERYWHERE
TO USE THE INNER CITY MORE.
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INFO SHEET FOR ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, STUDENTS, ETC.
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DESIGN STUDENTS
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2City Walk Saturdays offer rich opportunities for
arts/design students and lecturers to use the
public areas of the city as places to test and
develop new works, show to new audiences,
experiment, have fun. The earlier you try
something small at a City Walk Saturday, the
sooner you’ll see what potential the event has for
community engagement, partnerships, outreach
and on-the-ground involvement in urban cultural
development. As City Walk Saturdays grow,
more and more institutions and faculties will
start collaborating with each other: journalists
with fashion designers; filmmakers with artists;
graphic designers with dancers. Make history.
ARTS AND
DESIGN STUDENTS
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City Walk Saturdays are a perfect time to try something new
– in public!
KEEp IT EASY.Do something small. Involve a few friends,
so that you have some support. Don’t spend
unnecessarily.
DO SOmETHING YOU’vE DONE bEFOREThe easiest way to get involved in this important
new event is to repeat something you’ve done
before. Try it out a second time in public: bring it
down to City Walk Saturday.
DO SOmETHING NEWPerhaps you feel like challenging yourself. City
Walk Saturdays are a perfect time to try
something new – in public!
GRApHIC DESIGN• Make a banner out of paper that puts your
favourite line from a song into the city.
• Make a few small booklets out of a friend’s
poetry on a photocopier and give them to
people who would never have read it.
• Make small illustrations and attach them
with string to surfaces in the city.
• Ask a shop if you can make hand-made
temporary
• signage to put in their window for a few
hours.
• Make your own hyper-visible version of a
board-game and play it with friends.
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ARTS AND
DESIGN STUDENTS
HOW TO GET INVOLVED AND
SOME TIPS
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SURFACE DESIGN• Find a surface in the city and make a quick,
low budget patterned cover for it (the legs
of a bench, an electric box, the bottom of a
lamppost, etc.).
• Get some friends together and all wear
something strange and identical.
• Make a small, but visible, adornment out
of low-cost materials: bangles of out of
packaging, a necklace from an old jersey, a
hat from tin foil.
FASHION DESIGN• Combine your old clothes in startling new
ways
• Form a crew and all dress identically in some
unexpected way.
• Have a pop-up, low budget fashion show,
working out of your shoulder bags, with
music on your phone. Make sure you have
friends photographing, ideally with a flash!
• Pretend you are ramp models and that town
is a ramp.
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DESIGN STUDENTS
HOW TO GET INVOLVED AND
SOME TIPS
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FILm/ mULTImEDIA• Have a film-screening on your phone,
on a bench, showing your favourite
1-minute films.
• Convince a shop to let you put a monitor
in their window, and show your work to
passersby.
• Find a dark public place and project some
footage into it.
JOURNALISm• Write a few ultra-short reports on what’s
happening at City Walk Saturday, find a
copy-shop, print 10 copies, and immediately
hand it back to passersby.
• Find two people who are as different from
each other – and you! - as possible, and ask
them what they like and don’t like about
Cape Town.
WRITING• Write a poem a minute and tie them to a
tree for others to read.
• Write a poem with strangers, each person
adding a new line.
• Make copies of your favourite lines and
wear them as a brooch.
• Carry a piece of big corrugated cardboard
sign with your most inspiring epigram on it.
HOW TO GET INVOLVED AND
SOME TIPS
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DRAmA• Pretend to be someone else for the
morning.
• Stage a celebration of something you love.
• Perform an ultra-short play: Macbeth in 1
minute.
• Change character multiple times in public.
• Do a fake film-shoot.
ART• Make a figure drawing in public. Take turns
to model.
• Make an art installation out of string with
friends, and get passersby involved.
• Make tiny copies of an artwork and leave
them all over the city.
• Make an exhibition in a cigarette box and
introduce it to strangers.
• Hand out certificates of authenticity to
people you don’t know.
3D DESIGN• Design a cheap light to hang temporarily
outside someone’s shop.
• Make origami and give it to children.
• Make a temporary structure on a bench in
the city.
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DESIGN STUDENTS
HOW TO GET INvOLvED AND
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ARCHITECTURE• Make a temporary room out of bamboo.
• Bring collapsible chairs and rearrange
them every 10 minutes to make new
configurations.
• Make quick models of places in public.
pHOTOGRApHY• Work with some friends to do a fashion
photoshoot on a City Walk Saturday.
• Print your pictures cheaply and display them
on a fence.
• Work with an informal trader to photograph
everything on their stall, and then make
a twin stall next to theirs that only has
photographs of their goods on it.
• Photograph people from the inner city
(or outside the inner city?) and put their
portraits up temporarily. Make cheap black
and white copies on paper.2ARTS AND
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HOW TO GET INVOLVED AND
SOME TIPS
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THEATRE-CRAFTS/ FILm ART• Make a cheap, portable, temporary stage
set out of old magazines and staples. Put it
up in public, and photograph strangers in
front of it.
• Put throw-away, easily-found props in
unlikely public places.
• Make human-sized objects out of old
cardboard boxes and masking tape, and
present them as public monuments.
• Stage a fake event.2ARTS AND
DESIGN STUDENTS
HOW TO GET INVOLVED AND
SOME TIPS
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3IF YOU ARE A bUSINESS:Is there something fun and playful – and
low-risk! – that you could do on a City Walk
Saturday? Perhaps you and a couple of
neighbouring shops can set up a treasure hunt
for clues in each shop, and give away a small
prize for whoever gets all of the clues. Maybe
you can make a big, cheap enlargement of a
crossword, and put it in your window – or put a
table outside your shop, with a cheap puzzle that
passers-by can help put together. If you are a
food outlet, maybe you can invite your customers
to bring their boardgames and play with each
other.
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4IF YOU ARE A FAmILY:Come into the city with your family – maybe by
train or minibus taxi. Come and see what others
are up to, or do something playful of your own.
Bring a picnic, and eat it on a city bench, under
one of the city’s beautiful trees – or on the lawn
in the Gardens.FAMILY FIRST
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