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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.

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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.


CITY WALK SATURDAYS ARE

A MONTHLY, DAYTIME EVENT TO

ENCOURAGE PEOPLE FROM EVERYWHERE

TO USE THE INNER CITY MORE.

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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.

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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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HOW TO GET INVOLVED AND

SOME TIPS


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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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.


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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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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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

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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.

GOOD FOR BUSI NESS


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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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