1.0Swartland Gazettehttps://novanews.co.za/swartlandgazetterich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="DgpFUDAmqn"><a href="https://novanews.co.za/swartlandgazette/twentieth-arts-festival-celebration-20150728/">Twentieth arts festival celebration</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://novanews.co.za/swartlandgazette/twentieth-arts-festival-celebration-20150728/embed/#?secret=DgpFUDAmqn" width="600" height="338" title="“Twentieth arts festival celebration” — Swartland Gazette" data-secret="DgpFUDAmqn" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://novanews.co.za/swartlandgazette/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script> https://novanews.co.za/swartlandgazette/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/9e3ce0c51fd04944a643540b2de30102.jpg1024535The much anticipated annual Montagu Music, Art, Dance and Drama Festival (MMADD), celebrating its 20th year, is around the corner. Hosted by the Rural Arts Development Foundation (RAD) from 12 to 22 August in Montagu, MMADD provides an adjudicated performance platform for primary, high school and tertiary education institutions in Cape Town and the surrounding areas. The festival categories are music, art, craft, photography, dance, literature, poetry, drama and puppetry. The theme for the art entries this year is Heritage. The festival event was started in 1995 by Montagu High teachers, the local tourism office and volunteers, and has grown in strength over the past 20 years. In 2011, Helen Gooderson took over the reins as Festival Director and renamed it the Montagu Music Art Dance and Drama Festival. She simultaneously registered the Rural Arts Development (RAD) programme as a non-profit organisation. RAD engages rural youth in all forms of visual and performing arts and offers an excellent opportunity for talented youth to have a performance platform and gives developing talent the chance to network with artists and professionals from all over the province. Last year the festival attracted over 1 000 entries from 62 schools. The festival’s opening event will be held at the Montagu Museum Gallery on 12 August at 18:00, where guests can view an exhibition of art by all the entrants, meet the trophy winners and the art adjudicators