Switch to D-CAF
Calm down, you’re caffeine fix isn’t going anywhere. In fact, you might need some extra caffeine come April when D-CAF, Egypt’s biggest international, multi-disciplinary arts festival (we need a coffee just to be able to say that!), takes over Cairo.
If you haven’t heard about D-CAF before, we’re going to go ahead an assume you’re an uncultured fool, and give you a little background to help you save face when everyone’s talking about it and you’re still thinking of lattes.
Basically, D-CAF stands for Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival. Got that? OK. The first festival took place last year and was a massive success, led by a group of Egypt’s most celebrated artists, curators and cultural operators, in conjunction with the wealth of quirky and cool performance and exhibition spaces that inhabit our beloved downtown area. Keeping up? Good. This year, D-CAF spans three whole weeks (April 4th – 28th) and will take you on a trip in and around downtown Cairo’s landmarks. From old favourites that’d get your parents all nostalgic like Radio Theatre and Shahrazad Night Club to the Goethe Institute and AUC’s Falaki Theatre and Greek Campus, not only will you get a much-needed dose of culture, you’ll get to act like the rucksack-wielding, picture taking white people that know wust el balad far better than we do. Better yet, there’ll be a few select performances, shows and exhibitions in unorthodox spots across downtown. That means you can catch anything from street dancing outside the Stock Exchange to comedy at the Kodak Building.
With 9 international award-winning films being screened throughout the three-week culture orgy, as well as plenty of plays, workshops and exhibitions, you certainly should switch to D-CAF. Not decaf, though. That’s a travesty to coffee.
Find out more about D-CAF and download the schedule from d-caf.org. Keep-in-touch with the D-CAF crew on their Facebook page here and follow @DCAFFestival on Twitter
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