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KykNET announces nominations for Fiestas

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:00

Nominations were announced recently for the kykNET Fiestas, a ceremony awarding the most talented up-and-coming and established Afrikaans artists.

The nominations for the 2012 Fiestas were selected from productions that debuted at Afrikaans arts festivals countrywide during 2011. Winners from 16 categories as well as three Lifetime Achievement Awards will be announced during an extravagant production at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town on 23 February 2012. The Fiestas will see category winners sharing the stage with some of the country’s most talented artists and musicians.

Karen Meiring, channel head for kykNET, explains that the Fiestas focus on festival productions as these events have established themselves “as the home of the Afrikaans theatre and entertainment industries.”

They represent a gathering and celebration of the Afrikaans culture and the Fiestas are an opportunity to recognise the artists and productions participating in these festivals,” explains Meiring. “The different arts festivals may submit nominations for the various categories for productions that debuted at their events in 2011. And this year, the nominations are once again of outstanding quality!”

The nominations are in turn presented to an independent panel of judges who attended all the festivals and saw the productions. The panel then decides by vote who the final five nominations for a category will be, as well as the final winner.

The public also has the opportunity to vote for two of the categories in order to determine the winners of the Most Popular Fiesta Presenter and the Most Popular Festival. The winners of these two categories will be determined by SMS voting and the public has until 31 January 2012 to vote for their favourites.

Nominations for the Most Popular Fiλsta Presenter are Andries Vermeulen, Bobby van Jaarsveld, Erik de Milander, Wicus van der Merwe and Willem Botha. The nominations for the Most Popular Festival are Aardklop, Innibos, KKNK, Huisgenoot Skouspel and Woordfees.

A special broadcast of the Fiestas awards show will air on 1 March 2012 at 7:30pm on kykNET channel 111 on DSTV.

To see the nominations, visit http://kyknet.dstv.com/2012/01/17/kyknet-fiestas-nominasies-bekendgestel/


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