To open and close South Africa's 2010 National Arts Festival we staged a carnival through Grahamstown flowing with movement, vibrant costumes, brilliant puppetry and European and African song and dance - a theatrical event on the move with the crowds becoming part it. "I would not have missed Amathole. You helped us achieve our mission to allow the community to take ownership of the streets, to allow different groups to work together and to challenge the divide of separately presented individual productions." Ismael Mahomed, Director, South African National Arts Festival