page_title: Magnet Theatre
section_title: Projects
hierarchical_section_title: Magnet Theatre / Productions and projects / Projects
caption_attribution_description: English: The Magnet Theatre Early Years production "AHA!", performed by Magnet Theatre trainees for children during the Clanwilliam Arts Project 2016.
context_page_description: Magnet Theatre is an independent physical theatre company based in Cape Town, South Africa. It was formed in 1987 by Mark Fleishman and Jennie Reznek who have since been the company's artistic directors. Besides creating original theatre productions, Magnet Theatre is actively engaged in youth development work in the Cape Town area as well as in the Cederberg Municipality.
context_section_description: Past projects
  From 2001-2008, Magnet Theatre ran a Community Groups Intervention, mentoring eight youth drama groups from Khayelitsha.
  From 2001-2018, Magnet Theatre ran the Clanwilliam Arts Project. The annual arts festival in Clanwilliam was a "project co-ordinated by Magnet Theatre and includes student facilitators from UCT Drama School, Michaelis School of Art, UCT Music School, ComNet and other independent practitioners who all use the project as a site for community arts training".
  From 2002-2007, Magnet Theatre ran annual Director's Workshops.
  In 2006, Magnet Theatre participated in the Common Plants research project, initiated by York University (Toronto, Canada).
  Current projects
  Community Arts Development, Cederberg Municipality:
  Since 2009, Magnet Theatre has had a fieldworker in the Cederberg area developing youth drama groups.
  Since 2014, Magnet Theatre has been running a Farm School Project at a number of farm schools in the Cederberg area.
  Community Arts Development, Cape Town townships:
  Since 2011, Magnet Theatre's Culture Gangs Project has been supporting existing drama groups in the Cape Town townships. The project aims to create "gangs of youth who are committed to culture and not to crime".
  Since 2008, Magnet Theatre has been running a two-year Fulltime Training and Job Creation Programme in physical theatre. The programme is intended to work as a bridge from under-resourced township communities to tertiary institutions of education and employment in the theatre profession as a whole.
  Since 2013, Magnet Theatre has been engaged with an Early Years Project, creating new performance pieces for audiences between the ages of 0 and 7 years.
  Since 2014, Magnet Theatre has been offering internships as part of the Expanded Public Works Programme and, since 2016, to young theatre makers.
caption: The Magnet Theatre Early Years production AHA!, performed by Magnet Theatre trainees for children during the Clanwilliam Arts Project 2016
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