By Kate Crane Briggs With the glorious summer weather, I’m leading regular art and architecture walks, some new and some old favourites. I do hope you’ll be able to join. History – The old, the new and the future For the 11th November the tour will be in central Cape Town looking at public art …
By Anlé Britz To visit the GOLD restaurant has been on my bucket list for over ten years. I started my professional career in hotel management in 2011 and I can clearly remember the commission inspired envelopes that were delivered after every guest and group dinner reservation I secured. Yet with every reservation my dream …
By Kate Crane Briggs For art and design tours in Cape Town, open to the public, Kate Crane Briggs curates a programme of regular events. The groups are small, and led by experts from a range of backgrounds but, as it turns out, mainly women. Last night, the last day of South Africa’s women’s month …
By Tamlyn Martin These are just a few of the delicately unfurling ideas that I’ve been wrapping my head around over the summer, working with the wonderful Euroculture en Pays Gentians organisation. https://euroculture.wordpress.com/ Well… happily volunteering my skills in exchange for the abundance of new skills, experiences, and exchanges with likeminded others to be more …
By Steven Sack It was 1988, and I had arranged to meet Dumile Feni at the offices of the ANC in New York. Feni was scheduled to meet with the head of an ANC delegation to show him the poster that he had been commissioned to make of Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his …
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By Steven Sack From the 1860s until the present time, the blankets worn by the people of Lesotho have been designed through a collaboration between local communities and the proprietors of the general trading stores in the region. These stores were established by British traders who migrated south (often on the grounds of their health, …
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By Anlé Britz On the 16th of June 2022, we commemorate 47 years since the Soweto Uprising. We recognise and pay tribute to the thousands of students that stood their ground against the decision of the then Bantu Education Department who enforced that Afrikaans were to be used on an equal basis with English as …
By Carol Brown TENX10 features artworks by 100 women and gender diverse artists, and marks Wits University’s centenary and Wits Art Museum’s tenth birthday. In programming exhibitions, curators, including in this museum, has often neglected the extensive artistic contribution made by women and gender diverse artists to South African art. WAM therefore decided to focus …
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Luyanda Nogodlwana, Ncedile Daki, Sipho Ngxola and Siphokazi Mpofu had and urge to extend their new-found passion for puppetry arts to the community of Masiphumelele and so the the Ukwanda Puppetry and Design Company was born. They have travelled abroad to perform at schools, theatres, festivals, and significant UWC events , won awards at the …
I am proud to showcase my the ‘Vir Ewig’ project. I have teamed up with Melanie Wirz, a social journalist fromSwitzerland. We collected 14 portraits and stories of role models from Hanover Park and created a magazineout of that to hand out to the kids in schools in Hanover Park. We want to inspire them …