History – Artroute

An early encounter with Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

by adminCulture, History August 2, 2022August 2, 2022No Comments

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 …

A Premier Space for Art : The Remembrance Gallery in Gardens

by adminHistory February 27, 2022April 11, 2022Comments are Disabled

The gallery will be open to the public every first Saturday of the month, from 10am – 2pm.At the peak of the cultural bustle of the Cape Town Art Fair, Premier Alan Winde officially opened the Leeuwenhof Slave Quarters Remembrance Gallery in Cape Town on Saturday, 19 February 2022. It occupies the former slave quarters, …