By Talita Swarts The artist Irma Stern is perhaps the reason why I decided to pursue a career in fine arts. As a teenager I recall reading about a famous artist that was born in the Post Office of Schweizer-Reneke, a town very close to the small town I grew up in. What caught my …
By Carol Brown Do not miss it: 2nd – 4th September at the Sandton Convention Centre Joburg “We are thrilled to be back with an in-person fair in 2022 while also expanding our culture footprint with 15 plus days of dynamic culture programming through Open City. As the first and longist running contemporary art fair …
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 Steven Sack It was around the turn of the century. The Director General of the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, was deep in the looming calamity of the “millennium bug”, the “Y2K”, that was predicted for the day the clock ticked forward from 1999 to the year 2000. Just one of many …
By Richard Kilpert I was taking some tourists around the Silo District at the Waterfront and after popping by the extraordinary Patrick Bongoy show at Southern Guild we ambled over to Makers Landing to grab a coffee and treat. On our way out we stopped at the fascinating Daor Gallery which is opposite the Port …
By Anlé Britz Towering at the top of the Tygerberg Valley Rd, overlooking the Atlantic seaboard, Nitída (hindy meaning for bright and bloom) shows off all her colours at the Cassia restaurant. With a brand ‘For the love of food’ lies in the proof on every plate leaving the kitchen pass. Here we all speak …
By Anlé Britz Let me take you to my favourite cocktail kitchen in Cape Town – probably SA. Nestled in the middle of the heartbeat of the V&A Waterfront, Cause | Effect Cocktail Kitchen & Cape Brandy Bar is waiting to completely change how you look at the art of mixology. This 60-seater gem has …
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By Roxanne Devonshire This month I decided to focus a little bit on one specific species which I absolutely love. This species is Loxodonta Africana or as we all know them the African Elephants. They are such special animals, they are extremely smart, live very long and most importantly to fit this month’s theme, they …
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 Tamlyn Martin It’s no secret that most cultures are passionate about their food but after my 2 months extensive research on this front I’m happy to confuses that I’m totally blown away by French cooking … I’ve always loved French food and Cordon Blue and gourmet French cooking as a young person – what …