FANTASTIC Free concert in Newtown – New Years
As part of improving the quality of lives of its citizens, and ensuring a safe and happy new year, the City of Johannesburg, annually hosts a carnival parade through the streets of the inner city. This parade culminates in a huge party on the Mary Fitzgerald Square. Once you’ve enjoyed the pulse of Joburg’s own Rio Carnival, join us for a world class African party. The celebrations begin at 6pm on New Year’s Eve and goes on until 2am on 1 January 2009. Experience the city at its best: the sounds of South Africa’s finest against the inspiring backdrop of our truly world African class city.2008 will end on a high note as Newtown, Johannesburg’s cultural hotspot, readies itself for the last big-bash concert of the year. Hosted by the City of Johannesburg and SABC 2, the “New Year’s in Newtown” concert at the Mary Fitzgerald Square continues the tradition of ringing in the year with a bang. More than 30 000 party goers are expected to attend the New Year’s party, which includes a massive stage for live performers. The concert is free of charge, courtesy of the City of Johannesburg and SABC 2. on December 31st. The evening will be an explosion of sights and sounds, as the City welcomes in 2009 to the beat of Joburg’s top performers and the skyline lights up with the sparkle of an electrifying fireworks display. The concert brings together some of the South African music industry’s greatest talents. Expect to see: Freshlyground, KB, Gang of Instrumentals, Wonderboom, MXO, Bleksem, Howza, Fikile Mlomo, DJ Zan D, and DJ Zee. If you are not able to actually be there you can experience the party in the comfort of your own home on the television. The event will be telecast live by SABC 2. Feel connected to your fellow South Africans and welcome in the new year as you watch the party and enjoy the sounds of really fine South African music. No alcohol or weapons will be allowed into the venue. However there will be a beer garden for those who’d like to welcome the New Year with a toast. The law enforcement agencies and Emergency Management Services will be present to maintain law and order, and attend to all emergencies on the night. For the artists too, this is a night of fun, a moment to relax and let the worries of the year wash away, and the excitement for a New Year bubble. Freshlyground shared their enthusiasm for the party by saying: “This is the first year we will start in JHB! We are super excited to do this concert,...
Twenty Artist | Twenty Portraits @ UCA Gallery
The brand new UCA Gallery in OBS in Cape Town is launching with a brave group exhibit featuring work from both established and emerging local artists entitled Twenty Artists |Twenty Portraits. The artworks in this salon style summer show range from traditional to more conceptual approaches to the genre across a range of media. Sounds interesting… go go go. Whereas some of the portraits (such as Lionel Smit’s Chris Divided) are of potentially recognisable, yet probably unknown, individuals, the identities of the subjects in many of the other works have remained deliberately obscured or secondary to metaphorical emphasis and societal commentary. Gabrielle Raaff’s delicate, lyrical watercolour portraits Returning 1-4, and the veiled and blindfolded figures in Christopher Slack’s Virgin in Paradise and Julia Teale’s Annunciation are of particular interest in this regard. Though many of the works are figurative paintings of individual subjects, Kim Gurney’s Disinheritance, depicting a series of 24 chromosomes related to a hereditary disease, and Robyn Cedras’s sculptural installation Just as useless as the box it came in, mark less traditional approaches to the tension between individual and societal identity. Other artists include Norman O’Flynn, Jacqui Stecher, Wonder, Rebecca Townsend, Varenka Paschke and Christian Toujours.Work by students from Julia Teale’s Spencer Street Studios in Saltriver will also be on show. Twenty Artists|Twenty Portraits will open on Wednesday 17 December at 6pm and close on the Saturday 24 January 2009. UCA Gallery 46 Lower Main road, Observatory Tel: (021) 447 4132 Email: info@ucagallery.co.za www.ucagallery.co.za Hours: Tue – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 9am –...
Cheer up your Sunday night with Coalstove
The crew from COALSTOVE have consistently brought you fabulous film nights in the heart of Jozi city this year, the last few taking place at our favourite 360 degree view of the city venue Private Practice… so make sure you get there for the last big one for 08, word has it Kenny Kenzhero is gonna be rocking the decks. SUNDAY, 30TH NOVEMBER 6.30 PM FOR 7.00 PM AT PRIVATE PRACTICE NO. 195 JEPPE STREET (ENTRANCE ON BREE…See map below for directions) Featuring Call Girl by Samantha Nell. The story of a lonely long-distance vacuum salesman who finds solace and love in an unlikely place: an SOS Callbox in the middle of nowhere. Air Who?Foreunners of a Movement by Chris Green. A hilarious mockumentary on the air guitar craze. Beauty and the Surgeon, an experimental film by Michelle Sellwood and Nobuntu Dubazana that questions our understanding of personal beauty and the lengths that people go to achieve it. Special sneak preview of 1Hundred Movie, the much anticipated comedy by Vusi Magubane and Thomas Gumede. For those who have been eagerly awaiting the trailer, now’s your chance! FOLLOWED BY A Q&A WITH THE FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE AND AN AFTER PARTY HOSTED BY DJ KENZHERO ENTRY R20 For more information: Call 011 836 8911 Cell: 072 317 5145 Email: info@coalstove.co.za Visit...
Wim Botha solo gallery exhibition
What more can we do BUT nag you to support local (young) artists? Besides give you everything you need get there? Just stop saying ‘one day’ and GO GO GO – you’ve got until the 13th December to catch Wim Botha’s first solo Gallery exhibition in Johannesburg…. for this debut, Wim Botha will present a new sculptural installation, large and small individual drawings and recent large-scale prints. The works are primarily concerned with the passage of time from a relativistic perspective. It makes reference to both inverted and non-chronological time and the resultant relativity of a personal point of view…The installation makes use of visual elements that have their origin in the languages of art history and historical visual culture and are presented in a semi-structured constellation that seems to suggest a non-linear timeline. Using as original source motif the standard illustrated depiction of time as a sequence of events consecutively arranged in a linear model, the work adapts and perverts this format in three-dimensional space – turning back on itself, this sequence with its various elements suggests a type of system, a volatile organism with high entropic possibility. The main structure of this constellation is formed by hexagonal mirror-sided vitrines, that, as a variation of the typical display cabinet, seems to be turned inside out, putting the surrounding elements as well as its larger surroundings on display. In the two-dimensional works, skeletal studies of human and animal figures in animated poses subjects the assumed finality of death as end of time to a longer time-frame. However, in ignorance of possible spiritual dimensions, these works remain in the material realm, hinting at another form of continuity. Brodie/Stevenson is located on the ground floor, 373 Jan Smuts Avenue, Craighall, Johannesburg. Hours are Tuesday to Friday, 10.30am to 5.30pm, and Saturday from 9.30am to 3pm. Email info@brodiestevenson.com. Telephone +27 (0)11 326 0034. Fax +27 (0)11 326 0041. Image: Gyps africanus, 2008, Pencil on paper, 40 x 50...
Every last Wednesday at the Blues Room…
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The JAG honours fallen resistance artist
Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind— But how could I forget thee? – William Wordsworth. So many of us do not know about the brave, the selfless, the unnamed, the unmarked, the forgotten heroes of our past who sacrificed everything, even their lives, for us to have our freedom today. Let us NEVER forget them, but instead ensure that their names and their deeds are forever close to our hearts and minds, keeping them alive in respect and love. Make sure you get to the JAG to share this poignant retrospective of the art of the master artist Thami Mnyele who was killed at the hands of the brutality of the apartheid security forces. Do yourself and your children this favour, and feed your mind. Details below on the conference to be held pre-exhibition and the exhibition details. From the end of November, the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) will be hosting an exhibition honouring Thami Mnyele, a South African resistance artist who died at the hands of apartheid security forces in the 1980s. The Thami Mnyele and Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective Exhibition opens at the JAG on Sunday, 30 November 2008 at 6.30pm, and runs until 30 March 2009. Thamsanqa “Thami” Mnyele (1948-1985) was a talented artist from Alexandra who was committed to bringing about social change in South Africa through the medium of art. This quest led him to exile in Botswana in the late 1970s, having decided to take a stand and actively participate in the struggle. In Botswana, Mnyele became a cultural worker with the Medu Art Ensemble, co-founded by his friend Mongane Wally Serote. Medu had units dedicated to the anti-apartheid struggle, dealing with music, theatre, visual arts, graphics and cinema, and counted among its ranks South Africa’s current Deputy President Baleka Mbete as well as musicians Hugh Masekela and Jonas Gwangwa. In 1982, Medu hosted milestone conferences relating to South African art, including the Symposium on Culture and Resistance in Gaborone and Culture in Another South Africa in Amsterdam. Today, the Thami Mnyele Foundation’s residency programme for African artists in Amsterdam continues to bear testament to the late artist’s far-reaching influence. As a result of their commitment to the struggle in general, and to the ANC in particular, Medu members became targets of the apartheid security apparatus. In 1985, a day before he was due to move to Zambia, Mnyele was killed along with other activists and civilians in a cross-border raid orchestrated by the South African Defence Force in Gaborone. The JAG will be paying tribute to the work of this seminal South African graphic artist during the retrospective exhibition, and...
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