Get “On the Beach” with Fatboy Slim & more…
We’re not meant to be an entertainment guide – but with so many hot parties happening this summer, we just have to share ’em all with you. Party People get your bikini’s or speedo’s on and get to this INCREDIBLE line-up – there’s something for all party people – especially FATBOY SLIM all the way from the UK! We’ll see if we can hook up some tickets to give-away… for now, read ALL about it: Featuring International Superstars Fatboy Slim and Chris Lake and over 40 of SA’s finest DJ’s including Fresh, Roger Goode, Euphonik, Derek the Bandit and Ready D…. .Laser Show – Extreme Sound – Awesome Visuals – Massive Led Screen – Spectacular Lighting….. COACHING FOR HOPE Fatboy Slim will visit South Africa this December courtesy of the “Coaching for Hope” initiative. The charity uses football to empower vulnerable young people in the developing world by making them aware of the dangers of HIV and AIDS. Already active in Mali and Burkina Faso, “Coaching for Hope” is expanding its programme to South Africa ahead of the 2010 World Cup. The 1st of December denotes International World Aids Day and on 2 December 2007, Wild Waters will set the scene for the unexpected third H2O party this year when H2O presents “On The Beach” with Fatboy Slim and Chris Lake; an Aids Awareness Fundraiser. WEBSITE: http://www.coachingforhope.org/ FATBOY SLIM Fatboy Slim (aka Norman Cook) is the ultimate master of a thousand guises. His raucous blend of house, acid, funk, hip-hop, electro, and techno has added to his already formidable reputation as one of the foremost all-around producers on the scene. His career dates back almost a decade, and he has never been bigger! When he threw his second Big Beach Boutique in Brighton, England a few years ago, 250,000 turned up to party and his Big Beach bash in Rio last year drew Fatboy’s biggest ever, single audience – a staggering 360,000! With more than 4 million albums scanned in the US alone and DJ gigs drawing people in the hundreds of thousands, Fatboy Slim has become an undeniable part of the electronic dance music stratosphere. Phrases like “Right about now, funk soul brother,” “Right here, right now,” and “I’ve got to praise you” have all become part of the vernacular, while images of Christopher Walken dancing and Spike Jonze shimmying have become indelible images from his successful music videos. With 5 Grammy nominations (including one win) and an unprecedented 9 MTV video awards, it is little wonder that Fatboy Slim’s audience crosses over into the rock, pop and dance worlds and extends from club kids up to soccer moms....
Represent Insists: William Kentridge
We know it’s been open about 11 days already, but we like picking up the momentum halfway through… SO Representer’s – we’re Insisting that you make the effort to get to this. People all over the world would LOVE to be able to pop into a Kentridge exhibition on their home way from work – think of it as a gift, one of our most iconic, respected and honoured artists, William Kentridge, gives you the free prize – a look at his recent work for mahala!!! Now don’t even consider looking this gift horse in the mouth – just point your car towards Jan Smuts Avenue and GO GO GO! William Kentridge I What Will Come 10 November – 14 December 2007 http://www.goodman-gallery.com/ Gallery hours: Tuesday – Friday 09h30 to 17h30; Saturday 09h30 to 16h00. An exhibition of recent work by William Kentridge opens on November 10th 2007, at the Goodman Gallery. This exhibition, entitled What Will Come takes its title from the Ghanaian proverb ‘What will come has already come’. Kentridge is renowned for his animated films, drawn and animated using trademark multiple erasure technique, in which he explores the nature of human emotion and memories, and deals with the quest for cultural identity, ingrained history and politics of South Africa, intensely dedicating himself to issues of sight in his work*. Through a series of new drawings, prints, and stereoscopic images that form the basis of What Will Come, Kentridge continues to explore the medium of sight, reflecting his continued concern with optics and the construction of seeing. The exhibition is centered around an eight minute anamorphic film, entitled What will come. This filmic anamorphosis in which images, drawn and animated by Kentridge, assume their proper form only when reflected in a mirrored cylinder positioned at the projection’s centre. This film draws on the idea of the picture puzzle that originated in the sixteenth century. Kentridge translates this play with perception that operates distorted images that can only be deciphered from a certain angle in his film. The technique of cylindrical mirror anamorphosis Kentridge employs is based on a further level of perception. It is not enough to change one’s point of view but a cylindrical mirror is essential to decode the picture, with a certain radius that reflects the distorted image, causing it to ‘straighten’ optically. The production of these images relies on Kentridge’s profound knowledge of mathematical rules and optical foundations*. A number of anamorphic drawings from the film will also be shown, mirrored in cylinders. Other work concerned with optics and the construction of seeing, includes series of stereoscopic photogravures that take on three dimensions as one looks...
This goes out to the broken-hearted
You’re either gonna love or hate it – soppy, over-produced, cheesy…the whole “rock meets soul” cliche…. but *damn* it’s CATCHY! For anyone going through a break up or on the other side of a messy one… you’re gonna FEEL IT…Tell ’em to rock off to this! It’s number 3 on the UK charts this week – watch Apologise from Timbaland featuring One Republic. Tell us what you think! [youtube]y0Ds6joW5RM[/youtube] The (cringy) lyrics: I’m holding on your rope Got me ten feet off the ground And I’m hearing what you say But I just can’t make a sound You tell me that you need me Then you go and cut me down But wait… You tell me that you’re sorry Didn’t think I’d turn around and say.. That it’s too late to apologize, it’s too late I said it’s too late to apologize, it’s too late I’d take another chance, take a fall, take a shot for you And I need you like a heart needs a beat (But that’s nothing new) Yeah yeah I loved you with a fire red, now it’s turning blue And you say Sorry like the angel heaven let me think was you But I’m afraid It’s too late to apologize, it’s too late I said it’s too late to apologize, it’s too late Woahooo woah It’s too late to apologize, it’s too late I said it’s too late to apologize, it’s too late I said it’s too late to apologize, yeah yeah I said it’s too late to apologize, a yeah I’m holding on your rope Got me ten feet off the...
Represent Interview: Loyiso Gola
Miss P is back and she’s working it…Siyanamukela! Catch her tête-à-tête with supernovae Loyiso Gola – reach out for falling stardust as he shoots his way through the entertainment galaxy! Watch this space for ticket give-aways to his show next week. Represent! Loyisa Gola is a funny man. But what else is he about? It’s just over a week before his show ‘Loyiso Gola for President (Part 2)’and Palesa Madumo caught up with him on the set of his television show ‘Dinner with the President’ which airs on Thursdays on SABC 2 at 21:30. (FOR A LIVE ENCOUNTER: Catch Loyiso from 29 November to 1 December, Live from the Alexander Theatre (Siemens St, Braamfontein) from 29 November to 1 December 2007. Tickets are R100 at Computicket and R120 at the door. Doors open at 19h30 and the show will start at 20h00 sharp!) Take it away Miss P: Loyiso Gola’s forthright talk could definitely land him in hot water, however, I suspect that he usually gets away with it, it’s in his nature- after all he is a comedian! Watching Loyiso perform his role as Evita Bezuidenhoud’s, (Pieter Dirk Uys) grandson on the kitsch living room set of his comical talk show ‘Dinner with the President’ reveals his blasé yet spontaneous funny man nature. He’s just turned 24 and scooped the Best Breakthrough Comedy Act award at the inaugural South African Comedy Awards held in September- it seems; this rather lofty bona fide heavyweight from Gugulethu has the world in the palm of his hand. I hung out with him on a break from the first half on the morning’s shoot and Loyiso almost immediately started speaking explicitly about himself, his work and his general opinion about certain matters, including interviews, which he finds to be repetitive and lacking substance at times. I agree, once you’ve read one thing about Loyiso online, it seems you know it all, so in an attempt to uncover new insight, when he asked my opinion about his show last year- ‘Loyiso Gola for President’, I jump on the opportunity to address what I felt was a rather insensitive joke about child sexual abuse in South Africa. “I’m a candid person. I don’t think that jokes about abuse are insensitive, I think what I do allows me to talk about what I want to talk about, the way I want to talk about it. I don’t think people come to a comedy show to learn, they come to laugh and hear about topical issues- in a funny way” It is clear that even though Loyiso makes jokes about sensitive situations, he is actually concerned and active in curbing some of...
What’s on at Wits Theatre
Still a few shows to catch in 007 at the WITS Theatre – Contact Cathy on catherine.pisanti@wits.ac.za for details: THE VOICE BEYOND THE VEIL Wits Amphiteatre 15 November – 01 December @ 20h15 Set in a brutally transitional time in South Africa’s political history,1989 – 2006, the story spans 17 years from pre-democracy to the release of Mandela, the inauguration, 9/11 to 12 years after liberation. A gentile woman falls pregnant and is unexpectedly converted to Islam and renamed as ZAHIRA on her wedding day. It has a devastating effect on her life and her partner’s, including his battle with drug addiction. With divorce not an easy option, 9/11 spurs her to reclaim her life. This is a true story of courage and hope – directed by Sarah Roberts. TICKETS (excl Computicket’s service charge): Tue – Thu = R 80,00 Fri & Sat = R 100,00 Students & pensioners = R 40,00 COMING TO The Nunnery 21 – 24 November @ 19h30 Choreographed and Performed by Athena Mazarakis. Through this ‘Anatomical Cartography’, and the exciting collision of Physical Theatre and Digital Art, Coming To charts a voyage across the perforated map-borders of the body, which allow whirlpools of memory to spill, bleed and seep into each other. TICKETS = R 10,00 pp. CONCERT FOR THE FESTIVE SEASON – The Black Tie Ensemble The Wits Theatre 28 November @ 20h00 The Black Tie Ensemble’s annual Concert for the Festive Season has established itself as one of the definitive concerts in this genre. Building on the successful formula of the previous years, The Black Tie Ensemble (BTE), in collaboration with the Unisa Music Foundation, and proudly hosted by Sappi, will present A Concert for the Festive Season which will again enthral and move concert goers. All members of The Black Tie Ensemble will take part in the concert, performing in solo and ensemble works, and The Black Tie Opera Chorus will again bring a welcome and added dimension to the event. BTE is pleased to announce that the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa (Cosa) will be conducted by Christopher Dowdeswell. This British-born conductor has settled in South Africa and established himself as a successful conductor of both opera and concerts.. Come and experience the stirring melodies of the Festive Season TICKETS: Full price = R 90,00 Pensioners & scholars = R 50,00 Details are subject to change. Enquiries: 011 717-1376 / catherine.pisanti@wits.ac.za ...
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