BBC launches new Africa Beyond website
Tuesday 06 March 2007 saw the launch of the new BBC website Africa Beyond celebrating African arts in the UK. Africa Beyond casts its net right across the African continent to illustrate the diverse and complex cultures of the 54 African nations and the Diaspora – in cinema, television, photography, literature, music, architecture, visual art, history, craft, design, performing arts, workshops and debate. The website will be a hub for information, discussion and exploration of African arts, beyond the geographical borders of the continent, and beyond any preconceptions about Africa and its culture. The new site brings under its wing the BBC’s existing music website Africa on your Street, with its interviews, features and CD reviews covering everything from Afrobeat to Hiplife to Mbalax, plus gig listings from across the UK. Coinciding with Ghana’s 50th year of independence there will be a special focus on Ghana’s impact on the UK arts scene over the past 50 years. DJ and music promoter Rita Ray kicks off the new website with her preview of Ghana-related events this year. There’s an interview with playwright Ama Ata Aidoo whose classic play Dilemma of a Ghost will be revived in London later in the year. You can browse a photo gallery of Max Milligan’s extraordinary images of Ghana and read about innovative Ghanaian company Theatre for Change. Coming soon will be features on Ghana’s up-and-coming new writers, and more Ghanaian music from old-style highlife to reggae to hiplife. Africa Beyond carries on the BBC’s African web coverage where the Africa 05 festival left off. Africa 05 left its mark with many high profile events such as Africa Remix at the South Bank, Back to Black at the Whitechapel Gallery and Africa Live at the British Museum, and even incorporating commercial partners such as Time Out, Starbucks and Borders and Books Etc. The Africa Beyond programme will also include live events, including the Word from Africa festival, a week long celebration of African languages which launches on 02 June 2007 with an event at the British Museum featuring musicians, poets and storytellers in the galleries and theatre halls. Further events will be happening in African restaurants around London. Africa Beyond is supported by the BBC and Arts Council with other core partners including inIVA (Institute for International Visual Arts), the British Museum and South Bank...
SHARPILE for coming to Good Life 2! Photos…
Thanks to everybody that made it out on a Thursday night and rocked our Good Life party at Roka…You made our day! Special thanks go to S’bu from Red Bull for the amazing sponsorship and support, Morafe and Zondi (Sharp Eugene!) for doing us another big favour (karma guys – you know it’s coming back threefold or more), Earl and UJU for sharing the stage and the night and for their incredible music (Wandi we missed you!), Jameson for his soulful sounds and his company Asiboni Mbala – Corinne, Martin and the team for the partnership, Abey aka Phonogenic for his sweet tunes, Miss P, Phephile and Dede from SoulProviders (Represent’s mother company) for working so hard and being such an awesome team, Shakir and his team from Roka, especially our waiter Shane and Dudu on the door – for the venue and excellent service. YFM especially Pabi, Lee, AK and Rude Boy for letting everybody know about it on air,To all of you that passed on the invite, to rage.co.za, JHB Live, Thunda, Heat (thanks Nicole) Mail and Guardian and everyone else for spreading the love…And of course ADRIEN for the beautiful invite yet again. THE PHOTO’s SAY IT ALL. Just click right here. SHARPILE! See you at Good Life 3 in June/July. “Good Life! Good Life! Good Life! Good Life! It’s the Good Life!” Tell somebody, tell everybody! Yep it’s finally time for number 2! Represent is hosting another Good Life party and if you missed last years debut then you should mos def get yourself to this one. We are celebrating the Good Life and we want all of you there! We’re giving away **10 pairs of tickets** to the event… simply email editor@represent.co.za and tell me why you wanna be there! Let us take you to the place you know you wanna go… It’s the Good Life! If you’ve not yet caught the funked up energy of UJU live on stage nor the talented boys from Maftown… Morafe … or if you’re simply in the mood to party on a Thursday night with GOOD PEOPLE… Best you join our world and STAND UP FOR THE GOOD LIFE! Click on the image for the flyer… tell all GOOD people about it. Cocktails two-for-one before 8:30pm! The food is great too… Table bookings for Roka on 011 482 2038. Details: GOOD LIFE Venue: Roka – 44 Stanley Ave, Milpark Price: R40 Performances: Uju and Morafe DJ’s: Jameson, Phonogenic &...
Wanna be famous? Enter The Fame Game!
Imagine a worldwide talent competition on the internet with 25 000 pounds as a prize, which in today’s tight exchange rate works out to R350 000!!!! All you have to do is make an EXCEPTIONAL video of your particular talent, something amazing that could bring you FAME and FORTUNE and upload it for the world to vote on! There are several prizes to be won during the different phases of the competition so get entering – use your cellphone, your video function on your stills camera -just make your clip and get entering. From what we saw the entries are OK so there’s loads of space for South African talent – let’s go! THE FAME...
PS3 Launching soon in SA!
It’s coming! It’s coming! The revolution has started… Following widespread speculation, Ster-Kinekor Games has just announced that Sony’s PLAYSTATION®3 home entertainment-console (PS3) will be on sale in South Africa from 23 March 2007 – in conjunction with the console’s launches in the UK and Australasia. An expected one million PS3 units will be made available during the initial launch period. PS3 is one of the most highly anticipated & sophisticated home entertainment systems to hit the international gaming market. Its features are the first of its kind and also revolutionize features usually associated with gaming consoles. Launching in a sleek black casing designed to enhance the contemporary home entertainment-lifestyle, the PS3 enables games & multimedia to be viewed & experienced in an unparalleled High-Definition environment with top-end audiovisual potential through BlueRay DVD. The system’s revolutionary sensor-sensitive Sixaxis controller can connect up to 7 gamers wirelessly via advanced Bluetooth technology. Apart from being able to play games with the BlueRay DVD system – the next generation of DVD created for High-Definition (HD) TV systems – the PS3 also acts as a standalone high-end BlueRay DVD player (with a 60GB harddrive), provides storage space for personal photos, videos & music, has more speed than the best PC available commercially and also links to the Internet for downloads & gaming interaction. A stellar launch line-up of game titles has been confirmed for PS3, including eagerly awaited titles published by Sony Computer Entertainment such as Resistance: Fall of Man™, MotorStorm™, Genji™: Days of the Blade, FORMULA ONE CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION and Ridge Racer™ 7. An exceptional range of titles in every genre will also be available at launch from the world’s leading third party publishers, including Electronic Arts, Activision, Namco Bandai, Sega, Take 2, Ubisoft, Vivendi Universal, and Sony Online Entertainment. In addition to games on disc, an exciting range of fully-featured downloadable games will debut on the PLAYSTATION®Network. These will include gaming icons such as Tekken®: Dark Resurrection and Gran Turismo® HD Concept; the fully-featured PS3 debut of the best-selling franchise Gran Turismo, realised with full HD (1080p) visual quality. Created by Polyphony Digital Inc and published by Sony Computer Entertainment, Gran Turismo® HD Concept has been downloaded by more than 350 000 users since it was released in December 2006 in North America and Japan. Also available on the PLAYSTATION®Network will be brainteasers such as Go! Sudoku and Go! Puzzle, and innovative games such as Blast Factor™ and flOw™, designed exclusively for PLAYSTATION 3 and delivering on the promise to provide original content created by non-traditional developers and publishers. Selected Sony movie titles are already available in...
Represent’s on the way to TOKYO
MOSHIMOSHI! “Tokyo has more vending machines than any other city in the world, with over 2.5 million selling drinks, and hundreds of thousands more selling cigarettes, batteries, rice, eggs, fishing equipment, flower bouquets, and of course, pornography.” Lonely Planet. You know that we go to the ‘nth’ degree to bring you the Good Life and the most fabulous news of all is that our very own SJ aka the original Editorista will be jetting off to her most favourite fantasy destination TOKYO, JAPAN (thanks to Brutal Fruit!). It’s probably the furthest one can go from South Africa and we cannot wait to find out all about it… She will be blogging from there next week and sending us loads of photos and video’s introducing us to one of the most fascinating cities and cultures on earth. In her quest to fill her itinerary with only the most incredible things to do, SJ came across all kinds of wild and wonderful websites that she wanted to share with you – thanks to Aquoibon for the love, support and info! *SO you know all about 43things.com already – well how about http://www.43places.com/ – it’s a bit like LonelyPLanet’s Thorntree or VirtualTourist where you can post questions about the place that you are visiting and members mail you back. The biggest difference is the rate at which it happens… super fast! Next time you travel just post a question on the place you’re heading to and the answers will appear in your inbox. Oh ja, and if you’re very into South Africa, you can give people answers to their questions on Jozi or Slaapies or wherever…. *The Japanese are reknowned for their incredible sense of aesthetics and their design gurus – some of you will recognise the fashion icons Issey Miyake, Kenzo, Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garcons and Hanae Mori … We’ll definitely be swinging by at least one of their fabulous headquarters. On the subject of design, check out this bare and sparse hairdressing salon in Tokyo designed by the Isolation Unit – quite a change from our over-the-top bokkie hives. Thanks to Dezeen: “Isolation Unit, the product and interiors company established by designer Teruhiro Yanagihara, has sent us images of a recently completed hair salon in Tokyo. The salon is for fashionable Japanese hairdressing chain Lim and consists of a theatrically minimal installation within the host building’s untreated concrete frame. The project was completed late last year. Photographs are by Takumi Ota.” *Sushi anyone? From Weird Asia news: “Japan as a country never stops amazing us. I am sure you have heard of, or seen the “Nyotaimori” (literally means female body plate),...
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