Zanzibar – Festival of the DHOW – Call for arts entries
So you’re an artist right? And you’ve always dreamt of visiting Zanzibar, Africa’s magical island? Well use your kops and get your work onto East Africa’s annual Festival of the Dhow which is taking place in July this year. They’re looking for music, performing arts, exhibitions, workshops and music to showcase and celebrate “the unique cultural heritage… of Africa”. Entries close end of May so SHESHANI!! Click here to go to the site. The ZIFF Festival of the Dhow Countries, East Africa’s largest cultural event is located in Zanzibar around the magnificent, historical venues along the waterfront of Stone Town. The festival celebrates the unique cultural heritage of Africa and the Dhow countries of the Indian Ocean region and their global Diaspora. The Festival promotes an extensive programme of Films, Music & Performing Arts, Exhibitions, and Workshops for Women, Children, Film Industry, Music Industry and Literature. The Festival also includes events in selected villages of the Zanzibar islands, Unguja and Pemba. From the vantage point of Zanzibar, ZIFF Festival of the Dhow Countries provides an opportunity to offer perspectives on contemporary trends in global culture which address the defining ideas of the twenty-first century incorporated in the themes of cultural diversity, individual integrity, social justice, women, children, diaspora culture and conservation....
COLOURED Blood Relatives
Catch a fascinating photography exhibition by Cedric Nunn at the Durban Art Gallery this month running from now until the 21 May. It’s a look at his identity as a Coloured person in South Africa and what it means in today’s society. ‘I am committed through my photographs, to contributing to societal change that will leave a positive legacy for the children of Africa’. BLOOD RELATIVES photographs by Cedric Nunn 5 April – 21 May 2006 The gallery has a fine collection of national and international artworks in all media. The focus is on contemporary South African artwork. 2nd Floor Smith Street, City Hall, Smith Street (031) 3112264 These photographs are the result of a process of examination/investigation of the family and communities that shaped my identity as a so-called coloured in apartheid South Africa. Coloured has for me always been a difficult and contentious term. During the struggle we pre-fixed it with ‘so-called’ so as to leave people in no doubt as to who had coined the name. My early burgeoning consciousness was at odds to understand how such a diverse grouping of people could be classified as one group. And why that group, so closely related to both black and white, should have to be separate. South Africans of black and white parentage occupy a unique space in the world, moulded by racial bigotry and apartheid. The ‘coloured’ people themselves, who have bought into this myth of separation, now perpetuate this enforced separation. This condition is not sustainable and certainly not desirable, and will be changed by future generations who grow up in a healthier and more accepting society. The people depicted are my blood relatives, and so also are all the peoples of South Africa. Attached image 24. Amy Madhlawu Louw in conversation with her son Ronny. iVuna 2001 About Cedric Nunn I began photography in the early eighties, my initial impetus being to document the realities of apartheid that I thought were being ignored by the mainstream media. Therefore, my focus throughout has been on documenting social change, and in particular rural issues. At first as part of the Afrapix collective and agency which operated throughout the eighties, then independently, working mostly with NGO’s. I have extensive experience in media, from newspapers, wire agencies, magazines, public relation companies through to corporate. I have exhibited extensively, both locally and abroad. I have been involved in many photography education projects, from workshops to being the director of the Market Photography Workshop. I currently mentor and supervise photography students. I have been both judge and convener of the FUJI Press Photo Awards and am currently a judge on...
Anyone for an ‘Impulsive Action’ auction?
You must have seen one of those movie scenes… the spacious expensive home or impressive Art gallery filled with chairs all facing the eager Auctioneer. Ladies and gentlemen nervously clutch onto their handbags and wallets as fabulous paintings are sold off to the highest bidder. It’s nail-biting stuff! Well the goodman news is that you have …the chance to put your best frock on, grab your credit card and look very wealthy at the Goodman Gallery’s “Impulsive Auction” this coming weekend. From Picasso to Kentridge to Sam Nhlengethwa, name your price: The Goodman Gallery will be holding an auction entitled ‘Impulsive Auction’, on Sunday the 23rd April 2006 @ 15hOO. 10% of the proceeds will go to FUNDA. The public will be able to view the works that will be auctioned on Friday 21 April from 09h30- 17h30 and on Saturday 22 April from 09h30- 13h00. The artworks that will be auctioned include works by Norman Catherine, Jim Dine, William Kentridge, Richard Hamilton, Picasso, Sam Nhlengethwa, Willie Bester, Gillian Ayres, Robert Hodgins, Peter Schutz, Sydney Kumalo, Durant Sihlali, Andrew Verster, Jo Ractliffe, Victor Vasarely. I have attached images of some of the artworks that will be on auction. 1. Pablo Picasso ‘Sur La Plage, Femme Au Miroir Et Deux Baigneurs’ 1968 Etching 41,5 x 49cm Ed 22/50 2. William Kentridge ‘Vitrine drawing from ‘Zeno Writing’ (Vitrine XII)’ 2002 Charcoal on ledger papers 24 x 38cm 3. Richard Hamilton ‘The annunciation’ 2005 Inkjet digital print; lightfast pigment inks on white velvet paper 59,5 x 68cm 4. Willie Bester ‘Mbekweni’ 1997 Silkscreen 26 x...
Banks: Please help us – where should we move to?
One of our readers Sista asks for your help in choosing a better bank: My family has been banking with ABSA our whole lives and thus it was without question that I as an adult decided to follow through on this brand loyalty and stick with ABSA as my preferred bank. Today I feel so frustrated with their lack of service and archaic attitudes that I am about to break this c…hain. But that’s the thing about banking in South Africa, Banks have very cleverly convinced the average consumer into believing that once they bank with them, it’s a lifetime choice that they cannot get out of… We think that is rubbish. There is no reason why anyone should feel just because they have all their finances in one banking basket that they should stay there. In the UK there are adverts everywhere with banks trying to convince you to move your money to another bank – they are prepared to pay the costs of moving your money and debt across to them and they offer you preferential rates. Why is that not happening here? Because Banks like to treat us like idiots. A friend of ours is convinced that they are still managed and led by racist dinosaurs from the last disastrous era in our country and that they see people as stupid instead of the street-smart, money-savvy clients that they should see us as. Why do we have such ‘loyalty’ to banks – we think it’s because our perception of banking as a ‘service’ is completely misinformed. What we mean is, we think that banks think that they are doing us a favour by giving us an account. Not TRUE> Have you not looked at your statement, you are paying for every single transaction that you make with the bank. The latest urban bank talk is that apparently we pay to DEPOSIT money…. isn’t that a classic. If anyone can back that up, please let us know. Have you ever tried to get a loan from a bank – like a housing loan or a car finance loan or an extension on your bond… it is the most humiliating experience where you feel like you have to be on your best behaviour, prostrate to their power and control. NOT TRUE> Banks need your debt, they need it because they make so much money off the interest that you pay that without you having debt, they couldn’t operate. So they are just playing hard to get and if your credentials are good and you know they are, you need to bargain with them and make them BEG you...
Review: THE GAME – how to be a Pick-up Artist
Thanks to Spawn-O for sending in this review – you may also wonder what on earth a PUA is? Thanks to this article we now know it’s a pick-up-artist and this book lets you into their secret world. Sounds like a great read. Spawn-o let us know if it works! Click here to buy it from AMAZON.… The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists – Neil Strauss. The World Of PUA’s Its probably happened to every woman who’s dared to flaunt the nightlife with their graces, it’s not bad in anyway, no, it’s only a survival of the strongest, or in this case, in this world, this world of pickup artists, survival of the fearless. Neil Strauss, a name not many people are familiar with, is a proufound journalist who has written for the New York Times, Rolling Stones, and managed to squeeze out many biographies on Marilyn Manson, Motley Crue and even Jenna Jameson (How To Make Love Like A Porn Star, I wish i co-wrote that), among a few. But one book is the real eye catcher, a true story about his undercover existence in a world that many men wished they lived, a world where women are seduced into, a world where your previous self would have been eaten alive.This world is the world of Seduction. Neil Strauss, or Style as he is affectionately know to his peers, becomes the underground worlds greatest pick-up artist, and everything was true, nothing was fabricated or stretched to seems sellable, he wrote what he saw. My gosh did he see a lot. A Pick-Up Artist(PUA) of his range and calibre could enter a nightclub and be sucking on the breast of the hottest female in that room, in front of everybody there, within an hour, but not after he managed to rope at least 5 numbers out of willing victims, but his victims weren’t the desperate ones looking for a good shag or a boyfriend, they were possibly the ones who went out on the premise that they weren’t gonna give a single digit away, or even bat an eye at any men… but they, the artists, possess a talent each man has, they only know what it takes to exploit this talent and render it to their good uses – it’s merely confidence. Confidence is a big word in many peoples lives, they say they got tonnes of it, they say fear doesn’t worry them, but ask them to approach a woman, and BAM,”No i cant, shes too pretty for me.” “Look at me, I’ m certainly not her type.” So much for confidence. Just remember,...
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