Get Cubed @ Carfax with Chris
If you’re sick of going out to thud thud thud and need some substance to your nightlife, check out this evening of multiple media and entertainment at CARFAX in Newtown on the 18 November 2005. The CUBE Inside Out & Outside In. Click here to go to the site. An exhibition of art combined with perf…ormance poetry, music and film @ CARFAX 39 Pim Street, Newtown JHB Friday 18th November 2005 9pm “Inside out and outside in is the subtitle for the CUBE concept. This aspect relates specifically to the Artists intentions, the viewers’ response, and the integration thereof.” “By recontextualising the exhibition format in a more inclusive and less elitist space, the work immediately becomes more accessible”. Be part of yet another creative inside and outside of body experience. Enjoy an unobtrusive exhibition that will allow you the choice of interacting along with various types of artist expressions covering digital, sculpture, film, mixed medium, vinyl print and performance art. The Cube will be showcasing the work of fine art graduate, Chris Hall, with a ten year reunion (retrospective) of personal expression through mixed medium. This takes the viewer on a journey through time and emotion to a place of political uncertainty and psychological instability. The latter will be complemented by poetry shared by Chris on the evening. Also featured will be the work of Ezli Van Niekerk, a young pop artist that shares his interpretations of the times with vibrant colour compositions. There will be live performance poetry by the alternative performance duo, Drivingfish, and the premier of a musical short film by director, Stanimir Stoykov....
FRANCHISE – exploring the real joy of PAINTING
The 44 Stanley avenue creative hub is a fabulous place to while away a few hours – next time you’re there pop into FRANCHISE, just one of the fabulara art galleries in the hood. This week is the last week of the SURFACE exhibition which features paintings by some of our top young artists: Luan Nel, Virginia MacKenny, Moshekwa Langa, Doro…thee Kreutzfeldt, Trasi Henen and Themba Shibase. They take us away from digital and back to basics as they celebrate all the wonderful aspects of painting as a medium. In the current global market, where art and commodity appear inseperable, and the tendency is to migrate towards “surfaceless” digital media, there is an apparent resurgence in the popularity of painting. Painting is being re-examined and celebrated as a medium which consistently resonates as a vehicle for expressing contemporary issues. Perhaps this trend is partly attributable to its having grown the most comfortable with its object status. This group exhibition brings together the work of several South African artists to explore current attitudes to the medium. Works by Luan Nel, Virginia MacKenny, Moshekwa Langa, Dorothee Kreutzfeldt, Trasi Henen and Themba Shibase, form a dynamic and diverse group show. While there are varying degrees of figuration, abstraction and painterliness in this selection, these artists are less concerned with the formal delimitations of their work. The focus of this exhibition is the physical, conceptual, and social space explored by painting. The emphasis is on discovery and celebration of painting as the embodiment of surface. FRANCHISE 44 stanley avenue, milpark, 2092, jhb, south africa tel +27 11 482 7995 / +27 84 453 3980 ” fax +27 11 482 1207...
R E S P E C T find out what it means to Tony Blair
Check out this story from the Washington Times highlighting Tony Blair’s socially-fired-up plan to curb crime, noisy neighbours and other social ills… What do you think Joburgers, would a “respect” based initiative help any of our social ills? Click here for the full story. LONDON — British Prime Min…ister Tony Blair, introducing a key plank of his third and final term in office, has started a $140 million action plan dubbed “Respect” to attack anti-social problems ranging from street hooligans to “neighbors from hell” who could be thrown out of their homes. In an address to social workers at his office at 10 Downing St., Mr. Blair said the nation has been fighting “21st-century crime with 19th-century methods” and called for a system of speedy “summary justice” to bypass traditional courts. The judge and jury process, he claimed, is “too cumbersome, too remote from reality to be effective” in today’s world. Mr. Blair has already announced that he intends to step down as prime minister after completing the third term to which he was elected in May, and the ambitious, 44-page “Respect Action Plan” was seen as a shot at gaining a major political — and popular — success as his trouble-plagued governance nears its end. To promote the plan, Mr. Blair traveled to Swindon, about 60 miles west of London, to hose down graffiti on a red-brick wall — a public relations exercise that police said had among its spectators the youths suspected of spraying on the graffiti in the first place. They were not arrested. Critics immediately attacked Mr. Blair’s plan, one dismissing it as “rubbish,” and another describing it as a package of “minor tweaks to existing measures and shock tactics.” The program he announced yesterday envisions evicting out-of-control families from their homes, even if privately owned, for up to three months, and rehousing them in a network of residential centers, or “sin bins,” to teach them how to behave. Mr. Blair, who admitted to the BBC on Tuesday to having disciplined his own children with an occasional “smack,” said the bill targets so-called “neighbors from hell” whose anti-social activities run the gamut from loud music at all hours to fighting and brawling, including yelling, screaming children and bullying others. Problem families also could find their government housing benefits, worth hundreds of dollars a month in many cases, cut off. The “Respect” plan outlines on-the-spot fines of up to $175 for street hooligans and vandals caught attacking passers-by, damaging vehicles and scrawling graffiti on walls, buses and trains. It says stiffer penalties are in store for thugs who attack government workers, and there are instant fines...
London Design Festival – SA exhibits @ Conran!
This years London design festival kicks off today in London – the good news is that there is a showing of Southern African artists which will be on display in none other than the CONRAN SHOP. Now if you love design but you don’t know who CONRAN is, you should be ashamed! We’ll fill you in at the end of this article with a brief look at this Guru’s...
ALICE WALKER in Durban for TIme of the Writer
DURBAN! You just keep ’em coming! We are really blessed to have Alice Walker attending the “Time of the Writer” festival in Durbs in March – remember the Color Purple, besides ALice there are a number of outstanding African and other authors attending the festival… BOOK QUICKLY at COMPUTICKET! Most events are free or only R20. Durban you are chipile sometimes hey! 9th TIME OF THE WRITER : 2…0th TO 25th March 2006 The 9th Time of the Writer international writers’ festival takes place in Durban from 20 to 25 March 2006 . This established event on the South African cultural calendar delivers quality national, African and international literary talent within an extensive week-long programme of activities. Heading the line-up for Time of the Writer 2006 is celebrated American writer, Alice Walker (USA) . Other participants include Chris Abani (Nigeria), Abdelkader Benali (Morroco/Netherlands), Bernardine Evaristo (United Kingdom), Amitav Ghosh (India), Eric Miyeni (South Africa), Kagiso Lesego Molope (South Africa), Patrice Nganang (Cameroon), OEHM Nxumalo (South Africa), Monica de arc Nyeko (Uganda), Marguerite Poland (South Africa), Marita van der Vyver (South Africa), Ayu Utami (Indonesia), Eliot Weinberger (USA), and Zapiro (South Africa).Names are linked to biogs and photos. Further participant information and programme details will become available closer to the festival. Presentations, readings and discussions take place nightly at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre with daily activities at various tertiary institutions, community centres, museums, schools and other venues, including prison. Tickets are R20 for the evening sessions, R10 for students, and can be purchased through Computicket or at the door one hour before the event. Workshops and seminars are free. For more information on the Time of the Writer festival contact The Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal on 031 – 260 2506 or e-mail here Click here for more...
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