FILM MAKER gets creative to raise funds…
Did you hear about Tim Greene’s innovative film-making concept where he raised funds by asking 1000 people to each contribute R1000 towards his project “A Boy called Twist”… It’s kinda like the industry version of the stockvel…Well it makes sense, he got the bucks and it seems like the idea is catching on … Represent was invited to a party to raise funds for young film-mak…er KHALO MATABANE who needs some moolahs to finish editing his latest film CONVERSATIONS ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON… We obviously would like all our friends to be there – so we’re inviting REPRESENT readers to come along too and support local talent. We like the ‘Pull factors’ used by Khalo – innovative marketing ne! You gotta do it!: As listed by KHALO: If you decide to attend, you will get to: * Dance to Great Music * Meet Beautiful & Interesting People, including cast members (Tony Kgoroge, Tumisho Masha, Tessa Jubbert, etc) [Nice cast! Especially that talented Tumisho – watch his space – mark our word!) * Watch Clips from the film * Contribute to a worthy project If you like what you see and you’re in the money you can also join in on the stokvel and gooi R1000 at the project – don’t forget your chequebook! You & your partner & all your friends are hereby invited to attend a p-a-r-t-y to raise $$$ towards the editing costs of my latest film: Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon. When: 7.30pm, Thursday, May 26 Where: Color Bar, 44 Stanley Road, Milpark, Johannesburg Entry Fee: R50,00 NB: All proceeds from the gate will go towards the editing of the film. For more info email KHALO… Hope to see you there!!!...
Inaugural flight for CONCORD the bassman.
If you’ve seen Johnny Clegg live in the last few years you would have spotted his sunglass bearing supa smooth and finger slapping bassist CONCORD – one of SA’s most talented men with an axe. He’s a shy guy whose prone to working hard and being modest about his talent – FINALLY Concord presents his “FIRST CONCERT EVER” – appropriat…ely at the new home of his old home Bassline in Newtown. Jazz it up bru – you know we love you! You cannot miss this one. Friday 20 May Bassline Jazz Club Newtown 8:30pm R50...
Acts of Love Under a Southern Moon… PMB!
We are slowly getting our Represent feelers out to the other provinces as the word spreads… Here we even feature the Durban-based Flatfoot dance company that will be showing their latest piece in Maritzburg! Ah Maritzburg… you bad bad town. Performers make sure you go straight back to Durban afterwards… that town can suck you in! Our girl Naz gives us the shakedown: Wh…ere do you begin to write about something that touches you and moves you in so many different ways? Where do you begin to put into words that surge of emotion you feel when you watch a dance so beautiful, so true, and so close to home? This is exactly my dilemma as I sit here, trying to recount my experience of watching the latest creation of the Flatfoot Dance Company last night. Acts of Love Under a Southern Moon was inspired by choreographer Llianne Loots’ personal journey to the Karoo and her own need “to find a Mecca ” a spiritual East!. As the journey unfolds it becomes immediately recognisable to each individual as his own journey, for we all search for this place (externally and internally) that we can call home. Thus it is a piece about love for each other, love for oneself, and love for the earth – unconditional love. This is particularly relevant to us as South Africans, learning to love our home country, despite a history characterised by hatred, and only when we can learn to do this, can we truly survive. In true Flatfoot style, the production was an intricate collaboration of video, poetry and contemporary dance that was both familiar yet refreshing. The show featured some old faces such as award-winning Musa Hlatswayo and Marise Kyd, but also boasted the newest Flatfoot talents, Lenin Shabala and Sizwe Zulu who performed a delicate, and moving duet. I was particularly impressed by Caroline Van Wyk, a powerful, confident dancer whose award is long-overdue. The three poets were without a doubt stars of the show in their own right. Quincy Fynn of The Big Idea, Ian Robinson and Nathan Redpath of Illuminating Shadows each performed original texts, which were bold expressions of love, and which questioned the lost passion in South Africans today. Probably one of the best works I have yet seen by Llianne Loots’ Flatfoot Dance Company and I have no doubt that from here on they will be soaring to the moon and beyond. Acts of Love Under a Southern Moon is about a personal journey and yet can be true to the spiritual search of every South African, or for that matter every human being, carrying the...
Market Lab: COCO does Jokile and the Miracles
I love the theatre. Especially good theatre where your mind leaves your body, disconnecting from the present and zooming into the drama… There is some great theatre around at the moment – go and escape… While the sexy shocker CARDS is on at the Market theatre till the 5 June, a very special one man show is on at the Market Lab tonight and tomorrow only (Fri… and Sat 20th and 21st May). We highly recommend it. JOKILE AND THE MIRACLES is performed by the versatile and lovable COCO MERCKEL, a talented thespian whose ability to switch seamlessly between an array of characters is mind-blowing. The show consists of four short stories, all told by Coco – [duh – its a one-man play! TGIF]. The stories are adaptations of Dario FO’s MISTERO BUFFO and when I say adaptations, I am refering to the wonderful mix of Kasiology, Zulu Tswana, Tsotsi taal and Westbury special that mix up this story and make it both South Africanised and bloody funny too. The stories are from the middle ages, they took me back to my innocent and easy days of RELIGION lessons in primary and Sunday school… some are much-loved Bible stories and others were ‘found by various researchers and scholars in old libraries around Italy which were then compiled and dramatised the Italian playwright, director and performer Darius FO – the 1997 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. ‘ Merckel takes a hold of these stories and twists them up with his own brand of humour and style, giving them a light, accessible and truly enjoyable feel. He does an incredible job – one man shows are not easy and he keeps you engaged for an hour and a half… What a memory! Towards the end of the fourth story we could tell he was tiring a little but then it all ended and we wished he could go on. If you have nothing to do today or tomorrow – get your 30 sheckels out and go back in time with COCO MERCKEL. JOKILE AND THE MIRACLES MARKET LAB Market Theatre Precinct Newtown Precinct Fri 20th Sat 21st May ONLY R30 at the door. 7:30pm...
SEXY SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT GOES DOWNHILL
You know we are big on exposing the underground – hence our support of Special Assignment stories… we don’t say that we should believe everything we hear or see, but at least give it some time so you know what’s going on… This Tuesday, we join the police in Port Elizabeth as they crack down on drug hotspots in the inner city. One of the main targets of the police rai…ds is the Belvia Hotel in Govan Mbeki Avenue, home to Nigerian drug dealers and South African sex workers. Earlier this year, Special Assignment broadcast a programme entitled “Uphill”, which showed that crime and drug dealing were flourishing in some of the most historic areas of Port Elizabeth. In “Downhill” we highlight efforts by the police to sort out those areas. We also profile the lives of two sex workers and their Nigerians and discover just why a bond between them exists. Love has taken root and what was once merely a business relationship, is now an emotional one. In this world of pimps and prostitutes, white women are seen as status symbols because they bring in more money. Says a sex worker: “Some Nigerians can have 5 girls at a time, depending on the money they bring in. Most of them start at a place like the Belvia Hotel and from there move to flats in PE. And the girls take pride in that. They say look what I gave my Nigerian – we have a flat, a car…” But when the money isn’t coming in, the relationship changes. Then she is not good enough any more. They don’t care if she dies or what happens. They will just go and look for another one.” The Nigerians, who admit they sell drugs because they can’t find jobs, explain their presence in the city. “We are African. African men have to travel. Travel is part of education.” The Eastern Cape MEC for Safety and Security, Thobile Mhlahlo, feels differently: “We cannot allow people who say they are our brothers to smuggle drugs in this area. We have to behave in a regulated manner in this country.” But the Nigerians dealers accuse the police of not behaving in a regulated way. “They will collect packets of ecstasy and then sell them back to us. So how can they say they are fighting for crime? It’s a very dirty business.” This fascinating insight into the lives of Nigerians dealers and their women, against the backdrop of the city of Port Elizabeth, was produced by Jessica Pitchford, with camerawork by Byron Taylor and Ivan Oberholzer. Tuesday 24 MAY 2005 SABC3 2130...
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