Is your green idea worth R5,859,055.53?
Have you got an inspired idea for a greenhouse-gas-reducing product or service? Are you interested in using your creativity to help with the current global crises? Enter the PICNIC Green Challenge and win over R5 million to develope your bright idea… and you get to meet Richard Branson. It’s a global crisis and a global competition, so scientists, engineers, superminds, enter! “The world must embrace a new, greener lifestyle. One bright idea can make a big difference. To encourage and aid the invention of great new green products and services, the Dutch Postcode Lottery and PICNIC present the PICNIC Green Challenge 2008.” We call on you to dream up a greenhouse-gas-reducing product or service. Send us your idea by 31 July. Watch the competition video below for more information....
“Together” the anti-X advert
The cheesy and wobbly “Together” soundtrack suggests it’s been thrown together quickly – it’s a pity as it weakens the desired ‘pull factor’ needed for the potency of the message, but it’s great to see a selection of famous faces standing up for one people, one continent. We’re just wondering where the diversity is. Ma Lilian Dube brings in some OOMPH, she certainly has the strongest most believable presence and Lira the best singing voice… and is that Louise Carver we hear and see shakily representin’ in the background? Nevertheless, we need all hands on deck, so good on Leo Burnett, SABC and Mind Fox for moving fast. “Anti-Xenophobia, Dr. Khumalo, Lillian Dube, Lira, Pabi Moloi, Nthati Moshesh, Zonke, Louise Carver, Timothy Maurice Webster,Lebo Motsoeli,Sophie Ndaba, Sonia Sedibe, Bonnie Henna, Fezile Makhanya, Public Service Announcement, PSA Johannesburg, Leo Burnett, Mind Fox Productions” Watch the video below....
Party People all over the Nation
We are not going to repeat ourselves yet again and tell you that Party People is the place to be if you’re into rooty, soulful,hiphopping, funked up authentic beats mixed with eclectic live music that will rock your socks. Ok, well we just did. Get to Dj Khenzero’s Party People happening in CT and Jozi and bounce the night away! And if you can’t make the party, he’s made his sweet sounds available for you for free on the net…See below for all the updates and make sure to download fast!. Party People – CT 30th May 2008, Cape-Town Now we know all of you Party People out there are asking yourselves who’s the next act lined up for Dj Kenzhero’s notorious parties. After such an incredible line up that has been held in the last few months it almost seems impossible to top, but with a new month comes new talent. The 30th of May 2008 we come back home and appreciate the talent South Africa possesses. Cape-town based muso Blaq Pearl will be entertaining the Zula Bar, based on 194 Long Street, crowd for an easy R40. The extraordinary Blaq Pearl will be performing live with her band of 5 talented individuals this soulful jazzy influenced voice is bound to get you listening in closer. Doors open 9pm for more info check out. www.myspace.com/partypeoplesa Party People JOZI 31 May 2008, Johannesburg Further up in land, Kenzhero the hero keeps it moving with South African talent by placing on stage the ever-growing Mc Bhubesii. With his second album out soon, titled “All Access” he promises to deliver a performance worth seeing. Backed up with a live band, the night of May the 31st guarantees the walls of Roka, situated on 44 Stanley Ave Milpark, to cave in. With the amount of musical talent this S.A rapper posses you’d be a fool to miss out. And of course we can’t forget that Dj Kenzhero will be playing all night long, tickling every taste bud possible. Doors open 8pm and tickets will be going for an acceptable R70. The “All Access” mix tape will be on sale for R30 on the night so make sure you put some cash aside to support. For more info check out www.myspace.com/partypeoplesa or www.myspace.com/bhubesii Dj Kenzhero presenting his rare and unreleased bootleg remixes and instrumentals If you didn’t get last months edition of our Newsletter here it is again for you, and yes you’re welcome. To combine all the original productions Kenzhero has done in the passed is almost an impossible task. Dj Kenzhero has managed to squeeze 16 of his best collaborations and...
kidofdoom @ Fuel this Saturday
If you haven’t caught kidofdoom‘s entrancing light sabre musical treat, make sure you get to Fuel this Saturday night 31 May 2008 for a sublime twist in the Unsound system line up – 9pm, R50 gets you in. No lyrics from kidofdoom – just some of the most hauntingly addictive, unclassifiable non-vocal music around. They come to UNSOUND SYSTEM with an open-minded approach to songwriting that transcends the obvious whilst rocking dancefloors. It’s epic, hypnotic, groove-soaked, driving, dark and uplifting – all at once. And it’s a sound that has turned South Africa’s indie scene on. Big time. We’re so super excited that this truly innovative band is playing, and welcome a shared attitude towards musicality – one that disbands convention in the quest for something truly original. Keeping your dancing shoes busy either side of kidofdoom are resident groove-riders Offbeat and Dexterity, armed with loads of wonky, wistful, weird and wonderful delights, and the klassikist who debuts here with an illuminating mix of 80s-retro-alt-pop-counter-culture-unclassics. Head in the clouds, feet on the ground: dance time! And to top it off Sassquatch is on visual duty, bringing his sharp eye and impeccable taste to the VJ booth. Home = boredom. Fuel Café = untold...
South African Artists exhibit in New York
Big Ups to the organisers behind this group exhibition of hot and happening South African artists, curated by Lucy Rayner that is traveling to New York in June 2008 taking place at the David Krut gallery in New York. The exhibition serves as a critical consideration of some of the most exciting emerging talent in South Africa. SPREAD the word to everyone you know in New York to… Represent! Opens: Thursday June 5, 2008 18:00 – 20:00 Closes: July 30, 2008 The participating artists include Themba Shibase, Michael MacGarry, Nandipha Mntambo, Maja Maljevic, Nina Barnett and Robyn Nesbitt. With a certain shift in tone, an equivocal and satirical vocabulary has developed within the language of recent South African art. Artists are teasingly subverting contemporary politics and societal norms with a liberated sense of detachment and satiric self-reflexivity. Works are consciously current, sometimes self-consciously hip, and self-consciously oppositional. Bringing together the work of six artists who share an affinity for a particularly vulgar aesthetic, The New Spell aims to consider one of the many enlivening tendencies within this socially aware and outspoken approach. The exhibition explores how the grotesque is exercised through works of art to reveal the fetish in African social and political relations of power. The term ‘fetish’ has become somewhat voguish and hackneyed of late. Essentially, it is the attribution of value or power to an object or way of thinking, but it is used here as an ironic comment on the ‘rational’ mindset of state-sanctioned culture in Africa. By contemplating the grotesque in works by Shibase, MacGarry, Mntambo, Maljevic, Barnett and Nesbitt, The New Spell hopes to invite viewers to consider such relations of power with a greater sense of intimacy – and perhaps even humor – by moving beyond the binary categories of autonomy versus subjection or resistance versus passivity. The works kidnap instances of the fetish and force them to examine their own vulgarity, exposing ways in which official culture in South Africa is characterized by a distinctive style of improvisation, by a tendency to excess and lack of proportion. Curator Lucy Rayner and two of the artists, Michael MacGarry and Robyn Nesbitt, will be present at the opening. DAVID KRUT PROJECTS 526 West 26th Street, #816 New York, NY 10001 212 255 3094 www.davidkrut.com Tue – Fri 09h00 – 17h00 Sat 09h00 – 16h00 Image credit: Silent Embrace (2) – Nandipha Mntambo Digital print on cotton rag paper . 1730 x 910 mm . 2007 . Edition: 5 +...
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