Call for Musicians for the Lucky Fish Music Festival
Musicians and bands looking for a fresh platform to air your wares, make sure to stand up and be counted by submitting your profile to the newest addition to the SA Music festival scene, Lucky Fish, taking place the weekend of the 2/3/4/5 October at Route 28 Westonaria – just up the road from Jozi. Let’s hope the organisers create an edgy, offbeat contemporary festival that is truly reflective of the broad musical genres our vibrant and brand-savvy youth are into, attracting a wild and diverse crowd… So often festivals repeat the pigeon-holing that’s oh so 80’s (an exception here is Flux which we’re sad no longer happens)… Here’s hoping Lucky Fish doesn’t! Time will tell. The Lucky Fish Music Festival is a brand new music and lifestyle festival that has been specially designed to provide the most possible fun in four short days. It will feature great live bands on multiple stages with multiple music genres. It will also feature specially designed chill zones with top local deejays, flea-markets and arts and crafts, lots of extreme sports with games and competitions, beautiful camping, and the sexiest people in South Africa! Lucky Fish is fresh, it’s exciting, and it’s packed from start to finish with madness and fun. It’s the hottest new date on the calendar! You know that you want to be there at the birth of SA music history! After nine years as the Woodstock creative and production team, Authentic Ideas has finally launched its very own music and lifestyle festival. Festival director, Clint McKeon says, “The Lucky Fish Festival was conceptualized 3 years ago, but we chose not to go ahead with the project whilst we were still commissioned by Woodstock as their creative team, as we didn’t want to create any conflict. When we resigned at the end of last year (from Woodstock), and when we realized that Woodstock was to be held at the end of November eight weeks after our event; we then realized that we had the opportunity to launch Lucky Fish, it was just a matter of finding the right venue. Then the Route 28 Resort fell into our laps and we took it as a sign that the time was right.” Says director Nancy Hillary, “We feel that we are in a unique position after 15 years of working in the South African Live Music Industry, to be able to provide the right mix entertainment and to create a festival that’s exciting, clean, secure and unlike any other in the country. There are so many things we have wanted to do in the past but have never had the opportunity....
Afronova Winter Show
It’s started already and lasts until September, make sure to take a drive downtown to Newtown and pop into Afronova gallery, opposite the Market Theatre. The Winter Show features a rare selection of works by some of the finest artists from South Africa and the continent like Dominique Zinkpe (Benin), Samson Mnisi (South Africa), Mouna Karray (Tunisia) and Mohamadou Ndoye Douts (Senegal). A unique selection of dozens of books and catalogues on African contemporary art is available. Exhibition runs until Saturday 6...
Kwani Experience Live in Jozi
Need we say more? Click on the flyer for all the details for this Friday 25 July at the Crazy 88 in Norwood…. And as someone once said to me “be prepared to dance.” Yip, listen, watch and...
Durban International Film Festival
The Durban International Film Festival “entitled ‘LOVE FILM HATE XENOPHOBIA ‘ takes place this week from the 23 July to the 3 August – Durbanites make sure to get amongst, hook yourself up tickets for both Triomf and Jerusalema, two of this years ‘must see’ flieks. This year DIFF gathers together an expressive concentration of 71 South African films, comprising 10 feature films, 29 documentaries and 32 short films which indicate the steady growth of filmmaking in this country. Underscoring the broader African presence of a further 38 films from the continent will be the Ousmane Sembene Retrospective, a presentation of all the major works of the late, great father of African cinema. Principal screening venues of DIFF 2008 are Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre; Nu-Metro Cinecentre – Suncoast; Ster Kinekor Musgrave, Cinema Nouveau – Gateway; Ekhaya Multi-Arts Centre in KwaMashu; KwaSuka Theatre, and the BAT Centre, with further screenings in township areas where cinemas are non-existent, and a special programme of screenings at Luthuli Museum on the North Coast. Read more below, booking info at the bottom: Cinema in all its diversity will once again be celebrated at the 29 th Durban International Film Festival which runs from 23 July to 3 August. Featuring more than 200 films from more than 95 countries, spread over more than 300 screenings at 26 venues across the city, the festival will bring together established masters of cinema and innovative new talents from around the world. Alongside the presentation of the some of the year’s finest films, the festival will run an extensive workshop and seminar programme giving the regions aspirant filmmakers an opportunity to learn from and be inspired by some of cinema’s greats. Opening the festival is the African Premiere of Ralph Ziman’s Jerusalema, a gritty gangster thriller set on the harsh streets of Johannesburg . The festival will close with Mike Leigh’s uplifting new comedy, Happy-Go-Lucky . The festival will offer an exciting journey into the world of contemporary cinema with a range of feature films, documentaries and short films that will not only entertain, but enlighten and inspire. Festival director Peter Rorvik explains: “ The Durban International Film Festival opens a window on the world, provides access to many different cultures and provides a space in which the cinematic art form transcends national boundaries. The recent tragic events in South Africa give cause to highlight what has long been a central idea of the Durban International Film Festival: to create understanding and acceptance of different cultures through the medium of film. A special programme of films focuses on the issue of xenophobia, and some of its attendant roots such as...
340ml are Sorry for the delay.
340ml are sorry for the delay. Watch the promo video below and catch a preview of their new album due out in August on www.sorryforthedelay.com – SOUNDS LUKKA!!! Muito Bom sublime. 340ml also have an awesome Flickr site… And of course, we hope you’re planning to get to Bushfire in Swaziland where they’ll be performing tracks off the new album – don’t say we didn’t warn you. Watch the video below: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ0u4_ZgJWg[/youtube] Photo taken from the flickr...
Represent Recommends:Rhett Martyn& Mary Wafer
Art lovers, art supporters, those curious about art and importantly art buyers, diarise Rhett and Mary’s joint exhibition at the Substation at Wits School of Arts from the 31 July – details below as well as a map with directions. For those in search of free wine and hobnobbing, get to the opening from 5pm on the 31st. Please join us for the opening of a show by Mary Wafer and Rhett Martyn on Thursday 31 July 17:00 – 20:00 at the Substation, Wits School of Arts, entrance on Jorissen St (Please see map below) The show will be open from the 31st July until the 9th of August 12:00 – 16:00 Or view by appointment +27 84 6198323Above Artwork: Mary Wafer, Dark (Astroturf), 2008, Oil and enamel on canvas, 150 x 180 cm Rhett Martyn, Mine (detail), 2008, matchsticks and glue, dimensions...
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