Beat the Sunday evening Blues with Arno
You know that dreaded Sunday night feeling… the one that keeps reminding you about Monday morning? Sunday Blues are not to be messed with and in order to be truly dealt with we recommend that you remove yourself from your couch, bed, tv room and get out and about. You’ll come home feeling tipsy and happy and before you know it Monday will be waking you up and Tuesday will be around th…e corner… 88 – that ever-inventive club in Norwood, is kicking off it’s Sunday Night Music Cluc sessions with none other then our biggest rock brand Arno: Easy On Sunday Evening with Arno Carstens at the 88 Lounge The 88 Lounge on William Road, Norwood, is pleased to announce that Arno Carstens will be performing at the re-launch of the club’s legendary Sunday Night Music Club sessions on Sunday 12 February 2006. Arno has just released his second solo album, “The Hello Goodbye Boy’s” and the new single; “Feel It” is getting airplay on radio and TV with a killer video. He will be appearing with Albert Frost, the six-string wielding powerhouse behind the new Carstens sound. In keeping with the relaxed, Sunday evening vibes, doors will open at 5pm, with sundowners of the 88 Lounge Terrace. Arno will take the stage at 8:30pm to play the first of two sets, meaning that proceedings will be over and dusted well before 11pm… plenty of time for beauty sleep before work on Monday! You can’t refuse an invitation like this! Space is limited, so you are advised to phone and book your place, especially if you are not a member of the 88 Lounge. Arno Carstens is no stranger to 88, so expect a great relaxed show in one of the most pleasant lounge-bar environments in Johannesburg. Plenty of parking, a low-stress atmosphere and a great light menu all contribute to a sophisticated and relaxing way to spend your Sunday evening. So come and re-charge for the new week ahead with The 88 Lounge, Arno Carstens and Albert Frost. The Sunday Night Music Club Sunday 12 February Arno Carstens and Albert Frost The 88Lounge 114 William Road, Norwood, corner Grant Ave. (Opposite the Spar parking lot, next to Woolworths.) Doors: 17:00 Cover: R60 for non-members R40 for members (on presentation of 88 Lounge key-ring) Booking is essential as space is limited. Book your seat on (011) 728 8417...
Those days are NOVA! Bye Bye NOVA
And here is that information – thanks to BizCommunity for the news and YFM for the scoop. We actually got to really enjoy some aspects of NOVA but found that we could never find it except in some shops… It felt like there needed to be more vendors selling NOVA – particularly if they really were after the targe…t market they wanted. Buppies and Yuppies drive cars. They don’t have time for shopping. So take it to them during peak hour traffic… anyway… click here for the full article from BizCommunity. Publication of Nova, the four-and-a-half-month-old experimental daily newspaper based in Johannesburg, will be suspended. Nova was aimed at young, high-income urban professionals and although positive comments were received on its editorial content, sales figures were not up to expectations, said publisher Deon du Plessis. “In terms of content and style the paper was well received; it was seen as innovative. Research showed that most people in the target market enjoyed it when they got it. Some advertisers were beginning to value the paper. But circulation remained flat. “As to distribution, we had not yet succeeded in reaching sufficient numbers of people in the niche. Converting our target market of high-income non-newspaper-reading metro people to a regular newspaper-reading habit proved difficult.” ********************************************************** 9 Feb 06 Are the rumours true? Have we lost another newspaper to the land of failed start-ups? Remember This Day? Rumour has it (YFM) that NOVA has officially been closed today… we await more information. ********************************* 2005 About two weeks ago we had a whole bunch of buddies over for pizza’s… being the lazy gits we can be on a slow Thursday, we ordered a home-delivery from our favourite monsieur. The person doing the deliveries must have thought that we were an entire call-centre making the request (little did they know we are a bunch of gluttons) and the pizzas arrived along with ten mysterious white envelopes. Inside the envelopes we discovered ten copies of Joburg’s latest newest sizzling daily tabloid, NOVA, with a note along the lines of “We know you guys are working hard, here’s something to help distract you.”. Nice one. We tend to judge a book by it’s cover and we can be quite harsh – so we’ll give you our first impressions (which may change as time goes by) – Don’t take it personally!: 1. Nice name. But there’s a magazine in London with the same name (is it still going?) 2. K*k layout. Feels very chipile and low-brow 3. Enticing streetlamp headlines. If you’re in constant lust of wrist-slitting news and human tragedy, this is your panacea. 4. Cheesy print...
Donna Kukama – come and celebrate her art
I first met Donna Kukama just over a year ago through a mutual friend, she was so excited about moving to Switzerland to do her Masters that one couldnt help but be caught up in her bubbly enthusiasm for life… Speaking to her about ART showed a commited and integrity-based artist, searching for answers and always looking ahead. We’re delighted that SAartsEmerging are featuring her at th…eir launch and even more so that the launch takes place in Melville – our favourite hang-out. SAartsEmerging launches this month with a feature on Donna Kukama. In celebration, we’ve planned a cash bar hootenanny for emerging artists and art appreciators, alike: 9 February, 2006 Berlin Bar in Johannesburg, South Africa 7th street, Melville (across and down from Xai Xai) 18:30ish til whenever Features a site-specific installation by our own Bronwyn Lace! SAartsEmerging.org is dedicated to featuring emerging South African artists, curators and arts personalities who are not generally, or have not yet been, written about – but who should be. SAartsEmerging lacks any pretense of objectivity, and preference is not only given to Gauteng locals and friends, but also to early-career non-stars working conceptually, and across disciplines. We’re always looking for writers who want to feature burgeoning artists… More information on us or contributing? Visit the site! Click here. Hope to see you at the party! Donna Kukama Donna Kukama has been on a trajectory of exploring and performing the boundaries between inside / outside, flesh / self, and the relations and investments we have in objects and social status. She is currently studying for her Master of Arts in Sierre, Switzerland; we had a discussion about her work mid-last year. At that time, Kukama was struggling against being defined by her peers – she was “an emerging, black, female, South African artist,” full stop. Feisty and considerate, she was attempting to rebel against what she called a mis/use of identity politics in order to circumvent the politics of the art world. Ironically, in her quest to break out of a boxed in and imputed singularity, Kukama was putting herself smack in the middle of this very dialogue – sometimes with very successful and beautiful interrogations of body and character, and sometimes with works that are very different from what she intended. Rather than trying to “unfold the spaces of her gendered and raced body, to find the stigmas of social inscription,”1 Kukama explored and shared an intimacy of personal experience, simultaneously daring her onlookers to find the lack and the excess, of confinement and of humanness. Click here for more on...
American preacher leaves Swaziland in a huff
The Wall Street Journal reports that an American Preacher who planned on saving a million children from the AIds Epidemic in Swaziland has given up his plans and gone back to the states: In 2002 Bruce Wilkinson, a Georgia preacher whose self-help prayer book had made him a rich man, heard God’s call, moved to Africa a…nd announced his intention to save one million children left orphaned by the AIDS epidemic. In October, Mr. Wilkinson resigned in a huff from the African charity he founded. He abandoned his plan to house 10,000 children in a facility that was to be an orphanage, bed-and-breakfast, game reserve, bible college, industrial park and Disneyesque tourist destination in the tiny kingdom of Swaziland. What happened in between is a story of grand hopes and inexperience, divine inspiration and human foibles. Mr. Wilkinson won churchloads of followers in Swaziland, but left them bereft and confused. He gained access to top Swazi officials, but alienated them with his demands. And his departure left critics convinced he was just another in a long parade of outsiders who have come to Africa making big promises and quit the continent when local people didn’t bend to their will. The setback stunned Mr. Wilkinson, who had grown accustomed to operating on a larger-than-life scale, promising that God would enable him to achieve the impossible. “We’re going to see the largest humanitarian religious movement in the history of the world from the U.S. to Africa to help in this crisis,” Mr. Wilkinson predicted in June, when he believed his orphan village was about to sprout from the African bush. Just a few months later, he found himself groping with his failure to make that happen. “I’ll put it down as one of the disappointments of my career,” he says. Mr. Wilkinson’s life has been all about miracles: He routinely asks God to perform them, and God, he says, routinely does. A solidly built 58-year-old, with silver hair and rimless glasses, Mr. Wilkinson led his nondenominational ministries to explosive growth over three decades, sponsoring thousands of Christian seminars and training battalions of Bible teachers. But his life took a sharp turn after he wrote “The Prayer of Jabez,” a 93-page, $10 tract published in 2000. It is based on a passage in the Bible’s book of Chronicles, in which an honorable man named Jabez asked for God’s favor. “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, and that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain,” Jabez prayed. In the story, God granted his wish. The...
Tourists – Think you know Joburg? Think again.
Thanks to one of newest and most fabulous Representers Sophie M for this article that she spotted while jet-setting around the world… Isn’t it amazing how a foreigner can see through us in a few days yet some people will spend their whole lives not questioning their attitudes and life-styles. Our guess the writ…er, Will, must have been hanging out with some REPRESENTERS – you go guys! Spread Love! It’s from the Observer newspaper and features a concise ‘travel guide’ to Jozi… Check the whole story out on the site by clicking here… Has Will got it right? Do read the article and give us your thoughts on where the top places are: We’re not going to give you the whole article -but WE LOVE THIS part – BIG UPS to Mike HIll – you rock! Don’t even think about … – Spending all your time in Sandton. There’s a whole city out there, and it extends beyond the rather sterile northern suburbs. – Giving in to white South Africans’ paranoia. As a tourist you’d be stupid to wander round the streets of Yeoville and Hillbrow, but in a car with a guide, a daytime drive-through shows that the formerly all-white city centre beats stronger than ever with a new black heart. By avoiding downtown you are missing one of Africa’s most interesting urban experiences, but do go with a guide. Don’t get obsessed about crime but do be as vigilant as you would in any big city. – Visiting the Tuscan villages – gaudy reproductions of Italian towns smack in the middle of the African veld – and gated communities in general. This is white South Africa’s neurosis at its most telling. -Talking about crime over dinner – that’s so five years ago. Ditto raving about how fabulous Cape Town is. Here’s Will’s article – comments please…: Long spurned as Capetown’s ugly sister, Johannesburg has been quietly reinventing itself as one of the most exciting cities in Africa. Will Hide reports: Think you know Johannesburg? Deprivation, racial conflict and urban decay, visible only through a hail of gunshots? Well, it’s time to think again. A decade after the end of apartheid, Jo’burg – aka Jozi, aka Egoli, aka the City of Gold – is a fantastically vibrant mix of brash upstart and grand old dame, where Africa meets Europe via southern California. Standing by a shack in the middle of Alexandra township, the gleaming tops of Sandton’s skyscrapers could be a thousand miles away. Actually, they’re less than two. The city went through a spectacularly destructive period in the 1990s but the installation of CCTV downtown and large...
Now anyone can blog.
Now anyone can blog! If you’ve only just come across the amazing opportunities that blogging offers, check this out. We recommend blogger.com for a simple and functional blog set up template – try it out! That’s how we started! Thanks to Stoffel for the following great resourse – it’s called “I Want to…” and comes from a site called Philb.com. It’s answers to all the th…ings you would like to do with your website, blog or on the net as you surf…. It answers questions with the most efficient, popular and optimal solutions… Sample questions: I want to…. Manage my time and myself more effectively Share with other people: photographs, webpages, bookmarks Set up an online calendar Do things with multimedia; podcasts, streaming Do clever things with RSS and wikis And loads more! Just click here to go there for all your answers! From the man behind the site: I want to: “I want to…” or “I need to” or “How do I?” These are all questions we all ask all the time. This is a small collection of resources that will help to answer those questions. It is not complete, nor will it ever be. I will be adding to this on a regular basis, so feel free to bookmark it and come back and...
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