Win a Surfing trip to Mozambique!
Cape Townians or anyone who will be on holiday in Cape Town in December, get down to the rather unique sounding Wavescapes Surf Film Festival – ladies you’re guaranteed to be surrounded by tanned, toned and hunky looking casual guys… You know the KFC ad – fully bru. Enter their competition and win a surfing trip to Mozambique – yumyum – now that sounds like a holiday of note. ww.wavescapes.co.za/”>Wavescapes is about surf culture, but they don’t want you to feel left out. So they have organised a great competition where you too can learn the Zen-like skill of surfing. When you get a ticket to the Wavescapes Surf Film Festival, presented by FNB, you could win a learn-to-surf trip for two – with your own guide – to Mozambique. The grand prize includes all flights, and six night’s accommodation at the Turtle Cove Surf and Yoga Lounge in Tofu, Mozambique. What’s more, surf lessons will be provided daily by a trained instructor from Surfing Safari, a surf travel company. If you surf already, no worries, the instructor becomes your guide to some of the outstanding surf breaks of the region. The film festival, in association with GQ, Zigzag, Cape Times, Wavescape, Malibu and Drive South Africa, runs in Cape Town from Thursday 7 to Thursday 14 December. The competition features prizes worth more than R100,000. Apart from the grand prize to Mozambique, which is worth R25,000, there are six Safari surfboards, six Iron Fist skateboards, FNB daypacks and hampers, and stacks of other prizes, such as BondiBlu sunglasses, Sterkinekor games for PS2, Roxy and Quiksilver surf apparel, Puma peak caps, gift vouchers from Lifestyle Surf shop, Reef products, goodies bags from Rogz, Dakine leashes, Sex wax from Mr Zoggs, Island Tribe sunscreen, ZigZag, GQ and SWG magazines and more! The sixteen-day feast of surf culture, including a surfboard art exhibition and charity auction, runs in Cape Town before the roadshow heads up the southern Cape coast at the peak of the summer holidays between 17 and 23 December. Helping to make it an “Endless Summer” will be the cult classic of that name, a film by Bruce Brown that immortalised the Cape St Francis break now called ‘Bruce’s Beauties’. A strong South African theme this year is core to the lineup of films this year. Shaun Tomson’s “Pure Line”, a unique history of Jeffrey’s Bay, will be shown in Cape Town for the first time. Other films are the pumped up “Drive Thru South Africa” featuring Martin Potter; “Horrorscopes: Cape of Storms” when a group of famous surfers try to score huge surf at a giant reef off...
Jackson Hlungwani in Cape Town…
Cape Townians, don’t miss one of South Africa’s most revered and respected artists – Jackson Hlungwani at Blank – 198 Buitengracht Street in Cape Town (Bo-Kaap). JACKSON HLUNGWANI AT blank projects EXHIBITION OPENS: Wednesday 1 November 2006 at 18h00 (ends Friday 10 November 2006) JACKSON (Jekiseni) HLUNGWANI lives in Mbhokota in Limpopo Province. Hlungwani still works on a… daily basis producing woodcarvings which are dedicated to God. Deeply religious, Hlungwani is also the founder of an independent church called ‘Yesu Geleliya One Apostle in Sayoni Alt and Omega’. Although Hlungwani spent his earlier years working in a mine near Polokwane (then Pietersburg) as well as in Johannesburg (like many migrant labourers from former Gazankulu), he returned to his home at Mbhokota to pursue his religious ministry to which his woodcarvings are devoted. His works are often quirky representations of the divine on earth and references to his own versions of biblical imagery such as a mermaid with long-haired representing Eva (Eve) and Christ Playing Football, both on exhibition. Other works on the exhibition are sambals (carved bowls) walking sticks and staffs and of course the fish which are most closely symbolic of Hlungwani’s works and his Christian beliefs. Although it is clear that Hlungwani has produced prolific works since his emergence in the mid-1980’s when he exhibited in both Tributaries (a BMW sponsored exhibition which travelled to Germany, curated by Ricky Burnett) and The Neglected Tradition (Johannesburg Art Gallery, curated by Steven Sack) and has works in many collections in South Africa and abroad, it is clear that the artist struggles to survive and support his growing extended family. He feels abandoned by the art world who has often exploited him. This exhibition aims to revive Hlungwani’s spirit in Cape Town by recognizing our greatest living treasure from the North, and to give much needed support. (Kathy Coates October 2006) open on Wednesdays from 16h00-19h00 and by appointment blankprojects 198 buitengracht street (Bo-Kaap), Cape Town, blankprojects@gmail.com , contact Liza 083 256 1170 or Jonathan 072 198 9221 NEXT AT blank projects: CAMERON PLATTER (opening on Wednesday 15 November 2006) ===================================== July 2006 Ok… sounds like the mice are out to play while the cats are away…. If you’re into MORSE CODE there’s a night-time flicker at the Blank gallery in the BoKaap… confused?….. We’ll let them explain: James Webb at blank projects In his new untitled work, James Webb has used the blank projects space to create a winter intervention in the neighbourhood. While the gallerists are away for 6-weeks, the empty space will be haunted by faulty electricity resulting in the gallery lights flickering in Morse code. The...
88 Gets real with The Agents
Cape Town is on a mission – a mission to entertain the Joburg peeps – come on, let’s give the Mother city some love – go and catch the Real Estate Agents Staking A Claim At The 88 Lounge on Fri 6 October 2006. Cape Town’s masters of the twisted and broken beat; purveyors of uber cool and agents of dance-floor deliverance, Marcus Wormstorm and Sibot a.k.a. The Real Estate Agents, … descend on The 88 Lounge in Norwood on Friday 6 October. Be prepared. The Real Estate Agents are a spin off of the phenomenal African Dope Cape Town scene, and have crossed genres and boundaries more often than your average insurgent. Bringing a twisted vision of dance and electronica to life, they inspire shaking, jiving, twitching and dancing in large gatherings where ever they go. Do not question the motive, the rhyme, rhythm or reason, just get on down to The 88 Lounge for the biggest, most broken beat party so far this year. Let The Real Estate Agents show you how to stake your claim on the dance floor. The Real Estate Agents with DJ Low The Details: Friday 6 October Venue: The 88 Lounge, 114 William Rd, Norwood Telephone: 011 728 8417 Admission: R70.00 Doors: 8pm...
Catch GOLDFISH in Jozi
Word of a cold front coming in from the East will not hold Jozites back from partying and appreciating all the awesome live music events in and around our city. Catch Goldfish in Jozi on the 7 October – who knows, by then Spring may have given up it’s relentless teasing and we’ll have sunshine all the way to December. Here’s hoping. Cape Town’s Jazzy-House exponents, Goldfish t… ake on Rocka (old colour bar) at 44 Stanley Rd, Milpark on Saturday 7 October in a blatant attempt to annex more asses into their own groove republic. Life in Cape Town is SO hard, They have to come and play in JHB With their debut album, “Caught In The Loop” receiving rave revues all over the country, sold out shows everywhere they go and a massive reputation for professionalism, party animalism and sheer old-times style enjoyability, Goldfish are the live dance act to see, to be seen at. With their singles doing well on radio, a video on rotation on TV and mobile downloads going through the roof, it’s only a matter of time before Goldfish ascend to dance-floor heaven. In the meantime, the 7th of October is your chance to be on hand when it happens, or at the very least, witness this phenomenon live before they are taken from us! On the night they are joined by house DJ legend and general man-about -town, Shaun Duvet to get you in the mood before and after the fish are due to swim. The Details: Saturday 7 October Goldfish with Shaun Duvet Venue: Roka, 44 Stanley Road, Milpark (old Color Bar) Telephone: 011 728 8417 Admission: R70.00 Doors: 8pm...
What is Levi’s Vintage up to NOW?
Levi’s Young Guns blast their way onto stage at the Labia Theatre on the 29th of September and they are three more raucous acts performing under the Levi’s Young Guns banner. Even though it’s taking place in Cape Town, this one’s for the Stellenbosch massive, so if you’re in the area then haul yourself down and get fired up by the fastest guns in the South. This is the fourth e… vent of its kind, and the first one in warmer weather, so expect the beats to be blistering and the vibe to get close to burning point. This is uncompromising music at its shameless best – fast, furious and fiery! First onto stage is the indefinable BLK JKS. Theirs is a mad voodoo sound that will rap itself around you and squeeze until you give in to the afro-jazzy alternative rock blend that they churn out with passion and pride. It’s a driving, hypnotic blend of mad rhythms and searing guitars all held in place by a soaring spirit that is at once infectious and rebellious. With a range of influences that traverse a massive musical universe and an attitude that’s firmly rooted in the future, this is a band that won’t take their audience sitting down. Soulja are next to step into the ring bringing with their own unique musical blender that mashes together a range of sounds from reggae to blues to pop, rock, jazz and ska. Add to this a social conscience that flows through the lyrics – urging self-awareness and promoting critical thought. and you have an original rebel crew intent on waking the audience from their sedation and injecting them with their blinding vision. Theirs is an energetic, highly-charged approach that burns with the power of a band that knows what it wants to say. Rounding off this manic night out are The Wild Eyes, a nightmare of noise and power that most others can only dream of. They feed off the industrial age, forging a sound out of screeching feedback and piercing panoramas. It’s a melting pot for everything that’s confrontational, energetic and filled with attitude. Plenty of heart, but not for the faint-hearted. These are the guys you want on stage when your booty wants to be shaken into a mad frenzy. And they’ll be more than happy to oblige. Hosted by Andy Lund, he of The Mission Men, this latest instalment of Young Guns is going to blaze some serious trails form South African music. Tickets are being sold at the Levi’s store at the Waterfront and at the door and cost a mere R20.00 each. Come feel the sounds...
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