MUST DO: Jazz lovers get to CTIJF
Jazzinista’s we hope you’re planning ahead to catch the broadly diverse line up at this year’s CTIJF taking place in less than 3 weeks! Ranging from some of SA’s hottest current bands like Goldfish, 340ml and Siphokazi, then showcasing some of the less commercial but deeply intriguing South African jazz cats like Carlo Mombelli & The Prisoners of Strange and McCoy Mrubata… through to two of our favourite international bands – acid jazz group Incognito from the 90s (still a friend of mine!) and the AMAZING Congo-Belgian all-girl group Zap Mamas (call me!) – And smoothly topped off with an edgy hiphp touch – Mos Def feat The Robert Glasper Experiment (to name but a few), it’s gonna be shaking in Cape Town! Surely this range of talent must put the festival on the global lists of ‘must attend’ jazz festivals. Here is the full line-up. Just added to this list is the young and fabulous Zaki Ibrahim, read all about it below: 340ml; Carlo Mombelli & The Prisoners of Strange; Goldfish; Kyle Shepherd Quartet; Magic Malik Orchestra Napalma; Ndumiso Nyovane; Pete Philly & Perquisite; The Robert Glasper Experiment; Shakatak; Siphokazi; South Paw; Stewart Sekuma; Al Foster Quartet; Arturo Lledo; Dave Liebman Quartet; Dianne Reeves; Emily Bruce; Freshlyground; Hugh Masekela; Incognito; Jonathan Rubain; Kyle Eastwood Band; Loading Zone; Maceo Parker; Maurice Gawronsky feat. Feya Faku; New York Voices; Peter White; Ringo Madlingozi; Rus Nerwich’s collective imagination; The Stylistics; Zap Mama; Jonathan Butler with special guest Dave Koz; Dr. Malombo Philip Tabane, “Opera Meets Jazz” Mike Del Ferro, Sibongile Khumalo, and Shannon Mowday; Abigail Kubeka, Cape Town Jazz Orchestra, McCoy Mrubata and Special Friends and Mos Def feat The Robert Glasper Experiment. To complete this year’s lineup, organisers of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival revealed that Zaki Ibrahim will join the other thirty-nine acts that appear on 03-04 April at Africa’s Grandest Gathering. While she refuses to categorise her music, what Zaki dishes out is a fusion of hip-hop, earthy soul, deep house, broken electro-acoustic beats and jazz-inflected vocal intonations. Still in her 20’s, the Toronto-based South African singer has taken up as her mission, the creation of smooth hip-hop. Born to an exiled South African father and Scottish mother, Zaki spent her early years shuttling between Cape Town and the city of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in British Columbia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia> , Canada. She was drawn to hip-hop at early age and started to perform when she moved to British Columbia ’s largest city, Vancouver. Explaining the pull of hip-hop on her, the singer who has been living in Toronto since 2001 describes how as a child he listened...
CT: Sometimes I forget… @ Blank Projects
Hang out in the BoKaap at the ‘vernissage’ this Wednesday the 4/3/09 of “Sometimes I forget that you exist” an exhibition that will be ‘developing’ over the month of March, ending on the 27th. It’s curated by Trasi Henen and features contributing artists Francis Burger, Sebastian Charilaou, Zipho Dayile, Anja de Klerk, Douglas Gimberg, Mendi Pantsi, Werner Ungerer and Ed Young. The liminal space is where binaries momentarily dissolve, the space in between… Dominant culture is a victim of the Will (after Schopenhauer’s The World as Idea and Representation) and therefore perpetually oscillating between Desire and Ennui. Desire is a state of potentiality. When the desired destination is reached, is this a tragedy? Sometimes I forget that you exist is a collaborative research project around desire and the heterotopia. Participants are asked to engage with the above dialectic. The exhibition process is ongoing, and contingent, culminating in a closing event. In the two weeks leading up the exhibition, blank becomes the research studio which opens the project to dialogue and interventions. Opening on Wed. 4 March 2009 @ 18h00 With a closing event Fri. 27 March 2009 @ 18h00 – Blank Projects is located at 198 Buitengracht Street, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town. – For more information on the artists or the exhibition: http://blankprojects.blogspot.com/ *27 72 1989221, *27 72 5075951...
CT: 11 short animated films at the Alliance Francais
Great opportunity for lovers of animation and/or croque-monsieurs to gather at the Alliance Francais this Wednesday 4 March 09 for the screening of 11 short animated films from the Annecy International Festival of animation. It’s free, snacks and drinks will be on sale. Allez-y! On n’est pas des machines We are not machines Mercredi 4 Mars Wednesday 4 March 19h (v.o. sous-titres anglais / English subtitles) 1h10mn 11 courts métrages sélectionnés en partenariat avec le Festival International du Film d’Animation d’Annecy (2001-2007). De l’humour, de la créativité (décapant !!!), du réalisme poétique entre satire et dérision… « On n’est pas des machines »..pas si sûr !!! The Café de l’Alliance will be specially open and will offer: sandwiches, croque-monsieur, plateau de fromages and a selection of coffees and soft drinks, beer and wine by the glass. Last order at 19h. Entrée libre / Entrance free Hall de l’Alliance Française du Cap 155 Loop Street...
It’s the Festive season – PARTY PEOPLE!
Your Xmas pressie from one of SA’s most rooted body and mind party experiences is the chance to get down to Party People twice, in two cities in two days. Oh yes, so if you’re in Cape Town on Boxing day and go home to Joburg on the 27th, you get to shake your touche to their soulful grooves twice in a row. If not, we assure you, just one night at Party People will fill up your party quota for 08 … we look forward to seeing what other suprises they bring us in 09. Click on the flyer on the left and below for more info… all the info actually. 26th December 2008, Cape-Town Santa has come to Africa delivering to all the good little boys and girls gifts coming all the way from Canada and the USA. As always, every single year, DJ Kenzhero invites the illustrious Dj OP to share the turntables with him, both making sure that the Party People end the year off on a few good notes. This year the hero has managed to provoke South African born, Canadian resident Miss Zaki Ibrahim herself. Miss Ibrahim along with Dj Nana will be joining the massive forces in welcoming all Party People into 2009. The soothing vocalist will be performing at Zula Bar, on 194 Long Street Cape-Town, on the 26th of December 2008. Doors will be opening at 9:00pm and the cost to get you through those doors will be R70. \ Party People 27th December 2008, Johannesburg The following night of the 27th of December 2008, the big old man in his red suit transports to Jo’Burg those lovely little gifts he presented to the Cape-Town’s Party People, and drops them off comfortably at a petite venue known as Roka lounge, residing on 44 Staley Ave Milpark. Zaki, Dj Nana, Dj OP and Dj Kenzhero will all assist each other in providing a quality driven night of Partying at Party People for the final time in 2008. Pearly gates open at 9:00pm and tickets at the door will be R100. Again for more info see: www.myspace.com/partypeoplesa www.myspace.com/zakiibrahim, www.districtsixmusic.com or...
Twenty Artist | Twenty Portraits @ UCA Gallery
The brand new UCA Gallery in OBS in Cape Town is launching with a brave group exhibit featuring work from both established and emerging local artists entitled Twenty Artists |Twenty Portraits. The artworks in this salon style summer show range from traditional to more conceptual approaches to the genre across a range of media. Sounds interesting… go go go. Whereas some of the portraits (such as Lionel Smit’s Chris Divided) are of potentially recognisable, yet probably unknown, individuals, the identities of the subjects in many of the other works have remained deliberately obscured or secondary to metaphorical emphasis and societal commentary. Gabrielle Raaff’s delicate, lyrical watercolour portraits Returning 1-4, and the veiled and blindfolded figures in Christopher Slack’s Virgin in Paradise and Julia Teale’s Annunciation are of particular interest in this regard. Though many of the works are figurative paintings of individual subjects, Kim Gurney’s Disinheritance, depicting a series of 24 chromosomes related to a hereditary disease, and Robyn Cedras’s sculptural installation Just as useless as the box it came in, mark less traditional approaches to the tension between individual and societal identity. Other artists include Norman O’Flynn, Jacqui Stecher, Wonder, Rebecca Townsend, Varenka Paschke and Christian Toujours.Work by students from Julia Teale’s Spencer Street Studios in Saltriver will also be on show. Twenty Artists|Twenty Portraits will open on Wednesday 17 December at 6pm and close on the Saturday 24 January 2009. UCA Gallery 46 Lower Main road, Observatory Tel: (021) 447 4132 Email: info@ucagallery.co.za www.ucagallery.co.za Hours: Tue – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 9am –...
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