Get to Male Ego @ Kyalami
A friend of mine has launched the first of their Male Ego exhibitions at Kyalami and I promised to help spread the news – it’s all about boys and toys and ego’s and testosterone… Tell everyone that fits the profile! More info here. The Male Ego Showcase promises to whet the appetites of many of those aspiring gentlemen out there. As you may have heard from our advertising and press coverage, we are launching South Africa’s first ever premier showcase of the luxuries goods market. We will have everything from designer Italian shirts, bespoke fly fishing destinations, Swiss watches, through to super-cars on display. We will afford the aspiring gentlemen the opportunity to interact with these fine products and services, and to procure where they want. We will also have Audi, BMW, Mercedes Benz on the track with qualified racing drivers taking visitors for ‘hot-laps’, or you can test drive the latest 4×4’s on the specially designed 4×4 course. You will also be afforded the opportunity to taste and learn all about South Africa’s award winning brandy Van Ryn, or sit and relax in the Peroni bar and discuss all these fantastic products and services on...
Catch RESFEST in Cape Town
Filmakers, music video people, creatives, designers, dops, animators, runners, grips, dreamers, commercials directors, commercial wannabes – if you love celebrating brilliance in film, get down to the RESFEST that is stopping off in Cape Town on it’s way from Canada and moving on to Austria on it’s 43 city 10th anniversary tour. We’ve got our girl Canda to go and check it out and will let you kno… w how it goes. Website here. RESFEST 10TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR Labia on Orange 29 Nov – 2 Dec RESFEST’s 2006 global tour marks the 10th anniversary of the pioneering film and digital arts festival, which kicked off this year with a special presentation in Chicago at the Museum of Contemporary Art, from October 19-22, followed one day later by its Paris debut at the esteemed Pompidou Center. The festival will continue on to more than 43 cities on six continents around the world, captivating audiences with its signature mix of innovative film screenings, informative panels, experiential parties and cutting-edge performances. Resfest will be screened in Cape Town at the “Labia” on Orange from 29 Nov – 2 Dec. The festival received a record 2,200 film submissions this year, with programmers viewing hundreds more in assembling a stellar collection of outstanding short films, dynamic music videos, experimental animation and cutting-edge motion graphics. In addition to Paris, RESFEST will debut in Berlin, Eskisehir, Jakarta and Lima. The festival will culminate for the first time ever in the United States, with a series of expanded seven-day events to take place in March and April 2007 in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. In another first, the festival will be presented in high-definition during these spring engagements. PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS To celebrate this commemorative year, RESFEST will feature a pair of special anniversary programs looking back at its decade-long history of revolutionary filmmaking. Unsung Heroes: Music Video Gems from the Archive gathers directors who’ve turned the music video into an art form, with classic promos for Air, Cornelius, UNKLE, Phoenix and others, while A Decade of RESFEST: 10 Seminal Short Films compiles milestone short form work that has become the stuff of RESFEST lore, including Michael Overbeck’s Tongues and Taxis, Bob Sabiston’s Snack and Drink and Stefan Nadelman’s Terminal Bar. Three more thematically arranged short film programs highlight intriguing new work: State of the Art offers a collection of live action, animation, motion graphics and documentary that will point the way for filmmakers in the years to come; Out of the Box highlights the adventurous, absurd and eccentric; and Fear and Trembling examines the horror trend that has swept the film world of late. Programming...
Night of 1000 drawings – TONIGHT !!
After 4 months of campaigning, tonight is “Night of a 1000 drawings” Everyone should come thru and buy drawings at R100 each:) (credit cards accepted) and in doing so support Paballo, an inner city homeless care organisation. The exhibition is at 95 commissioner street, btwn rissk and loveday street. Free Parking in the Harry Hofmeyer Parking on Simmons St. Short yet very secure walk to the exh… ib.. where there are plenty of guards on route. 19h00 Drawings may not be touched/ taken down. Only at 20h30. will the public be allowed to take down their drawings and pay for them. Those who have not RSVP’ed, it’s totally kool just register on the ground floor before heading up to the exhibition floor. So invite Everybuddy:) Cash bars available. Harris Tweed will be doing an acoustic set and HEADspace will be following with live Jazz. Miss Buttons spinning out a chilled set. Map and a sneak peak of the exhib space on our Blog spot 1000drawings.blogspot.com thanks a billion trillion and bless ================================= 2 Nov Big ups to the peeps behind this project – it’s very simple – they’re asking you to put pen or paint or charcoal or whatever to paper- A5 size that is – and drop your artwork off at their offices. Your drawing will then be sold for R100. All proceeds will go to the Paballo inner city feeding initiative. Come on – get creative! Grand Finalle Deadline: Jozi 1st Nov The Night of a 1000 Drawings is an exhibition where drawings donated by everybuddy get collected and sold to the public for R100 a pop. It’s all happening on 16 November, thanks to Urban Ocean, the crew transforming Jozi into a New York vibe and restoring the old Security Building especially for the event. All proceeds go directly to Paballo, an organisation that has fed and provided basic medical attention to over 300 inner-city homeless people every Wednesday night since 1989. Maximum respect goes out to G-mo, local customised animal friendly sneaks and shoe peeps, for handling the Cape Town collection & exhib “Mother City loves Inner City” on Friday 13th October at Asoka, Son of Dharma. Sadly drawings won’t be sold in CT, but in compensation G-mo have put 2pairs of shoes up for draw strictly for CT peeps. Draw anything, with anything, on anything .. Only thing is A5 in size. So draw as much as possible. And hand em in.. Grand Finalle Deadline: Jozi 1st Nov. Cape Town 11Oct. No mounting necessary, Pls date and sign drawings. pls Attach a name, postal and email addy to the drop off envelope. Jozi drawings...
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...
French Comics Exhibition in Jozi
If you’re an aspirant ‘dessinateur’ and spend hours doodling around and coming up with your own comic strips, go and check out the Aliance Francaise COMICS EXHIBITION from the 29 September 2006 to the 12 October 2006. Come and discover all the comic book plates in the 2006 French Young Talent Competition organized by the International Comics Festival of Angoulýme (France) The first prize was aw… arded to Karine Bernadou – see pic. Alliance Franýaise of Johannesburg 17 Lower Park Drive, cnr Kerry Road Parkview – Johannesburg tel : +27-(0)11 646 1169 fax : +27-(0)11 646 4521 web Artists Karine Bernadou Benjamin Adam Alessio Ravazzani Julien Billaudeau Nicolas Vieira Donatien Mary Emmanuel Romeuf Thomas Vieille Ludovic Lambour Marine Blandin Ariane Pinel Aurore Petit Sýbastien Chrisostome Jýrýme Duprý la Tour Olivier Caron Giovanni Arnaudeau Yvain Coudert Narcisse Blaise Massamba Benjamin Renner Glen Chapron...
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