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Saturday, February 13th 2010
13-20 Feb 2010. The third edition of this public arts festival, entitled Infecting the City, showcases a large selection of high-quality and provocative works. This year the festival has the theme Human Rite and the participating artists have been asked to redesign public spaces around Cape Town and turn them into arenas where everyone’s inner demons are put to rest. The works range from large-scale site-specific performances to choreographies, installations and low-key interventions. Participating artists come from around Africa, China, the United States, Australia and Europe. more
Alexis Preller: Africa, the Sun and Shadows.
Monday, December 28th 2009
28 Dec 2009-28 Feb 2010. This retrospective pays homage to Alexis Preller (1911-1975), one of South Africa’s most important artists as well as a pioneer of 20th-century African art. On display is a broad selection of colourful and imaginative works done by Preller in his studio in Pretoria during his 40-year career, as well as artefacts, documents and photographs which help to better understand the artist’s life. The last major exhibition of Preller’s work was held at the Pretoria Art Museum in 1972. more
Flamenco music by Saudiq Khan.
Wednesday, February 3rd 2010
3-6 Feb 2010. This concert features the flamenco guitar maestro Saudiq Khan, who launches his new album Madiah, dedicated to his mother who died recently. Cajon player and percussionist Robert Davis, bass guitarist André Webb and drummer Ivan Bell are also on stage. The four musicians perform a great selection of flamenco, jazz and Latin music in a show full of cutting-edge rhythms. The concert starts at 20.15. more
Tuesday, October 13th 2009
13 Oct 2009-28 Feb 2010. This exhibition, curated by Roger van Wyk and Kathryn Smith, takes a look at the Dada Movement which began in Zurich in 1916. It presents works from the 1960s to the present day, including some original and unpublished works, films and publications as well as contemporary works by Wopko Jensma, Neil Goedhals, Jane Alexander, Lucas Seage, Candice Breitz and Kendell Geers. Dadaism rejected the traditional cultural values and conventions of the modernist age and had a profound impact on the future development of art. The 1960s saw the re-emergence of the movement’s radical ideas. In South Africa many artists were influenced and motivated by the Dada strategies to resist the decades of oppression and isolation imposed by the apartheid regime. more
Monday, December 28th 2009
28 Dec 2009-28 Feb 2010. This exhibition, produced by the Nobel Peace Center of Oslo, draws international attention to the world’s most prestigious prize with a focus on the life and times of South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize laureates Albert Luthuli (1960), Desmond Tutu (1984), F.W. de Klerk (1993) and Nelson Mandela (1993). On display is a wide selection of contemporary works of art as well as 60 rare portraits and seven new documentary films by South African and international artists, who were called to analyze and interpret the story of South Africa’s Nobel prize winners. The works include Song of the Pick (1946/7) by Gerard Sekoto, African Guernica (1967) by Dumile Feni and Carnage II (1988) by Noria Mabasa, as well as works by Michael Goldberg and Araminta de Claremont. more
Friday, February 26th 2010
26 Feb-7 March 2010. The annual Out in Africa SA Gay & Lesbian Film Festival presents three films at the Nu Metro cinema on the V&A Waterfront. These are the lesbian feature And Then Came Lola (USA, 2009) by Ellen Seidler and Megan Siler; Bob Christie’s documentary Beyond Gay – the politics of pride (Canada, 2009), which takes a critical look at the dynamics of organizing Gay Pride celebrations around the world; and Mr Right (UK, 2009) by Jacqueline Morris, about three gay couples living in London and their Soho-based lives. For schedule details see the festival website. more
Thursday, October 22nd 2009
22 Oct 2009-31 Jan 2010. This travelling exhibition is an international project that has the double aim of making and promoting art and preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS. The participating artists come from Brazil, the United States, India and South Africa and share the belief that artistic solidarity can mitigate the consequences of HIV/AIDS and help promote access to treatment. At the Castle of Good Hope Daniel Goldstein has reproduced one of his sculptures entitled Medicine Man, made from hundreds of empty Anti-Retroviral (ARV) medicine bottles belonging to South Africans affected by HIV. In the original sculpture the bottles belonged to the artist John Kapellas. This artwork denounces the side effects of ARV treatment to slow the progression of HIV/AIDS. more
Classic Cars and Bike Show 2010.
Saturday, January 23rd 2010
23-24 Jan 2010. This annual event, which has taken place since 2007, attracts car and bike enthusiasts from all over the area and beyond. The first day will be dedicated to modern classic cars, including Hot Rods, Street Rods, soupedup vehicles, racing cars and bikes, custom vehicles and motorcycles. On 24 Jan the exhibition will be dedicated to classic cars and bikes dating to the 1980s. There will be a refreshment area with food stalls for the public as well as a bouncy castle for children. more
Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.
Tuesday, January 12th 2010
12 Jan-20 Feb 2010. The Maynardville Open Air Theatre presents Shakespeare’s brilliant tragedy Antony and Cleopatra, brought to the stage by director Marthinus Basson and a cast of award winning actors including Van Wyk Loots as Cleopatra and Andre Weideman as Antony. The plot follows the painful love story between Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, and Mark Antony, Roman general and one of the three men (triumvirs) who rule Rome after the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C, from the Parthian War to Cleopatra’s suicide. Cleopatra is one of the most complex female roles in Shakepeare’s oeuvre. Show starts at 19.45 and 20.15. more
Saturday, January 23rd 2010
23-24 Jan 2010. This two-day music festival brings together musicians, food and craft stalls, drumming performances, fire dancers, a tea and beer garden and a spacious campsite in the fields. The musicians include Steve Newman, Guy Buttery, Derek Gripper, Errol Dyers, Hilton Schilder, All In One, Gary Thomas, Take Two, aMani, Miss Texas 1977, The Frown Family Karavan, Karnamrita Dasi, Sangam, Koitrans and Off the Record, Rob van Vuuren and African Mbira Band. Audiences can purchase wine in site and bring their own picnic baskets. more