A film screening looks at how movies influence, challenge and even change public opinion and discourse around gender, sexuality and human rights. Sonke Gender Justice will be screening three short films at the Labia Theatre in Cape Town on Saturday 1 March. The screening, titled Sex Through the Lens – Transforming Gender Attitudes through Film, looks at how film is
Visitors to the Cape Town Art Fair have several book signing opportunities, and can also meet Brett Murray, the SA artist renowned for his controversial ‘Spear’ painting of Jacob Zuma and his steel and mixed media wall sculptures. This is the first time that members of the public will be able to meet Brett Murray and have him sign copies of his book (which has been
A vernacular lens brings iconoclasm into focus, reports Janine Stephen Port Elizabeth-born illustrator Pola Maneli says his art style bridges between elements of pop culture and social commentary. He's an ad man by day and an illustrator by night. But Pola Maneli intends for both his design work and his drawings to affect social behaviour. He picked up a silver Loerie
MyCiTi’s Universal Accessibility Policy yesterday, 27 February 2014, received an award for being one of the most innovative policies in the world in terms of ensuring that all special needs passengers can make use of the service. Another design feather for the World Design Capital! The policy was highlighted at an international summit on accessibility, attended by more
A new play, Passage, which tackles what it means to be a good man in SA today, is on at the Baxter for a short season from 4 March. Emerging young director Thando Doni and his cast of five actors tackle the question of what it means to be a good man in South Africa today with a brand new play, Passage, at the Baxter Flipside from 4 to 22 March at 11am (for schools) and
Tweet yourself to a brandy at the Design Indaba brandy bar experience. The winning design in a brandy bar design competition that challenged conventional thinking about the finely-crafted grape spirit will be revealed at this year’s Design Indaba. South Africa’s finest brandy can be experienced at stand 629 Expo Hall from Friday 28 February to Sunday 2 March. This
Photographer Nicholas Eppel documents the life of long-time Harrington Street resident, Elizabeth Barrett. Titled A House in Harrington Street, Nicholas Eppel's début solo exhibition reflects three years in the life of long-time Harrington Street resident, 68-year-old Elizabeth Barrett. Eppel's photographs document Barrett's house and life, which stand as a testimony to
A Human Being Died That Night is based on Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madizikela‘s Alan Paton award-winning best-selling book of the same name and explores, through her extraordinary prison interviews with de Kock, how a fundamentally moral person could become a mass murderer. You will be mesmerised by the intensity of the interaction and the emotional complexities
Tim James selects Kanonkop Kadette Pinotage Rosé 2013, priced at R40-R50 as Wine of the Week. This could solve a dilemma if you’re a red wine lover but want something cold in summer’s heat, or you’re nervous about rosé because so much of it is sweetish, pink stuff for a girls’ night out of the more trivial kind. What’s more, I spotted this at
Erdmann Contemporary is soon launching a concept bar, The Blah Blah Bar at their new premises at 84 Kloof Street. To give you a taste of whats to come it will open in POP UP form during the art fair weekend. Bar doors open at 16:00 on the 27 February. Bar doors open at 16:00 on Friday 28 February followed by Jan Neethling's book launch at 19:30. Bar doors will