From the Jozi Film Festival to the Cape Town Art Fair, the Mail & Guardian round-up some of the country’s hot-ticket events.
CAPE TOWN
The third edition of the Cape Town Art Fair runs alongside the Design Indaba, Guild Design Fair and South African National Gallery programme. Guests can look forward to African performance artists curated by guest curator art historian, critic and author RoseLee Goldberg, installations at the Chavonnes Battery Museum in partnership with the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Scheryn Pavilion) and at the V&A Waterfront, curated by Vulindlela Nyoni, a lecturer in fine art at Stellenbosch University, and talks curated by Matthew Blackman, the director of the Association for Visual Arts and editor of ArtThrob.
WHEN February 26 to March 1. WHERE The Avenue (between the One & Only Hotel and the aquarium at the V&A). A new art route – known as the Art Avenue – extends from the Avenue to the North Wharf, where galleries will be exhibiting, and the Chavonnes Battery Museum in the Waterfront’s Clock Tower precinct. INFO Visit
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During Cape Town’s art and design explosion, you can hop on the free art and design week shuttle, run by City Sightseeing Cape Town, and get to the Cape Town Art Fair, Guild and the Zeitz museum hassle-February free from 26 until March 1. INFO Visit
The second Littlegig concert features the indie-electro one-man band Yoav and the jazz, soul and hip-hop vocalist Zaki Ibrahim. There will be a cameo appearance by South African Music award-winner Inge Beckmann of Lark. Philip Miller and William Kentridge will present an extract from the ciné-opera Paper Music, recently performed and critically fêted at Carnegie Hall in New York City. WHEN February 20 at 8.30pm. WHERE Centre for the Book, 62 Queen Victoria Street. COST Tickets are R500 and available from Webtickets INFO To reserve a table of six or more, email enquiries@littlegig.co.za. Visit
The annual Design Indaba FilmFest is a 10-day event, chock-a-block with South African premieres and special screenings. The curated selection of feature films includes Tim Burton’s Big Eyes and documentaries on creativity and design such as The Newsroom – Off the Record, Regarding Susan Sontag and Dior and I. WHEN February 20 to March 1. WHERE The Labia. INFO Visit
The winner of the 2014 Elle Decoration British Design Award for Best British Pattern, Jessica Zoob, presents Passion and the Still Life, a celebratory collection of works inspired by her life experiences and informed by her joy of painting. Produced on a lavish scale – some pieces are up to two metres high – the decorative collection includes work from Imiso Ceramics, Atang Tshikare, Dokter and Misses and Bronze Age Foundry. WHEN February 24 until April. WHERE Southern Guild’s Cape Town gallery, Unit 1, 10-16 Lewin Street, Woodstock. INFO Visit
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PHOTO CREDIT: Work by Frank van Reenen will be part of the Passion and the Still Life exhibition
