The Big Issue #313 – with a FREE 2023 Art Craft + Museums Map – their Bumper Edition with Guest Editor, Brent Lindeque, is NOW available from your favourite vendor!
This fantastic Bumper Edition of The Big Issue has 68 pages of quality reading for the holidays, with stories of hope, kindness and humour, from Brent Lindeque, the guest editor and editor-in-chief of THE GOOD THINGS GUY!
Here are some of the articles that grabbed our attention.
Hope dealer
Apart from working as a writer, radio host and public speaker, Brent Lindeque is also a ‘change maker’, wading through the murk of media stories like a giant in boots, kicking to the floor fearful news, segueing his own special brand of happiness.
Read more HERE
Art is affirming
is the beloved Art Process Facilitator for Big Issue vendors. You may already be familiar with her vendor art page in each edition. Our vendors are encouraged when their art is featured in the magazine. All artwork remains at The Big Issue and six works are selected for display in each edition. Vendors whose work appears are paid R100. Their pieces appear on the website and are available for sale: R300, with R250 going to the vendor and R50 towards materials for the art programme. Elaine explains her methods for inspiring the artist in each person and tells us about how she became an art facilitator
Read more HERE
Visiting Robben Island?
Despite reports of decay on Robben Island (GroundUp), the site is still open. In this article Gavin Evans takes a look at how Nelson Mandela stayed fit: from his ‘matchbox’ Soweto home to a prison cell … Navigate this visit via your 2023 Art, Craft + Museums Map.
Read more HERE
You can meet the Waterfront Vendors, find out more about Originals and Fakes in the artworld, find out What’s On and lots more in this Bumper Edition!
Get your FREE 2023 Art, Craft and Museum Map when you buy a print copy of The Big Issue #313.
“Get your Big Issue #313 copy and be part of job creation in SA – it’s more than just a good deed; it’s a damn good read.”
WHAT: The Big Issue #313 – Bumper Edition
WHEN & WHERE: December 2022 – January 2023
Available from your favourite vendor across the city. Anyone outside the city of Cape Town can buy the magazine at selected Spar and Pick n Pay stores. Anyone outside of Cape Town can also buy the magazine here.
Don’t forget: you can buy The Big Issue with your smartphone! Visit for a step-by-step guide.
INFO: Ebigissue@mikatekomedia.co.za | Visit | Editorial: Editor Laura Jones, 021-461-6690 | Advertising/Marketing: Derek Carelse at derekcarelse@mweb.co.za
See also Cape Town Green Map
The WHAT, WHY & WHERE of the
arts scene in around Cape Town
see the 2023 art craft + museums_map
and listen in to the Sanlam
Arts Round Up Fridays @16.10
on Fine Music Radio FMR 101.3fm
The FMR App makes it even easier to tune into the Sanlam Arts Round Up on Fridays! i-Phone HERE | Android HERE
