The Mail & Guardian rounds up this week’s hot-ticket events.
Here’s what’s happening in Cape Town.
MUSIC
Straight No Chaser, 79 Buitenkant Street, Cape Town 8001
January 20: Norwegian jazz musician (trumpet, flugelhorn and bukkehorn) Hildegunn Øiseth plays as Uhambo with Denmark’s Ida Gormsen (bass), South Africa’s Camillo Lombard (piano) and Mozambique’s Frank Paco (drums) at 8.30pm and 10pm.
TICKETS cost R120 for one set or R150 for the night. INFO visit
FILM
The Martian, the Golden Globe-winning film starring Matt Damon, will be screened at the Labia, 68 Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town 8001, from January 15 to 21. Other acclaimed films that will be screened this month are The Big Short, Testament of Youth, The Gift, Carol and Suffragette.
TICKETS cost R45. Phone 0214245927 or visit
Hollywood classic films under the stars at the Galileo Open-Air Cinema in Cape Town, until March 12, from 6pm. This pop-up cinema will travel around the city to venues such as Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, the V&A Waterfront, the University of Cape Town’s rugby lawn and Hillcrest Quarry. Films on the programme include Pretty Woman, The Notebook, Goldfinger, Searching for Sugar Man and Top Gun.
TICKETS cost between R79 and R149 from Webtickets. INFO visit
The Writing Studio conducts screenwriting workshops on January 19, 26 and February 2 and 9 at the Waterfront Theatre School, Port Rd, Cape Town 8001. INFO visit
THEATRE
I’m In Love With A Guitarist at the Baxter Theatre, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7700, on January 15 and 16. The show features some of South Africa’s leading guitarists on stage, including host Jonathan Rubain, Errol Dyers, Allou April and Dave Ledbetter.
TICKETS cost between R90 and R120. INFO visit
FINE ART
Goodman Gallery, Fairweather House, 176 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock, Cape Town 7925.
A Geometry of Echoes, Gerhard Marx’s exploration of the visual correlation between the physical landscape and the built environment, and also features Depths in Feet, a series of 20 “drawings” made entirely from map fragments. INFO visit
V&A Waterfront, Cape Town – Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition, until March 6. The exhibition displays authentic artefacts recovered from the famous shipwreck, including a recreation of an iceberg. Tickets cost between R85 and R135, with entry free for under-fours. INFO visit
Stevenson Cape Town, Buchanan Building, 160 Sir Lowry Road, Woodstock, Cape Town 7925.
Comrades, Meleko Mokgosi’s first exhibition in Southern Africa in over a decade opens on January 21.
Meshac Gaba’s Bank or Economy “plays with the perceptions of value inherent to conventional belief systems of cultural and economic exchange”.
INFO visit
via Mail & Guardian
