My apologies for posting this blog a day late. The Monday deadline has not been abandoned, just very occasionally it's impossible and it stretches to Tuesday!
ONE-OFF PERFORMANCE TONIGHT
Tonight is a one-off fundraising performance of Hatched by Mamela Nyamza. She has been invited to present the show at this year's Danse l'Afrique in Bamako, Mali, one of the largest dance festivals in Africa, showcasing established choreographers around the African continent. I retrieved my review of the show from an early blog posting:
After seeing Hatched, I would go out of my way to see anything by dancer/performance artist Mamela Nyamza. ... it's like a film in which almost not a single frame is wasted - there is so much that is beautiful, strange, and arresting. It works through images and movement, and I won't try to describe it further - just to recommend this incredible artist.
Fugard Theatre
Tuesday 21 20h00
LAST TWO NIGHTS: QAPHELA CAESAR
"Jay Pather’s contemporary adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar takes the audience through 14 rooms of the historic City Hall, alternating between installation and performing art while incorporating dance, spoken text, multimedia and opera."
City Hall
Tues 21 - Weds 22 20h00
Cost: R 65 Tel: 078 4060 509
HERITAGE DAY CELEBRATIONS AT THE MUSEUMS
All Iziko museums are free of charge this week in honour of Heritage Day (the Planetarium and the Castle only on Friday.) There are various talks, tours, performances, symposium - see Iziko's website www.izikomuseums.com
Tonight is a one-off fundraising performance of Hatched by Mamela Nyamza. She has been invited to present the show at this year's Danse l'Afrique in Bamako, Mali, one of the largest dance festivals in Africa, showcasing established choreographers around the African continent. I retrieved my review of the show from an early blog posting:
After seeing Hatched, I would go out of my way to see anything by dancer/performance artist Mamela Nyamza. ... it's like a film in which almost not a single frame is wasted - there is so much that is beautiful, strange, and arresting. It works through images and movement, and I won't try to describe it further - just to recommend this incredible artist.
Fugard Theatre
Tuesday 21 20h00
LAST TWO NIGHTS: QAPHELA CAESAR
"Jay Pather’s contemporary adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar takes the audience through 14 rooms of the historic City Hall, alternating between installation and performing art while incorporating dance, spoken text, multimedia and opera."
City Hall
Tues 21 - Weds 22 20h00
Cost: R 65 Tel: 078 4060 509
HERITAGE DAY CELEBRATIONS AT THE MUSEUMS
All Iziko museums are free of charge this week in honour of Heritage Day (the Planetarium and the Castle only on Friday.) There are various talks, tours, performances, symposium - see Iziko's website www.izikomuseums.com
Pedro will be telling stories on the grass in front of the SA Museum on Thursday at 10h00.
For more information021-4813800 or email wkasibe@iziko.org.za
THREE TALKS CO-INCIDE ON THURSDAY
1. BOOK LAUNCH
"Writing the City into Being: Essays on Johannesburg 1998-2008 is Lindsay Bremner’s long-awaited collection of essays, spanning more than a decade of work on Johannesburg. It is both an unflinching analysis of the characteristics of an extraordinary city and a work of imagination – a bringing of the evasive city into being through writing. Her intimate knowledge of the city makes this a deeply personal but authoritative collection of essays." Lindsay Bremner is Professor of Architecture at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. She was formerly Chair of Architecture at Wits. She will be in conversation with Iain Low, Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Planning at UCT.
Book Lounge
Thursday 23 17h30 for 18h00.
021 462 2425
For more information021-4813800 or email wkasibe@iziko.org.za
THREE TALKS CO-INCIDE ON THURSDAY
1. BOOK LAUNCH
"Writing the City into Being: Essays on Johannesburg 1998-2008 is Lindsay Bremner’s long-awaited collection of essays, spanning more than a decade of work on Johannesburg. It is both an unflinching analysis of the characteristics of an extraordinary city and a work of imagination – a bringing of the evasive city into being through writing. Her intimate knowledge of the city makes this a deeply personal but authoritative collection of essays." Lindsay Bremner is Professor of Architecture at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. She was formerly Chair of Architecture at Wits. She will be in conversation with Iain Low, Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Planning at UCT.
Book Lounge
Thursday 23 17h30 for 18h00.
021 462 2425
2. GIPCA GREAT TEXTS/BIG QUESTIONS TALK
Here's the invite:
3. WOLPE TRUST DIALOGUE ON CORRUPTION
The Wolpe Trust Dialogues are always worth going to. This one's on Corruption In Our Society.
The Wolpe Trust Dialogues are always worth going to. This one's on Corruption In Our Society.
Thursday 23 17h30 for 18h00
LT2 Zoology Building Upper Campus UCT
LT2 Zoology Building Upper Campus UCT
HOMESTEAD PARK MARKET
I heard of this market from the Book Lounge newsletter:
"On Friday, 24 September, Heritage Day, the Book Lounge will have a stall at the lovely Homestead Park Market in Upper Orange Street, Oranjezicht from 10 - 4pm. There will be crafts and food stalls to support, guided walks about the Heritage part and a jazz quartet, a fun outing for families who are staying in town over the long weekend. Please come along and support the Oranjezicht Higgovale Neighbourhood Watch who have organised this great day out."
POETRY LAUNCH AT KALK BAY BOOKS
Leon de Kock will launch his new collection of poems, Bodyhood, at Kalk Bay Books on Friday. The "seductive and powerful new poems" are "at once reflective, wistful, wry and ironic, they chart the individual’s imprint on a world accessible only through the bonds and affiliations of an embodied life."
Leon de Kock is head of the School of Literature and Language Studies at Wits University. He has received the Pringle Prize for Poetry (1985), the FNB Vita/English Academy Prize for Poetry Translation (2000) and the SA Translators’ Award for Outstanding Translation (2000) for his translation of Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf.
Kalk Bay Books
Friday 24 18h00
I heard of this market from the Book Lounge newsletter:
"On Friday, 24 September, Heritage Day, the Book Lounge will have a stall at the lovely Homestead Park Market in Upper Orange Street, Oranjezicht from 10 - 4pm. There will be crafts and food stalls to support, guided walks about the Heritage part and a jazz quartet, a fun outing for families who are staying in town over the long weekend. Please come along and support the Oranjezicht Higgovale Neighbourhood Watch who have organised this great day out."
POETRY LAUNCH AT KALK BAY BOOKS
Leon de Kock will launch his new collection of poems, Bodyhood, at Kalk Bay Books on Friday. The "seductive and powerful new poems" are "at once reflective, wistful, wry and ironic, they chart the individual’s imprint on a world accessible only through the bonds and affiliations of an embodied life."
Leon de Kock is head of the School of Literature and Language Studies at Wits University. He has received the Pringle Prize for Poetry (1985), the FNB Vita/English Academy Prize for Poetry Translation (2000) and the SA Translators’ Award for Outstanding Translation (2000) for his translation of Marlene van Niekerk’s Triomf.
Kalk Bay Books
Friday 24 18h00
PIANO CONCERT
Spencer Myer is a graduate of the Juilliard School, "garnering stellar audience and critical acclaim from around the globe, rapidly establishing himself as one of the most outstanding pianists of his generation." At the Baxter Concert Hall on Saturday he'll play Handel, Jancek, Beethoven, Schumann, Granados.
Baxter Concert Hall
Saturday 25 20h00
ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OPEN NIGHT
Another open night at the Observatory on Saturday, a chance to see the historic telescope and buildings as well as the night sky.
South African Astronomical Observatory Observatory Rd Observatory
Saturday 25 20h00 Free entry
021 447 0025 enquiries@saao.ac.za
Saturday 25 20h00 Free entry
021 447 0025 enquiries@saao.ac.za
POETRY AFRICA IN CAPE TOWN
1.
Poetry Africa has become a major festival on the Durban calendar, and this year they're adding on a tour to Cape Town, Harare and Blantyre (Malawi.) The show's on Sunday at the CTICC and the programme includes touring poets from Malawi, Tanzania, Botswana, Jamaica, Zimbabwe as well as SA.
CTICC
Sunday 26 19h30
2.
A Poetry Africa discussion, The Poet as Wayfarer, will take place on Monday at the Planetarium.This event is free.
The Planetarium 25 Queen Victoria Street
CTICC
Sunday 26 19h30
2.
A Poetry Africa discussion, The Poet as Wayfarer, will take place on Monday at the Planetarium.This event is free.
The Planetarium 25 Queen Victoria Street
Monday September 27 17:30
