SHOWTIME Management, SA producers of the international hit musical, Priscilla Queen of the Desert announced the three Johannesburg boys who join the all South African cast alternating the role of Benji when the show opens at The Teatro, Montecasino on 29 April.
HAVING recently exhibited this body of work at VOLTA, New York, Ryan Hewett’s unmistakable style combines strong formal rigour as well as expressionistic looseness. In a sense this means his series of portraits, generally leaders in the world of South African politics over the last one hundred years, contain both an element of obvious references to icons, while maintaining a richness of surface as swathes of thick impasto – rich, organic, congealed paint – have an almost organic appeal.
A CELEBRATION of the magic of sculptural form within a gallery context, sculpture, results in a captivating first room and bodes well as one journey’s further into the gallery space. For one is met with a variety of perceptual and conceptual bits of information through the very presence of these objects qua sculpture that challenge and proceed (as if there is a logic) to evoke a reaction.
THE Wits Trio, will perform in the Linder Auditorium on Saturday 22 April for the Johannesburg Musical Society. Pianist Malcolm Nay and violinist Zanta Hofmeyr will be joined by cellist Maciej Lacny to play a programme of established works from the classic repertoire, as well as a contemporary composition dedicated especially to them.
THE European Film Festival is back for the fourth time at Cinema Nouveau theatres in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban from 5 to 14 May. Acknowledged by the Rotterdam International Film Festival, this movie is a road trip with a modification, at once thoughtful, hilarious and wild. The line-up of films represents 12 countries, including Ireland and Croatia for the first time. Each film reflects the skills and take on the world of filmmakers who are not limited by national borders.
South Africa’s artists, theatre makers and musicians are responding to the challenges of living in a country in flux with genre-busting work that is provocative, innovative, engaging and entertaining. Some of the best of these productions will be showcased at this year’s National Arts Festival, to be held in Grahamstown from 29 June to 9 July this year.
THE 20th Annual BASA Awards, partnered by Hollard & Business Day, are now open for entries from business and arts partnerships that were activated between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2016.
THE BOOK industry – like many others – is under pressure from technological change. Can it re-invent itself leveraging off this technology? Will the book format as we know it today survive? What do consumers really want from a book – the tactile or technological?
I WAS fortunate to attend the exhibition of SAADA – South African Antique, Art and Design Association – to coincide with the Cape Town Art Fair opening at the CTICC. SAADA is a member of CINOA, the international confederation of dealers of art.
THE South African Cultural Observatory (SACO) is proud to announce its first set of international speakers for its National Conference on the ‘Creative Economy and Development’ in May.
ARTERIAL Network is ten years old and is about to embark on a new phase of re-positioning and revitalisation of the network, it said this week.
THE South African Cultural Observatory (SACO) has completed its second year of operation – and we are truly coming into our own.
