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Invitation: nagmusiek+, performed by Liza Joubert
2016-08-05You are invited to nagmusiek+, a modernist sight-sound poem, performed by Liza Joubert on the piano.
Press release: Montagu Youth Arts Festival 2016
2016-08-05The RAD Foundation will once again host the annual Montagu Music, Art, Dance and Drama Festival (MMADD) from 10th to 20th August in Montagu on Route 62. This event is now in it’s 21st year.
Die kind is nog jonger: Interview with Jim Neversink
2016-06-29On Ingrid Jonker: "I really felt her despair and wanted to fight alongside her ..."
Spier Poetry Festival 2016: dancing in other words with photos and videos
2016-05-10The third Spier Poetry Festival: dancing in other words took place on Saturday, 7 May.
Spier Poetry Festival 2016: Poets’ Welcome Dinner
2016-05-06The dancing in other words / dansende digtersfees is an annual international poetry event, curated by Breyten Breytenbach, Dominique Botha and composer Neo Muyanga. This year's participating poets were introduced at a special Poets’ Welcome Dinner at Spier on Sunday, 1 May.
Spier Poetry Festival: Quick Q&A with Hans C ten Berge
2016-05-05"The translator should be patient and persevering: endurance is the solution to difficult problems which may have left the translator in despair for quite some time." – Hans C ten Berge
Jozi Literary All Stars: 3 May 2016
2016-04-29Six award-winning Johannesburg novelists, Fred Khumalo, Harry Kalmer, Ivan Vladislavic, James Whyle, Kleinboer and Yewande Omotoso will be reading new and published work at David Krut Books.
Spier Poetry Festival: Quick Q&A with Keorapetse Willie Kgositsile
2016-04-28"Poetry celebrates life through the aesthetic ordering of language comparable to the way music does through its aesthetic ordering of sound."
Spier Poetry Festival: Quick Q&A with James Matthews
2016-04-21"it is the eve of life's death
and i am departing with
a glow of being
my spirit ablaze with
celestial splendour"
Spier Poetry Festival: Quick Q&A with Georges Lory
2016-04-21"Poetry is a desperate move to express what we can't express." – Georges Lory
Film review: Allegiant
2016-04-06"Allegiant is a tedious, more befuddling, and even more sexist version of Divergent and Insurgent."
Murray's Food Trails: The Hussar Grill
2016-03-31"At The Hussar Grill you are sure to go back in Rondebosch history."
Film review: The Assignment
2016-03-01"The prospect of watching a home-grown, Joburg-based thriller about a (yes, female) journalist scooping a major story was an exciting one. We undoubtedly have the stories to tell and the talent to tell it. Our movie industry is, furthermore, producing quite remarkable thrillers, comedies, dramas, etc. Sadly, The Assignment is not remarkable at all."
Review: I turned away and she was gone at the Magnet Theatre
2016-02-22"If you have a child, you ought to see this. If you have a parent, you ought to see this. If you are both child and parent, well: Go."
New era for Vergenoegd unveiled
2016-02-12"The team has launched some new initiatives on the farm to complement the famed 'duck parade' – a morning and afternoon display of hundreds of Indian Runner ducks."
Bo-Kaap Kitchen: Q&A with Craig Fraser
2016-02-10"Bo-Kaap Kitchen is a collection of recipes from residents of the Bo-Kaap, the people who live in the area, those inhabitants who have a history there, a cultural connection to it. It is not a collection of recipes from a chef or a restaurant; this is food of and from the people. Not only is it their food, but it is also their stories, it is a slice of history through personal experiences."
US Woordfees 2016 interview: Rainbow Scars by Mike van Graan
2016-02-09"Scars are not only physical. Hurt – and therefore, scars – may take emotional, psychological and intellectual forms too."
Murray’s Food Trails: Ranoushe, Lebanese Restaurant Bar, Waterfront, Cape Town
2016-02-08"It’s proof that some of the nicest dishes are from uncooked food, simple to make, and so tasty."
Just Jinjer: "It was like making dinner with the family again"
2016-01-13"We have always been very open to criticism within the band, simply because we truly know and trust where we’re coming from with each other."