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Life begins at forty: National Arts Festival 2014
2014-07-01 The National Arts Festival is 40 years old this year. Ismail Mahomed tells Naomi Meyer why everybody should attend the party.
Coming back home
2014-06-04 "St Lucia, I think I speak on behalf of everyone there when I say you are welcome home any time you’d like."
All the world's a stage
2014-05-28 Mike van Graan's opinion on the appointment of Nathi Mthethwa as Minster of Arts and Culture.
Seductive woman
2014-05-27 Address by Hennie Smith to open an art exhibition of Mimi van der Merwe: Pretoria Art Association, 2 May 2014.
Interview: Lasers in the Jungle
2014-04-30 "I use the form of the vase to bring together the alluring elements of beauty and blend them together with darker undercurrents of fear and paranoia."
OPENlab 2014
2014-04-28 OPENlab is at the Vryfees in June. Applications close on the 5th of May. But what is OPENlab? Ricardo Peach answers Naomi Meyer's questions.
National Arts Festival rises to the occasion on its 40th anniversary
2014-04-24 The National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, which is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year, has announced a landmark main programme.
Another Day art exhibition
2014-04-18 Melanie Cleary photographs people on the fringes of society. She tells Naomi Meyer about her exhibition Another Day.
Cape Town roller derby
2013-11-25 “These are some pics from a mock up bout that the girls put together at the Rockabilly Festival in Cape Town.”
Milk Train: Sour for some, fresh for others
2013-10-18 Milk Train has been described as one of the plays that deal most poignantly, most convincingly, with death. The other play that has achieved this feat is Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Mensehandelbewustheid | Human Trafficking Awareness
2013-10-18 Corinne Sandenberg of Stop Trafficking and Marisa de Lange, curator of the Freedom Exhibition, talk to Naomi Meyer about a topic everybody wants to avoid.
In the flesh
2013-10-02 "Back by popular demand, the Body Worlds exhibition returned to South Africa. Kim Harrisberg went to find out why humans can’t get enough of seeing themselves skinned."
Open Book Festival 2013: The Ghost-Eater and other stories
2013-09-17 "The Ghost-Eater and other stories is a collection of 31 short stories from different writers who all took part in a creative writing workshop at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) with the compiler of the book, Diane Awerbuck, last year."
Clover Aardklop 2013: Afda brings Afrikaans short films to festival
2013-09-05 A selection of Afrikaans short films made by the students of The South African School of Motion Picture and Live Performance (Afda) will be shown at the Clover Aardklop Festival. Reney Warrington asked Garth Holmes, co-founder and chairman of Afda, about the films and the industry.
Open Book Festival 2013: Programme
2013-08-27 Open Book Festival 2013 takes place from 7 to 11 September 2013 at The Fugard Theatre in Cape Town. See the full programme here.
Top English productions at Clover Aardklop National Arts Festival
2013-08-23 The English productions on offer at this year’s Clover Aardklop National Arts Festival, held in Potchefstroom, are all highly-acclaimed and award-winning shows.
Expression is Golden
2013-08-13 "InZync poetry sessions are a surprisingly humble space where bras and sisters come together in an intimate cipher, where rappers informally freestyle over self-created beats, a pre-game warm-up rolling together blades of spiritual enlightenment, avoiding the blue lights of the five o’s and sharing a moment while spitting lyrical lines."
Cool stuff: August 2013
2013-08-12 Réney Warrington shares her highlights on the August events calendar.
About Beauty: A love letter
2013-08-12 "This is a love letter to some of the most remarkable full stops in the world, and to their friends. It could also have been an essay about beauty, but I’d rather treat it as the former."