Cape Town City Ballet’s double bill ‘a perfect end to the season’ and the summer
AuthorCapo Cassidy
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What if … imagining, creating, showcasing different outcomes
A carefully curated, free-to-the-public festival that includes installations, sculptures, digital artworks, pop-up exhibitions, performances and street art tours all over the Mother City
A leg up for the wealthy; a boot on the neck for the poor
Business as usual in Budget 2023: billions for Eskom, thousands for taxpayers and businesses, R350 for the poorest of the poor
How the global south uses non-alignment to avoid great power rivalries
Africa especially, the world’s most insecure continent (host to 84% of UN peacekeepers), cannot afford to simply be pulled into the orbit of one or other of the superpowers of the day
Aah South Africa … from Kalahari blues to Handspringery
Here is something I found from 2013 … David Kramer’s Kalahari Karoo Blues reminded us why we “couldn’t possibly live anywhere else but in this land of unexpected genius and overflowing sincerity”.
The dreamiest of midsummer nights
An exceptional Midsummer Night’s Dream provides a night of blessings, magic, mirth and laughter under the stars
From city to kasi, bringing art home
Exhibition in Langa will hopefully narrow the gap between African art and the spaces and contexts that inspire it.
Hamlet: The prince, the people and the puppets
A contemporary Hamlet, brought to life by larger-than-life puppets
Mzansi, 10 tenors and the language of the soul
This is non-verbal communication of sounds and a deep rhythm that vibrates between us and fills us with hope and connection
All bets on as Sting takes us back to casino that promised to be a foodie mecca
Remembering the pleasure and the promise of an incredible feast at Time Square, and wondering what we will find there 5 years later