Top professional skateboarders Ryan Decenzo and Adam Dyet will be joining the Skateboarding for Hope tour in the Northern Cape Province in the lead-up to the Kimberley Diamond Cup presented by Kumba Iron Ore, a business unit of Anglo American. The world championship skateboarding event will take place in the capital city of Kimberley from 27-29 September and the best skateboarders in the world are expected to battle it out for the vert and street titles as well as a share in the price purse of more than R5-million. These two skaters will be joining the community outreach initiative to take part in skateboarding clinics and demonstrations in Kathu, Kuruman and Kimberley. The activations form part of the joint initiative between the Northern Cape provincial government and Kumba Iron Ore to introduce novice skateboarders in impoverished communities to the joy of skateboarding. This will be Decenzo’s second trip to South Africa after he narrowly missed out on the world championship title in Kimberley last year. He recently took the first place at the Kia World Games hosted in China in June. Dyet was a bronze medallist at the X Games and will be a first-time visitor to the country. According to Tim McFerran of World Skateboarding Grand Prix, it is very exciting to have such accomplished skateboarders joining a part of the road show. “They are amazingly talented skateboarders and it is a fantastic opportunity for youngsters in the Northern Cape to learn basic skateboarding skills from the best in the world. I am confident that Ryan and Adam will show off all their tricks during the demonstrations and that this will further inspire a new generation of skateboarders throughout the province. Skateboarding enthusiasts will also be able to get a sneak preview of what can be expected during the three days of non-stop skateboarding action at the Kumba Skate Plaza in Kimberley next weekend,” mentions McFerran. The Skateboarding for Hope tour stops include: • …
Creative Economy Conference to set agenda for African development
This year’s African Creative Economy Conference (ACEC) takes place in less than three weeks – and some of the world’s most incisive, creative and thought-provoking strategists, academics, entrepreneurs and artists will shortly debate how to unlock the potential of the creative economies. This annual conference was first held in Nairobi, Kenya in 2011 and in Dakar, Senegal in 2012. This year, speakers and panellists at Cape Town’s City Hall (6-9 October) will focus on the continent’s creative industries as economic drivers, highlighting their potential contribution to the eradication of poverty and underpinning of democracy and human rights. The dazzling line-up ranges from think-tank directors to fashion entrepreneurs, musicians to government ministers. Delegates will access the latest economic and cultural development indicators; hear inspirational stories from dynamic cultural entrepreneurs; and debate the findings of development experts, global funders and commentators. Policy experts include Dr David Stevens (Director, Fireside Research, World Policy Institute, USA); Dr Marina Guo, Vice-director, John Howkins Research Centre on the Creative Economy, Shanghai, China; Bernard Bakaye, head of the Culture and Sports Department of the East African Community; and Stephen Chifunyise, arts, culture and education consultant and Principal of the Zimbabwe Academy of Arts Education for Development (ZAAED). Artists and creative entrepreneurs include Francophone Africa rap musician Didier Awadi and Jaouad Essounani, the director, playwright and artistic director of the Dabateatre Company of Rabat, Morocco. Nigerian lawyer-turned fashion entrepreneur Omoyemi Akerele will share her success story, along with DRC-born, SA-based film-maker Johnny Muteba, CEO of Mobi Changa Limited Kyai Mullei and Zimbabwean-born, SA-based Patrick Schofield, founder of Streetwires and crowd-funding café, Thundafund. Other participants include Dr Mustapha Sidiki Kalako, …
Culinary Innovations with Lauren Beukes & Thelema Wines
Treat yourself to words, wine and wonderful food at Grande Roche Hotel’s Culinary Innovations in Paarl on 27 September in the company of award-winning novelist, journalist, scriptwriter and documentary maker, Lauren Beukes. Lauren won the Arthur C Clarke Award for her novel Zoo City and her latest novel, The Shining Girls was named one of Huffington Post's top 40 most anticipated books for 2013 and will be adapted for international television release by Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company Appian Way in collaboration with MRC. It’s a thriller that breaks the boundaries and is bound to have readers on the edge of their seats. Thelema Vineyards is a family owned and managed wine estate in Stellenbosch. Situated at the top of the Helshoogte Pass, it is one of the highest and coolest estates in the area. The combination of Thelema’s wine making style, the high altitude and deep red soils result in flavourful, flamboyant, complex and long-lasting wines with a distinctive South African character. Thelema is an icon in the South African wine industry and was recently rated one of the world’s top 100 estates. Crime and thrilling adventure combined with the culinary alchemy of Bosman’s Restaurant’s Chef Roland and fine Thelema wines, all add up to an entertaining evening for gastronomes and bookworms alike. Only at the Grande Roche Hotel – where every reservation is the promise of a treat. Contact: Christine Visagie - 021 863 5100 christine@granderoche.co.za Visit www.granderoche.co.za MENU Canapés Thelema Muscat de Frontignan 2012 Glazed sole kotelette, prawn-octopus crépinette, apple-fennel-dill salad, sorrel crème and nut butter jus Thelema Rhine Riesling 2009 BBQ flavoured quail breast, sweet corn parfait, curry mayonnaise and baked quail praline Thelema Chardonnay 2011 Slow roasted veal shoulder, crispy veal head terrine, braised baby cabbage, and pancetta gnocchi Thelema Cabernet Sauvignon 2009 Tonka bean-ristretto …
Top South African companies looking to hire at Career Indaba in Cape Town this week
“This event really makes a difference in the lives of young people” Thousands of school leavers, learners and students are expected at the Career Indaba in Cape Town this week where some of the top companies in the country, including South African Airways, Amazon, Food Lovers Market, PIC, Transnet, Cape Nature, Peninsula Beverage Company and MINTEK are looking to recruit. Career Indaba takes place at the CTICC in Cape Town from 12-13 September and entry is free. All school leavers, learners, students and their parents are welcome at the event where they can also meet with top further education colleges and universities, attend dozens of workshops with practical advice on career choices, finding a job and writing a CV. Just some of the expo floor highlights at Career Indaba: • South African Airways are doing a workshop: “Ndizani: Gaining Altitude in your Career” at the show on Friday 13 September from 11h30-12h00. South African Airways is Career Indaba’s gold sponsor. • The Bartenders Workshop is doing some cool flaring demos throughout the show, between workshops. • False Bay College are exhibiting and will have a demo car on site to promote their engineering and mechanical faculties. There will also be yummy cooking demonstrations at their stand. • Curriculum Vitae: there will be several workshops on how to put together a professional CV. • Job interviews: dedicated workshops will give sound advice on how to make that good impression during a job interview. • The Fashion industry: fashion students have the opportunity to meet The Platinum Group and speak to them about job opportunities. • Study abroad? Near East University is a Turkish university, based in Cyprus, looking for SA students. • Amazon will be running an interactive workshop! • Gap Year? Speak to Gap Year providers like CC USA and STA Travel. • Study loans: Eduloan will be at Career Indaba to speak to students and their parents about loans and bursaries. • Good with numbers: SAICA are …
International Dance Companies to perform at GIPCA
The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) will host performances by two leading international contemporary dance companies: EIRA from Portugal and T42 from Switzerland. These performances will take place from 11-14 September at Hiddingh Hall, and follow on the heels of performances at Jomba! Dance Festival (Durban) and Dance Umbrella (Johannesburg) by both companies. The evenings of 11 and 12 September will feature T42’s Misato Inoue and Félix Duméril in Another Chopsticks Story and Swan. Another Chopsticks Story takes Madame Butterfly as a point of departure, using the famous opera to examine ideas around orientalism and identity, and false binaries between East, West, male and female; while Swan explores the physical, aesthetic and kinesthetic representations of innocence, vulnerability and elegance, as inseparable from pain, fear and guilt. “We may say white is the absence of color, as purity has no memory, while black is the saturation of colour as recurrent waves of pain and discreditable secrets. We look deeply into this profound despair, fear guilt and anger and we find a similarity to innocence, such as the infinite field of unfolding possibilities” comments choreographer, Misato Inoue. The second company, EIRA, will perform Our Lady of Flowers and The King in Exile (remake) on the evenings of 13and 14 September. Our Lady of Flowers, a solo by Francisco Camacho, shares its title with the Jean Genet novel. Presented in over forty venues in Europe and South America since its première in 1993, the piece employs a choreography of convulsion, obsession, failing physiological systems, and of the collapsing body – a dance of absolute sensual experience. It is an invocation of ghosts, of ridicule and laughter, of sensuality and obscenity. In The King in Exile (remake), Camacho draws inspiration from the figure of Dom Manuel II - the last king of Portugal, known as "the Patriot" or "the Unfortunate," who ascended the throne after the …
Catherine Burns explores The bricolage of health and healing at Medical Humanities lecture
Historian Catherine Burns will pursue a dialogue between indigenous health cultures and biomedicine as part of the Medical Humanities series onThursday 29 August. This public lecture will take place in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, UCT Hiddingh Campus. In The bricolage of health and healing in South Africa; Burns will explore the absence of an institutionalised, interdisciplinary relationship between the humanities and medicine, in light of the layered and heavily politicised history of South African Health systems throughout the 20th Century – a legacy which continues in various forms in the present. Drawing on the case study of an indigenous healer who sought a complex and sustained dialogue with biomedicine; this lecture will employ literary analysis, archival research, anthropology and political history in its discussion of South Africa as a unique and fertile site for the exploration of these dynamics. Given its evolving indigenous health cultures and alternative therapeutic systems, which co-exist with biomedical structures, Burns wi ll argue for South Africa as an emergent tri-continental frontier for the study of Medical Humanities. Catherine Burns is a historian and interdisciplinary researcher educated at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) as well as at John Hopkins and Northwestern Universities in the USA. Her work focuses on sexuality, reproduction and health in an African context. She has published papers on the history and anthropology of health and traditional medicine; medical midwifery and nursing education; state versus missionary and community-based health services; the politics of sexuality and sexual health, and on cultures and histories of gender formation. Burns is co-convenor of the WITS “Body Knowledge” Conference at WITS in September 2013, an editor for the humanities Journal African Studies, and is on the board of the Adler Museum of Me dical History. She is the Principal Investigator for the Project on Sex …
Drama Therapy pioneer Robert Landy at GIPCA
The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA), in partnership with Drama for Life, will host a public lecture and workshop by Drama Therapy pioneer, Professor Robert J. Landy. The lecture will take place on Friday 30 August, and the workshop on Saturday 31 August, both at Hiddingh Hall, UCT Hiddingh Campus. Landy’s public lecture titled “Performance Healing”, will be followed by “Drama Therapy in Clinical Practice” - a specialised Drama Therapy workshop open to Arts Therapists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Educational Psychologists, Occupational Therapists and other health care professionals, as well as Applied Drama and Theatre Facilitators/Educators, and students in the above mentioned fields. Hailed by Eric Booth, editor of Teaching Artist Journal, asproviding“an extraordinary and needed service to the fields of psychology, psychotherapy and the arts. His insights illuminate distinctions we have not seen before, trace paths that re-order our grasp of the past, and point to the evolution of trends that suggest a more creative and healthy future." Robert J. Landy is Professor of Educational Theatre and Applied Psychology, and Director of the Drama Therapy Program at New York University. As a drama therapist, he has more than 35 years of clinical experience, having treated children and adults with a wide range of psychiatric, cognitive and adjustment challenges. A pioneer in the profession of Drama Therapy, Landy lectures and trains professionals internationally. Landy has published and produced numerous books, articles, films and plays in the fields of Drama, Drama Therapy, Musical Theatre and related topics. His 2008 book The Couch and the Stage: Integrating Words and Action in Psychotherapy examined the relationship between psychotherapy and Drama Therapy. His 2012 book (with David Montgomery), Theatre for Change: Education, Social Action, Therapy; examines the relationship between Drama Therapy and applied forms of theatre. An …
Alan Parker’s Detritus first offering of 2013 Directors Bursary
The first incarnation of the 2013 Theatre Arts Admin Collective Emerging Theatre Directors Bursary is a production called Detritus, presented by Alan Parker at the Theatre Arts Admin Collective from 12th to 17th August. At the heart of Detritus is an imaginative and playful engagement with the intangibility of live performance. It is about watching and feeling and about the struggle to capture, keep, remember and ultimately share the intangible. Alan Parker is a Cape Town-based teacher, choreographer and performer. “Having just moved to Cape Town at the beginning of the year, after spending many years with First Physical Theatre in Grahamstown, this opportunity is perfectly timed for me. It has provided a platform for me to make a new work, in a new city, in a new space, with new people. So I do not feel comfortable – everything is unfamiliar – and I believe that is the best space to make compelling theatre!” comments Parker, who is grateful for the opportunity which the bursary provides, to “really engage in a creative, open and non-restrictive process “. Parker explains that for the last few years, he has been interested in the notion of the archive in relation to live performance. By its nature, performance is ephemeral, disappearing just as quickly as it appears. When the event is over, nothing of the actual performance remains, except for the detritus - in the form of costumes and props and the (often flawed) recollection of the experience in the memories of the audience. Conscious that the terms ‘choreographer’, ‘theatre-maker’, ‘performer’ and ‘director’ are fluid and are not easily separated, Parker and his cast (Richard Antrobus, Indalo Stofile and Madele Vermaak) began their process based on their own personal experiences of watching theatre; to discover ways that the body, the voice and the remaining ‘artefacts’ can combine in interesting, moving, playful and effective ways. Parker is also working with his partner and collaborator, Gavin …
Internationally acclaimed workshop on Artistic Practice and Entrepreneurship presented at GIPCA
The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) will host a lecture and workshop on entrepreneurship and independent practice in the arts, on Wednesday 7 August 2013 at Hiddingh Hall. Facilitated by leading arts professionals Liz Bradley (Professor and Chair of Drama at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU) and Anne Mundell (Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama), this workshop is aimed at creative and performing arts practitioners, students and administrators, as well as arts-based businesses and community organisations. Bradley and Mundell’s Self Start workshops are designed for practitioners from a range of creative disciplines. Particularly relevant to the current economic climate, thecontent includes a varied set of adaptable entrepreneurial strategies, with direct applications in the performing and creative arts. Their workshops have had substantial international impact, engaging students and professionals from Hong Kong to Glasgow. This lecture and intensive workshop, titled The ‘Self Start’ Paradigm: Artistic Practice and Entrepreneurship’, will highlight the basics of the entrepreneurial process, create an awareness of practical resources and enhance participants’ ability to respond creatively to challenges in realising their work. Self Start aims to foster an understanding and mastering of the attributes and skills necessary for effective entrepreneurship in the arts, independent from existing structures and models. Topics discussed will include defining core ideas, evaluating potential arts ventures, attracting stakeholders, and maximizing creative and human capital. Professor Elizabeth Bradley is an educator, theatrical producer, festival curator, presenter, and international cultural consultant. She joined the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University as Chair of Drama in 2008, after heading the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University. Bradley has a wide-ranging career of almost three decades in …
100 Authors Write 100 Books in 40 Hours for World’s First Ever Mass Social Book Launch
Cape Town based, Michael Haupt, is one of 100 authors from around the world taking part in this event, pioneered by author and motivational speaker, Gertrude Matshe. 100 authors from around the world have come together to write 100 books in just 40 hours. Their work will be revealed in the world's first ever mass social book launch, with accompanying series of YouTube video clips. When first-time author, Michael Haupt, heard about the project, he saw it as a great opportunity to get his message out. He successfully completed his book, titled ‘Would Jesus Tweet?’ - a handbook of radical marketing strategies for difference makers, disruptors and other troublemakers. Additionally, like all participants, Michael Haupt filmed a Reality TV style interview with Gertrude Matshe, which can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/writeabookin40hours In order to leverage the large number of authors working together on the project, marketing agency AccuraCast devised a strategy to jointly promote all the works via a first of its kind social book launch, which includes promotion of their interview footage. According to Getrude Matshe, “We’ve invented a whole new way to sell books. This is no longer about passive posters and book reviews. These authors are real people, with real experiences and real knowledge to share. YouTube video allows them to share their stories with the world, in a real, personal way” Details of the project and the participating authors can be found at http://howtowriteabookin40hours.com/ About the Author After 22 years in the corporate world serving clients including Bank of America, Barclays, BT, HSBC, Hutchison 3G, O2, Powergen, Telefonica, Telenor, TeliaSonera, Unisys and Vodafone in Australia, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, UK and USA, Michael Haupt spent 2 years searching high mountain villages, remote monasteries and forgotten texts on a personal mission to uncover what’s missing in marketing and business. Combining his …