A South African Arts & Culture Magazine
The second Cape Town Baroque Festival (CTBF) is yet again set to be a highlight on the city’s music calendar. With local and international soloists and ensembles performing, the CTBF will offer audiences a varied programme of top quality baroque…
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September 26 will mark the birthday of Leonard Sachs.The future television, stage and film actor Leonard Meyer Sachs was born that day in 1909 in the small town of Roodepoort, Gauteng. He received his education in South Africa and moved…
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Applications Deadline: Sunday 16th September 2018 Planning a music tour and require support? Apply to Concerts SA’s Music Mobility Fund, which will select new projects in September Following the success of the ten previous rounds, applications are now…
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The Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) launches Africa’s leading performance art festival, the international ICA LIVE ART Festival, this spring from 1 to 16 September 2018. Returning to Cape Town for its highly anticipated fourth anniversary, the Festival showcases a…
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Tough guy Bruce Lester escaped a Nazi jail to help keep a chemical formula out of their hands, physician Bruce Lester took care of victims of the Mau Mau Revolt of the 1950s, and British aristocrat Bruce Lester killed a…
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More than 100 Western Cape schools and a total of about 3000 primary and high school learners will be taking part in this year’s Artscape Schools’ Arts Festival to be held from 13 – 28 August 2018 at the Artscape…
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The Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival has always been a place where the old and the new meet. Whilst Mozart, Brahms and Tchaikovsky remain staple fare, the likes of Gliere, Dohnanyi and Golijov, once foreign to our ears have, thanks…
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If an American casting director sought an English type to play a nobleman or a detective he or she looked for Ian Hunter. Hunter was born on June 13, 1900 in the Kenilworth area of Cape Town. When he was…
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Discover friendship, humour and hope with My Blind Date with Life that will be showing from 04 May 2018 EXCLUSIVELY at Ster-Kinekor Cinema Nouveau theatres. From the director of the Academy Award nominated film Sophie Scholl, comes the unbelievable and…
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The annual Suidoosterfees is almost upon us here in Cape Town, a celebration of Cape culture and heritage through world class theatre. This is a time when Capetonians of all cultures, religions and races gather together to experience the performing…
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