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Sites of Memory
Featuring the work of five of Johannesburg’s top young and upcoming artists: Amy Thorne, Anthea Pokroy, Candice Hirson, Louise Ross and Nathan Jansen van Vuuren. The work draws inspiration from varied sources including paranoia, trauma, temporality, constructed narrative, domesticity, urban spaces (the city), memory of a space and the sublime.
National Flairtending Championships 2008
For the fifth consecutive year, The Bartenders Workshop is hosting the one and only National Flairtending Championships in South Africa with some of the hottest flairing champions in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. The preliminary rounds are in full swing at various News Café branches nationwide with the final taking place in June.
Aids Resource Centre Cocktail evening
We headed off down to the Mandela Rhodes Place last night to attend the Aids Resource Centre (ARC) Cocktail Party which was an aids resource fundraising event. Unlike most of the events that we attend this was an important one as it was raising money for the much needed aids crisis happening in our country.
Legendary artists grace SA stages in music extravaganza
[ May 24, 2008 to May 25, 2008. ] Johannesburg – METRO FM announced today that it is the exclusive media partner for Night of the Legends – the two city concert featuring four of world’s top sensational singing couples - Ashford and Simpson, Womack & Womack, Kenny Lattimore and Chanté Moore; and South Africa’s legendary singing couple, Letta Mbulu and Caiphus Semenya.
Converse fires up young designers
By any standards, it’s a young fashion designers dream – the opportunity to design a sneaker for a leading footwear retailer. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity comes courtesy of Converse’s 100th anniversary celebrations, and delivered to South African designers in the form of the Trace Your Lace competition.
DJ Sbu – taking back the Jozi Streets
DJ Sbu demonstrated that he is truly king of the masses in downtown Jo’burg today (May 15th, 2008), during a Yfm outside broadcast of his breakfast show. The DJ brought traffic to a standstill as members of the public - students and workers alike, converged outside Bree Taxi Rank to watch and listen as DJ Sbu dished out his radio breakfast offering, and an array of artists performed.
Nike and MTV Go in Search of the Truth…
Nike, in collaboration with MTV, has extended the scope of their captivating Be True campaign by creating Be True, a series of three fly-on-the-wall documentary films that celebrate and salute the individuals who are writing a new script for Africa.
