Cultuur
The National Arts Festival celebrates 50 years
2024-07-11"Should you be one of those who have never been to a National Arts Festival, do please try. Should you be one of the oldies now, reminiscing about those days filled with hormones and illicit substances, please try again."
Choose your own adventure
2024-07-08"Netflix’s Bandersnatch is a unique viewing experience, allowing its participants to choose a different outcome at every scene – rendering a different, expansive way to interact with the storyline and its characters. The idea has its roots in the Choose your own adventure novels and interactive fiction, a genre which skyrocketed in the early days of home computing."
The Schreiner Karoo Writers Festival 2024
2024-07-03"The bulk of the festival was held in Mark Street, a picturesque street with old nagmaalhuisies that have been bought up and restored. At the end of the street sits the Victoria Hotel, a stately venue with warm interiors to welcome travellers and conference-goers."
Where have all the board games gone?
2024-07-03"A house with books will, almost always, also have fair access to at least a handful of classic board games – but what happens when books and music are switching to digital formats?"
Press release: Breaking news! Spinners beats Succession in Shanghai
2024-06-29The first season of Spinners just beat the Emmy-winning final season of Succession for Best Foreign TV Series at the 29th Shanghai TV Festival’s Magnolia Awards, one of the biggest accolades in Asia.
Weggevoer na ’n goddelike katedraal – iewers elders in jou kop
2024-06-26"Die koor het pas ’n twee week lange toer in Suid-Afrika met agt optredes en werkswinkels voltooi en het in van die Drakensberge en Soweto tot Pretoria en Kaapstad opgetree."
Reisende, reuse-houtpop skep bewussyn oor xenofobie
2024-06-19"Daar is nie veilige skuilplekke en wagte vir elke kind nie. Ook nie verantwoordelike volwassenes wat hulle môre sal kom haal en dan sal alles reg wees nie."
Persverklaring: Die Orde van den Prince en die gebroeders van Lymborch
2024-06-07Graag nooi ons u uit na die volgende Orde van den Prince-byeenkoms op Saterdag 8 Junie 2024.
Uitvoergehalte: In gesprek met Arno Carstens oor Sewe sakke hoop
2024-06-07Arno Carstens het ’n nuwe Afrikaanse kortspeler wat uitkom met die mooi titel Sewe sakke hoop. Die eerste snit “Hoe gaan dit” is reeds bekendgestel en die volle kortspeler is van 7 Junie af beskikbaar. Izak de Vries het hom hieroor en oor sy skilderkuns, wat op Instagram te sien is, ingevra.
For the love of coffee
2024-05-21"Bitter, darker blend coffee drinkers aren’t the same as sweet coffee drinkers. There’s a distinct difference between someone who prefers darkly roasted, whisky-filled black coffee and the next person, who might ask for a simple espresso with cream. What does your coffee say about you?"
Uitvoergehalte: ’n Onderhoud met Frieda van den Heever oor haar album Spoorsny
2024-05-21"Jy kan sien dat ek baie hulp van buite moes kry om hierdie ongemaklike kopskuif van die swart-en-wit tot binne-in my grysstof te kry."
The anatomy of a jazz performance
2024-05-09"The word jazz means many things to many people, but in an academic setting a performer needs to be able to tick certain boxes, and challenge the conventions."
Press release: Knysna Oyster Festival 2024, a shucking good time and a sporting extravaganza
2024-05-06The highly anticipated Knysna Oyster Festival is back with a splash and set to take place from 21 to 30 June 2024. With its delectable oysters, vibrant atmosphere, and thrilling sporting events, this year’s festival promises plenty of excitement and a full programme for attendees.
Export quality: In conversation with Luna Paige about Harmony
2024-05-01"I have always been a feminist. And I have always found the negative connotation to feminism in this modern age, confusing."
Uitvoergehalte: In gesprek met Luna Paige oor Dis die dors
2024-05-01"Ek is nie spyt oor my laaste 20 jaar nie. Dit het my gemaak wat ek vandag is. En ek het baie ongelooflike stories om te vertel. Maar ..."
Gqeberha stamp die bas tydens ’n wêreldpremière
2024-04-29"Musiekliefhebbers in die Oos-Kaap is onlangs in die lieflike Veremarksaal in Gqeberha op basklanke en ’n wêreldpremière getrakteer. Die program is genoem Friends in low places, want die diep note het behoorlik deur die historiese saal vibreer."
Cowboy Carter: Beyoncé meets country music at the crossroads
2024-04-09"The album isn’t just ars gratia artis (art for art’s sake), but aims to make a point about earlier, perhaps forgotten country and blues artists."
Press release: Marianne Thamm returns to The Baxter with her latest instalment of conversation and comedy, just before the elections
2024-04-08She brings Round of applause reloaded to Cape Town audiences, with some insightful updates on the political landscape.
A perspective on Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor things
2024-04-04"If anything, Poor things certainly contributes to the evolution of our understanding of cinema, because it has managed what endless amounts of content on streaming platforms have been unable to do: it has got us talking."
Persbericht – Concert: Stories of the Caab
2024-04-02Ontdek een unieke samensmelting van muziek, dans en geschiedenis tijdens ons bijzondere concert op 26 mei! Manuela Tessi (dans en beweging), Garth Erasmus (traditionele KhoiSan instrumenten en saxofoon) en Wytze Minne de Swart (saxofoon en elektronica) bundelen hun krachten voor een betoverende ervaring. Dit concert dient als een voorproefje van het uitgebreide project Stories of the Caab. Hierin worden verhalen uit de koloniale geschiedenis van Nederland in Zuid-Afrika verteld door de kracht van muziek en dans.