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19 April 2011

World Design Capital 2014 – The Bid book is ready

It’s done! Cape Town has officially submitted its bid to be World Design Capital 2014, the coordinators of the city’s bid, Cape Town Partnership, handed a copy of the 465-page bid book over to Executive Mayor of Cape Town, Alderman Dan Plato, on 30 March 2011. A bit of background if you’re new to the [...]

18 April 2011

GIPCA – clashes between the ravaged soul and the free spirit

TO: the Editor Subject : GIPCA April Programme REVIEW Ambitious. Let’s call GIPCA ambitious. As you know, in a city with a packed calendar of creative, commercial and entertainment events, The Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts carries out its mandate meticulously, competing with the best for your attention. It churns out colloquiums, interventions [...]

18 April 2011

CTDN March : Cape Town Spaces – Cape Town places

Everybody’s got things they’d like to change about Cape Town. From warmer waters to integrated waste recycling, things could be better designed, executed and implemented. Safe cycle routes. More trees. A creative calendar that coordinates the abundance of events and projects at work in this beautiful village. Many people are already involved in initiatives that [...]

17 April 2011

Opening up the Fringe with books

What, no Book Fair this year? That’s not fair. (it’s not true, either) Zinaid Meeran, Lauren Beukes and  Kopano Matlwa have two things in common besides words. One, these  award-winning, South African-inspired writers will not have their novels  on sale at the Cape Town Book Fair in 2011, because the event has become biennial, from [...]

17 April 2011

Chimurenga – call for classifieds

Chimurenga! The Shona cry of defiance, freedom and celebration.  Chimurenga! A musical sub-genre melding African and western (read American, and/or European) styles.  Chimurenga! The name of a long-standing, independent, Cape Town-based print and pixel publication of quality literature. The publication’s next project is a doughy mix of metaphors that climbs right out of the cookie [...]