19 November 2010
To market, to market! Fine goods, good food and sacred song
Built circa 1780, The Evangelical Lutheran Church is the oldest operating church in Cape Town. The Freeworld Design Centre is South Africa’s first trade-orientated coatings design centre. What do they have in common besides a courtyard? The Designer-Maker Artisan Market (15 December 2010). The two institutions will together host a designer artisan festive season exhibition [...]
19 November 2010
A secret city, but not a silent one
A pair of middle class kids giving the middle finger to the rule of thumb is making it easy to hitch a lift and learn a new story. You know the rule, right? There are no free lunches. Repeat. No. free. Lunches. And there are no free taxis, either. Did we mention that? Until Shannon [...]
19 November 2010
Art bus – creativity gets out more with Greatmore
Cape Town is designing a culture of the creative commute. First, a free taxi as a social experiment, and now an art bus as a creative intervention. With the support of the National Lottery, the ever active Greatmore Studios have recently initiated a programme that takes art all over Cape Town, especially to areas it doesn’t [...]
19 November 2010
The Arterial Network – art through Africa
One look at its website will tell you it’s not a social networking space for fine art. It’s also not another online gallery. So what exactly IS The Arterial Network? If expression is the blood of a creative being, Arterial Network is its African heart. This ambitious, non-profit organisation is a vessel and a vehicle [...]
19 November 2010
Design Network NOVEMBER: local, national, global
The Design Network covered the globe in a penetrating showcase of Capetonian and South African design in a global, urban context at the latest Design Network gathering hosted by Freeworld Coatings. The Intelligent and penetrating analyses from professionals in the design field included Zahira Asmal (Designing South Africa); Mariette Du Toit-Helmbold (Cape Town Tourism) and [...]




