X-CAPE PROGRAMME
A) LANGA/GUGULETHU/KHAYELITSHA/STELLENBOSCH
B) FORESHORE/DE WATERKANT/CBD
C) WOODSTOCK/SALT RIVER/OBS/RONDEBOSCH
OA) OUTLYING AREAS
PO) PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS/ONLINE
SP) SCREENINGS/PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME
A. LANGA/GUGUS/KHAYELITSHA/STELLENBOSCH
A1) INTERFACE
Tamsin
Relly
On site at Guga'Sthebe
27/3 - 14/4
Tuesdays, Wednesday and Fridays 11am - 3pm
Saturdays 10am - 1pm
Work in progress and finished work may be viewed at the venue:
27/3 - 2/5
Monday to Friday 8h00 - 17h00
Sat & Sunday 9h00 - 13h00
Guga'Sthebe Cultural Centre
Cnr Washington & Church Street, Langa
021 695 3493 / 082 923 3950
Tamsin Relly steps out of her usual inner-city comfort zone and takes her spontaneous real-time portraiture practice to Langa in cross-cultural encounter that begins with 100 blank canvases. As the show progresses these are filled with dynamic yet intimate life studies of the people passing through the space. Visitors are invited to participate by sitting for a portrait or contributing to the project journal. www.multimediations.org/interface
A2) AKUCHANYWA
Gugulective
31/3 (after-party venue for the Langa/Gugs/Khaye/Stell Circuit)
Exhibition open from 10am, performances from 3pm till late
31/3 - 6/4
Daily from 3pm till late
Kwa Mlamli
NY 146, Gugulethu 7750, Cape Town
084 435 8789
Gugulective reignites the creative crossover between political activism, culture and everyday life that fired the Drum era in a series of collaborative multimedia works. Using the Kwa Mlamli shebeen as a base, they combine photography, installation, video screenings, poetry performances, painting and music to engage regular customers and new audiences with issues pertaining to privilege and accessibility.
A3) DIALOGUES - UNDERSTANDING TUBERCULOSIS
Damien Schumann
24/3 from 11am
25/3 - 6/4 9am - 5pm
The Show House
B 431B, Mahobe Street, Nulongile (Site C), Khayelitsha
083 339 7259
In Dialogues photographer Damien Schumann offers a deeply personal interpretation of living with Tuberculosis (TB). Compromising of intimate, detailed portraits of 14 TB patients, along with their handwritten texts, the exhibition is testimony to the human spirit that defies scientific categorisation. Dialogues opens on World TB Day, 24 March with talks addressing Tuberculosis.
A4) KHWELA ARTS FESTIVAL
Various artists
31/3 & 1/4
From 11am
Manyanani Peace Park
Khayelitsha
R20
Take Mew Way turn-off from N2, turn right over highway, pass traffic lights
and pass through 3 stop signs, at Spine Road intersection turn left. First left
into Makabeni, pass Police Station on left, first left again into Zakhele, follow
road to park on right.
073 714 4328,/ 021 361 4736
Featuring more than 15 artists working in all creative media from dance and music to design and visual arts, the Khwela Art Festival is a dynamic celebration of Khayelitsha's creative spirit. In addition to introducing audiences to multiple new voices, the festival aims to act as a "creative boiling pot", bringing people together through workshops, networking opportunities and creative exchange.
A5) ReCenter
Various artists
Until Saturday 28 April
Fridays & Saturdays 10am - 2pm only (or by appointment - 072 99 11 278)
Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha
Mew Way Road, Khayelitsha
021 361 7098 / 084 333 3038
ReCenter is a theme-based group exhibition comprising a range of visual arts media. Curated by Mario Pissarra and featuring work by Garth Erasmus, Randolph Hartzenberg, Gerry Dixon, Xolile Mtakatya, Mario Pissarra, Donovan Ward and Ernestine White, the exhibition explores notions of centre/periphery and posits that a more "aggressive" approach to decentralization is required in order to shift perceptions of marginalization.
A6) LANDSCAPES OF LOVE/ LANDSKAPPE VAN DIE LIEFDE
Lien Botha, Jac de Villiers & Angéle Etoundi Essamba
21/2 - 5/4
Tue-Fri 9am - 4:30pm, Sat 9am - 4pm
Sasol Art Museum
52 Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch
021 808 3691/95
R5
Despite their diverse approaches photographers Lien Botha, Jac de Villiers (South Africa) and Angéle Etoundi Essamba (Cameroon/ Netherlands) all create work that is defined by its intimacy, immediacy and emotional depth. Appropriately they combine their talents in this group exhibition that depicts the various landscapes of love and identity. The show is curated by Amanda Botha.
A7) DIE KANT VAN DIE SPOOR/ THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS
Chris Wait
24/3, 29/3, 31/3, 5/4, 7/4, 12/4, 14/4, 19/4, 21/4, 26/4, 28/4
1-2pm
Sasol Art Museum Lecture Room
52 Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch
021 808 3693
Chris Wait presents two documentary films that depict the life and views of people living in communities on the edge of a fast developing, modern town. Featuring a diversity people from different cultures and backgrounds, it provides a voice for those marginalised by urbanisation, fragmentation and polarisation in contemporary society.
A8) GROUP EXHIBITION
Various Artists
24/3-2/5
Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 9am-2pm
Dorpstraat Gallery
144 Dorp Street, Stellenbosch
021 886 5703
This group show brings together a selection of contemporary Stellenbosch artists working in a variety of media.
A9) TRANCE-FORMATION: IMAGES OF SAN COSMOLOGY
Mary-Ann Orr
5/4-2/5
9am-6pm daily
Mary-Ann Orr Gallery and Art Studio
18 Andringa Street, Stellenbosch
021 886 6871
Artist Mary-Ann Orr uses innovative recycling techniques to present an exhibition of tapestries, paintings and sculptures that depict transformation. Contextualising her work in "African transformation", she uses imagery from San cosmology, notably their metaphors of transformation as experienced in "trance-dance".
A10) EXHIBITION
Marieke Kruger
24/3 - 2/5
Mon-Sat 9:30am-10pm
ZEST Restaurant
2A Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch
021 887 9560 / 084 522 1713
Recent Absa L'Atelier Award finalist Marieke Kruger presents a selection of large digital prints, litho prints and drawings that intertwine everyday personal experiences with universal biblical events and metaphors. At once imposing and intimate, gritty and poetic, energetic and expressive they create an emotionally powerful exploration of identity and the condition of womanhood today.
