- Hip-hop: YOH! N the Hood
- 17 May 2013
- Released in 1991, John Singleton’s Boyz n the Hood was but one in a groundswell of rap-culture movies that hit the big screen in the early Nineties.
- Comedy: The Miser
- 17 May 2013
- Directed by acclaimed theatre-maker Sylvaine Strike, Molière’s deliciously mean comedy, The Miser (1668), humorously magnifies the madness of a father’s greed, paranoia and suspicion.
- Gourmet festival: Food and wine
- 17 May 2013
- Explore your inner foodie at the Good Food and Wine Show, billed as South Africa’s premier gourmet festival and feast.
- Music: Jazz makes a move
- 17 May 2013
- Jazz dance is now a widely recognised, established genre with its own moves, rhythms and modalities.
- Comedy: Twitch
- 17 May 2013
- Twitch by Robert Fridjhon is a wicked new comedy about birdwatching.
- Art: Seeing the trees
- 10 May 2013
- The group exhibition The Benediction of Shade uses the tree as an icon and depicts natural and human realms that are in constant, luminous conversation.
- Art: Poststructuralism
- 10 May 2013
- Environmental awareness has provoked more and more artists to look outwards.
- Art: No Place Like Now
- 10 May 2013
- Few things remain as contested in contemporary South Africa as space and place.
- Festival: AfrikaBurn
- 03 May 2013
- AfrikaBurn is back in the Karoo for another six days.
- Food: Olive festival
- 03 May 2013
- Considered one of the better country life food festivals in the Western Cape, the Riebeek Valley Olive Festival revolves around the olive — the oil, the fruit and tapenades.
- Ballet: Camille
- 03 May 2013
- South African choreographer Veronica Paeper created Camille in 1990, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.
- Music: Jazz experimentation
- 03 May 2013
- Part mad scientist, part jazz genius, Johannesburg-based bassist, band leader and composer Carlo Mombelli is a certified enigma.
- Music: Beautiful Woorde
- 03 May 2013
- A South African original, Gert Vlok Nel has developed a powerful poetic phrasing that can accommodate both popular culture and art, the historic and the deeply personal.
- Visual art: Blown
- 26 Apr 2013
- Invoking critical questions about violence, femininity and desire, as well as the mass cultural corporatisation of the female body, Belinda Blignaut’s new exhibition Blown is a collage made from shrapnel, snapshots and fractured memories in a range of media.
- Comedy: Champ
- 19 Apr 2013
- Actors Elliot, Stanley and Melvin are struggling to hold on to their remaining dignity while dressed as oversized teddy bears entertaining small children in a shopping mall.
- Drama: Rooiland
- 19 Apr 2013
- Set in the confined space of prison life, Tertius Kapp’s searing Rooi-land tells the stories of prison gang members as they struggle for private space in a cramped cell.
- Books: Literary pop star
- 19 Apr 2013
- The Shining Girls by renowned author Lauren Beukes is a genre-busting thriller that takes the reader into the minds and hearts of its protagonists, evoking the possibility that evil is everywhere.
- Food: Taste of Cape Town
- 12 Apr 2013
- The Pick n Pay Taste of Cape Town gathers together 12 of Cape Town’s lauded restaurants for an alfresco gourmet feast.
- Theatre: A Handful of Keys
- 12 Apr 2013
- Ian von Memerty and Jonathan Roxmouth return yet again in A Handful of Keys with their two grand pianos to give a dazzling display of pianistic virtuosity and hilarious impersonations.
- Music: Hip-hop activism
- 12 Apr 2013
- “We are all Andries Tatane!” reads the call to arms from socially conscious hip-hop collective Soundz of the South.







