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/ 16 November 2004
From birth we hear food being prepared, savour its aromas, see it displayed as art-about-to-be-eaten, touch and taste it. In marvelling at how food makes the unknown familiar, we acknowledge its role as ambassador for other ways of being in the world, for perspectives, tastes, values and aesthetics different to our own. Chinese restaurants in South Africa offer a chance to explore the soul of that vast country — and great food.
"Stories. We were always going to be saved by stories. Not any stories, but our own — those that had been suppressed, neglected, discarded and forgotten: the untold that were yearning to come to life on screen". A new generation of filmmakers is needed to break the rules of an industry that is distribution-driven, writes Darryl Accone.
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/ 24 September 2003
Music is more than the food of love for the winners of the Most Successful Project funded by the Arts & Culture Trust — it is their staple. The Field Band Foundation (FBF) and the Buskaid Soweto String Project (BSSP) share an award open to all projects that have been partly or wholly funded by the trust since 1996.
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/ 11 October 2002
The Field Band Foundation walked away with the award for Best Practice Project Award, writes Darryl Accone.
If it’s late June, it must be Grahamstown, that site synonymous with — and eponymous for — the country’s largest and longest-running arts festival.
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/ 9 November 2001
Johnny Clegg’s concert run has been extended — a show of maskanda for beginners, Savuka classics and personal reflections, writes Darryl Accone.