Madame Zingara’s LOVE MAGIC TOUR is staying open one extra night especially to host a benefit performance for Cape Town City Ballet.

All Tickets include a welcome drink, exceptional 4-course meal, bubbly for the table and the entire LOVE MAGIC SHOW (which has been sold out this Season) – Plus once-off breathtaking performances by Cape Town City Ballet! This is an evening not to be missed – prepare to be Thrilled.

To book your tickets please contact Madame Zingara box-office:

021 001 3366
boxoffice@madamezingara.com

Join Barefoot Workshops this Friday at 7 p.m. at the Labia Theatre on Orange Street for a screening of the latest collection of short documentary films, each ten minutes in length, produced here in Cape Town by local and international filmmakers.

Two films were produced in four weeks:

Jikileza: Jikeleza dance project turns children’s lives around in Hout Bay Townships. A film by Alexia Beckerling & Ranjan Roy.

Aurelia: The journey of a woman who survived the unthinkable and came out strong enough to make a life of giving back. A film by Miriam Welderufael & Thabelo Motene.

Please come and celebrate this wonderful accomplishment!

* Meet the filmmakers
* Discover untold stories in your own back yard- thirty minutes of compelling content screened in intimate, sixty-seat, art house theatre
* Support inspiring leaders and communities featured in the films
* Network with people dedicated to strengthening community-based media, and storytelling in Cape Town
* Learn more about Barefoot Workshops, and our short, intensive, filmmaking workshops in Cape Town
* Join us after the screening for casual talk, and get-to-know-you social down the road on Long Street

This screening is FREE and open to the public. Drinks & dinner after screening are not included.
Please RSVP to guarantee space!

SIOBHAN HODGSON
intombipictures@gmail.com
073 1227 480

The AVA in partnership with Spier invites you to the opening of three exhibitions

MALCOLM DARE: COMPOSED

Opening address by Jeanetta Blignaut, Director of Creative Block

GERALD MACHONA: MARI YEBEPA

And the ARTREACH FUNDRAISER MINI ME

Opening at the AVA Gallery at 6 pm

Monday, 23 August 2010 at 18h00

Exhibition Closes Friday, 17 September 2010 at 13h00

Gerald Machona – Amai Doenda kuJoburg ne Mari Ye-bepa 1 (Mother I am going to Joburg with Paper Money 1)
Photographic paper (2010)
Gerald Machona born in Zimbabwe completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts Michaelis School of Fine Arts in 2009. Machona presents Mari Yebepa (Paper Money) in the Long Gallery. Machona has participated in a number of group shows most recently US II curated by Bettina Malcomess and Simon Njami at the Iziko South African National Gallery and the Refugee day exhibition curated by Patricia Matongo at the Cape Creative Centre.

Malcolm Dare – Gerald
Gicleè Printing on Hahnemühle Photo Rag (2010)
Malcolm Dare presents a photographic exhibition entitled Composed in the Main Gallery. Dare has photographed 24 artist who have worked with the Creative Block Project. Composed is a series of photographic portraits of these artists. Photographing the artists in their studios and work environments, Dare allows the viewer into the artist’s private world, moments of contemplation, humour and concentration are captured in these portraits as artist becomes muse. Dare has worked as a professional photographer in Cape Town and in the Netherlands. In 2006 he was awarded with a certificate of excellence at the 2006 Fujifilm photographic awards.

Marlise Keith – I like my new rabbit suit 10 x 8 cm for Mini Me – 2010 ArtReach Fundraiser
Mini Me is the ArtReach Fundraiser for 2010. Established and emerging Artists have donated miniature works to be sold for a set price of R790.00. Miniature art has been made for thousands of years and is often prized by collectors. All proceeds go towards the AVA ArtReach Fund.
The ArtReach Fund was founded by the committee of AVA in the late 1980s; its vision was to create a fund that would assist needy and deserving visual artists with their art-related needs. Twenty-eight years later it is still going strong.

Association for Visual Arts Gallery
35 Church Street, Cape Town, South Africa
Gallery hours: Weekdays 10h00 to 17h00,
Saturdays 10h00 to 13h00
Phone: +27-21 424-7436,
Fax: +27-21 423-2637,
avaart@iafrica.com
www.ava.co.za

Label Collections CC are having a winter sale with exceptional offers on top-notch garments. Label specialises in ready-to-wear feminine styles that are a-la-mode but still manage to flatter the real woman.

Venue: 7 Benbow Avenue, Gunners Circle, Epping 1
Dates: 10 – 31 August 2010
Time: Monday to Thursday from 8:30am until 4:30pm
Friday from 8:30am until 3:00pm
Saturday 7 August CLOSED
Other Saturdays from 9:00am until 1:00pm

Visit the Facebook event page for more details:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=147485981935650&ref=mf

For more than 30 years Joanna Hardy has led a “jewelled” existence. From valuing and auctioning the tiaras and pearls of the aristocracy at Sotheby’s international to trading diamonds in Antwerp or appearing on the Antiques Roadshow, there is little Joanna doesn’t know about gems. She now runs The Jewellery School of Excellence in London where she is able to share her passion and vast knowledge of the fascinating world of jewels in her series of jewellery appreciation classes.

Lecture titled “Jewels that catch an expert’s eye” at 5.30pm, Tuesday 24 August

Followed by drinks and canapés

RSVP:    Tel:  021 683 6560 or 078 044 8185

Venue:  Casa Labia – 192 Main Road, Muizenberg

Enquiries:  021 683 6560/078 044 8185    www.straussart.co.za

In November 2009 co-founder of Zip Zap Circus, Brent van Rensburg met artist Paul du Toit at a roof wetting party. Sitting around the fire Brent explained to Paul how he had always dreamt of a show where an artist paints live while a band plays and Zip Zap performs artistic circus acts. Paul immediately got excited about the idea and told Brent that he would be very keen to do it and that they should approach Kahn and the Parlotones to see if they would like to get involved. Thanks to Steven Straker and Siskha Brand from Hands on Wine they managed to make contact with The Parlotones. In July the three artists met, and immediately an incredible collaboration started. Somehow it was the right mix. All three understood how to make this show unique and magical.  The show is a collaboration between South Africa’s finest – the live music of the Parlotones, the painting of Paul du Toit, and the circus magic of Zip Zap. Imagine Paul’s brush stroking the canvas, his creation coming alive before your very eyes, while inspired by the incredible music of the Parlotones and the aerial artistry of the trapeze acts. The world’s first simultaneous and interactive display of these three art forms promises to leave one spellbound. The evening will be accompanied by a three-course dinner, wine and an auction for the benefit of the Zip Zap Circus School. The painting created by Paul du Toit will be one of the most sought after items at the auction.

Zip Zap is an innovative school of circus arts, inspiring and empowering young people.
Its mission is to take ‘ordinary’ kids (including ‘youth-at-risk’) and provide them with the resources to develop skills through the medium of circus arts that will develop them as young leaders, good citizens, ambassadors for South Africa, and make them eminently employable.

The fundraising dinner show takes place on 2 September 2010, 6pm for 6:30pm at the Zip Zap dome in Cape Town. The cost is R1000 per person. To book contact: bookings@zip-zap.co.za

Michael Jackson may be “gone too soon” but his timeless music lives on forever in Thriller Live, a multi-media concert-styled celebration of the music and life of the legendary “king of pop” and the famous Jackson 5. Presented by Showtime Management and 94.5 Kfm, direct from London’s West End, Thriller Live brings the distinctive dancing and sound of many of pop music’s greatest hits to life in Cape Town for just six shows only.

On Thursday, 09 September 2010, this high-octane dance and visual effects show, specially created to celebrate the career of Michael and the Jackson 5 opens at the Grand West Arena, Cape Town from Thursday, 09 September to Sunday, 12 September 2010. Thriller Live has enjoyed success throughout Europe including the United Kingdom, Germany, Holland, Italy, Denmark and Scandinavia, where the show received rave reviews and standing ovations. Soon Cape Town audiences will be dancing in the aisles to the ever-popular mega-hits I’ll Be There, Can You Feel It, Beat It, Billie Jean and of course, Thriller!

The cast of accomplished multi-talented performers includes prolific songwriter Denise Pearson whose ‘80’s composition “First Avenue” for her band “5 Star” received a 1986 GRAMMY Award nomination. Joining Denise Pearson on stage are many multi-talented performers including Ben Forster (Doody in the West End production of “Grease”, Lennon & McCartney’s All You Need is Love); Jovanny Pichardo Almote who has studied Michael Jackson’s dance and performance style since he was ten years old; Ian Pitter (performed with Celine Dion, Beyonce, Westlife, Boyzone); Tyrone Henry (worked with Meatloaf, Robert Palmer, Westlife, Chaka Khan); Earl Perkins (Rent, Ragtime, Hello, Dolly!, BBC’s Dr Who); Danielle Hampson (danced alongside stars such as Michael Buble, Boyzone, Tom Jones and The Pussy Cat Dolls); Chelsea de Carvalho (special music adaption of Chess where she performed alongside Idina Menzel and Josh Groban – television credits include Dalziel and Pascoe, Brief Encounters and Britannia High); Sophie MacDonald (danced for Kanye West on his European Tour, worked alongside Pharrell Williams and Ciara, appeared in music videos for Mika) and Miranda Wilford (The Rat Pack – original USA Cast, Grease, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Popstar The Musical).

The youngest members of the cast are two fifteen year old sensational singers, Kieran George Alleyne who came third in the regional finals of Idols 2008, and Jordan Bratton who played and sang at Lincoln Center at the age of four and sang at Carnegie Hall a year later. He played the organ at the Greater Allen Cathedral in Queens in front of a 25,000-member congregation. Jordan was recently allowed to sit in with musicians from Stevie Wonder’s band as the drummer for 2 jazz selections. They were amazed and said that he was a “musical genius”. Jordan recently completed a seven-month run as Young Simba in the Walt Disney National Tour of The Lion King, which received rave reviews and Jordan was invited to be a guest on the Jay Leno show after his 1st performance ever on stage! He then landed the role of Young Harpo in the Broadway production of The Color Purple. Soon local audiences will be seeing this multi-talented young performer live on stage.

Thriller Live includes eye-popping multi-media effects and dazzling choreography by the shows award-winning director Gary Lloyd (who has previously worked with artists including Leona Lewis, Will Young, Robbie Williams, Kelly Clarkson and Girls Aloud). Adrian Grant, Co-Producer and Original Creator of Thriller Live enjoyed a close association with Michael Jackson that spanned over twenty-one years, and in that time he enjoyed seeing the megastar entertain millions of people all over the world. Adrian has been privileged to have had great access to Jackson’s world over the years, i.e. during the recording of the ‘Dangerous’ album, ‘HIStory’ album, world tours, photo and video shoots, exclusive interviews, lunches, dinners and much more. In 1994 Adrian wrote the best-selling Michael Jackson chronology – The Visual Documentary, published by Omnibus Press.

For further show information visit www.thrillerlive.com
 
Thriller Live is proudly brought to you by Showtime Management, Montecasino and 94.5 Kfm. Ticket prices for the six shows at Grandwest Casino begin at R150 with the top price at R300. Book now at Computicket.

Join Blossom for an exhibition of handmade goods with a Circus theme.

The exhibition opens on Friday 6 August at 6pm.

Refreshments will be served.

You can find Blossom at 3 Colyn Road, Kalk Bay, just off the Main Road.

Contact Details: 072 557 6461

www.blossomkalkbay.co.za

Don’t miss the last few days of the Daring Doccies Film Festival at the Labia Theatre, Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town.

A range of exciting, thought-provoking and daring documentary films will be screened.

The movies chosen for this inaugural documentary event include a selection of award-winning and acclaimed motion pictures, dealing with a host of issues from Mugabe and Zimbabwe, Chavez and Venezuela, to the dark side of the Norwegian Black Metal, rebellious tattoo artists, animal rights, the world’s oil addiction, America’s spiraling debt, money, religion and the greedy people who dictate our lives from behind the curtain.

Most of the 8 documentaries selected make their SA and Cape Town theatrical debut.

All tickets: R30 each

Booking Tel: 021 424 5927

The Labia Theatre is a licensed venue and drinks from the bar can be taken into the cinemas

For more movie info, trailers and the full DARING DOCCIES screening time schedule, check out: http://www.flamedrop.com/daringdoccies

RSVP at the Facebook Event page and feel free to invite all your FB friends: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=103859146333786

http://www.flamedrop.com/events