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Two lucky readers will each win double tickets to a movie of their choice at the Labia Cinema complex in Cape Town.
To enter, all you have to do is read Spling’s movie review for the week and answer this simple question: ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’ is based on whose autobiography?
Email your name, contact details and answer to info@capetowncreatives.co.za:
Competition closes on 2 September, 10h00.
Terms and Conditions:
You (and partner) must be available to attend a film at the Labia in Cape Town between the 2 and 9 September.
Tickets are not transferrable and cannot be redeemed for cash.
Prizes courtesy of the Labia Theatre. See what’s showing: http://www.labia.co.za
Two lucky readers will each win double tickets to a movie of their choice at the Labia Cinema complex in Cape Town.
To enter, all you have to do is read Spling’s movie review for the week and answer this simple question: According to Spling, which other South African film dealt with two children moving to the city?
Email your name, contact details and answer to info@capetowncreatives.co.za:
Competition closes on 12th August, 10h00.
Terms and Conditions:
You (and partner) must be available to attend a film at the Labia in Cape Town between the 12 and 19 August.
Tickets are not transferrable and cannot be redeemed for cash.
Prizes courtesy of the Labia Theatre. See what’s showing: http://www.labia.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
Cape Dance Company to perform at the Masque Theatre 15 – 19 June 2010
For its second season at the Masque Theatre, the Cape Dance Company (CDC), proudly celebrating its 15th year, will present a programme of new works by acclaimed South African and International choreographers, Gregory Maqoma, Mamela Nyamza and Carlos dos Santos. The eclectic style of the choreographies showcases the technical excellence and artistry of this athletic and cutting edge dance company.http://capetowncreatives.co.za/blog
Cape Town Design Network 9 June
The Cape Town Design Network (CTDN2010) is a monthly gathering hosted by Creative Cape Town during 2010. This month’s Design Network will be held at Primedia Broadcasting, Suite 7D, 2nd Floor, Somerset Square, Highfield Road, Green Point at 17h30. This event is focussed on graphic design and features well known designer, Bruno Morphet of Plan B Design and Tabatha King, the Managing Director of Coley Porter Bell design agency. www.creativecapetown.net
Soccer Kultcha 11 June – 10 July
Soccer Kultcha is an exhibition curated by Paul Weinberg, Warren Nelson and Leanne Barling in collaboration with Michaelis Art Gallery. Soccer Kultcha explores the footballers and their followers beyond the main stadiums. They play on any field they can find, sometimes with home-made balls or goals. This exhibition is about this vibrant soccer culture. Far from official photographs, grand stadiums and headline grabbing photojournalism, the photographs of Soccer Kultcha invite us to rediscover the game of football, and the lives and passions of ordinary people who play and celebrate the game. www.michaelis.uct.ac.za/
Joint Photographic Exhibition 3 June – 15 July
Play Jump Eat is a series of images shot all over Cape Town, exploring the themes of Joy, Play, Abundance, Beauty and Juxtaposition. In contrast to this stylised work will be the grainy images of five bright school children from Emasithandane Children’s Home in the township of Nyanga.http://capetowncreatives.co.za/blog
Evita se Perron: Soccerfree Zone June and July 2010
Soccer fever is upon us. They say there is no choice. Everything is geared to the game, like it or not. Balls will be kicked throughout the land. Wherever you go, you will be booted onto the team, vuvuzela in hand. And at a price. Evita se Perron in Darling will be the exception. The Most Famous White Woman in South Africa has declared her cabaret restaurant at the old railway station a SOCCERfree ZONE. “For every husband and son who will want to watch soccer, there will be a wife and a daughter who might not want it as badly,” says Mrs Bezuidenhout. “So let them come to Darling and share time, good food and laughter with me”. http://capetowncreatives.co.za/blog
I love you, you’re perfect, now change… 20 May – 12 June
Directed by award winning director Paul Griffiths and with musical direction by Roland Perold, the cast bring to the boards an array of musical theatre performance experience as Roland Perold, Niall Griffin, Shannyn Fourie and Candice van Litsenborgh tell the story(s) of relationship(s) – from the nerve-wracking preparation for a first date, to expressions of a love learned and earned over a lifetime.http://capetowncreatives.co.za/blog
Own Goal Group Exhibition at AVA 31 May – 25 June 2010.
Richard Mason presents Carbonage Light in the Main gallery, Arstrip and New media room. Carbonage refersto a fusion of carbon based life forms with the ideologies and Products of transnational corporations in a world that revolves around oil. Anatomical Arrangements is the first solo exhibition by Tamzyn Varney employing the Long Gallery. The work featured in this exhibition focuses on the human body as a social emblem.http://capetowncreatives.co.za/blog
Soccer Cinema Festival 5 – 10 June
The Labia Cinema complex will host a Soccer Cinema Festival from 5 – 10 June. This event is the culmination of a travelling soccer cinema project which began on 6 April 2010. The films to be screened were sourced from broadcasting commissioning editors and filmmakers from across the world to provide access to the best documentary films ever made about soccer. http://soccercinema.co.za/
From Africa with Laugh 9 June – 3 July
War. Famine. Disease. These are the stereotypical images of Africa. But 2010 is a significant year for Africa for two reasons: the FIFA World Cup comes to Africa for the first time, and no fewer than 17 countries on the continent celebrate 50 years of independence! To celebrate both, the African Arts Institute will bring stand-up comedians from around the African continent to Cape Town for their irreverent and humorous takes on Africa, independence and football! http://www.baxter.co.za
The legendary Handspring Puppet Company will be well represented at the annual Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance this year, when their extraordinary well-known 48 minute documentary, Making War Horse, will be screened at the Labia Cinema on Orange Street, as part of the Moving Things Film Festival.
Making War Horse relates the story of how Michael Morpurgo’s children’s novel became one of the most popular and acclaimed productions in the National Theatre’s history in the UK. From its early development in the NT’s studio, audiences will see how the Handspring Puppet Company created the groundbreaking techniques that brought a life-like horse to the stage. Going behind the scenes and into the rehearsal room, with featured interviews from the cast and creative team, Making War Horse documents this unique theatrical collaboration and the creation of an outstanding stage classic. The second film by Handspring will be Woycjek on the Highveld, a 90 minute filmed version of the company’s most widely travelled theatre production of the same name. The play received the Vita Award for Production of the Year of a New South African Play when it premiered in 1992 and it continues to be a favourite at theatre festivals.
Making War Horse will be shown on the 23rd March at 6pm, 26th March at 12pm and on the 28 March at 2pm when Basil and Adrian from Handspring will introduce the documentary and take questions from the audience.
For the full festival programme visit www.outtheboxfestival.com or call 021 462 5811 or buy your copy of The Big Issue for comprehensive festival info.
The Out The Box Festival of Puppetry & Visual Performance is a visual feast of performances, workshops, talks, exhibitions and films that caters for adults and children alike. This year the event takes place at the Baxter Theatre Centre, The UCT Hiddingh campus in Gardens and the Labia Cinema on Orange Street.
For young audiences, artists present their wildest and most beautiful imaginings in works using puppetry, projection, objects, multi-media and live performers. When the sun sets and the little ones are tucked in bed, adult audiences are invited back to experience something completely different.
Included in the breath-taking line-up for the Adult Festival this year are international performance artists and contemporary dancers, Duda Paiva from the Netherlands and Angel and Edna Jaime from Mozambique. Some of the local works featured are the groundbreaking Quack! by FTH:K ; Acty Tang’s Inscrutable and the acclaimed Mothertongue Theatre’s The Baggage of Bags as well as several new works by new and emerging theatre makers.
So often it is childhood that comes to mind when thinking of puppetry and those wanting a family theatre experience won’t be disappointed. This year The Out The Box festival has created a Family Festival programme of puppetry and visual performance from around the globe featuring both overseas artists and preeminent Southern African youth theatre practitioners like Ubom from Grahamstown, Arley’s Workshop from Durban and the remarkable Seka from Zambia.
For those who want to get more deeply immersed in the experience, a range of exciting workshops will be presented by specialists in the many diverse forms of puppetry, including a workshop by South Africa’s national treasure, Handspring Puppet Company.
Tickets cost from R30 to R50 via Computicket with special offers for block bookings of ten or more. For more info please visit
www2.outtheboxfestival.com/ or call 021 462 5811.
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