Thursday 18 December 2003

This site will be updated on 15 January  2004 at 17:00

Arts - Kunste

• Hulle kleur omgewing in
• Outdoor theatre fun at Spier
• Vakansie met Oude Libertas
• Stef Bos sings
• The Lazarus Phenomenan
• Back by popular demand
• Wanted: best pic

"Ons het aansoek gedoen en was een van vyf gelukkige ontvangers."

Op die oomblik is die jongspan besig om die muur wat twee kante van die parkie omring, te versier met vrolike tonele. Daar word ook 'n bruggie, braaiplek, tafels en stoele beplan.

"Ons wil die parkie omskep waar die kinders kan leer terwyl hulle pret het.

"Ons gaan vrugtebome plant en 'n kruietuin aanlê, met naamplaatjies wat inligting oor al die verskillende bome en plante sal gee."

* Paarlites are beautifying a local public space.

THE eighth Spier Arts Summer Season runs until 27 March with four months of non-stop, high-quality entertainment as Spier extends the outdoor theatre experience throughout the Estate.

In keeping with the reputation of quality for which Spier is renowned, this year's programme comprises shows by our country's finest performers, set in the splendour of the Cape winelands.

Jazz lovers, under a canopy of Southern stars, can listen to favourites by Dave Brubeck, Norah Jones and Jimmy Dludlu performed by a trio of Southern songbirds on 19 and 20 December. This contemporary jazz-infused weekend is directed by impresario Mike Campbell. 

Famed local jazz duo, Ian and Richard Smith complete the season with the Nedbank Big Band Finale - a dazzling display of lights and big band swing.

The Spier Arts Trust has scooped the world première of The End is Naai from South African cultural icon, Pieter-Dirk Uys. Its searing social commentary "puts the mock back in democracy", as Uys says.

William Kentridge's sublime animated short films will also be viewed for the first time as a single body of work projected onto 35mm, accompanied by a string quartet.

Spier is delighted to host Judith Sephuma, who sang to sold-out performances at last year's festival, and SA's much-loved and respected troubadour, Vusi Mahlasela. 

Dimpho Di Kopane (DDK), Sotho for "combined talents", is the new name of SA's most internationally acclaimed opera company, formally known as Broomhill Opera.

DDK has returned to SA from a worldwide tour to London's West End, America, Australia, Canada and Turkey.

The outstanding performances of Carmen, Ibali looTsotsi The Beggar's Opera and Yimimangaliso The Mysteries have had critics raving and audiences clamouring for tickets wherever they go. 

Now there is a wonderful opportunity to see this talented cast back at Spier. They will be presenting two immensely popular shows, the raucous cult 1970's hit the Rocky Horror Show and John Gay's Ibali looTsotsi The Beggar's Opera.

Spier has focused on extending the outdoors arts experience and visitors can now enjoy shows in the amphitheatre as well as on the Werf.

The Spier Arts Trust has enlisted internationally acclaimed playwright, Brett Bailey and his theatre troupe "third world bunfight" (of Big Dada, Ipi Zombi and iMumbo Jumbo fame).

Bailey will be choreographing performances on the Werf, the lawned square bordered by Spier's historic buildings. The programme will encompass art in its many manifestations: storytelling, theatre, dance, and opera.

Visual arts also represents a strong component of this year's Arts Season. Spier presents its second Spier Outdoor Sculpture Biennale, Waterway. 

The FNB Craft Now Awards 2003 Exhibition, Animals and Other Creatures will be hosted in Spier's Manor House.

'n PROGRAM vol pret wag op besoekers aan die Oude Libertas amfiteater, Stellenbosch gedurende die vakansie.

Tot môreaand tree die Kaapse Filharmoniakoor om 20:15 op in 'Kersfees onder die sterre'.

Dis 'n jaarlikse tradisie en een van die hoogtepunte op die kalender.

Die Kaapse Filharmoniakoor onder leiding van Margaret Barlow en met soliste Amy Hudson en Michael Vaughan laat weerklink al die allermooiste Kersliedere by kerslig.

* L'Associazione Corale Luigi Canepa, Sardinië se befaamde oudste koor, tree Saterdag om 20:15 op.

Die koors is in 1880 deur Luigi Canepa gestig en het al die hele wêreld vol getoer.

Volksliedere uit Napels en Sardinië word gevolg deur van die bekendste Italiaanse opera kore en arias.

* Oliver Mtukudzi en Black Spirits van Zimbabwe is op 9 en 10 Januarie in die amfiteater.

Die veelbekroonde Mtukudzi en sy orkes speel 'n wye verskeidenheid musiek, van chimurenga en Suid-Afrikaanse mbaqanga tot populêre treffers.

Oliver het pas twee KORA Afrika musiektoekennings gewen, een as die beste kunstenaar uit Suidelike Afrika en die ander vir lewenslange prestasie.

* Op 11 Januarie om 18:00 is dit 'Vilcabamba teen Sononder'.

Die ryk tradisie van Suid-Amerikaanse volksmusiek word voortgesit deur die ervare Pedro Espi-Sanchis en sy groep, wat bekroonde jong musikante insluit.

Die kleurvolle tradisionele Suid-Amerikaanse drag waarin die groep optree en musiek-instrumente wat wissel van Spaanse kitaar tot fluite, bombo-tromme en 'n klein skulpkitaar dra by tot 'n meesleurende musiekreis na verre Bolivië, Argentinië, Peru en Colombië.

* Mama Vox, 'n vokale jazz-ensemble wat die talente van vier sterk vroulike soliste saamvoeg om heerlike harmonie te skep, is op 16 Januarie om 20:15 daar.

 Amanda Tiffin, Lisa Bauer, Monique Hellenberg en Mimi Ntenjwa vertolk 'n vuurwarm kombinasie van jazz en populêre musiek, soms a capella en dan weer begelei deur 'n jazz trio.

Bespreek per telefoon by 809-7380 of kom persoonlik na die Oude Libertas Kaartjiekantoor, weeksdae tussen 09:00 en 17:00, Saterdae 09:00 tot 13:00 en altyd een uur voor vertonings.

STEF BOS, the dynamic and divine Dutch entertainer, will open the Paul Cluver Forest Amphitheatre season of summer popular shows on De Rust Estate in Elgin on Saturday 3 January at 18:00. The season will run to mid-March.

"The magic that Bos brings to his shows and his amazing following guarantee that this show will be one of the best ever at the amphitheatre," says Paul Cluver, managing director of Paul Cluver Wines.

"He will be followed by another entertainer who drew a more than capacity house when he played at the amphitheatre earlier this year - Nataniel. His show will take place on 31 January, also at 18:00."

The other shows in the season are two performances by Tim Plewman in Defending the Caveman on Friday 13 February at 19:00 and the next night at 18:00, the popular SA Naval Band on Saturday 6 March at 18:00, and Dozi, the captivating crooner of spirituals and ballads, backed by his own orchestra. This performance will take place on Friday 19 March at 19:00.

For further details, contact Chantel du Toit on 082-320-2060 or 844-0605 or visit www.cluver.com. Bookings can be made on the website.

Tickets are R85 per concert excluding Defending the Caveman which will be R125 per person. Season tickets are available at R425 directly from Chantel on the same numbers. 

Concerts subject to change and weather permitting.Gates open at 16:00.  

THE movie, "The Lazarus Phenomenon" (A Glimpse of Eternity) will be screened at MiniMax, Paarl this Sunday at 12:00 and again on Sunday 28 December, the same time.

"The Lazarus Phenomenon (A Glimpse of Eternity)" is a riveting true life drama playing itself off on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius.

A young New Zealand surfer on an "endless summer vacation" dies after being stung by one of the deadliest creatures in the ocean, and lives to tell his tale.

Daniel Ekechukwu, a pastor from Nigeria, died and after three days in a mortuary returned from the dead to tell his story; an encounter with the supernatural.

"The Lazarus Phenomenon" is produced and directed by our own home-grown Regardt van den Berg.

For more information, contact Riana Zinn 082-7722-300.

Tickets available at Lux Verbi or MiniMax.

THE popular musical production "Diamonds & Dust - Music under an African sky" is back at the Barnyard Theatre at Bridge House tonight and Saurday night by popular demand. Doors open at 18:30.

Devised and directed by Duck Chowles, this proudly South African production will take you on a journey of joy, heartache and emancipation.

It starts off in the swinging 40's and 50's with the music of the pennywhistle (kwela). The show progresses onto the period of Miriam Makeba and the Manhattan Brothers with songs like The Click Song and Pata Pata.

* The show will also be presented in a Jazz Bash at the Mbekweni Stadium on 26 December.

THE Wellington Tourism Bureau will present a photographic competition with big prizes next year, and reminds all photography enthusiasts to take some pictures of Wellington during the holidays.

The competition "Wellington I dream of you" is organised in conjunction with a Swedish resident, Henry Kauffmenn, who has fallen in love with the town and now lives here semi-permanently.

The winning pics will be announced in September 2004 (Tourism Month).

All pictures must have been taken in Wellington with a Wellington theme. Black-and-white as well as colour prints A4 in size are welcome (not slides). Digital pics must be on a CD.

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