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Event: The Arabian Nights
Dates: 26 – 29 August & 2 – 5 September 2009
Time: 19:30
Venue: UJ Arts Centre, Kingsway, Auckland Park


Never before has this ancient collection of fabulous tales been told in this way. Sylvaine Strike directs Mary Zimmerman’s The Arabian Nights in a style which infuses with poetic magic the heart wrenching love tales, hysterically funny moral anecdotes and lyrical extravaganzas of the work. Contrary to the collection of tales ...

The internationally recognised South African composer, Professor Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph was commissioned by the University of Johannesburg Arts Academy to compose an Oratorio for the renowned UJ Choir under the experienced direction of Renette Bouwer. The idea of a Youth Oratorio was put forward and the initial ideas began to germinate.
The musical narrative traces the journey of a young life from the joyous welcoming of a new soul, the dependence of infancy, the beauty and ...

NUANCE

Nuance, opening at UCA Gallery on 6 May, contains work by four painters and a sculptor – Catherine Ochulla, Maricel Albertyn, Lionel Smit, Varenka Paschke and Jonathan Munnik – who speak to the body as a site of social and emotional politics. Cooperatively, the work suggests that beauty lies rather in a body’s subtle deviations from the physical ideal than in the ideal itself.

The human body is a double-edged concept: on the one ...

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THE EXPLOITS OF THE INCOMPARABLE SHAMILA
1 April - 2 May
Shamila (Foetal Position), 120 x 120cm, Enamel and Varnish on Board, 2005, Chris Slack

THE EXPLOITS OF THE INCOMPARABLE SHAMILA

In The Exploits of the Incomparable Shamila, showing from 1 April through 2 May, Christopher Slack confronts media chicanery. In 2001, Slack began producing work informed by the “War on Terror” media epidemic that ensued after the 9/11 attack. Shamila’s character emerged ...