GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

While writers’ payment demands have been mostly met, the industry’s biggest demon is still how artificial intelligence will affect it. The Hollywood writers’ strike may be over, but the underlying problems haven’t been resolved.

GUEST: TOBY SHAPSHAK - EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF STUFF.CO.ZA AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SCROLLA.AFRICA

WORD DOMINATION: At Fire Hour delivers Bheki Makhathini, a South African character study for the ages. Suspected of betraying the ANC, the young poet leaves home for exile in 1976, and until his return home after the unbannings in 1990, Bheki writes the story of a revolution – an unfinished one. Gilder allows Bheki the freedom to deal with the big ideas of art and love, freedom and struggle in a shrewd and vivid way, the result being an unforgettable and deeply moving tale.

GUEST: BARRY GILDER

Ultimately, understanding homelessness gets a lot easier when we learn that the strongest, most enduring predictor of homelessness isn’t substance use or mental illness — it’s poverty.

GUEST: Richard Bolland is the founding board member of New Hope SA

Community Actionist Bridget performs regular radio and stage productions about gender-based violence, substance abuse, teenage pregnancy and bullying in addition to her role as a community counsellor.

GUEST: BRIDGET MUNNIK – MANAGER OF WESTBURY YOUTH CENTRE

Guest: Kabelo Makena

GUEST: ALBY MICHAELS – DIRECTOR OF THE PLAY

#JSBART: New ground-breaking theatre work challenges the love myth and stage and performance conventions as it opens at Aardklop, What happens when two people love one another so much that they attach physically? What does “forever, together” look like, and … can two people REALLY be one? These are just some of the life and love questions that come into play in the delightfully absurd tragicomedy.

Red Chamber is synonymous with the restaurant landscape of Hyde Park Corner, but few know the story of owner, Emma Chen’s epic journey with this iconic Mandrin Chinese restaurant in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg. Take a journey with us…

GUEST: Emma Chen –  Chef and Owner of Red Chamber

You see your heart as the seat where your sentiments and emotions reside. Sudden happiness increases the heart rate as does sudden anger.While you are resting, your heart pumps approximately 5 litres of blood through an estimated ‪100 000 km of your blood vessels – that is more than twice the distance around the world. Your heart has been beating continuously from the fifth month before birth until now.

GUEST : Professor Eric Klug- South African Heart Association President 

Although many art forms offer a view inside the mind of the artist, photography differs substantially because it catches a snapshot of life that has been reimagined and shaped by the circumstances of the person holding the camera.

GUESTS: Jabulani Dhlamini, a renowned South-African photographer represented by the Goodman Gallery and Project Manager at Of Soul and Joy, a photography programme in Thokoza township in Gauteng.

GUEST: Sibusiso Bheka -  Former student turned Project Assistant at Of Soul and Joy, whose work has received critical acclaim, both locally and internationally.

Guest: Nico Smith, Petrol Head