THE CHILL ZONE

Joburg Ballet unveils exciting new works for their brand new season of “Evolve”, which is set to take ballet dance to the next level.

“Evolve” is a celebration of eight new performances at the Joburg Theatre for a limited season, starting on March 25, and it runs till April 3.

Guest: Iain MacDonald - Artistic Director at Joburg Ballet

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Guest: Tammy Frazer – Parfumer

The Western Cape province will be hosting the ninth edition of the first hybrid model of Investec Cape Town Art Fair.

This year the fair is combining the physical with the digital and will be running from 18th to 20th February at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) and on the Artshell digital platform.

Zeitz Mocaa is launching the release of a commemorative publication for its Home Is Where the Art Is exhibition that closed in October 2021. The publication is titled ‘Home Is Where the Art Is: Art Owned and Made by the People of Cape Town’.

The Home Is Where the Art Is publication officially launches at the 2022 Investec Cape Town Art Fair (ICTAF) at 12 noon on Saturday, 19 February 2022.

The book will be available for purchase at a retail price of R780 for the general public and at R750 on presentation of a valid Zeitz Mocaa membership at the Zeitz Mocaa booth (booth h12).

It will also be available from 21 February at Zeitz Mocaa Shop.

Guest: Sophie Lalonde - Head of VIP and Partnerships at Investec Cape Town Art Fair

Guest: Storm Janse van Rensburg, Zeitz Mocaa senior curator and head of curatorial, who co-edited the book alongside independent arts writer and editor Alexandra Dodd.

Hope Netshivhambe is staging her latest body of work titled “Things Without Names” for a season at the South African State Theatre. The play is directed by Directed by Ipeleng Keamogetswe Matlhaku and follows the life of Marubini, a young Christian woman grappling with the tensions of sexuality and religion.

Guest: Hope Netshivhambe - poet and storyteller

The short film, Amagama ka Nokutela

Nokutela Mdima-Dube who was a visionary, author, musician and scholar’s

story is being highlighted and brought to life in a Legacy Creates project titled Amagama kaNokutela, a collaboration with magazine editor, stylist and creative director Asanda Sizani; photographer Thalente Khomo; several writers, including poet Siphokazi Jonas; and actress Nokuthula Mavuso as Nokutela.

Playing her is talented South African actress who bears a striking resemblance to her, Nokuthula Mavuso.

Guest: Asanda Sizani - Stylist and creative director

guest: Ditiro mashigo 

Vuyani Dance Theatre’s Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero has returned to Johannesburg for a eight day season at The Mandela at Joburg Theatre from 28 January until 06 February 2022 accompanied by the Soweto Gospel Choir.

The Production of Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s Bolero will be taking place from the 28th of January – 6th of February 2022.

Guest: Sindiswa

The Zeitz of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) will be presenting an exhibition called Shooting Down Babylon, a large-scale retrospective exhibition by South African multimedia artist Tracey Rose.

The exhibition is derived from the title of Rose’s iconic installation Shooting Down Babylon (The Art of War 2016), which reflects on varied exorcist and cleansing rituals, the retrospective will interrogate several themes, including repatriation, recompense and reckoning

Guest : Janse Van Rensburg - Curator at ZeitZ Mocca

Stage Play ‘The Voice’ coming to the Soweto Theatre

After a successful run at the Joburg Theatre stage play, The Voice is coming

to Soweto theatre . It will be on from Thursday 27th to 30th January 2022. Recently,

this GBV Awareness production was on for two consecutive days at the Joburg

Theatre and both performances were sold out. A production created by award

winning veteran actor Sello MaakeKaNcube and Abafazi Bengoma brings attention to

the vestiges of colonialism and apartheid on the black family.

Guest: Sello Maake Ka Ncube - veteran actor and Creator of ‘The Voice’