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R/€ Feed body, mind and soul at this year's Arts Alive festival
September 02, 2007 Edition 1
Museums, galleries, parks, theatres and music venues are some of the locations in Jo'burg where the Arts Alive 2007 September festivities will be taking place this year.
A diverse line up of national and international cultural events is on offer. Running until the end of the month, the festival will showcase a broad range of entertainment to suit most tastes.
The Sasol Wax Awards at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, the Shared Histories exhibition at MuseumAfrica and the Jive Soweto! Exhibition at the Hector Pieterson Memorial Museum will all run throughout this month.
Visual art enthusiasts will have an opportunity to see the Africa Remix exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery.
Shared Histories is a collaboration between Arts Alive and the Indian consul for cultural relations. This partnership features a first in South Africa - an exhibition of Indian textile art and craft, as well music, dance, film and literature.
The Johannesburg Art Gallery opens its doors during the same period to display works from the five finalists in the Sasol Wax Awards.
The finalists are all accomplished artists, respected in their home countries and abroad.
While Newtown is the creative base for the festival, it is not the only part of Johannesburg that is involved in this year's programme.
The Jive Soweto! exhibition opened yesterday at the Hector Pieterson Museum in Soweto. It includes work created by a range of renowned South African visual artists including Churchill Madikida, Peter Tobias, Zanele Muholi and many more.
Today it's Jazz on the Lake at Zoo Lake in Parkview, with a line-up of local and international artists including Bheki Khoza, Omar Sosa, Feya Faku, Sibongile Khumalo, and Britain-based pianist and vocalist Estelle Kokot, among others.
Jazz on the Lake begins at 10am today.
Later in the evening the focus moves back to Newtown, where a special jam session dedicated to the late Moses Khumalo will be held at Kippies Jazz International.
The tail-end of Arts Alive concludes with a bang this year - a new feature, the Arts Alive Lockdown Festival, offers music lovers a weekend pass (R100) to an electrifying range of musical events on September 28 and 29.
Mory Kante, a renowned balafon maestro; Vikku Vinayakram, a celebrated Indian clay-pot classical percussionist; Hermeto Pascoal from Brazil and Vieux Farka Toure, a Mailian singer and guitarist, comprise part of the exciting international lineup.
Vusi Mahlasela, Gilles Peterson, the African Dope Sound System, Mimi Mtenjwa, Joe Driscoll, Ste Hodge, Petebox and Winston Mankhunkhu are among other musicians who will be performing at various venues during the two-day event. The Speak the Mind Poetry Sessions also form part of the festivities.
For further information, go to www.artsalive.co.za.
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