Having been to a music event at Arts on Main with friends we dropped in to have a drink nextdoor at a bar/coffe shop/informal makeshift theatre. Happily our visit co-incided with the first showing of  The slap koejawel’ . Very very funny – clever, well scripted and acted,  and well worth seeing.  Very local humour [...]

Opening today with Das Rheingold, the first in Richard Wagner’s epic four-part Ring cycle, the Live in HD season closes in mid June 2011 with The Valkyri, the second in Wagner’s Ring cycle.  The new production of Das Rheingold is conducted by James Levine and directed by Robert Lepage with  Welsh bass-baritone, Bryn Terfel appearing  in the leading [...]

 See  http://www.jhblive.com/events/ for info what’s on and happening this weekend

As always Adi gives some great things to do and see in Joburg in his weekly newsletter – below comes from his latest newsletter no 39
This week’s pick: Sandboarding the Gold MinesGenre: Pure rushWhat: Johannesburg’s gold mining days produced man-made mountains of soft yellow sand – these wildly recognised dunes, dotted about the East [...]

I have blogged on Fordsburg restaurants before . See http://lizatlancaster.co.za/blog/eating-out-in-joburg-indian-and-chinese  but here the Fifty Newsletter no 38 gives more info.
This week’s pick: Fordsburg, little AsiaGenre: Sensory overloadWhat: Fordsburg is home away from home for many Asians – the cultural mix says it all. What makes Fordsburg an experience, for even those who frequent her [...]

African Metropolitan Architecure is a  fascinating exhibition ‘encapsulating’ Africa’s urbanscapes. Conceptualized and curated in a highly innovative and unique way, it is the result of a 10 year ongoing project by David Adjaye the renowned London based architect.  The project began as an informal excercise ’to piece together fragments of memories’ documenting where he was born [Tanzania] and grew [...]

I have blogged before about one of Jozi’s best kept secrets – Nirox Sculpture Park out in the Cradle … http://lizatlancaster.co.za/blog/76 and http://lizatlancaster.co.za/blog/taking-cultural-symbols-out-of-context-nirox-sculpture-park , and now there is another opportunity to go out and experience this gem of a parkland. Do yourselves a favour and make a trip out there to see Eric Pladevall’s massive sculptures in his [...]

After a week way to busy with SPRING FEVER of maintenance here at Liz at Lancaster (watch this space), I woke up a bit late to the amazing events surrounding  SA’s first architecture mega-event AZA 2010 which runs in Johannesburg from September 21 to 28. Intending to bring architecture back to the public domain there is both [...]

Don’t miss Philip Miller’s concert Playing on Image, on Saturday25th  or Sunday 26th September at 8pm September at Arts on Main in eastern downtown Joburg.  Well-known for his  collaboration with Kentridge as well as Bell and Hodghins, Miller composes  music which is evocative and haunting.   Playing on Image  is a two part music, film and performance event. The first [...]

Anglo- Gold Ashanti has done an amazing job of redeveloping Joburg’s first power station, including the orginal space which housed the massive turbines.  Located in Newtown this development is a very succesful example of sustainable and sensitive adaptive re-use of  industrial heritage. I have written about this before: http://lizatlancaster.co.za/blog/the-old-and-the-new-more-on-anglogold-ashantis-turbine-square    If you missed the last evening at [...]