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The Arts
About this page
The arts section is joining up with Ja. Magazine, an online platform that collects, curates and celebrates the work of local creatives, with a handmade twist. Together with Ja. Magazine, The Journalist Arts page will bring you interviews, reviews and profiles from arts and music festivals around the country. We bring you interviews with upcoming legends and community artists while providing history and context. We do this by celebrating the unique power of the talented men and women who have strengthened the creative fabric of our society through the ages.
Structures of Dominion and Democracy
David Goldblatt’s exhibition, Structures of Dominion and Democracy brings to life the structures of past and present South Africa.
Speaking Wounds
Voices of Marikana Widows through Art and Narrative
Breathing statue slams Afrophobia notions
“Where does my history fit into all of this?”
The Fest has ended but the memory lingers
The impact of the National Arts Festival
Doing A Deal With Eskom: The show must go on
National Arts Festival Round-up
Lebo Mashile weaves her remarkable magic
The cold ate humble pie and we were left with questions burnt on our skins
Poet aims to heal social wounds
A future without Rhodes and “Rhodents”
Feminist Filmmaker Meets Boss Bitch Rapper
The renowned Shelley Barry hands her camera to rapper Dope Saint Jude
Bushfire: One of Africa’s Festival Musts
Using art as a tool for social change and drawing talent plus visitors from around the world
Enter Astronautus Afrikanus
A dream of Zambian ‘Afronauts’
Intlangano A Dance Disturbance
Bodies & movement merging our worlds
Plastic Histories
Re-imagining Representations
Athol Fugard: Making Music With Words
Theatre stories spun like symphonies
Dance As Change
John Linden & Alfred Hinkel transforming lives step by step
Maleh: More than just a voice
Combining Mazwai’s soulful lyrics & Lira’s rhythmic poetry
Karin Kortje: A Farmworker’s Rise & Fall & Rise Again
Plucked from the apple farms & dropped from a dizzy height
Bringing Joy to Joza
Sakhuluntu aims to root kids in music and art
Emo Adams Jiving His Way Across Racial Barriers
Signs of a nation coming together at last?
Don’t just shoot, first ask
Five simple rules when taking photos of strangers
The forgotten fine art of the printing press
Connecting with the words
Like mother, like son
Performing is in the blood of two artists who share a special bond
Book Wings: Theatre that flies
Watching performers on stage in America, live from a theatre seat in Cape Town
The beauty in chaos
“Every image draws me into their lives”
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