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30/04/2008 |
Dulcet sounds at Old Town House
On Sunday 11 May at 18:00, the elegant Hals Room at the Old Town
House in Greenmarket Square will once again be filled with the
dulcet sounds of chamber music when the Friends of the Michaelis
Collection host a musical soirée at this gracious art museum.
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29/04/2008 |
Reading matters for International
Museum Day
To commemorate International Museum Day (18 May), Iziko Museums
will be holding a book sale in the amphitheatre in front of the
Iziko South African Museum from 10:00-15:00 on Friday 16 May.
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29/04/2008 |
Walk through Fire
with winning artist Kevin Brand
On Saturday 10 May at 14:30,
noted Cape Town artist and educator, Kevin Brand, recipient of the
Mercedes-Benz South Africa 2008 Art Award for an Art Project in
Public Spaces, conducts a walkabout of his solo exhibition Set the
world on fire at the Bell-Roberts Gallery in Bree Street.
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23/04/2008 |
Free entry on Freedom Day
Cape Town, 23 April 2008 – Iziko Museums of Cape Town (Iziko)
marks the fourteenth anniversary of the birth of democracy in South
Africa with free entrance at its museums on 27 April 2008. The free
day is part of the Museum’s efforts to improve access to the unique
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23/04/2008 |
Reality Check
Reality Check is a photographic
exhibition that runs at Iziko South African National Gallery until
25 May 2008. The inspiration for the exhibition arose out of an
invitation to the South African National Gallery in 2006 from the
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, in Germany, to curate an exhibition
called Contemporary Art Photography from South Africa, which ran in
various German cities.
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18/04/2008 |
Re-opening of Mammal Gallery at
Iziko SA Museum
On the night of Saturday, 12 April 2008, Iziko suffered the
theft of priceless horns from the White Rhinoceros mount in the
historical Mammal Gallery at Iziko South African Museum. A black
rhino mount was also severely damaged by the thieves and has been
removed from the display.
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14/04/2008 |
Everything you wanted to know about
heavenly bodies
Well-known astronomer and lecturer, Prof Tony Fairall, returns to
Iziko Planetarium during May to present his popular introduction to
astronomy, the ‘Starfinder’ course.
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14/04/2008 |
Bobbin lacemaking comes to town
The unusual and delicate art of bobbin lacemaking comes into its
own on Thursday 17 April at the 18th century house museum, Iziko
Koopmans-De Wet House in Strand Street.
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10/04/2008 |
Brett Murray's show of power -
exhib walkabout
On 24 April at 11:00 at the Goodman Gallery, the Friends of the
South African National Gallery will host a walkabout of the new
exhibition by Brett Murray entitled ‘Crocodile Tears’.
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08/04/2008 |
The Amersfoort Legacy: Education,
Freedom and Development
Commemorating 350 years of formal schooling in South Africa - 17th
April 1658 – 2008
Cape Town, 8 April 2008 - On 17th April 2008, it will be the
350th anniversary of the formal establishment of the first school in
South Africa. This school was established on that day in 1658 by Jan
van Riebeeck, Commander of the refreshment station at the Cape of
Good Hope, for the male and female slave children brought to the
Cape on the ship, the Amersfoort.
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07/04/2008 |
The heat is on at Iziko - volcanic
talk
On 29 April, at 18:30 for 19:00 at Iziko South African Museum,
Dr John Rogers, a marine sedimentologist in the Dept of Geological
Sciences at UCT, will present a talk entitled ‘A marine geotourist’s
view of volcanoes’.
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03/04/2008 |
Archaeological findings shape our
viewpoints
As part of the ongoing Freedom Project, a programme that
commemorates the impact of the slave trade and highlights the links
between historical slavery and contemporary human rights violations,
Iziko Museums hosts a free lecture by Dr Antonia Malan, entitled
‘Unearthing Slavery: The Complex Role of Archaeology,’ at 18:00 on
24 April at the Iziko Slave Lodge Museum in Adderley Street, Cape
Town.
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03/04/2008 |
Lloyd Pollak on the 'isms' of art
Popular art critic and lecturer Lloyd Pollak returns to Iziko
South African Museum on 16 and 22 April, 13 and 21 May, and 11 June,
to present a further series of lectures on 20th century art styles,
from Fauvism (or ‘wild beasts’) to the artistic revolutions of
Russia.
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01/04/2008 |
Iziko Museums
Tariffs for 2008: Changes at Iziko Museums
Cape Town, 1 April 2008 – As a
public education facility in a developing economy and a newly
democratic society, Iziko Museums of Cape Town is acutely aware of
its mandate, which is to manage and promote Iziko’s unique
combination of South Africa’s heritage collections, sites and
services for the benefit of present and future generations.
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