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31/08/2008 |
Heritage Day at Iziko Museums
This Heritage Day, Iziko Museums are offering a bountiful programme
of events, all proudly homegrown. To further commemorate the
occasion, entrance to all Iziko Museums will be free to the public
from 22 – 28 September.
 On
Heritage Day, proceedings begin with some Klopse Culture influence,
as the 150-member Ashwin Willemse Orient Marching Band escorts
visitors from the Bo-Kaap Museum in Wale Street to the
Iziko Koopmans-De Wet House
in Strand Strand. Here, visitors will enjoy a live re-enactment of
life and times of the famous Marie Koopmans-De Wet – as narrated by
Ms Nothing, servant of the elegant socialite. The performance by the
Rooster Theatre Collective at Koopmans-De Wet House, probably the
Cape’s most pristine house museum, will be set against a soundscape
of women singing and beading.
Further activities take place at the
Iziko South African Museum and include poetry workshops, music,
live performance, behind-the-scenes tours and film screenings.
At
Iziko South African National Gallery,
a variety of exhibitions will be on view to which visitors will have
free access. These include the opening of the Stephen Shore
Exhibition, which marks the Month of Photography 4. Shore is
noteworthy for being the youngest person and the first living
photographer to hold a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, at age twenty-four. The exhibition has been organised
and sponsored by the Roger Ballen Foundation, which is dedicated to
promoting the education of photography and focuses on bringing the
work of international photographers to South Africa.
Another important exhibition is Albert Adams: Journey on a
Tightrope. This is the first retrospective exhibition of the
internationally-acclaimed, Cape Town-born artist, who left apartheid
South Africa and lived much of his life abroad, working, teaching
and exhibiting in London and elsewhere.
And of course, for children, there will be a whole host of
activities including drum-making, creative writing and photography
workshops.
This wonderful pot-pourri of events promises to be the perfect way
to celebrate Heritage Day. Iziko Museums invite one and all to join
them.
For further details and the full programme, contact Power at 021 481
3829 or visit
www.iziko.org.za
Image Captions
Stephen Shore: Ginger Shore,
Causeway Inn, Tampa, Florida, November 17, 1977
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