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07/09/2009 |
Iziko Museums
celebrates Heritage Week with Free Entrance
This Heritage Day, Iziko Museums are offering the public a unique and exciting programme of events. To further commemorate the occasion, entrance to all Iziko Museums will be free to the public from 21-27 September 2009.
On Heritage Day, proceedings begin at 10:00 with some Klopse Culture influence, as the internationally acclaimed Western Cape Marching Band escorts visitors from the Iziko Bo-Kaap Museum in Wale Street to the Iziko South African Museum in the Company’s Garden. Here visitors will be entertained with a full programme of events starting with a marching band display in the amphitheatre and a visit to the the Good Hope FM Outside Broadcast where you can meet DJ Suga. Learn the 2010 iDiski dance and experience a day out for the whole family. Visit the SA Museum, SA National Gallery and the Slave Lodge and experience our unique cultural heritage with exhibitions and guided tours.
At 13h30 and 15h30 visitors can enjoy a live re-enactment of the 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 the immaculately preserved house museum, Koopmans-De Wet House, will be set against a background of women singing and beading. Entry to this performance costs R30 and seating is limited. For bookings contact Sibulele at 021-464 3280.
Then at the SA Museum Amphitheatre at 16h00, MyCapeTown, a one hour concert showcasing the diversity of Cape Town ‘s music, stories, sounds and people, including the praise-singer Samkelo Tukulula Blaq Pearl, Mac McKenzie and the Composers Workshop from Bridgetown, Maveriq and Nosipho Singiswa leading performers from Guguletu.
Visitors can also catch a unique fusion of music and ritual embodied by the shamanic vocal performance of Ernestine Deane at the Slave Lodge in “White Paper Boats”.
Further activities take place at the Iziko South African National Gallery, Iziko Slave Lodge and the Iziko South African Museum, including free Planetarium shows, film screenings, guided tours of current exhibitions and a craft expo by the Cape Craft and Design Institute, with programmes running until 22h00!
And of course, for children, there will be a whole host of activities on Heritage Day.
Free access to new and ongoing exhibitions for Heritage Week.
Iziko Museums are host to a visual and cultural feast of offerings that will satisfy all tastes during Heritage Week.
At Iziko South African National Gallery, a variety of exhibitions will be on view to which visitors will have free access during the whole of heritage week: The Everyday and the Extraordinary showcases three decades of architectural design by maverick architect Jo Noero. Professor Jo Noero is an internationally renowned South African architect and teacher who believes that architecture should be both beautiful and useful. The exhibition offers an attempt to chart South Africa’s cultural, social and political change through architecture and to trace Neoro’s contribution to the South African socio-political, as well as architectural, landscape.
From Fire into Form explores huge variety of finishes, processes and ways of using bronze in sculpture. The exhibition ranges from works from the 1500s in Italy to contemporary South African pieces produced this very year, with over a hundred works on exhibition. The exhibition is backed up by explanatory texts and by an interactive CD-ROM through which visitors can inform themselves on a variety of bronze-related questions.
Jol is an exhibition that deals with partying, particularly in South Africa. The exhibition features photographs by Billy Monk, renowned for his gritty pictures of the Cape Town Catacombs Club from the 1960s, as well as photographs by Graham Goddard and paintings and prints around the subject of ‘jolling’.
Also at the SANG, Cross-Pollination: South African Art between 1930 and 1950 takes a new look at work by South African artists like Maggie Laubser, Irma Stern, Wolf Kibel, Lippy Lipshitz and Gerard, while Choices showcases new art bought in 2008/09 by the National Gallery.
At the SA Museum visitors can see two high profile exhibitions: Subtle Thresholds is a visually and conceptually fascinating exhibition about the representational taxonomies of disease. The exhibition is curated by artist Fritha Langerman and uses objects from the Social and Natural History, as well as original artworks by Langerman herself.
Also at the SA Museum is Africa’s Wealth Exploration: Use and Conservation of Biodiversity, an interactive educational exhibition, which focuses on the awareness and understanding of Africa’s biodiversity and the value of conserving this biodiversity for the future.
While you’re watching performances at the Slave Lodge, you can also see Biko: The quest for a true humanity, a traveling exhibition developed by the Apartheid Museum, which honours the memory of South African political activist, Bantu Stephen Biko, and his death while in police detention in 1977.
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