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Stop waiting, start making: Lessons in liveability from Jeanne van Heeswijk
Based in Rotterdam, Jeanne van Heeswijk is a visual artist who creates situations in public places to provoke interactions between members of the public. These provocations include talking to trees, arranging fashion marches and baking bread, but all are aimed at setting up opportunities for new encounters and dialogue – in a way is finely tuned to the subtlety of needs, desires and ambitions of a local people and place. Jeanne presented some of her work at Design Indaba 2013. Here she shares more of her thoughts on public engagement, gentrification and the value of co-production:
Posted in Creative, Events, Featured, Spaces, Stories.
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Scrabbling the city: a City Views cover story
On the cover of the March issue of City Views we give you a taste of what is to come during the free public arts festival Infecting the City from 11 to 16 March. The featured work, Scrabbling, is based on the popular word game Scrabble and invites audience and passersby to express themselves and collectively create a temporary artwork. Creator Guto Bussab is the founder and owner of MUTI, a parent brand for Muti Films (film production), Muti Photography (commercial photography) and TheMutiGallery art gallery). City Views traded letters with the artist.
Posted in Creative, Events, Experience, Featured, Stories.
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Traces of the future in the present
Cape Town’s future is made every day out of the individual actions of ordinary Capetonians. As we wind up 2012, we took a closer look at events and occurrences during the year that point to what we can become as a city – together. Continued…
Posted in About, Developments, Events, Experience Town, Featured, Green, News, Safety & Security, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Transport, Urban management.
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Man-made rainbow on Wale Street in the run-up to Creative Week
The build-up to Creative Week Cape Town has begun with a surprising and delightful public art installation by artist Michael Elion. Continued…
Posted in Creative, Experience, Featured, Spaces, Stories.
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Art to animate Cape Town CBD
Annual public arts festival Infecting the City will explode on to the streets of Cape Town from 6 to 10 March 2012 – helping audiences to see, hear and smell the extraordinary and take a fresh look at the Mother City and its citizens. Continued…
Posted in CCID, Creative, Events, Featured, Programmes, Spaces, Stories, Urban management.
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Creativity, collaboration and conversation with Jay Pather
Academic, choreographer and director Jay Pather is the director of the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts and is the curator of the public arts festival Infecting the City 20012. Continued…
Posted in Stories.
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Africa Centre opening up the city through art
Tanner Methvin is the executive director of the Africa Centre, the organisation that hosts the public arts festival Infecting the City in Cape Town each year. Continued…
Posted in Stories.
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Stroll Among the New Street Sculptures on the Fan Walk
Soccer fans walking near the Prestwich Memorial area of the Fan Walk will be able to touch, explore and photograph themselves with unusual new street sculptures that have been installed for the soccer festival. Continued…
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Expanding the grand Daddy empire
Despite being less than ten years old, The Daddy Long Legs Hotel and Backpackers and the Grand Daddy Hotel and Roof Top Airstream caravan park, are already Long Street icons. The project has attracted many international accolades and was recently a finalist in the BASA (Business and Arts South Africa) Award for the promotion of public art. Continued…
Posted in Success Stories.
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