Arts and Culture (Category) - 324 posts

With the help of Caraci Experiences, I got to be a Jozi fashion designer for a day and (help) design my very own wax print bomber jacket.

Last weekend I attended the life-changing National Arts Festival in Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown), sponsored by Standard Bank Arts.

On Youth Day, the Brixton community held a spinning demonstration and fashion show/market to warm up for the Brixton Light Festival.

The Soweto Cafe in Zondi, conceived by Thami Mazibuko, is magical to visit and also a vital community resource.

My sister and I spent four days exploring Rhode Island, America's smallest state. Here's a list of all the fun things we did.

Brixton-based artist Bronwen Findlay, together with her team, created a beautiful mosaic for the garden at Everard Read gallery.

Over Human Rights Day weekend I discovered St. Alban's Anglican Mission Church, a 100-year-old church hidden in plain sight in Ferreirasdorp.

My mom and I did a lot of quirky things on our road trip through South Africa. But the main quirky highlight was all the padstals we visited.

I've been vaguely aware of veldskoens, simple leather shoes designed for life in Africa, for many years. Recently, I became obsessed.

I joined a Johannesburg Heritage Foundation tour of three quirky mansions on Linksfield Ridge designed by architect Gerald Gordon.

Thorsten and I (a.k.a. the Blogitects) just got back from an epic trip up and down the East Coast of America.

Lilian Road Studios is a collection of funky artists' studios in a historic building in Fordsburg. They have Open Studio days on Dec. 10-11.