Arts and Culture (Category) - 324 posts

My new plant obsession is accompanied by a pot obsession. Leibermann Pottery sells fantastic pots as well as funky antique tiles.

The second annual Brixton Light Festival happened on Sunday evening. It was the coolest community event I've attended in years.

I took a graffiti walk through Joburg, sponsored by the Goethe Institute. It was great to look at street art for the first time in a while.

On Saturday night I attended the Brixton Burn, a dance performance followed by the burning of a wooden sculpture beneath the Sentech Tower.

166 Caroline St., Brixton, once a Chinese-owned corner shop, is hosting an exhibiton about Chinese immigrants in 20th-century South Africa.

With my friends from the African Accent Spaza Shop, I'm helping to organize the first-ever Spaza Shop Tour in Katlehong and Thokoza.

This weekend I went cycling in Soweto with a group of locals. Touriing Soweto has a totally different feel without international tourists.

I visited Joburg City for the first time since the pandemic started. It was great to see so many exciting new things happening.

Last week I participated in a tour of Paterson Park, on the border of Norwood and Orange Grove, to check out the public art projects in progress there.

Val, a tiny hamlet next to the railroad in South Africa's Mpumalanga province, was the first stop in my 2020 #10SouthAfricanTowns campagin.

The Joburg Heritage Foundation recently hosted a tour of the "Ruins of Rose Road" in Upper Houghton. The tour was everything I hope for and more.

Last week I did a day-long tour of Soweto with Eenblond Tours, aka Gilda Swanepoel. I learned quite a few new things about this diverse section of Joburg.