by 2summers | Sep 8, 2023 | Arts and Culture, Brixton, Johannesburg, Music/Festivals
Last weekend I attended the Brixton Light Festival (hereafter referred to as the BLF) for the second consecutive year. I wrote a comprehensive post about the BLF last year, so in the days leading up to this year’s event I thought maybe I wouldn’t need to...
by 2summers | Aug 25, 2023 | Arts and Culture, Brixton, Johannesburg, Museums and Buildings, Uncategorized
Regular readers of this blog know that my boyfriend, Thorsten, is an architect. You might not know that he is also an artist, and he recently created a beautiful series of prints portraying historic monuments in our home suburb of Brixton. The first of...
by 2summers | Aug 8, 2023 | Brixton, Food and Drink, Johannesburg
I’m struggling to figure out how to start writing this post because I’m struggling to figure out how to explain koesisters. A koesister from Yola’s kitchen. The koesister ranks among South Africa’s most iconic foods, right up there with...
by 2summers | Jun 21, 2023 | Arts and Culture, Brixton, Johannesburg, Music/Festivals
After last year’s Brixton Light Festival, lots of people read my blog post and were sad they missed the festival and asked how they could be sure not to miss the next one. So consider yourselves warned: The next Brixton Light Festival takes place on Saturday,...
by 2summers | Apr 20, 2023 | Arts and Culture, Brixton, Johannesburg, Museums and Buildings
This is a quick post advising Joburg art-lovers to go to the Everard Read Gallery in Rosebank to check out the beautiful mosaic in the courtyard. It was made in Brixton. The courtyard mosaic at Everard Read, created by Bronwen Findlay and her team. The hadeda is, of...
by 2summers | Dec 13, 2022 | Brixton, Johannesburg, The Melville/Brixton Cats
As I write this, I’m sitting in my aunt’s house in chilly Sleepy Hollow, New York. But let me backtrack a couple of weeks to a summer day in Johannesburg, South Africa, when I was typing away in my home office and a skinny black kitten walked through the...