FynArts Programme 2017

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Finding Your Way Around The Booklet Maps • Hermanus Wine Route - a map of participating wine farms is on page 38 • Book Trail - a map of the participating bookshops, a new event, is on page 47 • FynArts Amble - a centre spread pull-out map A convenient colour-coded summary of the daily events programme appears on the reverse of the centre spread pull-out FynArts Amble map.

A colour band at the top of the first page of each section of the programme includes important general information about the relevant section.

Ticket Sales Tickets may be purchased on-line at www.webtickets.co.za or via the Hermanus FynArts website at www.hermanusfynarts.co.za Tickets are also for sale at the FynArts office, Station Building, Mitchell Street or by telephone on 060 957 5371 / 028 312 2629 during the following hours: Monday to Friday 9:00 - 17:00 Saturday 10:00 - 15:00 Sunday 11:00 - 13:00

Contents & General Information

Contents & General Information Welcome Making Headway Performances Walkabouts Exhibitions - Festival Artist Exhibitions - Sculpture on the Cliffs Art in the Auditorium - Group Sculpture Exhibition Exhibitions - Sculpture - Hotels Exhibitions - Ceramics Tours Gallery Walkabouts Exhibitions - Galleries Map - Wine Route Exhibitions - Tondo Art Award Finalists Exhibitions - Wine Farms Programme Summary - 9 - 13 June Map - Hermanus FynArts Venues Programme Summary - 14 - 18 June Map - Book Trail Exhibitions - Art of Thread Stephan Welz Series of Talks & Presentations Workshops Demonstrations - What’s Cooking Demonstrations - Various Wine Plus - Tutored Tastings Tastings - Various Breakfast - Dinner Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner Films - Vintage Films - Vintage & South African FynArts for the Young & Youth Stay - Find Arts & Books Sponsors

Extended hours will apply during the festival

Books and CDs Available books and CDs of presenters and musicians will be on sale at venues before and after the relevant event.

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Dear FynArts patrons, Welcome to the fifth annual Hermanus FynArts festival. This is a celebration of the arts across genres and aims to combine our love for fine art with the natural beauty of our coastal landscape.

Art is in our DNA, it is the creativity displayed through our unique diversity and the sounds that echo in our hearts.

It has the ability to lift one’s spirit and unite individuals across all boundaries. It is this shared love that has the propensity to unite us as a people and affords us a medium through which inner peace is sought.

I wish all attending this year’s instalment of the FynArts Festival an enjoyable and enlightened experience.

My sincere gratitude is extended to the organiser, Mary Faure, and her team - as too, the sponsors, business partners, local contributors and other key stakeholders - for the efforts involved to ensure that, once again, Hermanus is able to showcase South Africa’s artistic and creative offerings so spectacularly.

We look forward to seeing you between 9 -18 June 2017, to celebrate what promises to be another prolific display of our country’s fine talent.

Rudolph Smith Executive Mayor: Overstrand

Welcome to Hermanus FynArts 2017 Hermanus Fynarts celebrates its fifth anniversary this year and it has grown into a unique and quality event on the South African arts calendar. We have reached this milestone not only because of the annual FynArts programme content and because the festival is held in the wonderful town of Hermanus, but also because of the generous and enthusiastic backing of our sponsors, the artists, our supporters, our municipality and the town’s communities and many other stakeholders.

A very sincere thank you to all for making this year’s festival a reality and for keeping us growing.

This festival does not only celebrate the creativity of people but also seeks to encourage the appreciation of it in its diverse forms.

We are once again privileged to welcome to Hermanus internationally acclaimed painters, sculptors, ceramicists, thread artists, classical and jazz musicians, singers, writers, wine makers and chefs, as well as a range of local talent.

There is something for everyone in a programme that includes exhibitions, concerts, talks and presentations, workshops, demonstrations, tutored tastings, dining, films and a children’s programme.

We look forward to welcoming you to FynArts.

Mary Faure Festival Director

From tiny beginnings in 2013, Hermanus FynArts has become a distinctive festival within just a few years. Two significant developments at the end of 2016 marked a new phase of efficiency, sustainability and innovation as the festival approached its fifth anniversary.The first was the appointment of Chantel Louskitt as our first employee and the simultaneous move of Hermanus FynArts into its own office at Hermanus Tourism. As fulltime administrative coordinator, Chantel assists with the organisation and logistical complexities of this fast growing festival.

The second development was the creation of a new identity and strong brand for Hermanus FynArts.

In the world of Art, Writing and Music There is nothing that shows more commitment, determination and originality than your signature The commitment, determination and originality of Hermanus FynArts is reflected in its new logo.

Making Headway

Making Headway at Hermanus FynArts

H E R M A N U S

Acknowledgements Sincere thanks and deep appreciation to the following people for their staunch support and commitment, and most of all, for sharing a vision. Without them, there would be no FynArts 2017.

FynArts Advisory Board: Christopher Hope, Marilyn Martin, Richard Cock and Mandie van der Spuy.

FynArts Management Committee: Martin Ranger (chairperson), Juan Pieterse, Pieter Stofberg, Fikiswa Gxamesi and Gardean Lucas.

Communications Team: Colleen Naude, Frans van Rensburg, Martin Ranger, and Peter Southworth for driving the brand and designing the new FynArts logo.

Curators: Martin Godby and Sandra Klopper (Festival Artist’s exhibition); Lien Botha (Sculpture on the Cliffs); Liz Coates (ceramics); Dal Botha (Art of Thread); Debbie Odendaal (Art in the Auditorium); Lorna Jakins (competition coordinator); Circle of Scribes (sub-editing); and for advice - Caroline van Niekerk (music) and Garth Stroebel (culinary).

Staff: Chantel Louiskitt; and Julie McGrath, Gardean Lucas, Anneline Duminy and the staff of Hermanus Tourism

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Opening Concert

Bridget Rennie-Salonen (Flute) and Gaylen-Rose Sales (Harp) Following the success of last year’s opening concert, our 2017 festival commences with another all-Mozart offering.

The programme will include the famous and perennial favourite Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra, one of only two true double concertos that Mozart wrote. On this special occasion the performance will feature two outstanding soloists who play together as South Africa’s only full-time flute-harp duo, the Gabriel Duo. For this performance they will be supported by the specially assembled FynArts Festival Orchestra which will once again be under the direction of conductor Richard Cock.

Symphony No 29 will also be performed. After the three great final symphonies of Mozart’s career, it is one of the most popular.

You can look forward to an evening of delight.

Date: Friday 9 June

Time: 19:00

Venue: Dutch Reformed Church, Hermanus

Performances - Evening

Please note: Seats are unreserved.

The venue, starting time and ticket prices are included in each event summary.

Tickets: First five rows - R195 / R175 (early bird); all other unreserved seats - R150 / R140 (early bird) / R90 (scholars)

Divas of Swing

Zolani Mahola and Adelia Douw with the FynArts Festival Orchestra conducted by Richard Cock Zolani, the lead singer of Freshly Ground, and Adelia Douw, who started out with the Delft Big Band, bring you some of the greatest songs by Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Miriam Makeba and Dolly Rathebe. These two divas, with rapidly growing national and international reputations, will perform together with the FynArts Festival Orchestra, conducted and presented in his inimitable fashion by maestro Richard Cock. This will be an evening to remember!

Date: Saturday 10 June

Time: 19:00

Venue: Dutch Reformed Church, Hermanus

Tickets: First five rows - R195 / R175 (early bird); all other unreserved seats - R150 / R140 (early bird) / R90 (scholars) 5

Performances - Evening

Broadway Spectacular

Vanessa Tait-Jones (soprano) and George Stevens (baritone) with the FynArts Festival Orchestra and Choir conducted by Richard Cock Don’t miss this celebration of some of the greatest musicals of all time, ranging from Oklahoma and South Pacific to the Sound of Music and Mamma Mia, some Lloyd Webber and music from other popular shows. This will be a concert which, through evocative melodies, will bring back unforgettable memories! Vanessa was the first winner of the ATKV Muziqanto Award in 2011.

Date: Sunday 11 June

Times: 18:30

Venue: Dutch Reformed Church, Onrus

Tickets: First five rows - R195 / R175 (early bird); all other unreserved seats - R150 / R140 (early bird) / R90 (scholars)

An Evening with Marius Weyers and Bosman Marius Weyers was born on a farm. He rode horses and was surrounded by calves and donkeys. As a child he sometimes ploughed with oxen. On Saturday mornings he rode in his father’s bakkie, full of vegetables and hides for sale at the Johannesburg market.

Whilst his father traded, Marius, fortified by a bottle of cold tea and a clutch of hard-boiled eggs, went off to the movies. Who then could be more qualified to interpret the words of Herman Charles Bosman than this son of the Highveld? Marius will read stories featuring Oom Schalk Lourens as well as taking a literary dip into A Bekkersdal Marathon. A more serious contrast will be reflected in shared extracts from Bosman’s record of his prison experiences: Cold Stone Jug. Date: Monday 12 June

Time: 19:00

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R150 / R140 (early bird)

Toccata: Magdalena de Vries (mariba) and Frank Mallows (vibraphone) Magda and Frank have been performing as Duo FourIVTwo (four-four-two) since 2005. Both acclaimed solo artists in their own right, the pair have focused on commissioning and playing works by South African composers since 2009. In this FynArts programme there will be a strong focus on their South African repertoire, with special commemorative performances and works by Clare Loveday and by Hendrik Hofmeyr, in celebration of his 60th birthday. Hendrik will be present at the concert and will introduce his work. Furthermore, Mallows has arranged a medley of music by Scott Joplin for his centenary - he died in 1917. Other exciting original compositions for vibraphone and marimba, showcasing their versatility and musical blend, will also be included in the programme. Hendrik will introduce his work.

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Date: Tuesday 13 June

Time: 19:00

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R150 / R140 (early bird)

Recital by Members of the Odeion String Quartet This connoisseur recital by members of the Odeion String Quartet will feature chamber works by two great German composers, Ludwig van Beethoven and Robert Schumann. Beethoven’s G major string trio is the first of three string trios Op 9, which the 28-year old composer regarded, at the time of their publication, as his best compositions. The audience will then be treated to Schumann’s Piano Quartet in Eb major, one of the most frequently performed and recorded piano quartets in the standard repertoire. The string players Samson Diamond, Jeanne-Louise Moolman and Anmari van der Westhuizen will be joined by their pianist-colleague Grethe Nothling.

Date: Wednesday 14 June

Time: 19:00

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R150 / R140 (early bird)

My Travel Bag: Gcina Mhlophe Thirty-three years of international travel are crammed into the travelling bag of master storyteller, Gcina Mhlope. This uplifting one-woman show celebrates who we are as South Africans while shedding insight into the generous spirit of the artist. Says Gcina: ‘The number of suitcases I have bought, the stamps in my passports, amazing friendships … the countless mementos and memories fill my head like an enchanted African forest. The amazing theatres, long hours at international airports, delayed flights, the many cultures and frustrating times filled with fear and homesickness. But nothing can top the joy of sharing the stories of my people on world stages (and) the magic universality of these stories …’

Date: Thursday 15 June

Time: 19:00

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Performances - Evening

Odeion Quartet:

Tickets: R150 / R140 (early bird)

Baroqueswing:

Charl du Plessis (piano), Werner Spies (bass), Hugo Radyn (drums) The Charl du Plessis Trio returns to Fynarts for the release of their new album under Swiss record label Claves Baroqueswing Vol. 2. Baroqueswing experiments anew with form, rhythm, and virtuoso arrangements of timeless music, bringing a refreshing energy to the stage. The Swiss press has hailed the Trio’s performance: ‘perfect’… ‘the audience was visibly moved’.

In 1959 French pianist Jacques Loussier was the first ever to perform and record a jazz arrangement of the music of JS Bach. The Charl du Plessis Trio is the only South African ensemble to continue this crossover music tradition at a high artistic level, with Werner Spies and Hugo Radyn as musical partners for pianist Charl du Plessis, helping to form the music with bass and drums.

Date: Friday 16 June

Time: 19:00

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R150 / R140 (early bird)

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Performances - Evening 8

Swinging Sixties:

with Lynelle Kenned and Brandon October Musical Director: Melissa van der Spuy Producer and Concept: Ilse SchĂźrmann Celebrate the sixties!

Relive the fabulous, swinging Sounds of the Sixties in this fast-moving show. Join award-winning singers and TV presenters Lynelle and Brandon for a memory-filled night! Having established herself in the world of opera and later in musical theatre, Lynelle Kenned is making her mark on the wider entertainment industry. Well-known as a singer and song-writer, Brandon October was runner-up in the first season of South African Pop Idols in 2002. Lynelle and Brandon will be accompanied by Melissa and a three-piece band.

Date: Saturday 17 June

Time: 19:00

Venue: Dutch Reformed Church, Hermanus

Tickets: R150 / R140 (early bird) / R90 (scholars)

Please note: Starting times, venues and ticket prices vary.

A Lunchtime Recital: Megan-Geoffrey Prins (piano) and Tatiana Thaele (flute)

ATKV-Muziq, the biggest and most prestigious classical music competition in Southern Africa, is an annual contribution of the ATK towards classical music in South Africa. Megan-Geoffrey Prins was named overall winner of Muziq 2016. He is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the renowned Cleveland Institute of Music, USA. Tatiana was the 2016 ATKV-Musiq runner up. She has recently completed her Masters in Music with distinction at UCT. Audiences will have the opportunity to listen to both these young virtuoso artists in the intimacy of a house concert.

Date: Saturday 10 June

Time: 12:30

Venue: 64 Fernkloof Village, Fir Avenue

Tickets: R150 / R140 (early bird) - includes light refreshments

Dancing through Time

Galen-Rose Sales (harp) and Bridget Rennie-Salonen (flute) The long-standing musical partnership known as the Gabriel Duo comprises the south-north cooperation of Bridget from Cape Town and Galen from Gauteng. They will present music written for flute and harp, and inspired by dances ranging from Baroque to the present. Diverse styles and origins create contrasting beauty, moods, rhythms and movement. The artists, both soloists in their own right, and across various genres, jointly reveal their individual artistry through their musical expression of the dance.

Date: Monday 12 June

Time: 15:30

Venue: 64 Fernkloof Village, Fir Avenue

Tickets: R150 / R140 (early bird) - includes light refreshments

Poetry Reading: Kobus Moolman Kobus Moolman will read from his award-winning collection, A Book of Rooms (Deep South). Winner of the prestigious 2015 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, Kobus’ book was described by judge Gabeba Baderoon as ‘electric, visceral, brilliantly experimental, and profoundly moving’. The collection raises questions about what, in an author’s oeuvre, is considered autobiographical, and what comprises fictional truth. Kobus is the author of eight collections of poetry, and several plays.

Date: Wednesday 14 June

Time: 15:30

Pam Golding Series of House Concerts

We are pleased to present, for the first time, the Pam Golding Series of House Concerts of three performances: two music concerts and a poetry reading.

Venue: Mosselberg on Grotto Beach, 10th Ave, Voëlklip

Tickets: R110 / R100 (early bird) - includes light refreshments

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Performances - Lunchtime

Lunchtime Performances Please note: All seats unreserved.

Baroque to Contemporary Film: Samson Diamond (violin); Jeanne-Louise Moolman (viola); Anmari van der Westhuizen (cello) and Grethe Nothling (piano) The Odeion String Quartet from Bloemfontein is the only resident string quartet at a South African university, and has enjoyed this distinction since its establishment in 1991. The leader is currently Samson Diamond, who first studied violin in the Buskaid project in Soweto. The concert will feature contrasting works ranging from Baroque to contemporary film music with violin as the central feature.

Date: Tuesday 13 June

Time: 12:30

Venue: United Church

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

The Romantic Piano: François du Toit Francois returns to FynArts, this year, with a romantic lunchtime concert. The programme will include works by Schubert, Chopin, Gershwin and Beethoven. Francois, an Associate Professor of Piano and Head of Practical Studies at the University of Cape Town, is acknowledged as one of South Africa’s leading concert pianists. He has appeared with orchestras both locally and abroad since the age of 15 years. In between his lecturing commitments in Cape Town, he is external examiner for several universities and is often invited to sit as juror for competitions in South Africa and abroad.

Date: Thursday 15 June

Time: 12:30

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

Strings Delight: Enlighten Strings and IFIDYOLI Ensemble

The Strings Project of the Enlighten Education Trust has invited the Ifidyoli Ensemble of the Beau Soleil Music Centre in Cape Town, to take part in a combined performance. Both Centres have the same objective of developing and introducing a programme of strings music tuition in previously disadvantaged communities.This will be an uplifting concert performed by more than 50 young musicians on strings giving it their best, conducted by Hein Attwood and Siyathemba Nteta. Keeping within the great tradition of FynArts, this local Hermanus-produced music program is not to be missed.

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Date: Friday 16 June

Time: 12:30

Venue: Anglican Church

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird) / R50 scholars

Winners of the 2016 ATKV Rieldans competition in the under 18’s division, the Betjies van Betjiesfontein will kick up the dust in three short performances of this unique dance. Riel is the oldest entertainment form used as a social, culture and education tool by the Khoisan people long before Western cultures and traditions arrived at the Cape. Today it is a celebration of ancient traditions that find new expression in contemporary forms. In this dance that imitates animal and bird movements to portray daily activities and courting between man and woman, expect ingenious, frantic footwork and energetic pace. In other words, ‘hulle dans lat die stof so staan.’

Date: Friday 16 June

Times: 11:00; 12:00 and 14:00 (duration 6 - 8 minutes each)

Venue: Whale House Lawn

No charge

Organ ensemble:

Louna Stofberg (organ), Pieter-Adriaan Stofberg (cello) and Jenna O’Neill (violin)

Performances - Lunchtime

Rieldans: The Betjies from Betjiesfontein

An out of the ordinary programme for organ combined with other instruments will be performed in the Dutch Reformed church. The romantic work by Josef Rheinberger, Suite Op 149 for organ, violin and cello, is one of his five compositions for organ combined with other instruments which are not often heard together. The well known work for cello, The Swan by Saint-Saëns, written for solo cello and orchestra, can also be performed with the organ as accompaniment.

A transcription of The dance of the sugarplum fairy suits the organ perfectly due to the many different sound options available on the organ. The beautiful Suite Gothique by Léon Boëllmann, will finish this delightful programme.

Date: Saturday 17 June

Time: 12:30

Venue: Dutch Reformed Church, Hermanus

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird) / R50 (scholars)

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Performances - Afternoon

Broadway Spectacular:

Vanessa Tait-Jones (soprano) and George Stevens (baritone) with the FynArts Festival Orchestra and Choir conducted by Richard Cock Don’t miss this celebration of some of the greatest musicals of all time, ranging from Oklahoma and South Pacific to the Sound of Music and Mamma Mia, some Lloyd Webber and music from other popular shows. This will be a concert which, through evocative melodies, will bring back unforgettable memories! Vanessa was the first winner of the ATKV Muziqanto Award in 2011.

Date: Sunday 11 June

Times: 14:30

Venue: Dutch Reformed Church, Onrus

Tickets: First five rows - R195 / R175 (early bird); all other unreserved seats - R150 / R140 (early bird) / R90 (scholars)

Lusanda Spiritual Group: Lusanda Mcinga Spend an afternoon at a gospel concert, the main event being the powerful voices and unique gospel albums of the biggest selling gospel group based in the Eastern Cape. Lusanda Mcinga, award-winning gospel singer and the group’s leader, is one of the country’s most sought after gospel singers. This determined and ambitious woman knew that her music was not to be confined to the Eastern Cape. In 1998 Gallo released her first album under their label. UNGABABEK’TYALA went on to reach gold. Since then the Lusanda Spiritual Group has released 18 albums, most of them platinum.

Date: Saturday 17 June

Time: 14:30

Venue: Lukhanyo Primary School

Tickets: R110 / R80 (early bird)

Swing, Sing and All That Jazz: Ian Smith Big Band Prepare for a musical roller coaster ride from early swing to funk and pop with everything in between.

The standard Big Band sound is generated by four trumpets, four trombones, five saxophones and a rhythm section. Although Big Band is renowned for the likes of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Count Basie and Duke Ellington, vocal icons must also get credit for the continued Big Band tradition.

You will be treated to songs and arrangements from all of the above, plus exciting Latin American and Afro Cuban pieces. And then there will be some Miriam Makeba and Nina Simone from the young lady of song Adelia Douw. Ian Smith may well give us some Sinatra and even pick up his trumpet!

Date: Sunday 18 June 12

Time: 14:00

Venue: Dutch Reformed Church, Hermanus

Tickets: R150 / R140 (early bird) / R90 (scholars)

Complimentary tickets are available online. Numbers are limited.

Willie Bester

Walkabouts

This year sees the introduction of exhibition walkabouts and other events. For the first time too, students from the Department of Fine Art at Stellenbosch University, will be take part as gallery interns at selected exhibitions.

Transition Willie Bester and Sandra Klopper (curator) will discuss the artist’s work and the paintings on exhibition.

Date: Sunday 11 June Time: 11:00 and 14:00 Dates: Tuesday 13 June, Wednesday 14 June and Thursday 15 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: Rossouw Modern SPACE

The exhibition will be opened by Michael Godby, Professor Emeritus of History of Art, UCT, on Saturday 10 June at 14:00

Sculpture on the Cliffs - EchoLocation Meet the sculptors This year there will be a total of eleven sculptures placed along the Cliffs at Gearings Point and, for the first time, in the Old Harbour.

Those artists who will make it to Hermanus for the opening weekend, will be at their respective sculptures to meet festival goers and talk about their work. Any sculptor not able to be in Hermanus, will be represented by a gallery intern who will explain the work.

Date: Saturday 10 June

Time: 13:00 - 13:30

Venue: Gearing’s Point - Whale Caller Sculpture

Join gallery interns for a guided walk through the exhibition along the cliffs and down to the Old Harbour.

Date: Daily from Sunday 11 - Sunday 19 June

Time: 10:30 - 11:30 approx

Meeting place: Gearing’s Point - Whale Caller Sculpture

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Exhibitions - Festival Artist

Willie Bester

Transformation Curated by Michael Godby and Sandra Klopper Willie Bester has always held up a mirror to South African society in his work. In the last years of Apartheid - although few at the time knew that it would collapse so dramatically Bester created powerful mixed-media images on police brutality, racial classification systems, segregated education, and other highly politicised themes. But, even in the darkest times, Bester was concerned also to celebrate daily life in the townships and the triumph of the human spirit amidst the most appalling material conditions.

Like millions of other South Africans, Willie Bester welcomed the advent of democracy in 1994 as an historic opportunity to right the wrongs of the past, create a more just society, and lift the majority of the population out of the oppression of poverty. But, like a growing number of people from all walks of life, Bester has gradually become disillusioned with recent developments in South African society. Corruption and maladministration amongst the leadership deplete the national exchequer and effectively steal money from the project of service delivery upon which so many people depend. In turn, those affected resort to robbing both fellow citizens and state resources further diminishing the national treasury - and, significantly, the moral character of the nation.

Willie Bester’s current work addresses the demise of the dream of the ‘Rainbow Nation’. He laments the passing of non-racialism in South African society. He deplores the spread of corruption through all levels of the body politic. He hates the renewed violence of the police and other agents of the state in suppressing protest and dissent. But he reserves particular scorn for the application of the apartheid-style national quota system that is having a devastating effect on the economy of the historical Coloured people in the Western Cape.

Venue: Rossouw Modern SPACE

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EchoLocation Curated by Lien Botha The spark for Sculpture on the Cliffs 2017 came from a poetry anthology by Karen Press. In the prologue to Echo Location (Gecko, 1998) she wrote: ‘mesmerized by a bead on a string and the string is a net and the net falls over us and we lie there like silver fish. . .’ The ten artists and their evocative proposals were charted on the map of Gearing’s Point; a lookout from history where once families would wait to spot their loved ones coming home from the sea.

As is often the case when one is in the process of assembling an exhibition with its different participants and dynamics, a thread is the thing to trust - not unlike Paul Klee’s walking line. Each work installed in this year’s event signals a point of resonance with one or another, be it in the materiality of the work, the referencing of ecology or aspects of the Old Harbour. This heritage site has been included in Sculpture on the Cliffs for the first time, by kind permission of the Old Harbour Trust.

The exhibition will be opened by Councillor Kari Brice on Saturday 10 June at 12:30

1. Jaco Sieberhagen - The Whale Caller

5. Right Mukore - Remembering Fish

9. Richard Forbes - Sonar Sound

2. Bronwen Clacherty - Visbaai Reprise

6. Raymond Smith - ‘I is another’

3. Ledelle Moe - Lament II

7. Karen Press - The Whale’s Song

10. Hasan and Husain Essop

- Cape Town, South Africa

4. Brahm van Zyl - Elysium I & II

8. Emma Willemse - Counting stones

11. Hannelie Coetzee - Klipkoppe 2

Exhibitions - Sculpture on the Cliffs

Sculpture on the Cliffs: Group Exhibition

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Exhibitions - Sculpture on the Cliffs

Brahm Van Zyl Remote: Perceiving Elysium I & II The current rapid evolvement of personal technological appliances such as cell phones, tablets and laptop computers is coupled with an emphasis on saving and sharing information. This type of technology is available and at the finger tips of most members of society, and everyday experiences are stored and shared, aided by these resources. These experiences seem to become important only once they have been published on social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and specifically only once a virtual discussion is triggered. Homo sapiens is depicted as a free-form, fragmented character consisting of hundreds of short lines of steel - in sharp contrast to the real world.

Bronwen Clacherty Visbaai Reprise If you stood in the Old Harbour about 100 years ago, what would you have heard - the wind, the sea and the calls of the boatmen, the fisherfolk singing? Yet where are these people now? In homage to these voices musician Bronwen Clacherty recorded present-day sounds from the space and songs and stories from elderly fisherfolk who once worked at the Old Harbour and has woven them into an hour-long composition. The prerecorded music will be played through hidden speakers triggered as people walk along the FynArts promenade to connect them, through echoes, to those who were there before.

Emma Willemse Counting stones As a commemoration of the many lives lost in ships wrecked on the shores of Southern Africa, Counting stones employs symbolic associations related to the uses of stones since the earliest times: piles of stones were used to designate a sacred site and stones served as tools for early counting systems. Today, stones are still sometimes placed on graves or spontaneously piled up on paths to serve as a marker of presence. The intent of Counting stones is to raise questions about the measurability of psychological trauma. How many stones equal the losses suffered during displacement?

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Klipkoppe 2 With Klipkoppe 2, Hannelie continues her site-specific practice which started in 2010 with works that depicted her extended family. Klipkoppe 2 is the first family portrait of herself and her immediate family, her wife Reney Warrington, who she has been with for 20 years. Reney’s grandparents (who lived in Kleinmond until their recent passing) told them that five generations back, two Warrington brothers from America were aboard a ship heading to or from Cape Town. The direction is unclear. They fell ill and were let off the boat, which proceeded to sink a few days later. They were founding members of the Hermanus community. The Warrington Place shopping complex in Hermanus, close to where the sculptures will be placed marks this family history.

Hasan and Husain Essop Cape Town, South Africa Cape Town, South Africa was part of the Halaal Art series (2010), an exhibition of photographs and a video installation by twin brothers Hasan and Husain Essop. The exhibition, as with all their work, dealt with notions of performance, representation, and the tension between self and other. Halaal Art extends the artists’ preoccupation with the role of the individual in society, in particular the space that Muslim youth negotiate in a secular environment. The thread that ties the images together is their subjects: in Islam, the rendering of the human form is considered haraam or forbidden, and the artists are deliberate about limiting this to their own bodies and bearing the responsibility.

Jaco Sieberhagen The Whale Caller

Exhibitions - Sculpture on the Cliffs

Hannelie Coetzee

Jaco’s emblematic profile steel installation is a comment on the senseless whaling industry and the hunting of species after species to the verge of extinction - the same model being used in modern fishing today. Protecting the whales - not just from hunting but the many other daily threats they face - would be a signal that we are serious about all ocean protection. Whilst clearly commenting on environmental issues, the work does however also bring to mind the carved wooden figureheads found at the prow of ships largely between the 16th and 20th centuries. Ironically these figureheads died out at the same time as military sailing ships.

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Exhibitions - Sculpture on the Cliffs

Karen Press The Whale’s Song Karen has published, amongst others, eight collections of poetry. Her anthology, Echolocation, was the seed that gave rise to the theme for Sculpture on the Cliffs 2017. In conclusion she has contributed a new, site-specific poem, titled The Whale’s Song. breath clouds blood mist salt tears you are seven-tenths sea

Ledelle Moe Lament II ‘Lament II’ includes a series of large weighty recumbent forms that belong to no specific place but can be moved from site to site, displaced. The sculptures allude to solidity and structure, yet are inherently modular and transient. The repetitive act of carving each sculpture in various locations gave voice to the act of being in a place while considering the collective migratory patterns of creatures - of flocks, swarms and pods. Also in play are issues of permanence and impermanence, location and dislocation, and place and displacement.

Raymond Smith ‘I is another’ ‘I is another’ (from a letter by French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891) to Georges Izambard 13 May 1871). This striking comment by Rimbaud, demands introspection about how we perceive others. The double-sided mirror reflects the same person on either side, implying that you are ‘the other.’

A double-sided mirror reflects back and forward. It is a neutral element which is impartial to context.

If it was able to reflect this specific environs through time, we would have been able to observe how this space changed, heard the sounds and experienced the activities which took place here.

This installation invites us to consider this and our role in it.

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Sonar Sound ‘Sonar Sound’ is a circular, mild steel piece which will be able to move fractionally back and forth to allow for a resonate gentle chime occur as a call to the whales and a hail to the fishermen to come home safely. With time the corrosion from the salt and ocean will erode the mild steel and slowly take this large and gentle man-made sculpture away, reminding us that all is impermanent, time-bound and that we are gifted briefly with the wind on our cheeks as we gaze over this glorious bay.

Right Mukore Remembering Fish Right Mukore sees deep into the heart of a tree to recognize a personality. He brings these characters - fish, angels, sometimes an entire family - to life through expressive carving, polishing, shaving and sanding. From larger than life-size sculptures to small-scale functional art, Right’s spellbinding creatures have become an endearing addition to many Cape Town gardens. Remembering Fish is a small school of twelve fish ‘hovering’ above the cliffs as testament to the fishing community’s history in the Old Harbour below.

Exhibitions - Sculpture on the Cliffs

Richard Forbes

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Venue: Municipal Auditorium Sculpture has become a major element of the FynArts series of exhibitions. Sculpture on the Cliffs, launched at FynArts 2014, is one of the cornerstones of the festival, remaining in place for a full year until the following year’s sculptures are installed. For this year’s Art in the Auditorium, all sculptors who have exhibited at least one work on the cliffs over the past four years were invited to take part in the exhibition.

Adriaan Diedericks

attempts to mimic the expansive landscape of his youth. A key concept of his work is the body as a vessel for power, glory and inevitable humiliation. This binds his reflections on masculinity and heraldic histories. He has worked in found wood and plastic, often solidifying these in permanence through the use of bronze.

Anton Smit

believes that Man is becoming ever more blunted to appreciating the miraculous world around him.. ‘How does a cloud stay in the air filled with tons of water’, he asks, ‘ or a spider spin a perfect web’.

In search of the miraculous investigates the landscape of the soul, ‘…a fleeting glimpse of eternity that leaves you breathless...’

Gavin Younge:

South Africa is experiencing its severest drought since 1982. Gavin responds to this in Alien, a series of cast-bronze sculptures and engraved steel cut-outs. The ‘pot plants’ sprout the tools for both planting and removing invasive alien plants. Objects appear familiar and, much like the alien species, they conceal as much as they divulge.

Acacia miernsii

Melia azedarach

Acacia cyclops

Prosopis pallida

Jaco Sieberhagen -

Gordon Froud’s

Jean Theron Louw

Guy du Toit says that the elephant is a strange and absurd animal.

In this series of sculptures he has extended this wonderment, embroidering on the instillations and the stories in Rudyard Kipling’s children’s books which have left many mental images.

Marieke Prinsloo Rowe’s work explores the sculpted

work is always of a meditative nature.

He does not comment on, or describe actions or behaviour, but rather questions it. He says, ‘In pursuing influences outside of ourselves, we grow further away from realising the potential we hold inside. I suggest the solution may be found in the acceptance of being alone.’

sculptural and digital output has, for many years, been based on the reworking of found objects and images that are altered, reworked and ultimately re-contextualised. ‘I have been interested in the use of the multiple, and the choice of materials, as a means of constructing new meaning,’ says Gordon of his work.

Using the Fibonacci spiral, Jaco creates unique portraits of concern. With these works of art, he aims to emphasise that our minds cannot remain closed to the speed at which nature is being destroyed. The Saviour, the three works exhibited, are a continuum of the Whale Caller exhibited at the Sculpture on the Cliffs.

focuses on issues including climate change, urbanisation, water shortage and the need to live green. Her work highlights these environmental crises we all face. ‘… I want to draw my viewer into moments of self-reflection - soul searching for what makes us all truly human.’

human figure and the way in which sculpture mimics the three dimensionality of human presence and its capacity to freeze the transient into sculpted reality. Her sculptures carry stories and dreams, honouring the past and hope for the future.

Art in the Auditorium - Group Sculpture Exhibition

George Holloway’s

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Strijdom van der Merwe

has always been influenced by the earth and the landscape as a basis for creating his work. In his imagination he sees ley lines as colourful structures of various lengths and thicknesses with the intervals of man-made areas in between, as islands. First there was the land. Always the land.

Wilma Cruise

works mainly with fired clay in her renderings of life-sized human and animal figures. Themes explored by Wilma in her work include the interface between humans and animals, and existential conditions of muteness - ‘silent, internal battles in the search for meaning’.

Venue: Marine Hotel Yvette Weyers Forgotten Orchards of the Imagination Evette sees the imagination as a playful and powerful creative force that exists in everyone. Imagination has given birth to creations as varied as the Sphinx and the masks of Africa to the micro chip technology, symphonies, bubblegum and poetry. She uses ancient images, such as the Sphinx or the Mantis from Bushman folklore, to create her own personalized mythology. Sometimes she creates mythical creatures, born out of her own experiences and insights.

Alice in Wonderland The stories of Alice in Wonderland have been told for more than 150 years. Gordon Froud has collected memorabilia related Alice in Wonderland for many years. This exhibition will include items from his large collection.

The combined exhibition will be opened by Marius Weyers who will be in conversation with his wife, Evette Weyers.

Date: Saturday 10 June

Time:16:00.

Venue: Birkenhead House

Exhibitions - Sculpture - hotels

The Marine Hotel and Birkenhead House will each host a sculpture exhibition this year.

Dylan Lewis Transfigures In this body of work, Dylan explores the wild nature within and around us and investigating the battle of integrating this wildness into our self-definition of what makes us human. Drawing loosely on myth, ritual and archetypal imagery, Lewis ‘masks‘ his humans with animal skulls and animal attributes, blurring the boundaries between human and animal realms and evoking the notion of the shaman: the conveyor of the disembodied truths.

The transformation is a connection with, and a celebration of, the vital energy, life force and spirit of all that is truly wild.

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Exhibitions - Ceramics

Alessandro Pappada

Ann Marais

Caroline Shultz Verdie

Carin Dorrington

Christine Williams

Dale Lambert

Christina Bryer

Christil Van Vollenhoven

Cilla Williams

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The exhibition will be opened by Ann Marais on Saturday 10 June 2017 at 10:30.

Alessandro Pappada creates stoneware pieces, handbuilt from slabs. His work is sculptural and exhibits elements of mechanical movement. They have an oxide finish to emulate the stages of rust and decay in metal.

Ann Marais produces figurative sculpture using porcelain clay. Two main categories: deliberate - careful, conscious social comment and intuitive - momentary, gestural; are reflected in her work. Her work has been exhibited both locally and internationally.

Caroline Shultz Verdie enjoys creating containers of many forms with shapes speaking of simplicity and understatement. Aspects of utility aim at the display and enjoyment of delicious seasonal foods, be it in a restaurant or on the kitchen table.

Exhibitions - Ceramics

Group Exhibition: Forms of Expression showcases the work of 32 invited ceramic artists. The exhibition, curated by Liz Coates, continues to build on the enthusiastic support received from artists and public alike. The display of both art and utility pieces will demonstrate the wide range of themes, styles and techniques inherent in the versatility and characteristics of clay and porcelain.

Venue: Windsor Hotel

Carin Dorrington has created a range by joining more traditional shapes and forms in an innovative way to create decorative vessels that stand on their own as sculpture but also serve to hold flowers, large leaves or succulents.

Christina Bryer works in porcelain to create mandalas based on aperiodic geometry. Currently she uses simple periodic grids, focussing on process and materials, and distorting regular repeat patterns for a looser result.

Christil van Vollenhoven loves earthiness, as seen in her Raku en Sawdust fired pots. Her work is pure in shape and form and their frailty speaks of lightness with a touch of humour. She “gives pots legs to dance on�.

Christine Williams works in porcelain paper-clay and creates layers of colour at different stages of the drying and firing process. The end result is a collage of pattern and imagery with inspiration drawn from nature, especially birdlife.

Cilla Williams prefers to work in the medium of porcelain. Black, white and occasionally grey are the colours best suited to her wheel-thrown and turned vessels, which are glazed and high-fired in an electric kiln.

Dale Lambert work has moved from porcelain to refined, bold stoneware forms in vibrant colours. Throwing is the preferred method of creation. Private collections around the world house several of his pieces.

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Eunice Botes

Heather Frankel

Hennie Meyer

John Bauer

John Shirley

Johan Swart

Karen Kotze

Lee Hensberg

Lina Kapp

Lydia Holmes

Lynnley Watson

Madoda Fani

around the form to investigate with both hands and eyes. Inspiration comes from the South African Bushveld.

Heather Frankel grew up on a farm on the south coast of KwaZulu Natal. In her words: “Since I am finding my feet as an artist, my work ranges from naïve and simplistic to sometimes … well let’s just wait and see!”

Hennie Meyer works mainly in earthenware to produce his award-winning, highly individual pieces with strong forms and detailed surfaces. His work has been widely exhibited and included in notable collections both public and private.

John Bauer is internationally recognised for his unusual, cutting edge developments in porcelain production. Using Sung Dynasty techniques, the images on his work rise above the surface of the clay. They are not negative impressions, but positive ‘expressions’ from the clay’s surface.

John Shirley employs a combination of wax resist and brushwork to his bone china creations to help achieve exceptional translucency and ethereal qualities. Working in ceramics since 1970 he also lectures part-time at the University of Johannesburg.

Exhibitions - Ceramics

Eunice Botes’s new venture explores coloured porcelain clay. The imagery of “clay etchings” leads the viewer

Johan Swart recognises the magical medium of clay: calmness in the shaping process, joy in pouring himself into the clay, letting his passion to create guide him to reflect himself. ‘It is less about how many I can produce and more about enjoying the process, centering the clay and myself.’

Karen Kotze’s current focus is on her “Woven Ceramics” range; exploring unique shapes and surface designs, including the use of 3D printing technology.

The work on show reflects memories of visits to Hermanus as a child.

Lee Hensberg is the owner of Freakalee Ceramics which sells throughout South Africa. In her hands ordinary white objects become extraordinary items of desire. She studied fine arts at Pretoria University in the 1990s.

Lina Kapp lives and works here in Hermanus. A relatively late starter in the creative world, a move to Knysna inspired her to use the area’s flora and fauna in her work.

Lydia Holmes works in ceramics, print and mixed media. Inspired by her environment and those who populate it; her earlier work leaned heavily towards conservation and industrialisation but recent work veers towards the human condition.

Lynnley Watson considers herself a sculptor and vessel maker. Influenced by the Karoo landscape and, specifically, the threat of fracking, she celebrates our rich heritage of indigenous flora and fauna. International collections and national galleries hold her works.

Madoda Fani began his career at The Potters Workshop. Using traditional shapes such as beer pots and milk pails he uses coiling, which is a fast method to build form, and then decorates using carving techniques.

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Exhibitions - Ceramics

Margot Rudolph

Mark Chapman

Monica van den Berg

Nanette Ranger

Rae Goosen

Sandy Godwin

Shannon Philips

Susan Lornas

Tania Babb

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Tiffany Wallace

Wilma Cruise

Her vibrant works of art are mainly in stoneware combined with colours.

Mark Chapman, a resident of Stanford, produces ceramics that are fun and quirky with each piece expressing some form of character, a sense of humour and a fine eye for detail.

Monica van den Berg. Central to her work is humanity, and most notably, the human head; the center of thought, reason and creativity.

Her sculptures reflect an intense relationship between herself and the clay with which she is working.

Nanette Ranger has, since completing her fine arts degree, experimented with various materials and techniques; being increasingly drawn to sculpture.

The skills developed provide her the opportunity to work in bronze and on a much larger scale.

Rae Goosen combines childhood memories and current events in her ‘multiples’ in both ceramics and drawings on paper. Her current work uses repetitive forms within an installation context. Techniques of layering attempt to intrigue and unnerve the viewer.

Exhibitions - Ceramics

Margot Rudolph draws inspiration from the textures of indigenous plants to work within a distinct African theme.

Sandy Godwin enjoys the challenges of working with porcelain clay and its qualities of translucency and whiteness. She has a passion for fabrics and decorates her pieces using different lace and stockings.

Shannon Philips is an artist who enjoys working with mixed medium on canvas. Her passion is landscape, abstract art and ceramics. Her unstructured ceramic bowls have been displayed at Design Indaba.

Susan Lornas was initially fascinated by Raku and Pit firing. Recently she has worked with porcelain; enjoying the fragility and translucency this clay allows. Constantly evolving, learning new techniques and “taking it further” inform her works.

Tania Babb’s work emanates from a fascination with people and relationships; to each other, to themselves, objects or moments in their lives. She aims to “capture fleeting moments” in her favourite buttery porcelain.

Tiffany Wallace uses clay as the medium to express her stories; from childhood doodles to more sophisticated whimsical narratives. She aims to capture the interaction of her beliefs and relationships in quirky, figurative utilitarian forms.

Wilma Cruise mainly works with fired clay in her renderings of life-sized human and animal figures. Her sculptural, rather than studio pottery, background enables her to incorporate materials such as wood and acrylic resin into her creations.

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Tours

Art and Wine Tour A blend of the best! Take a drive up the valley in a safari vehicle and enjoy a complimentary glass of wine as you view the art at the four exhibtions: Bouchard Finlayson; Sumaridge; Newton Johnson and Creation. A gallery intern will accompany the tour.

Dates: Saturday 10, Sunday 11, Friday 16 and Saturday 17 June Departure: Wine Hoppers, Market Square

Time: 10:00 - 13:00

Bookings: 076 991 2498

Private Collections Tour A once-off exclusive tour for art lovers: visit two private collections housed in Hermanus homes with lunch at the Marine Hotel between the morning and afternoon visits. This is a rare opportunity to view, and have a walkabout, of artworks not on public display.

The one walkabout will be taken by MIchael Godby and the other by Karen McKerron. The owners of the collections have graciously made their homes available for this visit.

Date: Thursday 15 June

Time: 11:00 - 15:00 approx

Departure: FynArts office

Tickets: R750 (includes lunch)

Meet the Artist at home A new arts experience: an opportunity to be driven to the homes of four well-known artists at work in their studios in Hermanus and Onrus. None of the artists own a gallery in the town.

Dates: Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 June

Time: 9:30 - 13:00

Departure: FynArts office

Tickets: R250 (includes light refreshments)

An Arts Tour with Quest Join a tour on the yacht, Ocean Quest and view a number of the cliff top sculptures from the ocean. A crew member will relate evocative tales about each of the eleven sculptures Weather permitting.

Date: Daily 10 - 18 June 30

Time: 14:00 - 15:30

Tickets: R400

Book at Neptune’s Divers and Cruises at the Market Square. Tel: 074 124 4032

Abalone Gallery - Annex II Meet artist, Louis van Heerden, in the gallery on both weekends. He will also be available by appointment.

Rossouw Modern Gallery Venessa Berlein:

Walkabout

Date: Both weekends.

Time: 12:00 - 16:00

Jaco Sieberhagen:

Brain Tease

Date: Saturday 10 June

Time: 12:00 - 16:00

Christiaan Diedericks:

Walkabout

Date: Sunday 11 June

Time: 12:00 - 16:00

Meet the Artists daily in their Gallery Bellini

Jubilee

Canvas of Life

Malcolm Bowling

Charmaine Gelderblom De Jongh

Originals

Geta Finlayson Studio

Ralph Walton

Gillian Hahn Art

The Art Gallery

Gallery Walkabouts

Meet the Artists

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Exhibitions - Galleries

All participating galleries present a special exhibition for the FynArts Festival.

Venue: Abalone Art Gallery - Annex I Exhibition of Work Recipient of the Hermanus FynArts Legacy Award

Venue: Abalone Art Gallery - Annex II Louis van Heerden Atmosferas

Exhibition of artworks based on and inspired by the composition of Brazilian composer, Roberto Escobar, dedicated to Louis van Heerden.

Venue: Bellini Ina Millman The way light falls

The exhibition contains a portfolio of works which range from portraits and flowers to African landscapes, seascapes and wildlife.

Ina is inspired by nature and loves to capture the way light falls on her subjects. With her experience and versatility she gives defined colour and shape, light and shadow to her paintings. Ina paints her diverse subject matter in a variety of media including watercolour, oil, acrylics, pastels and mixed media.

Venue: Canvas of Life Gallery Reinet de Jager To be or not to be

These works are about the soft and hard of life, yin and yang, man and women. Soft colours and hard bold colours. Reinet’s work buzzes with vibrancy, colour and growth in nature. Texture on texture, mixed media work with oil and acrylic.

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Meet Reinet at the gallery

Charmaine de Jongh Gelderblom The Magic of Colour

Colour is magic; flowers - creative energy! ‘Whether the flower or the colour is the focus - I do not know. I do know that the flower is painted large to convey to you my experience of the flower - and what is my experience of the flower - if it is not colour!’ said the American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986). Charmaine’s love of raw colour and creative energy is reflected in her paintings.

Venue: Forty X 40 Elise MacDonald and Catherine Brennon Dream Space

Elise MacDonald’s ‘magical realism’ oil paintings reflect her own inner dreamscapes; a merging of realistic images with pure fantasy. She refuses to engage in any analysis of her works. ‘I prefer not to explain the deeper meaning of a painting. It’s for the viewer to invent their own story. Sometimes it remains a mystery even to me.’ Catherine’s ceramic ‘dream boxes’ hold the promise of hidden places and secret joys. ‘I have always been preoccupied with keeping precious items in boxes,’ says Catherine. ‘The act of consigning something - even if it has no material value - to a secure and concealed space creates an aura of mystery and significance.’

Exhibitions - Galleries

Venue: Gallery Charmaine De Jongh Gelderblom

Venue: Geta Finlayson Studio Geta Finlayson Motion

Geta, a painter and jeweller, is currently exploring the interaction between the two arts and the synergy inherent in terms of colour contrasts and the juxtaposition of different shapes and forms to create a feeling of energy. Geta strives to always use nature and the seasons to inspire her. She says that life and living is about energy and movement and will be the focus of her work this year.

Meet Geta at the gallery

Venue: Gillian Hahn Art Gallery, Hemel-en-Aarde Gillian Hahn Light Catcher

Gillian believes the process of creating is more important than the end result; that the feelings and emotions experienced while painting for the viewer to feel, rather than see. Gillian loves to paint landscapes en plein air, expressing Nature’s vast energy and light. Meet Gillian at the gallery

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Exhibitions - Galleries

Venue: Whale House Hermanus Art Circle Light and Dark

This group exhibition of selected works by members of the Art Circle reflects the theme of “light and dark”. The Hermanus Art Circle is currently without a “home”, and this exhibition is displayed in a pop-up gallery.

Venue: Herman Swart Hall, Dutch Reformed Church, Hermanus Exhibition of Prints by Hermanus Photographic Society Moments

The art of photography can be described as the ability of a photographer to capture a special moment. It could be a moment of action in sport, a bird in flight, a moment when the expression on a face tells a story, or a moment when the light and composition of a landscape combine to form a striking picture. A selection of moments captured by members of the Hermanus Photographic Society, and printed on paper. The exhibition will also be open during the interval of concerts held in the church.

Venue: Jubilee Gallery Nemesia du Plessis Gloriously in love - a celebration

For Nemesia, an occupational therapist and artist, emotion is expressed in a face or is seen in the loving interaction between people.

Being in love, she says, leaves us elated as love hormones circulate in our blood - restoring our bodies, souls and spirits. Nemesia tends to work mainly in oils in an impressionistic and expressive manner. Meet Nemesia at the gallery

Venue: Kunskantoor Contemporary Art Gallery Karlien de Villiers and David Kuijers Bitter/soet

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A collaborative exhibition by Karlien and David, two artists who both started their careers in graphic design and who continue to use graphic elements in their paintings, drawings and sculptures. Bitter/Soet explores the different ways they employ humour. Where Karlien uses personal, bittersweet life experiences as the underlying inspiration for her work (a continuous theme from her graphic novels), David uses everyday, often seemingly arbitrary, subject matter such a cat’s thoughts on dogs (a cat has been David’s companion for the last 14 years).

Boniface Chikwenhere, Malcolm Bowling and Richard Pullen A Tryptich of Natural Forms

This is collaboration of three artists: a sculptor, a ceramicist and a painter showing their progression through form, texture and colour. Boniface creates sculptures using driftwood, found wood and fossilized/petrified wood revealing nature’s own handiwork.

Richard, a Corobrik award-winner, is inspired by his rural surroundings in Bathurst, Eastern Cape and the unpredictable nature of ceramic processes. The colours and effects on his smoke-fired pieces celebrate the unexpected as he documents his explorations of surface, texture, materials and form. Malcolm, owner of the gallery, has focused on painting birds and wildlife with a commitment to portraying true form - encompassing texture and realism - and capturing the moment.

Meet Malcolm at the gallery

Venue: Originals Terry Kobus and Danny Myburgh

Exhibitions - Galleries

Venue: Malcolm Bowling Gallery

Contained

The two artists give their definition of the title of this joint exhibition: ‘Contain’ - to accommodate or hold, expressing the idea that something can exist or be placed within something else. Contained refers to what is actually within the container and emphasises the idea of keeping it within its bounds. Containment can be comfortable or uncomfortable and in this exhibition both artists explore the tension of ‘contained’ in their own unique way.

Venue: Pure South Sue Whitmore Carpe Diem - Seize the Day

In this showing of her works in oils, Sue seeks to capture youthful innocence, that seizing of the moment and living it with the abandonment of unfettered enthusiasm. Aided by plentiful reference material provided by her son and his friends, she depicts the joie de vivre of squeezing every last drop out of a day. Painting for this exhibition has not only been an artistic journey for her, she says, it has also been a journey of awareness of those moments in life that make your soul sing and your heart peaceful.

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Exhibitions - Galleries

Venue: Rossouw Modern Group Exhibition Featuring Vanessa Berlein The Universe Next Door

This group show of invited artists will feature Cape Town-based artist Vanessa Berlein. Invited artists include emerging and established artists Corne Eksteen, Claude Chandler, Floris van Zyl, JP Meyer. Sculptures by Anton Smit and Adriaan Diedericks.

Group Exhibition Featuring Christiaan Diedericks and Gordon Froud and Jaco Sieberhagen (sculptor) The Exhibition

Christiaan is a regular artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France, is well-known for his provocative image and will present a collection of new works for FynArts. Hermanus-based Jaco will present his latest, popular, satirical 3-dimensional reflections on current local and international issues. The current Rossouw Modern stable of artists who will be included in the exhibition are Bastiaan van Stenis, Hugo Maritz, Adriaan S. de Lange, Stuart Dods, Obert Jongwe, Frans Mulder and Paul Stein.

Venue: The Art Gallery Erna Dry, Christine Henderson, Jeandre Marinier and Lize van Der Walt Fish and Chips

The challenge is ‘to feel like a fish out of water’ These four artists embark on a journey of exploration: sharing ideas, enjoying the safety net of support while trying something new, and having a lot of fun. Each artist will take a fish and a seldom used medium and venture into unfamiliar territory. The unifying element (other than the fish) is the size of the canvas. Their challenge is to push themselves as artists into working differently and to see what happens.

Venue: Walkerbay Art Gallery Johann Koch and Jaco Kruger (sculptor) Karoo Skies

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Johann’s work is well-known for his paintings of the South African landscape, ranging from scenes of the Western Cape to the wildlife of the bushveld and the Karoo. His work reflects his flair for detail and each year he participates in the Exhibition of Masters held at the Greenhouse Gallery in San Antonio, Texas. Exhibiting sculptor, Jaco Kruger say ‘Sculptures need to have beautiful lines and forms, they must be beautiful in their imperfection.’

Claire Denarie Soffietti Vive La Difference

Claire’s message is one of absolute joy and that even in sad situations, colour and love will burst out again. ‘Dare loving, dare splashing the pigments, never be shy about your cobalt blues, your magentas or your deep roses. If you go black, be deep black, be deep black all the way and make no apologies for right next to it, the sublime complement and opposite exist. Go male, go female, go big, go small, go tree, go home, go water, go earth, go big blue or rainy skies, go flower, go tomato, go absurd, go frog, go pig, go child, go old…just do it all!’

Venue: Daniël Kok Galery, Hemel-en-Aarde Group Exhibition of Jewellery My Africa Design

This exhibition will include some of South Africa’s most artistic jewellery designers. The selection of jewellery was based on style, craftsmanship, originality, and technical ability.

Venue: Mission’s House Gallery, Onrus Group Exhibition The Fine Art of Beadwork

Beads have always fascinated people. The scope of the art of beadwork is vast. This group exhibition displays a sampling of beads worked into today’s fashion context juxtaposed with traditional Xhosa examples. Penny Cornell is an artist/embroiderer who has exhibited widely and has work in international private and corporate collections. Penny will exhibit beaded items as well as textile pieces which incorporate beading techniques. She is a founder member, and past chairperson, of the Cape Embroiderers’ Guild.

Gillian Fuller became inspired by South African beading and combined her love of design with the local skill of beading to produce a colourful and unique jewellery range. Gillian abstracts design ideas from her environment which she translates into works of art with the help of her staff of beaders.

Venue: Ralph Walton, Hemel-en-Aarde

Exhibitions - Hemel-en-Aarde and Onrus

Venue: Walkerbay Modern

Ralph Walton A walk on the beach

This jewellery exhibition is inspired by life experiences and by exploring the surrounding nature and its beauty. The collection is expressed in precious metals, stunning texture, and full volume designs. Says Ralph, ‘Join us and view the pieces at our studio where the these pieces are created.’

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Wine Route

TO CALEDON Mount Babylon Creation Ataraxia

Domaine des Dieux

Restless River Spookfontein

Newton Johnson Sumaridge

La Vierge Bouchard Finlayson Bona Dea

Ashbourne Hamilton Russell Vineyards

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Southern Right TO HERMANUS

Participating Wine Farms

Tollman Bouchard Finlayson Art Award Finalists Venue: Bouchard Finlayson Wine Cellar

The format of the works is round (tondo) to accommodate the way in which they are displayed on the barrel heads. The maximum size is 60cms diameter including any mount or frame although the submissions do not need to be framed. Many types of media are accepted including paper, canvas, board, Perspex, fabric, embroidery, collage, mixed media, wood, glass, ceramic, mosaic, photography, digitally/mechanically produced and photo-based. Sculptural/3-dimensional works are also accepted provided they are able to be hung on the barrel heads.

The exhibition will be opened by Stefan Hundt, Curator of the Sanlam Art Collection, on Friday 9 June at 12:00.

Tollman Bouchard Finlayson Art Award

The Tollman Bouchard Finlayson Art Award is one of the highlights of FynArts. The culmination of this national competition is the exhibition of the work of 40 - 50 finalists in the cellar of the Bouchard Finlayson wine estate in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley. Each year this cellar becomes a unique and eclectic venue for this art exhibition which remains in place until late November when the barrels are filled with new season wines. The cellar lighting is designed to highlight the artworks whist still retaining the ambiance of a working cellar.

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Exhibitions - Wine Farms

Venue: Creation Willie Botha Missing the Fulcrum

In this exhibition Willie aims to portray the message of the rhythmic, balance-interchange of nature and creation. The power lies in the fulcrum, often overlooked, despite being the universal balancing point. Willie has recently built his own bronze foundry and will offer a bronze pouring demonstration during FynArts.

Venue: Benguela Cove Manor House Benguela Cove Life Drawing Award Finalists’ Exhibition

The finalists in a new life drawing competition will be exhibited at the Manor House for the duration of the festival. The competition will be a closed event and only a limited number of artists who have entered the competition will attend the drawing session at the venue prior to start of the festival. Please see Workshops (pg 61) for information about the morning of drawing.

Venue: Newton Johnson Niel Jonker Thoth

The title of Niel’s exhibition is named after the baboon in ancient Egyptian mythology. Thoth, god of the moon, magic and writing, was the wisest of the Egyptian gods. Jonker explores his own place in nature through art. Recent bronze sculptures hybridise human and animal forms. Recent landscape oil paintings of the Cape and Namibia find expressive mark-making and vitality that comes with working exclusively outdoors.

Venue: Tasting Room, Sumaridge Wine Estate The Violet & Anne Bellingham Memorial Trophy Freestyle

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Last year saw the inauguration of this competition which is open to all Grade 10, 11 and 12 students, resident along the Whale Coast. The winning artworks are exhibited in the Tasting Room for the duration of the festival. ‘We hope that by giving students the opportunity to exhibit their work in a public forum with other students from other schools, they will be inspired, encouraged and feel empowered to continue with what may become a career or a life-long passion’, says Holly Bellingham. Mediums include drawing, pastel, painting, original prints, textile, photography OR mixed media.

Time

Performances Talks

Demos

11 June, Sunday

10:00

12 June, Monday

13 June, Tuesday

Silversmith and Design (p 62)

9:00 9:30

Workshops

10 June, Saturday

Legacy Award Recipient (p 53) Cellphone Photography (p 62)

Custodian on a Tight Rope (p 54)

What Remains is Tomorrow (p 55)

Meet the Artist at home (p 30) SA Art Museums - Quo Vadis (p 56)

Art and Wine Tour (p 30) Marvellous mugs (p 61) Flute Making (p 61) Puppets: Sunlight & Moonshine (p 84)

Art and Wine Tour (p 30) Mosaic (p 61)

Memoir (p 63) Painting: Losing and finding (p 63) Breadmaking (p 63)

Black & White Photography (p 64) The Fine Art of Beading (p 64)

Life in Art: (p 54)

History Matters (p 54)

Who is Alice? (p 55) Just desserts (p 70) Framing pictures (p 72)

The Past in the Present (p 56) Why Japan? (p 70) Bronze Casting (p 72)

Pieter Ferreira (p 73)

Jan Boland Coetzee (p 74 ) Filmverse 2 (p 84)

Ntsiki Biyela (p 74)

Christian Eedes (p 75)

11:00

Wine Plus 11:30

Food & Wine 12:00

Films Children

9 June, Friday

12:30

Flute & Piano Recital (p 9) Curly Top (p 80) Please note: 13:00 An Arts Tour with Quest (p 30)

An Arts Tour with Quest (p 30) Broadway Spectacular (p12) Please note: 14:30

An Arts Tour with Quest (p 30) Music of Sub-Saharan Africa (p 55)

An Arts Tour with Quest (p 30) Stories behind the Canvas (p 56) Please note: 14:30 Filmverse 2 (p 84)

Duimpie Bayly (p 73) Chicago (p 81) Die Rommelkoning (p 84)

Rosa Kruger (p 74)

Dancing through Time (p 9) Please note: 15:30 Razvan Macici (p 74) Amadeus (p 81)

Wine Critics’ Choice (p 75) Pride and Prejudice (p 81)

Lowlight Photography (p 64)

About Wine Ratings with Christian Eedes (p 75)

An Evening with Marius Weyers and Bosman (p 6)

Toccata: (p 6)

14:00

Time 9:00 15:30

Life Drawing (p 61) The Philadelphia Story (p 80)

About MĂŠthode Cap Classique with Pieter Ferreira (p 73)

17:00

19:00

15:00

Baroque to Contemporary Film (p 10)

Opening Concert (p 5)

Divas of Swing (p 5)

Broadway Spectacular (p 6) Please note: 18:30

Map - Hermanus FynArts Venues

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Abalone Art Gallery and Courtyard Sculpture Garden Anglican Church Art Shop Bellini Gallery Bookmark Canvas of Life Charmaine De Jongh Gelderblom Dutch Reformed Church, Hermanus Dutchies Fernkloof Village Forty x 40 Gearing’s Point Geta Finlayson Studio Hemingways Bookshop Hermanus Art Gallery Kunskantoor Lembu Malcom Bowling Gallery Marine Hotel Municipal Auditorium Old Synagogue Originals Pure South Quirk and Leopard Romantiques Rossouw Modern Rossouw Modern SPACE The Book Collector The Book Cottage United Church Walker Bay Art Gallery + Walkerbay Modern Whale Museum Windsor Hotel Jubilee The Art Gallery

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14 June, Wednesday

15 June, Thursday

16 June, Friday

17 June, Saturday

Catch the Rainbow (p 58) Silversmith and Design (p 62)

Constitutional Matters (p 60)

Meet the Artist at home (p 30) Origins of Abstraction (p 57)

Fall of Tobruk (p 58)

Sustainability through science writing (p 59)

My Own Liberator (p 60) Felted house-shoes (p 68)

Birding for beginners (p 65)

Watercolour Ways (p 65) Plein Air Landscape (p 65) Create children’s picture book (p 66) Fine Art Photography (p 66)

Art and Wine Tour (p 30) The Short Story (p 67) Origami for Beginners (p 56) Design. Decorate. Detail (p 67) Puppets: Sunlight & Moonshine (p 85)

Art and Wine Tour (p 30) Mark Making (p 67) Drawing with Light & Dark (p 68) Everybody can improvise (p 68)

Private Collections Tour (p 30) Art of Deception (p 58) Arabesque Kitchen (p 71) Framing pictures (p 72) Bronze Casting (p 72)

Rieldans (p 11) Crossover Jazz (p 59) Not just Haggis & Shortbread (p 71) Filmverse 2 (p 84)

Rock Art of Western Cape (p 60)

Abstract Painting in SA (p 57) Abalone in the Far East (p 70) Magic of making felt (p 72)

18 June, Sunday

Time 9:00 9:30

10:00

UCarmen eKhayelitsha Film (p 84)

11:00

11:30

Rieldans (p 11) Gin Revolution Paul du Toit (p 76) Meet Gcina Mholphe in Zwelihle (p 85)

An Arts Tour with Quest (p 30)

Poetry Reading: Kobus Moolman (p 9) West Side Story (p 82) Please note: 15:00

12:00

The Romantic Piano: François du Toit (p 10)

Strings Delight: Enlighten Strings and IFIDYOLI Ensemble (p 10)

Organ ensemble (p 11) The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (p 83) Please note: 13:00

An Arts Tour with Quest (p 30) West Coast Fossil Park (p 59)

An Arts Tour with Quest (p 30) Rieldans (p 11) Filmverse 2 (p 84)

An Arts Tour with Quest (p 30) Lusanda Spiritual Group (p 12) Please note: 14:30 Judge a book by its cover (p 72)

Witness for the Prosecution (p 82) Please note: 15:00

Wine Making in Hemel-en-Aarde (p 75) Singin’ in the Rain (p 82) Please note: 15:00

The Heiress (p 83) Please note: 15:00 The Queen of Waste (p 85)

Jazzed up dinner at Dutchies (p 77) Food as Art at Creation (p 77) Odeion Quartet (p 7) Please note: 18:30

My Travel Bag: Gcina Mhlophe (p 7)

12:30

An Arts Tour with Quest (p 30) Swing, Sing and All That Jazz: Ian Smith Big Band (p 12)

14:00

15:30

17:00

Baroqueswing (p 7)

Swinging Sixties (p 8)

19:00

FynArts - Book Trail

The FynArts festival will, for the first time, take festival goers along a Book Trail. Along the way are three antiquarian stores filled with treasures for book collectors as well as two modern shops with an eclectic choice of new works.

Literary exhibitions will be staged throughout the festival at three of the bookshops, adding another dimension to the festival this year, and to keep bibliophiles entertained. These three stores, as well as two other venues on the Trail, will also host FynArts authors to meet and greet festival goers, and sign their books. Youth Day, 16 June, will be dedicated to children’s writers and writers of books for adults on Saturday June 17. TIMES on both days: 11:00 - 12:00 and 14:00 - 15:00

Bookmark

The Architect, The Cook and Good Taste

Many of the parallels between building, and cooking are obvious: the concept, the creation and the coming into being. Experience some of the day-to-day interplay in literature, covering many genres including food, travel and design through the displays at bookmark. When you visit, you can take part in a fun competition asking you to match cat pictures with the Masters who painted them!

Friday 16: Elizabeth Wasserman is die skepper van die onverskrokke Speurhond Willem / Dogtective William wat seerowers, stropers en diamantsmokkelaars vasvat. Sy is ook die skepper van Anna Atom / Anna Atoom wie se troeteldier ’n robot-hond is, wie se broer ’n 50/50 mengsel van mens en masjien is en wie se pa in die ruimte woon. Haar werk Professor Sabatina se Wetenskapboek is ’n praktiese gids om prettige wetenskap tuis te beoefen.

Saturday 17: Christopher Hope is the author of 21 books. He is best known for his controversial works dealing with racism and politics in South Africa. He has won a number of prestigious writing awards, including the Thomas Pringle Prize. His memoir is titled White Boy Running. His latest novel, Jimfish, is a kind of fairy tale for adults.

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Hemingways

A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway’s Paris sojourn in the 1920’s features at Hemingways of Hermanus. Share a ‘A Moveable Feast’ and reflect on this iconic writer’s life against the background of Paris, its marvellous landscape and culture. ‘If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you. For Paris is a moveable feast.’

Friday 16: Mike Bruton is the author of When I was a Fish. Tales of an Ichthyologist. The book is an account of his adventures as a fish biologist in Africa. It explores the issues he encountered as a scientist, conservationist and educator. He even braved entanglements with crocodiles, hippos, and giant snakes to produce his research.

Saturday 17: Craig Strydom is a writer and director known for the film Searching for Sugar Man. He is also the co-author of Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrecton of Sixto Rodriguez, the non-fiction book detailing the story behind the film. His writing has appeared in Rolling Stone and Creative Nonfiction. He was a finalist for the Susan Atefat Creative Nonfiction Prize.

The Book Cottage Listen, Watch & Read

Visit the Book Cottage and enjoy a relaxing break browsing a collection of the finest books about music while listening to background music. Our bookshop has a designated music room with a fine selection of opera and ballet on DVD, as well as a wide variety of classical music on CD. This year for FynArts we are exhibiting an extensive range of books on a wide variety of music genres, including a number of specialised titles you won’t find elsewhere.

Friday 16: Niki Daly is the author-illustrator whose picture books celebrate the imaginative powers of children and their magnificent everyday lives. His work Not So Fast Songololo won a U.S Parent’s Choice Award, and is credited with paving the way for post-Apartheid South African children’s books. His latest work is titled Surprise! Surprise!

Saturday 17: Dikgang Moseneke is the author of My Own Liberator. The book charts the rise of the retired Deputy Chief Justice as one of the country’s top legal minds. He not only helped draft the interim Constitution but, for 15 years, acted as a guardian of that Constitution for all South Africans, and helped to make it a living document for the country and its people.

Lembu Saturday 17: Kobus Moolman is an award-winning poet and playwright whose eighth collection of poetry, A Book of Rooms, won the African Poetry Book Fund’s 2015 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. His debut collection, Time like Stone, was awarded the Ingrid Jonker Prize. He is also the recipient of the BBC African Radio Theatre Award, as well as the Macmillan Southern African Playwriting Award.

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Alet Davy has been quilting for over 18 years and a Master Quilter since 2006. She has taught quilting in both South Africa and Malawi and is an accredited South African Quilt Judge.

Denise Louw started as a traditional quilter in 2008 and has slowly branched out into more art quilts. The original styles are still her favourite, but she loves the challenge of something new.

Bettie Van Zyl derives her creative satisfaction in harnessing a given palette of colours to achieve her vision, while working with the tactile medium of fabric.

Estelle Linde learned to quilt whilst living in the United States of America. Realising that traditional quilting is all about geometry, joining a creative group prompted a fresh move into textile art.

Beverley Rebelo is an international quilt teacher, whose detailed original art work is a combination of photography and thread play.

African subjects, colours and fabrics are found in all her quilts. Her work is in national and international collections.

Gerda Mรถhr is a felting artist and maker of fine Merino wool objects and wearable art. She use different methods and techniques to create and mould the wool into seamless objects that are both tactile and artful.

Dana Biddle is on the editorial staff of a needlework magazine and teaches on outreach programmes for unemployed women.

She encourages artists to experiment and be stimulated by the variations in the South African scenery.

Glenda Weidemann works with ethnic and hand-dyed fabrics, also layers of organza and synthetic fabrics, textured by burning.

Experimenting and exploring creative techniques with fibre inspires her. She has exhibited in the Far East.

Exhibitions - Art of Thread

Venue: Old Synagogue A wide range of fabrics and techniques ensures another exciting exhibition. Embroidery is included this year and adds an extra dimension to the exhibition. All the artists have exhibited locally and internationally, and their work can be found in national and international collections.

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Ina Meyer made her first quilt in 1977 and has taught patchwork and quilting for 30 years.

An accredited quilt judge she has exhibited locally and internationally. In her recent work she experiments with innovative embellishments and art quilts.

Les Turpin-Delport has a Fine Arts degree and has been a teacher, lecturer and author of art and needlecraft since the early 70’s.

She has also taught and exhibited in many countries abroad and writes regularly for international publications.

Janet Camden is inspired by indigenous plants and flowers endemic to our area.

Using bold shapes and contrasting colours to create her effects, she is always exploring new ideas and techniques.

Lorraine Bode was trained in graphic arts but her love of fabric and thread led her towards fibre as her favourite medium.

She accepts commissions to transform the clients’ vision into a work of art.

Jenny Hearn is an art-quilter with broad experience in academic and practical visual arts.

She is an art teacher, painter, librarian, interior designer and lecturer in the visual arts.

Lorraine Gordon Although the Bushveld plays a big part in her life, she loves colour, with favourites being shades of shocking pink, purples and jades which she adds to her art quilts in abundance.

Jenny Svensson is, by profession, a piano teacher. Her art quilts have been exhibited internationally. She has also won several awards world-wide. She is a recognised South African Quilters Guild teacher and a Master Quilter.

Lubi Koorts is inspired by life and nature. Her graphic art background and teaching of patchwork and crafts reflect her belief that creativity is the best form of communication.

Kim Tedder’s background was literature and the humanities. Now her work reflects her interest in narrative - story-telling and mythology through which we make sense of our world. The link is always colour and texture.

Madeline Marsburg has had no formal art training but her love of colour, fabric and stitching is evident in her informal and creative work. She has exhibited internationally including Japan and Korea.

Shanida Arnoldi is a fabric lover, quilt fanatic, kids chauffeur, avid wife, green thumb, dark chocolate devotee, zealous coffee-holic and shower singer. Her uncanny tenacious love for modern quilts has often been her therapy, medicine, best friend and saving grace.

Mary-Ann Smith, a quilter for nearly 30 years, found the courage to create her own quilts following an inspirational design class. She is a member of the KwaZulu Natal Quilters’ Guild.

Sheila McKenzie was inspired by her mother and sister who also made quilts. Having joined a creative group which branched away from the traditional to more fibre art, she enjoys experimenting with new techniques.

Monique Day-Wilde is multi-talented.

She combines different painting and printmaking techniques, often stitching and layering botanical monotypes with different media. Her work is in private collections in different parts of the world.

Sheila Walwyn counts colour and nature as her most important stimuli. Her creative process usually starts from a photograph she has taken, to a paper collage and then into fabric.

She is a judge for the South African Quilters Guild.

Patricia A’Bear. Whilst learning traditional quilting she became interested in the techniques used by art quilters.

Ever experimenting, this line of art has become her passion. Her work has been exhibited overseas.

Susan Wessels creates mainly abstract work, evident in titles such as Integration, Change, Growth and Courage. She finds that the process of improvisational piecing creates a tension between freely expressing herself and the need to plan the construction of a work.

Penny Cornell studied art, embroidery and design in London and holds a City and Guilds Diploma. Her work incorporates hand and machine embroidery and is often highly textured and three dimensional.

Tilly De Harde is creatively driven by an interest in materials and techniques. Using her knowledge, almost any fibre can be utilised to achieve the desired results. A Master Quilter and accredited South African Quilters Guild teacher.

Exhibitions - Art of Thread

Marianne Niemandt started sewing at the age of 5. Since then sewing in all its variations has been part of her life.

Beginning with traditional quilting her work has recently become more contemporary and experimental.

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He was a giant in the South African art world. His professionalism in the promotion of art was unparalleled and his dedication to art education and appreciation is legendary.

Stephan was supportive of the FynArts festival from the outset. In 2014 he participated in a panel discussion on the South African art market and the following year he presented a powerful address at the opening ceremony of FynArts 2015.

We are honoured to once again pay tribute to him in presenting the Stephan Welz Series of Talks and Presentations.

Strauss & Co will hold a valuation day and proceeds will go towards the FynArts Development Fund.

Date: Monday 12 June

Venue: Marine Hotel

For appointments phone: 021 683 6560.

Please note: All seats are unreserved. Refreshments will be served between sessions. Ticket prices, venues and starting times are included in each event summary.

FynArts Legacy Award Recipient The Hermanus FynArts Legacy Award is presented each year to an artist in honor of a longstanding and unique contribution to the arts in South Africa and beyond. Introduced in 2014, the Legacy Award is presented at the discretion of the FynArts Advisory Board. The first recipient was the late Jans Rautenbach, one of South Africa’s most celebrated, and most controversial, filmmakers. Last year the award was presented to John Kani, esteemed South African actor and playwright, well-known amongst others, for his performances in protest theatre during the years of apartheid.

The 2017 Legacy Award recipient, a visual artist, will be announced on 31 March 2017.

Date: Saturday 10 June Jans Rautenbach - 2015

Time: 9:30

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

Stephan Welz Series - Talks & Presentations

The name of the late Stephan Welz, former Managing Director of Strauss & Co, is synonymous with the world of art. He was renowned for his wide-ranging knowledge of South African painting, sculpture and antiques.

Venue: Municipal Auditorium John Kani - 2016

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Life in Art: Frank Kilbourn Frank, Executive Chairman of fine art auction house Strauss & Co, transformed his historical Tamboerskloof home into a stimulating space, a creative outlet that ignites his imagination, a reflection of his passion for art. Frank has amassed over 1200 works by prominent South African artists in the 30 years since he began collecting as a student. He collects works that he really likes and which he believes will continue to intrigue him for a long time, treasures that have enduring stories to tell. These enigmatic works inspire him to leave a legacy that will outlast him as a collector.

Condé Nast House & Garden / photograph: Greg Cox / production: Martin Jacobs

Date: Saturday 10 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

Custodian on a Tight Rope: Lien Botha, Michael Godby and Stefan Hundt

The curators remain unseen but everywhere there are traces of their involvement. Is the exhibition an installation of some kind? Hence is the curator also an artist? Does the curator walk a tight rope between creativity and interpretation? And where does the viewer fit into all this? Compiling or ‘curating’ an exhibition looks simple and effortless to the visitor. There is little evidence in most exhibitions of the processes involved in selecting the works to be displayed and the manner in which they are presented. The panellists will present and discuss the motivations behind their selections and arrangements which should raise interesting issues about the role the curator plays, how this has changed over the years and how this impacts on the viewer’s experience.

Date: Sunday 11 June

Time: 9:30

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

History Matters:

Bill Nasson talks to Christopher Hope

History Matters is a witty, incisive compilation of Bill’s writings ranging from the Karoo to Hollywood - from ‘Sailor Malan’, iconic airman of World War 2, to long-lost days in District Six. In an age of amnesia, we glimpse where we may be heading only if we see where we came from - and History Matters lightens the way. Bill Nasson is one of South Africa’s foremost historians. Distinguished professor of history at Stellenbosch University and he has held fellowships at the universities of Cambridge, Yale, Kent and Trinity College Dublin. Among his many books, The War for South Africa 1899-1902 (2010) was shortlisted for the Alan Paton Award.

Date: Sunday 11 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

Our post-1994 generation is challenging the status quo and contemporary norms. They are rejecting the notions of reconciliation and negotiated settlement that led to the first democratic election. The Apartheid Museum in Soweto is more relevant today than when it opened in 2001. As an institution of memory, it is conscious of its role in mediating the perceptions, expectations and demands of a questioning society. And the inclusion of contemporary art as a lens through which to interpret historical events adds additional insight and perspective. Christopher will discuss the relationship between these historical narratives.

Date: Monday 12 June

Time: 9:30

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

Who is Alice?: Gordon Froud and Wilma Cruise talk about Alice, art and metaphor Alice in Wonderland provides inspiration for two of South Africa’s most beloved artists, Gordon Froud and Wilma Cruise. Both artists delight in words, wordplay, punning and absurdity. This is the impetus for their talks. Gordon explores the image of Alice through the ages in Alice and her illustrators - not all child’s play, while in Thinking with Animals, Wilma uses Alice and her dream worlds as a platform for a visual exploration of the interface between humankind and animals.

Date: Monday 12 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

The Music of Sub-Saharan Africa: Dizu Plaatjies Dizu, the son of a traditional healer, is a graduate of the University of Cape Town’s School of Music where he now lectures in African Music. He is the founder member and former leader of the group, Amampondo, and more recently, of an ensemble called Ibuyambo.

As an acclaimed musician, composer and arranger of African musical styles, he has travelled widely and performed at Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday celebration. He benefited from an artists’ residency in Paris where he created a show in collaboration with two French jazz musicians.

Date: Monday 12 June

Time: 14:00

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

Exhibition of Cultural Instruments Dizu’s interest in African percussion music has taken him to numerous countries on the continent with the result that he now owns a substantial collection of handmade musical instruments from sub-Saharan Africa. These will be displayed in the foyer of the Municipal Auditorium for the duration of the festival.

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What Remains is Tomorrow: Christopher Till

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South African Art Museums - Quo Vadis:

Marilyn Martin, Stefan Hundt and Christopher Till Our art museums always seem to be at some or other crossroads. Right now the challenges outweigh the opportunities, and the future appears daunting. Publicly funded art museums - at national and city levels - are struggling against extraordinary odds: finances, politics and bureaucracy; relevance to audiences; government indifference. They lack internal capacity and maintenance of buildings and their influence on artistic production has shifted to the private sector. Three prominent art curators discuss this environment, what happens to the ideal of custodianship, of taking care of what they have inherited? Of building collections, doing research, educating and animating the museums? Of fulfilling their role as social entities for the common good?

Date: Tuesday 13 June

Time: 9:30

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

The Past in the Present - Continuity and Disruption:

Michael Godby

Contemporary South African Photography The essential characteristic of photography is that it records whatever is in front of the camera in present time. When photographers wish to portray history they are obliged to import techniques from painting to extend the dimension of time. Because the legacy of the past affects South Africa so very strongly, several photographers explore the pictorial potential of their medium to bring past and present together. This presentation explores the different ways that photographers Jean Brundrit, Nomusa Makhubu and Francki Burger, amongst others, introduce a sense of the past into their work to explore ideas such as continuity and disruption.

Date: Tuesday 13 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

Stories Behind the Canvas: Felicity Jervis Framed: a duchess, a dwarf, the dancer and the ‘hero’ Social historian Felicity Jervis delves into the social history, secrets and reality behind some world-famous portraits. Felicity’s revelations will intrigue, expose, shock, and shame. A fast-paced presentation - sometimes controversial - using over 180 visuals, music and video clips to entertain, inform, amuse and enlighten. Felicity’s previous presentations have always been a feature of FynArts, no doubt this new one will be no exception!

Date: Wednesday 14 June

Time: 14:30

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

Abstract expression has been part of humankind since we made our first marks, but there is still much scepticism about how abstract paintings are made and what they mean. Picasso said: ‘Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird?’ In the 21st century there is a renewed interest in abstract art and its ability to speak to matters spiritual and metaphysical, as well as to the political, social and cultural conditions of our times.

Two Presentations by Marilyn Martin

The Origins and Practices of Abstraction in Europe and its Influence on 20th Century Painting In Munich in 1910 Kandinsky painted a watercolour which was free of any objective elements and was composed exclusively of colours and lines, while in Paris Picasso and Braque were on the brink of abstraction. These revolutionary approaches spread rapidly and gave rise to two main streams as the 20th century progressed - painterly and geometric abstraction. This evolution and its many manifestations are traced.

Date: Wednesday 14 June

Time: 9:30

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

Abstract Painting in South Africa - Then and Now Abstraction is an integral part of cultural production in Africa - it did not start in 1910, but perhaps with the Blombos Ochre 70,000 to 80,000 years ago. This lecture is situated in the context of the history of two-dimensional abstract expression in southern Africa and the pioneers and exponents of modernism, from Mancoba to Maqhubela and from Laubscher to Ainslie. It explores the many and exciting ways in which contemporary South African artists are arriving at abstraction, both technically and conceptually.

All art works courtesy of The New Church Museum Date: Wednesday 14 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Stephan Welz Series - Talks & Presentations

The Power of Abstract Art

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Please note: The day starts with a breakfast talk.

Catch the Rainbow: Gcina Mholphe Gcina will discuss the progressive role the creative arts have played as South Africa strives to deserve the name ‘Rainbow Nation’.

Gcina is a well known South African anti-apartheid activist and acclaimed actress, storyteller, poet, playwright, director and author.

Through her charismatic performances, she strives to preserve storytelling as a means of keeping history alive and encouraging children to read. Gcina is involved in making books available to rural communities by seeing that libraries are built and stocked with locally and culturally relevant books. Gcina currently serves as the patron of ASSITEJ, South Africa, the International Association for Theatre for Children and Young People.

Date: Thursday 15 June

Time: 9:00

Venue: Hermanus Golf Club

Tickets: R250 (includes breakfast)

The Summer of ’42: The fall of Tobruk: James Gray To many men, now in their seventies, whose fathers were captured in Tobruk in the summer of ’42, the story of what happened on the 20th and 21st June 1942 is a vague memory. ‘My father never spoke about it’, they frequently tell you. In one devastating stroke, over 12000 South Africans - 33% of South Africa’s fighting forces in North Africa - were overwhelmed by Rommel’s Afrika Korps, captured and led into captivity. The fall of Tobruk was a catastrophe for the Allied cause and an unparalleled military humiliation for South Africa. 75 years on, the story of the fall of Tobruk is deserving of re-telling. What happened? Where did it all go so disastrously wrong? James Gray will attempt to tell again the fast-fading story, bringing home to a younger generation the tragic events that affected the lives of thousands of young South Africans.

Date: Thursday 15 June

Time: 9:30

Venue: United Church

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

Brood Parasitic Behaviour in Birds: Anton Odendaal

The Art of Deception This richly illustrated presentation focuses on families of Southern African birds that do not incubate their eggs or rear their chicks.

This facinating talk reveals the strategies these birds use to deceive the host species. Whilst many are aware of the devious plans that cuckoos make to out-smart their hosts, very few know about whydas and honeyguides and their distinct strategies. Recent revelations on counter strategies by the host species will also be highlighted. This ‘strange, but true’ phenomenon emphasises the beauty of Mother Nature at work.

Date: Thursday 15 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: United Church

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

and Jo-Anne Duggan A new centre

This presentation is in two parts. Firstly, Alex Robertson will focus on the design and development of the new centre at the West Coast Fossil Park, a National Heritage Site. He will share the difficulties faced in identifying a suitable location. Particularly since it could not impact adversely on the environment and the area’s unique palaeontological resources but would allow for the construction of a building in a fairly remote location. Secondly, Jo-Anne Duggan will speak to the challenges faced by the exhibition development team. Working with traces of the past - fossils, fossil pollens, sediments - to visualise and recreate an environment that existed five million years ago in a way that explains to visitors both our knowledge and the gaps that remain.

Date: Thursday 15 June

Time: 14:00

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

Sustainability through Science and Environmental Writing: Mike Bruton South African scientist Mike Bruton will discuss the importance of popular science and environmental writing in addressing both the environmental crisis and the strengthening of a science culture. As references Mike will include his autobiography: When I was a Fish - Tales of an Ichthyologist as well as his other books on African indigenous knowledge, the story of the coelacanth and great South African inventions. With interesting anecdotes from his colourful international career, Mike will highlight the importance of not only changing one’s mind-set and behaviour but also influencing others to change theirs.

Date: Friday 16 June

Time: 9:30

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

Crossover Music: the Black Sheep or Champion?: Charl du Plessis

CD sales have dropped, genres are getting less rigid and defined and the eclectic mix of styles are becoming ever more popular.

Where does this leave the classic connoisseur and how can crossover music solve this dilemma? A critical discussion of styles, our prejudice and good taste. Charl du Plessis is a Steinway Artist and concert pianist performing simultaneously in jazz and classical genres across Europe, Asia and extensively in South Africa. His Trio is renowned for crossover interpretations of Baroque, have won multiple awards and recorded six albums and are Claves Recording Artists.

Date: Friday 16 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Stephan Welz Series - Talks & Presentations

West Coast Fossil Park: Alex Robertson

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My Own Liberator: Dikgang Moseneke and

Christopher Hope

Former Deputy Chief Justice, Dikgang Moseneke, in conversation with Christopher Hope about his recent biography that recounts a rich and remarkable life. Their discussion will touch on Judge Mosneke’s ideal form of justice; how to turn a spell in prison into potential learning; what made him a non-racialist; and why he chose a life in law and not politics. The latter decision propelled him to eminence in the Constitutional Court.

Date: Saturday 17 June

Time: 9:30

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

The Rock Art of the Western Cape:

John Parkington

Eland and elephant images Eland and elephant are the most frequently found images in the rock paintings of the Western Cape, but the significance of these two species for San painters seems to have been very different. Eland are used as metaphorical references to hunting and gender, whereas elephants seem to have been chosen because in many ways they resembled the San societies. Elephant social complexity, communication and ecological dispersal bore many resemblances to the way San societies were organised on a common landscape. The presentation explores these issues and offer explanations for the patterning of image compositions.

Date: Saturday 17 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R85 / R75 (early bird)

Please note: The day starts with a breakfast talk Constitutional Matters: Q & A with Dikgang Moseneke Following a brief introduction to the topic, Justice Moseneke, recently retired after being South Africa’s longest serving deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, will discuss questions raised from the floor. He is widely regarded for his approach to the Bench and a leadership style that expresses his courage, intellect and compassion. He holds five honorary doctorates, and has been praised for both his legal mind and his commitment to fairness and justice. His autobiography, My Own Liberator, was published after he retired in 2016.

Date: Sunday 18 June

Time: 9:00

Venue: Hermanus Golf Club

Tickets: R250 (includes breakfast)

Life Drawing: A competition with a difference

Workshops

Please note: Full day workshops include tea/coffee, light lunch and notes where applicable. Shorter workshops include tea/coffee and notes where applicable. A list of requirements and further details will be sent to workshop participants.

The Benguela Cove Life Drawing competition is a competition with a difference. Artists will spend a relaxed morning of life drawing in a beautiful setting overlooking the Bot River lagoon. At the end of the session, three judges will select the winning artwork which will be exhibited for one year at the Manor House. The rest of the selected works will form the Life Drawing exhibition that will stay in place for the duration of the festival. For more information: Warren Pearce 084 513 0911.

Date: Friday 9 June

Time: 9:00 - 12:00

Venue: Benguela Cove Manor House

Entry fee: R150 (includes refreshments)

Marvellous Mugs: Hennie Meyer One day Learn the lesser-known method of making continuous (seamless) slabs. You will use this technique to make a simple cylinder that will be transformed into a mug or other marvellous object. Hennie will demonstrate his various methods of creating interesting handles which will allow you to make and attach your own intriguing additions to a variety of objects. While learning this new method of construction, there will also be a focus on creative play with clay. Using the expressive qualities of clay, composite shapes and colour Hennie turns strong forms and detailed surfaces into award-winning vessels, objects and installations.

Date: Saturday 10 June

Time: 10:00 - 15:30

Venue: Art Shop

Tickets: R500 / R475 (early bird) - includes materials and a light lunch

Art of Flute Making: Dizu Plaatjies One day Dizu is the founder member and former leader of the group, Amampondo, and more recently, of an ensemble called Ibuyambo. He is an acclaimed musician and composer of arrangements drawn from African musical styles. When not on stage, he has no time to get bored: he is an instructor in various workshops, both for music making and creating musical instruments. He has presented workshops widely in Africa and in the United States, Scandinavia and the Netherlands.

Date: Saturday 10 June

Time: 10:00 - 12:30

Venue: Enlighten Trust, Swartdam Road

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Cellphone Photography: Leanne Dryburgh and Peter Hassall Half day After a slideshow of hints and tips on how to take great photos with a cell phone, wander along Harbour Road to Sculpture on the Cliffs. Explore and photograph the shops and galleries, Lemm’s corner, and more, before returning to the Windsor Hotel. Prizes will be given for the winning photos taken on this Photo Walk. A cell phone with a camera is essential.

Date: Saturday 10 June

Time: 9:30 - 11:30

Venue: Windsor Hotel

Tickets: R250 / R150 (scholars)

Mosaic - Colours and Texture: Karla Duterloo Half day Create an abstract mosaic on a 20cm X 20cm wooden tile with glass, tesserae, inserts and beads where colour and texture play an important role. Concentrate on the creative process, letting go of what things ‘should’ look like. You will take home your finished product although the final grouting can be done at home. All levels of skill welcome. All the basic mosaic materials will be provided.

Date: Sunday 11 June

Time: 10:00 - 13:00

Venue: Windsor Hotel

Tickets: R325 (includes materials and refreshments)

Silversmith and Design: Ralph and Heidi Walton Half day Join a morning’s introduction to the art of goldsmiths. In this workshop you will make your own silver ring under the guidance of Ralph and Heidi Walton. They will take you through all the steps and processes from melting metal to working on final finishes.

Numbers are very limited.

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Time: 9:00 - 13:00

Venue: Ralph Walton Jewellery, Hemel-en-Aarde

Three days Let go of old habits and experiences and find new ways of expressing yourself through the use of materials and different approaches to making images. This is not a theme-based workshop but rather an experience for each participant to gain access to the subject matter they would like to work with - figurative or nonfigurative. The course is a process-based experience rather than product-focused. Sharing ideas will create an interactive, creative work-space. Jill Trappler has been an active participant in the Thupelo Workshop from its inception and a founder member of the Greatmore Studios in Cape Town.The course is open to anyone interested in image-making, with or without previous experience. Further information will be sent to participants.

Date: Monday 12 June - Wednesday 14 June

Time: 10:00 - 15:30

Venue: United Church Hall

Workshops

Losing and Finding / Finding and Losing:

Jill Trappler

Tickets: R1 350 (includes light lunches)

Breadmaking Workshop: Warwick Taylor and Haward Chibaya One to two hours Learn the fine art of breadmaking and tips from the professionals, such as different types of yeast and the benefits of using a starter instead of dehydrated yeasts. The demonstration will include making, proving and baking sourdoughs and ciabattas - and a tasting of various breads!

Date: Monday 12 June

Time: 10:00 - 11:30

Venue: Source, Hemel-en-Aarde Village

Tickets: R250 / R225 (early bird)

The Memoir: Christopher Hope One day A memoir is a way of remembering one’s own life. But why would anyone else want to read it? This one-day workshop is about what makes a memoir memorable and will take a look at what it means to lay out your life on the page. Participants are encouraged to bring along any work of their own. Christopher Hope is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His memoir, White Boy Running, won the CNA Award. He has also written many novels, such as the acclaimed Kruger’s Alp and My Mother’s Lovers. His work includes several collections of short stories.

Date: Monday 12 June

Time: 10:00 - 15:30

Venue: Windsor Hotel

Tickets: R500 / R475 (early bird) - includes photocopies and a light lunch

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Lowlight Photography: Leanne Dryburgh and Peter Hassall Half day This year we will be using the Voelklip Beach with the mountains and sea as a backdrop as the canvas. We will capture the reflections in the estuary at the end of the day as the bird come in to roost and then as the sun sets, we will be lighting up the waters edge and the dunes to create a Winter Wonderland with lights, and finish off with a ‘Grande-Finale’of “Painting with light”. This is a wonderful Photo-Workshop that is great fun and very informative! A camera that can attach to a tripod is essential, as is a tripod.

This Educational Photowalk won the’Best Adventure’ award at the 2014 Cape Getaway Show.

Tripods can be hired from thephotowalkers.

Date: Monday 12 June

Time: 17:00 - 19:00

Venue: Voëlklip Beach

Tickets: R250

Black & White Photography: Anita de Villiers One day The choice for a photographer to go Black & White is an expressive one that allows the photographer to reinterpret and translate a subject or scene into an alternative medium. Many master photographers’ signature work is in Black & White. Participants start with conceptualising the image and working with graphic elements when composing an image. The impact of light and contrast is discussed and applied to create tonal drama or high / low key or chiaroscuro in images. The final step of digital enhancement is illustrated and applied. Anita de Villiers, a professional photographer and photojournalist, has distinguished herself as a Black & White photographer and teacher. This workshop is suitable for Intermediate and more advanced photographers. Further information will be sent to participants.

Date: Tuesday 13 June

Time: 10:00 - 15:30

Venue: Windsor Hotel

Tickets: R500 / R475 (early bird) - includes a light lunch

The Fine Art of Beading: Penny Cornell Half day Learn how to make a beaded ‘twisted curl’ using Peyote Stitch and beads of varying sizes. Peyote Stitch is one of the basic stitches associated with “off-loom” beading. The finished “twisted curl” can be used as an ornament or incorporated into a piece of jewellery.

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Time: 10:00 - 13:00

Venue: Mission’s House Gallery, Onrus

Tickets: R325 (includes beading kit with quality glass seed beads, and refreshments)

One day Join Anton to discover the beauty of the birds along the Cape Whale Coast. One of the region’s greatest assets is the sheer diversity of its highly sought-after endemic and near-endemic bird species. This workshop will introduce you to the rich avian diversity of the area and emphasise where these special species may be found. Anton, chairman of BirdLife Overberg, has developed bird identification brochures, checklists and posters. He is also the manager of the Western Cape Birding website and Facebook page.

Date: Wednesday 14 June

Time: 10:00 - 15:30

Venue: Fernkloof Hall

Workshops

Birding for Beginners: Anton Odendal

Tickets: R350 (includes course notes and a light lunch)

Plein Air Landscape: Christopher David Reid One day Linear perspective, atmospheric perspective, colour coronas, depth of field and more create better landscape paintings, both outdoors or in the studio whatever your skill level or preferred medium.

Christopher studied art at the Savannah College of Art & Design in the USA where he worked in graphic design for many years before returning to his true love, fine art. All media and all skill levels welcome. Further information and a list of materials will be sent to participants.

Date: Thursday 15 June

Time: 10:00 - 15:30

Venue: Fernkloof Nature Reserve Hall

Tickets: R500 / R475 (early bird) - includes a light lunch

Watercolour Ways: Carl Becker Two days Carl will give an overview of the history and development of the watercolour, looking at the methods used by different artists.

Colour theory and its practical applications will be discussed, as well as the use and ‘behaviour’ of various watercolour pigments.

Day One - Watercolour history and analysis of artists. Practical work: Colour knowledge and its application. Still life exercise (limited palette.) Day Two - Analysis of contemporary watercolours. Practical work: How to approach the great outdoors. The workshop will be for beginners as well as those wanting to brush up on their skills. Further information will be sent to participants.

Date: Thursday 15 June - Friday 16 June

Time: 10:00 - 15:30

Venue: Mosselberg Guest House

Tickets: R500 Tickets: R950 / R900 (early bird) - includes a light lunch

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Create a Children’s Picture Book: Niki Daly One day This workshop event will take the form of a presentation combined with a workshop, introducing you to all you need to know about writing and illustrating a children’s picture book, including generating ideas, guidelines for writing as well as planning a dummy children’s picture book. Niki Daly is an award-winning writer and illustrator of many children’s picture books including The Little Girl who Lived down the Road; Not so Fast Songololo, Once Upon a Time and Jamela’s Dress. His latest picture book, Surprise! Surprise! will be published in South Africa, Britain and Spain this year. Ideal age group 18 - 80 yrs old. All material will be provided.

Date: Thursday 15 June

Time: 10:00 - 15:30

Venue: Windsor Hotel

Tickets: R500 / R475 (early bird) - includes a light lunch

Exploring Photography as Fine Art: Anita de Villiers Beyond the Subject: One day This workshop focuses on guiding participants into developing their own visual voice through conscious camerawork. Genres in modern art and photography, (including Impressionism, Surrealism, Abstract Art, etc.), visual communication, expressive imaging, as well as narrative and conceptual visual art will be covered. Techniques such as motion blur, montage and collage are illustrated and applied. Participants will create a mini portfolio of three fine art images during the workshop. For the past fifteen years Anita has worked as a photographer, writer, teacher and mentor. This workshop is suitable for intermediate and more advanced photographers. Further information will be sent to participants.

Date: Thursday 15 June

Time: 10:00 - 15:30

Venue: United Church Hall

Tickets: R500 / R475 (early bird) - includes a light lunch

Origami for Beginners: Niki Daly Just take paper: Half day Join Niki in this unique workshop to learn the basic folds of origami; how to fold two or more pieces of paper and how to follow origami instructions. All ages welcome. Children 8 - 12 must be accompanied by an adult who will be counted as a participant. Niki is an origami artist and a member of Origami for Africa. The results of his work are delightful characters that have found a market with private collectors and galleries. Of origami, Niki says, ‘The contemplation in folding paper is the closest I have come to reaching a state of meditation, allowing paper and my hands to do most of the ‘thinking’.

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Time: 10:00 - 13:00

Venue: United Church Hall

Tickets: R300 / R275 (early bird) / R250 (scholars) - includes all materials and refreshments

One day The story, short or long, is one of the most wonderful challenges a writer can undertake. Christopher Hope has published several collections of stories and loves the form more than ever. The morning session will consider the shape and feel of a good story, with some classic examples. Participants are encouraged to bring along examples of their own writing but will also be asked to write a very, very short story for reading in the afternoon session.Christopher Hope’s work includes several collections of short stories. He is also the author of novels such as Kruger’s Alp and My Mother’s Lovers. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Date: Friday 16 June

Time: 10:00 - 15:30

Workshops

The Short Story: Christopher Hope

Venue: Windsor Hotel

Tickets: R500 / R475 (early bird) - includes photocopies and a light lunch

R250 scholars (Grade 10 -12)

Design. Decorate. Detail: Madoda Fani One day Madoda’s pots, modern vessels inspired by the traditional, are bought by collectors around the world. He is inspired by nature: plants, insects and animals. ’The shapes I see in everything around me also inspire me,’ he says. Each work of art is painstakingly crafted and carefully decorated, with each detail hand-carved. Working on clay slabs, workshop participants will be shown, and practise under his guidance, the techniques Madoda uses to produce his unique pots.

Date: Friday 16 June

Time: 10:00 - 15:30

Venue: Enlighten Trust, Swartdam Road

Tickets: R200 (includes a light lunch)

Mark Making: Monique Day-Wilde One day Mark-making describes the different lines, patterns and textures possible in the creative process and applies to any art material on any support. No matter what your skill is as an artist, or would-be artist, one can always embrace a more creative approach through play and experimentation. In this workshop mark-making will be explored in a loose, expressive and spontaneous way: tapping, dotting, dabbing, dashing, splattering, rolling and printing, and a lot more. Non-traditional mark-making tools and materials will be used and a simple artist’s book will be created.

Date: Saturday 17 June

Time: 10:00 - 15:30

Venue: United Church Hall

Tickets: R500 / R475 (early bird) - includes a light lunch

R350 scholars (Grade 10 -12)

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Drawing with Light & Dark: Christopher David Reid One day Learn to draw without using lines! In this charcoal drawing workshop Christopher will teach participants subtracting drawing, massing and other methods of drawing with shapes of light and dark instead of lines. Christopher studied at the well-known Savannah College of Art & Design in the USA where he lived and worked as a graphic designer before returning to his first love, fine art. He is also an experienced art teacher. All levels of skills are welcome. A list of materials will be sent to all participants.

Date: Saturday 17 June

Time: 10:00 - 13:30

Venue: Mosselberg Guest House

Tickets: R500 / R475 (early bird) - includes a light lunch

Felted House-shoes: Gerda Mรถhr One day This is a fun and stress-free workshop. Select one of three different patterns and make your own shoes, decorated according to your own unique style and taste. There will be many samples as inspiration.The kit for the workshop will include a piece of handmade Merino felt, a shoe pattern cut to your own size with sole, insole and upper of your choice, as well as a hard-wearing outer sole to ensure that your shoes are longlasting. Bring along your own BLING!, pins, wool, needle, scissors, bits and bobs to decorate your shoes. Threads for stitching and decorations - many flowers and extras - will be available for purchase at the workshop. Anyone with a basic stitching knowledge is welcome.

Date: Saturday 17 June

Time: 9:30 - 15:30

Venue: Windsor Hotel

Tickets: R550 (includes kit and a light lunch)

R400 scholars (Grade 10 -12)

Everybody can Improvise: Charl du Plessis One day All citizens of the world improvise every day without knowing it, but in music many people are scared and self-conscious to even try this wonderful means of expression. Having fun with sound is the aim of this workshop. Everyone welcome - regardless of age, is welcome, no matter what your music background. The only requirements are two open ears, one open mind and two pencils.

The Charl du Plessis Trio is the leading exponent of crossover music, performing across Europe, Asia and South Africa. The Trio is renowned for crossover interpretations of Baroque, have won multiple awards and recorded 6 albums and are Claves Recording Artists. The trio members are: Charl du Plessis (piano), Werner Spies (bass) and Hugo Radyn (drums).

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Time: 10:00

Venue: Enlighten Trust, Swartdam Road

Tickets: R150/ R50 (scholars)

Demonstration - What’s Cooking

Experience home cooking, not the way mother used to do, when five select cooks demonstrate their style of cooking in one of two gourmet kitchens at private Hermanus homes. Learn about some nationally and internationally flavoured recipes, light-hearted and interactive demonstrations, and personal stories.

Just Desserts: Rosa Neser ‘Over the years I have searched for, and created, recipes to satisfy my sweet tooth,’ says Rosa who has complied a wonderful collection of mouthwatering desserts. This series of cookery demonstrations in private homes begins with recipes to end a meal.

Whether the desserts include a ’nod’ to healthy or are just plain decadent, the recipes are sure to be a hit with your family and friends.

Date: Monday 12 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: 53 Mossel River Drive

Tickets: R100 / R90 (early bird)

Why Japan?: Tullishe Roux ‘Steeped in history and culture, this little Island with it’s very shy residents has stolen my heart repeatedly. Japan has a very clear food identity that stretches way beyond sushi. Without giving you a geography lesson you can tell where you are by the food you eat. A chef’s dream destination! I will highlight some stories and flavours from my travels and convince you … why not Japan?’

Date: Tuesday 13 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: 53 Mossel River Drive

Tickets: R100 / R90 (early bird)

Abalone in the Far East:

Christo du Plessis and Werner Piek

This is a one-off opportunity to gain an insiders’ look into the Far Eastern history and preparation of abalone as well as a taste of this rare delicacy paired with local wine. Werner and Christo (CEO of Abagold) will highlight the cultural and culinary significance of this delicacy. Christo is the CEO of Abagold and has been involved in the industry for eleven years having also served in various roles on farmed abalone industry bodies during that time. Werner, food technologist, has been with Abagold for the past eight years studying abalone and perfecting Abagold’s recipes for their various markets.

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Date: Wednesday 14 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: 179, 2nd Street, Voëlklip

Tickets: R100 / R90 (early bird)

‘In Lebanon eating is not seen as a chore, it is fun. Every meal is filled with chatter about food - about what they had eaten previously and about what they were going to eat next. Much of my kitchen wisdom is gained not from recipes but a pinch of this and a handful of that and plenty of tasting. Beautiful Lebanese food is made from the simplest ingredients.‘ Date: Thursday 15 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: 179, 2nd Street, Voëlklip

Tickets: R100 / R90 (early bird)

Scottish Food - Not Just Haggis & Shortbread: Emilia Knight (Appetite Knight) As a clean eating foodie, recipe writer and photographer who was born and raised on a small farm near Stellenbosch, food has always been a central part of my adventures which have carried me from South Africa to the Middle East & Europe. Having spent many years living in Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders, I will demonstrate three of my favourite traditional, hearty, yet easy recipes - some with a wee dram or two.

Date: Friday 16 June

Time: 11:00

Tickets: R100 / R90 (early bird)

Venue: 179, 2nd Street, Voëlklip

Demonstration - What’s Cooking

The Arabesque Kitchen: Eunice Rademeyer

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Demonstrations - Various

Framing Pictures: Mark Senekal This is an ‘awareness’ demonstration. Mark will provide enlightening information on the how-to’s of picture framing and what to expect from a picture framer. The various types of frame, archival versus conservation framing, box framing and shadow box frames.

Date: Monday 12 and Thursday 15 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: Lifestyle Framing Studio

Tickets: R100 / R90 (early bird)

Live Bronze Art Casting: Willie Botha The art of Bronze Casting is thousands of years old. The basic principle of the process has remained unchanged although many new techniques have been developed. The most significant change has been the use of Silicon rubber moulds from which many wax copies could be made, and the ceramic shell process to give high quality casting. Share in the excitement of a roaring furnace and watch Sculptor Willie Botha and his team do a live Bronze Casting.

Date: Tuesday 13 June and Thursday 15 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: Willie Botha Sculpture Studio, Argon Street

Tickets: R100 / R90 (early bird)

The Magic of Making Felt: Gerda Möhr Gerda has developed felt making skills over many years by practising and attending master classes in Europe and elsewhere.

Today, she works with many types of wool and says that wool is not only a fabric but can be crafted three dimensionally into many shapes and forms. Gerda is set to surprise with her hands-on demonstration, by showing off the wonder of handmade felt. Attendees will handle wool in its raw and unprocessed form and experience how it is transformed into a soft flannel-like fabric that has many uses and, as Gerda says, ‘… truly experience the magic of felt making. ‘ Date: Wednesday 14 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: Windsor Hotel

Tickets: R100 / R90 (early bird)

Judge a Book by its Cover: Alex Faria Calling all bibliophiles! Initially all books were bound in full leather but, because of the odd shape of animal skins - neck, legs and more - much of the leather could not be used and half-leather binding became the norm. Alex, master bookbinder, will demonstrate, from start to finish, how he restores family treasures.

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Time: 14:00

Tickets: R100 / R90 (early bird)

Venue: Windsor Hotel

Inclusive tickets ** all four morning OR all four afternoon sessions: R450 ** both evening sessions: R225 ** all ten sessions: R1 000 Wine Plus Series: Personality

Curated by Melvyn Minnaar Supported by Amorim

The concept ‘personality’ suggests someone (presenter) or something (wine) that clearly is beyond the ordinary.

Each presenter has been asked to select six or eight wines of ‘personality’. Those wines reflect something personal, but also shine a spotlight on the state of the industry. So while there is no specific wine theme for each session, these experts, ‘personalities’ in their own right, are challenged to show the best, the traditional, the most unusual, and the cutting edge of wine today.

Melvyn Minnaar

Wine Plus - Tutored Tastings

Venue: Marine Hotel Starting time is included in the write-up for each event.

Tickets: R140 / R120 (early bird)

Day one: Saturday 10 June Time: 12:00

- Pieter Ferreira

South Africa’s foremost expert of sparkling wine, and long-time, prize-winning cellar master for Graham Beck Wines, now also working in the USA. Whether he will choose MCC only remains to be seen.

Time: 15:00

- Duimpie Bayly

Pieter Ferreira

A man with roots in the beautiful legacy of local wine, a judge and expert, and a man who also knows the colourful stories from way back when he was production head of SFW to now. Expect wit matched to wine.

Time: 17:00

- About Méthode Cap Classique with Pieter Ferreira

The MCC producers’ association is celebrating 25 years this year. Pieter Ferreira will provide an overview, but also talk about bubbles, glasses and the future.

Duimpie Bayly

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Wine Plus - Tutored Tastings

Day two:

Sunday 11 June Time: 12:00

Time: 15:00

- Jan Boland Coetzee

- Rosa Kruger

A legendary winemaker, who recalls at a sip the vintage details of every wine he made at places like Kanonkop and Vriesenhof, ever inspired by the classics. Expect knowledge and insight.

The country’s pioneering “old vine” viticulturist, whose passion has led to the documentation of the oldest vines, and inspires leading ‘young guns’ to make wine true to their nature. She knows grapes.

Rosa Kruger

Day three:

Monday 12 June Time: 12:00

Time: 15:00

- Ntsiki Biyela A groundbreaking winemaker who shifted the cultural, gender and race definition of cellar expertise. An accomplished judge and for years at the Stellakaya Winery, she now flies under her own label. Experience a different take.

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Jan Boland Coetzee

- Razvan Macici

Ntsiki Biyela

After driving the Nederburg brand to new and adventurous heights, he is now head winemaker of mega company Distell. Precision, knowledge and skill got him there. If anyone knows, he does.

Razvan Macici

Tuesday 13 June Time: 12:00

- Christian Eedes

Time: 15:00

Judge, organiser of various top-end competitions and editor of on-line Wine Magazine, which provides wine ratings virtually every day, few commentators are so well placed for an overview of the state of the industry.

- Wine Critics’ Choice

A widely-popular presentation that challenges wine critics, writers and judges to nominate one wine only and give reasons. Great fun, but also indicative of personality - both of critic and wine!

Wine Plus

Day four:

Stand a chance to win the set of Critics’ Choice wines by buying a raffle ticket in aid of Hermanus FynArts Development Fund.

Time: 17:00

Christian Eedes

- About Wine Ratings with Christian Eedes

The country’s leading wine appraiser in that he heads a series of wine category tasting competitions, and gives daily ratings on his blog. The use of the controversial 100 point system is only one of the issues to be discussed.

Gin Revolution - Paul du Toit Paul, Gin expert and consummate storyteller, has been in the industry since the first South African craft gin was produced. Join him for a unique journey and explore the inner soul of our Gins. He will delve into history and reveal the secrets that are taking us by the typical Cape storm. Paul will share tonic wisdoms and cocktails for kings and kin. A sensorial explosion!

Date: Friday 16 June

Time: 12:00

Venue: Marine Hotel

Tickets: R140 / R120 (early bird)

History of Wine Making in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley Anthony Hamilton Russell

Anthony will give an overview of the history of wine in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley specifically, and Hemel-en-Aarde area in general.

He will also touch on the geological history of the soils, and the ancient human history of this beautiful place. Two of their recent Platter Five Stars wines will be served for tasting during the presentation.

Date: Friday 16 June

Time: 15:00 - 16:30

Tickets: R140 / R120 (early bird)

Tastings - Various

Please note: two independent tastings, one at the Marine Hotel and the other at Braemar House, Hamilton Russell Wine Farm

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Gcina will discuss the progressive role the creative arts have played as South Africa strives to deserve the name ‘Rainbow Nation’.

Gcina is a well known South African anti-apartheid activist and acclaimed actress, storyteller, poet, playwright, director and author.

Through her charismatic performances, she strives to preserve storytelling as a means of keeping history alive and encouraging children to read. Gcina is involved in making books available to rural communities by seeing that libraries are built and stocked with locally and culturally relevant books. Gcina currently serves as the patron of ASSITEJ, South Africa, the International Association for Theatre for Children and Young People.

Date: Thursday 15 June

Time: 9:00

Venue: Hermanus Golf Club

Tickets: R250 (includes breakfast)

Jazzed up Dinner: Dutchies Jazz paired with food is among the many unique and fun experiences offered by the Dutchies team. For FynArts they will present a three-course meal paired with a mystery jazz performer.

Date: Thursday 15 June

Time: 18:30

Venue: Dutchies

Tickets: R300 / R275 (early bird)

For bookings: 028 314 1392

Breakfast - Dinner

Catch the Rainbow: Gcina Mholphe

Creation: Food as Art paired with Wine and Music Don’t miss a unique three-course dinner paired with Creation’s award-winning wines and music to match. The members of the Creation Culinary Team look forward to showing off their talents as part of the FynArts Festival in Hermanus. Food as Art promises to be a rare celebration of food, wine and music.

Date: Thursday 15 June

Time: 18:30

Venue: Creation

Tickets: R550

For bookings: 028 212 1107

Constitutional Matters: Q & A with Justice Moseneke Following a brief introduction to the topic, Justice Moseneke, recently retired after being South Africa’s longest serving deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, will discuss questions raised from the floor. He is widely regarded for his approach to the Bench and a leadership style that expresses his courage, intellect and compassion. He holds five honorary doctorates, and has been praised for both his legal mind and his commitment to fairness and justice. His autobiography, My Own Liberator, was published after he retired in 2016.

Date: Sunday 18 June

Time: 9:00

Venue: Hermanus Golf Club

Tickets: R250 (includes breakfast)

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Local restaurants step up with their FynArts Signature Dish that will be on their menus during the festival. As a mouthwatering taste of what to look forward to, each participating restaurant has revealed one ingredient - quirky, basic or unconventional. After the festival, the chefs will release their recipes which will be published as a FynArts Signature Collection.

Barefoot Cook

Cranberries

La Vierge

Truffle oil

Cattle Baron

Bearnaise sauce

Creation

Blueberry gel

Daily Bread

Persian lime olive oil

Die Plaaskombuis

Free-range eggs

Dutchies

Salt and more salt

ELL 269

Locally sourced pine-ring mushrooms

Fabios

Porcini mushrooms

The Barefoot Cook

Bone marrow

Fusion

Brandy restaurant

La Pentola

Perlemoen

LB Seafood Bistro on the Bay

Ginger

Oskars

Oxtail

Pear Tree

Naartjies

Rossis

Origanum

Savannah CafĂŠ

Lamb

Source

Smoke

Spookfontein

Tongue

Breakfast - Lunch - Dinner

Fishermans Cottage

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Films - vintage

Venue: Movie-Go-Round Vintage Theatre at Romantiques, 14 Aberdeen Street.

Tickets: No charge, however a non-refundable booking fee of R35 per person will be requested.

Booking essential: All films screened are, once again, likely to be sold out.

The Philadelphia Story (1940) B&W, 1 hour 52 mins Comedy directed by George Cukor Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart Date: Friday 9 June

Time: 15:00

Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn), a Philadelphia heiress, is about to marry coal-company executive George Kittridge (John Howard).

The wedding, a premier event, attracts the attention of magazine publisher Sidney Kidd (Henry Daniell) and Spy magazine’s Dexter Haven (Cary Grant), Lord’s ex-husband. The latter is enlisted to ‘gain access’ to the party, along with top scandal writer Macauley Connor (James Stewart). However, the reporter is quickly smitten by the bride’s charms - and he’s not the only one. Stewart shines in his offbeat, Academy Award-winning role.

Curly Top (1935) B&W, 1 hour 15 mins

Musical directed by Irving Cummings Shirley Temple, John Boles

Date: Saturday 10 June

Time: 13:00

Shirley is the destitute little orphan girl who lives in an orphanage and plays cupid for her beautiful sister. The sisters are discovered by a bachelor millionaire who whisks them off to his Park Avenue abode and promptly falls in love with the older sister. Never one to abandon her roots, Temple returns to the orphanage for some rousing song and dance routines with her friends. Features the hit songs Curly Top, When I Grow Up and Animal Crackers in my Soup.

Chicago (2002) Colour, 1 hour 53 mins Musical / Crime directed by Rob Marshall Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere Date: Saturday 10 June

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Time: 15:00

Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger), two murderers, find themselves in jail together, awaiting trial in 1920’s Chicago. Velma, a vaudevillian and Roxie, a housewife, both represented by lawyer Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows. Winner of six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The first musical to win Best Picture since Oliver! in 1968.

Musical / Biography directed by Milos Forman F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce

Date: Monday 12 June

Time: 15:00

Italian composer Salieri, is so driven by jealousy of Mozart and his success as a composer that he plans to kill him and to pass off as his own, a requiem which he secretly commissioned from Mozart, to be premiered at Mozart’s funeral. Humorous and tragic at the same time. Tom Hulce as Mozart, portrays the composer’s genius and madness admirably. Winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Films - vintage

Amadeus (1984) Colour, 2 hours 27 mins

Pride and Prejudice (1940) B&W, 1 hour 58 mins Classic directed by Robert Z. Leonard Laurence Olivier, Greer Garson Date: Tuesday 13 June

Time: 15:00

Based on Jane Austen’s novel about five sisters from an English family of landed gentry, who must deal with issues of marriage, morality and misconceptions. Elizabeth, the eldest daughter, instantly takes offence when proud Mr. Darcy, a promising newcomer in town, doesn’t seem quite admiring enough so she spurns his advances.

West Side Story (1961) Colour, 2 hours 32 mins

Musical / Dance / Drama directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris

Date: Wednesday 14 June

Time: 15:00

Vivid film adaptation of the landmark Broadway musical, updating Romeo and Juliet’s story to the youth-gang atmosphere of late 1950s NYC. Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer shine as the star-crossed lovers from different neighbourhoods and ethnicities Winner of ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

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Films - vintage

Witness for the Prosecution (1957) B&W, 1 hour 54 mins Mystery directed by Billy Wilder Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester Date: Thursday 15 June

Time: 15:00

The affable Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power) is tried for the murder of a wealthy woman. A legendary lawyer, Sir Wilfrid Robarts (Charles Laughton), has chosen to represent him. Unfortunately, Leonard’s alibi depends on the testimony of his callous wife, Christine (Marlene Dietrich) - who after the discovery of a legal loophole, makes the decision to appear in court as witness for the prosecution. To Sir Wilfrid’s surprise, this is only the first in a series of puzzling revelations and reversals. This is the last film that Power completed.

Singin’ in the Rain (1952) Colour, 1 hour 42 mins

Musical / Dance directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds and Jean Hagen

Date: Friday 16 June

Time: 15:00

A spoof of the turmoil that afflicted the movie industry in the late 1920’s when movies went from silent to sound. When the latest film of the two silent movies stars, Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), is made into a musical, a chorus girl is brought in to dub Lina’s speaking and singing. Don is on top of the world until Lina finds out.

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) B&W, 1 hour 33 mins

Musical / Dance / Biography directed by H.C. Potter Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Date: Saturday 17 June

Time: 13:00

Ballroom dancers, Vernon and Irene Castle, work together to perfect their dance routines. After a knockout appearance at the Café de Paris the duo becomes a sensation. Inventors of many well-known dances today, they travel the world performing, but the outbreak of WWI threatens everything. This is top-notch cinematic entertainment which includes more than 40 pop songs. Irene Castle herself diligently oversaw the entire production.

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Date: Saturday 17 June

Time: 15:00

De Havilland’s Oscar winning performance as Catherine, the plain, shy daughter of a wealthy physician who has never received either tenderness or attention. So when a handsome young man comes along and claims to love her, she eagerly returns his affections. Her cold, stern father, however, realises that the suitor cares more for Catherine’s money than for her... and he does everything in his considerable power to destroy the relationship. Aaron Copland’s music score also won an Oscar.

U-Carmen eKhayelitsha

Pauline Malefane and Andiswa Kedama, directed by Mark Dornford-May Don’t miss the acclaimed remake of Bizet ‘s 1875 opera UCarmen which was Mark’s directorial debut. This feature film, spoken and sung in Xhosa, combines music from the original opera with traditional African music, conducted and directed by the British conductor, Charles Hazlewood. The setting is Khayelitsha near Cape Town. None of the cast had ever acted on film before, and they rehearsed for four weeks before shooting began. Based on the famous opera, UCarmen transports us to a modern South African township to follow the story of Carmen, a strong, independent woman who will not be tamed. Mark Dornford-May and Pauline Malefane will be present at the screening to discuss the film.

Date: Sunday 18 June

Time: 11:00

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R90

Films - vintage & South African

The Heiress (1949) B&W, 1 hour 55 mins Drama directed by William Wyler Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson and Miriam Hopkins

Filmverse 2 - An ATKV project in collaboration with Diek Groblery Filmverse 2, is the second presentation of the groundbreaking collaboraton between poetry, animation art, voice art as well as music. Twelve Afrikaans poems were animated by 12 animation artists and the soundtracks dubbed into English, Zulu and Sesotho.

The project aims to create a forum for independent animation in South Africa; to make Afrikaans poetry more visible and accessible and to create animation films of an international standard. The 2015 version of Filmverse received national and international awards.

Complimentary screenings: Afrikaans: Date: Saturday 10 June Afrikaans: Date: Tuesday 13 June English: Date: Friday 16 June English: Date: Friday 16 June

Time: 12:00 Time: 14:00 Time: 11:00 Time: 14:00

Venue: Moffat Hall, Mount Pleasant Venue: Municipal Auditorium Venue: Lukhanyo Primary School, Zwelihle Venue: Municipal Auditorium

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FynArts for the Young & Youth

Although the FynArts programme is full of exciting events that will be enjoyed by all age groups, there are a number of performances especially for young children. There are also big concerts and workshops, over the weekends, at special prices for scholars.

Sunlight and Moonshine- a sensory experience with puppets: Performer The Puppetry and Music departments of Enlighten Education Trust have teamed up to create a unique theatrical experience for young and old.

In this reworking of a classic West-African folk tale, you will watch and you will listen, and you will join in …

Date: Saturday 10 June

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R50

Ages: approx 4 - 7 years

Die Rommelkoning (Rodrick Hunt en Alex Brychta):

Celeste Slabber-Loriston, Marhette van Huyssteen en Felicity Tobias

Story Team bring Oxford-uitgewers se Storieboom-reeks (Graad 2-3 leesboek) na die FynArts, met Die Rommelkoningin! Ons sien vir Biebie, Wim, Wilma, Flappie en Kalla. ‘n Towersleutel neem die bekende leesboek-karakter, Kalla, op ’n avontuur na die fantasiewêreld van die morsjors Rommelkoningin en haar trawante, Rot en Gif. ’n Interaktiewe speel, kyk en leer-ervaring soos net die teater dit kan bied! ’n Story Team Produksie.

Tekswerkerking deur Celeste Slabber-Loriston.

Date: Saturday 10 June

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Time: 10:00 - 10:30

Time: 15:00 - 15:45

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R50

Ages: approx 6 - 10 years

The Puppetry and Music departments of Enlighten Education Trust have teamed up to create a unique theatrical experience for young and old.

In this reworking of a classic West-African folk tale, you will watch and you will listen, and you will join in …

Date: Friday 16 June

Time: 10:00 - 10:30

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R50

Ages: approx 4 - 7 years

The Queen of Waste (Rodrick Hunt and Alex Brychta):

Celeste Slabber-Loriston, Marhette van Huyssteen and Felicity Tobias Story Team brings Oxford Publishers’ Story Tree (Grade 2-3 reading book) to the Fijnarts Festival, with The Queen of Waste. We meet Biff, Wilf, Wilma, Floppie and Chip. A magical key takes the beloved Chip on a magic adventure to the fantasy world of the wasteful Queen of Waste and her sidekicks: Rat and Poison. It is an interactive play, watch and learn experience, like only the theatre can provide! A Story Team Production. Script adaptation by Celeste Slabber-Loriston.

Date: Saturday 17 June

Time: 15:00 - 15:45

Venue: Municipal Auditorium

Tickets: R50

Ages: approx 6 - 9 years

Meet Gcina Mholphe in Zwelihle Specially for Youth Day!

FynArts for the Young & Youth

Sunlight and Moonshine- a sensory experience with puppets: Performer

Do not miss out on a time to spend with Gcina - the acclaimed actress, director and writer will offer a poetry and music performance followed by a Q&A with young people regarding the country’s history and it’s interpretation.

Date: Friday 16 June

Time: 12:00

Venue: Lukhanyo Primary School

As well as these concerts for younger children, this year all big concerts over weekends offer special rates for scholars. In addition, many of the workshops on offer also offer reduced rates for scholars.

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Accommodation

Bookshops

Galleries

Birkenhead House 028 314 8000 info@birkenheadhouse.com www.birkenheadhouse.com Eastbury Cottage 028 312 1258 eastbury@hermanus.co.za www.eastburycottage.co.za Fernkloof Lodge 028 312 2975 info@fernklooflodge.co.za www.fernklooflodge.co.za Marine Hotel 028 313 8000 reservations@collectionmcgrath.com www.collectionmcgrath.com Mosselberg on Grotto Beach 028 314 0055 bookings@mosselberg.co.za www.mosselberg.co.za Ocean Eleven 028 312 1332 info@oceaneleven.co.za www.oceaneleven.co.za Whale Rock Lodge 028 313 0014 info@whalerock.co.za www.whalerock.co.za Windsor Hotel 028 312 3727 info@windsorhotel.co.za www.windsorhotel.co.za

Hemingways 082 312 2739 hemingwayshermanus@gmail.com www.hemingwaysbookshop. blogspot.com

Abalone Gallery 082 313 2935 info@abalonegallery.co.za www.abalonegallery.co.za Bellini 028 312 4988 bellini@telkomsa.net www.bellini-gallery.co.za Canvas of Life 073 162 6246 art.reinet@vodamail.co.za Daniel Kok Galery 028 316 2856 celeste@danielkokgalery.co.za www.danielkokgalery.co.za De Jongh Gelderblom 076 733 6936 harold@worxart.co.za Forty x 40 028 313 2741 lembu@telkomsa.net www.lembu.net Geta Finlayson Studio 082 772 5949 finonrus@hermanus.co.za www.geta.co.za Gillian Hahn Art 076 047 7125 gillianhahn14@gmail.com Hermanus Art Circle 083 992 4755 adlimnaude@gmail.com www.hermanusartcircle.com Jubilee 079 904 8880 nemesia37@gmail.com Kunskantoor 082 879 2274 renzske@gmail.com

78th on 5th 082 725 8049 78thon5th@gmail.com www.78thon5th.co.za 138 Marine 028 316 3447 info@138marine.co.za www.138marine.co.za

The Book Collector 0781Â 200Â 120 thebookcollector@hermanus.co.za www.booklcollector.co.za Bookmark 028 312 2000 bookmark@hermanus.co.za www.bookmarkhermanus.blogspot.co.za The Book Cottage 060 676 6116 bookcott@hermanus.co.za www.bookcottagehermanus.co.za Quirk and Leopard 072 753 8940 dee@quirkandleopard.co.za www.quirkandleopard.co.za

Lembu 028 312 1187 info@lembu.net www.lembu.co.za Malcolm Bowling 076 122 0218 info@malcolmbowling.com www.malcolmbowling.com Missions House 028 316 2269 info@missionhousegallery.com www.missionshousegallery.co.za Originals 083 259 8869 originals@hermanus.co.za www.spinman.co.za Pure South 028 312 1899 amzam@polka.co.za Ralph Walton 028 313 1784 rwalton@telkomsa.net www.rwd.co.za Rossouw Modern 028 313 2222 / 083 228 8651 info@rossouwmodern.com www.rossouwmodern.co.za The Art Gallery 082 922 3815 bruceah@mweb.co.za The Space 028 313 2222 / 083 228 8651 info@rossouwmodern.com www.rossouwmodern.co.za Walkerbay Art Gallery 028 312 2928 francois@walkerbayartgallery.co.za www.walkerbayartgallery.co.za Walkerbay Modern 028 312 2928 francois@walkerbayartgallery.co.za www.walkerbayartgallery.co.za

Stay - Find Arts & Books

Stay in Hermanus at one of the establishments below at winter special rates. Meet family and friends for breakfast, lunch and dinner, or simply for coffee and cake. All the restaurants serving evening meals at weekends *, or daily ** are take last orders until at least 21:00. However, in consideration of the staff, and to ensure a table, please make reservations ahead of time.

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We greatly appreciate the sponsorship and backing Hermanus FynArts receives each year.

We thank especially our Signature Sponsors for their continued and generous support.

They have helped build the Festival into an exciting annual event that not only celebrates the arts but also encourages the development of art throughout the wider community.

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