Issue 19 by Vasilica Bob

SNEAK PEeK

16 PROFILE: ANTON KANNEMEYER

20 PROFILE: AM I COLLECTIVE

24 PROFILE: SELECTED CREATIVES

50 feature: CAPE TOWN

58 feature: JOHANNESBURG

75 FASHION: PROJECT AIKO

94 MUSIC: MACHINERI

66 feature: DURBAN

41 FASHION: ROZANNE IS… ANI-MAL

38 PROFILE: KUDZI CHIURAI

96 MUSIC: GORILLAZ

86 FASHION: AFRO-GAZING

99 MUSIC: LOCNVILLE

100 MUSIC: BLACK RIVER VALLEY

CONTENTS PROFILES:

FEATURES: URBAN LIFESTYLE

LOCAL GRAPHIC ARTIST

ANTON KANNEMEYER

CAPE TOWN DESIGN AGENCY

AM I COLLECTIVE

FASHION:

STREETWEAR COLLECTION

CITIES ALIVE: WHY CAPE TOWN, JOZI & DURBS HAVE HEART

Join one small seed on a tour through SA’s creative metropoles and uncover the real Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban.

ROZANNE IS… ANI-MAL

HAUTE COUTURE

PROJECT AIKO: RISE OF THE MACHINES

CITIES ALIVE SELECTED CREATIVES

A NEW ONE SMALL SEED NETWORK 24 INITIATIVE

CAPE TOWN

From Long Street through to Woodstock, discover the beauty at the intersection between the Devil’s Peak and the deep blue sea.

AFRICAN-INSPIRED STREETWEAR

AFRO-GAZING: PUMA & KEHINDE WILEY COLLECTION

SELECTED CREATIVES

CARLA LIESCHING’S SWIMMERS

CITIES ALIVE

JOHANNESBURG SELECTED CREATIVES

GERHARDT COETZEE’S OPEN SPACES

Delve into Jozi’s inner city to find out what is putting the heart back into the City of Gold.

CAPE TOWN MACHINE BLUES

MACHINERI

CITIES ALIVE

DURBAN

SELECTED CREATIVES

ANDREW MC GIBBONS’S SPARE TOOLS

SELECTED CREATIVES

Welcome to the perpetual sunshine city on SA’s east coast: dive in deep to find the creative treasures hidden at its heart.

ANIMATED SUPER GROUP

GORILLAZ: RETURN OF THE PLASTIC PRIMATES

SA ART EVENT

PUMA & KEHINDE WILEY: LEGENDS OF UNITY

Visual artist Kehinde Wiley collaborates with iconic sportslifestyle brand Puma, to create awe-inspiring artworks and fashion in a celebration of African football.

CAPE TOWN ELECTRO DANCE DUO

LOCNVILLE

THE LOST SOUNDS OF ROCK ‘N ROLL

BLACK RIVER VALLEY

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SA ARTISTS COLLABORATION

CITY SLICKER AWARD: DURBAN ILLUSTRATOR

GREG DARROLL

ARTIST COLLABORATION

DEON DU PLESSIS: KALEIDOSKOOP 32

CITY SLICKERS POSTER SHOW

MUSIC:

NIKE AFTER 10

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Nike and one small seed collaborate with local artists to write the future of the world after ’10. JOZI-BASED ARTIST

KUDZI CHIURAI ON THE BLACK PRESIDENT

DEPARTMENTS: IN STORE BOOK REVIEWS SUBSCRIPTIONS CD REVIEWS

PAGE 8 PAGE 14 PAGE 98 PAGE 102

DVD REVIEWS NOW SHOWING THE LAST WORD

PAGE 106 PAGE 108 PAGE 111

PROFILE: Local Graphic Artist

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guess whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming to dinner Local graphic artist Anton Kannemeyer has received global critical acclaim for his subversive take on racerelated issues. Now he returns to South Africa for his latest solo exhibition. WORDS:

gary hartley |

New Boyfriend (2010) | 225 x 121.5 cm | acrylic on canvas

IMAGES:

courtesy of michael stevenson gallery, cape town

Caption Contest (2010) | 169.5 x 103 cm | acrylic on canvas

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A P A L E T T E O F T A L E N T THOMAS OKES chats to the guys behind Cape Town design agency Am I Collective about business, survival, and all things design.

Our country is a complicated place. There’s a lot of drama to ponder in the everyday of South Africa’s social recital, a big body of detail in the majestic backstage of its cultural scene; and with all the varying voices in such a crowded cast of competing characters, the grand narrative of our intertwined experience can often seem too big to believe. With so many stories surrounding our senses, it seems the only way to matter in this milieu is to stop speaking, to stop selling — to shut up, take a breath, and listen. Am I Collective are managing that almost unmanageable balance, of being heard without shouting, by crafting distinct, important, intelligent design. And that simple symmetry — where what they do is in how they do it — has made them pioneers of a burgeoning industry. They don’t like titles, apparently, but back before Ruan Vermeulen and Christo Basson became the studio’s “kind of creative directors”, they lived through “some desperate times” as they struggled to attach their knack for illustration to a visible career path. “Right after we finished studying, no-one wanted illustrators,” says Ruan. “These were the days before design had blown up, and we were doing any briefs we could get our hands on: we were making websites for makeup companies from Bellville, or animal feed companies from Wellington, just to survive.” “People used to say Ruan and I were married,” Christo remembers. “I had a credit card and he had a car, and between us we would sukkel on, living on a bar tab. But, you know, I would take my portfolio to agencies, and they’d say, ‘It’s great, but you just won’t fit in here.’” “We started drawing and designing for local bands,” Ruan says, “things like posters and music videos. And we used that stuff to mess around, explore different styles, and also to get ‘behind the band’, not just draw pretty pictures that don’t mean anything. We wanted to take risks, to make mistakes, not to fit into the same box year after year and go crazy.”

Their instinct for creative liberty was met by the corporate daring of “basically our managing director” Mark van Niekerk, and it was then that their ‘behind the band’ approach matured into a business model. “When I came on board, I’d quit my previous job and we had about six months to make a go of this [studio] thing,” says Mark. “We had to work out very quickly what we wanted to do and how best to do it. I saw a niche for illustration in the design industry, definitely, but more importantly we realised that our diversity was our stand-out offering.” “Since the beginning, we’ve focussed on being uncomfortable,” he continues, “and we believe in developing a wide-ranging palette of talent. Our goal is continual change, in what we do and the way we do it. We have this policy of renewing our artists every year or two; for instance, we have an internship programme that allows artists locally and abroad to spend a year working with us, and this always helps to add more unique styles to the mix.” “It’s always good to blend independent voices,” adds Ruan, “because the results are so unpredictable. If you put two artists in a room with the same brief, and their usual styles are completely different from one another, then what they produce together is going to be very different from what anyone’s expecting.” If people are people through other people, then Am I Collective’s belief — that contrived self-importance is the death of our natural diversity — has brought them to the forefront of South African design. The sheer range of their relevance means that their imagery is everywhere, all the time: from that gig poster to that TV ad, book covers to World Cup billboards, Am I are quietly driving a steady revolution. They are visible proof that to mean anything, to matter at all, we must be ready to drop the act, lose the ego, and concentrate on creating. “You can’t get stuck pushing out the same look for too long, because you’ll die,” says Christo. “We’ve always believed that to stay alive, we have to listen to other styles to create a new voice for every single thing we do, and use that voice to say something original and important.” www.amicollective.com

PROFILE: Cape Town Design Agency

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Am I Collective poster

www.onesmallseed.net

elected Creatives is a one small seed network initiative. This edition is the first of what will soon become a regular feature in one small seed magazine, a feature that showcases the work of our top selected creative members from one small seed network — as determined by you.

This is how Selected Creatives works: the core team at one small seed select a group of top creative members from our online community at www.onesmallseed.net. These will be members who have been seen to submit their work to the site regularly, and that which is of a consistently high standard. Any kind of creative visual work, from photography and illustration to journalistic works, are eligible — so long as they can be uploaded as an image or a blog to one small seed network. From there, we put together mini online magazines of each artist’s portfolio, and then we sit back and let you vote for the best. The result of the poll will determine the winning member and runners-up, each of whom will have the opportunity to express their creative talents in one small seed magazine, by having their work featured in the very glossy pages you hold now. Our first Selected Creatives voting poll was held over a week at the start of May. And in that short time, it pulled in a staggering 1415 votes from one small seed network’s members around South Africa and the globe! We would like to thank all of you who took part in this new one small seed network initiative — and for those who didn’t, we look forward to your contribution in the future. And don’t forget: if you would like to see your work featured here in Selected Creatives, all you have to do is join our South African networking community at www.onesmallseed.net and upload your creative work to the site. Share your vision with us and we will show it to the world. Without further ado, here are our winners and runnersup in the Winter 2010 edition of Selected Creatives, brought to you by one small seed network.

Carla Liesching

Carla Liesching (1985) is the winner of one small seed networkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voting poll for this debut edition of Selected Creatives. A photographer and visual artist from Johannesburg, Carla obtained her Degree in Fine Art from Rhodes University, specialising in photography and video, with undergraduate credits in theatre. Since graduating, she has been involved in various exhibitions, performances and installations, and her photographic work has been shown both locally and internationally. Carla is currently living and working in Taipei. Fugia aut que omnihicab ilit ut exerumeni quiaece perspit vere nus, sandiae pligeni alique ipsa duntiorum quis maximusam, et et esequid et, nobis ut fugiaec umenihicae volor sin nis dis eium ist, consenti blab iust, qui arcipic te pariorem enis volupta tenduciis moluptaquiae nonsequatur? Ulpa solore et inte laut ea vendae culparcia il mo molo consero videmporis con expelluptas explatem aspe lam qui aspis prorerum volento officipic tempore rspitem reptium eos evelluptas eosam sam veliquibus sa denis volupta temodicimint re, cusdaecte dolupta nam faceped ut autem quamus ne volores est eum atur alitaqui ute et, anti vel molorer ibusamenest, venis ipit, cone veniendit eicae pario etur? Qui cullecus adipita volore nonsequame nis dolorest, ad qui doluptias ea illestio con con explautassum nus sin eaque la core dolorrovitia inita dolendi tatiamet velendia idis et ma pero eatenditius, quis rae maionet aturia descia pratem quame plabores re sandigeniet ut essiti tendus aut optius, qui ut que sum arumquiatiam quaturi oritatus aut volorios asi doloreicius, que quo que pos atur am quat aliquianto volupid usdandanda con consed ullorrumet et am fugiam, optiat vid el is aut et exerferum apitempor abo.

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THE BLACK PRESIDENTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; His art speaks loud and clear, whereas the artist himself is sensitive, humble and an introvert. Jana du Plessis met with Zimbabwean-born artist Kudzanai 'Kudzi' Chiurai in his airy studio in the dark heart of Joburg City Centre, and discovered a gem. WORDS:

jana du plessis |

IMAGES:

courtesy of the goodman gallery

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CITIES ALIVE one small seed takes you on a cultural tour through our favourite SA metropoles. From the main roads to the back alleys of these creative spaces, we venture through the pop culture terrain to uncover the whos, whats, wheres and whys that make these cities shine. Welcome to the real Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban. ILLUSTRATIONS:

wesley van eeden (hope project)

BETWEEN THE DEVIL’S PEAK & THE DEEP BLUE SEA WORDS: annelie rode WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY: PHOTOGRAPHY: adriaan

sarah claire picton louw

We’re not here to write impassioned prose about the countless beauties of Cape Town, so don’t expect a soliloquy by Her Majesty The Mountain as she reigns over her people, picking at the innumerable delicacies we’re fortunate to find in our backyard. That we’ll leave to the candy-coated guides you pick up as you disembark the plane. We’re here to take to the streets of Cape Town to explore why the life is so good and why such a burgeoning creative community has shaped. Cape Town promotes interaction. Because it is so contained, essential activities like entertainment, retail and other services are in close proximity — and, they are walkable. If the walk is an experience that is beautiful, safe and clean, if you can engage with the buildings or people in the street, then you have the start of a winning formula: one including an early-bird coffee, a lunchtime visit to a gallery, and a cosy or wild spot for a drink after work. All these intervals decrease the pace of life, and, most

importantly, create a platform for urban engagement, facilitating the dissemination of the secret ingredient to any thriving creative community — ideas. If this on its own were enough, however, then a place like Century City would be hugely successful. So wherein lies the magic? Two key elements account for Cape Town’s magic. The first is in a city’s diversity, and it is where these differences converge that opportunities are found. Ravi Naidoo, proud Capetonian and gregarious founder of Interactive Africa, is a business guru who has proved to the world that South Africa, particularly Cape Town, is a force to contend with as an innovation and creative hub. He was instrumental in making the 2010 World Cup possible, putting the first African in space, and bringing Design Indaba not only to Cape Town, but introducing this first creative convention to the world.

Our second magic ingredient is put best by Ravi when he says, “The beauty lies at the intersection.” Cape Town is a cornucopia of physical and metaphysical intersections begging to be uncovered and explored. It’s not just the mountain and her beauty, although we all hold this close to our hearts; it is that in this city there is always opportunity for the fearless to pioneer, areas for the progressive to develop, and countless moments of glitter and grime to incite any creative mind. Nowhere is this more evident than on the streets of Cape Town, where you meet those fearless and progressive minds that took the opportunities at the intersection, shaping their city to create this worldclass quality of life, and globally renowned creative Mecca. One core element these people share is not just their incredible belief in the city, but the integrity with which they approach their work. In this city, community always trumps commerce. So, let us walk you down these streets and introduce you to their people:

LONG STREET: Multinational and divergent, Long Street never sleeps. It wears caftans and backpacks by day, hawking artefacts from Africa and selling antiques from a bygone era. After sundown, it reveals skinny jeans and locally designed jackets bought on the street hours earlier, and is eager to propagate any moneys saved and anxious to leave dignities intact. Walk from the foreshore to the top of trendy Kloof Street, and Long Street changes nationality like a spinning globe, offering fare from all corners of the world. This motley mix of people and places makes it one of the most interesting areas in SA.

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JOBURG:

THE CITY WITH A HEART OF GOLD WORDS: annelie rode WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY: david chislett, lara koseff PHOTOGRAPHY: brett rubin, brett darko steele & uviwe

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Somewhere between heaven and hell, on the doorstep of purgatory, is a mighty city named Johannesburg. Here, there are two choices: live in despair and lament your fate, or learn to grow wings and take flight above it all. We know nothing is more breathtaking than a highveld thunderstorm, and a fat cheque at month-end helps turn a blind eye to many ills; but what really is the allure of living in such a challenging city? The only people who can answer this are those who’ve taken up this challenge, and the only way to understand it is through their eyes. So, we ask an independent filmmaker, a maverick publisher, a young architect, a sound designer and a creative agency director why they keep hanging on and what makes living in Johannesburg so unique. We take a walk through the wild side of Joburg’s music scene as this is one thing that keeps the people together. And finally, we look deep into the neglected soul of the inner city to find the people that are putting their hearts into resuscitating this one-time City of Gold.

HIGH SOCIETY/LOWLY CITY Dress it how ever you want, money is still the one big drawcard to the City of Gold and probably most booming metropolis in Africa, but you wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say so driving through downtown Jozi. The wealth that Joburg is built upon is selfishly hidden behind high walls in the suburbs of Sandton or Sandhurst, and any socialist notions of distribution of wealth is lost with greed, ego and mismanaged government departments. The inner city, the once heart of Southern Africa, has been disregarded and left in disrepair, becoming the hunting ground of vultures preying off the needy and destitute, selling low-cost housing and badly planned neighbourhood as the new salvation. But what is needed to return the inner city to its former glory as Egoli, the place of gold? What will bring the people back to the streets, making them proud residents of the city? We found some courageous individuals with principled ideals of returning to a worldclass place of creative interaction and social harmony.

SUNSHINE CITY WORDS: sarah jayne fell jayne fell & yusuf laher jewnarain, sarah claire picton & simon hartley roger jardine, kevin goss-ross, xavier vahed, andrew moore, matt kay, kim longhurst ALL from DURBAN!

INTERVIEWS BY: sarah WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY: ashley IMAGES:

Durban is an alarming city. It entangles you with her tongues that speak in dialects from afar, from places where you find coarse red sand and others where little girls run adrift among seashells, shoeless and lost in childhood time. Purple Jacaranda trees bloom in November; hot-pink Bougainvillea runs wild; delicate Frangipanis carpet the way past the bakery with the best bread everyone feeds the Botanical Gardens’ ducks. The City of Bananas and the City of Poison, Durban satiates you with her energy that embodies playfulness, colour, and sunshine.

Ask the locals what they love and they’ll unanimously say: the weather, the people, and the jaggedness around the edges. Those who love Durban do so because they like to sweat a little, rough it a little, but live a little — among the kind who’ll stick around to share a joke, a Black Label quart, or a doublechip-and-cheese roti with mutton gravy. That’s a fourth love the majority of Durbaners name: the 24-hour takeaway Johnny’s Rotis. Because, being home to the biggest population of Indians on earth bar India itself, Durban is a multicultural family in which you cannot avoid adopting entire chunks of each other’s culture, language and lifestyle — never mind an insatiable hunger for curry. But also, because of the Durban state of mind that reckons if it’s not hotter than the sun, it’s not hot enough…

AT THE HEART OF THE CITY The city becomes more breathtaking the higher up you venture towards the ridge, with the compact city centre sliding open and the ocean pulling out majestically to stretch up the coastline. Moses Mabhida Stadium sits like an odd white UFO-cum-fruit basket by the railway, cutting off some ocean view. Many Durbanites are proud of it. Others will get used to it. Back in suburban Durban, small bars and takeaways throb, raised voices revelling in that reclining Durban fashion. Even here, the disdain for ‘shiny new malls’ persists — an attitude in itself distinctly ‘Durban’. Rick Andrew, graphic design lecturer at DUT, paints a similar picture:

photo: andrew moore

“Durban is home to three cardinal cultures: African, European and Indian. Boasting fine Art Deco buildings, Indian temples, and Victorian architecture, Durban’s history is manifest in the architecture. In short, Durban is still a place — not just another motherboard on the circuit of retail culture; think of the pavement cafés of Glenwood, Morningside and Musgrave where you can still live the ‘village’ life without living in a shopping mall. There’s the Durban Art Gallery, the KZNSA and ArtSpace, running exhibitions all year. There are clubs, music venues, bookshops and… without mentioning names, I’ve said enough… (Actually, maybe I shouldn’t say anything because the ‘developers’ might read this and come running with their plans for retail efficiency.)” Far from punting retail efficiency, Anna Savage founded the I heart Durban Market two years ago to promote local arts, crafts and design, and has since launched a project to open a DJ bar called UNIT 11. This will be an indie/ electro music venue with an added emphasis on games — so not just music and beer can be enjoyed among friends but also foosball, cards, dice, backgammon and pingpong. Anna also illuminates the state of mind that is ‘Durbanness’: “Durban is paradise. The sea is warm, the plants luscious, the people friendly. It's an African city; it doesn't try to be Eurocentric. Durban is the ugly duckling to Cape Town and Jozi: it's always two steps behind. But it’s because there’s no huge driving force to be current and hip that in fact allows Durbanites to explore their own creativity much more. There are no expectations and so the options are endless. That is where true creativity grows.”

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Plastic Primates Under a hail of plastic bullets, 2010 sees the much anticipated return of the world’s favourite animated super group. Since the release of 2005’s Demon Days (an album described elsewhere as a “vivid, spastic concept album about the last primates to survive the apocalypse”), the world’s most successful virtual band has been quiet. Rumours of a break-up were confirmed in 2006 when band founder Damon Albarn said: “It’s finished.” Or not. In the fading dawn of 2010, it would appear that the paper band have been doing anything but lining the bottom of pop music’s budgie cage, as a fantastic new plastic album brimful of collaborations with musical greats past and present has washed ashore. Suddenly demonic possessions, assassination attempts, Grim Reapers, Madonna collaborations, hallucinations, explosions and floating islands don’t seem like good enough reasons to keep a good band down. JON MONSOON defogs the periscope…

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HERE TO STEAL OUR PLANET If you don’t know the name, you know the song. It’s the one you find yourself humming the chorus to in line at the bank, feeling as if you do actually have the sun in your pocket and the moon in your hand. “WTF? I don’t even like that song!” you rage, having caught yourself all but breaking into spontaneous dance the fifth time you hum it. Wrong. Truth is you love that song! JON MONSOON interrogates the alien twins that made it. IMAGE:

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LOCNVILLE Towards the end of 2009, Locnville has elevated to a musical league unsurpassed in South Africa. The reason? Well, aside from sexy school-boy appeal, 19-year-old twins Brian and Andrew Chaplin caused a welcomed riot of hip-hop electric fusion that has ignited the youth of SA, with ‘Sun in my Pocket’ now a radio favourite nationwide. one small seed caught up with the New York-born, Cape Town-raised boys behind the scenes of their latest music video ‘There’, shot in Salt River on 30 April 2010. Read our article on page 99 for more on the band, then visit www.onesmallseed.tv to watch this exclusive interview.

BALKANOLOGY Cape Town: an urban festival of colour and surprise, of magnetic innovation and magical affairs — one in particular being the annual Balkanology extravaganza. Held this year at the Vaudeville Theatre in late April, one small seed became immersed amongst the bizarre once again to document the madness. A sensory delight of Toby2Shoes, Hopa Banda and The Nomadic Orchestra, as well as impressive décor and eccentric personalities… we caught up with Balkan fans and captured the magic that resonated throughout. Catch the completely carnivalesque action of the evening — only on one small seed TV.

PROJECT AIKO: RISE OF THE MACHINES one small seed’s latest fashion spread ’Project Aiko: Rise of the Machines’ (p.74) shows an exquisite collection by renowned local haute-couture fashion designer Hendrik Vermeulen. With one small seed’s editor-in-chief Giuseppe Russo as art director and photographer Stephen Greeff working his magic behind the lens, models were transformed into robotic femme fatales in a plot of drama and thrill. one small seed filmed the process to show you how our fashion editorials come into being. Head to www.onesmallseed. tv to discover a world of captivating beauty, composition and style, heightened reality, and conceptual innovation.

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PUMA/KEHINDE WILEY FASHION FEATURE New York visual artist Kehinde Wiley was commissioned to do paintings for Puma in celebration of African football, and his largerthan-life images captured our imaginations. For our fashion section this season, one small seed constructed a shoot inspired by his art, featuring Puma’s African Lifestyle Collection. Photographer Igor Polzenhagen presents an aesthetic discourse, both provocative and ambiguous, as Wiley’s images infuse contemporary African flair to Puma’s range. For an in-depth read on the artist, turn to page 82, followed by the fashion feature on page 86. Then go online to one small seed TV for the behind-the-scenes footage.

HORSE THE BAND Late in March, American act Horse the Band journeyed to South Africa on their Reign in Africa tour. Their unique blend of electro and metalcore has been termed Nintendocore by the band themselves and while out in an increasingly wintery SA, the band played with several of the country’s own metal bands. In this two-part series we chat to the band and supporting acts when they play at the Wynberg Sports Club in Cape Town’s Southern Suburbs. Tune in for some hardcore metal action to one small seed TV.

SOWING THE SEEDS FT. The DIRTY SKIRTS At Sowing the Seeds — the lead-up event to Rocking the Daisies — we interviewed organisers Complete Events, as well as local muso favourites 7th Son, The Dirty Skirts and The Little Kings, before capturing all three bands live in action. The event took place at the Scarborough Farm House in Cape Town in April 2010. As South Africa’s only eco-friendly festival, Rocking the Daisies balances a hard-partying spirit with an eco-conscious ethos. Sowing the Seeds is their teaser event, giving the public a tiny taste of what to expect at the weekend-long festival later on in the year.

CITY SLICKERS POSTER SHOW Alive with colour and innovation, City Slickers, held at the Wessel Snyman Creative on 16 April, captured the energy of Cape Town with an exhibition of over 80 screen-printed posters, designed by local graphic designers and artists. The event also served as the launch for Verb, and exhibited an exclusive range of limited-edition skateboards designed by 12 South African artists. Satirical and controversial, the themes of the exhibition remained urban and current, and approached relevant political, social and cultural agendas. We chat to the organising team and the crowd at the opening night in this one small seed exclusive.

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