Ricky Bopape – Director & writer of We On Air
Emerging director and playwright Ricky Bopape is taking his play We On Air – Radio Nonesense 69.4-5 to the National Arts Festival Fringe. We On Air is a light-hearted comedy based on the exciting and ever-evolving world of a radio station – Radio Nonsense on [...]

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Over the past two months the Taxi Art Education Programme, in collaboration with the Constitutional Court and the Rainbow All Sports Academy, has provided over twenty homeless children between the ages 8 to 20 years with a cause to stay off the streets. This cause is a play called Street Folks, written by TAEP facilitator Ricky Bopape with assistance from Mmabatho Mokwena, the Junior Education Coordinator at the Constitutional Court.

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The Digital Surrogates opening was a very successful event, and attracted a whole new crowd to the gallery. There are few events relating to the digital arts in South Africa and this lack of attention highlights the importance of this particular show.

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Design duo Strangelove hosted a Walkabout last Thursday evening at David Krut Projects, to coincide with the closing of their exhibition. This informal event allowed Carlo and Ziemek to discuss not only the work on show, but how it relates to various collaborations they have been involved in.

Several collaborative projects were discussed, as working with [...]

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October the 2nd was a special day on the calender for the David Krut Projects staff. We had a date at the Civic Theatre to see William Kentridge’s Magic Flute. There was a buzz of excitement around the office with talk of outfits and lifts and speculation about what the opera would bring. The night finally arrived and the anticipation was killing us. The DK staff were decked out in all the finery and proved that artists are not slobs. This morning i went around and found out from everyone what their impressions were on the opera, everyone stopped short of gushing.

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Digital Surrogates brings together four artists from across the globe who blur the line between digital interactive media and the fine arts. The show will feature five large digital portraits from a series entitled 13 Most Beautiful Avatars by Eva and Franco Mattes alongside paintings by Bronwyn Miller and photographs by Pippa Stalker. Together this work translates persuasively into an analysis of self, public perception and possibility.

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Max Normal have been producing Dassies in the David Krut Projects window since last Wednesday. This Wednesday, 8 August, we’ll be closing with a event at 18:00. Please invite all to join us for drinks, meet Waddy and get a dassie!

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The Oppikoppi Crew and David Krut Projects have some very exciting news to share! With a little more than three weeks to go to the Oppikoppi “The Way of the Dassie” August Festival, you can now have your Dassie and play with it. You no longer have to wait until the Oppikoppi Festival to meet the guardian of the Dassie, the voice of MaxNormal.tv, and the creative force behind the Dassie campaign.

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MaxNormal.TV is a hip-hop crew with a difference. They perform live wearing three-piece suits while frontman MaxNormal delivers his motivational speaking style raps to the audience. Max also illustrates all his lyrics via projected cartoon images to help the audience follow. the images are projected onto a big screen above the live performers and are [...]

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DESCRIPTION:
High-Energy Hip-Hip crew
CREW MEMBERS:
Max Normal (vocals)
Yolandi Visser (visuals/vocals)
Jakob Basson (keys)
Justin DeNobrega (beats/keys)
SYNOPSIS:
Through the eyes of the public, MaxNormal and associates are God-sent beings, blessed with the knowledge to make things better and educate our children with their uplifting, high-energy music. But behind the scenes each member of the crew has problems of their own.
We begin [...]

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