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David Krut Publishing invites you to the Cape Town launch of ‘Light on a Hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa.’

The Cape Town launch of ‘Light on a Hill’ will include the first Cape Town showing of a documentary film on the Court, and Justice Albie Sachs and Bronwyn Law-Viljoen will be present to sign books.

Launch details are as follows:

Friday 23 March: Kalk Bay Books, 124 Main Road, Kalk Bay at 6 for 6.30pm.
RSVP to books@kalkbaybooks.co.za.

Saturday 24 March: Montebello Design Centre Auditorium, 31 Newlands Avenue, Newlands, Cape Town at 10am.

Sunday 25 March: Café Riteve and SA Jewish Museum Auditorium, 88 Hatfield Street, Gardens, 8001 at 10am.

The launch of ‘Light on a Hill’ at Montebello will be followed at 11:30 by a showing of new work from the David Krut Print Workshop in Johannesburg. This will take place at David Krut: Fine Art and Books, also at the Montebello Design Centre. Prints on view will include new editions by William Kentridge printed by DKW master printer Jillian Ross. Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Managing Editor of David Krut Publishing, will be present to discuss aspects of Kentridge’s works.

For more information on the print viewing, please call Alastair Whitton on 021 685 0676 or visit our site at www.davidkrutpublishing.com/dkp/category/latest/art-gallery/

Light on a Hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa

This magnificent book celebrates the building of the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg, one of the most important buildings for our new South Africa. The Court has been praised for its warmth and openness, and for the way in which it reflects the extraordinary history of the site on which it is built. Once a reviled prison, notorious not only for its inhumane treatment of black prisoners, but also for the incarceration of such luminaries as Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Ghandi, the site is now a reflection of the values of our progressive constitution.

The building is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful court buildings in the world, and the architects have won international accolades for their ground-breaking design. Angela Buckland’s superb photographs recording the development of the site, together with editor Bronwyn Law-Viljoen’s beautifully written text, composed from interviews with the architects, constitutional court judges and others, ensures a fitting tribute to the remarkable transformation of the building from forbidding Old Fort Prison to the beacon of hope that it has become.

For more information on ‘Light on a Hill’ please go to www.davidkrutpublishing.com/dkp/bookshop/

Please feel free to contact Cara Snyman on 011 880 5648, 082 551 3198 or caras@davidkrut.com for any other queries.

Keywords: Albie Sachs, Andrew Makin, Angela-Buckland, Architecture, Arts-and-Culture, Bronwyn-Law-Viljoen, Constitutional-Court, heritage, Janina-Masojada, Launch