Liz at Lancaster’s Pavement library More firsts for Craighall Park – guerilla art comes to the ‘burbs. The eye-catching red reading box on the pavement outside Liz at Lancaster Guesthouse caused quite a stir in the Craighall Park ‘hood when it was first installed, with lots of positive response. But now it is even more […]
Read More »FNB Joburg Art Fair opening night I’m not a great fan of attending exhibition openings – too many people and too little art, but I was asked to be a friend’s ‘Plus-one’ at the opening evening of the FNB Joburg Art Fair at the Sandton Convention Centre a few weeks ago. I couldn’t turn that […]
Read More »Recharging and restoring – essential for any hands-on guesthouse owner Running a guesthouse is a great business. I meet interesting people; I have no traffic issues getting to work and back; and I’m mistress of own destiny. But the down side is that it is relentless. While the rest of the team work 5 days […]
Read More »A few weeks back I got an invite to attend an event at the Rosebank Fire Station where Hannelie Coetzee would be putting the finishing touches onto a sculpture entitled ‘Samantha’. Rosebank Fire Station The FireStation is the second oldest building in Rosebank after the Old Post Office, […]
Read More »A quick snippet about a MUST-SEE. I saw Abrahamse and Meyer’s production of Richard III at the Market Theatre in 2011 and was BLOWN AWAY. Lots of CAPS, bolds, italics and underlinings in this blog. You get it ? EmphaSIS. So based on that I made sure I saw the same directors’ production of Hamlet in 2017. […]
Read More »Delta Centre Recently guests staying here at Liz at Lancaster discovered the Pilates studio down at the Delta/REEA centre -5 blocks from the guesthouse. I love it when guests do my research for me! And it made me realize yet again, what a little gem this area is and how lucky we are to have […]
Read More »The Selfish Giant The Fringe Joburg Theatre 24 -26 August There are 6 performances of The Selfish Giant from 24th to 26th August. This narrated ballet is based in Oscar Wilde’s bitter-sweet tale of transformation. The garden’s birds, fruit and flowersare performed by the Johannesburg Youth Ballet while the story is narrated by the inimitable […]
Read More »Jozi’s first open-air food and craft market It’s been going over 40 years; it’s an institution in its own right’; it has a very particular ethos; and now it’s developing in a really exciting direction. You can mention the Bryanston Market; the Organic Market; the Waldorf Market or the Village market and many will immediately […]
Read More »2108 FADA Alumni Exhibition until 17th August Currently showing at the FADA Gallery at the University of Johannesburg Bunting Road campus, is the most remarkable exhibition – a real must-see. It shows major works from the Keiskamma Art Project many of which have been exhibited in South Africa and around the world in significant […]
Read More »Science and Cocktails, Orbit, Braamfontein 31st July I am a complete dilettante: I know precious little about a lot of things. Call it a grasshopper mind – buzzing from one topic to another. But at least I fall into the category of ‘knowing what I don’t know’ (rather than ‘not knowing what I don’t know’, […]
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