44 Stanley Bar and entertainment in Johannesburg
Where is the City Centre? The second question travelers arriving at Liz at Lancaster from Europe and the US often ask me is: ‘Where is the city centre’? (The first question is ‘Is there wi-fi?’) This first question is easy to answer – ‘Yes and it’s FAST!’ But the second question is not so easy […]
Read More »UPDATED 19 JAN 2022. Many of these activities were put on hold during the 2 year Covid Lockdowns and have not restarted so please check before planning to visit any of these events. Along with pop-up shops it’s become popular to have a special event on a particular day of each month making it easy […]
Read More »Johannesburg Heritage walking tour: Victoria Yards I’m so pleased I followed my own advice. My Pick of the Week for the 4th February was a Johannesburg Heritage Foundation tour of Victoria Yards on Saturday 11th February and I wasn’t disappointed. Brian Green, of 44 Stanley fame, and the mover and shaker behind Victoria Yards, took […]
Read More »Joburg comes up trumps in the international press: Positive reviews 2013 Wow! What is it with Jozi at the moment? So much positive press from all sorts of different quarters. From no 1 cycle route to an up-and-coming art hub to a new spin on the level of violence – Joburg is being praised and […]
Read More »Clustered around the lower Rosebank/Parkwood border on Jan Smuts Ave is a number of galleries which offer an exciting range of exhibitions. Showing at Everard Read from 11th April to 4th May are Pappetti’s large scale canvases depicting industrial landscapes, interiors and human figures. Also on at Everard Read from 18th April is a collection […]
Read More »What’s on this October A good place to start on an exhibition ‘trawl’ is in the east of town/Jozi, /Joburg Central/Joburg CBD where you can visit Arts on Main. There are various galleries in this complex, one being Nirox where Richard Penn’s Field of View includes works which refer to different views of the world […]
Read More »There are some interesting exhibitions on at the moment with new ones opening during July. The Winter exhibition at the Everard Read Gallery is a group show with works by over 30 artists Phillemon Hlungwani, Neil Rodger, Anton Momberg, Velaphi Mzimba, Walter Voigt, Impumelelo Beads, Angus Taylor, Hanneke Benade, Pauline Gutter, Lionel Smit, Deborah Bell, […]
Read More »3 in 10: 3 nationwide winning restaurants within 10 minutes of Liz at Lancaster Guesthouse The nationwide winners of the 2011 Eat Out DStv Food Network Restaurant Awards were announced last night. Congratulations to 3 restaurants in the Parks Region who scooped awards. – Best steakhouse countrywide: The Local Grill Parktown North The City Press […]
Read More »R0byn Penn at David Krut and Saayman at AOP Two very different exhibitions are those showing the works of Willie Saayman and Robyn Penn. Penn’s exhibition Pretty World opens at David Krut at Arts on Main on Thurs 17 Nov (6.30 pm). Penn draws on the tradition of Romantic landscape painting (particularly the German Romantics) […]
Read More »Senzeni Marasela’s exhibition Sarah, Theodorah and Senzeni in Johannesburg Senzeni Marasela’s exhibition Sarah, Theodorah and Senzeni in Johannesburg comprises a new series of embroidered cloths and red ink drawings. The three women alluded to in the title of the exhibition refer to: Sarah Baartman (the so-called ‘Hottentot Venus’) Theodorah (Marasela’s mother who suffers from bipolar schizophrenia and who has largely […]
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