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Friday’s Art Factory workshop at ILAM saw Grahamstown’s street performers gathered round an improvised ironing board with the task of designing and making their own plastic clothing. We introduced the participants to the process, who immediately busied themselves with various tasks. Some of the children set about meticulously cutting out plastic against the patterns of ...

A few weeks ago I attended a conference at the Spier Wine Estate in Cape Town. The conference, Tipping Point, was about Art and Climate Change, and, despite my reservations that it would be full of angry mueslis in drowning polar bear T shirts – I not only met some amazing people in both the ...

According to legend, one used to be able to drive one’s car to a place called a “drive-in”, at which it was apparently possible to watch a film – from the comfort of said car. This “drive-in” myth has always appealed to me – be it cool kid nostalgia, or an intrinsic fear of being ...

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