Arts & Culture

Enjoy the Jewish humour in earthside 

When I saw Candice Bernstein’s one-woman show, earthside, about a year ago, I was struck by how sad it was that, other than myself and the two other people in...

A Little Night Music – a night of lots of entertainment 

After performing last in a full-length production almost 30 years ago, Cape Town’s well-known opera star of many years Aviva Pelham is...

Judge Dennis Davis: A life in law and music

From courtroom to concert hall, a lifelong devotion finds its fullest expression KAREN MILLER There are public figures whose reputations...

Auction of local art a resounding success

LISA TRUTER, Coordinator, SAFIM Art Collaborative On Tuesday, 12 May, SAFIM Art Collaborative hosted their 9th Gala & Auction...

A debut under pressure – South Africa at the 1950 Venice Biennale

In 1950, South Africa stepped onto one of the world’s most prestigious cultural stages – the Venice Biennale....

From Auschwitz to Sea Point: the astonishing journey of Rudolf Höss’s confession

BY KAREN MILLER By any measure, it is an extraordinary twist of history that one of the most chilling confessions of the Holocaust should resurface...

Rediscovering rebels: Wolf Kibel and Lippy Lipshitz at the Cape Town Jewish Museum

By KAREN MILLER Nearly a century after they shared a cramped studio and a fierce belief in their distinctive artistic voices, Wolf Kibel and Lippy...

From a simple act of kindness to a small African miracle

By BIANCA RESNEKOV Near the tail end of COVID, when the world was slowly emerging from lockdown but still carrying a lot of anxiety, my...

Memories of a childhood in Calvinia 

Forever keen to take on a challenge, and certainly not one to slow down because of age, Shirley Kantor has led a life she...

Sean O’Sullivan: Filmmaker, historian, and custodian of memory for our community

For nearly three decades, documentary filmmaker and historian Sean O’Sullivan has been one of the most quietly influential figures preserving and interpreting Jewish history...

Finding the funny side of life

Young Cape Town comedian on humour, heartbreak and big dreams. Comedian Sarah Abraham will present her debut one-woman comedy show, Unattractive, Unmotivated, and Lazy, at...

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