11 April - Arts, Culture & Environment

In today's show we were joined by Mariana Olivier – from the Western Cape Genealogical Society of South Africa. Were your ancestors pirates or perhaps some of the original inhabitants of the Cape? There’s only one way to find out and that is to climb up the family tree and trace your genealogy. Mariana does exactly this, she helps people find their roots. The next meeting of the Cape Genealogical Society of South Africa will be tomorrow at the Goodwood Library Hall at 2PM, for more information contact (021) 466 8100.

We also spoke to Bennie Rabinowits – Chairperson of the Seafront for All. Members of the Seafront for All will be protesting against the development of the Sea Point Promenade. Community members concerned about plans to construct a hotel, gym and shopping mall complex on the Sea Point promenade are invited to join a protest gathering against this development on 13th of April, which is on Sunday. Seafront for All is a non-profit organisation established, on a volunteer basis, by concerned citizens of the Western Cape. Its purpose is the protection and conservation of the Public Open Space along the Atlantic seaboard. The protest will take place on the Cape Town side of the Sea Point Pavilion, adjacent to the swimming pool. Events kick off at 2pm. The formal protest will commence at 4pm and will culminate at 4:30pm when a petition consisting of over 10,000 signatures will be handed over to a city official. For more information contact (021) 434 9104 or visit www.seafa.org.za

Nigel Vermaas was also in today for the Arts update in and around the city and we also played a feature produced by Anele Siwa. Anele attended an event that took place at CPUT where Afro-Pop Sensation Ntando and Bongi Dube were performing. He got a chance to chat to them about their careers and the future of South African music.

We closed off the show with an interview with Themba Shibase – An Artist. We were talking about his exhibition titled Umhlaba kabani? - (Whose land?) that will open on Wednesday at the Photo Gallery. Themba is a Durban based artist and lecturer – this is his first solo exhibition. He is an MTN New Contemporaries 2008 nominee. His recent works portray a wide subject matter, ranging from depictions of juxtaposed urban and rural architecture to expressively rendered portraiture of both ordinary and extraordinary individuals. For more information contact the Gallery on (021) 422 2762 or visit www.erdmanncontemporary.co.za

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