It’s time to kick off our shoes and put on our sandals as we kick back, relax and have fun at these events in the City.
Check out our top five things to do this weekend:
15 March: Wits Farmer’s Market
Join the Wits Food Sovereignty Centre in building a pathway for food sovereignty in the city, by supporting and networking with inner-city growers. Small-scale urban farmers will be selling their healthy naturally produced fresh vegetables and products on campus.
16 March: Urban Farming Tour
The City’s rooftops have been turned into urban farms that produce fantastic herbs and vegetables. You can experience this side of city life via the Urban Farming Tour brought to you by JoburgPlaces. On the tour, you’ll get to visit one of the Urban Agriculture Incubator rooftop farms, community farm at an old bowling green and the luscious greens at Victoria Yards. To book your place for R450 on 16 March email gerald@joburgplaces.com
16 March: A Black Aesthetic (walkabout)
Ending on 18 April at the Standard Bank Gallery is A Black Aesthetic: A View of South African Artists (1970 -1990), the exhibition draws mostly from the University of Fort Hare art collection. Presented for the first time outside of the Eastern Cape since 1992, the collection features one of the country’s largest holdings of Black South African artists such as Feni Sekhoto, Pemba Mancoba and Mohl Saoli among others working between the period of 1970 and 1990.
17 March: We House Sundays
We House Sundays and Kid Fonque present an exclusive showcase which features the UK’S Jimpster. Join the celebrations on 17 March at the Joe Slovo Courtyard at Constitution Hill. The line-up also includes Kid Fonque, Lawrence Dix, Leighton Moody, and Cassiem Latief. Tickets available on www.webtickets.co.za from R100–R200.
17 March: Seeking Love
Seeking Love is the solo exhibition of Banele Khoza, the recipient of the prestigious Absa L’Atelier 2017 Gerard Sekoto award. As part of his prize sponsored by the French Institute in South Africa and the Alliance Française, Banele spent three months at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2018, giving him the opportunity to gain international experience and exposure. The exhibition opens at the Absa Gallery and is a response to Banele’s obsession with love. It is a visual interpretation of his 10-year quest for love and an exploration into the reason why love has constantly been on his tongue and mind.
