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'Right on the Rim' project salon

in Arts on Main, Johannesburg CBD: 40, Berea Street between 264, Fox (entrance) and 245, Main Street

Since February 2010, Prophet JD, poet and artist from Soweto, manages Right on the Rim and curates the exhibitions in the room. In the moment, he is showing new works by Dr. David Koloane.

My last contributions were the organisation of two concerts of contemporary music in May 2010:

= the 2nd Viennese School concert with the outstanding South African musicians Jill Richards, Waldo Alexander and Renette Bouwer performing and Dr. Christan Meyer, director of the Schoenberg Centre, Vienna, giving the introduction.

= Lukas Ligeti performing new compositions and improvising with Mpho Molikeng, Lesotho, and Carlo Mombelli, South Africa;

 

 January 30 - February 26, Tue - Sat 10 - 16, Sun 10 - 14

Legends of Culture

Sunday, 21 Feb, at 2 pm: Ancient stories from Japan, the Rhine, the Arabian desert and Africa told by Cindy Sampson, the writer and actress, and Prophet JD, the poet and poetry performer, under the trees of Arts on Main.

presenting

Steve Kwena Mokwena: "A Sound Legacy" expressive paintings of jazz legends

Ryan Areson: "A Diary" or "Untitled", silkscreen prints (Jill Ross) 2009

Red White (Australia)/Cynthia Schwertsik (Austria): "Imitating the Monumental", a wind-blown installative sculpture in Baltchik, Bulgaria, 2009

Special programme February 4 - 7, 2010

Thursday, Feb 4, 9pm: Monday Blues in the Atrium of Arts on Main, musicians, poets and an art poster competition

Saturday, Feb 6, 5 pm: Artist talk with Steve Kwena Mokwena and Ryan Areson in Right on the Rim

Sunday, Feb 7 11 am - 2 pm: report your legends to the salon writers Cindy Sampson and Prophet JD in Right on the Rim

 

 December 3 - January 23, Tue - Sat 10 - 16, Sun 10 - 14

Love - Compassion

art by Mandy Conidaris (water colours), Graeme Williams (photos), Bev Price (jewellery)

Saturday, 23 Jan, 2 pm: Jann Turner reading from her books "Heartland" and "Southern Cross" and discussion on writing about love.

Saturday, 16 Jan, 11 am - 3 pm: "White Wash" by Cynthia Schwertsik, supported by Prophet JD

November 8 - December 3, Tue - Sat 10 - 16, Sun 10 - 14

Hate - War

art by Colleen Albourough, John Muafangejo (Namibia), James de Villiers, Portia Zvavahera (Zimbabwe), Chenjerai Mutasa (Zimbabwe)

Talk and Discussion Nov 14, 11 am: John Stewart, a Zimbabwean political activist and theorist speaks about what we can learn from history to solve current problems with violent governments

Movie Nov 18, 6:30 pm: THE LARK FARM, 2007 - a gripping movie about the Armenian genocide in 1915, which is still denied by Turkey (2 hrs) - please register under rightonrim@yahoo.de, courtesy the Italian Cultural Institute

Movie Nov 11, 6:30 pm: A LONG DARK NIGHT (3 hours in two parts), courtesy the Croatian Embassy, the tale of a young Croatian man through 2nd World War and the beginnings of Communism

October 15 - November 7: 10 am - 4 pm

Creative Relationships

Opening: Creative Relationships, October 15, 6:30 pm

Frieder DANIELIS (water colours), Susan SALM (music), PROPHET JD (poetry), Walter STACH (photo collage), Marcus NEUSTETTER and 15 South African artists (drawings)

September 12 - October 11: 11 am - 3 pm

Lives

Drawings by Sharlene Khan

Movie: Klimt, October 8

Opening and Italian movie: 'The viceroys', September 12

Music on the Move - Polyrhythms & Polysounds (Christos Daskalaskos, Peter Kuthan, Anna Kuthan, Marcus Neustetter, Steven Hobbs), September 24 (5:30 pm)

August 31 - September 6: 4 - 7 pm

Prophet JD, Poet in residence

Prophet JD, port from Soweto, produces poems inspired by Walter Stach's photo collage 'Johannesburg in my moments'

August 7 - 29

Beautiful

Photo work by Michael Rathmayer and Kasali (both Austria)

Beautiful Talk: The artist Colleen Alborough and the director of the Market Photo Workshop John Fleetwood introduce a discussion on 'Beautiful and Art' in South Africa today.

Architecture Talk (August 10): Eva Egermann and Christina Linortner speak about the 'Schuettehausproject', discussing the life and work of the first Austrian female archtect Schuette-Lihotzky.

'Ekstase', movie (1934) with Heddy Lamarr, called the most beautiful woman of her times

July

Three artistic languages 

Artistic work by Shneider (South Africa - Germany), Walter Stach (Austria) and Frieder Danielis (Germany, Austria, Italy)

June 15 - July 1 Mo: Sa 3pm - 8 pm

Digital Metamorphoses by Walter Stach

Football paintings by Walter Stach and Marcus Neustetter (dialogue paintings)

May 5 - June 12: Mo - Sa 10h - 18h

Paintings and philosophical texts by Frieder Danielis

Books on "tales from the rim" available

Pre-project

'Living and Dying in Africa' by Claudia Shneider (installative sculpture)

open: 9h - 17h from 2nd of April to the 10th of April 2009

artist talk: 16h (4 pm) on the 4th of April 2009