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Le Petit Marche is BACK with a new INDOOR venue!! This month see’s the return of some old vendors, and of course new exciting ones. The Line-up Includes: Obsidian: For the discerning lady with a flair for the bold and unusual but with her own individual style. Sexy without being trashy, fun and spunky, an Obsidian girl sets herself apart and is the epitome of all that is chic and elegant Grey: Independent designer Eden: Belts and accessories Alter Ego: Their style is mainly sophisticated with a lot of clean strong shapes and lines. They have patchwork skirts, breezy trapeze chiffon dresses, silk tunics and beaded silk cocktail sheaths. Style Junky: Modern women’s wear from casual day dresses tops and bottoms to dressier evening wear. Accessories to die for and that extra bling!! Livinia: Beautiful earings, broaches, necklaces, rings and BLING. Livinia is known to style for top Nigerian magazines and fashion houses Lagos Look: Classis Vintage dresses, skirts and tops. For a lady ...

National Arts Festival, Grahamstown 26 June – 5 July 2008 Internationally acclaimed artist Nontsikelelo Veleko’s extraordinary journey in photography started from an interest in exploring identity. Earlier, ongoing projects include The One’s on Top Won’t Make it Stop!, in which she directs her lens at public space through the documentation of graffiti, whereas www.notblackenough.lolo profiles prejudice and reductive stereotyping. Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder! is an ongoing celebration of the South African ‘Born Free’ generation and their expression of identity through dress and fashion. Veleko is currently stationed in Wonderland, which she describes as “a step further in investigating the social and emotional states of my surroundings – South Africa is my place of departure, by experience and location, but conceptually I am interested in the discovery of the world”. On show will be new work, and whilst Wonderland contains thematic strands explored in previous bodi...

For the second year, the Africa in Motion (AiM) film festival is inviting African filmmakers to submit short films of up to 30 minutes for the festival’s short film competition. In order to target the competition specifically towards young and emerging African film talent, filmmakers who enter a film for consideration must not have completed a feature-length film previously. Films entered must have been completed in 2006 or after. A shortlist from all the entries will be selected in July and announced by the end of August 2009. From this shortlist, the competition winner will be chosen by a high profile jury and announced at an awards ceremony at the Africa in Motion festival in October 2009. The jury will consist of local and international film specialists and established African filmmakers. All shortlisted films will be screened at the festival. In addition to the overall first prize selected by the jury, an audience choice award will be selected by the audience at the screenings and...

Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1 6AB Nearest Tube - Aldgate East Box office - 020 7650 2350 (Monday–Friday 1-6pm) http://www.artsadmin.co.uk/projects/project.php?id=269 http://artsadminartsblog.blogspot.com/ Newsflashes Log on to the Artsblog to see live footage of the Artsbloggers preparing for Friday’s ‘Artsblog Live’ Event. Expect a quirky take on everything from promotion to some rather physical preparation, all with the comic and unusual slant of our diverse set of Artsbloggers. Newsflash 5 will be streamed live from the ‘Artsblog Live’ event on 29 May, enabling an intimate insider-view of Friday night’s action, as it unfolds. http://artsadminartsblog.blogspot.com/ 25 May 2009 Release of Newsflash 1 3pm 26 May 2009 Release of Newsflash 2 3pm 27 May 2009 Release of Newsflash 3 3pm 28 May 2009 Release of Newsflash 4 3pm 29 May 2009 Release of Newsflash 5 8pm – streamed live directly from the Artsblog Live Interactive Event Podcasts Download a podcast walking tour to ...

“She’s a phoney, but she’s a real phoney… Because she honestly believes all the phoney junk that she believes in...” (Breakfast at Tiffany’s) Monika Bobinska is delighted to present the first major solo exhibition by Sinta Tantra in the UK. Best known for her site-specific murals and installations in the public realm, Tantra will turn the white cube of the gallery inside out by focussing on the external walls of the gallery building and on the floor. Real Phoney explores the delight in artifice and the surface image, the porous boundary between pictorial and physical spaces, and ideas of spectacle, submergence and superabundance. The show represents several departures for the artist, primarily her move away from representational signs and signifiers to an emphasis on pattern and layering. Tantra’s palette of ready-made industrial paints and plastics are also updated, with a variety of metallic, reflective and transparent materials included that enable the artist to investigate depth ...

„THE RESPONSE/RESPONSIBILITY of PERFORMANCE WRITERS of COLOR” BY AMY EVANS & GRADA KILOMBA This is a workshop for performance writers of Color who are committed to exploring „race“ and gender in their work. We as artists are often prescribed the task of presenting positive images of ourselves, to oppose and shift the excess of negative images of people of Color in the media, popular discourse and, of course, in film and on stage. How might we achieve this without stifling and stunting the creative process? What strategies can we use to best support one another in our endeavor to achieve truth as we develop our work? What stories are important to us and what tools do we need to develop in order to confront and negotiate those stories? How do we define artistic integrity as writers of Color working within racist structures? This workshop, open only to individuals who identify as writers of Color, will allow space for us to explore these questions through writing exercises, move...

culled from Guardian Newspaper (Nigeria), Tuesday, April 21, 2009 By Anote Ajeluorou It is instructive that painting dominated the Africa Art Exhibition entitled Voices from Within: African Art Expressions, which held in Enugu and came to a close last week Thursday. Out of the over 300 major artists across Nigeria that had their works on display, 85 per cent of them had works in painting. While it must be said that they were very impressive works of art, woodcarving took a small portion of the stands competing with ceramics and metal works to make up the remaining 15 per cent. But this was not surprising as it has been the trend for a very long time now. Contemporary African art has, unwittingly, become synonymous with painting in recent times. Clearly, Africa's indigenous art form, which was essentially in wood, ivory and bronze carvings have given way to painting. Even the Benin woodcarvers have shrunken to mere roadside carvers mass-producing cheap commercial crafts devoid of an...