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GRAHAMSTOWN NATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL

When: Thursday, 02 July 2009 to Saturday, 11 July 2009
Where: Grahamstown
Categories: Annual Festivals / Arts & Culture / Music Festivals

The Grahamstown National Arts Festival 2009: Africa’s largest cultural event offers a choice of the both local and international talent. Thousands of people flock to Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape to experience a feast of dance, opera, caberet, fine arts, craft arts, music and much much more. Every hall becomes a theatre, parks and sport fields become flea markets. Grahamstown Festival is one of the most diverse festivals in the world.

Go to the official National Arts Festival website for more info

Braving the cold and the dark all by myself in order to get a little exercise is not something I’m particularly fond of. And that’s why I didn’t brave the cold and dark all by myself. Smart girl me. I braved it with a handful of other crazy, exercise-needy people.  I know they were crazy because I had to take off their straight-jackets for them at the start. The Hillcrest running club holds a time trial every Thursday and the main reason I take part is so that I can eat a California pizza at Primi afterwards. It’s because they’re worth it.

It was a small group of about 8 people so I tried to keep up with the two gentlemen in front of the pack, for safekeeping.  Superjerm always says I’m a keeper so hence the need for safekeeping.  Before I knew it we were down to 6 runners and then 5 and then 4 and then 3. The 3 would be me, and my two bodyguards. Things got really exciting though when a black runner joined us and started running next to me. Man, I felt fast. Like real fast. I’ve always wanted to run next to a black man because just like black people have rhythm and good voices, they’re also fast runners.  I am a slow runner and therefore I could deduce from the events that unfolded that if I was keeping up with a black runner, even if it was only for a minute, that I was running fast for one minute. It’s all terribly mathematical but the point is that I felt like a professional.  And braving the cold with crazy people was worth it for those 60 seconds of fast. You should try it sometime.

P.S Off topic, but I’m so glad to hear that the Doctors are back to work! makes me happy.

Our challenge for July 2009 goes hand in hand with our Recession 101 series. Besides the fact that it is absolutely great in cold weather, it will save you money if you opt for this instead of joining friends at an impersonal restaurant where someone else calls the shots. What am I on about?

A Potjie Evening.

We are challenging all of you to give up the luxury of a clean house and the joy of being served and invite your friends over for a truly South African experience.

You have a choice between a Chicken, Seafood, Beef and Beer, Curry, Lamb or any other Potjie you can dream up.

Dust of the garden furniture, get out the charcoal and the red wine and get the fire going already!

Five years ago Chris Chappe and our deputy mayor Logie Naidoo together launched the popular Bunny Barometer. Back then Mr Naidoo, a self-proclaimed bunny master, was the judge. But now the search for the best bunny chow has been taken to another level, as Chappe has launched a website where he urges the public to give reviews on the bunnies they have chowed – good, bad or ugly.
“There are about 500 businesses selling bunnies in Durban and KwaZulu-Natal, some more reputable than others” says Chappe. He wants honest reviews and hopes that by the time hordes of hungry tourists arrive for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, they will be spoilt for choice.
“Bunny chows are an institution in Durban and no one makes them quite like us. They are a great social leveller – you can have a chief executive and a mechanic eating a bunny in the same place,” says Chappe, who claims to have devoured at least 400 quarter bunnies in his life.
Keep a look out for a competition to name the quarter bunny mascot, and in the meantime visit the Quarterbunny Website to submit reviews you think will benefit fellow bunny chow fans.

Reference: Daily News

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
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