{pp}Renowned ceramicist Dina Prinsloo will be launching a book on three decades of her ceramic work. Prinsloo, who is making several special ceramic pieces for the launch, will be present to sign books. Launch starts at 11h00 at David Krut Projects, 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood, Johannesburg. ‘Points For Departure’ In ‘Points For Departure’ ceramicist Dina Prinsloo documents her life’s work through a sumptuous collection of photographs, text, diagrams and notes. The book documents Prinsloo’s collaborations with prominent South African architects in which she has created sculptural objects and containers that become extensions of site and the built structure.

{pp}In September 2007 William Kentridge’s production of ‘The Magic Flute’ will finally premiere in South Africa after an extensive international tour – the production opened at La Monnaie in Brussels in 2005, went on to venues in France, Italy and Israel, and premiered in New York in April 2007.

The performances in South Africa will be the culmination of a remarkable artistic journey that has included the creation of the opera, an outpouring of drawings and prints on themes related to the production, and the completion of a seminal project – commissioned by Deutsche Guggenheim – called ‘Black Box/Chambre Noire’, that was unveiled in Berlin in 2006 before moving to the Johannesburg Art Gallery.

{pp}David Krut Projects is pleased to host an exhibition by the award-winning design label Strangelove. In this collaboration with David Krut Print Workshop, Strangelove has used some of their more conceptual pattern pieces to create a series of limited-edition prints. Printmaker Jillian Ross has turned the layered patterns into delicate works on paper, preserving their sculptural quality through embossing.

{pp}William Kentridge Flute goes to the printer today! For all those who have been following the growth of this publication, we are officially off the ground. There are quite a few technical details to take care of when preparing a book like this for press, especially since we are making a small deluxe edition with a few special features. The book will be ready for the Cape Town opening of the opera on September 8th.

{pp}A Constitution Hill project David Krut Publishing is pleased to announce the printing of a second edition of this important book by Lauren Segal, Clive van den Berg and Churchill Madikida. In 2006, three curators began to collect the testimonies of the men and women who had been imprisoned at the notorious Old Fort Prison under the apartheid regime.

{pp}David Krut Publishing is pleased to host the book launch of Dina Prinsloo’s book Points for Departure. In Points For Departure ceramicist Dina Prinsloo documents her life’s work through a sumptuous collection of photographs, text, diagrams and notes. The book documents Prinsloo’s collaboration with prominent South African architects where she has created sculptural objects and containers that become extensions of site and the built structure. Prinsloo’s ceramic pieces draw their inspiration from the flora, soils and rocks of the Highveld.

{pp}In an effort to draw attention to our worsening waste crisis, environmentalists are walking a municipal wheelie bin around the city from 9 August. Ray D. Chaplin [3Poles] and Mary Murphy , who has worked on numerous waste minimisation campaigns, will be walking the bin around the Peninsula from 9-13 August.

{pp}An exhibition of recent work by Esther Mahlangu will open at 34 LONG at 18h00 on Tuesday, 7 August 2007.

Esther is best known for abstract works in her signature Ndebele idiom, and this exhibition will feature several new examples. In some works, she employs the vivid acrylic colours typical of Ndebele house decoration, and in others the more muted, earthy colour of natural pigments. She also uses cow dung which, like acrylic paint, is used extensively in her home environment as decorative and functional surfaces. Its unadulterated presence enhances the symbolic content of her paintings.

{pp}The aftermath of the severe runaway veld fires experienced in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands near Howick on Monday 25 June 2007, has resulted in many people in the area being left destitute and homeless.

{pp}Radio Pulpit has been broadcasting the past 25 years and for people who are not listeners, the station has always been a bit of a mystery. A Christian radio station? That caters for all cultures and Christian denominations in SA?