CityLife Arts is a specialist arts publication that focuses on visual art, theatre and literature.
By Funeka Bambalele Award-winning TV actress Nolwazi Shange and her friends are spreading their wings, venturing into events. Shange who has acted in TV shows such as AboMama, Umlilo, Umkhokha: The … Read More
Thoko Sipungu, Rhodes University South Africa’s young democracy was a culmination of years of sweat, blood and revolution against the apartheid regime. In the early 1960s, after decades of “non-violence” … Read More
By CityLife Arts Writer “Last year was a year of exceptional theatre,” said Africa Melane, panel chair of the annual Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, before announcing the finalists today. The … Read More
My Body My Space festival to shift physical and mental conventions around women and children with human rights, rural inclusion and the environment in focus. The programme includes The Arteries Programme (11th to 15th March).The Central Nervous System … Read More
By Edward Tsumele, CITYLIFE/ARTS Editor | Photographer Credit: Sitombe Photography We were invited a few weeeks ago to meet at the luxury Four Season Hotel in Westcliff, northern Johannesburg, a … Read More
By Edward Tsumele, CITYLIFE/ARTS Editor The atmosphere was tense as the artists were livid. They walked up and down the boardroom that they had turned into a multi-purpose space. A … Read More
Tinashe Mushakavanhu, University of Oxford The publishing journey of Zimbabwean writer and film-maker Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions wasn’t easy. Yet the novel is today considered by many as one of … Read More
