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Thursday, 21 January 2010 07:45 |
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On Saturday January 23 Skin, the movie director Anthony Fabian will hold a special question and answer session after the 7:30 show at Cavendish Cinema Nouveau.
Fabian will be joined by Dr Wilmot James of the Africa Genome Education Institute and Tracey Petersen of the Cape Town Holocaust Centre and the open conversation will cover discrimination, “race” and the genetics of skin colour.
SKIN is one of the most moving stories to emerge from apartheid South Africa: Sandra Laing (Sophie Okenodo) was born in the 1950s to loving parents. (Sam Neill and Alice Krige) Sandra’s parents had been classified “white”. However, Sandra was born with skin much darker than theirs. At the age of ten Sandra is driven out of her “white” school because she was considered to be too “black”. The film follows Sandra’s thirty-year journey from rejection to acceptance, betrayal to reconciliation, as she struggles to define her place in a changing world - and triumphs against all odds.
The movie launched in the US late last year to rave reviews and has previously only been shown at local film festivals. The DVD, released in the UK last year, reached best seller status within a few days. Now on the national circuit this is a must see movie that has also seen critical acclaim from local reviewers including Barry Ronge.
Time: 7:30 pm
Date: Saturday 23 January
Venue: Cinema Nouveau, Cavendish Square, Claremont
Enquiries: 086 130 0444 |
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Monday, 11 January 2010 13:32 |
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 A powerful and poignant drama based on real events, “Skin” is the true story of a black child born in the 50s to white parents in apartheid South Africa.
Sandra Laing (Sophie Okonedo) is distinctly black — in appearance at least — despite the fact that both her parents, Abraham (Sam Neill) and Sannie (Alice Krige) are white Afrikaners.
Store owners in a remote area of Eastern Transvaal, South Africa, Abraham and Sannie are unaware of their own individual black genetics and have lovingly raised Sandra as their white little girl. Things soon drastically change when she is sent to an all white boarding school in the neighboring town of Piet Retief.
Ridiculed and shunned by her classmates, she’s finally examined by State officials after several complaints pour in from other parents and teachers. After being classified as ‘colored,’ she is expelled from the school and the story soon becomes an international scandal as her parents tackle the Supreme Court to have the classification reversed.
This true story follows Sandra’s story to present day.
SKIN: The movie opens on National circuit here on 22 January at Cinema Nouveau around the country. (Read the review) |
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Monday, 07 December 2009 00:00 |
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 The Darwin Exhibition: Darwin and the Cape, opened at the Iziko South African Museum on Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town on 23 November and runs until April 2010. It is one of the many events celebrated in South Africa this bicentennial year. Professor Chris Stringer Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and world renowned palaeontologist from London’s Natural History Museum, opened the exhibition and delivered the Nelson Mandela Science lecture at the University of the Western Cape the following day.
Focusing on Darwin and his visit to the Cape in 1836 presents a unique opportunity to reclaim this heritage and also introduce the public and learners to issues of science and local history that they could identify with more readily.
 The Darwin ‘story’ brings this remarkable scientific thinker into South Africa and into the present day.
Darwin and the Cape is a collaborative project with Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, the Africa Genome Education Institute and Iziko Museums of Cape Town (South African Museum).
Enquiries: Olga Jeffries 021 4813897 | Download press release
www.iziko.org.za |
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Wednesday, 02 December 2009 08:42 |
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The difference between Spanish and Dutch etiquette is the ‘former never
asking his guest a single question beyond the strictest rules of politeness,
whilst the honest Dutchman demands where he has been, where he is going,
what is his business, and even how many brothers, sisters, or children he
may happen to have.’
Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
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Thursday, 19 November 2009 14:22 |
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This year’s Nelson Mandela Science Lecture will be held at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town and the invited speaker is Professor Chris Stringer, Research leader in Human Origins at the Natural History Museum in London.
His theme is Charles Darwin, Africa, and Human Evolution. Charles Darwin was one of the first to suggest that humans probably had their origins in Africa, but at the time, there was no fossil evidence to support this notion. However, since 1921, there has been a tremendous growth in fossil, archaeological and, most recently genetic, data supporting this idea. Although most experts now accept that Africa was our original evolutionary homeland, there is less agreement about whether it was the only place of origin for our own species Homo sapiens. In this talk Professor Stringer will discuss our African origins and our eventual spread out of the continent to populate the Earth.
The Nelson Mandela Science Lecture is sanctioned by the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The 2009 lecture is held jointly with the Darwin200 series of lectures, a partnership project of the Africa Genome Education Institute & the Division of Human Genetics at the University of Cape Town.
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