The EPSAC Community Art Centre, artEC, is the best place to go to see some of the top local established and emerging artists. They exhibits change every couple of weeks so return visits will always bring you something new. The gallery can be found in 36 Bird Street, Central.
This is the last of the pics I took on our hike on the Maitland Nature Reserve's 9km trail in December. It was the first time I've been on the Maitland Trail and it just showed me that Port Elizabeth has so much that even I haven't seen. And people say there are nothing to do in PE.
A couple of visitors to the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum trying to grasp an interesting art piece with an old man wearing a dress. Mmmmm, perhaps I should have read the tag to see what its about.
A couple of years ago I got to meet the stunningly beautiful actress and Pasella (a magazine program on SABC 2) presenter Vicky Davis on a Pasella shoot in Port Elizabeth. I sneaked a candid shot of her which I posted at the time. Late last year I got to be on another Pasella shoot with Vicky. She mentioned that when she Goggles her own name my picture still often comes up so we decided that it was time for me to post another as an update. …
One of the latest new art installations on Route 67 takes the form of newspaper pages being blown around in the wind. The piece is situated behind St Mary's Cathedral as you go up the steps and tells the story of the uprising in the late 1960's and early 70's.
After all the rain we had late last year the Maitland Nature Reserve trail was a little overgrown when I did it in December. What was nice though was the fact that everything was green and there were lots of flowers. We did have to bundu bash a bit every now and then, but it was worth the effort.
I just noticed this lone picture sitting in a file and realised that it is one from our recent visit to the Tsitsikamma that I forgot to upload. Its a panoramic picture taken from the eastern side of Storms River Mouth shows the three suspension bridges in the background.
Montagu op Route 62 in the Klein Karoo het twee fantastiese museum wat besoekers aan die dorp by kan gaan inloer. Die Montagu Museum is geleë in die ou Sendingkerk wat in 1907 gebou is en konsentreer op die dorp se kultuur-historiese skatte. Die museum het verskeie uitstallings met die kerk se preekstoel and ander kerk items wat sentraal hieraan is. 'n Belangrike deel van die museum is die medisinale plantnavorsing wat hier plaasvind en ook uitgestal word. Agter die museum…
One of the Memory Boxes in the Red Location Museum is dedicated to Vuyisile Mini, one of the first African National Congress members to be executed by apartheid South Africa. The space contains three nooses representing those that he was hung on along with Wilson Khayinga and Zinakile Mkaba. Vuyisile Mini was born in 1920 in the Port Elizabeth. Mini's militant political activities began in 1951 when he joined the ANC. In 1952 he was jailed with Govan Mbeki and Raymond Mhlaba…
They say that once you learn to ride a bike you never forget it. But two wheels in front of each other and two wheels next to each other are two very different things. Not for the worse though. For one its more difficult to learn how to ride a bike than to ride a Segway. A Segway Personal Transporter, for those who doesn't know what they are, is a two-wheeled self-balancing battery-powered electric vehicle and can go up to 20 km/h…