Join Harambee Sustainability Project for a night of wine, art, music and inspiration!
Sample some of South Africa's most delectable wines, discover the wonderful world of pinotage- South Africa's very own grape variety! Complimentary cheese tasting included.
Art exhibit and silent auction featuring artists from around the world including South Africa, England, Germany and the USA.
ALL proceeds go towards HSP's agricultural sustainability project in Mbitini, Kenya.
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Hosted at Buckhead Barn
549 Broadland Rd
Atlanta, GA 30327
Saturday, August 28th 2010
8:00pm
Wine Tastings
Bottled in the luscious Western Cape region of South Africa, our tasting selection will provide you with the opportunity to experience what has come to be known as one of the most renowned wine regions in the world.
Complimentary cheese tasting is included in the price of your purchase. Our pourers will be on hand to advise you on the most celebrated combinations.
Tickets purchased will be available for pickup at the will call table at the event.
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RICHARD ROBBINS
Atlanta, GA USA
I believe that the universal mind lattice flows through everyone. We live in a hypercube of our own making. A constant dream is living in infinity. The solar system unfolded its net and released the planets spinning around the sun. We all have properties of the planets. We are little solar systems. You are the sun and the moon and I am the earth. Spinning, spinning.
DERICK BURKE
Cape Town, South Africa
To all, who read this and eventually look at the images that I create, take a moment to suspend belief of the known and enter a place where, with a touch of gentle persuasion, you will remember
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The label of Artist of Metaphysics is a new experience for me, as usually, I am not particularly comfortable with labels. My name is Derick Burke. I am 57 and live at the tip of Africa in Cape Town.
Since an early age, I have had a fascination and overriding passion for images and words. My first camera was a Kodak instamatic with B&W film. My interest and curiosity was aroused by my father who was an avid amateur photographer, who later ended up as a weekend snapper. When I was 13, I received a Praktica, with a Zeiss lens which was very basic. This camera was my entry into 35mm negatives and B&W developing and printing.
Through the years, photography has illuminated many things in my life. Learning the art of seeing and not just looking , while bestowing patience, perseverance and calmness. It has been able to highlight the dualities and dichotomies present and has given me the abilities of planning, foresight and insight.
There have been many times, when going on a shooting extravaganza, it provided the moments of a meditative quality while being totally present in each single moment. A moment when the image and the capturer of the image become one and whole. My constant muse and inspiration is my partner and wife who truly keeps me grounded and inspired.
In the last few years, I have started to use digital camera which opened up new pathways. Like a child, who is yet to learn the parameters and still to be conditioned into the ways and patterns of thought, I found myself experimenting with the medium. This was not just to obtain the perfect shot, but to, by a simple process, sandwich pictures together and create a new reality.
In late 2002 I had begun writing on the walls of my garage. Later the ceiling and the floor were spray painted with hands and other designs and the walls were given colour and images in between the writing.
This was a project which started out as a whim and ended up as a obsession and an emotional creative outlet.
The year 2006 proved to be a decisive intense and a turning point in my life. I had begun to write intensely in 2001 which coincided with the passing of my father. It solidified my intentions and resolve. At the end of that year, after traveling on the edge of a knife blade, I felt for the first time (so I thought) a sense of joyousness and total connectedness to the essence of all. It emanated from deep within and resonated throughout.
During those first few weeks of not touching the ground, there was a nagging thought about the feeling that I was experiencing. It suddenly hurtled out of the darkness and down the tracks into awareness of why the feeling was so familiar.
I had experienced the same feeling when I was 3 years old with the recurring dream, until I was 20, of the circle.
But, in May of 2006 I found out that I had cancer. This proved a further test for all that had been gleaned in the previous 5 years. My blog was started in 2007 and the images that I produce have organically grown. They have different layers and are not perfect in what they represent.
The question might be asked then, what do they represent?
They are catalysts in their own right and will be seen in the context of each who see them. They might also be seen to be a figment of imagination and a pure indulgence.
We are conditioned into believing the norms of the so called reality that we exist and live in each day. How real is that reality?
Are we acting out the same worn patterns that have gone before us and do we deny that we, as inhabitants and guests on this planet, have accomplished major leaps in technology in the last 100 years and yet, we still do not see the light and have yet to discover the authenticity of the microcosm within the macrocosm.
We are not islands unto ourselves.
We are not alone.
KATHARINA FORSTER
Berlin, Germany
Katharina Forster (1979) is a fine artists based in Cape Town. Originally from Germany she moved to South Africa to start her formal artist career. She combines mixed media and craft techniques and is also seen on the streets with pavement painting. In her art she conveys her understanding of life patterns and phases, and draws a lot of her knowledge from her previous experience as an occupational therapist.
Currently she attends the final year at Ruth Prowse School of Art in Cape Town/ South Africa.
Visit: www.meandmyhands.co.za
