The second Johannesburg Interval lands on 24 September 2026, same place, same time, same format: Gabriella's Tea Room at Ciro's Mediterranean Cucina, 17:30–20:00. Free entry, self-pay bar, no agenda beyond showing up.

Three films, three tape formats, one question: what's real once entertainment gets involved? James N. Kienitz Wilkins's Andre Trilogy runs prequel to sequel across BetaSP, MiniDV and HD — a private eye's case, a prisoner's dream, a mishap retold.

Wed 30 Sept, 19:00, The Bioscope. Link in bio.

Ag shem, some stories only make sense once you've mixed up the tape order.

Beyond Graceland tells the story of South African musician Joseph Shabalala and his band Ladysmith Black Mambazo, who became worldwide sensations after powering Paul Simon's landmark and massively successful Graceland album.

It's a bet that if you give people in the same ecosystem a low-stakes, recurring space with no agenda beyond conversation, something useful will emerge on its own terms — a collaboration, a referral, a shared problem solved over a drink rather than in a funding meeting.

Sunday 23 August 2026, 10:00, meeting outside H K Spice World at 52 Central Rd, Fordsburg. R350 per person, R175 for children under 12. Street parking is available along Central and Mint Roads, or you're welcome to Uber in directly. The route covers paved streets and shop interiors on foot — if you have specific accessibility needs, let us know ahead of time and we'll make sure the day works for you.

Ag shem, come hungry.

Here’s the idea behind Listening Spaces, in case you haven’t joined us before: we gather a small group — no more than twenty people — in a room built for listening, not background noise. Before the music starts, we give you just enough context to know what you’re about to hear and why it matters. Then the room goes quiet, the music plays, and nobody reaches for their phone.

Two Long Takes in one month isn't how we usually run things — but Black Burns Fast and Beyond Graceland both deserved a proper audience, and August was big enough to hold them both. Consider it a small correction to how quietly South African cinema often gets seen.

Scent works on us before thought does. It reaches somewhere older than language, pulling up memory and feeling before you've even placed the smell. That's the mystical pull of Mayfair's air, thick with cumin, incense, frying oil, rosewater. It doesn't just tell you where you are. It tells you who's been here before you.

Every wave that landed in Mayfair, from Gujarat, from Malawi, from Ethiopia, from across this continent and beyond, left something behind in the air. Spice blends passed down through generations. Bread recipes carried across oceans. Incense burned the same way it's been burned for a hundred years. Walk these streets slowly enough and the scent trail becomes a kind of map, one that no guidebook can draw for you.

Saturday, 16.06.2026 - Bridge Books, Johannesburg