Power of Youth has run three international summits for entrepreneurs who build a better world through business. Power of Youth harnesses the energy of young entrepreneurs who want to change the world through business and sustainability. In October 2011, 40 of the best entrepreneurs for Europe and China met at the Olympic tower in Beijing for [...]
Peace & Change was held from the 15-22nd May 2012 at the beautiful Asha Centre in Gloucestershire in the UK. 24 participants came from 12 countries around Europe… This is what happened
With the Foundation for Transformational Leadership, Lila Poonawalla Foundation received a 6 day course of ‘training the trainers’ enabling and equipping 12 of the brightest Lila Fellows to run their own leadership courses for other fellows in Pune, India. Have a look at the special work they’re doing
For two years running, Tim and Ilana worked with the incredible Skollars in Oxford in the lead up to the Skoll World Forum. Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship Have a look at how 2012 unfolded
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period. 2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, “life.” 3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” [...]
“Biomimics are men and women who are exploring nature’s masterpieces — photosynthesis, self-assembly, natural selection, and more–and then copying these designs and manufacturing processes to solve our own problems. I call their quest biomimicry — the conscious emulation of life’s genius. In a society accustomed to dominating or “improving” nature, this respectful imitation is a [...]
When I was younger, I was the annoying kid at gala’s who would always dive into the pool on GET SET! I didn’t mean to, but I was sooo excited and on the rare chance that I did wait for GO, I would then hesitate and miss my dive and kind of belly flop into [...]
I fly a lot. I promise I do enough other things to balance out how much I fly. All I wanted was to tell a story and already I’m feeling guilty about flying. Sigh. It’s a good thing this isn’t a story about a leather handbag. For someone who has flown a lot, out of [...]
Twenty years on, Eurafrica could almost be read as a direct post-apartheid riposte: a madcap, merciless comedy romp by white South Africans – director Ilana Wetzler, and actresses Sarah Jane Scott and Lucy Heavens – sending up all things politically sacred in their own country, and here, with all the sensitivity of a marauding lynch [...]
Eurafrica is an irreverent, rip-snorting satire that shoves a manicured middle-finger at quaint socio-political ideologies. It is a compelling palimpsest on which contemporary SA culture is rewritten in arsenic-laced humour and glorious absurdism… The play follows the fate of these characters via a script laced together with razor-wire…It pokes at conventional understandings of various ideologies [...]
The show is mostly an indictment of political insincerity. The creators lampoon the electioneering process when their characters try to sell their inordinate idea to the masses. Right now, with director Ilana Wetzler, they have delivered a slick show that will have audiences in fits of laughter, but also questioning their own political stances. South [...]
…The skit-based play, through droll, razor-sharp humour explores the serious “banter” that is actually on the minds of many white South Africans. And, by placing the core in the hands of Queen Victoria and Cecil John Rhodes as well as two “new-age” young white females, the possibilities are endless for what they can explore – [...]
Ever felt like aiming for your car guard’s knees while he directs your parking manoeuvres by flapping his arms about uselessly? Or smiled at him afterwards and simpered off only to try to sneak back unseen so you can get away R2 richer and guilt-free? You should go see Eur-Africa. And even if you HAVEN’T, [...]
(First Like Honey article, 2005) Music to Melt By is the aptly titled addendum to Serotonin Productions’ new musical showcase…the Serotonin production company aims to live up to its name as “the happy drug” by offering comedy or music which “raises people’s spirits”. Their latest Like Honey venture hopes to do just that with a [...]
BEFORE Louise Carver and Alanis Morissette hit the big time as chart-topping recording artists, they started out playing to smaller crowds in intimate venues. Thanks largely to women like them, it has become a lot easier to picture female singer/songwriters playing in coffee shops and bars, but the reality is that for an unsigned artist, [...]
…The emotional quality of the hour-and-a-half performance meandered, like the colours of a rainbow. Delicacy, tenderness, sturdy sharpness, subdued quiet, boldness. But perhaps the most fitting description for the show is honesty. The music pleases the ears, but the story-telling, the strength of character (and the high-cut tops) were testament to the integrity of the [...]
Cape Town Rocks 2 – Songs from Like Honey Like Fire | Jayne Mayne, Cape Times It’s quite a challenge to maintain a cohesive musical energy on a compilation with a range of completely different artists, but this second in the Rocks series (this time from Serotonin Productions) has a surprisingly interconnected thread. From the [...]
A talented cross-section of Mother City musicians have come together to produce a compilation CD, Cape TownRocks, of some of their best songs that will be launched at the Independent Armchair Theatre tomorrow. Some of the artists on the 16-track showcase CD include: Zaria, Paul Abro, Gavin Coetzee, Matthew Gair, Julia Conradie, Al Paton, Matt [...]
Like Honey is not just a show, but a concept, created and hosted by Ilana Wetzler of Serotonin Productions, which allows a platform for undiscovered talent to gain public and professional recognition. These hand-picked musicians, who write and play their own songs, have been brought barefoot from their bedrooms onto the concert stage and have [...]
*The cost of the event was estimated athalf a million Rand including venue, decoration, auction material, alcohol, crew etc, but it wassingle-handedly created without any budget whatsoever. Including the two initial donations, R400 000 was raised on the night. A Spotacular Event On the 22nd of March, a very excited, yet nervous Cape Leopard Trust [...]
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