You will feel like a prince/princess in the Lord Milner Hotel
( image source unknown)

The Hotel staff will be at your beck and call ( just be patient with the small town tempo..and reeelllaxxx )
this photograph: Annie Leibovitz

The writing is on the wall :Matjiesfontein can only accommodate 100 people

so consider youself warned - bookings are coming in super fast.. book your bed soonest..

bottom two photographs by Eugenio Recuenco

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“Thing is, Show & Tell is all about you. Yes, promise. It’s made up by you. If you can sing, bring your voice. If you can strum, bring your guitar. If you have some old films or weird DVDs you wanna share with people, bring the projector or the screen or the whatnot. Everyone who comes to Show & Tell must bring something to show or tell, it’s that simple.
So don’t be a drag, come participate. Play tennis in funny clothes, juggle grapefruit at breakfast, read a poem your mother wrote, make a handstand while holding your dog’s leash in your mouth, whistle a Romanian folk tune, take photos, exhibit, paint your bum yellow, snort a tequila for Dali – everything counts!"( words Toast)
The 2008 program and weekend will ultimately depend on the kind of contributions you make.

“ Kathryn White - will be reading from her first novel“

Listen to Kathryn talking about the novel here:

Read an extract HERE

"Landia Davies - mystery hunt/slides
Thanks, Landia"

Landia's Profile: About Me “Project Manager 2 saving the world with a mini spade and a cocktail umbrella. Fighting climate change and nebulous scope creep”

Natural stage??
Side A
And Side B

Perfect amphitheatre in the Lord Milner Hotel Garden.
good space for your outdoor contribution?

hotel arbeidere å snakke om skype

Scandinavia CALLING
the Karoo

Sad fact is that I will not be present in my physical body at this years Show'nTell.
But for my contribution I will arrange a VIDEO Skype call interview between a Norwegian Hotel worker and one of the Hotel staff from the Lord Milner Hotel .
If needed translators will be used and we will have a Norwegian/Afrikaans live chat.

"hey guys looking uber forward" Clair Thomas

"We still need to put our heads together on something creative, but trust me it will be out of this world!" Nadine Botha

"Please can you book me into the train lodge for fri and sat nite of the show 'n tel weekend.
I will be organising a "karaoke" slot with Simon (the one from the organising committee). Details to follow shortly on the blog.
Thanks Greg Nicolson"


"I've started practicing already. Or yodeling in the shower. If that
counts. If thats how you spell yodeling...Julia "

"haai , we will be making swans to go in the swimming pool and also kites to fly in the sky.... marietjie"

marietjie's portrait from skinnylaminx

Hows this for a good idea for you contribution - bring along your black friends to this years Show'n Tell.



images from HERE

You snooze you lose pals - the nice'n cheap self catering cottages are now all BOOKED OUT!
Yes thats right - gone they are you cant have one no more..

But dont despair - you can still stay in the comfort of the Lord Milner Hotel... ohhho its SOO worth the money.. we are talking real luxury here ..
Or, if your are scared of the resident ghosts why not stay in the nice garden suites outside..they have the little chocolates on the pillows too darlings.

The Hotel and the Garden Mews are all R340 per night for bed and breakfast- note that is PER PERSON sharing - so if you book a double room that is 2x R340 per night so do your sums right.
HOW TO BOOK
PRICE LIST and other options

Matjiesfontein - THE MOST HAUNTED TOWN

"The Lord Milner Hotel is reputed to be haunted by a group of cheerful ghosts. Laughter can be heard in empty rooms and the sound of billiards is heard when there is no one there.."


"The Logan family entertained visitors so often that they were always tolerant of the unseen residents. One particular unseen resident caused no trouble, except that he/she could not open doors and would rattle the door handles until some obliging member of the family would open it.
One day after Jennifer Buist's wedding, she was too engrossed in packing her gifts to let the ghost in, and the rattling reached an impatient crescendo. Eventually she threw the door open, saying "fine, come in if you must, don't make such a damn noise about it". She felt a puff of cold air rush past her and the ghost rattled its way through the window and was never heard or felt again."
"Another ghost is supposed to be a wounded British soldier with his arm in a sling and a bloody bandage around his head, who stands at the turn-off to the Memorial Cemetery. Travellers, thinking he is injured, stop to help and he promptly vanishes.."
Text from HERE
IDEA: Why dont you play with the ghost for your contribution?

We have a cinema director!

GREAT news! Luke has volunteered to be this year's cinema director. Please get in touch with him if you would like to screen anything over the weekend (that means you, Dan and Rohan...so far). Bearing in mind that it's pretty cold at night out there in the Karoo, lets keep the short flieks for outside and save the longer ones for inside in front of the fire-place.

You can get hold of Luke at this email: johnluked@gmail.com

"As is right now, we will be recording the weekend, as we did last year."
Thanks Jade

Come at watch this Breaking News Team's '07 footage
Thursday 12 June 9pm at the Constantia Nek Restaurant.
Book dinner for 7:30pm - 021 794 5132,
mmm and you can even have a Crocodile Salad

From John-Luke Hutchinson
-"yo, I intend to sight see... and participate but I dont think I can say both will be equivalant in quantity.
My basic concept is something along the following lines... depending:

-something found on the interent.
-a discussion on democracy (using some of these documentaries)
-an installation concerning the world being flat (Thomas Friedman) and the long emergency (Howard James Kunstler)
-screening the film 'I am not there'

I really, really look forward to this festival."

Twin Peaks on a winters night

"Hello Matjies!!
We have a nice little event planned for next Thursday 12 June in Cape Town. Those of you who were at last year's Show 'n Tell will remember the Breaking News team, roaming around with a camera filming all our dubious antics. (If you do not remember, you are excused as we all know how easily the gin&tonics slip down in that town...)
Well, the footage has finally been edited and we're going to meet up to watch it. The venue is the Constantia Nek Restaurant (oldest restaurant in Cape Town apparently!) and the idea is that you can come and eat supper if you like, or just drop by for a drink and then we'll screen the footage. There's a space to have a bit of a dance so we'll see what we can do about hijacking the music system.

Please make your own bookings for supper. 7:30 with the screening at 9pm.

menu, map to NEK and more CLICK
"checker board vynil floor lots of wood, dark and red"
021 794 5132

Hope to see you all there! x Julia "


Listen To That Song HERE ohhh

"I would however like to screen some South American safe-sex cartoons. They are half an hour in total, and wonderful, old-style awareness initiatives with a chuckle."


Argentinian plasticine animations promoting safe-sex.
1. 'Sexteens'
2. 'Rolo y colo en... No te hagas la cabeza' ('Don't freak out)'
Six minutes each. Porn meets play-do
Rebecca

Leave your razors at home

Matjies. This guy says that he will be growing a moustache as his contribution this year and is challenging guys (and girls) out there to out-grow this baby!

Bring Your Binoc's, Baby!

Hi guys
The year was 1986. Luminous pink roll down socks were all the rage (or was that just me?). My family and I headed to a spot not far from Matjiesfontein to see Haleys Comet. I remember there being a lot of sheep shit. We had a rad Autovilla. I'd give anything to have it back today...sigh...
Anyway. This all got me to thinking about my contribution at Matjies this year...I want to explore the Karoo sky by night. I plan to head down to the planetarium (last visited, also around 86, for mandatory crap school trip..) and learn more about the sky and then share at Matjies. Does anyone have an idea where I can loan a telescope for the weekend? I want to step up a little star viewing station with some hot toddies, a telescope and the stars above. Bring binoc's baby!

See you there,
Sam
www.samreinders.com


(Moon photo c/o davidanthonyporter from Flickr. He has a CC licence that says its cool to share this photo. What a rad guy.)

I have spent a good and valuable hour searching for a photo of said luminous pink socks. But, I tell you, there are just no quality pictures of the subject out there. Sad.

Breaking News

Rumor has it that we will finally get to see the footage from last years Show 'n Tell SOOOOON!!
The Breaking News Team is busy editing the footage specially - Cape Townians keep next Thursday 12th open.

Keep your eyes peeled on THIS spot for the details
We have heard that the content of the film might cause shock and horror.. individuals will be contacted to screen their appearances if needed..

" We are: Toast Coetzer and Rebecca Hodes

And we will bring to show & tell:
I will play with my band The Buckfever Underground and Rebecca will read a poem and also bring a local short film DVD called ‘Andre’ to screen." Toast
" Just to let you know that I will not be reading a poem at maitjies. I don't know where toast got that from - he is mad. I would rather give a workshop on how to eat one's own toenails than read a poem I had written. I would however like to screen some South American safe-sex cartoons. They are half an hour in total, and wonderful, old-style awareness initiatives with a chuckle.
Also, I would like to screen a South African short film called 'Andre' about an existentially challenged male model in Cape Town. Am trying to get the directors to come along to the weekend, in which case they will take over the screening.
Looking forward to the weekend! Much love, Rebecca "

"We’d like to sleep in the same room we did last year, which is in the hotel, up the stairs, straight down the corridor, last room on your right. If at all possible."
(Photo of Rebecca and Toast from here)

" me actually I’m planning
- a screening of Paris Is Burning (about the origins of Vogueing)

- a turkish/bollywood DJ set (80s disco meets bollywood meets middle east) and
- a take over of the Musicord system (cute built in radios you’ll find in your room). (Watch the space for more on this )

Dan
Contributor to: www.thepopularfront.net , www.psfk.com , www.dazeddigital.com