A new international dance festival is set to breathe life into Namibia’s contemporary dance scene as ‘Movement’ begins in Windhoek next week. The year-long festival was launched at the Franco-Namibian Cultural Centre (FNCC) yesterday and will welcome dancers from South…

If you run into even the vaguest of fitness circles, chances are you’ve encountered someone feverishly talking about Hyrox. The indoor global fitness race is everywhere.Photographs of people pushing sleds, doing burpees, carrying kettlebells and running like their lives depend…

A trio of new Namibian films, a rambling call to audition for a telenovela and the question of which local song would make a great movie were just some of the highlights from a recent ‘Cinemaverse’ under the stars. Hosted…

Mixed media artist Rachel Sakeus is set to make her city of gold debut as ‘Ombepo’, her latest collection, exhibits as part of Goethe-Institute Johannesburg’s commemoration of the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia (Idahobit). Idahobit is observed…

If the mural on the Bellhaus Atelier & Galerie’s street-facing wall catches your eye, four pairs of eyes may look back. Recently painted to mark International Design Day on 27 April, the mural draws inspiration from Windhoek’s central business district…

For collectors who like their art as magnetic, colourful and as quirky as its creator, Namibian artist Anne Lacheiner-Kuhn is a fever dream come true. At last year’s Investec Cape Town Art Fair, the artist’s clash of blue hair, a…

The surprising thing about Mother’s Day is that it’s actually a family’s time to shine. Though mothers are certainly the main characters, the diamonds of the season and veritable stars of the show, the reality is that it’s up to…

It’s been 20 years since aspiring journalist Andy Sachs met ‘Runway’ magazine editor Miranda Priestly and ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ (2006) became a millennial classic, replete with all the career ambition, generational optimism and girl bossing that defined the era.…

In the foyer of Windhoek’s Namibian Arts Association (NAA), two linocut prints seem to bookend the relative start and culmination of Namibian artist John Muafangejo’s celebrated career. In the first, Muafangejo depicts himself, alone with his guitar as he laments…

The Little Mermaid meets ‘Bridgerton’s’ Duke of Hastings in ‘You, Me & Tuscany’ (2026). Starring Halle Bailey and Regé-Jean Page, the Kat Coiro directed romantic comedy offers the rare treat of a fun, frivolous, destination film starring two black leads.…

They say some birds can remember faces years later and even if you change your clothes. Long ago, during writing breaks, I’d feed or shoo birds away outside Windhoek’s national library. I’d have packed some snacks to fuel a long…

Navigation between modernity and cultural preservation, issues of identity and the work of archiving ancestral knowledge persist in this year’s edition of ‘Art Splash’. The annual exhibition presents the output of Windhoek’s College of the Arts students and is on…