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Save the date: Franschhoek Cap Classique & Champagne Festival 29/30 Nov 2014
This year has flown, we’ve lost count of the corks we’ve popped and my favourite festival is around the corner so save the date and remember to wear your fabulous black and white outfits for the annual Franschhoek Cap Classique & Champagne Festival.
We’ll be pouring our delicious Genevieve MCC and you’ll be able to taste plenty others on the day.
Details: Date: 29th – 30th November 2014 Venue: Franschhoek Time:12:00 – 17:00 Price: R200 pp
Cheers
Melissa
Where we’ll be in June 2014 ? 12 Rooms Exhibition & Kamers vol Geskenke.
We’re excited to be part of 2 huge and creative events in June, The 12 Rooms Exhibition and Kamers vol Geskenke!
12 Rooms Exhibition will launch on the 5th June at Leon at CCXIX (219 Albert Road, Woodstock) and is set to be an exciting highlight on the design calendar for 2014. 12 of South Africa’s most gifted decorators and designers will each be given a room to show off their style. From a mad botanists conservatory to a swanky hotel cocktail lounge and ‘boudoir to-die-for’. There will be more than just a little something for everyone.
Who will be showing their talents? Francois du Plessis, Karen Robert, Kyle Roux, Laduma Ngxokolo, Michelle Throssell, La Grange Interiors,Nicola Townsend,Pim Verdoorn,Salome Gunther,Sarah Ord Interiors,Sprout Design,Greg Mellor.
The Kitchen at Leon will also offer special Italian inspired lunches paired with Genevieve MCC during the duration of the exhibition.
Make your way to Leon at CCXIX if you’d like to indulge in some décor and design inspiration.
The exhibition will be open to the public from the beginning of June until the end of August 2014
Contact details:021 4471304
The other big event that we going to be taking part in is KAMERS & CCDI 5-8 June 2014.
Seeing that the Castle of Good Hope is the original port of trade in the Cape, it is appropriate that Kamers Vol Geskenke will complete the circle of design during WDC2014 by bringing trade back to this majestic historic site.
The Castle of Good Hope will host 110 design exhibitors fashioning a visual feast of creativity, entrepreneurship, music, food and wine. The venue is truly something everyone has to experience as for finding the finest little something for yourself or the perfect gift for a friend; it’s a must. Come say hello to us and enjoy a glass of Genevieve MCC!
Event Details:
DATES: 5-8 June 2014
TIMES: 5 June: 10:00-18:00, 6 & 7 June: 10:00-20:00, 8 June: 10:00 – 15:00
TICKETS: R60 at Computicket or at the entrance, R40 for students and pensioners
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VENUE: The Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
Genevieve MCC will be at Kamers vol geskenke 2014 in JHB next week! 18-21 April.
KAMERS vol geskenke 2014: Easter in Johannesburg
The KAMERS team is well known for their innovative selection of creative talent and fresh product ideas, to display work by independent design and craft creative’s in the form of a large-scale pop-up retail event.
Products abound and bespoke gifts are to be found, Kamer’s bring you the best lovingly handcrafted, innovative goods the country and its creatives have to offer.
Genevieve MCC is proud to part of this special event, we’ll be on hand should you need a brief rest after all that retail therapy!
DATES & TIMES: 18-20 April 10:00 – 20:00 / 21 April 10:00 – 17:00
COST: R75 pp (children under 18 free); R60 for students and pensioners
VENUE: The Forum Campus, Bryanston
For more info: read Kamers vol geskenke 2014
Sizwe Ntsaluba Gobodo Celebration of Bubbles Festival.

Genevieve MCC honoured to be part of The Shining Girls Charity Art Show for Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust.
Genevieve MCC will be supporting this event with bubbles, we are honoured and proud to be part of this sure success!
Award-winning author Lauren Beukes, and design curator and consultant, Jacki Lang, have come together to create an exciting charity art show as part of The Book Lounge’s Open Book Festival. The event, loosely themed around Beukes’s international hit novel, The Shining Girls, will showcase amazing local talent, with all proceeds going to Rape Crisis. The team approached a selection of over 50 hand-picked South African artists, designers, illustrators, photographers and even jewellery designers to participate in the collaborative exhibition. The artists were sent pages that had been ripped out of the book and invited to create new and original pieces of art with them – inspired by the many themes the book invites: from the loops and tangles of history and time travel through to all the eras the book encompasses: from 1930s burlesque to 1990s punk.
The Exhibition:
All the works will be framed and sold with 100% of the proceeds going to Rape Crisis. We’re hoping to raise R50 000. In the interests of making the artwork accessible to the widest audience and raising as much money as possible, all the works will be sold at the same very affordable price of R1000 each. The exhibition will enable art lovers to purchase original new works from some of South Africa’s most talented artists. It’s also an opportunity for artists to create new pieces outside of their existing portfolios. How each artist responds to the brief and the vastly varied creations that come out of it are part of what makes the the show so interesting.
The Artists:
Lauren Beukes and Jacki Lang put together a wish-list of South African artists across various disciplines from illustration and painting to sculpture, street art and jewellery design, asking them to create an original work they would be willing to donate for the show. 
Over 50 responded with surprising, inventive, playful and beautiful pieces, using illustration, painting, laser- cutting, foil, cross-stitch, leather-work, Perspex and engraving. 
Some of the contributing artists include: Zapiro, Conrad Botes, Faith 47, Brett Murray, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Roger Ballen, Serge Alain Nitigeka, Wim Botha, Claudette Schreuders, Cameron Platter, Gabby Raaff, Frank van Reenen, Jordan Metcalf, Liza Grobler, Olaf Bischoff, , Paul Senyol, Peter Eastman, Rikus Ferreira, Beth Diane Armstrong, Hannelie Taute and Joey Hi-Fi.
About the Book:
The Shining Girls is a novel about a time-travelling serial killer who hunts young women full of burning potential and the fiery survivor who turns the hunt around. It’s a high concept thriller that also explores how we are haunted by history, how women’s roles and rights have changed in the 20th century and what violence does to us on an individual level and as a society.
The novel is being published in 23 countries, has earned praise from writers like Stephen King and Gillian Flynn and has had glowing reviews in The New York Times and The Guardian. It’s nominated for the Crime Writers Association’s 2013 Gold Dagger and the TV rights have been optioned by MRC and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way.
The Exhibition Details:
Opening night: Friday 6 September
Time: 5.30pm
Venue: Cape Town School of Photography, 4th Floor, 62 Roeland Street, Cape Town, 8001
Exhibition runs until 13 September, open 9am-5pm Monday-Saturday.
