Creative Connect, in partnership with David Krut Bookstore and Workshop 17, invite you to a conversation between writer Bronwyn Law-Viljoen and artist Mikhael Subotzky.

Law-Viljoen and Subotzky will discuss writing, art, photography and Law-Viljoen’s new novel Notes on Falling.

Event details

Date: Tuesday 8 November 2022
Time: 18:00 for 18:30
Venue: The Bank First Floor Workshop 17, 24 Cradock Ave, South Africa
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• Books on sale at the event
• Cash bar available
• Parking in the Rosebank Mall or The Zone parking lots

About the book

Thalia, adrift in a small university town in South Africa in the nineties, heads to New York to study photography and to pick up the faint trail left for her by someone she has never known.
The city helps her to find her way as an artist, but it never quite provides the answers she is seeking. Only years later in Johannesburg is she able to make sense of who she is and what her work might mean.

Robert is a photographer in New York in the 1970s, desperate to make memorable images in a time of spectacular experimentation in dance, music and theatre. He intuits the importance of what he is photographing, but finds it almost impossible to transcend the troubles of his own life and achieve something great through his work.

Paige leaves South Africa in the seventies to pursue her dream of being a ballet dancer. She does not anticipate the ways in which this pursuit will challenge her understanding of the art that she has known and practised all her life, and she is ill prepared for the catastrophic moment that will undo everything she has worked for.

Unbeknownst to them, Thalia, Robert and Paige share a story that links them to one another, to the turbulent worlds of New York in the 1970s and South Africa in the 1990s and, finally, to the photographs that hold the secrets of their lives.

Categories Fiction South Africa

Tags Book events Book launches Bronwyn Law-Viljoen David Krut Bookstore Johannesburg Mikhael Subotzky Notes on Falling Penguin Random House SA Umuzi