Entertainment

Rosebank provides an array of entertainment to its residents and visitors at a variety of shopping malls, pavement cafes, restaurants, markets, luxurious hotels, cinemas, arts galleries and night clubs.

Art

Rosebank has a thriving art scene with a number of galleries and dealers trading in all mediums along the 'art strip' which includes the more established Goodman and Kim Sacks galleries.

Outdoors

Rosebank is outdoors and pedestrian friendly – Due to its compact size, visitors, residents and employees are able to walk the area, enjoying the outdoor atmosphere, en route to their destination.

Growing

Rosebank's infrastructure projects and property developments augur well for the future of the node. Areas located directly around future Gautrain Stations are attracting great interest.

Turning tragedy around

It’s not often that an ugly incident of crime inspires an exhibition. But jazz maestro Zim Ngqawana has managed to do this, after his Zimology Institute, located near Grasmere, Vaal, was broken into and vandalized by unknown thugs.

Zim and his student Kyle Shepherd performed a healing ceremony in the ruins of the institute, which was filmed by Aryan Kaganof of the African Noise Foundation.

The film The Exhibition of Vandalism was shown at Gallery Momo in Rosebank, as a fundraising effort towards rebuilding The Zimology Institute.

The vandalism left two grand pianos in ruins, and the building was stripped of all electrical connections and left as a shell. In the film, the two pianos are played as they were found in their broken condition on the scene. Other items smashed and torn off during the act of vandalism are also played by Zim and Shepherd.

“We are turning something negative into something positive, doing something creative in order to raise funds and rebuild. I want to thank everyone who participated,” said Zim.

The Zimology Institute is a project Zim set up to nurture younger musicians. Such projects are a long-standing jazz tradition. For instance, drummer Art Blakey had his Jazz Messengers, an incubator of talent which produced the Pulitzer-winning trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.

Ngqawana was taken into such a space himself and mentored by Marsalis, Max Roach and Yusef Lateef, when he left the University of Natal, where he was pursuing a diploma in jazz studies many years ago.

The Zimology Institute has produced many fine talents, such as pianist Kyle Shepherd and the magical young drummer Ayanda Sikade.

Filmed by Aryan Kaganof, photographed by Andrew Tshabangu and co-ordinated by Zaide Harneker, Vandalizim took place at Gallery Momo on Sunday 7 March. It was quite a blast – and not what everyone in the audience expected! For more details, or to purchase cds, DVDs and artworks to help the Zimology Institute, phone 011 327 3247.

Photo caption: Zim Ngqawana plays a "zimophone" – originally a filter - which was broken off by thugs in the vandalizing of the Zimology Institute.