Calendar
FORTHCOMING
Thursday 1 June 2023
Pre-Concert Talk: Winter Symphony Concert 1 – Tchaikovsky, van Dijk, Mozart (Soloist: Jeffrey Armstrong, violin)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphony Season
Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)
Thursday 8 June 2023
Pre-Concert Talk: Winter Symphony Concert 2 – Rachmaninoff, Mahler (Soloist: Emanuil Ivanov, piano)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphony Season
Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)
Thursday 1 June 2023
Pre-Concert Talk: Winter Symphony Concert 1 – Tchaikovsky, van Dijk, Mozart (Soloist: Jeffrey Armstrong, violin)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphony Season
Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)
Thursday 8 June 2023
Pre-Concert Talk: Winter Symphony Concert 2 – Rachmaninoff, Mahler (Soloist: Emanuil Ivanov, piano)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphony Season
Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)
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2023
Thursday 11 May 2023
Pre-Concert Talk: Autumn Symphony Concert 4 – Liszt, Elgar (Soloist: Vitaly Pisarenko, piano)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Autumn Symphony Season
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)
Thursday 13 April 2023
Pre-Concert Talk: Autumn Symphony Concert 1 – Pärt, Dvořák, Brahms (Soloist: François du Toit, piano)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Autumn Symphony Season
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (18h45, open to ticket-holders)
Saturday 1 April 2023
A Meditative Guided Evening Walk with Site-Specific Poetic Readings, Dance and Music
Dylan Lewis Sculpture Garden, Stellenbosch (17h00)
Friday 31 March 2023
"Celebrating Péter Louis van Dijk" with VOX Cape Town
Endler Hall, Stellenbosch University Konservatorium (19h30)
Thursday 23 March 2023
Friends of Orchestral Music Sunset Soirée
Bowmans, Bree Street, Cape Town (18h30 for 19h00)
Sunday 19 March 2023
"Music for Children's Mental Health" with VOX Cape Town
Christ Church, Constantia (15h00)
Friday 17 March 2023
Requiem for Solace by Kim André Arnesen with VOX Cape Town
National Conductors' Convention, Cape Town International Convention Centre (18h00)
Sunday 12 February 2023
Summer Sunset Symphony Concert with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra: Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Dvořák
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden (17h30)
Monday 30 January 2023
Composer of the Week: Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) with Johann Gerber
Fine Music Radio (19h00-21h00)
Wednesday 25 January 2023
VOX at the UCT Summer School: Music Across Time with Grant McLachlan
Baxter Concert Hall (19h00)
Thursday 19, Friday 20 and Saturday 21 January 2023
A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra and VOX Cape Town
Maynardville Open-Air Theatre (20h15)
2022
Sunday 11 December 2022
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols with VOX Cape Town
St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, De Waterkant (11h00)
St Andrew’s Church, Newlands (18h30)
Wednesday 30 November to Thursday 1 December 2022
Malaria Drug Accelerator (MalDA) Semi-Annual Meeting
Palm Springs, California, USA
Thursday 10 November 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: Summer Symphony 3 – Smetana, Dvořák, Nielsen (Soloist: Alexey Stadler, cello)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Summer Symphony Season
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)
Thursday 3 November 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: Summer Symphony 2 – Janacek, Prokofiev, Beethoven (Soloist: Alissa Margulis, violin)
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Summer Symphony Season
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)
Tuesday 25 October to Friday 28 October 2022
H3D Symposium: A Spectrum of Opportunities in Infectious Disease Drug Discovery to Enhance Global Health
Webersburg Estate, Stellenbosch
Sunday 16 October to Tuesday 18 October 2022
African BioImaging Consortium (ABIC) Community Meeting (short talk)
Cape Town
Friday 14 October 2022
Talk: Harmony of the Spheres: The life and work of composer-chemist Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
Waterfront Rotary Club
Tuesday 11 October and Friday 14 October 2022
Inspirational talks for first-year chemistry students as part as the UCT Department of Chemistry's "Chemistry Week"
Saturday 24 September 2022 (Heritage Day)
"40 VOICES" – Spem in alium at the 2022 Cape Town Baroque Festival
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, De Waterkant (13h00, 14h00, 15h00 and 16h00)
Thursday 22 September 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: Spring Symphony 3 – Leonard Bernstein, Tim Kliphuis and Kevin Houban
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Spring Symphony Season
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)
Thursday 22 September 2022
Talk: H3D and the Discovery of MMV390048
A Primer for Clinical Assessors within African Regulatory Agencies
Week 1 Live Tutorial: "Molecule to Market: Overview of Drug Discovery and Development"
Pharmacometrics Africa (15h00-17h00 SAST)
Thursday 22 September 2022
Falling Walls Lab Cape Town
University of Cape Town
Wednesday 21 September 2022
ChemCareers 2022: Careers in Pharmaceuticals
Royal Society of Chemistry panel discussion (12h30-13h30 BST)
Thursday 1 September 2022
Pre-Concert Talk (with Rodney Trudgeon): Spring Symphony 1 – Beethoven, Sibelius, Berlioz
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Spring Symphony Season
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)
Friday 26 August 2022
iCANX Talks Vol. 112 – Translational medicine underpinned by drug discovery: a malaria case study
Online (14h00-15h30 SAST)
Thursday 11 August 2022
2022 Intervarsity Chemistry Pub Quiz
Baxter Theatre Centre, Rondebosch (18h00-21h00)
2022 Intervarsity Chemistry Pub Quiz
Baxter Theatre Centre, Rondebosch (18h00-21h00)
Wednesday 10 August 2022
Music Among Friends
Fine Music Radio (20h00-22h00)
This programme will feature some of the recorded musical highlights from the 17th Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival held from 1-10 July 2022. Works will include the Piano Sextet by César Franck, the Octet-Partita for winds by Franz Krommer and one of the "new discoveries" of this year’s festival – the Quintet in G minor, Op. 34, by Juliusz Zarebski (1854-1885) played by Daniel Rowland (violin 1), Madeline Adkins (violin 2), Yuval Gotlibovich (viola), Maja Bogdanović (cello) and Luis Magalhães (piano).
Friday 22 July 2022
Insights from the interface of chemistry and biology: An overview of chemical biology approaches and capabilities at H3D
Holistic Drug Discovery and Development (H3D) Centre Webinar Series with Kathryn Wicht (12h00-13h00)
Music Among Friends
Fine Music Radio (20h00-22h00)
This programme will feature some of the recorded musical highlights from the 17th Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival held from 1-10 July 2022. Works will include the Piano Sextet by César Franck, the Octet-Partita for winds by Franz Krommer and one of the "new discoveries" of this year’s festival – the Quintet in G minor, Op. 34, by Juliusz Zarebski (1854-1885) played by Daniel Rowland (violin 1), Madeline Adkins (violin 2), Yuval Gotlibovich (viola), Maja Bogdanović (cello) and Luis Magalhães (piano).
Friday 22 July 2022
Insights from the interface of chemistry and biology: An overview of chemical biology approaches and capabilities at H3D
Holistic Drug Discovery and Development (H3D) Centre Webinar Series with Kathryn Wicht (12h00-13h00)
Friday 1 July to Sunday 10 July 2022
Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival 2022 (livestream presenter)
Stellenbosch Konservatorium
Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival 2022 (livestream presenter)
Stellenbosch Konservatorium
Thursday 30 June 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: Winter Symphony 5 "Organ Vibes" - Dvorak, Poulenc, Mussorgsky/Ravel
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphony Season at the City Hall
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)
Wednesday 22 June 2022
Bishops Eisteddfod: The 50th Inter-House Singing Competition (adjudicator)
Cape Town International Convention Centre 2
Thursday 2 June 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: Winter Symphony 1 "Leo's Rachmaninov" - Schubert, Rachmaninov, Dvorak
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphony Season at the City Hall
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)
Wednesday 25 May to Friday 27 May 2022
Grand Challenges Africa Convening of Drug Discovery and Data Science Approaches to Improve Maternal and Child Health in Africa Cohorts
Science for Africa Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya
Pre-Concert Talk: Winter Symphony 5 "Organ Vibes" - Dvorak, Poulenc, Mussorgsky/Ravel
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphony Season at the City Hall
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)
Wednesday 22 June 2022
Bishops Eisteddfod: The 50th Inter-House Singing Competition (adjudicator)
Cape Town International Convention Centre 2
Thursday 2 June 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: Winter Symphony 1 "Leo's Rachmaninov" - Schubert, Rachmaninov, Dvorak
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Winter Symphony Season at the City Hall
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)
Wednesday 25 May to Friday 27 May 2022
Grand Challenges Africa Convening of Drug Discovery and Data Science Approaches to Improve Maternal and Child Health in Africa Cohorts
Science for Africa Foundation, Nairobi, Kenya
John Woodland gives an overview of @H3D_UCT platforms.H3D is Africa’s first integrated drug discovery and development centre. The centre was founded at the University of Cape Town in April 2010 and pioneers world-class #DrugDiscovery in Africa #InnovationforHealth pic.twitter.com/bpQvTPPogB
— Science for Africa Foundation (@SciforAfrica) May 25, 2022
Wednesday 18 May 2022
"A day in the life of a drug hunter"
Talk at The Commons for Science Café Muizenberg
"A day in the life of a drug hunter"
Talk at The Commons for Science Café Muizenberg
Ever wondered what a day in the life of a drug hunter looks like? Join @jgwoodland, H3D chemical biologist tomorrow 18 May at the Commons, Muizenberg pic.twitter.com/qm0XZCkzh5
— H3D (@H3D_UCT) May 17, 2022
Wednesday 11 May 2022
"Bright New World*: Harnessing fluorescence for exquisite insights into chemical and biological systems"
UCT Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) seminar series
* The title of this talk was adapted from the title of Aldous Huxley's novel "Brave New World", which itself is a quotation from Shakespeare's play "The Tempest". In the same way that Miranda is dazzled by the "many goodly creatures" on her island, so too have biologists discovered whole new worlds of structural and functional detail under the fluorescence microscope. This seminar was dedicated to the memory of Professor Timothy Egan (1962-2022), my PhD supervisor, who recently passed away and who encouraged my first explorations into fluorescence.
"Bright New World*: Harnessing fluorescence for exquisite insights into chemical and biological systems"
UCT Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) seminar series
* The title of this talk was adapted from the title of Aldous Huxley's novel "Brave New World", which itself is a quotation from Shakespeare's play "The Tempest". In the same way that Miranda is dazzled by the "many goodly creatures" on her island, so too have biologists discovered whole new worlds of structural and functional detail under the fluorescence microscope. This seminar was dedicated to the memory of Professor Timothy Egan (1962-2022), my PhD supervisor, who recently passed away and who encouraged my first explorations into fluorescence.
Wednesday 4 May to Friday 6 May 2022
An Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry
In this series of three lectures for the UCT Clinical Pharmacology Honours class, I gave a general overview of drug discovery followed by a case study around MMV390048 (H3D's clinical candidate that went into trials in Africa) and finally some contemporary aspects of medicinal chemistry, such as the importance of interdisciplinarity and the growing promise of AI and machine learning in the context of drug discovery.
Thursday 14 April 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: "Northern Lights" - Grieg, Nielsen
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Autumn Symphonies at the City Hall
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)
Thursday 21 April 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: "Hommage à Peter Klatzow"
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Autumn Symphonies at the City Hall
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)
Friday 8 April and Wednesday 13 April 2022
H3D Roadshows: Women in Science
Stellenbosch University and the University of the Western Cape
Wednesday 16 March 2022
An Introduction to Scientific Writing
A afternoon workshop to share scientific writing tips and skills with the UCT Chemistry Honours class
Monday 17 January 2022
Composer of the Week: Peter Klatzow (1945-2021)
Fine Music Radio (20h00-22h00)
An Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry
In this series of three lectures for the UCT Clinical Pharmacology Honours class, I gave a general overview of drug discovery followed by a case study around MMV390048 (H3D's clinical candidate that went into trials in Africa) and finally some contemporary aspects of medicinal chemistry, such as the importance of interdisciplinarity and the growing promise of AI and machine learning in the context of drug discovery.
Thursday 14 April 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: "Northern Lights" - Grieg, Nielsen
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Autumn Symphonies at the City Hall
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)
Thursday 21 April 2022
Pre-Concert Talk: "Hommage à Peter Klatzow"
Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra's Autumn Symphonies at the City Hall
Sunken Lounge, Cape Town City Hall (19h15, open to ticket-holders only)
Friday 8 April and Wednesday 13 April 2022
H3D Roadshows: Women in Science
Stellenbosch University and the University of the Western Cape
Wednesday 16 March 2022
An Introduction to Scientific Writing
A afternoon workshop to share scientific writing tips and skills with the UCT Chemistry Honours class
Monday 17 January 2022
Composer of the Week: Peter Klatzow (1945-2021)
Fine Music Radio (20h00-22h00)