Experience a unique drawing session with Black Sable Designs this First Thursdays at 223 Jan Smuts Creative Hub. Black Sable offers an opportunity open to everyone to practice drawing skill with guidance. Please DM us to reserve a spot!

This is free to anyone who wants to join, paper, pens and reference/ inspiration images provided. Other medium (paint, ink, pastels) welcome! Bring along your own. All experience levels welcome. The evening follows Black Sable’s #draweverydamnday challenge. Different subject matter, different speeds, different focus to grow your skill.

Pull up for a glass of wine this First Thursdays. Slow Wine brings the perfect pour to 223, a relaxed taste of what’s to come in October.

Because the main event is on its way: the Klink Wine Festival on 17 October, a full day of wine, music, food and creative pop-ups at 223. Discounted festival tickets will be on sale during First Thursdays, so it’s the perfect night to grab yours before they go.

Explore a selection of African literature, visual arts publications and interdisciplinary titles from Johannesburg-based bookseller and cultural platform Lit.Culture.

Guests are also invited to join an informal conversation around books, culture and ideas.

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Step inside The Garden, a living residency by interdisciplinary artist Vuyi Qubeka, founder of GASA EARTH.

Over two months, Vuyi is turning The Creatory into something between a garden, a studio and a place of stillness, where painting, weaving, poetry, sound and movement grow alongside one another. Rather than a finished exhibition, the space holds work in progress: materials being gathered, pieces taking shape, sound moving through the room.

Join The Creatory to encounter the residency as it unfolds, and to experience a moment of the slowing down, listening and presence at the heart of Vuyi's practice.

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In this new series of paintings and drawings, Eulogia Merle returns to a question that has run through her practice for years: what takes place within the shared territory between humans and animals?

Rather than understanding this relationship as one of dominance or companionship, the artist conceives it as a reciprocal force of transformation. Drawing on Indigenous cosmologies from different parts of the world, where the divide between humanity and animality has never been absolute, Eulogia explores the spiritual and emotional bonds that connect humans with the animal world. Animals appear as familiar, enigmatic and sentient presences, while almost totemic human figures seem to contain multiple selves, their layered surfaces suggesting different memories, emotions and versions of being.

For this exhibition, Eulogia turns her attention to the animals of Southern Africa, incorporating them into an imagined mythology rather than approaching them through a scientific or documentary lens. Scenes of empathy, care, playfulness and estrangement invite the viewer to question who guides whom, who observes and who is being observed. Through intuitive painting and drawing, Eulogia allows these encounters to unfold without predetermined conclusions, inviting viewers to complete the narratives