Tertius Meintjes Photo exhibition

This photographic project is an exploration and the celebration of the breaking down of boundaries and the positive dynamic this creates. UNITED PEOPLE is a humble attempt at reflecting the beauty in diversity and the perfect potential in all of us. Hopefully making a small contribution to encourage understanding and tolerance. This project attempts to reflect the perfect beauty in all, compassion through honouring each other in the knowledge that our destiny is one and he same

He went back to Berlin, and thus started a journey through Germany and most parts of Europe during 2003/2004 and part of 2005. Tertius travelled to other parts of the world during this period but regularly returned to Germany to continue his work on the project.

ACTOR & WRITER
Tertius has 25 years experience in theatre, film and television.
He studied BA Drama and Literature at the University of Pretoria and started working professionally in his second year.

His theatrical highlights include Alan Strang in Equus for which he won a VITA Award for Best New-Comer and Dis Seker Die Honde which he wrote, directed and produced for the Grahmstown Festival. This production played to critical acclaim in Johannesburg.
Tertius won a VITA Award for Best Actor in Jobman, a feature film directed by Oscar Nominated director Darryll James Roodt and Best Supporting Actor for his role opposite Whoopi Goldberg in Serafina, also directed by Darryll James Roodt.
Other highlights in his career include playing opposite Martin Sheen in the Floating Outfit, opposite Kerry Fox in Friends and opposite Sydney Poitier and Michael Caine in Madela and De Klerk.
Tertius won the Best Script Award for M-NET’s New Directions (The Pink Leather Chair)

PHOTOGRAPHER
Because time is out there, eaten by light.
-Norma Cole, “Spinoza in her Youth”
After three years in a leading role in “Isidingo” (The number one daily drama in South Africa) and becoming a popular household name, Tertius decided it was time for a major change. Seeking a new challenge he returned to his first passion.
A man’s work is little more than a journey through his life, in order to rediscover (through the detours of art), those two or three great but simple images that first found access to his heart.
-Albert Camus

Photography and the nature of light was something that fascinated him from an early age. Growing up on a farm in a remote part of South Africa Tertius got his hands on a faded Basic Photography manual and a primitive box camera while rummaging through a pile of rubbish that his father was about to burn. He build his first primitive darkroom at the age of twelve and continued to explore the intriguing relationship between time and light, seeking to capture that single ‘magical moment’ as reflected by the human condition, ever since.

Chris Tokalon Live at the GL Theatre

Don’t Tune Me – I’ll Tune You
One man music comedy show

“If music be the food of love, play on”
“Laughter is the best medicine”

At Greyton Lodge, Friday 7th August 20:00pm Tickets R70 sold at Greyton Lodge

A Wacky one-man show, where you get to see Chris abilities to imitate instruments, people and himself, using a multi-tracking pedal which creates a backing band – all played by him! Music and Comedy by a one-man beat box orchestra who also plays real sax, flute and a spaceship.

Christopher Tokalon is a musician, composer, performer, sound therapist and recording artist. He has played sax and flute since 1979 in a wide variety of jazz ensembles, musicals and cabarets, as well as being constantly involved in and performing local original music with bands and artists such as Peto, the Jazz Hounds, Steve Newman, Tony Cox, Drum Cafe and his own world music project, Soulbird.

Also with the nickname the Marvelous Mouth he presents a one man comedy show entitled “Don’t Tune Me, I’ll Tune You”, in which he is known for his astonishing ability to mimic musical instruments, birds, animals and people in performance.

He has developed a natural ability for overtone singing and creating evocations of natural sounds as part of a Sound therapy process. About ten years ago Christopher started specializing in Sound Journeys, a process where “passengers” lie down and receive a wonderfully calming, energizing sound bath. The effect of this cellular massage is to shake loose stress and trauma and create a balance between body, mind and spirit. Journeys can be done for groups or individuals and Chris has taken literally thousands of people on transformational Sound Journeys.

Christopher is also an expert in facilitating interactive music sessions and performing inspirational music and comedy for teambuilding in corporations, on holistic retreats, children's playshops and as a supplement to other workshops. He has produced two CDs of specially composed music for relaxation and upliftment. His work has received acclaim from therapists, health journals and basically everyone who has been on a magical sound experience with him.CHRIS “THE MARVELLOUS MOUTH” TOKALON presents “DON’T TUNE ME – I’LL TUNE YOU”

You might have seen him in recent years alongside Steve Newman and Tony Cox as a saxophonist, flautist and funny front man in the musical comedy "Don't Tune Us - We'll Tune You"; imitating instruments and impersonating a couple of well-loved public figures with hilarious results. He returns to the stage with a solo show, quite aptly titled "Don't Tune Me - I'll Tune You!" This is where he gets to show off and combine all his talents as a comedian, musician, composer, sound therapist and whacky, walking windbag – in this highly entertaining show he calls himself ‘the Marvellous Mouth’ because of his astonishing abilities to mimic musical instruments, people, birds and animals. All these skills are put to good use in a dazzling array of musical events and ‘tunes’.

The show consists of snappy and witty comedy, in various accents and characters, which are accompanied by his ‘tunes’, that display an unbelievable range of vocal gymnastics. This is all woven together with a nifty technical device called the DD20 Loop Sampler; a foot pedal which enables Christopher to record or loop his voice live in front of his audience. He adds layer after layer of bass, drums, guitar, trumpet etc., etc. and all the sounds are produced from his big fat marvelous mouth.

Basically he multi-tracks himself to create his own backing band and then adds on vocals and lyrics which contain silly and /or inspiring messages which are funny and potentially life changing to the listener. Some tunes have no silly lyrics in them, instead they have melodic and haunting interwoven melodies from vocals, sax and flute. Sax and flute are his real life instruments which he mastered when he was a more ‘serious’ musician. His show is suitable entertainment for any celebration or event, private or corporate and it appeals to all age groups. It is child friendly as well! Two popular sayings will endorse this show; “If music be the food of love, play on” and “Laughter is the best medicine”. So as he says, “Don’t tune me – I’ll tune you!”

christopher@wam.co.za

072 220 3736

Intntnl : +27 72 220 3736

http://www.soundman.co.za/

Blues evening concert

THE GREYTON LODGE PRESENTS

GREYTON GOT THE

BLUES

WOKE UP THIS MORNING?
GOT THE BLUES FIXIN' TO DIE?
WANNA LAY YOUR HEAD ON THAT LONESOME RAILROAD LINE?
OR WORSE- FEEL LIKE JUMPING INTO A GREYTON POTHOLE?

RATHER HITCH A RIDE TO THE GL BARRELHOUSE FOR
REAL MISSISSISSISSISSIPPI AND CHICAGO BLUES

WHEN? SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER, 7 PM

EACH PAIR OF TICKETS COMES WITH A FREE BLUES CD, RECORDED RIGHT HERE! PROCEEDS TO GREYTON RED CROSS

TICKETS: R80

Special parole granted for the evening, to:

Jane 'Muddy Feet' Gaisford, Steamin' Michelle Holloway, Malcolm 'Leaky Pipes' Devine, Flash 'Tash Carter, the Tinker Taylors, Deaf Dave, Geoff 'Gimme a Double' Palmer, Paul 'Licorice Stick' Williams, Alex 'Head Butt' Carswell, Mitch 'Coolstix' Tunnicliffe and The Blue Dawes...top

METHS, PAINT REMOVER AND GUTWASH ON SALE

TICKETS FROM RED CROSS OR PAY 'AVALANCHE' BÓI OR 'ICEPICK' VILLI AT THE DOOR

Enquiries: Dave 'I got a real bad feeling about this' Jackson 082 853 4771

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THE BLUES PRIMER (with a little help from my friends)

EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE BLUES

(to prepare you for the BLUES JAM on Saturday, 5 September at the Greyton Lodge)

LESSONS 1 TO 3

1. WOKE UP THIS MORNIN' (THE OPENING LINE OF MOST BLUES SONGS)

You have to wake up this morning in order to sing the blues tonight. If you didn't, you're a little bit of er, history. Your epitaph will read: HERE LIES (see lesson 3)- DIDN'T WAKE UP THIS MORNING'

2. QUALIFICATIONS TO SING THE BLUES

You may sing the blues if :

You shot a man in Memphis

You're blind
You can't be satisfied
You're down to your last buck

Not if:

The man in Memphis lived
Your woman came back (especially with assets)
You were once blind, but now can see
You marry and become contented and watch TV

You have a trust fund

3. BLUES NAMES

Good Blues names:

Joe, Big Mama, Blind Lemon Bessie, Little Willie, Rosie, Lightnin' Etta

If your name is Cecil, Coenie, Chalmers, Paul, Malcolm, Boi, Kazik, Abdul, Natasha, Pamela, Gay, or Leonè, you can't sing the blues, no matter how many men you've killed in Memphis.

Next Week: Blues drinks, where to have the blues, how to write a blues song.

REMEMBER-GREYTON GOT THE BLUES-GL ON 5 SEPTEMBER AT 7PM

Free Greyton Blues cd with every two tickets purchased

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THE BLUES PRIMER (with a little help...)

EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE BLUES, Part 2

(to prepare you for the BLUES JAM on Saturday, 5 September at the Lodge)
Lessons 4-6

4. BLUES DRINKS

If your mama gives you petrol to drink, that's the blues. Here are some other blues drinks:
Bourbon, Sourmash, Whiskey, Muddy water, Embalming fluid, Greyton water (but then you gotta be fixin' to die)

These are NOT the kind of things you drink when you're fixin' to die:

Perrier, Johnnie Walker Blue Label, Blended wheatgrass, Chamomile tea, Lismore wines, von Geusau Hotshots

5. WHERE TO SING THE BLUES.

You may sing the blues in a barrelhouse, dodging a bullet from your girl's husband, walking on the highway, in the jailhouse or on the back of a horse with a noose around your neck.

NOT here: In an Ashram, the Cape Grace, the opening of any Greyton art exhibition, over a health breakfast at Via's, .

6. HOW TO WRITE A BLUES SONG.

Start with 'Woke up this Mornin'.
Add a trouble statement, eg 'Greyton got no lights'.

Repeat these two lines in case you're singing to 'Deaf Lemon Johnson'.

Start to resolve: 'Got a real bad feelin'
and then clinch with, 'Somebody gonna start some fights'

Warning: You may not get away with: You stole my wife,
You horse thief, you...

REMEMBER-GREYTON GOT THE BLUES at the GL ON 5 SEPTEMBER AT 7PM

Free Greyton Blues cd with every two tickets purchased
Proceeds to Greyton Red Cross