WHEN you hear the name Dan Patlansky, it immediately conjures up images of the genius guitarist, singer-songwriter and globally respected purveyor of the blues. So, Durban is in for a treat when Dan performs a special show at The Barnyard Theatre at Gateway in Umhlanga on Tuesday, July 28. Continue reading
Month: July 2015
Pops Mohamed and Dave Reynolds at the Rainbow
PINETOWN’S Rainbow Restaurant is hosting a performance by Pops Mohamed, South Africa’s leading indigenous-contemporary-crossover artist and Dave Reynolds, SA’s leading steelpan player on Sunday, July 26. Continue reading
SA drummer gets Henley Business School scholarship
The Henley Business School Dean’s Music and Creative MBA scholarship has been awarded to South African drummer, Barry van Zyl. He has been the drummer for the Johnny Clegg band for the past 16 years and has toured extensively worldwide. Continue reading
Ringing endorsement for the arts as Festival grows
The popularity of Grahamstown’s National Arts Festival has been reaffirmed with the release of this year’s attendance figures, which show a “significant” increase in attendance in 2015. This increase comes despite expectations that attendance might flatten after last year’s bumper 40th birthday programme. Continue reading
A Dry White Season to be screened at DIFF
TWO films from Euzhan Palcy, Sugarcane Alley (1983) and A Dry White Season (1989), will be showcased at the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF), which runs from July 16 to July 26. Continue reading
Film celebrates the unity of music
IN an era where strict racial segregation and oppression plunged South Africa into intolerance, conflict and civil unrest, hundreds of voices joined in a united call for peace. When Voices Meet — a film documenting one woman’s journey to bring about change in apartheid South Africa through the universal language of music — documents that musical moment. Continue reading
Throught-provoking exhibitions at artSPACE durban
ARTSPACE durban is hosting the solo exhibition, Umlambo Uzizwa nge Dondolo, by South African artist Bambo Sibiya, from Monday, July 20 to August 1. The exhibition has the support of the French cultural network of Alliances Française in Southern Africa, and ABSA L’Atelier Art competition. Continue reading
Enjoy a trip down memory lane with Anthony Stonier
DURBAN actor and singer, Anthony Stonier, will take theatre-goers down memory lane is his show, The Sound of his Music — Richard Rodgers, at the Hexagon Dive at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg campus at 7 pm for 7.30 pm on Friday, July 24 and Saturday, July 25. Continue reading
Acclaimed production of Animal Farm at the Hexagon
Neil Coppen’s acclaimed production of Animal Farm is to be staged at the Hexagon Theatre on the University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg campus from July 27 to 29. The show won Naledi Awards for best ensemble production and best production of a play or musical for young audiences, supported by ASSITEJ South Africa. Continue reading
Don’t miss Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny at the Hexagon
Greig Coetzee’s Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny was one of only two Gold Standard Bank Ovation Award winners at the National Arts Festival this year. And now the show, which stars Craig Morris, will be staged at the Hexagon Theatre at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg campus for one show only at 7.30 pm on July 31. Continue reading
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