Almost 50 years after Irma Stern’s death in 1966, the Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG) presents a new exhibition that marks the first dedicated showing of the complete holdings of her work in the Iziko Permanent Collections. Continue reading
Month: July 2015
Creative excellence rewarded at National Arts Festival
Some of the most exciting productions on the Fringe programme at this year’s National Arts Festival, which ran from 2 to 12 July in Grahamstown, have been recognised for their creativity, experimentation and innovation with the awarding of Gold and Silver Standard Bank Ovation Awards. Continue reading
Artscape Women’s Humanity Arts Festival 2015
HUMANITY is the theme of the Artscape Women’s Humanity Arts Festival this year and takes place in various venues around the Artscape Theatre Centre from August 6 to 9. Continue reading
Wits 969 Festival – the best of the National Arts Festival on your door step
IF you weren’t able to make it to Grahamstown for this year’s National Arts Festival, fear not. Wits Theatre is bringing 16 of the latest, most innovative productions to heat up Johannesburg’s stages. Continue reading
Time to talk business at the KZN Music Imbizo 2015
It is that time of the year again, where the KwaZulu-Natal music industry gathers together to network and talk business. The seventh KZN Music Imbizo will be taking place at the Royal Hotel (267 Anton Lembede Street, Durban) from Thursday, August 27 to Saturday, August 29. Continue reading
Gauteng Opera soloists at Theatre on the Square
AT 1 pm Friday, July 24, the three soloists from Gauteng Opera will present a beautiful lunch hour opera concert at the Auto & General Theatre on the Square, Nelson Mandela Square, corner Sandton Drive and Rivonia Road, Sandton. Continue reading
The Vortex – a play without words
THE Cape Town City Ballet will be performing Marc Goldberg’s dance adaptation of Noël Coward’s controversial play The Vortex at Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre from August 12 to 23. The ballet is choreographed by Goldberg, under the artistic direction of Elizabeth Triegaardt. Continue reading
Unisa flute and clarinet kings unite on winners’ tour
Woodwind mastery will be in the air when the two winners of last year’s Unisa International Flute and Clarinet Competition tour later this month. Continue reading
SA opera singer wins international competition
South African opera singer Levy Sekgapane wins international singing competition in Amsterdam. Continue reading
SA artist, John Meyer’s landmark collection, Lost in the Dust, on show in London
Bonhams and Investec will present Lost in the Dust, an exhibition celebrating a powerful series of narrative paintings of the Anglo-Boer War by John Meyer, South Africa’s leading contemporary realist artist. On public viewing at Bonhams from July 22 in London, this is the first time this collection has exhibited outside of Africa. Continue reading
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