Participants from last year’s concert: Bianca Njoka – Holy Family College (18), Genevieve Ducray – Maris Stella (16), Pinkie Mtshali – Emmanuel Cathedral, Sipho Moorosi – St Benedict (16), Thabiso Phakathi – Kwa Thinthwa School for the Deaf (16) (with spectacles), Nosipho Ndaba – Holy Family College (17), (top) Lethiwe Ntaka – Kwa Thinthwa School for the Deaf (16) and Georgina Brink – Maris Stella (16)
Sing with One Voice is a choral music and dance concert featuring seven Catholic schools from the greater Durban area. This fund-raiser for the Denis Hurley Centre is taking place at Emmanuel Cathedral on Thursday, August 20 at 6.30 pm. Prior to the concert, there will be a free tour of the Denis Hurley Centre at 5.30 pm.
Seven Durban Catholic schools are uniting to show their support for the soon-to-be-completed Denis Hurley Centre by presenting an evening of choral music at the Emmanuel Cathedral.
The participating schools are: St Benedicts Pinetown, St Francis Mariannhill, Holy Family Glenwood, St Henry’s Marist, Our Lady of Fatima Durban North, Maris Stella and Kwa Thintwa School for the Deaf (which was founded by Archbishop Hurley). They will present a special concert of much-loved sacred choral music.
In 2012, a group of Grade 11 girls from Maris Stella visited the projects at the Cathedral, and were so impressed by the work with refugees, homeless and unemployed people, as well as those with HIV/AIDS, that they decided to do something to help. So they approached other schools in the greater Durban area to join them in a concert of sacred music. The music will be complemented by learners from KwaThintwa who will perform a programme of dances.
The Denis Hurley Centre is now complete. It provides an enabling environment for care, education and community building in one of the most diverse and challenging neighbourhoods of downtown Durban, close to the busiest road and rail transport hub in the province of KwaZulu-Natal.
The Denis Hurley Centre is a legacy project honouring Archbishop Denis Hurley OMI who was bishop and archbishop of this city from 1947 to 1992. He played a significant role in opposing apartheid and promoting the vision of just a society. In serving the poorest and most marginalised citizens of Durban the Denis Hurley Centre will live out Archbishop Hurley’s dream that the Church would be a “community serving humanity”
Volunteers from the Cathedral have tirelessly campaigned for years to get sufficient funds to build such an ambitious building as the DHC – a huge ask in the current financial climate. Now that the building is complete, fund-raising continues in earnest to equip, furnish and staff the centre. The formal opening of the building will be in November this year.
Entry is free and all are welcome! A collection will be taken for the Denis Hurley Centre. Safe parking at the Cathedral.
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