PAUL Beatty (The Sellout), Deborah Levy (Hot Milk), Graeme Macrae Burnet (His Bloody Project), Ottessa Moshfegh (Eileen), David Szalay (All That Man) and Madeleine Thien (Do Not Say We Have Nothing) are the six shortlisted authors for the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Continue reading
Tom Burke is set to play Cormoran Strike in the BBC adaptation of The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil, written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym, Robert Galbraith.
THREE television dramas, based on J.K. Rowling’s crime novels – written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith – are heading for the small screen, courtesy of the BBC.
British actor, Tom Burke (The Musketeers, War and Peace) will play Cormoran Strike, a war veteran turned private detective, who operates out of a tiny office in London’s Denmark Street in the adaptations of The Cuckoo’s Calling, The Silkworm and Career of Evil. Continue reading
THE Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College campus in Durban is calling for emerging poets to take part in the 20th Poetry Africa festival as Prelude Poets. Continue reading
THE Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal is inviting school pupils to submit their poems as part of the 20th Poetry Africa Schools Competition. Continue reading
THE Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), within the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s College of Humanities will host the 20th Poetry Africa International Festival from October 10 to 15. Continue reading
The KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra.
THE KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra will be performing the concert, Frank Sinatra and Friends, in the Grindrod Bank Theatre at the Hilton Arts Festival at 12.30pm on Saturday, September 17. Continue reading
Mpilo Nzimande and TQ Zondi in Termite!
PIETERMARITZBURG actors, TQ Zondi and Mpilo Nzimande, will be having a busy Hilton Arts Festival. The two men are performing in three shows – Feedback, Master Harold and the Boys and Tales of the Termite! – during the festival which runs at Hilton College from September 16 to September 18. Continue reading
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WILLEM Defoe once said: ‘Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasise about a world we aspire to’. And at the Hilton Arts Festival, which takes place at Hilton College from September 16 to September 17, festival-goers can look forward to plenty of thought-provoking work. Continue reading
Tonya Koenderman
IF you are a fan of music revues and cabaret shows, then this year’s Hilton Arts Festival – which runs from September 16 to September 18 at Hilton College – has plenty to offer. Continue reading
Rubber Duc
Rubber Duc – who have just released the single, Are We There Yet?, from their debut album, The Secret Sunrise – will be performing at the Hilton Arts Festival at 7.30 pm on Friday, September 16.
Nick Jordaan (lead vocals, acoustic guitar, hi-hat), Brendan Campbell (lead guitar, kick drum, backing vocals), Sheldon Sham (saxophone, crash, tambourine, backing vocals) and Amiel Gopal (bass, snare drum, backing vocals) will be performing in the Falcon Tent.
Tickets for the concert are R170. To book email tickets@hiltoncollege.com Continue reading
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