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Halloween at the Barnyard

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Head to the Barnyard for some Halloween fun

Head to the Barnyard for some Halloween fun

The Barnyard Theatre at Gateway in Umhlanga are celebrating Halloween for the first time on Saturday, October 31, with two special events – one during the day aimed at children, and one at night for adults and including the Rugby World Cup final.

The first is a fun event for kids/families in the afternoon, with the theatre opening at 11.30 am, and activities from 12 noon to 2 pm. This will include a Hall Of Horrors, face painters, a magician, and trick or treat stations. There will also be a hip-hop dancing display, followed by a dance-off for the kids. Continue reading →

Matt Kay: Shining a light on Durban’s beaches

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Matt Kay. Oasis Beach. From the series The Front. Durban

Matt Kay. Oasis Beach. From the series The Front. Durban

OPENING at the KZNSA Gallery in Bulwer Street, Glenwood, on Wednesday, October 28 at 6.30 pm is The Front, a solo exhibition by 2014 Tierney Fellow Matt Kay. Continue reading →

Crimson Roses: A poignant and personal look at the horrors of World War I

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Crimson Roses

Crimson Roses

PRIVATE letters written between a volunteer nurse and her best friend in World War I provide a personal perspective on a conflict which left some 17 million people dead and a further 20 million wounded.

Beatrice Keir’s letters, along with private photographs and poignant drawings and autographs by men wounded in the four-year conflict, have been compiled into the book Crimson Roses: Beatrice Fraser’s First World War Letters and Memorabilia by her grand-daughter, Fiona Polak, who lives in Howick. Continue reading →

Helen Macdonald: healed by a hawk

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Helen MacDonald, author of H is for Hawk.

Helen MacDonald, author of H is for Hawk.

AS a child Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the terminology and read all the classic books, including T. H. White’s classic, The Goshawk, which describes his struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest.

But until the death of her father, Alisdair Macdonald, a respected photojournalist, who died suddenly of a heart attack in 2007, she never imagined that she would train a Goshawk of her own. Continue reading →