The Playhouse Company’s 20th annual South African Women’s Arts Festival (SAWAF) – which is celebrating 60 years since the 1956 Women’s March to Parliament – will take place at the Durban venue from August 11. Continue reading
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Critically acclaimed play grapples with what it means to be a lesbian in the township
A scene from Chapter 2, Section 9.
Following its successful runs at the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown and at the Wits 969 Festival the critically acclaimed Ovation Award-winning Chapter 2 Section 9 has been described as “brilliant” and a production that “every South African who cares about the freedoms enshrined in Chapter 2, Section 9, should see.” (Mike Loewe, The Critter).
With two more runs scheduled at the Pop Arts Centre in Maboneng, Johannesburg on August 11, 12, 13 and 14, and as part of Vavasati, International Women’s Festival on August 17, 18 and 19 at the Arena, State Theatre in Pretoria, audiences will have the opportunity to catch one of these performances. Continue reading
Legendary blues-rocker, Larry Amos, to perform at the Maritzburg Musicians’ Club
Maritzburg’s Music Club at La Casa in Quarry Road, Pietermaritzburg, is offering the wonderful women of KwaZulu-Natal the chance to be serenaded by living legend, Larry Amos, on Tuesday, August 9. Continue reading
‘Supreme Divas’: Celebrating fabulous women of song
August is the month to celebrate and highlight dynamic women and this will be done in spectacular fashion on The Mandela stage at Joburg Theatre with Supreme Divas from Thursday, August 11 to Sunday, August 14.
Supreme Divas will delight audiences old and young as they celebrate the powerhouse female singers that have become legends through their music over the past few decades. Continue reading
Lana Crowster at UKZN’s Centre for Jazz
The Centre for Jazz Popular Music at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College campus in Durban is hosting a concert featuring Lana Crowster on Wednesday, August 10 at 6 pm. Continue reading
Lars von Trier’s ‘Melancholia’ to be screened at FilmClub
Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, will be the next and final screening for season two at FilmClub in Pietermaritzburg. Catch it at the Tatham Art Gallery in Chief Albert Luthuli Street at 7 pm on Tuesday, August 9. Continue reading
Centre for Visual Arts in Pietermaritzburg hosts Fabric of the Universe installation
HEAD down to the Centre for Visual Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg campus to view Fabric of the Universe from August 9 to 11. The event opens at 6.30 pm on August 8 at the Jack Heath Gallery in Ridge Road. Continue reading
Wire and Wood Exhibition at Durban’s Phansi Museum
Players by Zanu Gumede.
South Africa has a thriving cultural heritage of wire and wood art. The exhibition Wire and Wood, which opens on Saturday, August 13, highlights a selection of work drawn from the permanent collection of the Phansi Museum and items loaned from friends of the museum.
Artists include: Philemon Sangweni, Julius Mfete, Raphael Magwaza, Carl Roberts, Noria Mabasa, Johannes Maswangani, Sibusiso Maphumulo, Zamukwake, Gumede and wire work from Thapiwa Musani, Thulani Mchunu, Ntombifuthi Magwaza and Elliot Mkhize. There are also items from a special collection or wirework on loan from Zenzulu. Continue reading
Take a journey with ‘LOVE?’ with Blank Canvas Productions
DURBAN-based Blank Canvas Productions will be staging a new show which charts the course of romance – both good and bad – in LOVE?, which can be seen from August 11 to 21 at Seabrooke’s Theatre at Durban High School in Morningside. Continue reading
Jazz musos fly the KZN flag high at SAMRO Foundation competition
Sidney Rash and Linda Sikhakhane.
Two young jazz musicians from KwaZulu-Natal will be pulling out all the stops to secure a place in the finals of the SAMRO Overseas Scholarships Competition, which will go down to the wire in Johannesburg in mid-August.
Saxophonist, Linda Sekhakhane, and drummer, Sidney Rash, are two of the six semi-finalists in the jazz music category of this illustrious annual music competition, which this year focuses on instrumentalists. Continue reading
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