Trumpeter Darren English, winner of the Samro Overseas Scholarships 2012.
The battle is on for the country’s best young instrumentalists, after SAMRO Foundation unveiled the 12 semi-finalists in the 2016 Overseas Scholarships Competition.
Six jazz and six Western art music performers will be competing for two R200 000 scholarships to further their music studies abroad, plus an array of additional awards. Continue reading
Mali Zulu and his band are set to perform at The Still Sessions at Distillery031, 1st Floor The Foundry, 43 Station Drive, Durban at 6 pm on Wednesday, July 6. Tickets R70 at http://www.webtickets.co.za and at Pick ‘n Pay. Continue reading
Visitors to the National Arts Festival can carry their plans in their pocket with the Festival’s 2016 mobile app. Free to download from both IOS and Android stores, the National Arts Festival app is a portable Festival-planner that enables online bookings and stores users’ e-tickets on the go. Continue reading
Iziko Museums of South Africa is hosting the first major South African exhibition of the work by Moses Tladi (1903–1959) at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown until July 10, after its debut at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town.
The exhibition at the Albany History Museum, entitled Moses Tladi Unearthed, will provide the visitor with an exceptional opportunity to view the work of this enigmatic artist. Cited as the first black artist to have exhibited formally in South Africa, Tladi developed a reputation as a realist landscape painter. Continue reading
Somandla Ntshalintshali sculpted this elegant Oryx Vase, which features bold geometric and floral designs painted by his long-time collaborator, Jabu Nene. It is one of the works being exhibited at the William Humphreys Gallery in Kimberley. Photo: Ardmore Ceramic Art
ARDMORE Ceramic Art will be showcasing its colourful work at the ‘In Full Colour’ – David Walters and Friends Exhibition at the William Humphreys Art Gallery in Cullinan Crescent, Kimberley.
The exhibition opens on July 13 and runs until August 12. Continue reading
The multiple award-winning, Godfrey Johnson, will enchant you with a variety of colourful characters including the very “concerned”citizen Nugent and the hyper neurotic new age wonder woman, Juniper Jade, in his show, Johnson Unzipped, at the Rhumbelow Theatre, 42 Cunningham Road, Umbilo, Durban from July 1 to 3. Continue reading
THABANG Tabane is the heir to the father and founder of the Malombo music, Dr. Philip Tabane, who has gained international reputation for being the leader of legendary Malombo for over four decades.
He learned to play drums by watching his uncle Mabi Thobejane, the co-founder of Malombo in the 60s. No wonder then that at an early age, Thabang became the sideman in his dad’s band. He has toured places such as Russia, Sweden, Togo, London, and the United States with Malombo and Thandiswa Mazwayi.
And you can catch him live at U- The Space, 146 Minnaar Street, Bosman (Central), City of Tshwane (Old Fire Station) at 6 pm on Saturday, July 2. Tickets R60. Continue reading
Walter Battiss – Mantis Man, c1970.
For over 35 years, well-known art collector and philanthropist, Jack Ginsberg, has assembled an extraordinary collection of more than 700 artworks, books and ephemera by esteemed South African artist Walter Battiss.
This collection will be shown at Wits Art Museum for the first time in an exhibition, curated by Warren Siebrits. It opens on Tuesday, July 5 and ends on October 9. Continue reading
The cast of Drama for Life’s Afriqueer.
As the world reels from the Orlando shootings and the African LGBTI community continues to face violent repression, the Drama for Life production AfriQueer promises to strike a timely and resonant note at this year’s National Arts Festival.
This powerful site-specific work will have two performances daily – at 4pm and 8pm – at the scenic Botanical Gardens in Grahamstown, from June 30 to July 3. Continue reading
Conrad Koch. Photo: Supplied
Comedy heavyweights, Kagiso Lediga and Conrad Koch, will be performing in Durban from June 29 to July 2. Joining them for the performances, hosted by On Fire Comedy, will be local funnymen Carvin Goldstone, Neil Green, Justice Kubheka, Mo Vawda, Rory Petzer (East Coast Radio), Jem Atkins and Johanesburg-based Suhayl Essa. Continue reading
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