The 18th Annual Arts and Culture Trust Award-winners at the Maslow Hotel, Sandton. Photo: John Hogg.
The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) announced the 2015 winners of the ACT Lifetime Achievement Awards and ImpACT Awards for young professionals at The Maslow Hotel in Johannesburg on Monday, November 2. Continue reading
Indian Merchant Family
Change to the programme of the Indian Diaspora Conference. Session 11: Round Table Panel : Post Apartheid Discourses on the Status of Indians in South Africa was originally scheduled for Saturday the 14, November 14 at 3 pm. The session will now take place on Friday, November 13, from 8.30 am to 10.30 am. This is a round table session and each presenter will have five minutes to provide a brief overview of their papers. A Q&A will follow.
The Indian Diaspora Conference will take place from Thursday, November 12 to Saturday, November 14 at the Graduate School of Business (GSB), Westville Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal. The theme of the conference is Ethnicity, Race and Citizenship: Place of Indians in the New South Africa. Continue reading
Zamindlela Mkhwanazi with event organiser Zama Memela. Photos: Neo Khunyeli – On Grafix
Sample some amazing hand-crafted tea blends, try your hand at creating your own, and enjoy a delectable coffee and tea inspired dinner on November 6 with Zamindlela Mkhwanazi’s tea, at The EasyEating Taste Experience – a season of four delicious innovative pop-up culinary/sensory/educational events culminating in a food conference on December 5, all taking place at 8 Morrison Street in Durban.
I heart Potjie: Wehlile Maziya and Abelo Maziya
Musgrave Methodist Church, in Durban’s Musgrave Road, is hosting its now annual sixth International Food Fair for one evening only on Friday, November 6. They will be offering a myriad international dishes, patriotic fare, exotic cuisine and delicious desserts in the church hall and gardens from 5.30 pm until 8.30 pm. Continue reading
All Hallows’ Eve, a night when the dead walk among the living, the ghouls and ghosts come out to play and the haunting echoes of ‘trick or treat’ fill the air. What better reason to host a party in a 100-year-old haunted house with a graveyard in the garden, the living dead as your host and each room decorated in a uniquely terrifying theme and will you dare to go into the dreaded murder basement?
This is the setting for Joburg’s most terrifying party this Halloween as 20 Hurlingham Road in Illovo is transformed into an Electronic Music Festival like no other on Saturday, October 31. Continue reading
Head to Caversham Textiles in the beautiful Caversham Valley in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands this weekend to find the perfect gift for yourself or a loved one. Based at Caversham Press, Caversham Textiles will be showcasing its array of stunning fabrics and textile products from 10 am to 4 pm on October 31 and November 1. Also on offer will be laser cut Christmas decorations.
This year the Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) reaches yet another milestone as its annual ACT Awards programme grows from strength to strength. The Dance Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented at this year’s ceremony, supported by Japan Tobacco International (JTI). Continue reading
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
Sam Musk
Bluff resident, Sam Musk, was shot and severely injured during a hi-jacking incident recently.
Recently divorced she is the mother of two young children and, working as a commission-only insurance broker, she only has a hospital plan, which is insufficient to cover her current and future medical expenses, which will include trauma counselling, intensive physio-therapy, neuro-surgeon’s fees, amongst others.
In an effort to raise funds for Sam, musicians in Durban have organised a benefit concert at Fynnland Combined Sports Club. Continue reading
FROM 10 am to 8 pm on Saturday, October 17, West Street will be covered with a 300 meter long slippery slide as Sandton becomes an urban playground for Slide Jozi. Continue reading
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