Kambakht Ishq 3 is a dance and drama production by the Melanie Kisten Dance Academy which tells the story of love and infidelity in a whacky, yet interesting way. The show is being presented on April 1 and 2 at Sibiya Casino. Continue reading
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NGALE: Seeing Beyond exhibition takes a new look at Durban
Credit – Durban Centre for Photography
THE KZNSA Gallery in Bulwer Road, Glenwood, Durban is hosting the exhibition, NGALE: Seeing Beyond, which runs until Sunday, April 17. Continue reading
Colourful cattle on show at artSPACE durban
Opening at artSPACE Durban on Saturday, April 2 at 11am is Angie Arbuthnot’s My Favourite Things.
Fun with colour and design, underpinned with her love for cattle, Angie has built a series of work that depicts her intuitive, raw and unapologetic art. Continue reading
Great series of lectures at the Tatham Art Gallery
Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
THE Tatham Art Gallery is hosting a lecture programme throughout April. Continue reading
National Arts Council Awards over 100 study bursaries
In keeping with its mandate to support and develop South Africa’s arts, culture and heritage sector, The National Arts Council (NAC) has awarded 117 bursaries to arts students and tertiary institutions for 2016 through a fund allocation of over R5 million, a 10% increase from the last financial year. Continue reading
Call for applications for paid ACT internship
The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) is calling for applications for a six-month full-time internship funded by The National Lotteries Commission (NLC). Continue reading
Enjoy a unique new concert series with the Parlotones
The Parlotones
AFTER a successful 2015 which saw The Parlotones complete three successful tours of South Africa as well as a tour of Europe, the band is heading around the country for a series of concerts titled The Parlotones Orchestrated.
It will see the band take their hits to venues across the country together with a chamber ensemble which has been arranged and will be conducted by composer and acclaimed musician, Brendan Jury. Continue reading
Forest Jam Groove Orchestra perform gigs in Durban
THE Rainbow Restaurant in Pinetown welcomes back to it’s stage Madala Kunene as a special guest in collaboration with Chico Antonio and the Forest Jam Groove Orchestra on Sunday, April 3. Doors open at 1pm. Tickets R100.
The Forest Jam Groove Orchestra will also perform at the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Howard College campus at 6 pm on Wednesay, April 6.
The CJPM is on level 2 of the Shepstone Building at UKZN Howard College Campus. Doors open at 5.30pm. Tickets R60 (R40 pensioners, R20 for students). Please contact Thuli on 031 2603385 or email Zamat1@ukzn.ac.za for more details. Continue reading
SAJE Jazz Conference: South African Jazz – Shaping the Future
The 13th SAJE Jazz Conference is being hosted by Wits Music, The Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, until Saturday, April 2 – with evening performances at The ORBIT and Wits Great Hall. Continue reading
KZN well represented in the Naledi Award nominations
Clare Mortimer and Ralph Lawson in A Voice I Cannot Silence at the 2015 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown. The play, directed by Greg Homann, is based on the life, stories and poems of Alan Paton. (Photo: CuePix/Sithasolwazi Kentane)
THE nominees for the Naledi Awards 2016 – which will take place at the Lyric Theatre in Johannesburg on April 19 – have been revealed and according to executive director, Dawn Lindberg, the standard has never been higher.
Several Durbanites are in the running for this year’s awards including KickStArt Theatre Company’s Steven Stead for Sweeney Todd and Little Shop of Horrors, Greg King, Tina le Roux, Neil Stuart Harris, Charon Williams-Ros for Sweeney Todd, Caroline Smart for Hinterland and Clare Mortimer and Menzi Mkhwane for A Voice I Cannot Silence.
Short, Stories, Alive, the Nobulali Productions show, directed by former Durban resident, Neil Coppen, is also nominated; as is former Durban actress Janna Ramos-Violante, who gets a nomination for her work in Doubt. Continue reading
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