THE Pietermaritzburg Amateur Music Society (PAMS) will be presenting an evening of French Music in the concert, Musique Sacrée, at the Lutheran Church in Hayfields at 2.30pm on Sunday, May 21.
Musical director, Nigel Fish, has selected the Messe Solennelle of the 19th century Paris-born Charles Gounod as the main work on the programme. Continue reading
Bryan Hiles as Hamlet and Cara Roberts as Ophelia star in Think Theatre’s production of Hamlet. Photo: Val Adamson
Estelle Sinkins reviews Think Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, which is being staged in Johannesburg and Pretoria in May. Continue reading
Sharon Erichsen’s Memory Vessel (I – X).
‘Transition’, a three-day exhibition of contemporary art will be staged from May 5 to May 7 at The Breathing Space, 191 Bulwer Road, Glenwood, Durban. Continue reading
Opening at artSPACE Durban on Friday, May 5 at 6pm is the exhibition ‘Notion and Nature’, featuring works by Nicholas and Miranda Crooks. The exhibition will run until May 25. Continue reading
Baroque 2000, who have just returned from giving four performances as the resident orchestra at the 2017 Harare International Festival of the Arts, will present a concert at the Mariannhill Monastery, near Pinetown, at 11.30 am on Sunday, May 7.
The programme will include David Snaith as the soloist in Telemann’s Viola Concerto in G, Telemann’s picturesque burlesque suite, Don Quixote, Biber’s Batallia, depicting various militaristic scenes, and Handel’s Concerto Grosso Op 6 No1.
Tickets are R150 at the door. The Monastery tea garden will be open, and parking is free and safe. For more information email sursouth@iafrica.com or phone Michel at 082 303 5241.
Cyril Neville.
Great news for music lovers! The International Arts Foundation Inc. from the United States of America, in association with The Playhouse Company, hosts New Orleans-born, Grammy-Award-winning music legend, Cyril Neville and Durban’s own South African Music Award winner, Ernie Smith, in The Playhouse Opera Theatre on Thursday, 4 May at 7.30pm. Continue reading
Harold Ellis Clark, the writer of ‘We Live Here’ at the Playhouse.
The International Arts Foundation Inc. of New Orleans in the United States, in association with Durban’s Playhouse Company, presenting the acclaimed stage drama, We Live Here, by the award-winning American playwright, Harold Ellis Clark.
The powerfully written work, will be staged in The Playhouse Drama Theatre from 5 to 7 May. It marks an ongoing sister-city cultural exchange between New Orleans and Durban, which aims to bridge communication and understanding between the two cities. Continue reading
Delegate registration for Africa’s premier film finance and co-production market, the Durban FilmMart (DFM), is open.
Celebrating its 8th edition, this year’s DFM, a joint programme of the Durban Film Office (DFO), the eThekwini Municipality’s industry development unit, and the Durban International Film Festival – hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts – takes place from 14 to 17 July. It will host around 500 delegates from Africa and the world. Continue reading
Strike a Pose.
The European Film Festival is back for the fourth time at Cinema Nouveau theatres in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban from 5 to 14 May.
The line-up of films represents 12 countries, including Ireland and Croatia for the first time. Continue reading
The Rise and Fall of the City of Baobabia.
THE Hexagon Theatre at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg campus will be playing host to two different productions in May.
From Wednesday, May 3 to Saturday, May 6 at 7.30pm, theatregoers can watch The Rise and Fall of the City of Baobabia, devised and directed by William le Cordeur, in the Studio Theatre. Meanwhile, in the main theatre space, there will be a performance of The Ancient at 6pm on Thursday, May 4 and Friday, May 5. Continue reading
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