FilmClub will be screening Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman at the Tatham Art Gallery in Chief Albert Luthuli Street, Pietermaritzburg, at 7 pm on Tuesday, July 26. Continue reading
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Centre for Jazz puts drummers in the spotlight
Bruce Baker will be taking part in the Jazz Drum Showcase at UKZN.
The Centre for Jazz and Popular Music at the University of KwaZulu-Natal is hosting a Jazz Drum Showcase featuring first, second and third year students and a few alumni that are prominent faces on the Durban and South African music scene at 6 pm on Wednesday, July 27. Continue reading
Smooth sounds and fabulous food combine in Heels over Head’s new show
Heels over Head. Photo: Vulane Mthembu
Enjoy Supper, Sounds and Stills with Heels over Head – a dinner, a concert and an exhibition – at The Plant, 5 Station Drive (off Umgeni Road), Durban at 7 pm on Friday, July 29. Continue reading
Catch exclusive screenings of the film, ‘Queen: A Night in Bohemia’, at Ster-Kinekor
Queen at the Hammersmith Odeon. Photo: Douglas Puddifoot
Ster-Kinekor Theatres is hosting the exclusive screening of Queen: A Night in Bohemia on Saturday, July 23 at 8 pm, Sunday, July 24 at 2.30 pm, and Tuesday, July 26 at 8 pm, at select cinemas.
This special cinema event includes the monumental and energetic Queen concert, which was filmed live on Christmas Eve 1975 at the Hammersmith Odeon in London; and a never-seen-before documentary featuring footage of Freddie Mercury, recently discovered live performance footage, interviews with all four band members, outtakes, backstage clips and sessions for the first-ever recording of Bohemian Rhapsody, the ground breaking, chart-topping British single from A Night at the Opera.
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Opera stars, Sibongile Mngoma and Sandile Mabaso, to delight audiences in Joburg
Sibongile Mngoma.
TWO of the shining lights of the South African opera scene – Sibongile Mngoma (soprano) and Sandile Mabaso (tenor) – will be performing in the main hall of the National School of the Arts in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, at 7 pm on July 28.
The duo will be performing arias and duets from the world’s most beautiful operas. Sigongile will be singing arias from Puccini’s La Boheme and Tosca and Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutti; while Sandile will be singing from Massenet’s Manon and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’Amour. They will be accompanied by Marten van Wyk on piano.
Tickets for the Opera Duo concert are R120 (concessions R80) at http://www.webtickets.co.za. Proceeds from this concert will be used to upgrade the music department. Continue reading
Using personal stories to tell the history of HIV and AIDS
THE KwaMuhle Museum, 130 Bram Fischer Road, Durban is hosting South African Voices: Towards a Museum of HIV Memory and Learning, a legacy project of AIDS2016.
South African Voices strives to tell the story of our HIV history in a manner that is authentic, elegant, sensitive and holistic. It marks the start of a South African collection of artefacts, artistic, historic and photographic items that pay tribute to people affected by HIV.
The collected items pay tribute to those who suffered and succumbed, and those who live with HIV every day in South Africa.
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Five important works pay homage to half a century of Matisse mastery
South Africans can experience 50 years of unbridled creativity during the Henri Matisse -Rhythm and Meaning exhibition at the Standard Bank Gallery until September 17. It includes several key works from the artist’s oeuvre. Continue reading
Comedy Central flies SA comedy flag at Canada’s Just For Laughs Festival
David Kau.
Popular South African comedians Robbie Collins and David Kau will be flying the flag for South African comedy when they perform at the biggest comedy festival in the world: the Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, Canada until August 1.
The two comedians are joining Comedy Central (DStv channel 122) on the channel’s annual pilgrimage to Canada where they’ll be showcasing South African comedy at the world famous event. Continue reading
New National Arts Festival executive producer revealed
Ashraf Johaardien. Photo: Jan Potgieter
Playwright and arts administrator, Ashraf Johaardien, has been appointed as the executive producer of the National Arts Festival, a newly created role aimed at taking South Africa’s premier arts event boldly into the future. Continue reading
‘UnREAL’ producer, Sarah Shapiro, chats about the second season of the award-winning show
CURRENTLY showing on Lifetime (DStv channel 131) is the second seaso on UnREAL.
Set against the backdrop of the hit dating competition show Everlasting, UnREAL is led by flawed heroine Rachel Goldberg (Shiri Appleby), a young producer whose sole job is to manipulate her relationships with and among the contestants to get the vital dramatic and outrageous footage that the programme’s dispassionate executive producer, Quinn King (Constance Zimmer), demands.
What ensues is an eye-opening look at what happens in the outrageous world of unscripted television where being a contestant can be vicious and producing it is a whole other reality.
THELUVVIE speaks producer Sarah Shapiro about the new season. Continue reading
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