artSPACE durban hosts Jannie van Heerden’s ‘Olive Schreiner Revisited’

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Opening at artSPACE durban at 11 am on March 4 is Jannie van Heerden’s solo exhibition, “Olive Schreiner Revisited”.

The exhibition will be opened by Professor Johan Jacobs, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate and University Fellow in English Studies, at the School of Arts, College of Humanities, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Continue reading

‘I, Claude Monet’ launches Cinema Nouveau’s exhibition on screen series

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Season four of Exhibition on Screen give audiences the chance to view some of the world’s greatest art exhibitions on the big screen at Cinema Nouveau from Saturday, 25 February.

The first production is a feature-length documentary film about one of the world’s most famous artists, titled I, Claude Monet. It offers a fresh new look at a man who is arguably the world’s favourite artist – through his own words. The film is directed by award-winning director Phil Grabsky. Continue reading

Hilton College boys’ arts auction raises R74 100 to feed needy children

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Dr Alison Misselhorn, director of research and strategy at the Lunchbox Fund (third from left), was presented with a cheque for R74 100 by Hilton College teacher Angela Salamon (far left) and pupils, Sam Nicol, Chizembi Sakulanda (Head of school 2017) and Tim Presbury. Photo:  Maralyn Atkins

FOSTERING education through nutrition is the ethos underpinning the work of the Lunchbox Fund, a non-profit organisation which provides a daily meal for orphaned and at-risk school children in South Africa, writes Estelle Sinkins.

On Tuesday, November 15, the charity received a sizable boost for its programmes in the country’s township and rural areas when Hilton College pupil, Chizembi Sakulanda, presented Dr Alison Misselhorn, director of research and strategy at the Lunchbox Fund, with a cheque for R74 100.

Hilton College’s donation will provide 28 000 meals to children for an entire year. Continue reading

Ardmore Ceramic Art gives form to mythological Zulu creatures

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Ardmore will be exhibiting new work, inspired by African mythology, at the Ebony Art Gallery in Franschhoek from October 22. Photo: Supplied

MISCHIEVOUS, and sometimes malevolent, tokoloshes and tagati, are a part of Zulu mythology.

 

Now these creatures have been given a physical form by a group of young artists from Ardmore Ceramic Art’s Winter School for an exhibition, titled Tokkies and Tagies, which will be taking place at the Ebony Gallery in Franschhoek, from October 22. Continue reading