THE Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), within the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s College of Humanities will host the 20th Poetry Africa International Festival from October 10 to 15. Continue reading
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Musa Hlatshwayo receives Eric Shabalala Contemporary Dance Champion Award at JOMBA!
Musa Hlatshwayo (right) receives the Eric Shabalala Dance Champion Award at Jomba! from David Wa Maahlamela, director of the Centre for Creative Arts, UKZN.
The Centre for Creative Arts and the Jomba! Contemporary Dance Experience Dance Festival honoured acclaimed Durban dancer, choreographer and dance educator Musa Hlatshwayo, with the Eric Shabalala Dance Champion Award. Continue reading
The 18th JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience set to delight, provoke and entertain Durban dance fans
Mamaza, from Switzerland, in the duet “Eifo Efi” with dancers Ioannis Mandafounis and Fabrice Mazliah.
The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts, presents its 18th annual JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience, at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, Pieter Scholtz Open Air Theatre and KZNSA Gallery from August 24 to September 4. Continue reading
Time of the Writer: The importance of reading and writing in indigenous languages
Sindiwe Magona, who recently released the book Chasing the Tails of My Father’s Cattle. Photo: Supplied
CELEBRATED author, Sindiwe Magona, has urged young African people to honour their heritage by continuing to speak their mother tongues.
UKZN’s Centre for Creative Arts gets a funding boost
EThekwini Municipality has increased its financial support of the Centre for Creative Arts (CCA) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal to R4 million per year for the next three years.
The money will be used for the Time of the Writer Festival, the Durban International Film Festival, the Jomba! Contemporary Dance Festival and Poetry Africa. Continue reading
Time of the Writer: Shaking up SA’s literary landscape
Participating authors in this year’s Time of the Writer Festival.
WHEN Thando Mgqolozana announced at last year’s Time of the Writer that he would no longer attend literary festivals in South Africa, it was the first step on a journey which he hopes will shake up the country’s literary landscape. Continue reading
Exciting new partnerships at Time of the Writer
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THE 19th edition of the Time of the Writer festival, presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), has partnered with a number of organisations to make this year’s event extra special. Continue reading
Time of the Writer unveils authors and a challenging programme for its 19th edition
Panashe Chigumadzi
THE authors headed to Durban of the 19th edition of Time of the Writer have been revealed by the Centre for Creative Arts t the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN).
Ten writers from South Africa and Africa will meet for a week of stimulating literary dialogue and exchange of ideas. Audiences can engage with award-winning writers, from a variety of political and social contexts, on the creative and technical processes and perspectives which shape their writing. Continue reading
Change on the cards for Time of the Writer
THE 19th Time of the Writer festival in Durban will be hosted at venues around the city from March 14 to 19 and the addition of a special new programme.
Hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal this year’s theme is Decolonising the Book. Continue reading
Time of the Writer schools competition
Last year’s schools’ short story competition winners.
THE 19th Time of the Writer hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal invites South African high school pupils to submit their short stories for the annual Schools Short Story Competition by Friday, February 26. Continue reading
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