Denis Hurley Centre

Durban’s Umcebo Design creates art for Aids

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Durban Actor Nhlakanipho Manqele encourages groups of young people to participate in The Butterfly Project – one of the fringe art events of AIDS2016 which encourages youth to envisage an AIDS free generation. Nhlakanipho Manqele plays all-knowing Owl in KickstArt’s adaptation of Winnie the Pooh over the July school holidays at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on UKZN campus. Pic: Publicity Matters

Respected Durban art makers, Umcebo Design, is involved in two participative art projects as part of AIDS2016 – Light of Hope, an enormous chandelier with individually-beaded leaves which pays tribute to people touched by HIV/Aids; and a youth project envisioning an AIDS free-generation, dubbed The Butterfly Project.

Both projects involve community participation and both are made using recycled plastics –  family-sized yoghurt tubs and ice cream containers. Continue reading →

Sing With One Voice at the Emmanuel Cathedral

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Participants from last year’s concert: Bianca Njoka – Holy Family College (18), Genevieve Ducray – Maris Stella (16), Pinkie Mtshali – Emmanuel Cathedral, Sipho Moorosi – St Benedict (16), Thabiso Phakathi – Kwa Thinthwa School for the Deaf (16) (with spectacles), Nosipho Ndaba – Holy Family College (17), (top) Lethiwe Ntaka – Kwa Thinthwa School for the Deaf (16) and Georgina Brink – Maris Stella (16)

Participants from last year’s concert: Bianca Njoka – Holy Family College (18), Genevieve Ducray – Maris Stella (16), Pinkie Mtshali – Emmanuel Cathedral, Sipho Moorosi – St Benedict (16), Thabiso Phakathi – Kwa Thinthwa School for the Deaf (16) (with spectacles), Nosipho Ndaba – Holy Family College (17), (top) Lethiwe Ntaka – Kwa Thinthwa School for the Deaf (16) and Georgina Brink – Maris Stella (16)

Sing with One Voice is a choral music and dance concert featuring seven Catholic schools from the greater Durban area. This fund-raiser for the Denis Hurley Centre is taking place at Emmanuel Cathedral on Thursday, August 20 at 6.30 pm. Prior to the concert, there will be a free tour of the Denis Hurley Centre at 5.30 pm. Continue reading →