Catalina Theatre Call For Theatre Productions 2015 - Exhibition Opening - Theatre Workshop

The Call for 2015

We are looking for new works and experienced professional productions to fill our wide variety of time slots: daytime school term, daytime holidays, prime time evening and late night. There is a variety of collaboration options including venue hire, associations, and sponsorship for new works. We look forward to hearing your idea for a theatre production whether it is simply a script that you have, a fully-fledged show or simply an idea for a show that you would like to produce.

If you would like to stage a production at the Catalina Theatre, please forward a proposal to the Artistic Director, Rowin Munsamyad@keepthedream.org or complete the online form on the Collaboration tab at www.catalinatheatre.com. For inquiries about the theatre, emailinfo@catalinatheatre.com or call 031 837 5999 during office hours.

Venue: Elizabeth Gordon Gallery, 120 Florida Road, Durban.

Tel: 031-303-8133

Time: 6pm

Date: 1 Oct 

ASSITEJ SA WORKSHOP for CHILDREN’S THEATRE FESTIVAL

with KZN THEATRE4YOUTH MENTOR GISELE TURNER

PLAY-PLAY!

Theatre-in-Education veteran script writer, director and performer, Gisele Turner, currently KZN Theatre4Youth mentor, offers a Make a Play Workshop exploring the capacity to create through play. Serious playfulness is a core element in children’s’ theatre, connecting the performer with the audience through innovative and unexpected play. Ordinary objects become magical in the hands of an animator. Make a Play date for Monday 6 October from 10 am through 12 pm at the Catalina Theatre. Open to theatre practitioners and play makers.  Call Gisele on 083 5458546 to book or email her on gisele@saol.com  Limit 30 participants. Free of charge for PANSA Members.

Social Media Evening - Durban - 18h30 - 15 October

Info: http://socialbythesea.blogspot.com/

This edition by +Fred Felton 

Auditions & Theatre News

PANSA UNPLUGGED WEDNESDAYS!

Calling all Poets, Musicians, Comedians, Actors, Dancers, Entertainers and Theatre Practitioners:

This is for you!

Join us in January at the first Western Cape “PANSA Unplugged Wednesdays!” A platform where local artists and practitioners will have a chance to:

• Showcase talent
• Show work in development
• Collaborate with other performers
• Network with Industry Players

 Date: Wednesday 22 January 2014 @ 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Liquidlime Studios (PANSA Offices) 3B Beach Road, WOODSTOCK

We look forward to welcoming both participants and audience members who are keen to network and explore what’s on offer. If you’d like to perform, performance slots of 5 - 15 minutes are available and can be booked with Nono at the PANSA Office.

For more info contact Nono on: info@pansa.org.za  or 021 448 3513

Casting Call: Voice auditions for international cartoon show

Voices need to be:

Neutral American/Canadian/Chicago accent (Male and Female)
Upper Class English Accent (Male)
Italian Accent (Male)
Australian Accent (Female)
Russian Accent (Female)

Auditions to be held on Tuesday, 10th December 2013 in Green Point, Cape Town

If interested, please email Rozie at rozie.gorvalla@bubblegum.co.za before Friday the 6th December, for further details and to set up a voice audition.

National Children's Theatre (NCT) seeks teachers for children’s workshops

NCT: Application for Theatre Workshop Teachers 2014

National Children’s Theatre requires teachers for Saturday Workshops starting January 2014, in the following areas:

• Singing
• Dancing
• Speech and Drama

If you are interested, please forward your CV to Francois: francois@nctt.org.za before 9 December 2013.

For further information: Visit our website on www.nationalchildrenstheatre.org.za

National Children’s Theatre (NCT) Application for  NaCTIES Theatre Directors

NCT seeks 4 young, fresh, energetic graduates who are looking to build up their experience as directors.

NCT is providing an opportunity for aspiring young directors to gain experience under the mentorship of the CEO and Artistic Director of NCT.

Applications are hereby invited for short-term contract position of NaCTIES Junior Directors. Click here for more details

Applications should be received by no later than Friday 13 December 2013.

For further information: Visit website on www.nationalchildrenstheatre.org.za or contact Francois Theron or Moira Katz on 011 484 1584.

TV SERIES LOOKING FOR BLACK MALE JOURNALIST CO-HOST
13 part TV and online series showcasing forward thinking partnerships between big business and the communities across Africa seeks intrepid, smart male journalist with an interest in Africa to be a co-host. 

The candidate will be one of 2 or 3 on-camera 'Travelling Storytellers'.  
Shooting starts: Feb 2014

Each storyteller will need to allocate 7 days per episode for shooting/travelling and 3 days per episode for pre-production and voice over.  

We are not looking for an actor/presenter type or someone who comes across as such.  Rather, a journalist or someone who reads as such.  Must come across as intelligent but not be overbearing, pretentious or ego driven.  We need a smart, curious investigator with a business and development mindset - or a journalist who is interested in everything, cares deeply about the continent and can up-skill on context and series content quickly.

• Black or mixed-race male
• Age 30 upwards - or who presents as such
• Must live in or is be based in Cape Town from Jan 2014 to August 2014
• Willing to travel to far flung places in Africa
• No previous TV experience required
• Any nationality
• Passport in order with necessary blank pages.
• Works well in a small travelling team and is prepared to help out when needed. 
• An authentic, real person on camera - just to be himself or herself.  We will not be doing to-camera stand-ups or presenter links.

Please send your details to lisachait@gmail.com no later than 16 December 2013.

Live Magazine SA recruiting for January 2014
Want to be part of the Live Magazine SA team? We’re recruiting now for contributors to join our team in January 2014. Please submit your details, cv and examples of published or unpublished work below.

http://livemag.co.za/contribute-now/

DTI Workshop: Formalisation of the Creative Sector

The Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) invites upcoming artists to attend the formalization outreach programme aimed at formalizing the creative sector. The programme aims to empower artists with knowledge that will enable them to know their copyrights and related matters operate professionally as formal entities and also be able to access Government incentives and/or participate in domestic and international exhibitions driven by the dti. The workshop is scheduled as follows:

Date: 06 December 2013

Time: 09h00 – 14:00

Venue: Monwabisi Community Hall, Cnr Washington and Jungle Walk (Opposite to Langa Police Station), Cape Town

If you are interested in attending the workshop kindly confirm by Wednesday, 04 December 2013 especially if you need transport. Transport will be provided from the following areas:

1. Khayamandi
2. Nyanga
3. Khayelitsha
4. Lwandle
5. Philippi
6. Mitchells Plain/ Mandalay

RSVP: Ntombikayise Sithole
E-mail address: nsithole@thedti.gov.za
Telephone: 012 394 5656
Cell: 082 519 0594/ 083 123 0970

(Source - Pansa) 

Auditions, Internships, Theatre news and more

AUDITIONS

“THE BLUE MONDAY PLATFORM!!!”

11 November 2013

Do you want to showcase your talent to many eyes that might help boost your career in the arts? Well, the Performing Arts Network of South Africa (PANSA) brings you, 'The Blue Monday Platform'!

The Blue Monday Platform is, is an evening that gives performance artists an opportunity to showcase and demonstrate their craft and ability to key Performance Professionals that are active in the local industry and abroad.

All skilled and talented performers that want to break into the professional arena are welcome to audition in the following categories:

•           Writing

•           Directing

•           Acting

•           Singing/ Rapping

•           Dancing (All Genres)

•           Poetry

The blue Monday platform not only allows you to showcase your talent but gives you an opportunity to meet and network with other artists in the industry.

The Blue Monday platform is an exciting, eventful evening for the whole family, so bring your friends and support.

Date: 11 November 2013

Time: 6pm

Venue: Catalina Theatre. (Above Zacks restaurant at Wilson’s wharf)

If you're interested in participating, contact Mthokozisi Zulu at:

nkazi.zulu@gmail.com

kzn@pansa.org.za

031 201 4750

Zulu TV auditions

 Auditions will be held in Durban next month in search of Zulu TV presenters, actors and voice over-artists…

 Leading South African arts entrepreneur Mbongeni Ngema has announced that his company, Committed Artists, is to hold auditions to find presenters, actors and voice-over artists for his new Zulu TV channel, which will be launched early in 2014, in partnership with the King Zwelithini Foundation. 

 Zulu TV will be flighted throughout sub-Saharan Africa from 22 January 2014 via a new satellite that has been launched into space by SENTECH.  

The auditions in search of Zulu TV presenters, actors and voice-over artists will be held at KZN Music House, 1 Derby Street corner Igcuce (Epsom) Road, Greyville in Durban, on Saturday 16 November 2013 between 10 am and 5pm.

 Those interested in auditioning must be conversant in isiZulu and English. Qualified radio and TV announcers and actors of all race groups as well as aspiring raw talent will be considered for auditions.

 It is essential to book a slot in order to secure an audition. Call 031-309 8159 (office hours between 9am and 5pm) or email av@committedartists.co.za to book an appointment.

 KZN-based Zulu TV will begin shooting programmes in December 2013. Primarily an entertainment channel, Zulu TV aims to screen high quality programmes in High Definition format, with a strong emphasis on local productions. In addition to music programmes, content will include coverage of heritage, tourism, arts and culture, lifestyle, magazines programmes, as well as musical theatre, drama, sitcoms, movies, short films, documentaries, religion and current affairs, with internet link up through social networking.

       

RMB-supported BASA Intern programme

RMB-supported BASA Intern programme open for applications.

Now moving into its fifth year, the programme is designed to allow a new graduate the chance to immerse him or herself in all aspects of arts administration. The programme also allows the intern to identify their own learning goals and work towards those during the year that the internship runs.

Qualified applicants are invited to apply for the 2014 Business and Arts South Africa intern programme, supported by Rand Merchant Bank (RMB).

The Internship gives an emerging administrator the opportunity to access mentorship, grow in several administrative skill areas through training, and also drive projects, which provide synthesis between study and practice.

Mondli Mangenuke 2013 intern comments “One of my responsibilities at BASA was to produce and organise radio interviews for BASA Today show on Radio Today. This experience has enabled me to be highly organised and to work independently. “

“Assisting in the Mentorship Programme supported by Etana Insurance has also been one of the highlight of my experience. Working on this programme has equipped me with business strategies that will benefit me in the arts and media business.

The 2013 Business and Arts South Africa intern programme, supported by Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) selects interns based on their education, experience, and enthusiasm for the arts. The intern selected is expected to engage in the diverse projects that BASA is involved with, reports to the Marketing and Operations Manager, and works closely with the entire BASA team.

The closing date for applications is 22 November 2013.

Interested applicants should e-mail their CV and cover letter to: info@basa.co.za For more information call 011 447 2295.

NEW HEALTH COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGN

We are looking for people to participate in a creative workshop focused on designing a new health communication campaign.  Participants should be aged between 18 and 24, should be confident, able to communicate well in English, and should be available for a two-hour workshop in Durban on Wednesday 30 October. 

 A stipend will be paid for participation / travel.  Anybody who is interested should please send an email with information regarding their name, age, qualification (if any - although there is no experience necessary), gender, and the name of the place where they grew up to info@pstproject.co.za before 5 pm on Sunday 27 October.

THEATRE

The Glitter Girls

Rhumbelow Pmb: 20 Oct

Rhumbelow Dbn: 25 – 27 Oct; 1 – 3 Nov

The Glitter Girls: Reunion of ’89  Lisa Bobbert, Liesl Coppin and Marion Loudon. The Berlin Wall... Spandex... Dallas... 1989 was a special year. But now these three girls have to go back! Back to neon, back to big hair and back to Skolliesville High!

24 years later, Skolliesville High is finally having their 20 year reunion (on account of Tina Davis nee Davies having misplaced 2002 - 2005). And that means the Glitter Girls are going to relive their greatest triumphs and heartbreaks at the reunion of the century! All the hits, all the boys (and a few crazy characters you'll never forget), all from the past... And where they are today!

KickstArt presents Jack and the Beanstalk

Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre: 29 November to 5 January

Kickstart rounds off the year with a fun-filled family romp: a brand new pantomime version of Jack and the Beanstalk, which comes to the Elizabeth Sneddon theatre from 29 November until 5 January.

 Written and directed by Steven Stead, Jack and the Beanstalk stars the supremely talented Rory Booth in the title role, the cast also features Jessica Sole as his love interest, Princess Jillian, Darren King as his long-suffering, eccentric mother, Flora Flatbroke, Liesl Coppin as his evil nemesis, Lady Perfidia Beastly, Shelley MacLean as the good fairy, Glissanda Goldenvox, and Peter Court and Bryan Hiles reprising their hilarious performances as the two incompetent crooks,Cecil and Claude, making a comeback after their demise in Robin Hood.

 Jack and the Beanstalk will run from 29 November to 5 January, with performances 2.30pm Tues-Sun and 7pm Sat. Booking for all KickstArt productions is through Computicket, and for block bookings of 10 or more, or sold performances and early bird specials, please contact Ailsa Windsor of Going Places: 0832502690 or editor.goingplacessa@gmail.com.

(Source Pansa)

Auditions & Theatre News around South Africa

Auditions & Theatre News Around SA

Dance audition

DANCEunLimited is looking for unemployed, out-of-school dancers to make part of its new dance ensemble. Dancers must be proficient in versatile styles...competency in Gumboots, Pantsula and/or Kasi dance, and SA traditional dance styles stands one an good advantage.

For audition date, venue and other info please contact: 0614072989 / boxunlimited2@gmail.com OR inbox Facebook Page:DANCEunLimited

Audition takes place ONLY this week and for ONLY those who have booked

Magnet Theatre is having auditions for a new intake of trainees in 2014.  There are a limited number of bursaries available.

• Magnet Theatre runs a full-time physical theatre training programme offering classes in movement, play, imagination, physical theatre, voice, dance, singing, improvisation and play making.   The programme includes production work, community work and organised visits to the theatre to expose the trainees to mainstream and community performance. They are placed in work shadow in various aspects of the theatre industry.  The participants are encouraged to maintain their connection with their communities and with their respective drama groups. The programme has been designed by Jennie Reznek and Mandla Mbothwe and the classes are taught by highly experienced theatre practitioners and teachers.
• The Trainee programme is aimed at prospective actors and performers who for one reason or another struggle to be absorbed into the training at University.
• It is full time intensive training, Monday to Friday from 9h00- 16h30.
• It is a 2 year programme starting in February 2014 and running until November 2015.
• Auditions for will be held between 7 and 11 December 2013  with call backs on Thursday 12th  December at the Magnet Theatre (Unit 1,  Old Match Factory, Corner of Lower Main Road and St Michaels, Observatory.)  Each person will be given a 10 minute slot to present their prepared piece and work with the directors. Each person who wants to audition must please contact the Magnet Theatre office to make an appointment.  All auditionees to please arrive HALF AN HOUR BEFORE THEIR AUDITION TIME to do the paper work.
• Please wear comfortable clothes you can move in comfortably.

• Please prepare a two minute audition piece – anything you feel confident about.
• Please write a short letter (400 words) of motivation as to why you want to become part of the Magnet Theatre training programme.
• Please bring:    a copy of your matric results or most recent school report, a copy of your identity document, the name and contact details of one person Magnet can contact as a reference.
• A call back audition will be held on 12 December from 09h00 onwards.  Those who are called back will be informed by end of day on 11 December.  So please make sure you are available.

Please call Anelisa or Margie on 021 448 3436 or e-mail assistant@magnettheatre.co.za to book a place at the auditions.

Applications for Dance Umbrella 2014 open

The main Dance Umbrella 2014 will run at various venues in Johannesburg from March 6-16, 2014.

Dance Umbrella, the internationally distinguished contemporary dance festival celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2013.

Dance Umbrella 2014 will remain a platform for new contemporary choreography and dance and will be structured as follows:

The Main programme: which will comprise only commissioned work from South African choreographers, invited international works and selected works from the Dance Forum residency programme. Choreographers can apply to be commissioned and must contact Dance Forum at 011 492 2033. People who want to apply for a commission fee can download the application onwww.danceforumsouthafrica.co.za.

The Fringe programme: Dance Umbrella is re-introducing the Fringe Programme which is open to work that runs up to 30 minutes. The programmes for the Fringe will be curated and once the programme is finalised, no additional entries will be accepted.

Stepping Stones: Only youth, community groups and choreographers who do not work regularly will be featured on this programme. The running time may not exceed ten (10) minutes.

General application forms can be obtained by calling Lindiwe at 011 492 2033.

Please note the following:
Once the Stepping Stones programme is full, no other entries will be accepted. There is also no guarantee that all entries will be programmed so it is advised that you apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

The selection and sequence of the programmes will be done at the discretion of the organisers, the artistic director and consultants and their decision is final.

The venues for the Dance Umbrella and all technical facilities within the budget, the theatre, publicity, posters and programmes are provided free, at no cost to the participating choreographers, dance companies or groups.

For further information, please call 011 492 2033.

A Call For New Plays

Junkets Publisher is a small independent South African publisher, founded in 2005 by Robin Malan. In 2009 it was the winner of the Arts & Culture Trust Excellence Award for Literature. It specialises in publishing The Playscript Series, new Southern African plays; as well as The Collected Series, anthologies of new Southern African plays. 

We announce a new project:

African Folktales Onstage! plays for pre-teens compiled by Fatima Dike, André Lemmer, Robin Malan & Omphile Molusi.

Junkets Publisher is looking for short stage adaptations of African folktales to include in a collection of plays for the upper Grades of the primary school and the lower Grades of the high school, especially for performance or for rehearsed class presentation. 

Guidelines for Contributors

1. Submit by email to info.junkets@iafrica.com as a Word Doc, not as a pdf.
2. Use only Times New Roman 12pt. Do not use underlining or lines anywhere in the document.
3. A sample half-page of the required format is given at the end of this call.
4. All African folktales derive from the general consciousness of the people, so all will be an ‘adaptation’ of a sort. Submitting your play will be an undertaking that this is your own work. If, however, you are adapting a specific prose re-telling, you must acknowledge this, giving the author’s name, the title of the book in which the original appears, stating compiler, publisher and date.
5. Your play should be for performance by or to youngsters at the top end of the primary school or the bottom end of the high school. Most experts are agreed that very young children should not be performing written texts in public.
6. In your retelling, go for the authentic, the robust, the vigorous. Studiously avoid the cutesy.
7. Your play should be a minimum of 1 500 words and a maximum of 5 500 words, counted from the title to ‘The End’, including everything. (Click on Tools, then Word Count.) Nothing shorter or longer will be considered. State the number of words below your play.
8. The author must be a member of a SADC country or a person living or working in Southern Africa. There is no age restriction. It does not matter whether or not you have had plays published or performed before.
9. You may submit one play or two plays or three plays, but not more.
10. Only emailed PC-generated submissions are acceptable; no hard-copy submissions. If you do not have access to a PC and email, you will need to get your work scanned, formatted and emailed by a PostNet or copy shop. We need to be able to communicate with you by email.
11. Submissions need to reach us at info.junkets@iafrica.com by 31 January 2014. No late submissions will be considered. Publication will be in early-December 2014. Only writers whose work is accepted for publication will be contacted. If you have not heard from us by July 2014, you can assume that your submission did not make it through the selection process; and please accept our thanks for submitting your work. No correspondence can be entered into concerning entries not selected.
12. This is not a competition; there are no prizes, there is no money involved at this stage. Junkets is usually a not-for-profit operation, so no fee is offered; instead, contributors will receive a gratis copy of the book. In the unlikely event of there being a profit after all expenses and bookshop discounts are factored in, contributors will be paid a small royalty pro rata. Authors retain the copyright of their individual plays.
13. As the selection will be made anonymously, your name (and postal address) should appear only on the title-page; nowhere else.
14. For further enquiries, contact Robin Malan at email info.junkets@iafrica.com or on cell number 076 169 2789.

Sample of format in which play is to be typed

The setting of the play is a wide, open stretch of veld. Whistling is heard offstage. HYENA enters.

Hyena (Sees audience, addresses them.) Hello, people. That was me whistling back there. I’m full of beans today. (Burps. Smiles.) Well, not literally. Now, down to business. I have a little plan …

There is a loud crash-bang offstage, and AMEHLO THE OWL enters, carrying a bucket, a mop, and a step-ladder.

Amehlo Oh, eish, eina! I keep not seeing where I’m going. (Drops everything.) I just can’t do this on my own. (Sits down on the upturned bucket, dejected. Mops his brow.)

Hyena ’Morning, Amehlo the Owl! I wonder, (With a sinister laugh.) if I can perhaps help you …

Amehlo Would you? That’s kind. I have to clean the sky so that the sun can paint a rainbow on it, but I seem to have mislaid my spectacles.

HYENA climbs the ladder and plucks the spectacles off a branch of a tree. He hands them to AMEHLO.

Hyena (Speaking very carefully.) Are these they?


These are the details of the above format:

• Everything flush-left; no indenting of speeches or stage directions
• Character-name in Bold uc&lc (e.g. Hyena), no colon, 1 character-space, then speech, running on, no indenting
• Single spacing within a speech
• 1 line-space between speeches and before & after ‘external stage directions’
• ‘external stage directions’ in italics, no brackets before or after. e.g. [flush left]:

HYENA climbs the ladder and plucks the spectacles off a branch of a tree.

• ‘internal stage directions’ (within speeches) inside regular round brackets, text in italics, start with u.c. letter, end with full stop, e.g. (With a sinister laugh.)
• This is how we want you to present the play to us. Our typesetter will adjust this format for the final published text.

email info.junkets@iafrica.com  website www.junkets.co.za

(Source - Pansa) 

Theatre, Arts & Event News Around South Africa

Theatre & Arts News Around South Africa

Chantel Erfort is looking for information for her Masters thesis. Her research topic is  The state of arts reporting in the South African community newspapers. Please help her by filling out the following questionnaire: http://www.pansa.org.za/research-into-arts-reporting-in-sa-community-newspapers

The fourteenth edition of LPM Live Performers Meeting begins on November 13, 2013 in Cape Town.

LPM offers the unique opportunity to experience 4 days of audiovisual performances, VJing, workshops, panel discussion, product showcases presented by hundreds of VJs, audiovisual artists, new media professionals and thinkers from around the world.

Live the LPM experience together with their staff! They are looking for enthusiastic people who wish to participate to a event unique in its kind: you will have the chance to be side by side with hundreds of artists, to participate in the organization of the event and to join the team!
As a volunteer they will provide you with:

• 1 pass valid for all LPM activities (excluding paid workshops)
• 1 additional pass for the night events and parties for a person of your choice

For the Application form go to: http://2013za.liveperformersmeeting.net/volunteers/

Workshops / Training

ImprovGuise is presenting a new improv workshop, which will be starting on Thursday 5 Sept and will run every Thurs until the 24 October from 630pm to 930pm at The Waterfront Theatre School. This course is for anyone with some performing experience, ranging from professional actors, to comedians, to part time performers with a knack.
For more information go to: http://www.improguise.co.za/?p=540

National Children's Theatre Spring Camp

Fun-filled educational days for children aged 7-17 from September 23 to 27.
For those who were not able to attend our Spring Camp in August, it’s time to enrol in our Spring Camp Programme for September! We have some new and exciting classes as well as a few which we have been begged to repeat (such as stage combat). All will contain basic techniques as well as group work.
GROUP 1- Children 7–9 covers the basics of singing, dancing and acting, puppet making, story- telling with musical instruments, and more.
GROUP 2 – Children 10-12 will also cover the basics of singing, dancing and acting, we have also included stage combat and mime for this age category
GROUP 3 – Children 13-17 will follow additional stepping stones towards a career in theatre, which covers singing, dancing with the addition of, amongst other topics, Shakespeare retold, mime and body language.
TIME: 09:00 to 12:00 daily
COST: R1000 for the week. We will provide the juice and biscuits.
VENUE: National Children’s Theatre, 3 Junction Avenue, Parktown.
Please contact Cindy Gordon on 011 484 1584 or cindy@nctt.org.za if you wish to register or have any queries.
For further information visit our website on www.nationalchildrenstheatre.org.za

Events

Dance Umbrella 2013: Master Classes

The 2013 Dance Umbrella festival continues its 25th anniversary celebrations, which started in February, with ‘dancing all over Johannesburg'.

The Dance Umbrella festival programme of exceptional contemporary dance and choreography is presented by Dance Forum in association with the Johannesburg Arts Alive International Festival at various theatres from August 31 to September 14.

Dance Umbrella 2013 takes place in Johannesburg at various theatres from 31 August to 15 September. Tickets, from R60 – R100 are available through Computicket - 083 915 8000 /www.computicket.com. For block booking discounts and programme updates, please call 011 492 2033/0709 or email danceumbrella@danceforum.co.za / lindiwe@danceforum.co.za

Cape Town Youth Choir in Concert at Bishops Chapel

This September, take a musical journey around the world with the Cape Town Youth Choir at the stunning Bishops Chapel.

Founded in 1997 under the name Pro Cantu, the Cape Town Youth Choir aims to provide an opportunity for young South Africans between the ages of 17 and 30 to sing in a choir of the highest international standards while delivering a moving musical experience to its audiences.

In this concert, their first solo performance of the year, they will perform their full repertoire which they will take to the World Choir Games in Riga, Latvia next year.

This concert will take place on Saturday 7 September 2013, at 19:30 at the beautiful Bishops Chapel (Bishops Diocesan Collage, Campground Road, Rondebosch). Pre-booked tickets cost R80 (adults) and R40 (pensioners, students and learners) and are available through Quicket (www.quicket.co.za). Tickets at the door will cost R90 (adults) and R50 (pensioners, students and learners).

(Source - Pansa) 

Witness Hilton Arts Festival turns 21!

Hilton College: 12 - 15 September 2013

KZN’s foremost and respected arts festivals: the annual Witness Hilton Arts Festival turns 21 this year and takes place on the beautiful grounds of the Hilton College from 12 - 15 September 2013.

The annual Witness Hilton Arts Festival is broadly considered to be KZN’s premier arts and culture festival and one of the top festivals in the country which consistently produces an unmatched programme of cutting-edge drama, comedy, music and music revue, as well as an impressive array of arts and crafts; master-classes and Mindscapes lectures  appealing to all who visit the festival each year.

All enquiries on 033 383 0126 /7 or theatre@hiltoncollege.com. Booking is open. Detailed information on www.hiltonfestival.co.za;  selected SPAR and SuperSPAR stores in KZN as well as selected theatres; art galleries; coffee shops and book stores; or like the Facebook page ~ Witness Hilton Arts Festival or follow the festival on Twitter ~ @HiltonFest.

Bulwer Food and Craft Lovers Market

Sun 8 Sept 2013

The Bulwer Food & Craft Lover’s Market will be run again on Sunday morning, 8 September, in Bulwer Park from 10am until 2pm. There will be a range of deli-items for an open air spring picnic brunch, and there will be gift ideas, décor inspirations, arts and crafts on sale. For more info – phone Tracey on 076 6760 760

For more information about the Glenwood Festival, phone the Glenwood Festival Info Line on 087 941 4614. For a detailed programme of events go to the website at www.glenwoodforum.org.za

Whole Food Night Market

Docklands Night Market – Durban Waterfront

Thursday 5 September: 5pm – 10pm

The Night Market  helps Durbanites to explore their city. They will be hosting an open air, alfresco design and decor market as the spring sun sets – from 5pm until 10pm at Three Cities Docklands Hotel on Thursday 5 September.

With the beautiful crisp spring evenings, the decision was to take the market outdoors for a while to star gaze while browsing! The idea is to contain the market in the Docklands Hotel’s charming courtyard. The range of products on display is evolving to focus on Durban’s top creatives and funky, cutting-edge design, handcrafted and bespoke items. The vendor mix will include lighting ideas, decor items, restoration services, furniture, fine artists, personal accessories... even a tattoo artist! 

The Docklands restaurant will also be open for dinner, and should browsers prefer a more formal supper and a fabulous fine dining experience inthe award-winning restaurant WODKA, serving a fusion of intercontinental cuisines in a New York-style bistro setting. There will also be food and beverage stalls available.

Three Cities Docklands Hotel can be found at the corner of Mahatma Gandhi and Browns Avenue. There is ample parking at Docklands– with additional security personnel on duty employed by the Market. For more info – phone Tracey on 076 6760 760

Essenwood Craft Market 
Essenwood park: Every Sat: 9am – 2pm

The region’s foremost craft, art, treasures and collectables market takes place every Saturday morning under the trees a stone’s throw away from Musgrave Centre. In-between shopping, there is a comprehensive tea garden with an array of brunch and tea time delights, as well as children’s activities and a playground.

(Source - Publicity Matters)