Poetry and Twitter Blanket Drive News and News of the AFDA Open Day

FOUR LINERS

BY MOTHER HUBBARD

HO HO

HUM HUM

YO YO

YUM YUM

I LIKE YOU

YOU LIKE ME

HE LIKES US

THAT MAKES THREE

DING DONG

DONG DING

KING CONG

CONG KING

I AM ME

WE ARE WE

YOU ARE YOU

THEY ARE TOO

WHY ARE WE OLD

WHY ARE THEY BOLD

WHY IS IT COLD

WHERE IS THE GOLD

IT'S RAINING

IT'S WET

WE ARE DYING

THAT'S TRYING

SPRING HAS SPRING

COWS MAKE DUNG

I SMELL A RAT

AND THAT, DEAR, IS THAT.

I AM SHORT

HE IS TALL

I AM BIG

HE IS SMALL

I LIKE YOU

YOU LIKE ME

WE ARE HAPPY

SO IS HE

Written by Andrew Verster the Writer and Author Based in Durban. 

ANDREWVERSTER784@GMAIL.COM

29 May at 6pm Bring Your Blankets to Protea Hotel Fire & Ice Jozi or Cape Town

#TBD2014

AFDA Durban

(The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and live Performance)

Open Day May 3

AFDA (The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance) Durban is hosting an Open Day for prospective students on Saturday, 3 May from 10am to 12noon at the Campus in Glen Anil, Durban North 

Exciting times for prospective students as this Open Day will provide them, (and their parents) and guests insights into the AFDA programme, a tour around the facilities, meetings with current students and introductions to the courses given by various AFDA staff. 

AFDA has a heavy-weight academic staff complement who have worked in the film and live performance industries. Franco Human, an experienced producer and film maker, is Dean, with film-maker Richard Green Head of the Film School, director and academic Lloyd O’Connor, Head of the Live Performance School, scriptwriter and film-maker Janet van Eeden (whose short film A Shot at the Big Time has just been selected for the Cannes Film Festival), as production course administrator and script writing lecturer and Laszlo Bene, a producer and director who has worked on a number of national and international productions as Head of Television. 

Prospective students can contact Durban-based Marketing Officer, Milena Gevers for more information or to book an interview for on the day: milenag@afda.co.za or call 031 569 2252. For more info about the school go to www.afda.co.za or on twitter @AFDADurban.

This Edition By +Fred Felton 

AFDA Durban to host a Open Day May 3 for prospective film students and News of a dinner for Legal Minds

AFDA Durban (The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and live Performance) to host Open Day May 3

(Lights, Camera, Action!)

AFDA (The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance) Durban is hosting an Open Day for prospective students on Saturday, 3 May from 10am to 12noon at the Campus in Glen Anil, Durban North

The new campus, which opened in 2013 year, has also recently invested over R 1, 2 million in additional technical equipment and campus facilities. This includes a new Surround Sound Suite has been kitted with the latest sound equipment which enables filmmakers to reproduce everyday sound effects which are added to film, video and other mediums in post-production to enhance audio quality.

An Editing & Visual Effects Suite has been installed, which has the latest equipment for the integration of live-action footage and generated imagery to create environments that look realistic, but would be dangerous, expensive, impractical, or simply impossible to capture on film. The Actor’s Studio that has also seen an extension with a new fully equipped stage and additional equipment.

Plus the cinematography department has acquired the latest camera equipment - some of the exciting gadgets include pocket sized cinema cameras, a steadicam and a helicam for overhead filming. 

Exciting times for prospective students as this Open Day will provide them, (and their parents) and guests insights into the AFDA programme, a tour around the facilities, meetings with current students and introductions to the courses given by various AFDA staff.

AFDA has a heavy-weight academic staff complement who have worked in the film and live performance industries. Franco Human, an experiencedproducer and film maker, is Dean, with film-maker Richard Green Head of the Film School, director and academic Lloyd O’Connor, Head of the Live Performance School, scriptwriter and film-maker Janet van Eeden (whose short film A Shot at the Big Time has just been selected for the Cannes Film Festival), as production course administrator and script writing lecturer and Laszlo Bene, a producer and director who has worked on a number of national and international productions as Head of Television.

Prospective students can contact Durban-based Marketing Officer, Milena Gevers for more information or to book an interview for on the day: milenag@afda.co.za or call 031 569 2252. For more info about the school go to www.afda.co.za or on twitter @AFDADurban.

29 May 6pm Bring a Blanket to Protea Hotel Fire & Ice Jozi or Cape Town

#TBD2014 

UNISA COLLEGE OF LAW

INVITE ALL LAW / LEGAL ENTITIES THEIR STAKEHOLDER DINNER

Justice C N Patel, Judge President KwaZulu Natal High Court will address you amongst other speakers

TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014

17:30 FOR 18:00

Chamber Square, Lion Match Office Park

892 Umgeni Road

ENTRANCE: FREE

Sharmala Pillay – 031- 335 1017

pillays@durbanchamber.co.za