SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge Durban North Regional Crawford La Lucia: Saturday 9 March The third regional in the 2019 SPAR KZN Schoolgirls’ Hockey Challenge gets rolling on Saturday 9 March at Crawford La Lucia. Eight teams will gather at this year’s regional, taking to the pitch to participate in 20 minute one way running [...]
Week three: KZNPO Summer Season Durban City Hall Thurs 28 Feb at 7.30pm Tickets @ Computicket Destiny, love, chance and fate are some of the themes explored during Thursday evening’s concert in the 2019 Summer Symphony Season (Thursday 28 February) of glorious music in Durban City Hall by the KZN Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton [...]
In association with Concerts SA, iSupport Music Business presents guitarist and vocalist Mbijana Sibisi on tour in KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape and the Western Cape. The South African artist who is now based in Belgium, will be touring South Africa between 1 March and 1 May 2019. His tour will kick off on Friday 1 [...]
SPAR KZN School Girls’ Hockey Challenge St John’s D.S.G. and The Wykeham Collegiate: Sunday 3 March Firing up the 2019 SPAR KZN School Girls’ Hockey Challenge, the first two regionals tip off in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday 3 March. Host for the Pietermaritzburg Central Regional is St John’s D.S.G. while up the road, The Wykeham Collegiate [...]
In association with Concerts SA, iSupport Music Business presents Cape Town based pianist and composer Lihle Dunjana on tour in KwaZulu-Natal. Dunjana will be performing on Friday 1 March at Luthuli Museum in Groutville, Saturday 2 March at Seaman’s Corner in Hammarsdale and Sunday 3 March at Artizen in KwaMashu. The project Dunjana is presenting [...]
Neil Coppen’s Tin Bucket Drum, wins English Academy of Southern Africa Olive Schreiner Prize Wits University Press is delighted to announce that Neil Coppen’s play, Tin Bucket Drum, has won the English Academy of Southern Africa Olive Schreiner Prize for Drama (2018). The Olive Schreiner Prize for drama forms part of a larger annual competition [...]
Argentinean-born, Johannesburg-based duo Ariel & Juana are touring Durban and the South Coast in February, in association with Concerts SA. Comprised by renowned double-bassist Ariel Zamonsky and vocalist Juana Pires Rafael, this acoustic duet generates a sense of intimacy with the listener through the exploration of the vast possibilities of dynamic and emotional range. The [...]
Piano in the spotlight for the second KZNPO Summer Season concert Durban City Hall: Second concert: Thursday 21 February Indian-American pianist Pallavi Mahidhara is in Durban to perform two concerts – she is the featured soloist for the second concert in the KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra (KZNPO) four-concert 2019 Summer Season, under the baton of principal [...]
STUDENTS AND AUDIENCE BOTH HELD HOSTAGE AT UKZN This is a true story. Last Friday night 200 striking students held over 150 people hostage in the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre at KZN during our performance of my latest show Common & Class - Ian Von Memerty & Gino Fabbri. Just before the end of Act One [...]
Durban Botanic Gardens: Sunday 1 June Grammy-Award winning, multi-platinum-selling artists Ben Harper and his band are coming to South Africa in June 2019 to headline at the Zakifo Music Festival on 1 June at the Durban Botanic Gardens. He will be performing alongside: Aṣa (Nigeria/France), Beatenberg, Maia & the Big Sky (Kenya), Red Robyn and [...]
Luh’ra Luv National Tour – February 2019 In association with Concerts SA, Cape Town-based singer and songwriter Luh’ra will be presenting live in the second half of February her debut EP, titled Luh’ra Luv, in Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Durban. Accompanied by her golden guitar, the best way to describe Luh’ra’s music would be acoustic [...]
DUT Drama Studies presents its annual IsiZulu Production: USiza An adaptation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Courtyard Theatre, DUT: 1-8 March 2019 nightly at 6 pm DUT Drama Studies presents its annual isiZulu production, USiza - an adaptation of Shakespeare’s great tragedy, Julius Caesar at the Courtyard Theatre at DUT running from 1 - 8 March [...]
Performers Ian von Memerty and Gino Fabbri are doing a pop-up mini-tour of KZN as they take their comedy / music show Common and Class to the suburbs since their show was closed down by protesting students on Friday evening at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre. On Friday evening, approximately 200 striking students held an audience [...]
Season: Durban City Hall: Thursdays 14 February to 7 March First concert: Thursday 14 February The KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestra (KZNPO) proudly opens its four-concert 2019 Summer Season which runs in the Durban City Hall every Thursday on Valentine’s Day 14 February, running weekly until 7 March starting at 19h30. The season continues to uphold the [...]
SPAR KZN School Girls’ Hockey Challenge The dates for the ninth SPAR KZN School Girls’ Hockey Challenge have been announced with the ten regionals taking place around KZN. The year gets underway a week later than previous years with the usual Northern KZN regional nestling in midway on the 2019 calendar. A bumper March has [...]