Welcome theatre lovers. Be part of the journey… Ok. So where are we going? Seabrookes Theatre @ Durban High School: Sunday 13 December @ 11.30am As the end of a very peculiar year approaches, many of us have endured a rollercoaster of hardships and challenges and have material for phenomenal tales. One such creative musical [...]
The KZN Youth Orchestra in Concert St Thomas Church: Sun 29 Nov at 11am The KZN Youth Orchestra has formed a chamber ensemble of 14 of their core players who will present a delightful concert of Baroque, Classical, Rock and Contemporary music entitled Spring Serenade, on Sunday 29 November at St Thomas Church, Musgrave starting [...]
Honouring Edwin Swales This month, we remember those who tragically lost their lives in the line of duty, in armed conflicts around the globe. Armistice Day – or Poppy Day as it is better known - is commemorated around the world on November 11. At DHS, we remember the brave men who fought during the [...]
Swales Online Academy at Durban High School - Exploring a new way of learning Durban High School is collaborating with DigiCampus to launch Swales Online Academy, an innovative, contemporary educational platform, which will be ready to welcome fulltime students for the 2021 academic year. Operating out of Durban’s prestigious DHS campus, Swales Academy will be [...]
Durban Summer / Winter Sailing Season: 24 October – 26 June Eager Durban sailors will be hitting the water for the brand new L26 racing series simply called The League, that will take place both inshore and offshore over 20 Saturdays during the 2020 and 2021 Sailing Season. Three series will be accommodated in The [...]
#HopeInSight Thursday 8 October 2020 Today is World Sight Day - the most important advocacy and communications day in the eye health calendar to encourage people to be aware of eye care. Understanding that 75% of the world’s vision impairment is avoidable, the focus globally is to encourage people to take an eye test. St [...]
Community re-imagined in a social VR World Inhabit your avatar and attend the 2020 Nature, Environment & Wildlife Filmmakers Congress in a virtual world. New dates confirmed: 25 – 30 October 2020 DURBAN: The NEWF2020 Congress (the annual Nature, Environment & Wildlife Filmmakers Congress) will take place in a real-time virtual world from 25 – [...]
KickstArt presents: SYLVIA A Romantic Comedy about a man… and his dog. Enjoy a few hours of furry, feel-good theatre! SEABROOKE’S THEATRE, DHS, St Thomas Road 23 Oct – 1 Nov (Friday, Saturday and Sunday of each week) Fridays 7pm; Saturdays 2.30pm; Sundays 11am & 3pm Tickets R150 throughout - Computicket Seating unreserved through Computicket [...]
Durban App development course now being taught on the Cape Flats Respected Cape Town-based tech / education NGO, Genesis Community IT Initiative (Genesis CITI) or better known as the I-CAN Centre, is the latest organisation to partner with Durban’s IT Varsity offering their bespoke online IT digital literacy training to marginalised young adults in and [...]
Rockwood Theatre, Sibaya: online from 18 Sept This Friday, 18 September sees the launch of The Ultimate Countdown - the first online show to be staged at Rockwood, Sibaya. “We are counting down some of the best songs from our show,” explains show host, theatre owner and the creator of the shows, Andrew Webster. “It [...]
To Screen at DIFF - 10 - 20 September August and September will be a period for Ethiopian filmmaker, Tamara Mariam Dawit, who has the African premiere of her documentary Finding Sally, at the Durban International Film Festival (10-20 September) Finding Sally is a haunting film that unravels a secret held by her aunts, that [...]
To Screen at DIFF - 10 - 20 September South African, Berlin-based filmmaker Teboho Edkins’s cross-genre documentary Western, Days of Cannibalism screens at the Durban International Film Festival from 10 to 20 September. The film, which had its World Premiere at the Berlinale International Film Festival in February, is set in the rugged terrain of [...]
To Screen at DIFF - 10 - 20 September The Art of Fallism, a South African/Norwegian documentary, that teases out the nuanced, yet deeply complex stories of those who struggle for a voice within the collective struggle for equality will have its African premiere at the 41st Durban International Film Festival which takes place online [...]
With Bilal Kathrada: Founder / CEO IT varsity John Sanei: Futurist / Author / Speaker Free Webinar: Wednesday 29 July 11am until noon What do you think the world will look like post CoViD-19? No one really knows. It Varsity is hosting a free hour-long webinar on Wednesday 29 July discussing what a post Covid-19 [...]
Creating and empowering students to be experience ready for the ever-changing real world, IT Varsity have launched a comprehensive mentorship programme. Over the past few months, the world has changed in ways we never imagined pre-Lockdown. Increasingly our work, our leisure, our way of connecting with others, our way of doing business, and our ways [...]
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Exclusive to DSTV’s Box Office from 3 July The Song of Names: Videovision Entertainment’s evocative new film about the extraordinary bond of friendship and music set against the backdrop of the second World War, will be released exclusively on the Box Office platform of DSTV from Friday 3 July 2020. Durban’s Anant Singh, who was [...]
FROM TOP SOUTH AFRICAN THEATRE DIRECTOR STEVEN STEAD Steven Stead is a multi-award winning, widely praised theatre director with over thirty years of experience in the professional industry, and a wealth of national and international experience directing plays, musicals and operas. He holds an Honours degree in Drama (cum laude) from the University of Natal, [...]
The Denis Hurley Street Lit vendors, supported by the booksellers of Mzanzi, held a small private, ten person ceremony in the St Johns Boardroom and Gratitude Garden giving thanks to key stakeholders and partners who had helped and supported them, especially over lockdown. As large gatherings are not possible at this time, hand painted placards [...]
Durban and Pietermaritzburg SPAR Women’s 10km/5km Challenge Cancelled The much-loved Durban and Pietermaritzburg SPAR Women’s 10km/5km Challenges for 2020 have been cancelled. We are all currently facing unprecedented and challenging times, in South Africa as well as in the rest of the world. The Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of abating and as it is [...]
Pietermaritzburg City Hall: Sun 24 May, 6.30am 60 of Msunduzi’s Christian faith leaders will participate in an hour-long dawn prayer walk around the Pietermaritzburg City Hall tomorrow, Sunday 24 May for an hour from 6.30am. The walk is taking place during permissible morning exercise time and will observe all appropriate Covid-19 hygiene, health and safety [...]
The Piano Passion Project in honour of Darius Brubeck Over twenty pianists feature in online Thanksgiving concert to benefit DHC Wednesday 27 May: Concert link will be sent at 6pm On Wednesday 27 May the Piano Passion Project is organizing a Thanksgiving Concert inspired by Darius Brubeck in aid of the Denis Hurley Centre featuring [...]
Seven mates relay run “the Comrades” to raise funds for Covid-19 relief Inspired by the impact that global connectedness and action has made towards overcoming the challenges of “Covid19-Lockdown” seven friends, spread across seven towns on three continents, decided to have some fun together and ran a lockdown “Comrades” relay as a fundraiser for KZN [...]
KZN Churches launch “Hope Vouchers” as part of their ongoing food relief. A coalition of concerned churches have flagged emergency relief as their most immediate focus and are roll-outing out “Hope Vouchers” to vulnerable families in each of the 11 districts over the next three months. To ensure maximum efficiency and accountability, the Food Relief [...]
Captain Tom Moore who turned 100 today, raised 30million pounds sterling for NHS U.K. through sponsorship from walking 100 laps in his garden. He has received International recognition for this achievement. His goal was 20,000 pounds. Cansa Durban, inspired by Captain Tom is planning to do the same in order to raise funds for Mkhuhla [...]
Over the Easter lockdown holiday, composer, Nic Paton, re-released Valley of the Shadow – Rites of Loss, an online album which talks into the grief, loss, anxiety and a heightened spiritual response to these extraordinary times. Paton now based in Cape Town studied at UKZN music department and is grandson of esteemed author Alan Paton. [...]