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Spring Jazz School for competent and aspiring musicians - August 2013
Play in a jazz band and help to raise funds for music lessons for disadvantaged children
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2013 Nederburg winter concert series at Nederburg Manor House - June to October
From piano duos to theatrical trios, from award-winning pianists to scintillating sopranos, from contemporary electric strings to virtuoso violinists, and from internationally acclaimed artists to the country’s top emerging musicians, the 2013 Nederburg Concert Series offers music lovers the richest variety of classical repertoires performed by outstanding musicians.
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The Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival 2013
The Standard Bank Jazz Festival, Grahamstown 2013 incorporates a variety of disciplines into its programme. The Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Festival is one of the highlights at the festival this year, though it is just one part of the formidable line-up which includes Mainstream, Blues/Funk/World Music, Afro Jazz, Modern Jazz, and the Standard Bank Jazz and Blues Café.
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Zebra & Giraffe annual unplugged SA tour in June
Fresh off the back of their 2nd SAMA win for “Best Rock Album” and the success of their Top 10 single 'Sons', Zebra & Giraffe will hit the road from 18 – 29 June, to meet up with fans nationwide for their annual unplugged SA tour. They will be doing intimate, acoustic shows across South Africa, performing stripped down versions of popular songs from all three of their albums.
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Artscape Youth Jazz Festival 2013 - 14th June at Artscape
On Friday 14th June 2013 Artscape will celebrate the 11th Youth Jazz Festival with seven exceptionally talented young soloists who successfully auditioned to perform at this significant event. They are Brandon Ruiters (24) on Trumpet, Hanley-Marc Jumat (19) Guitar, Jason Beukes (19) Drums, Marcelle Adams (18) Trumpet. Vocalists are Megan Herbert (19), Zoe Palesa Modiga (19) and Zolani Bongo (19). The performance is at 19.30 in the Artscape Theatre. Patronized by jazz lovers of all ages this festival is sold out every year.
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latest dance news
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Call for applications for Cape Town’s premier dance event, the 9th annual Baxter Dance Festival
The Baxter Dance Festival, now in its ninth year, promises to be an exciting season from 3 to 12 October, showcasing Cape Town’s dynamic and diverse dance talent. The festival has grown exponentially over the years and has become a must-see on Cape Town’s events calendar.
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Fourth Cape Town International Ballet Competition (CTIBC) Announced
CEO of the Cape Town International Ballet Competition (CTIBC), Dirk Badenhorst, has announced that the fourth CTIBC takes place from 17 to 23 February 2014 at the Artscape Theatre Centre in Cape Town.
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iKapa Dance presents MY SPACE? at Artscape
iKapa Dance Presents MY SPACE? At Artscape with guest performances from the directors who not only provide training to over 300 dis-advantaged children across Cape Town but provide inspiration to audiences of all ages with their breathtaking movement quality and outstanding technical ability.
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When the Body's Dance Knows Better - dance workshops by Tossie van Tonder
When we explore issues like identity, the earth, gender, politics and aesthetics, it is in movement that we get a clearer head space, a breath, a sense of our particular integrity. Everything’s intelligence is different and it becomes an opportunity to engage with a vast diversity of perspectives when we consult our body – in movement.
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Diverse dance at the National Arts Festival 2013
Geographical and cultural roots explored in the National Arts Festival Grahamstown’s 2013 Dance offering.
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latest film news
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Jimmy in Pienk Director Hanneke Schutte wins top US film competition
Hanneke Schutte, the Johannesburg-based writer and director of the quirky new comedy ‘Jimmy in Pienk’ which opens in cinemas on 16 August, has directed a short film starring Willem Dafoe, following her win at this year’s Jameson First Shot, which saw her fight off stiff competition from hundreds of other talented screenwriters and directors.
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AFDA Honours student Scoops Award at National Film Festival for Talented Youth Seattle, Washington
An AFDA Johannesburg Honours (2012) student film won the Edge of Your Seat - Audience Award for the best thriller at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth held in April in Seattle, Washington.
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Durban International Film Festival nominated at the African Film Development Awards 2013
It is with great pleasure that the Durban International Film Festival, South Africa’s largest and longest-running film festival now in its 34th year, announces and celebrates its nomination in the ‘Most Outstanding Film Festival in Africa’ category of the 2013 African Film Development Awards.
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Wild Talk Africa Calls for Proposals for Open Pitching Sessions
The Wild Talk Africa Festival, which takes place at the Docklands Hotel & Conference Centre in Durban from 23 to 26 July, running concurrently with the Durban International Film Festival, invites wildlife filmmakers to submit proposals for the open pitching sessions.
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A Shot at the Big Time by Janet van Eeden to be screened at DIFF and NAF
A Shot at the Big Time, a short film by award-winning Durban film-maker, Janet van Eeden, has been selected for the Durban International Film Festival and will be the screened as part of a Think!Fest panel on the Legacy of Apartheid Conference during the National Arts Festival this July.
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latest theatre news
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The Last Show returns to POPArt before heading to National Arts Festival
The Last Show premiered at Johannesburg's POPArt in September 2012, and due to the demand by the public it will return for a limited run on Thursday 20 June before the cast head off to the National Arts Festival, where they will be performing daily at 2:00pm at The Drill Hall in Hill Street.
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Dark Laugh Theatre Company presents The Lake at the Drill Hall in Grahamstown
In a place not so far away in a world, not all together different from our own, live two men Larry and Lester. Separated only by a lake, the two are completely unaware of the others existence. Till one day, the water disappears and the two are forced to work together to find a way to save the lake and themselves.
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My Name is Rachel Corrie at Baxter Theatre after premiere at National Arts Festival
Hearts and Eyes Theatre Collective has forged its reputation with the brave staging of human stories: the real and the personal in pursuit of truth and understanding. My Name is Rachel Corrie is such a work, and will continue to build the company’s reputation for the award-winning staging of true stories.
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Skierlik, winner of the Best of the 2013 Zabalaza Theatre Festival at Baxter Theatre
The powerful and shocking story of Skierlik, based on the murders which made news headlines in South Africa in 2008, comes under the spotlight at the Baxter Golden Arrow Studio, for two weeks only, from 4 to 15 June at 7pm nightly, as the winner of the Best of the 2013 Zabalaza Theatre Festival.
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GIPCA invites proposals for the 2013 Live Art Festival
The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) invites proposals for the 2013 Live Art Festival, the only festival on the continent dedicated to Live Art. This sprawling series of events and research colloquium will take place from 18 – 27 November 2013 in various venues across Cape Town.
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latest visual art news
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KZNSA Gallery Consolidates
The province’s foremost contemporary art gallery – the visionary 108 year old Kwa-Zulu Natal Society of Arts (KZNSA) Gallery in Durban’s Glenwood is proactively undergoing a process of extreme restructuring and radical transformation to ensure its future in a recessionary environment.
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Anele Mhlahlo performance, fundraiser and photographic exhibition at Beautiful Life
Anele Mhlahlo, a 21 year old young man, has grown up in Imizamo Yethu, an informal settlement in Hout Bay. He is a music student currently working towards his Teacher’s Licentiate Diploma through Trinity College of Music, London.
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Song for Sekoto - Exhibition of South African artist Gerard Sekoto’s work, life and times
South African businesses continue to show their support of the local arts scene, with the staging of an exhibition of legendary South African artist Gerard Sekoto’s work, life and times. SONG FOR SEKOTO – Gerard Sekoto 1913-2013 will be presented at the Wits Art Museum (WAM) in Johannesburg from 26 April to 2 June 2013, in celebration of the centenary of the artist’s birth.
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Welcome to the arts mag. If you have been a frequent visitor, you would have noticed that the old info is all gone. This is due to the fact that the website has been upgraded to the latest software and it would have taken weeks to upgrade/convert all old data, weeks I don't have.
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