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Durban International Film Festival announces DIFF Award Winners during the closing night
The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), is hosting the Durban International Festival (DIFF) from 10 to 20 September 2020. This year, for its 41st edition, the festival presented a programme of close to 60 feature films, documentaries and short films alongside exciting industry programme: isiPhethu. The... Read more
UJ Arts & Culture wins Best Theatre Set Design at Naledi Theatre Awards
The UJ Arts & Culture division within the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) won two awards at the 2020 Naledi Theatre Awards. The online event awarded creatives whose productions were staged in 2019. UJ Arts & Culture scooped awards for Best Theatre Set Design for their production, Metamorphosis staged in 2019 at... Read more
Bringing genres together in another edition of Music Unlocked Sessions
The Centre for Jazz and Popular Music (UKZN) and iSupport Creative Business are proud to present Naftali, Qadasi and Maqhinga and Natalie Rungan’s Tribute to Tania Donjeany. The online concert will take place as part of the regular Unlocked Music Sessions on Wednesday 16 September at 6 pm, and... Read more
Madibaz chess star plots upward curve in rankings
Nelson Mandela University student Charlize van Zyl emerged from a challenging Online Chess Olympiad tournament with fresh determination to improve her status in the sport. The third-year BA media, communications and culture student was a member of the South African team which competed in the virtual international competition last... Read more
MANCOSA students to tackle sa community challenge in global virtual design thinking challenge
A team of students, academics and staff from MANCOSA private higher education institution will participate in the first South African Virtual Design Thinking Challenge which prepares students to develop solutions for local challenges. From 11 to 14 September, young, bright South African minds will compete with teams from all... Read more
Durban International Film Festival programme aims to “Shift Paradigms”
The University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts (CCA), will host the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) from 10 to 20 September 2020. This year, for its 41st edition, the festival curated a film programme that speaks to the historical injustices, and the different ways in which healing and... Read more
Filmmaker and DUT alumna, Karin Slater joins the Oscars
Thirty years of hard work has paid off for Filmmaker and Durban University of Technology (DUT) Alumna, Karin Slater who has been selected to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (AMPAS). Slater is one of the only two filmmakers from South Africa to... Read more
UKZN student produces a R-evolutionary dream art installation
With more than 27 years’ experience in the arts and education fields, current  Masters in Art study student Coral Bijoux has completed a body of art as an installation at the Westville campus plant nursery. Bijoux works independently as an artist and curator as well as an implementer and manager of creative... Read more
SU’s SRC to host capella concert
The Culture Committee (KuKo) of the Stellenbosch University SRC will be hosting an a capella concert in association with the a capella ensemble Shades of Yale University on Friday, 15 March. Shades of Yale, an ensemble that specialises in “music of the African diaspora & African-American tradition”, will be... Read more
“Waste to Art” presents vision for a sustainable future
The University of KwaZulu-Natal hosted a unique cocktail themed fashion show titled “Waste to Art” at the KZNSA Art Gallery in November. Engineers are not normally associated with high fashion, but such was the case as sassy young UKZN Engineering students sashayed down the catwalk. They were dressed in... Read more