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VALLEY CHILDRENJohn O'Donnell's The Children of the Valley exhibition runs from September 3 to 30 at The O'Donnell Gallery, 32 Old Main Road, Botha's Hill. The collection of 40 works, the result of six months work, depicts the rural areas of Assagai and the Valley of a Thousand Hills showing children in many guises. Telefax 765-7123 or Cell 083 3000 656. Gallery hours: Wednesday to Sunday from 09h00 to 16h00. |
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HERITAGE DAYThe KZN Department of Education and Culture and the Directorate of Arts, Culture and Youth Affairs have made elaborate plans to celebrate Heritage Day 1997 on September 24.In the North Durban region, there will be a cultural celebration at the Amphi-theatre. This will include a Heritage Fair from 09h00 to 17h00 where stallholders will be able to display the costumes and sell the crafts and cuisine unique to their respective cultures. There will be a Fringe Concert from 10h00 to 12h30 where the Playhouse's Transnet Truck stage will offer a platform for local amateur performing artists to provide a programme of song, music and dance reflective of the diverse cultures of KZN. All performers will have been drawn from the various Durban Arts community competitions and events held recently. PARADE At 12h30 a grand parade will feature drum majorettes, floats, rikshas and regiments which will begin at the South Beach and proceed towards the Amphi-theatre along the promenade. The afternoon's main programme from 14h00 to 17h00 offers a multi-cultural concert of song, music and dance performed by professional artists. Dr V T Zulu, Minister of Education and Culture, will be the guest of honour. If you wish to participate in this multi-cultural extravaganza, contact Mr R T Govender on 309-7559. |
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ROLE MODELThe BAT Centre's Studio Mezzanine will host Portrait of a Role Model, an exhibi-tion of works by children from Hibber-dene, Umzinto, Dududu and Bulwer.Arranged by the Artworks Trust, Por-trait of a Role Model runs from September 5 to 20. |
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IN MEMORIAMLast month, dance-lovers mourned the passing of movement specialist, Jilian Hurst, who died after a long and coura- geous fight against cancer.A former University of Natal speech and drama lecturer Jilian Hurst was the wife of Professor Pieter Scholtz. She studied at the Laban Centre in London as well as the Martha Graham School, Alvin Aily Centre and the Murray Louis/Alwin Nikolai Dance Theatre Laboratory. "Jill leaves us with an important legacy that we need to cherish and build on for the future," says Fred Hagemann, head of the drama department at the Univer-sity of the Witwatersrand. "In both her joyous life and through her lengthy suffering she has shown a tenacious and joyous spirit. A spirit that has choreo-graphed, performed and celebrated the dance of life in both body, soul and mind. Her life-dance was shared with many of us. We tapped, contracted, ex-panded, soared, rolled, flew and sang in many of her great works for the stage and in her great friendship. I believe she was still dancing throughout her long suffering and that she has now joined a universal dance." FELLOW Fellow movement specialist Margaret Larlham says: "Jilian was a pioneer of contemporary dance in South Africa, encouraging students to be inventive and selflessly sharing her expertise and insights gleaned from the many courses she attended in England and America - at London University and in the studios of leading American dance companies in New York City." Marion North, principal of the Laban Centre in London adds this tribute to Jilian Hurst: "The world is a poorer place without her but she will never be forgotten." |
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