EDITORIAL

This issue comes to you from a D'ARTS team that is bursting with pride. We did it! We actually wonthe Arts & Culture Trust of the President's 1997/98 award for the arts and culture publication of the yearsponsored by the MIDI Trust.

Our printers, Atlas Printers, have generously sponsored four extra pages for this issue so we can tell youwhat this award means and also introduce new readers to the faces behind the names at D'ARTS and itspublisher, the Durban Arts Association. So, waste no time turning to the centre pages!

This month sees a major number of the city's performers, artists and crafters heading for the StandardBank National Arts Festival in Grahamstown which runs from July 2 to 12. Following them will be manypeople who simply go to soak up the cultural vibe and cram in as many shows, exhibitions and lecturesas they can. Closer to home, Durban continues to offer many attractions on the arts scene. For readerswith young children, there's much to keep them entertained during the July holidays. The 19th DurbanInternational Film Festival promises an exciting programme of film; Durban Arts co-ordinator BhekiMbili directs his first major production, Imbizo; the NBS House and Garden Show features an exhibitionby the Miniature Art Society of South Africa and the memory of artist Barbara Price is honoured in anexhibition at the NSA Gallery.

Singer/guitarist Sharon Katz, who founded the Peace Train project, leaves Durban to settle in Ghana andstudents of the Ningizimu School for the SMH are hard at work for their A-4 art exhibition.

D'ARTS MAGAZINE

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Durban Arts Association

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EDITOR AND LAYOUT

Caroline Smart

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Marianne Meijer

D'ARTS/MEMBERS ASSIST.

Audrey Coetzee

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D'ARTS is the winner of the Arts & Culture Trust of the President's award for the arts & culture publicationof 1997/98 sponsored by the MIDI Trust.

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