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CULINARY ARTISTRY



Want a nice quiet place to have a healthy, home-cooked light and inexpensive meal? Then how about Colours, the restaurant run by Steve Mulholland in the new NSA complex in Bulwer Road?

"I aim to make sure that everything I do serve is healthy and fresh," says Steve, "Fresh fish from the sea around Durban and fresh salads - nothing frozen at all."

Steve trained for three years in the internationally-recognised Apex cooking school in Benoni. Then for seven years, he worked on the luxury cruise liners, the Royal Viking Sun and the Royal Viking Queen. He did a stint at the Fish River Sun in the Ciskei, as well as at the Edward and the Maharani and helped to train other aspiring chefs at the Natal Training Centre.

He's also worked at the Sheridan Hotel in Frankfurt, in some of the best pubs in Britain and was the chef for NBC execu-tives at the Barcelona Olympic Games.

Colours Restaurant is open every day from 10h00 to 18h00 during the week and until 16h00 over the weekends. The complex is closed on Mondays.

Surrounded by the art and craft of some of KZN's finest, what better venue could you choose?



OPERA FASHION



Catherine Simoni, Michael Mkhize and Stacey Almond are among the singers from The Singer's Studio who will perform at Fashion at the Opera on August 7 from 18h00 to 20h00 at the Durban Art Gallery.

Also appearing will be top singers from the Eve Boswell Studio and the Durban Men's Choir.

CO-ORDINATE

Musical director Graeme Bell and well-known designers Sandy Day and Eric Way Lovemore will co- ordinate fashion and music in this event of elegant enter-tainment organised by top hair stylist Henry Wakefield.

Each couturier has been asked to design high fashion garments to complement six specially-chosen operatic arias.

The use of Playhouse Dance Company members as models will add a theatrical dimension to this interesting programme.

The Gallery will be presenting the superb French photographic exhibition Magnum Cinema which has come direct from the Grahamstown Festival.

Compere for the evening will be D'ARTS editor, Caroline Smart.

Tickets at R100 per head through Sands Hair Intercoiffure, telephone 561-2817. Booking is essential.



SA CHRISTMAS CAROLS



The South African Music Rights Organi-sation (SAMRO) and the Dramatic, Artistic and Literary Rights Organisation (DALRO), are holding two carol compe-titions - the distinguishing features of which are that the carols must be truly South African.

The first competition was to find lyrics for the carols and the winners of the Lyricwriters' competition have been announced. They are Barbara-Anne Haarhoff for The Rain Carol and Ephraim Lesora for Thoholetsang Morena; Hennie Aucamp for O, Nag de Nagte Suidelik and George Weideman for Se dit met Marimba.

COMPOSERS

SAMRO entry-forms are now available for the composers' competition to find the top musical settings of these four winning carol lyrics. There is no limit on age or the number of musical settings that any one entrant may submit. However, entries must be submitted under noms de plume. The awards are R3 000, R2 000 and R1 000.

Copies of entry forms and rules for the composers' competition may be obtained from SAMRO, PO Box 31609, Braam-fontein, 2017. Phone (011) 403-6635, fax (011) 403-1934.

Closing date is September 30.

If you had been travelling through the magnificent snow surrounding Bethlehem last month, as I was, you couldn't fail to think of what the other Bethlehem might have looked like on the night of the Nativity (Editor)."