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Wilma Cruise’s latest solo exhibition to launch at National Arts Festival 2013

Wilma Cruise’s exhibition, titled Will You, Won’t You, Will You Join the Dance? project launches at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival on Thursday, 27 June. Cruise will launch her this body of work, a solo exhibition, as part of the Main 2013 Visual Arts Programme.

19 Jun 2013

Don’t Shoot Me; I’m Only the Piano Player coming to the Auto & General Theatre on the Square

Daphne Kuhn presents international musician and comedian David Scheel’s Don’t Shoot Me; I’m Only the Piano Player from Tuesday, 2 to Saturday, 6 July for one week only at the Auto & General Theatre on the Square. Don’t Shoot Me; I’m Only the Piano Player is a unique offering of piano playing and comedy.

19 Jun 2013

Morris Panych's Vigil is coming to the Fugard Theatre in mid-July

Vigil brings together three top theatre luminaries for a season at the Fugard Theatre after its South African premiere at the 2013 Grahamstown National Arts Festival.

19 Jun 2013

Craig Hinds announces dates for his Ordinary Boy tour

Watershed's Craig Hinds has announced his three city “Ordinary Boy” Tour, which will see him performing in Port Elizabeth on Saturday, 29 June at the Vodacom Ampitheatre; in Johannesburg on Saturday, 13 July at Room Five in Rivonia; and at Moyo Kirstenbosch in Cape Town on Friday, 19 July.

19 Jun 2013

Helen Brent Cooper to present her first solo exhibition at the 2013 National Arts Festival

Fine art printmaker, Helen Brent Cooper, will present her first solo exhibition at the National Arts Festival in 2013. A collection of Intaglio Prints, her exhibition, The Red Shoe Diaries, will be on show at the Carinus Annex in Donkin Street, from 09:00 to 17:00 daily.

19 Jun 2013

Crazy in Love to have world premiere at the National Arts Festival Fringe

Devised and performed by Andrew Buckland and Liezl de Kock under the direction of Rob Murray, with design by Jayne Batzofin, Crazy in Love is the tragicomic story of a father-daughter search for their missing mother. It will have its world premiere on Thursday, 27 June at the National Arts Festival Fringe.

18 Jun 2013

Spend winter with family and friends at Ster-Kinekor

If one was wondering how to spend the long, cold winter days that lie ahead, Ster-Kinekor has just the answer: share in the wonder and excitement of an awesome line-up of holiday movie titles with one's family and friends, in the ‘8 Wonders of Ster-Kinekor’ campaign.

18 Jun 2013

Shamwari Game Reserve to host a Photo Safari

The 25 000 hectare, Big 5 malaria-free, Shamwari Game Reserve, part of Shamwari Group, 75 km from Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape of South Africa has announced the launch of its new 2 day Pro Photo Safari.

18 Jun 2013

James Cairns is returning to the National Arts Festival in Nick Warren's Dirt

James Cairns returns to the National Arts Festival in Nick Warren’s comedy, Dirt, which is directed by Jenine Collocott.

18 Jun 2013

Marshall Music Acoustic Competition to host its second semi final event

The second semi finals of the Marshall Music Acoustic Competition takes place on Sunday, 23 June, and features another group of talented acoustic artists vying for a place in the finals. Tn action starts at 13:30 with the final act beginning at 17:30.

18 Jun 2013

Rescheduled date announced for Durban's Fashion by the Sea

After the recent postponement of Fashion by the Sea due to inclement weather, dates have been set for both models and designers to strut their stuff at Moyo on the Pier at uShaka Marine World on Wednesday, 3 July from 18:30.

18 Jun 2013

Tickets for Aquafest 2013 are selling fast

Tickets for Aquafest – Durban’s all time biggest beach party – are already going quickly, so organisers are encouraging those who are looking forward to surfing waves of incredible sound at New Beach (opposite the Beach Hotel) on Saturday, 29 June, to get theirs fast.

18 Jun 2013

Ray Phiri to take part in the next edition of City Hall Sessions

City Hall Sessions welcomes headline act, Ray Phiri at the next edition of Cape Town’s acclaimed series on Saturday, 6 July. The show will be the Afro-fusion icon’s first performance in the mother city in over five years. Doors open at 19:30 with the event beginning at 20:00.

18 Jun 2013

National Theatre Live production of This House to be released at Cinema Nouveau

Theatre lovers can look forward to yet production from London’s National Theatre Live series, when This House enjoys a short run on the big screen at Cinema Nouveau and select Ster-Kinekor theatres.

18 Jun 2013

<i>Encounters</i> adds Johannesburg screening of <i>Incarcerated Knowledge</i>

Encounters adds Johannesburg screening of Incarcerated Knowledge

Encounters South African International Documentary Festival has added a Johannesburg screening of Dylan Valley's Incarcerated Knowledge on Sunday, 16 June at 14:00 at The Bioscope. One of the most popular documentaries at the 2013 festival, Incarcerated Knowledge follows Peter John Christians from the first day of his release from Pollsmoor Prison.

14 Jun 2013

Headquarters to host round two of comedy night

Knock, knock. Who’s there? Headquarters (HQ) comedy night round two. One Wednesday, 19 June, the urban hotspot will host a night of good food, good spirits and plenty of giggles.

14 Jun 2013

The Line, Woza Albert! to be presented at The Steve Biko Centre

The Steve Biko Centre and The Market Theatre is to present The Line and Woza Albert! at The Steve Biko Centre in King William’s Town in the Eastern Cape for limited number of shows only.

14 Jun 2013

The journey for UMOJA continues

South Africa’s longest standing musical stage production, UMOJA, has arrived back in South Africa from a very successful tour of Korea, only to be jet setting off again this coming weekend for a two month tour of the USA.

14 Jun 2013

St Petersburg Ballet Theatre extends its Johannesburg run of Swan Lake

The touring St Petersburg Ballet Theatre (SPBT) has again extended its Johannesburg run of Swan Lake by an additional six performances. International commitments mean that this is the last time the run can be extended.

14 Jun 2013

Black Like Us marks 10^th anniversary with special exhibition at Manor Gallery

A decade ago, Black Like Us was established by renowned South African entrepreneur Dr Herman Mashaba, founder of Black Like Me, hair brand and the Watercolour Society of South Africa (WSSA) as a way of empowering emerging black visual artists – both creatively and with the business skills necessary to further their artistic careers.

14 Jun 2013

The KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts Gallery is undergoing a radical transformation

The province’s foremost contemporary art gallery, the visionary 108 year old KwaZulu-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.

Summit TV to be rebranded as Business Day TV

Three of the country's most influential business and financial news brands are collaborating to bring viewers in South Africa the best local and international business television programming on a newly-branded local channel.

Fox Crime to premiere crime thrillers, global favourites from July

FOX International Channels recently announced a new entrant - FOX Crime. The channel is set to bring local viewers a blend of eagerly anticipated global content mixed with existing audience favourites and coupled with a dash of classic nostalgia programmes.

Ballyhoo Media celebrates fifth birthday of Joburg Style magazine

Ballyhoo Media has announced the fifth birthday of their successful quarterly leisure publication, Joburg Style magazine. The publication which was created in May 2008 is now celebrating its 21^st anniversary edition, featuring successful songstress Lira, which will pay tribute t ...

The Amazing Race Australia to premiere on Sony Entertainment

The American reality TV series The Amazing Race has been such a monster worldwide hit ...

In the next episode of Special Assignment ...

In the next episode of Special Assignment, on Thursday, 20 June at 21:30 on SABC3, the tea ...

Freelance writing: Finding the right market for your articles

While generating ideas for articles is a must for freelance writers, if you don’t know who to pitch your story ideas to, you’re wasting your time. At the same time, if you’re not looking in the right place, you might as well not look at all.

Freelance writing: Generating ideas

If you’ve ever worked as a writer, then you’ve bound to have been asked the question: Where do you get your ideas? It’s an all too familiar question. However, being a rather general question, it’s tricky to answer.

Media News

The KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts Gallery is undergoing a radical transformation

Summit TV to be rebranded as Business Day TV

In Focus

Kagiso Digital brings you, Adfu, a new premium network

On Thursday, 15 November, Kasigo Digital - a sector of Kagiso Media launched a new premium network called Adfu. The launch took place at The Club House in Sandhurst and supplied interesting insight into the digital market.

Simfy: Steering SA into a new era of music consumption

Picture this: you get home from work, dock your smartphone into your sound system and, at the ‘touch of a screen’, you have access to over 18 million music tracks. Seems too good to be true? Not anymore …

People on the Move

Bradley Shaw joins music streaming company, Spinlet

Having been an integral part of growing 3i Publishing’s Africa Telecoms magazine as the premium source of telecommunications information across Africa, Bradley Shaw will now use his considerable technical knowledge, negotiating and persuasive skills in a similar fashion at Spinlet.

Wendy Zwane named sales support administrator at Gagasi FM

“I support the entire sales department by correlating relevant reports for the account executives, assist with costing for events organised for clients by the sales team, assist the senior traffic executive in her role and am also the sales manager’s right hand woman,” says Zwane.

Entertainment

Wilma Cruise’s latest solo exhibition to launch at National Arts Festival 2013

Don’t Shoot Me; I’m Only the Piano Player coming to the Auto & General Theatre on the Square

Entertainment Reviews

<i>Over the Moon</i> injects a fresh boost of positivity into one's life

Over the Moon injects a fresh boost of positivity into one's life

I'm only 28 but when I finished reading Dr Hannetjie Van Zyl-Edeling’s book titled Over the Moon - A Guide to Positive Aging, I was filled with what the French refer to as joie de vivre - the joy of living. So says Abbygail Zwane.

South African fans gather to celebrate <i>The Avengers</i>

South African fans gather to celebrate The Avengers

Johannesburg and Cape Town fans of the 2012 smash hit (and 3^rd biggest film of all time, including South Africa) Marvel’s The Avengers, are gearing up to celebrate the release of the film on DVD and Blu-Ray this spring in two fun-filled and colourful events.

Personalities

5 minutes with ... Trevor Romain

June sees the release of Trevor Romain's Random Kak I Remember About Growing Up in South Africa by Penguin Books South Africa. He spent a few minutes answering questions about the book and his life.

Five minutes with Mary Watson

Mary Watson's novel, The Cutting Room is hitting shelves this April. She took some time out of her busy scehdule to chat to Media Update about her novel.

Media Revisited

African Sky Publishing (company profile)

Asset

Asset, a new, interactive digital publication for the commercial property industry, has just launched its first issue. The publication represents a pioneering effort in the world of new media through its crossover between the publication itself and the eProp.co.za website and e-newsletter.