Long service deserves prizes … and here are
three prizes for you - an audience member.
After 27 years, it has been interesting to
reflect how many people have been involved in KZN’s leading art festival, held
this year from September 13 to 15 at Hilton College, near Pietermaritzburg.
(Right: "Thanks for the Melodies" - Anthony Stonier & Karen Campbell-Gillies)
Sue Clarence, the Festival Director, began
the event and still serves as its Director.
Basil Kundelrum, in charge of estate
logistics, equals her record with 27 years of making sure everything at Hilton
College is shipshape. Assisting him in this massive task is Marina Miller,
keeping everything spick and span since 1998. So that’s 21 years. Michael
Broderick has been involved in the complicated technical services that the
festival provides to productions to make sure they can perform to a
professional level since 1996 - another 23 years. So far, that’s 98 years!
(Left: "Knot Again!" - Rowan Bartlett, Darren King & Bryan Hiles))
Add to this the technical sponsorship from
Brandon Bunyan and Thulani Fakazi of Black Coffee Designs and we reach 108
years.
Illa Thompson has been keeping the public
informed of every detail of the festival since 2005 and, in the same year,
Sheryl Hodkin started working in the box office.
Now, the reason for it all … the
performers.
(Right: "The Great Big Enormous Turnip" - Bryan Hiles)
Anthony Stonier (Thanks for the Melodies) is singing for the 24th year, Darren King
(Knot Again!) has been an actor,
cabaret artist and singer at 18 annual festivals, Bryan Hiles (The Forgotten Years of Donald K Pumkin
and The Great Big Enormous Turnip) at
16, including this year. Well-known Christopher Duigan plays a concert of
Chopin music this year –his 20th the year. Christopher that is, not Chopin!
Visual artists Pippa Meakin, Veronica
Herbert, Simon Addy and Lyn Hoyle clock up a further 40 years. In the market
arena, the ever-popular Chip ‘n Dip win the prize with 19 years.
(Left: Christopher Duigan)
This makes a grand total of 274 years!!!!!
Dear Audience Member, to celebrate all
these fabulous milestones, we are giving away three sets of tickets to three
highly acclaimed shows; Thanks for the
Melodies (Sunday), Knot Again
(Friday) and Spanish Fire (Sunday)!
Head to our Facebook page (@hiltonartsfest), Instagram (@hiltonartsfest), or
Twitter (@hiltonfest) to enter and help spread the festival cheer and these
tickets could be yours.
Log on and take a look!!
Bookings are open online – www.hiltonfestival.co.za
- where you can also download the full programme and a list of where hard copy
programmes are available. You can also book at the Box Office at Hilton College
should you not wish to book online. Payments online are either by credit card
or EFT – all instructions are on the site which is secure. All queries on 033
383 0126 / theatre@hiltoncollege.com
The Festival is presented by Hilton College
and tiso blackstar in association with Grindrod, Black Coffee, Extreme Events,
DWR, Absa, Bidvest Car Rental, FNB, KZN Dept of Art & Culture, BASA,
Southern Sun PMB, Stella Artois, Redlands Hotel, Maritzburg Sun, Caxton, SA
Artist, Loud Crowd Media, Sappi.
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