63 different projects entered into prestigious awards event across 11 categories.
The many ways South African business throws its weight behind the country’s arts community is spotlighted by entrants into the 12th Annual Business Day BASA Awards, supported by Anglo American.
63 different projects were entered into the prestigious awards event across 11 categories, with many projects entered into several different categories. An additional five entries were received for the Mentor of the Year Award, which pays tribute to those individuals who contribute their time and expertise to others working in arts projects and organisations.
In total, there are 105 contenders for nominees and winners in this 12th annual Business Day BASA Awards, supported by Anglo American – an increase on last year’s event, specifically related to first-time entries, that underscores the different array of relationships between business and the arts.
“We are thrilled at the number of entries we have received across all categories and look forward to rewarding those businesses and arts projects that have really stood out during the past year. The large number of first-time entries is also exciting as it indicates the diverse support of the arts through business,” says Michelle Constant, CEO of Business and Arts South Africa (BASA).
Business Day Editor, Peter Bruce, is also upbeat about the diversity and depth of entrants for the 12th Annual Business Day BASA Awards. “Looking at the entrants makes it clear just how many of our core constituents are working with South Africa’s arts community. It’s been said before but a country can only fully develop if its arts are allowed to thrive and this is what we are seeing so impressively in the entrants.”
For Anglo American – who has supported the Awards since 2004 – involvement in the Business Day BASA Awards is part of a vision that sees arts as an indispensable part of South Africa's progress towards being a nation which embraces diversity across all platforms.
“As the Partner of Choice, we believe that there is immense value in celebrating collaboration between business and the arts,” says Kuseni Dlamini, Head of Anglo American SA. “These Awards are a platform which brings artistic endeavours, imagination, innovation and ingenuity to a creative fore."
The 2009 judges are an esteemed collection of people in business and arts. The panel features CEO of the Constitution Hill Trust, Dr Ivan May; Loerie Awards MD, Andrew Human; playwright and director Welcome Msomi; co-founder and head of Vega School of Advertising, Gordon Cook; theatre and dance writer/journalist Adrienne Sichel; business entrepreneur, South Africa’s former High Commissioner to London and currently executive chairperson of Peotona Holdings (an investment company that deals with business development), Cheryl Carolus; and, Mastrantonio Holdings CEO Giovanni Mariano.
The seven judges have been hard at work, sifting through the high-quality entries to determine this year’s nominees and winners. The full list of nominees is expected to be released early in August, ahead of the event, which takes place at Johannesburg’s newly renovated Turbine Hall (in support of the Newtown Precinct) on August 31.
Designed to bring South Africa's business and creative communities together, the 12th Annual Business Day BASA Awards are once again presented in partnership with Anglo American and Business Day.
BASA was founded in 1997 as a joint initiative of government and the business sector, to secure the future development of the arts industry in South Africa, through increased corporate sector involvement. Established as a Section 21 company, BASA is accountable to both government and its business members.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
HIGH LOW IN-BETWEEN
Imraan Coovadia’s third novel is set in Durban.
Adams Booksellers and Umuzi, an imprint of Random House Struik Publishers, recently launched Imraan Coovadia’s third novel - High Low In-between
Set in Durban and KZN, High Low In-between charts the relationship between Nafisa, who is coming to terms with her husband’s murder , the people around her , her dysfunctional family as well as her patient, Millicent Dhlomo, who is dying of Aids.
With gathering momentum, the novel exposes the reader to Nafisa’s world of organ donation, greedy Aids denialists, quack doctors, bribes and the looming threats by the South African Revenue Service. Having been part of the struggle, Nafisa now faces the sinister complications of the post-apartheid dispensation and finds herself ostracised once more.
We learn with Nafisa what it is to live in a time of various plagues: in which a slip of a needle is a prospective death, in which your husband can be murdered because he received a kidney he didn’t know was acquired illicitly, in which death by Aids has become a currency in the hands of the morally bereft and the politically expedient, and in which acquiring, concealing, and channelling funds determines the lives and prospects of us all.
Born in 1970, Imraan Coovadia has lived in London, Melbourne, Boston and New York – never really having left Durban. He is a much-published U.S. academic and holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard, a Masters degree from Cornell and a PhD from Yale. He has taught 19th-Century Studies and Creative Writing at a number of U.S. universities and was Assistant Professor at Adelphi University, NY, before his appointment to teach Creative Writing at the University of Cape Town in 2006. He is the author of The Wedding and Green-eyed Thieves, both runners-up for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize
Adams Booksellers and Umuzi, an imprint of Random House Struik Publishers, recently launched Imraan Coovadia’s third novel - High Low In-between
Set in Durban and KZN, High Low In-between charts the relationship between Nafisa, who is coming to terms with her husband’s murder , the people around her , her dysfunctional family as well as her patient, Millicent Dhlomo, who is dying of Aids.
With gathering momentum, the novel exposes the reader to Nafisa’s world of organ donation, greedy Aids denialists, quack doctors, bribes and the looming threats by the South African Revenue Service. Having been part of the struggle, Nafisa now faces the sinister complications of the post-apartheid dispensation and finds herself ostracised once more.
We learn with Nafisa what it is to live in a time of various plagues: in which a slip of a needle is a prospective death, in which your husband can be murdered because he received a kidney he didn’t know was acquired illicitly, in which death by Aids has become a currency in the hands of the morally bereft and the politically expedient, and in which acquiring, concealing, and channelling funds determines the lives and prospects of us all.
Born in 1970, Imraan Coovadia has lived in London, Melbourne, Boston and New York – never really having left Durban. He is a much-published U.S. academic and holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard, a Masters degree from Cornell and a PhD from Yale. He has taught 19th-Century Studies and Creative Writing at a number of U.S. universities and was Assistant Professor at Adelphi University, NY, before his appointment to teach Creative Writing at the University of Cape Town in 2006. He is the author of The Wedding and Green-eyed Thieves, both runners-up for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize
FLAT 13 DEBUTS AT DIFF
Fascinating documentary on a haven of non-racialism in the dark days of apartheid.
Now in its landmark 30th year, The Durban International Film Festival will present the World Premiere of a fascinating documentary on a haven of non-racialism in the dark days of apartheid.
Flat 13 was commissioned by e.tv and written, directed and produced by Zarina Maharaj. It is the story of an apartment in downtown Johannesburg which, during the late '40s to early '60s, was a hub of rebellion and resistance against apartheid’s injustices. Nelson Mandela has described this flat as the place “where the first seeds of non-racialism were sown and a wider concept of the nation came into being”.
The flat first got its reputation as a non-racial social and political centre in the mid-forties when Mandela, a fellow first year law student with Ismail Meer, started to hang out there with other young anti-apartheid activists, journalists, musicians and intellectuals from across the colour and religious spectrum. Its reputation as a den of defiance continued when Ahmed “Kathy” Kathrada later took over the apartment, a reputation which lasted until his sentencing to life imprisonment on Robben Island with Mandela and others in the early '60s.
The major political events of the '40s to the '60s provide the historical context into which is woven the personal stories of a few of those who lived, socialised and strategised at that apartment, many of whom readily gave up their lives in the fight for freedom from racial injustice.
Director Zarina Maharaj has worked as a mathematician in industry and academia and is also the author of an award-winning memoir. On her directorial debut, she says: “I found writing and filmmaking to be on the same creative continuum. Both modes of storytelling, written and visual, rely on scripts in which visualisation is core and implicit. But in films script visualisation then has to be made explicit, and that is where I found directing at its most stimulating and challenging. The transition for me as writer to film director was about moving on this continuum to the best explicit images to illustrate the story, within the budgetary constraints. Clearly, the less such constraints, the greater the creative freedom to decide which types of visuals – stock footage, own footage, re-enactments, stills, or whatever - would maximise the impact of the filmed story.”
Principal screening venues of the festival are the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre; Nu Metro Cinecentre - Suncoast; Ster Kinekor Junction – Musgrave; Cinema Nouveau - Gateway; Ekhaya Multi-Arts Centre in KwaMashu; and The Royal Hotel, with further screenings in township areas where cinemas are non-existent. Programme booklets with the full screening schedule and synopses of all the films are available free at cinemas, Computicket, and other outlets. Call 031 2602506 or 031 2601650 or visit www.cca.ukzn.ac.za for further details.
In a year deeply constrained by funding cutbacks festival organisers the Centre for Creative Arts (UKZN ) highlight the important role played by principal funders the National Film and Video Foundation, Stichting Doen, HIVOS, KwaZulu-Natal Department of Economic Development, German Embassy, Goethe Institute of South Africa, City of Durban, Industrial Development Corporation, with support from East Coast Radio, Durban Film Office, Department of Arts and Culture Film, Video and Sound Archives, French Embassy of South Africa, East Coast Radio and other valued sponsors and partners.
Now in its landmark 30th year, The Durban International Film Festival will present the World Premiere of a fascinating documentary on a haven of non-racialism in the dark days of apartheid.
Flat 13 was commissioned by e.tv and written, directed and produced by Zarina Maharaj. It is the story of an apartment in downtown Johannesburg which, during the late '40s to early '60s, was a hub of rebellion and resistance against apartheid’s injustices. Nelson Mandela has described this flat as the place “where the first seeds of non-racialism were sown and a wider concept of the nation came into being”.
The flat first got its reputation as a non-racial social and political centre in the mid-forties when Mandela, a fellow first year law student with Ismail Meer, started to hang out there with other young anti-apartheid activists, journalists, musicians and intellectuals from across the colour and religious spectrum. Its reputation as a den of defiance continued when Ahmed “Kathy” Kathrada later took over the apartment, a reputation which lasted until his sentencing to life imprisonment on Robben Island with Mandela and others in the early '60s.
The major political events of the '40s to the '60s provide the historical context into which is woven the personal stories of a few of those who lived, socialised and strategised at that apartment, many of whom readily gave up their lives in the fight for freedom from racial injustice.
Director Zarina Maharaj has worked as a mathematician in industry and academia and is also the author of an award-winning memoir. On her directorial debut, she says: “I found writing and filmmaking to be on the same creative continuum. Both modes of storytelling, written and visual, rely on scripts in which visualisation is core and implicit. But in films script visualisation then has to be made explicit, and that is where I found directing at its most stimulating and challenging. The transition for me as writer to film director was about moving on this continuum to the best explicit images to illustrate the story, within the budgetary constraints. Clearly, the less such constraints, the greater the creative freedom to decide which types of visuals – stock footage, own footage, re-enactments, stills, or whatever - would maximise the impact of the filmed story.”
Principal screening venues of the festival are the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre; Nu Metro Cinecentre - Suncoast; Ster Kinekor Junction – Musgrave; Cinema Nouveau - Gateway; Ekhaya Multi-Arts Centre in KwaMashu; and The Royal Hotel, with further screenings in township areas where cinemas are non-existent. Programme booklets with the full screening schedule and synopses of all the films are available free at cinemas, Computicket, and other outlets. Call 031 2602506 or 031 2601650 or visit www.cca.ukzn.ac.za for further details.
In a year deeply constrained by funding cutbacks festival organisers the Centre for Creative Arts (UKZN ) highlight the important role played by principal funders the National Film and Video Foundation, Stichting Doen, HIVOS, KwaZulu-Natal Department of Economic Development, German Embassy, Goethe Institute of South Africa, City of Durban, Industrial Development Corporation, with support from East Coast Radio, Durban Film Office, Department of Arts and Culture Film, Video and Sound Archives, French Embassy of South Africa, East Coast Radio and other valued sponsors and partners.
BHARATHA NATYAM ARANGETRAM
(Pic: Front: Aashiqui Makan & Kerusha Naidoo, middle: Saiyuri Chetty and back: Avisha Naidoo)Public debut performance by four Bharatha Natyam students of the Aangika Dance Company.
The Aangika Dance Company will proudly host the Bharatha Natyam arangetram - or public debut performance - of four of its senior graduates in the Playhouse Opera in Durban on July 26.
Yashika Mungal, Principal and Artistic Director of Aangika said the arangetram will be the culmination of many years of dedication, discipline, sacrifice, perseverance and passion by the students as well as their parents to ensure the propagation of the ancient Indian classical dance form.
“It is said that everything is meaningless until you give it worth and this will be true for the four graduates who have made this ancient art form such a significant part of their lives from childhood to adulthood,” said Yashika Mungal.
The four graduates are Ashiki Makan, Avisha Naidoo, Saiyuri Chetty and Kerusha Naidoo. They will perform to live music by four artistes from Chennai who will be especially brought to Durban for the momentous event.
For further information, contact the event co-ordinator Sundru Pillay at 082 568 2504.
GISELLE
(Pic: Megan Swart, who alternates with Laura Bosenberg in the title role)Cape Town City Ballet at the Playhouse from August 14 to 16.
The Cape Town City Ballet in association with The Playhouse Company is to present Giselle in the Playhouse Opera from August 14 to 16, 2009.
Giselle is arguably the most popular of all Romantic ballets, choreographed in 1841 by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, to the beautiful Adolphe Adam score. Performances of Giselle in South Africa date from as far back as 1947, when Alexis Rassine partnered Olive James in a production of the second act, mounted by the South African National Ballet, at the City Hall in Cape Town.
The version that the Cape Town City Ballet brings to Durban was first created by the late David Poole in the Nico Malan Opera House in 1972, with Phyllis Spira partnered by Eduard Greyling in the leading roles. Elizabeth Triegaardt danced the role of Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis, and Owen Murray appearing as Hilarion.
Durban audiences will see the Cape Town City Ballet’s ballerinas, Megan Swart and Laura Bosenberg, alternate in the title role, supported by Xola Putye and Thomas Thorne as Albrecht, the nobleman who betrays her and sends her to an early grave.
The role of Myrtha in this production will be danced by Angela Hansford and Janine Laidlow, with Robin van Wyk and Mervyn Williams filling the role of Hilarion. Johnny Bovang will perform the role of the Duke, with Jane Fidler as Albrecht’s betrothed.
The CTCB is delighted to include dancers from the South African Ballet Theatre in this production, dancing in the Peasant Pas de Six in the first act and as Leading Wilis in the second.
Performances are on August 14 at 19h30, August 15 at 14h00 and 19h30 and on August 16 at 15h00. Tickets range from R70 to R120. Book through Computicket on 083 915 8000 or call Playhouse Box Office on 031 369 9540 or 031 369 9596 (office hours).
Monday, July 20, 2009
ZULU BASKETRY AND BEADWORK
Baskets by master weavers and antique Zulu beads and crafts.
The African Art Centre is holding an exhibition of Zulu basketry by master weavers and also has an interesting selection of antique Zulu beads and craft items for sale.
“We are keen to try and keep such treasures in South Africa and are therefore inviting all national museums and galleries to a special preview of the exhibition to afford them an opportunity of pre-purchasing items,” says a gallery representative.
The official opening launched two books namely, Zulu Basketry by Jannie van Heerden and Zulu Beadwork, Talk with Beads by Hlengiwe Dube.
The African Art Centre is situated at 94 Florida Road, Morningside, Durban.
The African Art Centre is holding an exhibition of Zulu basketry by master weavers and also has an interesting selection of antique Zulu beads and craft items for sale.
“We are keen to try and keep such treasures in South Africa and are therefore inviting all national museums and galleries to a special preview of the exhibition to afford them an opportunity of pre-purchasing items,” says a gallery representative.
The official opening launched two books namely, Zulu Basketry by Jannie van Heerden and Zulu Beadwork, Talk with Beads by Hlengiwe Dube.
The African Art Centre is situated at 94 Florida Road, Morningside, Durban.
SANDI BEUKES
Butterflies for Africa in Pietermaritzburg is hosting paintings by Durban artist.
Butterflies for Africa in Pietermaritzburg is hosting paintings by Durban artist, Sandi Beukes, who paints in oils and uses pastel in her sketches of people, going about their daily lives.
The Blue Caterpillar Gallery, situated in the Butterflies for Africa complex at Willowton, is open Tuesday to Friday from 09h00 to 16h30 (Saturdays from 09h30 to 15h30 and Sundays from 10h30 to 15h30). More information on 033 387 1356.
Butterflies for Africa in Pietermaritzburg is hosting paintings by Durban artist, Sandi Beukes, who paints in oils and uses pastel in her sketches of people, going about their daily lives.
The Blue Caterpillar Gallery, situated in the Butterflies for Africa complex at Willowton, is open Tuesday to Friday from 09h00 to 16h30 (Saturdays from 09h30 to 15h30 and Sundays from 10h30 to 15h30). More information on 033 387 1356.
FLAVOURS
(Pic: Some of the works on the exhibition)A group of exciting young Durban jewellers has joined forces for an exhibition entitled Flavours, running at the artSpace gallery.
The emerging jewellers, all Durban University of Technology Honours students, bring a fusion of creative flavours to the exhibition, with work that encompasses the playful and decorative, organic and slick, and goes from ornate to ethnic-chic.
Jeweller S’bhekile Lukhele, for example, says he takes his inspiration from industrial, mechanical objects and uses a computer aided design program to solve technical problems in his work.
By contrast, Christy-Anne Bestwick says she’s been drawing inspiration from Victorian design. “I love texture, pattern and contrast … I try to take an extravagant old-world feel and adapt it to a modern context,” says Christy-Anne.
Wood and silver are some of Haifeng Piao’s favourite materials. He enjoys fusing Chinese concepts and techniques with modern ideas and is working on contemporary version of the Chinese tea set.
Cash-strapped jewellery lovers will be delighted to learn that one of the eight, Lusanda Mgugudo, is using found objects in her work, to create “recession-chic pieces that are affordable but look good”.
Also taking part in Flavours are jewellers Taryn Koekemoer, Jadi Clark, Sean Brunette, and Chantell Wehmeyer. The show runs at artSpace’s middle gallery, 3 Millar Road (off Umgeni Road), until August 1. Call the gallery for more details at 031 312 0793.
WILLIE’S WONKY CHOCOLATE FACTORY
BBC Lifestyle July highlight features Willie Harcourt-Cooze’s passion for chocolate.
Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory runs from July 23 in four episodes from July 23 at 18h30 on BBC Lifestyle (channel 180 on DStv)
For Willie Harcourt-Cooze, chocolate is a passion. His obsession has led him to buy a cacao farm in Venezuela and start his own chocolate factory in Devon.
Willie’s dream is to create the best chocolate in the world and to get us using it in everything from sweets to soup. But after more than a decade spent working on the farm and developing his chocolate cooking ideas, Willie is yet to make any money from his dream. He’s up to his neck in debt and his family is starting to feel the pressure of Willie’s chocolate obsession. The pressure is on to crack the UK chocolate market with this year’s harvest.
We follow Willie’s journey as he chases his fantasy, from bean to bar. The four-part series covers the harvesting of the crop, the struggle to convince UK stockists that chocolate can make a commercial impact as a cooking ingredient, and the challenge of persuading consumers try the product. Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory is the engaging story of a man on a mission to change how we think about and use chocolate.
Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory runs from July 23 in four episodes from July 23 at 18h30 on BBC Lifestyle (channel 180 on DStv)
For Willie Harcourt-Cooze, chocolate is a passion. His obsession has led him to buy a cacao farm in Venezuela and start his own chocolate factory in Devon.
Willie’s dream is to create the best chocolate in the world and to get us using it in everything from sweets to soup. But after more than a decade spent working on the farm and developing his chocolate cooking ideas, Willie is yet to make any money from his dream. He’s up to his neck in debt and his family is starting to feel the pressure of Willie’s chocolate obsession. The pressure is on to crack the UK chocolate market with this year’s harvest.
We follow Willie’s journey as he chases his fantasy, from bean to bar. The four-part series covers the harvesting of the crop, the struggle to convince UK stockists that chocolate can make a commercial impact as a cooking ingredient, and the challenge of persuading consumers try the product. Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory is the engaging story of a man on a mission to change how we think about and use chocolate.
SA’S GOT TALENT
New date announced for SA’s top talent show
They came out in the thousands. From six year olds to 82 year olds. And now South Africa will have to wait until October 1 to find out how talented we really are. SABC 2 announced that the broadcast date for the hot new reality show SA’s Got Talent has been moved out by seven weeks to October 1.
The enthusiastic hopefuls will now get to face the judges nationally in July and August. The Durban dates are July 28 and 29 at the iZulu Theatre at Sibaya, preceded by Johannesburg (July 18, 19 & 20 at the Alexandra Theatre, Braamfontein) and followed by Cape Town (August 10 and 11 at the CTICC).
Commented Ed Worster, programme manager at SABC 2 “We are happy to confirm the new broadcast dates, which is good news as the show will now air in peak viewing season.”
Added Kee-Leen Irvine, Executive Producer for SA’s Got Talent, “The Rapid Blue team have spent the last six weeks processing thousands and thousands of entries 24/7 and we are really excited to show the judges and South Africa the range of talent our wonderful country has to offer. And it is broad, from ventriloquists, quick-changers, magicians, acrobats, contortionists, jugglers to beatboxers & dancers.”
SA’s Got Talent will premiere on October 1 on SABC 2 and is presented by Cadbury Lunch Bar “much, much more.”
They came out in the thousands. From six year olds to 82 year olds. And now South Africa will have to wait until October 1 to find out how talented we really are. SABC 2 announced that the broadcast date for the hot new reality show SA’s Got Talent has been moved out by seven weeks to October 1.
The enthusiastic hopefuls will now get to face the judges nationally in July and August. The Durban dates are July 28 and 29 at the iZulu Theatre at Sibaya, preceded by Johannesburg (July 18, 19 & 20 at the Alexandra Theatre, Braamfontein) and followed by Cape Town (August 10 and 11 at the CTICC).
Commented Ed Worster, programme manager at SABC 2 “We are happy to confirm the new broadcast dates, which is good news as the show will now air in peak viewing season.”
Added Kee-Leen Irvine, Executive Producer for SA’s Got Talent, “The Rapid Blue team have spent the last six weeks processing thousands and thousands of entries 24/7 and we are really excited to show the judges and South Africa the range of talent our wonderful country has to offer. And it is broad, from ventriloquists, quick-changers, magicians, acrobats, contortionists, jugglers to beatboxers & dancers.”
SA’s Got Talent will premiere on October 1 on SABC 2 and is presented by Cadbury Lunch Bar “much, much more.”
PLATFORM JAZZ
(Andreas Kappen, Ian Holloway and Cathy Peacock)
Cathy Peacock’s popular group to entertain diners at Westville Country Club on July 13.
Cathy Peacock's popular Platform Jazz are set to entertaining diners at the Westville Country Club on July 31.
The band line up will be Cathy Peacock on trumpet, Ian Holloway on clarinet, Mario Monteregge on trombone, Cloin Mairs on sax, Joe Delew on keyboards, Andreas Kappen on bass and Grant Emmerich on drums. Stand by to enjoy the old favourites such as All of Me, Sweet Georgia Brown, When the Saints, Mac the Knife to name a few as well as some top Latin numbers such as Sway and Volare.
Tickets R120 pp includes a three-course meal with the catchy Dixie Band providing some toe-tapping jazz. The evening starts at 18h30 and booking is through Katy Ross on 031 266 1391 or email functions@westville country club
SALSA SIZZLE
(Pic: Cherise Roberts, Natasha Lynn & Kerry-Lee McKibbin)Stuart Mey takes celebration of hit songs by tp Latino divas to Seabrooke’s.
Stuart Mey has been out of the limelight since the closing of the Dockyard Theatre in January, but it hasn’t meant he’s been idle. “I have been doing “one-nighters”, fundraisers and short runs at various schools, clubs, and at Suncoast Casino, instead of shows with a longer run. I am pleased to say that at last, the various projects that I have been planning are about to begin.
The first of these is Salsa Sizzle at Seabrooke’s Theatre at Durban High School, a theatre built under the patronage of Chris Seabrooke who was a contemporary of Stuart Mey’s at DHS in the 1960’s.
Salsa Sizzle offers a celebration of hit songs as performed by some of the world’s top Latino divas. Cherise Roberts, Kerry-Lee McKibbin and Natasha Lynn will be singing the songs of Christina Aguilera, Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez and some of the classic Latino hits from Carlos Jobim and Sergio Mendes.
Having just landed one of the lead roles in an international production of Grease, is Cherise Roberts. Formerly of Durban, Cherise has been based in Johannesburg for the past five years. She has done numerous Barnyard shows as well as shows for Richard Loring. Kerry-Lee Mc Kibbin has just completed a country wide tour with the Barnyard’s Elvis show, and starred as Agnetha in The Dockyard’s Abba show. Natasha Lynn impressed audiences and the press alike with her stage debut along with McKibbin in the Dockyard’s festive season show Let’s get this party started.
Providing the backing as always, is the award winning Dockyard Show Band, under the musical direction of guitarist Bruce Boome. On keyboards is the inimitable Musa Mtetwa with Titus Beharie on bass, Devon Hore on drums and John Drace on percussion.
The show is available with a buffet dinner prior to the show in the foyer area and desserts available at interval and after the show.
Tickets R180 (show and dinner) or R100 (show only). Dinner is in the form of a buffet catered by La Bella of Essenwood Road). A full bar is on offer. Tickets available on line through www.strictlytickets.com or by phoning 031 201 9175. The show runs till August 1.
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