Memories Are Made Of This

14 June 09

Old Mutual and East Coast Radio Durban's No 1, invite you to enjoy a 'new' special day in the Durban Botanic Gardens in celebration of moms and the wonderful MEMORIES of times spent in the beautiful Durban Botanic Gardens.

The new date for our Mother's Day Concert is on Sunday, 14 June and it will be themed 'MEMORIES'.

Anyone who purchased tickets for 10 May, may be use them on Sunday 14 June only.

The theme of the concert is 'Memories are made of this..' to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the Durban Botanic Gardens.

If you have any stories and pictures recording a special event or visit to the Gardens, we invite you to drop them off at our Info Centre with your name and contact details.

The KZN Philharmonic Orchestra will present the same musical programme under conductor Lykele Temmingh, with guest artists Melanie Roberts and Natalie Rungan. There will be a special appearance by the KZN Youth Orchestra at 1:45pm

Tickets are available now through Computicket - 083 915 8000 and also from the Info Centre in the Durban Botanic Gardens - 031-3091170
Gates open at 12:30pm.

Tickets - R80p/p. Concession tickets of R20 children 6yrs to 12yrs.

T: 031 2025819
W: www.durbanbotanicgardens.org.za

A New Exhibition of Photographs

3 June - 19 July 2009

Roger Ballen’s photographs are like images from a waking dream: compelling and thought-provoking, with layers of rich details, flashes of dark humor, and an altered sense of place. Blurring the boundaries between documentary photography and art, his work is both a powerful social statement and a complex psychological study.

Boarding house is a space of transient residence, of comings and goings, of people sheltered in a place they are using for their immediate survival. Basic and fundamental, the structure is furnished with objects necessary for an elementary existence, decorated with evocative drawings, and littered throughout with animals. Remnants function there as physical symbols of events that have occurred in the space; broken pieces of a functional reality exist as the leftovers of scenarios that have been played out there. The altered sense of place of this temporary abode creates a sense of alienation, which acts as a jumping off point for the imagination to run wild.

Boarding house is a journey of discovery in which we leave our ordinary selves behind and confront a primitive part of the human condition and its psyche. Whether the place is real or imaginary is both indecipherable and irrelevant. It is a place where Ballen’s subconscious and the viewer’s inhibitions can occupy its own universe.

Roger Ballen was born in New York in 1950. Since 1982 he has been living and taking photographs in South Africa. In 2001 Outland (Phaidon Press) received the Best Photography Book of the Year Award at PhotoEspaña. In 2002 Ballen won the Photographer of the Year Award at the inaugural Rencontres d’Arles Awards. Since 2002 Ballen has had over fifty exhibitions worldwide, including one-man shows at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and Gagosian Gallery in New York. His work is represented in many museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Opens 3 June at Durban Art Gallery 6 p.m and closes 19 July.
Opening by Professor Catherine Burns.
For further information or pictures please contact curate.a.space@gmail.com

Torment, Arise To Conquer, Conscript and more!

13 June 2009

Black Pencil Productions present Torment, Arise To Conquer, Conscript, Fragmented Children, Arise to Conquer & Muddpony!

Burn Nightclub, 16 Walls Avenue, Greyville
Doors open at 20h00.
Cover Charge: R40

T: 082 325 9746
E: burn@wbs.co.za
W: www.burn.co.za

Kidofdoom & Haezer Live

12 June 2009

Burn Nightclub, 16 Walls Avenue, Greyville
Doors open at 20h00.
Cover Charge: R40

T: 082 325 9746
E: burn@wbs.co.za
W: www.burn.co.za

World Symphony Series: Winter Season 2009

11 June 2009

Following his critically lauded début performance with the KZNPO in 2008, pianist Boris Giltburg returns to the Durban stage to perform Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto which brims with youthful vigour, vitality and romance. The programme for this concert provides myriad, yet well balanced, works from the masters: the evening kicks off with the entertaining Surprise Symphony from Handel, while the second half features Dvorak's brilliant Eighth Symphony with its seemingly spontaneous flow of thematic ideas.

Symphonic Magnificence

Conductor: Leslie B. Dunner
Soloist: Boris Giltburg (piano)
Haydn – Symphony No. 94 'The Surprise'
Shostakovich – Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major
Dvorak – Symphony No. 8 in G major

Durban City Hall
Tickets from R60 to R180.
Student & pensioners reduced tickets only at the door.
Single ticket bookings can be made through Computicket.
Starts at 19h30.

T: 083 915 8000
W: www.kznpo.co.za

Monday Night Jazz

8 June 2009

Jazz song-bird Natalie Rungan, together with esteemed musos Burton Naidoo on keyboards, Bruce Baker on drums and Lensky Alfred on bass bring their superb, classy sound to AL63 in June.

AL 63, 35 Newport Avenue, Glenashley
Come early & enjoy a glass of Prosecco or a sundowner...before the music starts at 19:30.

T: (031) 562 8350
W: www.al63.co.za

Cokey Falkow and Paul Snodgrass - Live & Uncensored

6 June 2009

Cokey Falkow, one of South Africa’s top comedians, is bloody hilarious. At least that’s what the media said about him . He thinks it is a matter of opinion. Not only is he one of the country's funniest comics but he has worked in the US and the UK and has earned rave reviews on the international stage.

Paul Snodgrass started Comedy 8 years ago at the fresh faces section of the Smirnoff International comedy Festival Performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2006, the largest arts festival in the world. Achieved a 4 star review and was quoted in the Guardian 'Headliner, Paul Snodgrass...one of the best value for money acts at the festival.'

King Club, 231 Smith Street (Above Zulu Jazz Lounge)
Starts at 20h00.
Cover Charge: R70
Booking advised.

T: 031 304 2373
E: athos@thekingclub.com