The Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal) with principal funding from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, will present the 14^th POETRY AFRICA, International Poetry Festival from 4 to 9 October 2010. The evening events will take place from 4 to 8 October at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre (19h30), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, and at the BAT Centre on 9 October. Workshops and seminars will be held in venues across Durban.

For 12 days Durban will play host to a dazzling 12^th edition of the international contemporary dance festival, JOMBA! One of four annual festivals hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts, the JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience has become synonymous with cutting-edge dance theatre, and with principle funding from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund capacitating the festival, this bumper event contains a programme of broad scope and appeal.

One of the country’s most established and respected arts festival – the annual Witness Hilton Arts Festival which is now in its 18th year, will take place on the beautiful grounds of the Hilton College from 17 – 19 September.

One of South Africa’s most celebrated musicians, Vusi Mahlasela is set to enthrall audiences at this year’s White Mountain Festival, coming up over the Heritage Day long weekend from 23-26 September at White Mountain Lodge near Giant’s Castle in the Central Drakensberg.

If you want to get away from it all and chill out in a superb mountain setting while listening to acoustic performances by some of the country’s top artists, then look no further than the annual White Mountain Festival from 23 to 26 September.

Riches abound with the delightfully quirky 1940’s take of Verdi’s mercurial last masterpiece, Falstaff, currently showing at the Westville Pavillion, and at select NuMetro cinemas in other centres.

Durban’s classical dance and music enthusiasts have a rare treat in store when the KZNPO and conductor Naum Rousine go into theatrical mode next week, accompanying Cape Town City Ballet in its eagerly awaited production of Giselle in the Playhouse Opera. The celebrated 75-year-old dance company, South Africa’s oldest ballet company, was last seen in Durban 13 years ago, when it also performed Giselle.

Durban may be the country’s Cinderella city when it comes keeping the flag of Opera flying. The there are signs of change. The news that Renée Fleming, the opera world’s Diva Assoluta, will be gracing our City Hall stage with her presence on August 27, courtesy of the KZNPO, represents the biggest coup pulled off on this country’s classical music front in decades.

DENNIS STRATTON OF IRON MAIDEN FAME , CLYDE LAWRENCE and JESSICA Foord (POWAR) have joined forces in “SA’s Fight against Crime” and are hosting  INTERNATIONAL MUSIC EVENTS  throughout SA  to raise funds for the first Jes Foord POWAR Centre in SA. The cost will be in the region of R3 million and proceeds from the Dennis Stratton Tribute TO HIS MAIDEN YEARS & a special Unrehearsed 7 music evening starting in Durban and ending in JHB  will be utilised towards this desperate and worthy cause.