SM DIARY

KZN’S BEST LIST OF WHAT’S ON

Compiled by Sandhip Sing. Send your listings to Sunday Magazine, Box 47549, Greyville, 4023, fax 031 308 2357 or e-mail: sm.diary@inl.co.za by the Monday before publication.

MARKETS TODAY

Botha’s Hill Market. Cnr Old Main Road and Rob Roy Crescent 10am-3pm. Call 083 564 3335.

REGULARS

Fragrance Street Market, Chatsworth. Fragrance Street, opposite RK Khan Hospital. Wednesdays to Saturdays 9am-5pm. Sundays 10am-4pm. Call 072 638 9459. Shongweni Market. 457 Mr551 Road. Every Saturday. 6.30am-11.30pm. Call 083 777 1674. umhlanga Farmers’ Market. Prestondale, Autumn Drive, umhlanga Ridge. Every Wednesday, 9am-noon. Call 074 445 6186.

UPCOMING

Rosetta Country Market. Rosetta Village. Local produce. May 27. 8.30am - noon. Call 082 550 4656. Litchi Orchard Night Market. Seaforth Road Umhlali. Night Market. Local food, drink, live music and festivities. May 26. 5pm-10pm. R30. May 27. 9am-1pm. Free entry. Call 032 525 5118. Chiltern Family Market. Chiltern Park Sports Club. Pitlochry Rd, Dawncrest, Westville. Local stallholders, foods, bar and a variety of activities for the kids. May 28. 9am-2pm. Call 031 262 4680. Wonder Market. Chris Saunders Park, Centenary Boulevard, umhlanga Ridge. Craft, design and food. May 28. 9am-2pm. info@ridgemanagement. co.za

MUSIC TODAY

Vuma Levin Duo. Alliance Française of Durban. 22 Sutton Crescent, Morningside. R100. Call 031 312 9582. Billy Monama – The Grazroots “Geleza Tour” Project featuring Themba Mokoena. Mama’s Jazz Restaurant. 210 Northway Drive, Umhlanga Rocks, Durban North. The young luminary and the elder legend raise awareness on indigenous musical heritage. The Grazroots “Geleza Tour” Project is a live music educational project inspired by the lack of musical art form that kept the people singing through the difficult socio-political times in the history of South Africa. May 21. 8.30pm. Price TBA. Call 076 195 4630.

REGULARS

BAT Centre: Friday workshop, noon-2pm. Hip hop, contemporary, 1pm-3pm. Lunch concert, 1pm-2pm. Call 031 332 0451. Jameson’s Pub: Dorothy Nyembe (Gardiner) Street. Conceptkidds: live radio podcast with Q&A, every Wednesday. Monkey Pandemonium: one artist weekly live, from jazz, hip hop, poetry, comedy and book readings to percussion. Every Thursday, 4pm-7pm. Find a way Friday: alternative party music, 4pm-8pm. Hip hop Saturdays: noon-6pm. Call 061 988 1341. Jazzy Lunch: Café Saint Germain, Alliance Française, 22 Sutton Crescent. Saturday, noon-2pm. Call 031 312 9582. Music Unlimited. Murphy. Stamford Hill Bowling Club. Every Saturday from 2pm. Call 073 584 0258. Roberta Reddy: Oyster Box Hotel, alternate Saturdays and Sundays. 2.30pm-5pm. Call 082 321 2698. Roberta Reddy: Resident pianist at Coastlands Hotel on Friday and Coastlands Musgrave on Saturday. 7pm-10pm. Call 082 321 2698. Windsor Tennis Club. 30 James Henderson Crescent, Glenwood. Mondays. Tennis, 4pm-6pm. May 22, Gavin Ferguson, May 29. Music 6pm-9pm. R50. Call 082 499 8636.

UPCOMING

Trio Frontier. Durban Jewish Centre, 44 KE Masinga (Old Fort) Road. Christopher Duigan, director of the widely acclaimed Junnan Sun, is the principal clarinettist in the KZNPO. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London, obtaining a Master of Performance specialising in orchestral studies. Aristide du Plessis has established a reputation as one of South Africa’s leading cellists.prelude performer: Sandile Mabaso – tenor. May 23. 7.30am. Members R80, nonmembers R100, sudents R20. Call 031 335 4460. Albert Frost. Station 43, That Brewing Company. Blues-rock music. May 23. 7pm. Call 031 303 2747. May 24 at Khaya Records. 85 Fourth Avenue, 8pm, R85 call 031 303 2936. May 25, Counter Culture, 22 Sandra Road, Ballittoville, 6.30pm, R80. Call 032 586 0926. Debbie Mari and Lihle Ngidi. The Centre for Jazz and Popular Music. Jazz Voice students present jazz standards, selections from the American songbook and South African songs in a programme featuring undergraduate students from the UKZN Jazz Studies programme. May 24. 6pm. R60 for general admission, R40 pensioners, R20 for students. Call 031 260 3385. Zakifo Music Festival. The Green Hub. 31 Steibel Place, Blue Lagoon. Boasts over 20 of the finest international music-makers from the UK, Jamaica, USA, Belgium, France, Niger, Congo, Tanzania and South Africa, with a cultural area, food carts and stalls, craft beer bars and local traders. May 26-28. 5pm. R700. R250, day pass. Call 078 234 0200. Dan Patlansky Solo, Acoustic. Caversham Mill. May 26. 8.15pm. R130. Call 033 940 0145. Steve Newman. Winston Churchill Theatre. 2 Leinster Rd, Pietermaritzburg. A consummate instrumentalist who can pick out any tune you name. With his worldfamous band Tananas, formed in 1987, Newman has received a string of awards for albums. May 26. 7.30pm. R50. Call 033 392 2264. Rusty Red. Shongweni Market. Mr551 Rd, Outer West Durban. May 27. 9.30am - 11.30am. Free admission. Call 083 777 1674. Zoe The Seed. Jazz vocalist from Swaziland. Good Reflection Jazz Band will also perform. MC Lounge in King Dinuzulu Township, May 28. 2pm. R30. For more information visit http:// concertssa.co.za.

ART

Artisan Gallery: Barbara Becke’s new small flower paintings on display. Each painting is only 23cm x 23cm and framed in a soft white. Call 031 312 4364 ARTSPACE. Notion and Nature by Nicholas and Miranda Crooks. These two-dimensional artworks comment on how the digital new media condition superimposes itself on to the technologies of a shadow baby-boomer, or the pre-digital generations. Ends May 25. Call 031 312 0793. Durban Art Gallery: Beauty and its Beasts. Has the female stereotype changed? The exhibition examines how the stereotype was created and how artists have either perpetuated the phenomenon or subverted it. Works borrowed from other art collections include Mary Sibande’s Cry Havoc and Zanele Muholi’s Condoms & Feet – contemporary pieces that sit provocatively alongside Hubert von Herkomer’s Queen Victoria. Until May 28. Call 031 3112264. Elizabeth Gordon Gallery. Hugh Mbayiwa, Zimbabwean artist. His paintings include fashion images showing colourful ethnicinspired outfits. Call 031 303 8133. The Green Gallery. Oil works by Angelika Anastasia, Nicole Pletts, Sheena Povall and Coral Spencer. Call 031 502 2757. Phansi Goes Phezulu Gallery: Magical Msinga. Featuring coloured pencil drawings of the Msinga landscape by Jannie van Heerden, supplemented by the work of Msinga artists. Call 031 206 2889. Tatham. Permanent Collection: The South African Landscape (Lorna Ferguson Room), Vessels and Containers (Ceramics Room) Migrations: Time – Place – Culture (Perimeter Gallery), Recent Acquisitions Exhibition (Schreiner Gallery). The Schreiner Gallery in the Tatham Art Gallery is a temporary exhibition space for artists working primarily in the Msunduzi region. Call 033 392 2801. Woza Moyo. 15-year Traveller Exhibition. Fifth birthday party and exhibition and the launch of the latest Traveller product. Join the celebration and launch of the Traveller Sock photo Facebook competition. May 15-June 15. Call 031 765 5866.