Art school hosts gala graduation
The Centre for Fine Art Animation and Design, CFAD host their annual graduation dinner which acknowledges the centre’s graduates, a fun and fiestyfashion extravaganza created by and hosted by CFAD students, and the Too Little Too Late Awards Ceremony this Friday.
DURBAN’S most innovative art school, CFAD (Centre for Fine Art Animation and Design) will host its annual graduation dinner, fashion extravaganza and TLTL awards ceremony at the DLI Hall in Greyville this Friday evening, 23, August.
The event has been running for more than a decade and will see three significant events rolled into one fabulous evening. The annual graduation dinner acknowledges the centre’s graduates, a fun fashion extravaganza created and hosted by CFAD students, and the Too Little Too Late Awards Ceremony.
A sit-down banquet in the atmospheric DLI Hall provides the backdrop for CFAD’s most important annual event.
A highlight of the evening is the tertiary institution’s acknowledgment of unsung heroes instrumental in weaving the complex fabric of our community. “The TLTL – Too Little Too Late – Awards are given annually to individuals who contribute unselfishly to the community without the recognition they deserve. It is through their work people were able to break the silence,” said CFAD founder Dr Nanda Soobben.
Awardees this year are chairperson of the Anti Drug Forum (ADF) in Durban, Sam Pillay and the late teenage activist and passive resistance campaigner Valliamma.
In honour of the late novelist Aziz Hassim, there will be three TLTL awards with a literary theme this year, to be presented to veteran playwright, theatre director and social commentator, Ronnie Govender; poet, commentator, activist and journalist, Don Mattera and author, Drum magazine contributor, academic, critic, poet and essayist, the late Richard Rive.
The formality of the institution’s graduation and awards ceremony is a counterpoint to the organic fashions created by undergraduate design students which address the challenges of waste with a focus on recycling.
“Started in 2000, this fashion design project is an opportunity to stretch the creativity of the graphic design students and to explore a unique solution to the age-old problem of pollution,” said CFAD’s Tamlyn Martin.
The Centre for Fine Art, Animation and Design (CFAD) is a tertiary institution based on the Berea that offers training in fine art, animation (2D and 3D) and graphic design. CFAD operate from an Edwardian Villa on 183 Problem Mkhize (Cowey) Road, which was declared a National Monument.
The CFAD was established in 1994 by world-renowned cartoonist, illustrator and journalist Dr Nanda Soobben.
Contact Sasha on 031 2408402 for more information about CFAD or to book your space at the graduation event.
