Cultural Calabash Event set to dazzle
Get your fill of cultural entertainment at the 8th annual Cultural Calabash
THE University of KwaZulu-Natal’s School of Arts will host the 8th annual Cultural Calabash on Saturday 19 October at 6.30pm, at the Howard College Campus, Howard College Theatre.
The annual Cultural Calabash celebrates both the country’s diversity and unity by presenting a spectrum of traditional African music and dance. The event will showcase performing artists from both the University as well as the broader community.
The event has been organised as part of the service learning training by the African Music & Dance students in their third level of study in the African Music Outreach: Community Development module in the School of Arts.
Coordinator of the African Music & Dance programme, Dr Patricia Opondo, said: “It is with great pride that we see students take up the onerous responsibilities in organising such an event which provides them with skills to become event managers and festival coordinators in the fields of public sector ethnomusicology and public folklore. The theme for this year’s Calabash ‘As African rhythms call, let us respond in unity’ is a clarion call for us to look to our roots, and while we celebrate our heritage, to be united in spirit.”
Artists that will perform at the event include Ovula (Maskandi band), Iziqhaza (Afro-jazz duo), Umthamutamu (Umkhomazi dance group), Feel Africa (Mbira from Zimbabwe), Afro-gong (percussion from Mozambique), Mzomborico (Kwaito artist), Slindile Khumalo (Isishiyameni AMD students) and Ubuciko the Art (Music poetry interlude).
Tickets are on sale for R35 for students & R60 for adults and can be purchased by emailing thabethe.thando3@gmail.com
Contact Dr Patricia Opondo on 031 260 1045 or email opondop@ukzn.ac.za
