How South African Municipalities Can Turn Organic Waste into a Resource
Up to 40%* of all landfilled waste takes up unnecessary space, as it is actually both organic and biodegradable. This so-called “organic waste,” which includes...
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CLIMATE COMMISSION HOST THE 3RD ANNUAL SKILLS FOR A JUST TRANSITION INDABA 2024
The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC), in partnership with Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and Energy Water SETA (EWSETA), will on Wednesday, 30 October...
Taking Care of Business – Helping South Africans become self-employed improves their mental health
October is Mental Health Awareness Month and a good time to consider the link between unemployment and mental health. This is especially pertinent in South...
City’s informal trading infrastructure projects gather pace
The City’s Economic Growth Directorate is investing in developing and revitalising markets and other informal trade infrastructure in various areas to help boost business for...
Kellanova partners with Premier and Kellogg’s Tolaram South Africa to donate 130,000 servings to commemorate World Food Day
Kellanova South Africa is committed to advancing sustainable and equitable access to food. To commemorate World Food Day, the company’s employees will set a record...
City Energy Directorate is top metro performer in SA
City of Cape Town energy and communication teams have received various accolades for their energy programmes, customer communication on energy and staff working in the field,...
Twelve South African creatives selected for the French Institute of South Africa’s (IFAS) ‘Unrecorded Voices’ AI Programme
28 October 2024 – Twelve South African creatives have been selected for the ground-breaking Unrecorded Voices explorative Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme hosted by the French Institute of South...
SOS Children’s Villages in South Africa
For 40 years SOS Children’s Villages in South Africa has been providing care for children who have lost or are at the risk of losing...
A new day dawning for Flynn
Shy Music, producers of Calling Us Home, are proud to announce that acclaimed American Director, Peter Flynn, has joined their Creative Team as Director of their original grand-scale musical opera, to prepare the show for international touring in 2023. Peter will be travelling from his home in New York to Cape Town, to lead the Creative Team – which will be a hybrid of South African and American creatives – as rehearsals begin in Cape Town in January 2023. A short season will be staged in Cape Town in February 2023 before the cast head out for the international tour. The Calling Us Home cast will be a fusion of local and international talent, with Shy Music intending to create as many opportunities for South African artists and talent as possible. Peter Flynn fell in love with the music and libretto of Calling Us Home and shares his excitement for being part of the team in re-working and then staging of the musical. Peter is a New York based director, writer and teacher who works both in new work development, as well as staging classic American musicals in New York, and for some of the most notable regional theatres. His New York directing credits include the off-Broadway premiere of Smart Blonde by Willy Holtzman starring Andréa Burns; the off-Broadway premiere of Curvy Widow by Bobby Goldman & Drew Brody; Rhapsody in Seth starring Seth Rudetsky; Lee Blessing’s Two Rooms; the 75th Anniversary performance of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town with Adriane Lenox, B.D. Wong, S. Epatha Merkerson; On the 20th Century with Douglas Sills & Marin Mazzie; Chess with Josh Groban & Julia Murney; Funny Girl with Bebe Neuwirth, Whoopi Goldberg, & Andrea Martin; Skippyjon Jones, and Junie B. Jones (nominated for two Lucille Lortel Awards including Best Musical). Calling Us Home is a story of hope, a story of love and a story of home that ‘premiered’ in ...