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For more news click here ... http://www.arts_link_.co.za -EVENT NEWS  Celtic concert II  Celtic Variety including - Johannesburg Welsh Male Voice Choir, Chiquita Spanish Dance Company, Irish Hard Shoe Dancers, Delville Pipeband SA, Dalriada -BOOKS  Keeping literature going  A Johannesburg bookshop finds it's a tough business keeping good literature going, but it works! -EXHIBITIONS  En route  Jute ... tin plate ... found _object_s ... leather ... paint - the multi media canvases, collages, sculptures by Hannes Harrs -EVENT NEWS  Youth music festival 2001 - entries close soon  The annual Artscape/Cape Philharmonic Youth Music Festival is once again to be presented at the magnificent Endler Hall in Stellenbosch in July -EVENT NEWS  Not the Grahamstown festival  Get into the mood of the country's foremost arts and culture showcase - and sample a range of shows and exhibits from KZN before they head off to Grahamstown -THEATRE NEWS  Pick a bard comedy for Maynardville 2002  Artscape is inviting directors to share in the rich and long-standing annual tradition of Shakespeare-in-the-park at the Maynardville Open Air Theatre in Cape Town -THEATRE NEWS  Mercury rising  Durban's latest great success story - Mercury Rising the smash-hit musical revue saluting rock icon, Freddie Mercury - returns to Durban at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre -DANCE  The autumn season of The Adventures of Alice  If you missed this fun production during December, you have the opportunity to see it during May at theatres in Pretoria, Springs and Secunda -EXHIBITIONS  Material Matters  Appliquéés by the Weya Women of Zimbabwe and needlework of South African collectives -THEATRE NEWS  Opdrag Productions  OPDRAG PRODUCTIONS which is owned and run by actress Jana Cilliers, and director Mark Graham has announced its programme of productions for 2001 -MUSIC  Mightily impressive young musicians  CONCERT: Youth Symphony Orchestra of Hesse, Germany (Old Mutual Hall, Unisa), CONDUCTOR: Andreas Schuller and SOLOIST: Korbinian Altenberger -THEATRE NEWS  Symbols of sex and state  Mrs Evita Bezuidenhout, in a brand new show for the people, takes us through the turmoils of our youngish democracy, reflecting both with fear and the fun of being South African For more news click here ... http://www.arts_link_.co.za -BOOKS  Books to look forward to To keep you up to date and help you plan ahead in your reading, we're some highlights to be released during next month during May by Jonathan Ball Publishers and Harper Collins -THEATRE NEWS  Isebe Lenkawu - the scapegoat The Pulpit Youth Theatre Project presents Isebe Lenkawu (The Scapegoat) at the Baxter Theatre for five days only from 17-21 April 2001 -THEATRE NEWS  Cliff - the timeless, ageless icon of pop The phenomenal music of evergreen, ever-gracious gentleman of contemporary pop Cliff Richard - will be celebrated in a slick and modern supper-theatre presentation in the Playhouse Cellar -EVENT NEWS  Provincial government supports arts festival In recognising the importance of the Klein Karoo National Arts (KKNK) festival in Oudtshoorn, the Western Cape provincial government will be attending the festival at full capacity -RADIO  Art on the edge Radio with Michelle Constant, SAfm 104 - 107, Wednesday 11 April 2001 from 12h30 - 13h00 -THEATRE NEWS  What the water gave me What the Water Gave Me is the first in a Totem-Trilogy of plays which seeks out a feminine _style_ of theatrical practice -WINEDINE  Spencers showbiz bar Anyone wanting to mingle with those in showbiz and those who just love it can now meet at Spencers Showbiz Bar at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre -TELEVISION  Kunskafee on KykNet KUNSKAFEE is a magazine programme about the arts, which aims to reflect art in such a way it will become accessible to all viewers, but at the same time not disappoint art connoisseurs -DANCE  Danscape - JDT's annual bursary fundraiser This annual event showcases the young South African dancers of tomorrow and raises finance to support young people who wish to have a career in the arts -EXHIBITIONS  The white fifties in SA Unpublished photographs by Jurgen Schadeberg at the Bensusan Museum of Photography Photo Gallery -WEEKLY DIARIES  What's on in KwaZulu Natal Weekly diaries from Publicity Matters, Friday 13 - Sunday 22 April -MUSIC  Laying it on the bass line South African Gary Levitt - one of the top bass graduates from prestigious US music school Berklee - played the last of a series of scholarship concerts in SA at the weekend For more news click here ... http://www.arts_link_.co.za