In May this year I was tasked with heading up a writing and theatre-making workshop with community theatre participants from in and around KwaZulu-Natal.…
neilcoppenSeptember 10, 2014
We are about to embark on a three- month long residency to the town of Dundee as part of the project titled Two Thousand and…
neilcoppenNovember 4, 2010
Pictures by Paul Fetters Travelling into Durban's CBD from the Berea, one is met by two iconic and historic city landmarks. In the foreground the…
neilcoppenAugust 4, 2010
A renowned hip-hop poet and Graffiti artist friend of mine and I recently engaged into a drunken dinner-party debate/row over the ubiquitous tagging of public…
neilcoppenMarch 9, 2010
Durban based furniture designer and artist Xavier Clarrise is unmistakably French. French ,you could say, in the way film maker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie) makes cinema…
neilcoppenFebruary 11, 2010
v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} To kick start each morning of the South African Military Societies International Anglo Boer War History conference,…
neilcoppenFebruary 8, 2010
Working towards a philosophy of architecture without walls, Mauritian born and Durban based architect Doung Anwar Jahangeer's guided city- walks have been reshaping and shifting…
neilcoppenJanuary 29, 2010
My brother Gregg and his wife Angella (a web developer and illustrator) live on a mountainside in Fishhoek in the Western Cape. Their house overlooks…
neilcoppenJanuary 14, 2010
To this day the Art Deco style remains a contentious and oft disputed entry into the Architectural journals and history books. With its penchant for…
neilcoppenDecember 7, 2009