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WHOONGA WARS

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

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Abnormal Loads Interview with Sihle Marcus Mthembu

What were the early days of performing like? I never trained as an actor so I learnt largely by doing-- flailing in the deep…

neilcoppenApril 16, 2012

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LIVING WITH(IN) HISTORY- Dundee, Kwa-Zulu Natal

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

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The Tale of two Faiths

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

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SCRUBBERS!

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

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Reinventing the Old & Revolutionising the New

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

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Anglo-Boer(-ing) War Conference

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

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Urban Ambling

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

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Giant Killer Prehistoric Rubber-Duck on the Rampage

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

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Durban’s Endangered Art Deco Empires

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

WHOONGA WARS

Abnormal Loads Interview with Sihle Marcus Mthembu

LIVING WITH(IN) HISTORY- Dundee, Kwa-Zulu Natal

The Tale of two Faiths

SCRUBBERS!

Reinventing the Old & Revolutionising the New

Anglo-Boer(-ing) War Conference

Urban Ambling

Giant Killer Prehistoric Rubber-Duck on the Rampage

Durban’s Endangered Art Deco Empires

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