Recycled glam at art school graduation
CFAD will hold their annual Graduation Dinner, Fashion Extravaganza and TLTL Awards Ceremony at the DLI Hall in Greyville.
THE Centre for Fine Art Animation and Design, CFAD, Durban’s most innovative art school, will hold its annual graduation dinner, Fashion Extravaganza and TLTL Awards Ceremony at the DLI Hall in Greyville on Friday evening, 28 August.
The coveted event, which has been running for more than a decade, will see three significant events rolled into one festive evening. Their annual graduation dinner which acknowledges the centre’s graduates, a fun and fabulous fashion extravaganza created by and hosted by CFAD students and the Too Little Too Late Awards Ceremony.
A sit-down banquet in the atmospheric DLI Hall provides the backdrop for the CFAD’s most important annual event. The evening’s MC will be the ever-effervescent former journalist Farouk Khan.
A highlight of the evening is the tertiary institution’s acknowledgment of unsung heroes instrumental in weaving the complex fabric of Durban’s community. “The TLTL – Too Little Too Late Awards are given annually to individuals who contribute unselfishly to the community without the recognition they deserve. It is through their work people were able to break the silence,” said CFAD founder Dr Nanda Soobben.
This year the sole recipient of the TLTL Award goes to acclaimed photographer, Omar Badsha – one of South Africa’s foremost documentary photographers, artists, political and trade union activists and historians. As an award winning artist and photographer, he has exhibited extensively in South Africa and internationally. His response to receiving the TLTL Award will be the keynote address for the evening.
The formality of the institution’s graduation and awards ceremony is a counterpoint to the fun, fantastical and frivolous organic fashions created by undergrad design students that address the challenges of waste with a focus on recycling.
“Started in 2000, this fashion design project is an opportunity to stretch the creativity of the graphic design students and to explore a unique solution to the age-old problem of pollution,” says artist and CFAD lecturer Tamlyn Martin.
Contact Sasha on 031 207 2350 for more information about CFAD or to book your space at the graduation evening.
