SHINE Your Light at weekly meditation classes in Morningside on Thursdays from 7pm to 8.15pm at Positive Health, 5 Claribel Road, and Tuesdays from 7.45am to 8.30am at 323 Innes Road. Learn simple breathing meditations that will help you to shine with love, joy, confidence, creativity and other inner good qualities. Cost is R40 (donation to non-profit organisation). Contact 031 266 0148 / info@meditateindurban.org / www.meditateindurban.org.
THE UP Market will be trading every Sunday from 9am to 2pm at the Umhlanga Centre.
There will be jazz music by Beat Route. Visit www.upmarketumhlanga.co.za
UMBILO Congregational Church, 498 Bartle Road, Umbilo, will have a braai night this Friday, 30 January at 5.30pm and a flea market this Saturday, 31 January from 7am to noon. Go have breakfast, tea or lunch and have a wonderful time of fellowship.
Contact Wally van Rooyen on 031 465 4985 should you wish to book a table.
FREE public talk on Sunday, 1 February at 10am at the Theosophical Society, 306 Avondale Road, Morningside, Durban.
Shirley Moon, a long-time member of the Sufi Movement in South Africa, will give a lecture entitled 'The Rose Garden'.
Mrs Moon has been a student of Hazrat Inayat Khan teachings for over 20 years and this lecture is inspirational and timeless.
A FREE foundation course in meditation will be held on Monday, 2 February from 6pm to 7pm at Brahma Kumaris Glenwood, 39 Maze Road, Glenwood, Durban.
Explore how to relax and re-focus your mind, rediscover inner peace and other positive qualities already latent within you, harness your thoughts, emotions and responses and recharge your energy by connecting to a higher source.
Contact Seelan/Pathma on 031 208 1336 or devindree@gmail.com.
THERE will be two free workshops on 3 February at the Musgrave Library, Glenwood Village.
A workshop on anger management will take place from 11.45am to 1.15pm, and one on resolutions for 2015 will be from 1.15pm to 2.15pm.
Contact Saras on 031 201 5817.
THE CANSA cancer support group is being formed at CANSA in Durban for the Berea and surrounding areas on 3 February at 6pm at 619 Umbilo Road.
The opening speaker will be Dr Nirvadha Singh, who will be speaking about the disease of cancer, the good news and the myths, which will be followed by an introduction to the work of the Cancer Association of SA and bingo thereafter.
THE Durban Rock Alliance hosts a music quiz evening at The Winston Pub on Wednesday, 4 February at 6.30pm.
Entrance is R20 per entrant, and teams are limited to four people. This will now be a monthly event. Contact Dave on 083 353 6925.
THE AGM of the University of the Third Age will be on Wednesday, 4 February at 9am for 9.30am in the Glenwood Presbyterian Church hall (entrance in Evans Road).
The guest speaker will be Tristan Dickerson, general manager at PheZulu Safari Park and Leopard Programme Co-ordinator for Panthera, an organisation devoted to the conservation of endangered wild cats and their eco-systems.
Entrance is free for U3A members, visitors are welcome at R20 and a donation of R5 for tea which will be served before the meeting.
Contact Jessie on 031 208 2610.
LIFELONG Learning 2015 courses preview and AGM will be on 5 February at 6pm at St Clement’s, Musgrave Road.
Take a friend and sign up for membership benefits .
Contact Cedric on 082 873 2702.
ROSEWAY Natural and Organic Market is holding a night market on Friday, 6 February from 5pm to 9pm. There will be live music, good food, veggies, stalls and crafts for children. Contact Shelley on shelleyvw27@gmail.com.
THE Anna Conradie Service Centre will host a Valentine’s Burger and Dance Party on 6 February at Tafta Lodge, 42 South Beach Avenue at 7pm to
11pm. Cost is R30 for members and R45 for visitors. Contact Melanie/Veronica on 031 337 0163.
THE KwaZulu-Natal Branch of the South African Military History Society will meet on Thursday, 12 February at the Murray Lecture Theatre, Department of Civil Engineering, University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard College Campus at 7pm.
The speakers will be Roy Bowman on 'The Battle of Santa Cruz, 25th October 1942' and Dr Alex Coutts on 'Shaka – His Military Career'.
Contact Charles Whiteing on 082 555 4689 or Ken Gillings on 031 702 4828. More details about the society may be found on its website: https://samilitaryhistory.org.
GET ready for a Valentine’s Dinner Dance at Stella Park Bowling Club, 337 Bartle Road, Umbilo on Saturday, 14 February. Entrance R100; cash bar available. For bookings contact Ron on 083 630 6214.
