Art school hails community campaigner

A SOUTH Coast community campaigner will be honoured at Durban’s innovative art school, the Centre for Fine Art Animation and Design (CFAD) graduation dinner, fashion extravaganza and TLTL awards ceremony at the old Durban airport site on Friday, 28 October.

The coveted event – which has been running for more than a decade – will see three significant events rolled into one fabulous evening – the 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 old airport provides the backdrop for CFAD’s most important annual event.

A highlight of the evening is the tertiary institution’s acknowledgement of unsung heroes instrumental in weaving the complex fabric of the 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 TLTL awards will go to South Coast community campaigner Rev Danny Chetty and the city’s Eric Apelgren, head of international and governance relations.

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. The theme this year is superheroes and villains.

“Started in 2000, this fashion design project is an opportunity to stretch the creativity of the graphic design students and to explore an unique solution to the age-old problem of pollution,” says CFAD staffer Tamlyn Martin.

For more info about CFAD, and to book your space at the graduation evening, call 083-767-3861.