What happens at a Toptots class?

* Free play : social interaction
* Clean up : encourages children to become responsible for cleaning up their own toys
* Greet song : signals the start of the actual group
* Stimulation activities : individual boxes are packed for each age group
* Interactive music stories: three levels of participation: intellectually, emotionally and physically
* Creative art: child centred and can be messy
* Textures: a variety of tactile experiences for all age groups
* Gross motor: a varied programme that stimulates large muscle development and motor planning
* Music time : Chaotic expression. Action and instrumental songs with quality instrument.
* Pilates for baby: Ball activities excellent for working on balance, joint compression, weight bearing, etc
* Action songs
* Goodbye time: Our own special Toptots goodbye. This signals the end of the group. Tell a friend.

In our Drama-4-Fun Club, for Grade 0-12 learners, we help your child develop strong language skills, teamwork, communication techniques and self confidence as well as foundation acting and performance skills– making our classes an educational experience unlike any other. This class is first and foremost about having fun. Tell a friend.

In our Drama-4-Fun Club, for Grade 0-12 learners, we help your child develop strong language skills, teamwork, communication techniques and self confidence as well as foundation acting and performance skills– making our classes an educational experience unlike any other. This class is first and foremost about having fun. Tell a friend.

Hosting a ciné-club, screening francophone movies, a place for, sharing, debate and discussion about the 7th art, has always been in the DNA of the Alliance française since its creation in 1883.
Supported by the French Institute via the worldwide platform Ifcinéma, which proposes different French movies every day.
At the Alliance française de Durban there is no difference. We screen 2 movies every month, for free.
All the movies are in French version with English subtitles. Food & refreshments available at Cash Bar (Fusion French Cafe). Safe parking

27 Mar
Jules & Jim (1962)
Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman.
Director: by François Truffaut

3 Apr
Auntie Danielle (1990)
Director: Étienne Chatiliez
Auntie Danielle, supposedly in ailing health but in reality just a nasty old shrew, lives with a paid housekeeper who she regularly abuses

12 Apr
Bring your child !
Sophie's Misfortunes (2016)
Director: Christophe Honoré
The film is adapted from the children's novel written by the Countess of Ségur in 1858

19 Apr
Me, Myself and Mum (2013)
Director: Guillaume Gallienne
Mrs. Gallienne, a rather temperamental upper middle-class lady, has three children, two of whom she considers as her sons and another she calls Guillaume

24 April
Aya of Yop City (2013 - Côte d'Ivoire)
Directors: Marguerite Abouet, Clément Oubrerie
End of the 1970s, in Ivory Coast in Yopougon, popular district of Abidjan

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Development and stimulation classes for moms/caregivers and babies/toddlers (aged 3mths to 3yrs). Learn through play. Intellectual stimulation. Sensory and tactile activities. Music and movement. Creative play. Fine and gross motor games. Baby massage. Meet other moms. Relaxed fun environment. Tell a friend.

Described as Fawlty Towers meets Noises Off, Kickstart proudly presents The Play that Goes Wrong - a fairly new production which premieried in London in 2012. The premise is an amateur dramatics company is putting on a 1920’s murder mystery, The Murder at Haversham Manor, in a similar vein to the acclaimed The Mousetrap, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong…does! In fact What’sOnStage bills it as: It is as if The Mousetrap has been taken over by Monty Python. Tell a friend.