Dear Caroline,

You realise - well of course you do otherwise you wouldn't be doing this - that this is the only meeting place for the arts here? The only place you can get a comprehensive view of what is happening.

When Durban Arts was originally formed in 1982, this was one of the aims. At last it has happened. Nineteen years is a long gestation but it has been worth the wait. But this is only a start. Once people get to know about it, you will be flooded with information. Which is as it should be.

Incidentally, it makes us look a lot more interesting than I imagined we were. But then truth is often astonishing. Perhaps we ARE more interesting than we thought, with a lot more happening.

Love Andrew

[Andrew Verster (fine artist, writer and designer). Ed. note: Voted by Standard Bank of SA Ltd. as one of South Africa's top ten artists whose works can be considered good investments]