Epitaphs and Dreams.
ANTI-APARTHEID activist and academic, Patrick FitzGerald, has launched a new collection of poetry, titled Epitaphs and Dreams: Poems to Remember the Struggle. Continue reading
The Playhouse Company’s 20th annual South African Women’s Arts Festival (SAWAF) – which is celebrating 60 years since the 1956 Women’s March to Parliament – will take place at the Durban venue from August 11. Continue reading
Simphiwe Dana.
IN celebration of Africa Month, social cohesion, unity in diversity and heritage, The Playhouse Company is staging Africa Celebrates, a weekend of visual and performing arts on May 6 and 7. Continue reading
South African poet Keorapetse “Bra Willie” Kgositsile is taking part in the festival. Photo: Supplied
THE Spier ‘dancing in other words’ Poetry Festival, curated by Breyten Breytenbach and Dominique Botha and composer, Neo Muyanga, will be taking place at the Spier Wine Farm, outside Stellenbosch, on Saturday, May 7. Continue reading
Norman Morrissey
FORMER Pietermaritzburg resident Norman Morrissey will be launching his latest poetry anthology, Strandloop, at Café Tatham, on the first floor of the Tatham Art Gallery in Chief Albert Luthuli (Commercial) Road at 5.30 pm for 6 pm on Friday, May 6. Continue reading
Combine the poetic prowess of spoken word poetry with the magic of jazz and you have a performance that’s not to be missed.
Internationally acclaimed poet and writer Natalia Molebatsi is joining forces with Ariel Zamonsky on double bass, Yonela Mnana on keyboard and Siphiwe Shiburi on drums for an unforgettable performance at Newtown Junction on March 20 from 2pm to 3pm. Continue reading
Popular jazz band, Platform Jazz, joins a line-up of poets for The Playhouse Company’s monthly Sundowners concert on Friday, March 4 from 5 pm. Admission is free. Continue reading
Julia Donaldson with her most famous creation, The Gruffalo. Photo credit: Alex Rumford
JULIA Donaldson was Britain’s Children’s Laureate from 2011 to 2013, but the author of more than 100 books didn’t start out writing children’s stories. ESTELLE SINKINS spoke to her during her recent visit to South Africa. Continue reading
Do you have a fabulous stage production but no venue to present it in? re you looking for a potential partner to assist with the financial costs of staging a drama, musical or dance production? Then this is the opportunity you have been waiting for! Continue reading
KOBUS Moolman admits he still cannot quite believe that his latest poetry anthology, A Book of Rooms (Deep South, 2014), has won the African Poetry Book Fund’s 2015 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry.
The prize was judged by award-winning poet and scholar Gabeba Baderoon and for his efforts Moolman, who teaches creative writing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, will receive $5,000. Continue reading
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