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    The McGregor Poetry Festival Programme: 27 – 30 August 2015Die McGregor GedigtefeesProgram 27 – 30 Augustus 2015

    # Thursday 27 August 2015 1 The InZynch Poetry Session: Praat po

     

    sie enrymelary/Spoken Poetry, RhymingAdrian Different, Pieter Odendaal en DenverRimesteinThe potential of poetry contributing to socio-cultural

    transformation. Poetry exists whether you write it or not.What goes on in a minibus taxi is poetry in motionPoets are just the ones taking note.- Adrian Different van Wyk

    Donderdag 27 Augustus / 9.30vm / NG Kerksaal / 60min / Free event

    2 At table with C Louis Leipoldt

    Throughout his life, C Louis Leipoldt was fascinated bythe preparation of food – from his youth in Clanwilliamand the Cedarberg in the 1880’s to his death in Cape

    Town in 1947. As a wine lover too, each glass of winewas a living thing, to be approved or condemned by hisdiscriminating palate.

    Come and enjoy a 4 course menu of his favourite recipesand savour the delightful and adventurous approach thiscelebrated poet took to his culinary passion.Thursday 27 August / 7.00pm / Tebaldi’s / R210.00pp

    (includes a glass of complimentary Muscadel) /Direct bookings: 023 625 1871 (40 pax) Friday 28 August 2015

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    Antjie Krog: Monsters en Fairies  

    Poetry reading in Afrikaans and English – vir diegenenog jonk van gees.Kinders ouderdom 6-10jr

    Friday 28 Augustus / 11.00vm / NG Kerksaal / freeevent 

    4 Jo and Mike: Around the Kitchen Table: Stories of

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    Old McGregorHe - the aloe man - the fireplace - the chimney man, therocks and fossil man...................She cooks for him ... porkbelly (now that pigs have bellies not tripes)  does art andstuff ..... A uarter century they!ve been here"""" in#c$regor that is, not the kitchen""and yes, they writeodd poems, but now it!s mostly stories.Friday 28 August / 2.00pm / The Lion House / 50 min /R50.00 

    5 Floris Brown: Ster wat Skyn   Kom luister na diePryswenner Digter, Sanger en Liedjieskrywer FlorisBrown met die bekendstelling van sy jongste digbundel“NAGSTIL"  ‘n skyfie aanbieding en sang. Sien julle daar!

    Vrydag 28 Augustus / 2.00nm / Wahnfried / 50 min /R50.00 

    6 The InZynch Poetry Session: Praat po 

    sie enrymelary/Spoken Poetry, RhymingAdrian Different, Pieter Odendaal en DenverRimesteinThe potential of poetry contributing to socio-cultural

    transformation. 

    Poetry exists whether you write it or not.What goes on in a minibus taxi is poetry in motionPoets are just the ones taking note.- Adrian Different van WykVrydag 28 Augustus / 3.00nm / NG Kerksaal / 60 min /Free event

    7 Hester van der Walt en Suenel Bruwer-Holloway:"Whence/Waar vandaan"A bilingual warp and weft of two lives. What wove therich fabric of what we are today?Friday 28 August / 3.30pm / D’Amphitheater / 50 min /R50.00 

    8 Growing Poems: Book a small-group session withDouglas Reid Skinner‘A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it,by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, thereader.’ Charles Olson from Projective Verse. As poetswe all want our readers to get it – to understand ourpoetry, the precious lines that we write down. In these

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    Growing Poems sessions Douglas will help you tosharpen your poems and writing skills. Bring six hardcopies of your poem. They can be draft or final copiesbut poems that you would like feedback on. (There willbe a maximum of 5 participants in each session)Friday 28 August / 3.30pm / The Tree House / 50 min /R50.00 / Direct booking: 023 625 1871 

    9 Film: Poetry Korean with English subtitlesA sixty-something woman, faced with a crippling medicaldiagnosis and the discovery of a heinous family crime,finds strength and purpose when she enrols in a poetryclass. Lee Chang-dong's film is a masterful study of thesubtle empowerment and moral compass. A valiant andtouching psychodrama about an aging woman who takeson the challenge of writing her first poem from theexperiences that stir her heart.Friday 28 August / 3.30pm / Wahnfried / 139 min /Donation at door 

    10 Kerry Hammerton: continuumI am currently doing an MA in Creative Writing at RhodesUniversity—which I started at the beginning of 2014. Iexpected the MA to shift my creative writing in new anddramatic ways. Instead it has created deeper layers formy poetic voice. In this session I want to share with younew poems that were written during this time. I will alsoshare extracts from my diary which will hopefully giveyou an understanding of my MA journey and thosedeeper layers.Friday 28 August / 5.00pm / The Tree House / 50 min /R50.00 

    11 Ansa Smit: Unspoken: Singing soul-tongue aloud. Come! Come in and take your seat at the fireside. Let uswarm up our ears and unravel our hearts. These words -crumbs carefully scattered for the famished and full.Come drink in the music – come feast on sound. Friday 28 August / 5.00pm / The Well / 50 min /R50.00

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    12 Koos van der Merwe: Leonard Cohen in AfrikaansKoos van der Merwe sing Leonard Cohen in Afrikaans.Koos was voorheen lid van die groep ’Prophet’ en het dietreffer ‘Houtkruis’ geskryf. Nou het hy die bykansonmoontlike, meesterlik vermag – Leonard Cohen setreffers verewig in Afrikaans! Met Koos agter diemikrofoon transformeer bekende treffers soos ‘Dance MeTo The End Of Love’ (Dans My Na Die Einde Toe),‘Halleluja’ en Famous Blue Raincoat’ (Bekende BlouReënjas) tot pure Cohen in melankoliese enbetowerende styl!Vrydag 28 Augustus / 8.00nm / NG Kerk / Konsert 80min / R120.00 

    13 Helen Moffett: Telling truth slant: poetry as creativenon-fiction Poetry is usually taught as a form of fiction, but many saythat it is in fact a form of creative non-fiction. How do weuse poetry as a form of truth-telling? Telling truths thatwould otherwise be too hard to bear? Telling truth topower? Taking facts and reforming them into smallpieces of art/creativity? I'll read poems (both by myselfand other writers, including Wally Mongane Serote, Chris

    van Wyk and Finuala Dowling) that explore memoir andmemory, and address those hard facts of life, theinevitability of grief and the persistence of injustice.Friday 28 August / 8.00pm / The Tree House / 50 min /R50.00 

    14 Bob Commin: The exploration of Cowboy poetry.Bring your own cowboy poetry, or come prepared to readand explore Cowboy poetry over a glass of ale.

    Friday 28 August / 9.00pm / Carol’s Pub / Donation inCharity Box Saturday 29 August 2015

    15 Briar Grimley (On behalf of the Breede Centre): In theBeginning….Myths and Verse of First Times: Voice chorus of localyouth reciting excerpts of Beginning Times from theBible; followed by a San Creation story told by Briar

    Grimley; and closed with story and verse from TheSacred Story of the Tree of Life as given by CredoMutwa in his book ‘Indaba my Children’ – by Briar

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    Grimley and Dawid Booysen. 

    Saturday 29 August / 9.30am / Breede Centre / 50 min/ Donation at the door 

    16 Koos vd Merwe: Daar Waar Rympies Vandaan Kom  Waar word gedigte gaan haal? Die bêreplekke is

    gewoonlik daar waar die hart diep voel. Waar gejubel engetreur word. Waar verwondering en verwonding is. Indaardie oomblikke van diep voel is dit asof die digter sygedig hoor op 'n plek waar dit reeds bestaan. Koos peinsen sing en neem jou saam na daardie geheimsinnigeplekke waarheen die hart reis om gedigte te gaan haal.Hoofsaaklik Afrikaans met ’n paar Engelse gedigte as bonus.

    Saterdag 29 Augustus / 9.30vm / Caritas / 50 min /R50.00 

    17 Colleen Higgs: Too much informationWith Facebook, Jerry Springer & Oprah - is confessionalpoetry just more of the same? Is "confessional poetry”

     just a label? A closer look at confessional poetry and areading.Saturday 29 August / 9.30am / D’Amphitheater / 50min / R50.00 

    18 Marguerite van der Merwe: Poetry Walks The GardenOf The Beloved  Guided Walk through The Garden, experiencing throughsight, sound and touch, the ‘Poetry’ of the inhabitants ofthis beautiful Gaia-scape – from shrines to stones, beesto barrows, angels to ancestors, ducks to dovecotes, airto earth.Saturday 29 August / 9.30am / Caritas Garden / 50min / R50.00 

    19 Growing Poems: Book a small-group session withDouglas Reid Skinner‘A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it,by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, thereader.’ Charles Olson from Projective Verse. As poetswe all want our readers to get it – to understand ourpoetry, the precious lines that we write down. In theseGrowing Poems sessions Douglas will help you to

    sharpen your poems and writing skills. Bring six hardcopies of your poem. They can be draft or final copiesbut poems that you would like feedback on. (There will

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    be a maximum of 5 participants in each session)Saturday 29 August / 9.30am / The Little Way / 50 min/ R50.00 / Direct booking: 023 625 1871 

    20 Growing Poems: Book a 15 minute individual mentorsession with Kerry Hammerton‘A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it,by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, thereader.’ Charles Olson from Projective Verse. As poetswe all want our readers to get it – to understand ourpoetry, the precious lines that we write down. In theseGrowing Poems sessions Kerry will help you to sharpenyour poems and writing skills. Bring two poems to thesession in hard copy. They can be draft or final copiesbut poems that you would like feedback on.Saturday 29 August / 9.30am / The Poetry Library inTemenos / 15 min / R50.00 / Direct booking: 023 6251871 

    21 Diana Ferrus: Vir 'n soldaat van die Cape Corps - 70jaar na die Tweede Wêreldoorlog / For a soldier fromthe Cape Corps - 70 years after World War II.Saterdag 29 Augustus / 9.30am / The Tree House / 50min / R50.00 

    22 John Maytham: Serious, sublime and silly John Maytham reads a selection of favourite poems onthemes as diverse as war and cauliflowers, solitude andwheelbarrows. Poets include Shakespeare, Wordsworth,Keats, Dickinson, Parker, Owen, Sassoon, Belloc and

    Baudelaire. Saturday 29 August / 9.30am / Wahnfried / 50 min /R50.00 

    23 Louise Viljoen: Name in Breyten Breytenbach sepoësie. Hierdie lesing fokus op Breyten Breytenbach se spel metverskillende name vir homself as ’n aanduiding van diebelangrikste temas in sy poësie. Daar word veral verwys

    na sy jongste bundel Vyf-en-veertig skemeraandsangeuit die eenbeendanser se werkruimte.

    Saterdag 29 Augustus / 11.00vm / NG Kerk / 50 min /

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    R50.00 24 Stanzas! A new publication for matters poetic

    Douglas Reid Skinner and Patricia Schonsteinlaunch Stanzas , a quarterly of new poetry. Join us for aglass of wine and listen to readings of some of thepoems in the first issue.Saturday 29 August / 12.30pm / Bemind Winery / 50min / Donation at the door 

    25 Briar Grimley (On behalf of the Breede Centre): In theBeginning….Myths and Verse of First Times: Voice chorus of localyouth reciting excerpts of Beginning Times from theBible; followed by a San Creation story told by BriarGrimley; and closed with story and verse from TheSacred Story of the Tree of Life as given by CredoMutwa in his book ‘Indaba my Children’ – by BriarGrimley and Dawid Booysen. 

    Saturday 29 August / 12.30pm / Breede Centre / 50

    min / Donation at the door 26 Philip de Vos: Versies vir die dag en vir die nag .

    Hierdie is 'n program van Philip de Vos se versies in

    beide Afrikaans en Engels met voorlesing en sang deur

    die skrywer self.

    Saterdag 29 Augustus / 12.30nm / Caritas / 50 min /

    R50.00 

    27 Norman Morrissey and Silke Heiss: Birds, Beasts,Flowers and More. A Selection of Nature PoemsA bright hour of Nature Poetry exploring our humanselves in interaction with beings leafy, furry, slippery,wingèd, wet or fiery with Norman Morrissey, author ofTriptych and Dog Latin   (seewww.echoinggreenpress.com), and Silke Heiss, authorof The Griffin Elegy  (serialised in New Contrast).Saturday 29 August / 12.30pm / D’Amphitheater / 50min / R50.00 

    28 Ian McCallum with Annie Middleton:  Poetry Strikes a

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    Chord A call to poets to find their voice and to raise it so thatothers may raise theirs for the wild, for the finned and thewinged … for the small and the hunted.Saturday 29 August / 12.30pm / Wahnfried / 50 min /R50.00 

    29 Douglas Reid Skinner: The launch of and readingfrom The Secret Ambition , a book of poems by theItalian poet Valerio Magrelli translated into English

    by Douglas Reid Skinner & Marco Fazzini.On evidence, Valerio Magrelli bids fair to be regarded asthe major Italian poet of his generation. The Italian critic,Enzo Siciliano, remarked how he had been “…surprisedby the steadiness of…[Magrelli’s]…hand, the clarity ofthe design, and a painful density of expression…” It has,he said, “…a precise Italian luminosity.” The SecretAmbition   is a selection of poems translated from five of

    Magrelli’s collections.Saturday 29 August / 2.00pm / Bemind Winery / 50min / Donation at the door 

    30 Open Mic Session 1 hosted by Hugh HodgeSaturday 29 August / 2.00pm / Caritas / 50 min / Freeevent 

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    Antjie Krog: Mede-wete/SynapsePoetry reading uit die tweetalige bundels.Saterdag 29 Augustus / 2.00nm / NG Kerk / 50 min /R50.00 

    32 The InZynch Poetry Session: Praat po sie enrymelary/Spoken Poetry, RhymingAdrian Different, Pieter Odendaal en Denver

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      RimesteinThe potential of poetry contributing to socio-cultural

    transformation. 

    Poetry exists whether you write it or not.What goes on in a minibus taxi is poetry in motion

    Poets are just the ones taking note.-Adrian Different van Wyk

    Saterdag 27 Augustus / 2.00nm / Wahnfried / 50 min /R50.00

    33 Lara Kirsten: That primal pulseAfter a successful debut at the Festival in 2014, Lara isreturning this year to perform more of her poetry (inAfrikaans and English). Themes will range fromchickpeas, thighs, shivers, cross roads, silence, bells,

    potters to dolosgooiers. Poetry is wilful. It never lets herrest. She heeds its call. She will not fall if she keeps onbeating with that primal pulse called poetry.Saturday 29 August / 3.30pm / Caritas / 50 min /R50.00 

    34 Genna Gardini: A Reading of Poems by GennaGardini

    Genna Gardini will perform a selection of her poems.Saturday 29 August / 3.30pm / Edna Fourie Gallery /50 min / R50.00 

    35 Growing Poems: Book a 15 minute individual mentorsession with Kerry Hammerton‘A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it,by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the

    reader.’ Charles Olson from Projective Verse. As poetswe all want our readers to get it – to understand ourpoetry, the precious lines that we write down. In theseGrowing Poems sessions Kerry will help you to sharpenyour poems and writing skills. Bring two poems to thesession in hard copy. They can be draft or final copiesbut poems that you would like feedback on.Saturday 29 August / 3.30pm / The Poetry Library in

    Temenos / 15 min / R50.00 / Direct booking: 023 6251871 36 Harry Owen: Searching with Dogs!

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    An introduction to Harry Owen's poetry in which he readsfrom each of his six collections (and more). The titleshould make sense by the end! 

    Saturday 29 August / 3.30pm / The Tree House / 50min / R50.00 

    37 Prof Adam Small: Klawerjas  en daarnaSal net minder as 50 minute van duur wees, In Afrikaans,met lees van verse - met hier en daar kort toeligting by 'ngedig. Dr Rosalie Small, met haar intieme kennis vanprof. Adam se werk, sal die voordrag inlei enkontekstualiseer, vir ongeveer 5 minute: Sy is altyd syeerste kritikus omdat sy al sy skrywe rekenaar-verwerk(alles deur hom per hand geskryf).

    Saterdag 29 Augustus / 3.30nm / Wahnfried / 50 min/ R50.00 

    38 John Maytham: Serious, sublime and silly John Maytham reads a selection of favourite poems onthemes as diverse as war and cauliflowers, solitude andwheelbarrows. Poets include Shakespeare, Wordsworth,Keats, Dickinson, Parker, Owen, Sassoon, Belloc andBaudelaire. 

    Saturday 29 August / 5.00pm / Caritas / 50 min /R50.00 

    39 Hester van der Walt en Suenel Bruwer-Holloway:"Whence/Waar vandaan"A bilingual warp and weft of two lives. What wove therich fabric of what we are today?Saturday 29 August / 5.00pm / D’Amphitheater / 50min / R50.00 

    40 Ansa Smit: Unspoken: Singing soul-tongue aloud. Come! Come in and take your seat at the fireside. Let uswarm up our ears and unravel our hearts. These words -crumbs carefully scattered for the famished and full.Come drink in the music – come feast on sound. Saturday 29 August / 5.00pm / Edna Fourie Gallery /50 min / R50.00 

    41 Patricia Schonstein: Life as Poetic Pilgrimage

    Patricia will reflect on the way we choose to live our lives;and on the way we travel a potentially sacred pilgrimageupon the earth. She will discuss the finding of poetry

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    along the way and read selections from the Africa! anthologies.Saturday 29 August / 5.00pm / The Tree House / 50min / R50.00 

    42 Mavis Vermaak: Some Poetry/Some PoemsMavis Vermaak creates a musical tapestry, interwovenwith the words of some of her favourite poets (and hereand there her own). On this sonic journey Mavis willperform compositions of poems by Rumi, Rilke, e.e.cummings, Mary Oliver, Ingrid Jonker and others, in bothEnglish and Afrikaans.Saturday 29 August / 5.00pm / The Well / 50 min /R50.00 

    43 GERT VLOK NEL: Die lewe se laaste lieflike refrein.(sang en poems)Saterdag 29 Augustus / 5.00nm / Wahnfried / 50 min/ R50.00 

    44 Launch of the McGregor Poetry Festival 2014Anthology

    Hosted by Patricia Schonstein, with contributing poetsreading their own poems.Saturday 29 August / 6.30pm / Caritas / 50 min / freeevent 

    45 Forest: Koos Du Plessis “Herinneringe van Gister”Prys sluit in Sop, Sjerrie en tuisgebakte broodSaterdag 29 Augustus / 6.30nm vir 7.00nm / NGKerksaal / R120.00 Besprekings Direk: 023 625 1685

    (9-12vm weeksdae)Epos [email protected] 

    46 Helen Moffett: Poetry stand-up and fall aboutIn which I will "interview" a mystery panel of poets byasking them to answer ticklish questions by eitherreading a poem, producing a poem in response on thespot, or telling a story. Hilarity will ensue. A different way

    of showcasing local poetic talent. Participants to beannounced once I have established who can be bribed(with food and drink,that is).

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    Saturday 29 August / 8.00pm / The Tree House / 50min / R50.00 

    47 Film: Bob Dylan Dont Look Back  In spring 1965, Bob Dylan, 23, a pixyish troubadour,spends three weeks in England. Pennebaker's camerafollows him from airport to hall, from hotel room to publichouse, from conversation to concert. Highlights includeThe Times, They Are A-Changin', Don't Think Twice, It'sAll Right and It's All Over Now, Baby Blue . Given plentyof screen time are Dylan's travelling companions JoanBaez, Alan Price and Donovan. More than just a concertfilm, Dont Look Back   is a window into the spirit of the‘60s and one of the poet-musicians whose words andsongs defined it.Saturday 29 August / 8.00pm / Wahnfried / 96 min /Donation at the door Sunday 30 August 2015

    48 Bob Commin: Poetry EucharistA Storytellers, Poets and Writers Eucharist conducted byThe Reverend Bob Commin, with participation fromreaders, storytellers, poets, and the local community.The collection  taken will support a town project.Sunday 30 August / 9.00am / The Little Way / 90 min /Offering for charity

    49 Friends of Vrolijkheid: Poetry in Motion/Poetry inStillness

    A chance to walk quietly, and pause, in the stillness ofVrolijkheid Nature Reserve, bringing with you a poem ofyour own choosing. You’re invited to join a led walkalong one of the easier Vrolijkheid trails, with stoppingpoints to read aloud a nature poem that you would like toshare.

    Sunday 30 August / 9.00am / Vrolijkheid NatureReserve / 75 min / R50.00 (includes entry to theReserve) / Direct bookings: Rose [email protected] / 072 721 7377 

    50 Open Mic Session 2 hosted by Hugh Hodge

    Sunday 30 August / 9.30am / Caritas / 50 min / Freeevent 

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     51 Harry Owen: For Rhino in a Shrinking World

    Harry Owen reads some superb poetry from all over theworld for the rhino from his international anthology ForRhino in a Shrinking World . 

    Sunday 30 August / 9.30am / Edna Fourie Gallery / 50min / R50.00 

    52 NG Kerk: Feesdiens Sondag 30 Augustus / 9.30vm / NG Kerk McGregor / 

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    Antjie Krog: Mede-wete/SynapsePoetry reading uit die tweetalige bundels.Sondag 30 Augustus / 9.30vm / Wahnfried / 50 min /

    R50.00 

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    ller: Verbeeldings‘ n Verbeeldingsvlug, in Afrikaans en Engels inverskillende grepe feitelik korrek maar deur die oë van ‘nkind, van my aankoms in die wêreld van boeke en

    boekwesens. Die mirakelagtige daarvan, bevattende ook‘n paar nuwe, ongepubliseerde gedigte in albei tale.Sondag 30 Augustus / 11.00vm / Caritas / 50 min /R50.00 

    55 Patricia Schonstein: Poetry as Portrait & Still LifePatricia will share how she finds the poetry of everydaylife and curates the Africa! anthologies. She will presentan ‘art gallery’ of poems – portraits and interiors ‘painted’

    in words.Sunday 30 August / 11.00am / Edna Fourie Gallery /50 min / R50.00 

    56 Marguerite van der Merwe: Poetry Walks The Garden

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    Of The Beloved  Guided Walk through The Garden, experiencing throughsight, sound and touch, the ‘Poetry’ of the inhabitants ofthis beautiful Gaia-scape – from shrines to stones, beesto barrows, angels to ancestors, ducks to dovecotes, airto earth.Sunday 30 August / 11.00am / Caritas Garden / 50min / R50.00 

    57 Bob Commin: Four Quartets.An exploration and reflection on T S Eliot’s great poem,Four Quartets. A poem of deep spiritual reflection whichwill resonate with our lives and the themes of life, death,new life, past, present and future . A poem in which wefind Eliot reflecting on his own efforts to write poetry andproduce a work of art.Sunday 30 August / 11.00am / The Little Way / 50 min/ R50.00 

    58 Colleen Higgs: Publishing poetryThe nuts and bolts of how it works, what Modjaji Books,Hands-On Books and others are doing. "Is it possible toget a collection of poetry published?"Sunday 30 August / 11.00am / The Tree House / 50min / R50.00 

    59 Liesl Jobson and Tim Hyslop: Noble Bassoon, NightSingerA programme of poetry about bassoons and othermusical instruments, as well as bassoon musicperformed by Liesl Jobson accompanied by Tim Hyslopon piano. Bach, Telemann and Mozart. Sunday 30 August / 11.00am / Wahnfried / 50 min /

    R50.00 60 Ian McCallum and Wendy Woodward:

    Poetry – A voice for the voicelessSunday 30 August / 12.30pm / Caritas / 50 min /R50.00

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    61 Christine Coates: Homegrown – Poetry as Memoir.Christine reflects on her roots as she takes roadsbackwards and inwards. She has an interest in  life-writing and the recovery of personal history throughpublic and private imagery. Her poems offer a fearlessnarrative both personal and political, the intimacy ofhome and the texture of the South African landscape.Sunday 30 August / 12.30pm / Edna Fourie Gallery /50 min / R50.00 

    62 Khadija Tracey Heeger: Blood NarrativeBlood Narrative is a 40 minute poetic journey which isboth very personal and socio-political. It travels throughpersonal family history and memories and into the issue

    of a greater identity and questions “What is family?”,“Who gets to be a part of history?”, “Who are the writersof history?”Sunday 30 August / 12.30pm / The Tree House / 50min / R50.00 

    63 GERT VLOK NEL: Die lewe se laaste lieflike refrein.(sang en poems) Sondag 30 Augustus / 12.30pm / Wahnfried / 50 min /

    R50.00 

    64 Film: Othello  Stuart Burge’s film of John Dexter’s production of Othello  stands today as a masterpiece among film presentationsof theatre productions. One of Shakespeare’s mostpowerful dramas, here presented by an inspired National

    Theatre Company. Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith,Frank Finlay and Joyce Redman all received both Oscarand Golden Globe nominations for their performances. Ascreen classic in every way.Sunday 30 August / 3.00pm / Wahnfried / 176 min /Donation at the door 

    65 Festival wrap-up: Poetry and Potjie on the stoep

    Sunday 30 August / 6.30pm / Le Bonheur / R100.00pp

    (bring your own wine). Direct bookings: 023 625 1908 


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