7/31/2019 CANCELLED - WordFest 2012 Authors Programme

1/1

Saturday 30 June

10:00 Wordfest Eastern Cape, registration of 100 writers. Readings in IsiXhosa/SeSotho/Afrikaans/English Free Daily till Wed. Red Lecture Theatre

11:00 Denis Beckett author and democracy sage on how never to see a Malema-headline again R10 Lecture/discussion Seminar Room 2

12:00 Terry Crawford-Browne arms-deal warrior launches his new book on arms and diamonds R10 Lecture/discussion Launch Pad

13:00 Prominent South African singer-songwriters perform original lyrics Free Performance Restaurant

16:00 Hamilton Wende on how his travels in Afghanistan, Iraq & the DRC became a superb book R10 Illustrated lecture Seminar Room 2

Sunday 1July

11:00 Paul Mason shares his research on writing by pale male conscripts facing the border war R10 Seminar/discussion Launch Pad

12:00 McIntosh Polela launches his courageous and searing memoirl My father, my monster Free Lecture/discussion Red Lecture Theatre

13:00 Prominent South African singer-songwriters perform original lyrics Free Performance Restaurant

15:00 Is modern poetry a waste o f time? Reg Rumney, Denis Beckett and panel R10 Seminar/discussion Launch pad

16:00 Siphiwo Mahala launchesAfrican Delights an insightful collection of new SA stories Free Lecture/discussion Red Lecture Theatre

Monday 2 July

10:00 Crystal Warren National English Lit Museum - The year in books: an overview of SA literature R10 Lecture/Discussion Seminar Room 2

11: 00 Mandla Matyumza author and literature activist key note address at opening ceremony Free Lecture Red Lecture Theatre

12:00 Max Du Preez on the state of the nation drawing on writing by Njabulo Ndebele & others R10 Lecture/Discussion Launch Pad

13:00 Prominent South African singer-songwriters perform original lyrics Free Performance Restaurant

15:00 Readings by prominent SA writers teaching Rhodes MA creative writing students then Open Mike R10 Performance/reading Launch Pad

16:00 Khulumani Comic Collective launches new publication about move from black power to black bling Free Lecture/discussion Red Lecture Theatre

Tuesday 3 July

11:00 Marc Botha on the deep histories of rock art, stone engraving and concrete poetry R10 Illustrated lecture Seminar Room 2

12:00 Julia Wells revisits Eastern Cape history with launch ofThe Return of Makhanda Free Launch/lecture Red Lecture Theatre

13:00 Prominent South African singer-songwriters perform original lyrics Free Performance Restaurant

15:00 Reading of poems by two currently imprisoned Ch inese poets, then David wa Maahlalela,

Rethabile Zilila & other CUTT Poets (Free State) then Open Mike R10 Performance/reading Launch Pad

16:00 Shirley Gunn Human Rights Media Centre with three moving books on blindness in SA Free Lecture/launch Red Lecture Theatre

Wed 4 July

11:00 Ashwin Desai launches his book describing how Shakespeare was read on Robben Island R10 Lecture/discussion Seminar room 2

12:00 Pieter-Dirk Uys launches Bambi Kellermanns autobiographyNever too naked, with Q&A R20 DALRO Lecture Red Lecture Theatre

13:00 Prominent South African singer-songwriters perform original lyrics Free Performance Restaurant

15:00 Mark Robinson (UK) then Rhodes MA creative writing students followed by Open Mike R10 Performance/reading Launch Pad

17:00 Rosemary Smith lifelong Black Sash activist & leader launches memoirSwimming with Cobras R10 Launch/discussion Launch Pad

Thursday 5 July

11:00 Roy Jobson: how companies deceitfully market complementary medicines with pseudo-science R10 Lecture/discussion Red Lecture Theatre

12:00 Janet Suzman director of currentAnthony & Cleopatra in Britain on directing Shakespeare today R20 DALRO Lecture Red Lecture Theatre

13:00 Prominent South African singer-songwriters perform original lyrics Free Performance Restaurant

15:00 Marco Fazzini (Italy) poet & translator, Aerial writers then Open Mike R10 Performance/reading Launch Pad

17:00 Dawn Garisch, medical doctor & writer explores the art & science of healing in Eloquent Body R10 Lecture/discussion Launch Pad

Friday 6 July

11:00 Brent Meersmans meticulous research crosses boundaries in a first novel about the shaping eighties R10 Lecture/discussion Launch Pad

12:00 Mike De Jongh on a marginalised first people as he launches The Karretjie people of the great Karoo R10 Lecture/discussion Seminar Room 2

13:00 Prominent South African singer-songwriters perform original lyrics Free Performance Restaurant

15:00 Harry Owen, Amitabh Mitra launch, Upstart Writers then Open Mike R10 Performance/reading Launch Pad

17:00 Launch ofEnglish Basketheartening memoir by Peter Jackson pioneering African ecologist R10 Lecture/discussion Launch Pad

Check outVan Schaik bookshop, the Readers and Writers Restaurantand the Upstart programme as detailed each day in WordStock.Exhibitions: Artwork, publishers, Centre for the Book, The Long Unbroken String, black South African English writing ( NELM).

See also the exhibitions at National English Literary Museum (Beaufort Street) and the Eastern Star Gallery (Anglo-African Street).

Many thanks to our funders! NAC, EC Government, PanSALB, DALRO, Van Schaik and Rhodes University.