WORDFEST 2OO8 PROGRAMME
A Wordfest 2007 Programme .pdf
See our WordStock literary newspaper in Cue for details of each day's Wordfest programme.
Book at Computicket or buy a ticket at the door.
All events take place in or near the Eden Grove Building, Lucas Avenue, just below the Botanical Gardens.
The Launch Pad is in Eden Grove (see signs) & the Nun's Chapel is at the east end of St Peter's Building which is next to Eden Grove.
Saturday 28 June
09:30 All day Registration Wordfest Eastern Cape writers. In Red Lecture Theatre till Wednesday noon. Audiences welcome. Foyer
11:30 60 mins Lecture/discussion Philosopher Pedro Tabensky explores the positive functions of evil in the language of ethics. R10 Launch Pad
14:30 60 mins Lecture & launch Africa Writes Back. International publisher James Currey on publishing in Africa. R10 Red Lecture Th.
15:30 60 mins Wordfest lecture Words, Brains and Hominid Evolution in Africa: Dr Francis Thackeray on Mrs Ples & language. R10 Red Lecture Th. Sunday 29 June
10:00 30 mins Lecture & launch Thiathu Nemutanzhela explores young people's live in Alexandra in his novel Bua, Comrade! R 10 Red Lecture Th.
10:30 60 mins Lecture & launch Cornelius Thomas (Tangling the Lion's Tale) on Donald Card apartheid cop then justice crusader. R 10 Red Lecture Th.
11:30 60 mins Lecture & launch Jacklyn Cock (The War against Ourselves) on why we've got the bio-sphere into such a mess. R10 Launch Pad
14:30 90 mins Lecture & launch Mrs E N Mbeki launches her autobiography followed by new books in SeSotho by Patrick Nhlapo R 10 Red Lecture Th. & books in isiXhosa by MMM Duka, N.Dyubhele, Z.Guzana, N.Duze, B.B.Mkonto & others.
16:00 60 mins Lecture & launch Leonie Joubert author of Scorched on The Effect of Global Warming on South Africa. R 10 Red Lecture Th.
17:00 60 mins Literary bash Watch this space! Exclusive Books presents food, drink and a prize-winning author. Free Red Lecture Th.
Monday 30 June
09:30 60 mins Street parade Readers, writers & language activist from top of High Street to cathedral & back to Eden Grove. Free Drostdy Arch
10:00 180 mins Writing workshop Expert coaches help you enter the world of writing. New & not-so-new aspirant writers welcome. R30 Nun's Chapel
10:30 60 mins Isivivane ceremony Writers place their books and manuscripts on the Isivivane cairn on the south side of Eden Grove. Free Eden Grove
11:30 60 mins Lecture & launch Jo-Anne Richards launches My Brother's Book & lectures on aspects of SA writing today. R10 Launch Pad
11:30 90 mins Opening ceremony Opening ceremony with readings & overflows of gees & kgatlhego & umoya & wat nog al. Free Red Lecture Th. Keynote address by multi-lingual, multi-genre writing phenomenon Sindiwe Magona.
14:30 60 mins Poetry launches Bernat Kruger launches Never and Robert Berold launches All the days. R 10 Nun's Chapel
15:30 60 mins Open Mike Summon up your literary courage and get up there and read aloud! Free Nun's Chapel
16:00 60 mins Lecture & launch Xolela Mangcu author of To the Brink challenges 'nativist' political thinking in SA today. R 10 Red Lecture Th.
Tuesday 1 July
10:00 180 mins Writing workshop Expert coaches help you enter the world of writing. New & not-so-new aspirant writers welcome. R30 Nun's Chapel
10:30 30 mins Launch/gig Hiphop star Ewok from KZN launches his first book with a live performance. R10 Red Lecture Th.
11:30 60 mins Lecture/discussion Elwyn Jenkins provides guiding principles for name changes in SA based on his book. R10 Red Lecture Th.
14:30 30 mins Poetry launches Poet/prose writer Dennis Hirson launches a book of poems Gardening in the Dark. R10 Nun's Chapel
15:00 60 mins Open Mike Summon up your literary courage and get up there and read aloud! Free Nun's Chapel 15:30 60mins Workshop Kundayi Masanzu (ANFASA) on intellectual property rights for academic and non-fiction authors. R10 Launch Pad
16:00 60 mins Wordfest lecture Radio-astronomer Justin Jonas, Square Kilometre Array project leader, on language & the cosmos. R10 Red Lecture Th.
Wednesday 2 July
10:00 180 mins Writing workshop Expert coaches help you enter the world of writing. New & not-so-new aspirant writers welcome. R30 Nun's Chapel
11:30 60 mins Lecture & launch Julia Wells launches book on the escape of Xhosa leader Makhanda from Robben Island in 1820. R10 Red Lecture Th.
14:30 30 mins Poetry launches Dudu Saki launches his first book of poems Does a Man wear Clothes. R10 Nun's Chapel 14:30 60 mins Lecture & launch Michael Green launches For the sake of silence with lecture on Mariannhill and Trappists in SA. R 10 Launch Pad
15:30 60 mins Lecture & launch Shirley Gunn (Human Rights Media Centre) with a book that explores the Trojan Horse shootings. R 10 Launch Pad 15:30 60 mins Open Mike Summon up your literary courage and get up there and read aloud! Free Nun's Chapel
16:00 60 mins Lecture & launch Bob Clarke launches Anglicans against Apartheid 1936-96 with lecture What changed FW De Klerk? R10 Launch Pad
17:30 60 mins Poetry/music Dianne Ferrus & Mamela Band from Cape Town sing poetry into ghoema & Cape & African jazz. R30 Red Lecture Th.
Thurdsay 3 July
10:00 180 mins Writing workshop Expert coaches help you enter the world of writing. New & not-so-new aspirant writers welcome. R30 Nun's Chapel 10:00 60 mins Lecture & launch Peter Merrington launches Zebra Crossings with a lecture on shamanism, imagination & literature. R10 Launch Pad 11:00 30 mins Launch/discussion Rosena Maart launches The Writer's Circle - explores the effects of a rape on a group of women. R10 Launch Pad
11:30 60 mins Launch/discussion POWA & the 1 in 9 campaign launch Breaking the Silence an anthology written by victims of abuse. R10 Launch Pad
14:30 60 mins Poetry launches Mariss Everitt debuts with On Gardening & Harry Owen launchesFive Books of Marriage. R10 Nun's Chapel
15:00 60 mins Lecture & launch Ronnie Govender launches autobiography In the Manure & talks about publishing in SA. R10 Launch Pad
15:30 60 mins Open Mike Summon up your literary courage and get up there and read aloud! Free Nun's Chapel 16:00 60 mins Lecture & launch Gary Baines lectures on the cold war & SA, based on his Beyond the Border War (with Peter Vale). R10 Launch Pad
17:30 60 mins Poetry/music Dianne Ferrus & Mamela Band from Cape Town sing poetry into ghoema & Cape & African jazz. R30 Red Lecture Th.
Friday 4 July
09:30 60 mins Lecture & launch Cornelius Thomas launches Dust in My Coffee, lectures on resistance to forced removals. R10 Launch Pad
10:00 180 mins Writing workshop Expert coaches help you enter the world of writing. New & not-so-new aspirant writers welcome. R30 Nun's Chapel
10:30 60 mins Lecture & launch Eben Venter author of Horrelpoort and its translation The Trencherman lectures on his work. R10 Launch Pad
11:30 60mins Lecture/discussion Pat Irwin & other ecologists present Should we cull elephants? Texts & language-use in ecology. R10 Red Lecture Th.
15:00 60 mins Lecture & launch Anthropologist David Brokensha launches his autobiography Brokie's Way. R 10 Launch Pad
15:30 60 mins Lecture & readings Jeanette Eve & Basil Mills on A Literary Guide to the Eastern Cape - the stories behind the book. R 10 Nun's Chapel
16:00 60 mins Lecture & launch Clifford Van Ommen & Desmond Painter launch Interiors: A History of Psychology in SA. R 10 Launch Pad
16:30 60 mins Open Mike Summon up your literary courage and get up there and read aloud! Free Nun's Chapel 17:00 60mins Literary bash Watch this space! Exclusive Books presents food, drink and a prize-winning author. Free Red Lecture Th.
18:00 60 mins Lectures/launches Band of Angels. Sindiswa Seakhoa presents a book tribute to some of SA's best loved writers. R 10 Launch Pad Buyi Mbambo then launches her book In Touch that explores healing & African spirituality
20:00 60 mins Poetry/ music Dianne Ferrus & Mamela Band from Cape Town sing poetry into ghoema & Cape & African jazz. R30 Red Lecture Th. Check out Exclusive Books, the WordStock newsroom, the restaurant and the exhibitions in Eden Grove. If you're burning to say something out loud, then get up onto the Wordfest Free Speech Stand and fume away. Freely. Each day from 1300.
