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EVENTS IN POETRY
Concerts, Poetry, Workshops & Outreach
Wednesdays 17h30 - 19h30: Functions Room
Set your soul free at the LIVE POETRY SESSIONS for all you philosophers, dreamers, romantics, story-tellers, comics and revolutionaries out there. Let Nowadays reading sessions inspire life unto the unpublished and passionate scribe. All Welcome to experience the galaxy of words.
Admission Free
A poetic fusion of young minds of mix creed, gender and race looking for a platform for expression during these troubled times of international feuds and epidemic outbreaks. The gathering has been taking place for about 7 years.
This is the birth spot for the SLAM poetry event that has taken poetry to into competitive platform of spoken
word poetry delivered to a stark raving crowd of young street philosophers and aspiring writers. From your traditional praise poets, to the mystics, story tellers, writers, mcees and published poets –the venue is the Functions Room@ the BAT Centre every Wednesday.
Poets of the NOWADAYZ circle and the BASADZI circle continue to personally graduate to participate in annual international South African Poetry events i.e. POETRY AFRICA and URBAN VOICES.
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Thursday: 17h30 - 19h30: Functions Room
Experience the world of rhythm and poetry through eyes of the female folk. Let the poetic vocab ring though the souls of the all men, woman and children. Our sisters, mothers and children shall sing the words of change, though romance, story-telling and comedy.
Women are invited to come together to share, showcase, develop and celebrate their works in written expressions. This exciting venture by Young Basadzi Projects is yet another effort in providing a platform where women are able to share their thoughts and ideas, communicate their frustrations and pains, aspirations and life’s resolutions whilst putting it down onto paper… into spoken word.
The possibilities are endless, and we urge all women to join us in this revolutionary journey that sees women, from all walks of life expressing themselves in every (literary) way we know how.
We meet at the Bat Centre, home to the arts in Durban. A venue to see us all celebrating the arts whilst empowering women writers of our times.
“Every Thursdays, join us for the interactive and mind-blowing experience we have yet to explore!”
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Dates: Still to be Confirmed
This is POETRY festival of great prestige where a group of extremely talented international poets meets with local artists to conduct workshops and give explosive performances in the various South African provinces. The
2006 road show which, only took place in Johannesburg and Durban featured the likes of Saul Williams, Sekou Sundiata, Lemon a.k.a Andrew Anderson and Suheir Hammad.
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