GENERAL PROGRAMME – SUNDAY, 1 SEPT 2019, 11.30 – 6.00 pm, Museum Africa, NEWTOWN
| Time | Description | Venues |
1 | 11.30-1.00
| Challenges – Culture and Resistance in the 21st century: Roundtable Discussion: Mr. Alejandro Lopez, (Deputy Minister of Culture, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela), Lindsey Collen (writer/ activist, Mauritius) & Poet Laureate, Prof. Mongane Wally Serote (SA). Moderator: Maria van Driel | Auditorium, Ground Floor |
2 | 11.30-1.00
| Tsohang Batjha Book Launches & Celebrations: Batjha Kaofela, Caught between cultures, what can I do? and other stories; Poetry Book 1, and TB Theatre. Celebration with parents and teachers. | Arena |
3 | 11.30-1.00 | Forgiving and Forgetting starts with you. Workshop facilitated by Raashida Khan, author of Mirror Cracked and Fragrance of Forgiveness and Maymoona Chohan. & guided free-writing session. | Geology Basement |
4 | 1.00-2.00pm | LUNCH #PASSONTHE WORD Poetry: JBF Remembers patron & Poet Laureate Keorapetse ‘Bra Willie’ Kgositsile with James Matthews, Guests, JBF Youth & DEBUT of SA’s NEW Poet Laureate: Mongane Wally Serote & performance of: History is My Home Address with Bophelong youth. & JBF Book Launch: of Memory, Love and Resistance: Selection of Poems by Mongane W. Serote. | MA Foyer |
5 | 1.00-2.00 | Special Lunch for JBF TB youth and their parents | MA Foyer |
6 | 1.45 -2.50 | Tribute to an Imam, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Iman Haron’s death in detention with James Matthews, Prof. Haron (son). Session starts with a 10minute documentary, The Imam and I, by Khalid Shamis, the Imam’s grandson. Moderator: Yasmin Sooka | Auditorium, Ground Floor |
7 | 2.00 – 2.50 | Short Films | Screen Room, 3rd Floor Ramp |
8 | 2.00 -2.50pm | Caring (Healthcare) for working people: experience of Cuba, Bolivia (Susan Caputi) and SA – speakers to be confirmed | Geology Theare, Basement |
9 | 2.00-2.50 | Menzi Thango Book Launch: two new IsiZulu poetry books. (1) Izinkondlo Zolusha and (2) Impophoma | 2nd Floor, west |
10 | 2.00 – 2.50 | Theatre | Arena |
11 | 2.00-2.50 | Short Films | Screen Room, 3rd Floor. |
12 | 3.00 – 3.50 | Theatre – Flame Book – Port Elizabeth | Ground Floor, East |
13 | 3.00 – 3.50 | Literature, Newspapers and Writing Feminism: The Personal is Political – interactive journeys engaging patriarchy and culture with Shamim Meer (Speak), Futhi Ntshingila (Donot go gentle), Jayne Bauling (Soccer & Dreaming of Light) & Lindsey Collen (Rape of Sita, Boy, Mutiny, Getting Rid of It.) Moderator: tbc | MA Auditorium |
14 | 3.00 – 3.50 | Films | 3rd Floor, Screen Room |
15 | 3.00 – 3.50 | Meet your local Reclaimer – ARO meeting with Resident | Geology Theatre, Basement |
16 | 4.00 – 4.50 | Roundtable on SA’s Current Political Stalemate [Cyril Ramaphosa’s election as President of both the ANC and SA has not produced the promised ‘cleanup’. Instead he seems to be engulfed by the very forces he was meant to subdue.] What are the roots of this stalemate and possibilities for its resolution? Oupa Lehulere, Susan Booysen & (tbc). | Auditorium, Ground Floor. |
17 | 5.15 – 7.00 | Jazz with Fitzroy | MA Foyer |
