SCHOOLS PROGRAMME – ONLY Registered Schools!!!
Thursday (29 August) and Friday -30 August, Museum Africa
| Time | Description | Venue | |
| 1 | 8.00 | Arrivals and Registrations Exhibitions & Walkabouts | Mary Fitzgerald Square |
| 2 | 9.00 – 9.15 | Welcome & Theme of Festival | Museum Africa, 4th Floor West |
| 3 | 9.30 – 10.20 | Parallel Skills Workshops | |
| 4 | 9.30 – 10.20 | Teachers Only Programme, Terry Grove | 3rd Floor, East 4 |
| 5 | 9.30 – 10.20 | Conversation/Meet the Authors | |
| 6 | 9.30 – 10.20 | Plenary – Celebrations
| MA 4th Floor West |
Parallel SCHOOLS SKILLS WORKSHOPS 9.30-10.20
Choose ONE (1) of 15 introductory workshops to get you going! Please be on time.
Workshop | Venue | Facilitator | |
1 | Writing Poetry | Arena | Masai Dabula |
2 | Reading Photos: Exhibitions on Newspapers & alternative press | 3rd Floor, Exhibition Room 1 | tbc |
3 | Games programming on your phone [& language of programming] **must have a phone | 4th Floor, West 2 | Nhlamulo Rikhotso |
4 | Whatsapp tv news, on your phone | 2nd Floor West, Seminar Room | Dorothy Mabelebele |
5 | Philosophy for Youth | 3rd Floor Exhibition Purple Room 2 | Theresa Giorgza |
6 | Journalism – writing stories for a newspaper | 3rd Floor, Exhibition Glass Room 3 | Siya Mviko |
7 | Writing Short Stories | Geology Basement | Jolyn Phillips |
8 | Drama | Aud, Ground Fl. | Lawrence Simelane |
9 | Make a film with your phone | Grnd Floor East Theatre | Thamsanqa Dlamini |
10 | Short Films (30 persons) | 3rd Floor Screen Rm | Ahmed Jama |
11 | Physical theatre | 4th Floor West1 | Chantal Thomas |
12 | Playing the recorder | Foyer, Ground Floor | Makhosonke Mrubata |
13 | Writing for youth | 3 Floor East 5 | Jayne Bauling |
14 | Writing life stories/biography | Boardroom, Ground Floor | Pat Fahrenfort |
15 | Heritage Walking Tour of Newtown | Meet MA Foyer | Eric Itzkin / Mohau |
16 | Teachers Only Workshop | 3rd Floor East, Rm 4 | Terry Grove |
JBF SCHOOLS – Conversations & Meet the Author
Two (2) x 20 minute sessions to meet some of your favourite JBF authors
| AUTHOR | DESCRIPTION | VENUE |
| Lindsey Collen | Author of many novels and short stories from Mauritius, and winner of the Africa Commonwealth Prize for Literature twice. Collen is also a patron of the JBF. | MA, 3rd Floor, ARENA |
| Jolyn Phillips | Author and short story writer ‘The Fisherman’, amongst others. | MA, 3rd Floor, Exhibition Room1 |
| Pat Fahrenfort | Author of Spanner in the Works, from Cape Town | MA, Auditorium, Ground Floor |
| Jayne Bauling | Author of Soccer series for youth and Dreaming of Light, and winner of Sanlam Prize, from Mpumalanga | MA, Geology Theatre, Basement |
| Futhi Ntshingila | Author of Do not go gentle and Shameless, is from Kwazulu Natal | MA Foyer, Ground Floor |
| James Matthews | Is author and dissident poet, of many novels and poetry including Cry Rage and Age is a Beautiful, and many acclaimed awards. He is also a patron of the JBF and this year we celebrate his 90th birthday at the Festival. | MA, 4th Floor, West |
