Litnet

"I had no idea that I would ever get to mix with presidents and Hollywood stars."

Marc Bamuthi Joseph is the vice-president and artistic director of social impact at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. He delivered the keynote address at the Tribuo arts conference held in Stellenbosch in June 2023, and he spoke about a transformative future and the currencies of redemption.

We would like to share and listen to experiences of adults living with a disability in South Africa. We would like to talk around "my disability", "me as a person", "my environment", and "my participation".

"Space doesn’t allow for a much longer review than this, but suffice it to say that Mouton’s treatment of Zach de Beer’s career covers all the high and low points."

"Two biographies of Sir Ernest are both out of print, and Harry has, until this month, eluded biography."

"On a thematic level, Recessional deals with the inexorable need for institutions together with us as individuals to grapple with the world and society as it changes, and what happens when institutions and those who run them fail to understand the need for change."

"I often want to look away from all that is broken here, and often still do, but there is something that makes looking away in South Africa particularly haunting, I find. If you look away with your eyes, does it mean you look away with your mind, your heart, etc?"

"He challenged us as a country and individually, to think and write and reason and argue better, and to be better."

From 15 to 18 June story lovers and love stories will mingle with academics, movie makers and robot coders to make the 2023 edition of the Schreiner Karoo Writers Festival unforgettable.

"I’m interested in writing queer South African stories and normalising these experiences. I write about intimacy, gender and sexuality, and I would love it if my writing could really give a voice to intersectional people, often ignored or overlooked."

"This book is a critique not only of the publishing world, but of our Western culture and late-capitalism-induced way of life."

Editing encompasses a wide range of skills and procedures, many of which are mysteries to the reading public, and hotly debated even within the publishing and journalism fields.

This online course is designed for the creative writer who hopes to tangibly improve their creative work. Over the course of six two-hour sessions, we will explore the fundamental elements of creative writing.

"Lastly, I dream of an Africa that honours its own identity and looks after its cultural/historical heritage. Of a new African consciousness – not just in politics, but in a deeper worldview of environmental respect that arises from the philosophy of Ubuntu bethu, which we inherited from our forefathers and ancestors."

Encounters South African international documentary festival, renowned for its celebration of thought-provoking and impactful documentaries, is thrilled to announce some of its exceptional international films set to captivate audiences in Cape Town and Johannesburg from 22 June to 2 July 2023.

Love me, feed me, never leave me, a comedy about love, longing and navigating modern relationships. It will be performed at The Drama Factory from 2 to 4 June.

"It’s gratifying to see how many people from diverse backgrounds want to write, how many stories are waiting to be told, how many new talents are emerging. That does make me optimistic."

"We all have those roads-in-the-yellow-wood dudes – the unready loves who left us, or we left. Sometimes, in the small, shuddery hours, they come back. I think about them; I’m glad I knew them."

The conversations with 21 activists from South Africa and Israel who campaign for Palestinian rights shatter perceptions cultivated by widespread propaganda to show that the issue is, after all, not so difficult to understand.

This June, in the middle of the knypkoue Karoo winter, Cradockians are opening their hearths and hearts to all to warm their souls at the Schreiner Karoo Writers Festival, where creatives gather to meet and share and celebrate the art of the word and the legacy of Olive Schreiner.