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LitNet en STAND is opgewonde om die deelnemers van die LitNet | STAND-teaterresensieslypskool aan te kondig. Daar is soveel sterk inskrywings ontvang dat besluit is om vyf deelnemers binne elk van onderskeidelik die Afrikaanse en Engelse kategorieë te identifiseer. Hier is die name van die deelnemers:

Finally, the long wait is over! LitNet is pleased to announce participants to the LitNet | STAND theatre review workshop. We received so many strong entries that it was decided to identify not only three, but five, participants in the English and Afrikaans categories respectively. Here are the names of the participants:

Deelnemers | Participants

Alberto Smit is ’n teatermaker en akteur van Kaapstad.

Candice Jantjies is ’n kunsverslaggewer by Netwerk24.

Ignus Rademeyer: Born in Port Elizabeth, Ignus Rademeyer studied at the University of Stellenbosch and holds a post-graduate degree in advanced taxation from the University of Pretoria. He currently resides in Melville, Johannesburg, with his partner, four cats and two dogs. His 8-to-5 is at KPMG as a tax manager in the transfer pricing space. Hobbies include movies, music, wine, food and books.

Cathy Hugo: Cathy en haar sielsgenoot, Schalk, is reeds 39 jaar saam. Sy is ’n trotse ma van Morné, Schalkie en Cathy-Ann en ’n geseënde ouma van Christiaan en Amé-Ann. Haar geliefdes, die reën en langbeenkaggelkuiers maak haar diep gelukkig. En rooiwyn. En die teater. En haar vierpotiges. En die lui-lekkerte van kampeer. Sy dink die lewe is lekker as jy ’n lekker mens is. Sy neem nie die tuimeltreinrit van die lewe te ernstig op nie. Sy werk reeds 25 jaar by ’n welsynsorganisasie, wat haar dankbaar en nederig hou.

Jane Mpholo is a multidisciplinary artist, award-winning theatremaker/filmmaker and public servant from Botshabelo, South Africa. She currently works as the audience development specialist at the Performing Arts Centre of the Free State.

Jeani Heyns is ’n aktrise en danser wat ook al as teaterstelonterwerper gewerk het en lei ook mense op om in die openbaar op te tree.

Klara van Rooyen completed her Honour’s degree in drama and theatre studies in 2021, specialising in puppetry and children’s theatre. Being the product of librarian matrilineality, she is fanatic about books (with a particular fondness for ghost stories).

Olga Leonard is ’n vryskutmusikant en woon in Kaapstad. Sy voltooi haar MMus (Uitvoerende Kuns) aan die Universiteit van Pretoria en is mededirekteur van BO Produksies wat in 2018 ’n Aardklop-toekenning vir hul produksie Krog gewen het. BO Produksies is ook in 2020 vir 'n kykNET Fiësta vir ALTEmit a capella benoem. Sy wen in 2019 die ATKV-skryfskool se poësieafdeling en geniet in haar vrye tyd boeke, teater, wyn en kos.

Paul Kammies is ’n skrywer, digter en kunstenaar van Kaapstad. Hy het in 2023 sy graad in sielkunde en teaterstudies aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch behaal. Sy skryfwerk fokus op die kruisings tussen verhoudings en die esoteriese. Hy glo dat mense deur teater, skryf en kuns hopelik meer empatie kan kweek.

Kwanele Nyembe is a Durban-based poet, writer and performing artist. He holds a BA in drama and performance arts and media and cultural studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is the co-founder of Sink or Swim Podcast, a platform that serves as a media outlet for Durban-based performing artists to talk about their work and introduce to the world the person behind it. As a performer he curated a virtual series that incorporated creatives from different art sectors, including fashion, literature, music, spoken word, media, government and academia. He is the 2022 Poetry Africa Slam champion and will be representing South Africa in the World Individual Poetry Competition in Brazil (2023).

Deelnemers | Participants: Alberto Smit, Candice Jantjies, Ignus Rademeyer, Cathy Hugo, Jane Mpholo, Jeani Hugo, Klara van Rooyen, Olga Leonard, Paul Kammies, Kwanele Nyembe

Ontmoet die mentors

Afrikaans

• Mercy Kannemeyer is ’n teatermaker, skrywer, fasiliteerder, regisseur, navorser en produksiebestuurder. In 2022 het sy ’n meestersgraad in drama en teater aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch (US) voltooi. Haar teaterwerk sluit in die verwerking en regissering van Jeanne Goosen se Ons is nie almal so nie, die regissering van Woorde op akkoorde en die medeskryf en regissering van Ekstra large, asseblief. In 2017 het Mercy ’n Kokertoekenning vir die dokumentêre kortprent Die ander kant / The other side ontvang, en in 2018 die US-rektorstoekenning vir prestasie in kultuur. Mercy lewer dikwels bydraes vir Vrye Weekblad, Klyntji en LitNet.

• Wayne Muller het in 2018 ’n doktorsgraad in musikologie aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch (US) behaal, nadat hy beide ’n honneurs- en meestersgraad in joernalistiek sowel as ’n BA-graad in sosiologie verwerf het. Hy is tans aan die US verbonde as ’n kommunikasiespesialis, asook ’n navorsingsgenoot by die Africa Open Instituut vir Musiek, Navorsing en Innovasie. Voordat hy aan die US begin werk het, was hy die assistentkunsredakteur van Die Burger en is steeds ’n vryskutresensent vir dié koerant. In sy loopbaan van meer as 20 jaar het hy vir verskeie publikasies oor klassieke musiek en opera, dans en teater geskryf. Hy dien al vir meer as tien jaar op die beoordelingspaneel van die Fleur du Cap-teatertoekennings, en was ook ’n beoordelaar vir die kykNET Fiësta-toekennings, Kanna-toekennings (KKNK) en Woordtrofees. Daarby was hy reeds op die programkeurkomitees van vier kunstefeeste, naamlik die Suidoosterfees, KKNK, Aardklop en Vrystaat Kunstefees.

English

• Nkgopoleng Moloi is a writer based in Cape Town. She is interested in the spaces we occupy and navigate through and how these influence the people we become. Writing is a tool she uses to understand the world around her and to explore the things she is excited and intrigued by, particularly history, art, language and architecture. She is fascinated by cities – their complexities and their potential. Her work has appeared in Artforum, Elephant.art, Mail & Guardian and the British Journal of Photography. She recently curated Practices of self-fashioning, an exhibition exploring queer mobility, at the Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg.

• Tracey Saunders loves words on stages and pages and all the places in between. She is a freelance consultant who works with numbers and words to support her theatre habit. She has worked in the social justice sector in South Africa for 35 years in a wide range of organisations, from Abahlimi Bezekhaya to Zabalaza. She was a rape counsellor and advocacy trainer at Rape Crisis, where she served on the steering committee. A strong believer in the strength of the solidarity of women she was a member of The Western Cape Network on Violence Against Women, an organising member of the first One Billion Rising campaign in South Africa in 2013 and a participant in the Total Shutdown Movement march to parliament in 2018. Tracey is passionate about the possibilities of arts and culture to achieve social justice and believes that theatre and storytelling can change hearts, minds and the world. She has utilised her organisational development and financial skills at various organisations, including FTH:K, a theatre company that creates theatre for the deaf community, Theatre in the Backyard, which creates site specific performances and Theatre Arts, an independent theatre venue in Cape Town that promotes accessibility for audiences and artists. She is a member of the Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards judging panel and served on the National Arts Festival Artistic Committee, as a member of which she curated the Arena Programme and convened the Standard Bank Ovation Awards Panel. #LoveYourWork is where she juggles numbers, wrangles words, frames art and follows the “instructions for living a life” of her favourite writer, Mary Oliver: “Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
   
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Hier is die agtergrond van die teaterresensieslypskool | Herewith the background to the theatre review writing workshop:

LitNet | STAND: Teaterresensieslypskool | Theatre review workshop