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Danai Mupotsa moderated the panel at the Qintu Collab launch of comic book ‘Meanwhile’ in Johannesburg

The Qintu Collab’s official launch of Meanwhile… hosted by the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) and published by MaThoko’s Books (an imprint of GALA Queer Archive). Panel discussion with contributors of the project and moderated by Danai Mupotsa. A selection of stories from the book were displayed at JAG as part of The Art of Comics exhibition, which showcases over 50 artists working with comics, graphic novels and Bandes dessinées.

Sunday, 29 September 2019, Johannesburg Art Gallery, nobantu.nqolobe@wits.ac.za

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South African Book Fair 2019

ANNOUNCEMENT – POETRY CAFÉ CHANGE OF TIME #SABOOKFAIR2019

The Keorapetse Kgositsile Poetry Café at the South African Book Fair will now take place at 3:30pm to 5pm, Saturday 7th September at Constitution Hill.

Poetry from South Africa, Sweden, Malawi and Jamaica by way of Canada!

Please come through!

#fortheloveofpoetry

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Vangile Gantsho participated in a discussion on memory and architecture

Vangile Gantsho, “Honestly, I walked into this conversation skeptical. I didn’t expect it to be a real conversation, truly unpacking some of the violence of architecture and questioning what architecture can/should look like for a people who carry memory differently. Who carry memory through ritual perhaps. Through practice and story and music and plants and the ground, perhaps.

Lesley Lokko opened with a story of how she couldn’t find the word for museum in Xhosa. In a conversation with a guard at the Steve Biko Memorial:

“What do you call a building that houses memory?”

“You don’t need a building to do that.”

Needless to say, I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation. I am very thankful for the spaces poetry leads me into. To be called, and to answer.

Siyabulela. Camagu.”

Snippet: https://vimeo.com/352911959