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Poetry reading and workshop with Kathy Engel and vangile gantsho

Date: 14 January 2020
Time: 2pm – 4pm
Venue: Constitution Hill, Educational Room, Johannesburg
Cost: Free
RSVP: r.nkomo@gmail.com
Limited space

A collaboration between impepho press and Refilwe Nkomo

Kathy Engel is a poet who has worked for nearly forty years at the nexus between social justice movements and art/imagination. Founder of the women’s human rights group, MADRE, she has cofounded numerous other groups and projects. She is Associate Arts Professor in the Department of Art & Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

vangile gantsho is a poet, healer and co-founder of impepho press. Unapologetically a black woman, she has travelled the continent and the globe participating in literary events and festivals. gantsho is the author of two poetry collections, Undressing in front of the window (2015) and red cotton (2018). She holds an MA from the University Currently Known as Rhodes (2016), and was recently named one of Mail & Guardian’s Top Young 200 South Africans of 2018.

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A brittlepaper review of Sarah Godsell’s ‘Liquid Bones’

This Blood That Not Even the Mountains Can Hold: Megan Ross Rereads Sarah Godsell’s Liquid Bones

Protest is no church—it is movement—and it demands that we skip and hopscotch and remember our childlikeness: this is the light that will save us when fighting numbs us.

Source: https://brittlepaper.com/2019/12/this-blood-that-not-even-the-mountains-can-hold-megan-ross-rereads-sarah-godsells-liquid-bones/

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Busisiwe Mahlangu does #16DaysOfActivism

We have many views on the 16 days activism campaign. And for all of them, we are thankful there is always poetry.

Busisiwe Mahlangu. Powerful.

@busimahlangu_

#SurvivingLoss

#16DaysOfActivism

#NoSmokeWithoutAStory

‪ https://youtu.be/1nVDzh9Alfk

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Call for Papers

‪#NoSmokeWithoutAStory ‬

‪”Feminist Readings in Motion?”, international conference, is going to take place at UNISA 15-16 April 2020. Do not miss the deadline for submitting abstracts!‬

‪https://docs.google.com/document/d/130zFX7I8T2GlEO8GZISBYDlz3v403KllSZ3nkF4hC-w/mobilebasic‬

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Kalahari Bookstores makes space for independent publishers

Bhudi Vus says “To the Independent Publisher! The Incredible Kalahari Bookstore Manager, Belita Andre is emptying this shelve today after a conversation we had with Dr. Sarah Caterpillarwings Godsell about a need for space in stores for independent publishers. This here shelve is for you, the Independent.

Email kalaharibooks@gmail.com to have a conversation of how you can have your book on the Kalahari Independent Shelve.

#KalahariBooks

#Vakasha

#Literacy

#BookstoreOwner

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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