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vangile gantsho to appear at Poetry Africa

Poetry Africa Festival announces dates, theme and tour

The theme for the 26th Poetry Africa International Festival is: ‘Poetic (In)Justice: Voices That Breathe, Move and Transform’, and the festival is an ode to the depth of perspective that poetry affords us in seeing and articulating (in)justice.

On October 6, the festival will present What’s a Woman’s Worth?, featuring Philippa Yaa De Villiers, Lebo Mashile, Roche Kester, Vangile Gantsho, Nomashenge and Belita Andre. It is a first-of-its-kind focus on women-by-women performance and a cross-generational probing into the vast spectrum of degradation to the celebration that determines the worth of a woman. 

Read more… Berea Mail

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Danai Mupotsa does an edit for Agenda Feminist Media special issue

Launch of the Agenda special issue. The special issue is edited by Dr Danai Mupotsa and Moshibudi Motimele. The launch is hosted by The Department of Political Studies and the Centre for Gender and African Studies at the University of the Free State.

The editors will be in conversation with authors in the special issue.

Link to the special issue: https://lnkd.in/daruE_ft

Email to attend: motimelemh@ufs.ac.za

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Feminist exhibition conceptualised by Danai Mupotsa and others

Feminism ya Mang, Feminism Yethu, Feminism Yani curated by Samantha Modisenyane and Masechaba Moloi, and conceptualised by Samantha Modisenyane and Masechaba Moloi in collaboration with Danai Mupotsa, Motlatsi Khosi and Lindiwe Mngxitama.

NWU Gallery and the Goethe Institut presents feminism exhibition in celebration of Women’s Month. Feminism ya Mang, Feminism Yethu, Feminism Yani is the visual exploration on how we define womanhood, sexuality, age, and feminism, key themes that come with such an engagement, and the ways in which notions on gender and queerness can redefine our understandings. By engaging with this complexity, the exhibition aims to celebrate the diversity of knowledge that contributes to our regional experience of feminisms. 

Read more at BizCommunity

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Busisiwe Mahlangu nominated for a Book Behind Award

Author of Surviving Loss, Busisiwe Mahlangu has been nominated for a Book Behind Award. Please text TBBA BFPB124 to 34877 (note the space between TBBA and BFPB). You deserve this Busisiwe!

“My mother’s mother has done this suffering for my mother
My mother has done this suffering for me
This is how I inherit a scar.”

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vangile gantsho selected to take part in writing residency in Gothenburg, Sweden

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Poet, writer, and publisher, vangile gantsho (photo by Vusumzi Ngxande)

Hear My Voice and the Göteborgs Litteraturhus (Gothenburg House of Literature) are proud to announce South African writer vangile gantsho as the selected candidate for the writing residency in Gothenburg, Sweden, which has just recently been designated as a UNESCO city of Literature. Read more.

#nosmokewithouta story #fortheloveofpoetry

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vangile gantsho included in an anthology of protest poetry

In Years of Fire and Ash: South African Poems of Decolonisation, more than 50 years of protest poetry are gathered in a single volume, bringing together some of the most remarkable and thought-provoking poems that have emerged from struggle.

https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/books/fiction/2021-03-15-50-years-of-powerful-protest-poetry/

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Yesterdays and Imagining Realities

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New poetry anthology remembers the past and dreams the future through voices of young poets
11 March 2021 – 14:10
By Christine Skinner

‘Yesterdays and Imagining Realities’ features work from 26 young local poets.

A new anthology of poetry honours stories from the past and projects hopes for the future through the eyes and voices of 26 young SA poets.

Yesterdays and Imagining Realities: An Anthology of South African Poetry is produced through the continued poetry partnership between the French Institute of SA (IFAS) and impepho press with the support of Total SA.

Source: https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/books/news/2021-03-11-new-poetry-anthology-remembers-the-past-and-dreams-the-future-through-voices-of-young-poets/

Go to impepho press’ page for Yesterdays and Imagining Realities:
An Anthology of South African Poetry