It’s time to get close and personal with a South African legend…who is the real Jack Parow?
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WOW events a success at Woordfees
Laykin Rudolph
The Words Open Worlds (WOW) projects at the Woordfees has been enriching learners’ lives for more than a decade. The project has assisted thousands of students over the years, notably helping students with funding to study at the university.
Woordfees: what did students think?
Hayley Grammer
Stellenbosch – Students of Stellenbosch University seem to have mixed feelings about the Woordfees.
Sibande in words
Ellen Agnew
US Museum – In a time when South Africa seems in turmoil with its identity as a ‘Rainbow Nation’, Mary Sibande’s exhibition The Purple Shall Govern, attempts to visually make sense of it.
Ben Schoeman delivers in Stellenboasch
Ellen Agnew
Internationally renowned pianist, Ben Schoeman, has said there is a severe lack of music and arts education in South Africa.
Saartjie Botha – breaking down barriers at Woordfees
Jay-Dee Cyster
“My greatest fear was that people would be afraid.”
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Woordfees pays tribute to late Randall Wicomb
Lauren Klaasen
“My father was often absent as a father figure. The book was a way to remember him. For us as a family it was healing and therapeutic.”
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Rainbow Scars – Asking questions through theatre
Jay-Dee Cyster
Luckhoff High School – “With the pen and theatre we can get under the skin of the nation, to begin to expose what things are really like underneath.”
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I have my words and I have my expression – Adrian ‘Diff’ Van Wyk
Boipelo Mokgothu
AMAZINK – Through a “rap battle” to former prime minister DF Malan, the award-winning performance poet and writer, Adrian ‘Diff’ van Wyk, managed to make some audience members shift uncomfortably in their seats while others were left to ponder his message.
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Giving a voice to the voiceless
Saarah Survé
Spier – The aim of the musical, Philida van de Delta, is to give a voice to the voiceless and to hear their stories through song.
Lip 2016 