It’s time to get close and personal with a South African legend…who is the real Jack Parow?
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It’s time to get close and personal with a South African legend…who is the real Jack Parow?
Continue reading “Who is the real Jack Parow?”
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.
Hayley Grammer
Stellenbosch – Students of Stellenbosch University seem to have mixed feelings about the Woordfees.
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.
Ellen Agnew
Internationally renowned pianist, Ben Schoeman, has said there is a severe lack of music and arts education in South Africa.
Jay-Dee Cyster
“My greatest fear was that people would be afraid.”
Continue reading “Saartjie Botha – breaking down barriers at Woordfees”
Storm Mudde
Weltevreden Estate – Actor-comedian Rob van Vuuren and his wife, Danielle Bischoff, debuted their proudly South African children’s book and theatre experience, at Woordfees.
Continue reading “Rob van Vuuren: from comedy to children’s theatre”
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.”
Continue reading “Woordfees pays tribute to late Randall Wicomb”
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.”
Continue reading “Rainbow Scars – Asking questions through theatre”
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.
Continue reading “I have my words and I have my expression – Adrian ‘Diff’ Van Wyk”