Who is the real Jack Parow?

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.

PHOTO: Laykin Rudolph

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.

PHOTO: Ellen Agnew

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.

PHOTO: Ellen Agnew

Saartjie Botha – breaking down barriers at Woordfees

Jay-Dee Cyster

“My greatest fear was that people would be afraid.”

PHOTO: Nation Nyoka

Rob van Vuuren: from comedy to children’s theatre

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.

PHOTO: Storm Mudde

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.”

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.”

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.

PHOTO: Courtney Koopman