Isobel Dixon is Off the Wall @ A TOUCH OF MADNESS on Monday 20th May 2013 at 7:45 for 8 p.m.

Off the Wall Poetry Performing Monday 20th May 2013 at 7:45 for 8 p.m.

Guest poet Isobel Dixon Our guest poet this week is the acclaimed and multi-award-winning poet Isobel Dixon. She has three poetry collections out: Weather Eye (Carapace, 2001), A Fold in the Map (Jacana, 2007) — of which Clive James said, “Isobel Dixon was born with the gift of lyricism as natural speech” — and The Tempest Prognosticator (Umuzi, 2011), which J.M. Coetzee called “A virtuoso collection”. Isobel was born in Mthatha, grew up in the Karoo, in Graaff-Reinet, and now works in London. Her web-site is here, and her recent LitNet interview is here. Isobel will be selling her books, so bring money!

Open-mic session Guest-poet presentations last 20–40 minutes. We then take a short break followed by an open-mic session, so bring some of your own or someone else’s poetry to read, or just come and listen. To get into the open-mic, just ask the host during the break to add your name to the list.

Venue Front dining room, A Touch of Madness Victorian Quaffery, 12 Nuttall Road,  (between Station Road and Trill Road, on the mountain side) Observatory, Cape Town Map and directions.

There is no charge and no booking: you get in by walking through the door.

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Dance for All's new book

News of Gillian:

The book launch of Pieces of a Dream – the story of Dance for All by Gillian Warren-Brown was a wonderful success. Gillian, Dance for All's CEO Philip Boyd and
the whole DFA team would like to thank everyone who was there to celebrate with us. 

We trust that you will tell others about the book and encourage them to order copies via
our website, www.danceforall.co.za or by sending an email to admin@danceforall.co.za

Proceeds of the book will go towards supporting DFA's programmes. 

We appreciate your ongoing support.

Kind regards,
Naomi van Rooyen
Fund Development & Marketing
Dance for All
Tel 27 21 697 5509
Fax 27 21 697 1516
www.danceforall.co.za

Celebrating 21 Years of Excellence

InZync Poetry Slam

https://www.facebook.com/events/307275692737358/

SLiP May Poetry Project

http://slipnet.co.za/view/poetry-project/capturing-change/

Frank Malaba is ALSO Off the Wall @ A TOUCH OF MADNESS on MONDAY 13TH MAY 2013 (after Helen Moffett)

Off the Wall Poetry Performing Monday 13th May 2013 at 7:45 for 8 p.m.

Fly-in guest poets at short notice At last week’s meeting, we discussed the perennial problem of shifting scheduled local guest poets to accommodate fly-in guest poets who arrive at short notice. The consensus was that, rather than continuing the hassle and confusion of re-scheduling, and the imposition on the good nature of the re-scheduled local poets, we would experiment, when this case arises, with having two guest poets on one evening and see how that works out. Somewhat sooner than expected, we have a fly-in poet who has arrived at short notice, and so we are experimenting with having a second guest poet for this evening. His performance will follow Helen Moffett’s performance, announced earlier.

Guest poet Frank Malaba Frank is an actor, playwright, poet, radio producer and human rights activist. Born in Zimbabwe, he has become one of the faces of gay rights in Africa as the anchor and producer of Radio Today Outspoken, the only fully LGBTI talk-show in Africa. He is fast becoming a voice of reason through his poetry and Self Currency workshops. He is fighting to get the LGBTI community recognised as part of larger society on African soil. He currently lives in South Africa. He is a spiritually connected thinker who respects life in all its various forms and is inspired by subtleties in nature and in the human element around him.

Open-mic session Guest-poet presentations last 20–40 minutes. We then take a short break followed by an open-mic session, so bring some of your own or someone else’s poetry to read, or just come and listen. To get into the open-mic, just ask the host during the break to add your name to the list.

Venue Front dining room, A Touch of Madness Victorian Quaffery, 12 Nuttall Road,  (between Station Road and Trill Road, on the mountain side) Observatory, Cape Town Map and directions.

There is no charge and no booking: you get in by walking through the door.

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Helen Moffett is Off the Wall @ A TOUCH OF MADNESS on Monday 13th May 2013 at 7:45 for 8 p.m.

Off the Wall Poetry Performing Monday 13th May 2013 at 7:45 for 8 p.m.

Guest poet Helen Moffett Our guest poet this week is the multi-faceted Helen Moffett who, amongst many other things, is a Pre-Raphaelite scholar, a strident and articulate feminist activist and the winner of the 2012 Rant of the Year Award. She will be reading to us from her own poetry, including her first collection of her own poems, Strange Fruit. She will have copies of Strange Fruit for sale at cost price, R50.

Open-mic session Guest-poet presentations last 20–40 minutes. We then take a short break followed by an open-mic session, so bring some of your own or someone else’s poetry to read, or just come and listen. To get into the open-mic, just ask the host during the break to add your name to the list.

Venue Front dining room, A Touch of Madness Victorian Quaffery, 12 Nuttall Road,  (between Station Road and Trill Road, on the mountain side) Observatory, Cape Town Map and directions.

There is no charge and no booking: you get in by walking through the door.

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John Cartwright and Leroy Cowie are Off the Wall @ A TOUCH OF MADNESS on Monday 5th May 2013 at 7:45 for 8 p.m.

Off the Wall Poetry Performing Monday 5th May 2013 at 7:45 for 8 p.m.

Guest poets John Cartwright and Leroy Cowie Distinguished mediævalist and Renaissance man Prof. John Cartwright will be behind the lectern tonight, joined by our old friend, Leroy Cowie, on the double bass.

Open-mic session Guest-poet presentations last 20–40 minutes. We then take a short break followed by an open-mic session, so bring some of your own or someone else’s poetry to read, or just come and listen. To get into the open-mic, just ask the host during the break to add your name to the list.

Venue Front dining room, A Touch of Madness Victorian Quaffery, 12 Nuttall Road,  (between Station Road and Trill Road, on the mountain side) Observatory, Cape Town Map and directions.

There is no charge and no booking: you get in by walking through the door.

Mailing-list subscriptions To subscribe to the mailing list, click here and send the resulting e-mail. To unsubscribe from the mailing list, click here and send the resulting e-mail.

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Final call for poems: Africa Ablaze! Poems of War and Civil Conflict

Patricia Schonstein of African Sun Press has almost made final the selection of poems for Africa Ablaze! Poems of War and Civil Conflict. She will probably be able to squeeze in another five, and some space may be made available if not all the permissions come in.

If you would like to submit a poem, please send it to afpress@iafrica.com before 5 May 2013.

Poetry & Creative Writing Workshop every Sunday 2 - 4PM at Obz Books

Poetry & Creative Writing Workshop every Sunday 2 - 4PM at Obz Books, 76 Lower Main Rd, Observatory, Cape Town. Contact Kirsten 076 636 7910 / Jade 079 860 1330

Invitation from Jade Gibson: Exhibition - "Woman | Object | Corpse"

The University of Cape Town’s

Centre for African Studies

invites you to the opening event of the exhibition

Woman | Object | Corpse

A collective expression by South African
and international Women artists.

Date: Wednesday, 24th April
Time:18h00 onwards
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery,
Harry Oppenheimer Institute Building,
Engineering Mall Road,
Upper Campus, University of Cape Town

http://www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za/

singh.meghna@gmail.com
+27.216502308

croc E moses is Off the Wall @ A TOUCH OF MADNESS on Monday 29th April 2013 at 7:45 for 8 p.m.

Off the Wall Poetry Performing Monday 29th April 2013 at 7:45 for 8 p.m.

Guest poet croc E moses This week’s guest poet is recovered Canadian croc E moses, a well established figure on the South African and global stage (includes Swaziland, YouTube and TeDx). This temperature graduate is now finally poetically licensed; he has made all the right mistakes and has self-realised his irrelevance. He flirted with rock stardom as a drummer, once attempted art school and later an MBA. He has applied himself as a graphic designer, candle-shop manager, nude model, indie artist, waiter and pop-hermit: he is a fully embodied anthropological experiment.

Open-mic session Guest-poet presentations last 20–40 minutes. We then take a short break followed by an open-mic session, so bring some of your own or someone else’s poetry to read, or just come and listen. To get into the open-mic, just ask the host during the break to add your name to the list.

Venue Front dining room, A Touch of Madness Victorian Quaffery, 12 Nuttall Road,  (between Station Road and Trill Road, on the mountain side) Observatory, Cape Town Map and directions.

There is no charge and no booking: you get in by walking through the door.

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Celebrate World Book Day by sharing books | Modjaji Books | Book Lounge

Dear Friends,

Please help us share the love and the join in with our

Celebration of World Book Day

To celebrate World Book Day, and our 6th Birthday, we’re making the following offer. Buy one of our books direct from us and Modjaji will donate a book to Westridge High, the Book Lounge’s 2013 Library project school. You can buy any title – we will post it to you. And then you can either choose a Modjaji title of similar value or leave us to choose the title and we will donate that book to the school.

We will also have a lucky draw and one of the people who plays the

game will get to choose a free book for themselves in addition to the
book they bought.

When I started working at the Centre for the Book in 2001, we worked
hard on World Book Day, getting a poster together, organising events in
schools, collating all the related happenings around the country. This
is my small contribution to this year’s World Book Day events.

This offer is valid until Friday 26th April 2013.

Thanks for playing and celebrating and sharing, and please pass onto friends who might like to play too.

Colleen

Modjaji Books - making rain for southern African women writers and readers
Colleen Higgs
cell: 0727743546
tel:   0216965503
fax: 0862427272

www.modjajibooks.co.za
http://modjaji.bookslive.co.za

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Ralph Goodman is Off the Wall @ A TOUCH OF MADNESS on Monday 22nd April 2013 at 7:45 for 8 p.m.

Off the Wall Poetry Performing Monday 22nd April 2013 at 7:45 for 8 p.m.

Guest poet Ralph Goodman Ralph taught English at universities for a number of years. He now runs workshops which offer skills in writing, as well as the chance to map one’s life in a meaningful way. He is at present teaching creative writing (short story and poetry), as well as feminist science-fiction and satire, to adults. He does editing and proof-reading work. He is passionate about the healing that stories can accomplish in this country. Other Men’s Flowers Ralph will present a broad selection of work by the poets he most admires.

Our “Other Men’s Flowers” Series Most of our poets mostly perform their own work, which leaves much poetry neglected, but some of our open-mic poets find and present treasures from other poets, so we periodically ask one of them to make up “a garland of other men’s flowers”. This session will be part of that series. Where the name comes from “I have gathered a garland of other men’s flowers, and naught but the thread that binds them is my own,” said John Bartlett, quoting Montaigne, in the foreword to Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. This led A. P. Wavell to take the name Other Men’s Flowers for his anthology, and we follow him. Yes, of course it can be other women’s flowers as well.

Open-mic session Guest-poet presentations last 20–40 minutes. We then take a short break followed by an open-mic session, so bring some of your own or someone else’s poetry to read, or just come and listen. To get into the open-mic, just ask the host during the break to add your name to the list.

Venue Front dining room, A Touch of Madness Victorian Quaffery, 12 Nuttall Road,  (between Station Road and Trill Road, on the mountain side) Observatory, Cape Town Map and directions.

There is no charge and no booking: you get in by walking through the door.

Mailing-list subscriptions To subscribe to the mailing list, click here and send the resulting e-mail. To unsubscribe from the mailing list, click here and send the resulting e-mail.

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Winslow Schalkwyk is Off the Wall @ A TOUCH OF MADNESS on Monday 15th April 2013 at 7:45 for 8 p.m.

Off the Wall Poetry Performing Monday 15th April 2013 at 7:45 for 8 p.m.

Guest poet Winslow Schalkwyk This week’s guest poet is performer, producer and poet Winslow Schalkwyk. He has performed at the National Arts Festival Grahamstown, the Baxter Theatre, Artscape Theatre, SABC Beach Road Studios in Cape Town and was a speaker at the TEDxCapeTown 2012 Showcase. This sought-after performer mixes the honesty of poetry with live instrumentals and DJs that create performances that capture audiences nation-wide. Winslow also facilitates creative writing workshops that aim to unleash the natural latent talent that lives within all of us.

Open-mic session Guest-poet presentations last 20–40 minutes. We then take a short break followed by an open-mic session, so bring some of your own or someone else’s poetry to read, or just come and listen. To get into the open-mic, just ask the host during the break to add your name to the list.

Venue Front dining room, A Touch of Madness Victorian Quaffery, 12 Nuttall Road,  (between Station Road and Trill Road, on the mountain side) Observatory, Cape Town Map and directions.

There is no charge and no booking: you get in by walking through the door.

Mailing-list subscriptions To subscribe to the mailing list, click here and send the resulting e-mail. To unsubscribe from the mailing list, click here and send the resulting e-mail.

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Amitabh Mitra is Off the Wall @ A TOUCH OF MADNESS on Monday 8th April 2013 at 7:45 for 8 p.m.

Off the Wall Poetry Performing Monday 8th April 2013 at 7:45 for 8 p.m.

Guest poet Amitabh Mitra The multi-faceted Dr. Amitabh Mitra leads many varied lives. He is our guest poet because of his poetry, particularly his love poetry, but he also paints on his huge canvases and publishes Southern African poets. Professionally, he is a medical doctor and specialises in treating extremes of physical trauma and sexual assault at a global level.

Open-mic session Guest-poet presentations last 20–40 minutes. We then take a short break followed by an open-mic session, so bring some of your own or someone else’s poetry to read, or just come and listen. To get into the open-mic, just ask the host during the break to add your name to the list.

Venue Front dining room, A Touch of Madness Victorian Quaffery, 12 Nuttall Road,  (between Station Road and Trill Road, on the mountain side) Observatory, Cape Town Map and directions.

There is no charge and no booking: you get in by walking through the door.

Mailing-list subscriptions To subscribe to the mailing list, click here and send the resulting e-mail. To unsubscribe from the mailing list, click here and send the resulting e-mail.

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