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March 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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This year’s festival brings an incredible lineup of poets. This is a selection of just some of what you can look forward to.

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Poster showing details for: English Alive 60th Birthday Join English Alive, the South African Council for English Education’s annual anthology, to celebrate 60 years of publishing young writers. Following a performance by a surprise guest poet, the editor of the anthology and MC of the event, Kirsten Deane, invites students to perform their poems. Don’t miss this opportunity to support the next generation. Friday 4th | 14:00 - 15:00 Book your tickets! Poster showing details for: What Poetry Allows Sanah Ahsan, Jorge Alejandro Ccoyllurpuma and Kirsten Deane speak to Nondwe Mpuma about poetry as a vehicle for transformation. Saturday 5th | 10:00 - 11:00 Book your tickets! Poster with details for: Pass Me the Mic | Poetry After 1976 Every generation has a call to answer. Within the call is a mission to be discovered, then lies the choice to embrace or abandon it. This poetry showcase honors the poetry collectives and clubs that have wrestled with the obscurity of that mission, fulfilled it and carried it forward to the next circle of voices. Fifty years after the 1976 Soweto Youth Uprising, we pay homage to those who first answered the call and as we inherit their courage, we press on, carrying the mission to the present. Passing on the baton: from Lingua Franca to Amazinc Unplugged, from the Red Wheelbarrow to the Cape Cultural Collective and onward. Poets: Amy Brown, Inzima, Rea Mmethi, Mtunzikazi Ngozana, Mbongeni Nomkonwana, Riyo, Winslow Schalkwyk & Lwanda Sindaphi. Curated and hosted by Zizipho Bam. Saturday 5th | 20:30 - 21:30 Book your tickets! Poster with details for: New Worlds In Bloom As the Festival comes to a close, join us for a gathering of powerful poetic voices in a space to cultivate hope, possibility, and reflection. Hosted by vangile gantsho, with live ikebana by Cynthia Fan; Letters to the Future curated by Climate Lounge and DearTomorrow; and performances by Sanah Ahsan, Gabeba Baderoon, Jorge Alejandro Ccoyllurpuma, Thando Fuze, Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal, Koleka Putuma, and Sarah Uheida. Sunday 6th | 16:00 - 17:00 Book your tickets!
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