FESTIVAL PROGRAMME – THEME : “Roots… home and away”

3rd Northern Cape Writers Festival, Kimberley

Thursday, 3 March 2011 - 5 March 2011

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

The Opening Ceremony will be an invites only event.

Thursday, 3 March 2011

0900 – 0920 Video stream on the previous festival on the big screen followed by the official welcome to
the NCWF 2011 by the Head of Department, Mr F Aysen.

0920 – 1100 Our own Voices / Music Hour

Readings from “Tender Voices” and poetry as well as music.

1100 – 1230 Round Table I (Focus on Biographies – Sabata Mpho Mokae, Ahmed Kathrada) WHAG

1100 – 1230 School visits

1100 – 1230 Music Hour @ the netWorx Café

A musical programme featuring our own Northern Cape artists.

1100 – 1230 Creative Writing Workshops (CWW) commence @ the NIHE city campus and
Mayibuye (concludes 1700)

The workshops will allow the participants to explore their creative writing ability while engaging with
esteemed authors and poets as facilitators.

1230 - 1300 Northern Cape Book Fair 2011

A small reception to welcome all authors and poets will be offered at the netWorx Café, the venue for the
Book Fair. MEC PJ Williams will officiate. Launch of the Biography of Sol Plaatje (Sabata Mpho Mokae
supported by the department) at this time.

Exclusive Books point-of-sale will be open in the netWorx Café throughout.

Meet the author and buy the book at the same time!

1400 – 1500 Food-for-Thought programme featuring Ahmed Kathrada (netWorx Café)

1500 – 1600 Notable Author @ the Book Fair (Johannes Majiedt – Die werk in TJ)

1500 – 1600 Children’s Festival commences

Storytelling, music, puppet theatre and arts and crafts.

CWW and Book Fair continue till 1700 and Art Exhibition until 1630.

A celebratory Art Exhibition to mark the Third NCWF this year will be open throughout the week at the
William Humphreys Art Gallery. A craft exhibition will be open in the netWorx Café throughout as well.

Friday, 4 March 2011

The Northern Cape Book Fair, Art Exhibition, Exclusive Books Point-of-Sale and CWW continue throughout
the day.

0930 – 1030 Our Own Voices! / Music Hour

Featuring local poets and writers performing and reading their own works to an audience interspersed with
music. This programme includes Ronald Harrison reading from the Black Christ.

1000 - 1045 Local School visits by notable authors

Schools identified by the NCED, arrangements to transport authors to address an audience of learners and
educators. Groups of authors and drivers to be arranged.

1000 - 1100 Notable author @ the Book Fair (Mark Kotze – “Arrested without the Right to remain
silent”)

1100 – 1230 Round Table II (In conversation with… )Focusing on Childrens Stories with Maserame
Madingwane, Fanie Viljoen and Tina Schouw (WHAG)

1200 – 1300 Our own voices !/ Music Hour

Featuring the Seven Tenors (music), Duncan Kgatea among others.

1100 – 1230 CWW commences

1400 – 1500 Food-for-Thought programme featuring Don Mattera (netWorx Cafe)

A programme of social comment on the world we live in featuring (Don Mattera)

1400 – 1600 Children’s Festival @ the FET Gardens

1500 – 1600 Notable Author @ the Book Fair (Lord Babs)

Saturday, 5 March 2011

Book Fair and Art Exhibition continue as before.

0900 - 1000 Our own Voices! / Music Hour

0900 – 1300 Children’s Festival

1000 – 1100 Book Fair launch of Northern Cape Poetry Anthology (Sabata Mpho Mokae)

1100 – 1230 Our own Voices! / Music Hour

1100 – 1230 Round Table III (In conversation with authors on the process of writing, fiction and
non-fiction ) WHAG

Wame Molefhe, Mandla Matyumza, David Morris and Piet Steyn

1300 – 1400 Official closing ceremony of the NCWF 2011 @ the netWorx Café.

Music to follow until 15h00