Call for young women to enter free poetry, music workshops: YOUNG women from the northern areas of Nelson Mandela Bay have the opportunity to showcase and perfect their artistic skills with a series of A Coloured-in Girl writing, poetry and music workshops. Source: "Kariega" - BingNews. Nqaba Bhanga on charm offensive around Nelson Mandela Bay: From his mother sharing childhood memories of how he was a “prayer warrior” as a boy, to singing and dancing with prospective voters, DA mayoral … [Read more...] about Kariega News: Call for young women to enter free poetry, music workshops
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Praat Free
The PE Opera House welcomes back it’s Poetry Festival – Praat to the Barn theatre this Thursday 18 April. This multi-lingual poetry festival, is bringing the best in the local poetry scene to the fore as 11 acts will taking to the stage. The full one day programme will feature: Phakama Mlokoti; Gqoboz’imbawula; with Fefeza Iz’khuthali zesiXhosa; Luxolo Luxolo; Olwethu Mxoli; Sihle Sofuthe and Nicole Naidoo and readings by Mthunzikazi & Leoni William hosted by Poeticsoul, Ayanda … [Read more...] about Praat Free
Poetry Tuesday with Siyabonga Gqobhoz’Imbawula Ngcai
The PE Opera House Poetry Tuesdays are returning this month with a profile of Siyabonga Ngcai, better known as Gqobhoz'imbawula, who is an ambitious poet, story teller, song writer, performing artist, culture and language activist, and an Architectural Technologist by profession. Siyabonga was born and raised in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. Growing up he was drawn to fine arts, Traditional and Pantsula dancing, and later found himself attached to writing short stories and … [Read more...] about Poetry Tuesday with Siyabonga Gqobhoz’Imbawula Ngcai
Poetry Tuesday – Mzuvukile ‘Isiswenye Sesihobe’ Manxiwa
The PE Opera House Poetry Tuesdays feature is proving to be a popular mid week event in the Bay with the third instalment coming up on the first week of April. This month's featured poet Mzuvukile Manxiwa who performs under the stage name Isiswenye Sesihobe is a performance poet and writer who is originally from kuQumbu eMvumelwano and moved to the Nelson Mandela Bay in 1996. Mzuvukile 'Isiswenye Sesihobe' Manxiwa began writing poetry in 2001 and has written to date has 550 poems. He began … [Read more...] about Poetry Tuesday – Mzuvukile ‘Isiswenye Sesihobe’ Manxiwa
Between Absence and Presence
A MyPE.co.za 'poetry' selected video for you: Between Absence and Presence took place at the Mandela Bay Development Agency building in Baakens Street on 29 January 2016. There exists a complex relationship between the poet and their work; a layering so intricate that the reader and poet are always present and absent from one another. That is, since a poem/ text is an artefact – a fragment of a whole – that the reader interacts with thereby creating meaning, the poet’s … [Read more...] about Between Absence and Presence
