Thursday 8 October

AM Schools Visit
11h30 – 12h30 Music Workshop: Voice and Vision: Jennifer Ferguson – Centre for Jazz, Howard College Campus, UKZN.
Tel: 031 260 2506
12h00 – 12h45 Poetry Africa Campus Invasion: Liesl Jobson, Tania Tomé – Piazza Area, Edgewood Campus, UKZN.
Tel: 031 260 2506 Mongane Wally Serote (South Africa) Susan Kiguli (Uganda) Sunil Gangopadhyay (India)
Chigo Gondwe (Malawi)
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre
19h30 Host: Outspoken
• Durban Showcase Poets: Nokulunga Dladla & Phephelani Zondi
• Tania Tomé (Mozambique)
• Nina Kibuanda (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• Ewok (South Africa)
• Lesego Rampolokeng (South Africa)

Friday 9 October Anindita Sengupta (India) Lesego Rampolokeng (South Africa) Liesl Jobson (South Africa) 

Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre Ewok (South Africa) Nina Kibuanda

(Democratic Republic of the Congo)
19h30 Host: Lauren Rosenberg
• School Poetry Competition Awards
• Bongani Mavuso (South Africa)
• Chigo Gondwe (Malawi)
• Anindita Sengupta (India)
• Mongane Wally Serote (South Africa)

Saturday 10 October
Odia Ofeimun (Nigeria) Tania Tomé (Mozambique)
12h00 – 13h30 Poetry Writing Workshop: Sunil Gangopadhyay, Susan Kiguli, Loftus Marais, İlyas Tunç – Mission Control, Sindiwe Magona (South Africa) Bongani Mavuso (South Africa)
BAT Centre. Tel: 031 332 0451

14h00 – 15h30 Open Mic: Sipho Gumede Hall, BAT Centre. Tel: 031 332 0451

15h45 – 17h00 Durban SlamJam: Sihle Qwashuqwashu, Otarel Mabusela, Ngonyama, Sbu Simelane, Topaz – Sipho
Gumede Hall, BAT Centre. Tel: 031 332 0451

BAT Centre, Sipho Gumede Hall

19h30 Host: Tiny Mungwe Loftus Marais (South Africa) Jennifer Ferguson (South Africa)

Festival Finale: Jennifer Ferguson, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Chigo Gondwe, Liesl Jobson, Nina Kibuanda, İlyas Tunç (Turkey) Outspoken and Band (Zimbabwe)
Susan Kiguli, Loftus Marais, Bongani Mavuso, Odia Ofeimun, Lesego Rampolokeng, Mongane Wally
Serote, Anindita Sengupta, Tania Tomé, İlyas Tunç
• Final Stanza: Outspoken and Band (Zimbabwe)
 Monday 29 September – Opening Night Wednesday 7 October
13th POETRY AFRICA 5 - 10 October 2009
Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre AM Schools Visit
The 13th Poetry Africa International Poetry Festival is an extensive week-long programme that includes
performances, readings and book-launches every evening at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, with a festival finale 19h30 Introduction: Peter Rorvik, Centre for Creative Arts 10h30 – 12h00 Poets Talk Poetry: Sunil Gangopadhyay, Mongane Wally Serote – English Department Boardroom,
and the Durban SlamJam at the BAT Centre on Saturday, 10 October. Day activities include seminars, workshops, Keynote Speaker: David Rubadiri (Malawi) David Rubadiri Memorial Tower Block, Howard College Campus, UKZN. Tel: 031 260 2334
poetry competitions, open mic opportunities and school visits. Presentation of participating poets:
Ticket prices at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre: R25 (R15 for students and pensioners). Closing night at the Ewok, Jennifer Ferguson, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Chigo Gondwe, Liesl Jobson, Nina Kibuanda, 11h00 – 11h30 Poetry Africa Campus Invasion: Ewok, Tania Tomé – LC002, Steve Biko Campus, Durban University of
Susan Kiguli, Sindiwe Magona, Loftus Marais, Bongani Mavuso, Odia Ofeimun, Outspoken, Technology. Tel: 031 260 2506
Bat Centre: R30. There is no charge for workshops and seminars. Book at Computicket (Tel: 086 110 0220 or
Lesego Rampolokeng, Anindita Sengupta, Mongane Wally Serote, Tania Tomé, İlyas Tunç
www.computicket.com) or at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre from 18h30. No advance bookings for the BAT Centre. 11h15 – 12h30 Poets in Media: Odia Ofeimun, İlyas Tunç - Department of Journalism, City Campus, Room 149, Durban
For further information contact the Centre for Creative Arts, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 4041 University of Technology. Tel 031 203 6614
Tel: +27 31 260 2506 or +27 31 260 1704 Tuesday 6 October
Fax +27 31 260 3074; e-mail: cca@ukzn.ac.za; Website: www.cca.ukzn.ac.za 12h00 – 14h00 Community Writing Forum: Anindita Sengupta, Liesl Jobson - Nelson Mandela Youth Centre, Chatsworth
PROGRAMME SUBJECT TO CHANGE AM Schools Visit Circle Road, Chatsworth. Tel: 031 401 4191/083 981 3506

Featuring 10h00 – 12h00 Poetry Exchange: Jennifer Ferguson, Susan Kiguli, Lesego Rampolokeng, Mongane Wally Serote - Luthuli 13h00 – 14h00 Poets in Dialogue: Lesego Rampolokeng, Loftus Marais, Tania Tomé - ICESA City Campus, 35 Field Street.
Museum, 3233 Nokukhanya Luthuli Street, Groutville. Tel: 032 559 6822 Tel 031 307 4008 /307 7071
Ewok (South Africa) Bongani Mavuso (South Africa)
Jennifer Ferguson (South Africa) Odia Ofeimun (Nigeria) 12h30 – 14h00 Poetry Performance: Anindita Sengupta, Odia Ofeimun – Ekhaya Multi-Arts Centre, B25 Giya Road, 14h00 – 16h00 Zwakala! Mazisi Kunene Poetry Showcase: Bongani Mavuso, Sindiwe Magona - Sipho Gumede Hall,
Sunil Gangopadhyay (India) Outspoken (Zimbabwe) B-Section, KwaMashu. Tel: 031 504 6970 BAT Centre. Tel: 031 332 0451
Chigo Gondwe (Malawi) Lesego Rampolokeng (South Africa)
12h00 – 12h45 Poetry Africa Campus Invasion: Chigo Gondwe, Bongani Mavuso – Fountain, Main Campus, Mangosuthu 15h00–15h45 Poetry Africa Campus Invasion: Chigo Gondwe, Outspoken - Asoka Theatre, Westville Campus, UKZN.
Liesl Jobson (South Africa) Anindita Sengupta (India) University of Technology. Tel: 031 260 2506 Tel: 031 260 2506
Nina Kibuanda (Democratic Republic of the Congo) Mongane Wally Serote (South Africa)
Susan Kiguli (Uganda) Tania Tomé (Mozambique) 13h00 – 13h45 Poetry Africa Campus Invasion: Outspoken, Nina Kibuanda – Howard College Campus, Food Court, UKZN.
Sindiwe Magona (South Africa) İlyas Tunç (Turkey) Tel: 031 260 2506 Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre
Loftus Marais (South Africa)
18h45 – 19h15 Book Launch – Wellington Tavern Deck
Organised by the Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal), the 13th Poetry Africa festival is supported by Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre Zibuyela Ezimpandeni: Bongani Mavuso, Shuter and Shooter
the Department of Arts and Culture, Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (HIVOS), National Arts Council, 18h45 – 19h15 Book Launch – Wellington Tavern Deck
French Institute of South Africa, Pro-Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland, Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, Please, Take Photographs: Sindiwe Magona, Modjaji Books 19h30 Host: Ewok
African Synergy Book Cafe’, and the City of Durban. • Durban Showcase Poets: Sarah Frost & Sihle Qwashuqwashu
19h30
Host: Zuki Vutela • Loftus Marais (South Africa)
• Odia Ofeimun (Nigeria)
Sunday 4 October - Pre-festival Showcase • Durban Showcase Poets: Busiswa Gqulu & Rudolph Mokoena
• Susan Kiguli (Uganda)
• Liesl Jobson (South Africa)
11h00 – 13h00 Durban Poetry Street Session: Ewok, Bongani Mavuso, Baxolile Dimane, Nokulunga Dladla, Sarah • Jennifer Ferguson (South Africa)
• Sindiwe Magona (South Africa)
Frost, Busiswa Gqulu, Isishimane, Nandi Khumalo, Nompilo Malinga, Rudolph Mokoena, Sihle
• İlyas Tunç (Turkey)
Qwashuqwashu, Phephelani Zondi – Workshop Amphitheatre,
• Sunil Gangopadhyay (India)
Workshop Shopping Mall, Pine Street. Tel: 031 260 2506

Durban Showcase Poets Durban Showcase Poets Durban Showcase Poets

Baxolile Dimane Nokulunga Dladla Sarah Frost Busiswa Gqulu Isishimane Nandi Khumalo Nompilo Malinga Rudolph Mokoena Ngonyama Sihle Qwashuqwashu Sbu Simelane Topaz Phephelani Zondi