A Week of Words and Rhymes Coming Up

October 3rd, 2009 by Sharlene

A stirring week of words, rhymes, performance and ideas is to be experienced at Durban’s 13th Poetry Africa festival which runs from Monday to Saturday next week on the Durban campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN).
Hosted by the university’s Centre for Creative Arts, the big event starts with a pre-festival showcase of Durban-based poets at The Workshop shopping centre’s amphitheatre, in the city centre, at 11am on Sunday.
Poets performing at this event were chosen during a week-long open audition at the Centre for Creative Arts. Some of the selected poets will also perform curtain-raising poems on three separate evenings at UKZN’s Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre, as well as battle it out for the Durban SlamJam crown set for Durban’s Bat Centre on October 10.
The festival week encompasses introductory performances by the full line-up of participating poets at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre on Monday. The festival’s opening night will also include a keynote address by renowned Malawian writer and poet David Rubadiri.
The week will thereafter feature four poets every evening, through to next Friday, before the festival finale at Bat Centre on October 10.