2015 Programme

The McGregor Poetry Festival Programme: 27 – 30 August 2015

Die McGregor Gedigtefees Program 27 – 30 Augustus 2015


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daily Programme:

Thursday 27 August 2015


1  The InZynch Poetry Session: Praat poësie en rymelary/Spoken Poetry, Rhyming

Adrian Different, Pieter Odendaal en Denver Rimestein

9.30vm / NG Kerksaal / 60 min / Free event



2  At table with C Louis Leipoldt

7.00pm / Tebaldi’s / R210.00pp (includes a glass of complimentary Muscadel) / Direct bookings: 023 625 1871 (40 pax)




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Friday 28 August 2015


3  Antjie Krog: Monsters en Fairies

11.00vm / NG Kerksaal / free event


4  Jo and Mike: Around the Kitchen Table: Stories of Old McGregor

2.00pm / The Lion House / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


5  Floris Brown: Ster wat Skyn

2.00nm / Wahnfried / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


6  The InZynch Poetry Session: Praat poësie en rymelary/Spoken Poetry, Rhyming

Adrian Different, Pieter Odendaal en Denver Rimestein

3.00nm / NG Kerksaal / 60 min / Free event


7  Hester van der Walt en Suenel Bruwer-Holloway:

"Whence/Waar vandaan"

3.30pm / D’Amphitheater / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


8  Growing Poems: Book a small-group session with Douglas Reid Skinner

3.30pm / The Tree House / 50 min / R50.00 / Direct booking: 023 625 1871


9  Film: Poetry Korean with English subtitles

3.30pm / Wahnfried / 139 min / Donation at door


10  Kerry Hammerton: continuum

5.00pm / The Tree House / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


11  Ansa Smit: Unspoken: Singing soul-tongue aloud.

5.00pm / The Well / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


12  Koos van der Merwe: Leonard Cohen in Afrikaans

8.00nm / NG Kerk / Konsert 80 min / R120.00 book your ticket here


13  Helen Moffett: Telling truth slant: poetry as creative non-fiction

8.00pm / The Tree House / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


14  Bob Commin: The exploration of Cowboy poetry.

9.00pm / Carol’s Pub / Donation in Charity Box




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Saturday / Saterdag 29 Aug 2015


15  Briar Grimley (On behalf of the Breede Centre): In the Beginning….

9.30am / Breede Centre / 50 min / Donation at the door


16  Koos vd Merwe: Daar Waar Rympies Vandaan Kom

9.30vm / Caritas / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


17  Colleen Higgs: Too much information

9.30am / D’Amphitheater / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


18  Marguerite van der Merwe: Poetry Walks The Garden Of The Beloved

9.30am / Caritas Garden / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


19  Growing Poems: Book a small-group session with Douglas Reid Skinner

9.30am / The Little Way / 50 min / R50.00 / Direct booking: 023 625 1871


20  Growing Poems: Book a 15 minute individual mentor session with Kerry Hammerton

9.30am / The Poetry Library in Temenos / 15 min / R50.00 / Direct booking: 023 625 1871



21  Diana Ferrus: Vir 'n soldaat van die Cape Corps - 70 jaar na die Tweede Wêreldoorlog / For a soldier from the Cape Corps - 70 years after World War II.

9.30am / The Tree House / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


22  John Maytham: Serious, sublime and silly

9.30am / Wahnfried / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


23  Louise Viljoen: Name in Breyten Breytenbach se poësie.

11.00vm / NG Kerk / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


24  Launch: Stanzas! A new publication for matters poetic

12.30pm / Bemind Winery / 50 min / Donation at the door


25  Briar Grimley (On behalf of the Breede Centre): In the Beginning….

12.30pm / Breede Centre / 50 min / Donation at the door


26  Philip de Vos: Versies vir die dag en vir die nag.

12.30nm / Caritas / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


27  Norman Morrissey and Silke Heiss: Birds, Beasts, Flowers and More. A Selection of Nature Poems

12.30pm / D’Amphitheater / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


28  Ian McCallum with Annie Middleton: Poetry Strikes a Chord

12.30pm / Wahnfried / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here



29  Douglas Reid Skinner: The launch of and reading from The Secret Ambition, a book of poems by the Italian poet Valerio Magrelli translated into English by Douglas Reid Skinner & Marco Fazzini.

2.00pm / Bemind Winery / 50 min / Donation at the door


30  Open Mic Session 1 hosted by Hugh Hodge

2.00pm / Caritas / 50 min / Free event



31  Antjie Krog: Mede-wete/Synapse

2.00nm / NG Kerk / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here



32  Sindiwe Magona: I Apologize For My Tongue

2.00pm / Wahnfried / 50 min / R50.00 / Bookings: 023 625 1871 Temenos Festival Office


33  Lara Kirsten: That primal pulse

3.30pm / Caritas / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here



34  
CANCELLED Genna Gardini: A Reading of Poems by Genna Gardini

3.30pm / Edna Fourie Gallery / 50 min / R50.00 



35  Growing Poems: Book a 15 minute individual mentor session with Kerry Hammerton

3.30pm / The Poetry Library in Temenos / 15 min / R50.00 / Direct booking: 023 625 1871



36  Harry Owen: Searching with Dogs!

3.30pm / The Tree House / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here



37 
CANCELLED Prof Adam Small: Klawerjas en daarna 

3.30nm / Wahnfried / 50 min / R50.00 

Another Open Mic session with Hugh Hodge has been added to this time slot.

38  John Maytham: Serious, sublime and silly

5.00pm / Caritas / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here



39  Hester van der Walt en Suenel Bruwer-Holloway:

"Whence/Waar vandaan"

5.00pm / D’Amphitheater / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here



40  Ansa Smit: Unspoken: Singing soul-tongue aloud.

5.00pm / Edna Fourie Gallery / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here



41  Patricia Schonstein: Life as Poetic Pilgrimage

5.00pm / The Tree House / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here



42  Mavis Vermaak: Some Poetry/Some Poems

5.00pm / The Well / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here



43  Gert Vlok Nel: Die lewe se laaste lieflike refrein.(sang en poems)

5.00nm / Wahnfried / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here



44  Launch of the McGregor Poetry Festival 2014 Anthology

6.30pm / Caritas / 50 min / free event



45  Forest: Koos Du Plessis “Herinneringe van Gister”

Prys sluit in Sop, Sjerrie en tuisgebakte brood

6.30nm vir 7.00nm / NG Kerksaal / R120.00 Besprekings Direk: 023 625 1685 (9-12vm weeksdae)

Epos ngkmcgregor@telkomsa.net

46  Helen Moffett: Poetry stand-up and fall about

8.00pm / The Tree House / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here



47  Film: Bob Dylan Dont Look Back

8.00pm / Wahnfried / 96 min / Donation at the door



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Sunday / Sondag 30 Aug 2015


48  Bob Commin: Poetry Eucharist

9.00am / The Little Way / 90 min / Offering for charity


49  Friends of Vrolijkheid: Poetry in Motion/Poetry in Stillness

9.00am / Vrolijkheid Nature Reserve / 75 min / R50.00 (includes entry to the Reserve) / Direct bookings: Rose Kent rosehkent@gmail.com / 072 721 7377


50  Open Mic Session 2 hosted by Hugh Hodge

9.30am / Caritas / 50 min / Free event


51  Harry Owen: For Rhino in a Shrinking World

9.30am / Edna Fourie Gallery / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


52  NG Kerk: Feesdiens

9.30vm / NG Kerk McGregor


53  Antjie Krog: Mede-wete/Synapse

9.30vm / Wahnfried / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


54  Petra Müller: Verbeeldings

11.00vm / Caritas / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


55  Patricia Schonstein: Poetry as Portrait & Still Life

11.00am / Edna Fourie Gallery / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


56  Marguerite van der Merwe: Poetry Walks The Garden Of The Beloved

11.00am / Caritas Garden / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


57  Bob Commin: Four Quartets.

11.00am / The Little Way / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


58  Colleen Higgs: Publishing poetry

11.00am / The Tree House / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


59  Liesl Jobson and Tim Hyslop: Noble Bassoon, Night Singer

11.00am / Wahnfried / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


60  Ian McCallum and Wendy Woodward: Poetry-a voice for the voiceless

12.30pm / Caritas / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


61  Christine Coates: Homegrown – Poetry as Memoir.

12.30pm / Edna Fourie Gallery / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


62  Khadija Tracey Heeger: Blood Narrative

12.30pm / The Tree House / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


63  Gert Vlok Nel: Die lewe se laaste lieflike refrein.

12.30pm / Wahnfried / 50 min / R50.00 book your ticket here


64  Film: Othello

3.00pm / Wahnfried / 176 min / Donation at the door


65  Festival wrap-up: Poetry and Potjie on the stoep

6.30pm / Le Bonheur / R100.00pp (bring your own wine). Direct bookings: 023 625 1908




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