The University of Johannesburg's Doornfontein arts and culture office and its poetry group, Afro Alphabets will be hosting its First annual Izimbbongi Poetry festival on the 1st of October 2011. Happening at 12h00 midday at the Con Cowan Theatre on the Auckland park Campus,the festival boasts with line up of over 30 incredible Poets and collectives.
These include, Likwid Tongue (hosts), Romeo The Poet, Nova, Mak Manaka, The Lazarus Man, Mutle, Afurakan, T.O.T(collective), Lilly Million, 21Poets and a poem, Flo, Sabelo and El nino, Eric mashinyane, Kb Kilobyte, Quaz, Fore.Word (collective), Rennie Alexander, Rantoloko The Truth, Vallentine, MagnumOpus, Donald The Neosapien, Ballardy composition (collective), Thandokuhle Siphukwazi Mngqibisa, Emma, Penumbra, Poets of light, Ellipsis, Beaucy, Masai Dabula, and Moho Katalyst.
The festival seeks to bring together under one roof, all the new, active and emerging voices that make up the Johannesburg Poetry landscape. It promises to be a day of words and mind blowing performances.
Entrance fee is R20.
Contact Information:
For inquiries: contact Quaz at +2782 067 8104
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