HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WORDFEST 2012 PROGRAMME See WordStock our daily insert in Cue for details of each day's

programme. Tickets at Computicket or the door. Saturday 30 June 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 16:00 Sunday 1July 11:00 12:00 13:00 15:00 16:00 Monday 2 July 10:00 11: 00 12:00 13:00 15:00 16:00 Tuesday 3 July 11:00 12:00 13:00 15:00 16:00 Wed 4 July 11:00 12:00 13:00 15:00 17:00 Thursday 5 July 11:00 12:00 13:00 15:00 17:00 Friday 6 July 11:00 12:00 13:00 15:00 17:00 Brent Meersmans meticulous research crosses boundaries in a first novel about the shaping eighties Mike De Jongh on a marginalised first people as he launches The Karretjie people of the great Karoo Prominent South African singer-songwriters perform original lyrics Harry Owen, Amitabh Mitra launch, Upstart Writers then Open Mike Launch of English Basket heartening memoir by Peter Jackson pioneering African ecologist R10 R10 Free R10 R10 Lecture/discussion Lecture/discussion Performance Performance/reading Lecture/discussion Launch Pad Seminar Room 2 Restaurant Launch Pad Launch Pad Roy Jobson: how companies deceitfully market complementary medicines with pseudo-science Janet Suzman director of current Anthony & Cleopatra in Britain on directing Shakespeare today Prominent South African singer-songwriters perform original lyrics Marco Fazzini (Italy) poet & translator, Aerial writers then Open Mike Dawn Garisch, medical doctor & writer explores the art & science of healing in Eloquent Body R10 R20 Free R10 R10 Lecture/discussion DALRO Lecture Performance Performance/reading Lecture/discussion Launch Pad Red Lecture Theatre Restaurant Launch Pad Launch Pad Ashwin Desai launches his book describing how Shakespeare was read on Robben Island Pieter-Dirk Uys launches Bambi Kellermanns autobiography Never too naked, with Q&A Prominent South African singer-songwriters perform original lyrics Mark Robinson (UK) then Rhodes MA creative writing students followed by Open Mike Rosemary Smith lifelong Black Sash activist & leader launches memoir Swimming with Cobras R10 R20 Free R10 R10 Lecture/discussion DALRO Lecture Performance Performance/reading Launch/discussion Seminar room 2 Red Lecture Theatre Restaurant Launch Pad Launch Pad Marc Botha on the deep histories of rock art, stone engraving and concrete poetry Julia Wells revisits Eastern Cape history with launch of The Return of Makhanda Prominent South African singer-songwriters perform original lyrics Reading of poems by two currently imprisoned Chinese poets, then David wa Maahlalela, Rethabile Zilila & other CUTT Poets (Free State) then Open Mike Shirley Gunn Human Rights Media Centre with three moving books on blindness in SA R10 Free Performance/reading Lecture/launch Launch Pad Red Lecture Theatre R10 Free Free Illustrated lecture Launch/lecture Performance Seminar Room 2 Red Lecture Theatre Restaurant Crystal Warren National English Lit Museum - The year in books: an overview of SA literature Mandla Matyumza author and literature activist key note address at opening ceremony Max Du Preez on the state of the nation drawing on writing by Njabulo Ndebele & others Prominent South African singer-songwriters perform original lyrics Readings by prominent SA writers teaching Rhodes MA creative writing students then Open Mike Khulumanis Marjorie Jobson critically examines the move from black power to black bling R10 Free R10 Free R10 Free Lecture/Discussion Lecture Lecture/Discussion Performance Performance/reading Lecture/discussion Seminar Room 2 Red Lecture Theatre Launch Pad Restaurant Launch Pad Red Lecture Theatre Paul Mason shares his research on writing by pale male conscripts facing the border war McIntosh Polela launches his courageous and searing first novel My father, my monster Prominent South African singer-songwriters perform original lyrics Is modern poetry a waste of time? Reg Rumney, Denis Beckett and panel Siphiwo Mahala launches African Delights an insightful collection of new SA stories R10 Free Free R10 Free Seminar/discussion Lecture/discussion Performance Seminar/discussion Lecture/discussion Launch Pad Red Lecture Theatre Restaurant Launch pad Red Lecture Theatre Wordfest Eastern Cape, registration of 100 writers. Readings in IsiXhosa/SeSotho/Afrikaans/English Denis Beckett author and democracy sage on how never to see a Malema-headline again Terry Crawford-Browne arms-deal warrior launches his new book on arms and diamonds Prominent South African singer-songwriters perform original lyrics Hamilton Wende on how his travels in Afghanistan, Iraq & the DRC became a superb book Free R10 R10 Free R10 Daily till Wed. Lecture/discussion Lecture/discussion Performance Illustrated lecture Red Lecture Theatre Seminar Room 2 Launch Pad Restaurant Seminar Room 2

Check out Van Schaik bookshop, the Readers and Writers Restaurant and the Upstart programme as detailed each day in WordStock. Exhibitions: Artwork, publishers, Centre for the Book, The Long Unbroken String, black South African English writing ( NELM). See also the exhibitions at National English Literary Museum (Beaufort Street) and the Eastern Star Gallery (Anglo-African Street).

Many thanks to our funders! NAC, EC Government, PanSALB, DALRO, Van Schaik and Rhodes University.