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Dear Reader
Invitation
The Jacana Jamboree at Idasa’s Cape Town Democracy Centre and Lobby Books
The brilliant folks at Jacana Media have put together an amazing programme of literary events to coincide with the Cape Town Book Fair. We are very excited that no fewer than five of these events will be taking place at Idasa’s Cape Town Democracy Centre and Lobby Books at 6 Spin Street, Cape Town. You are cordially invited to all of them! |
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BOOK LAUNCH:
Zimbabwe’s Exodus: Crisis, Migration and Survival edited by Jonathan Crush and Daniel Tevera
The editors will speak at the launch and Jonathan Khumbulani Nkala will perform The Crossing, his one-man play about his journey on foot from a dusty Zimbabwean Village to Cape Town.
The ongoing crisis in Zimbabwe has led to an unprecedented exodus of over a million desperate people from all strata of Zimbabwean society. The Zimbabwean diaspora is now truly global in extent. Yet rather than turning their backs on Zimbabwe, most maintain very close links with the country, returning often and remitting billions of dollars each year. Zimbabwe’s Exodus is written by leading migration scholars, many from the Zimbabwean diaspora. The book explores the relationship between Zimbabwe’s economic and political crisis and migration as a survival strategy. It includes personal stories of ordinary Zimbabweans living and working in other countries, who describe the hostility and xenophobia they often experience.
“This solo performance is … as thrilling as it is inspiring, as frightening as it is miraculous … and confronts South Africans with what it is like to live and survive in this country as a refugee.” – Marianne Thamm, Times Live, 10 April 2010.
Wine and snacks will be served.
Date: Wednesday 28 July
Time: 17h30 for 18h00
Venue: Lobby Books, 6 Spin Street, Cape Town
Speakers: Jonathan Crush and Daniel Tevera, with a performance by Jonathan Khumbulani Nkala
RSVP: 021 467 7606; aspath@idasa.org.za; or book on www.strictlytickets.com
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BOOK LAUNCH:
Soweto by Jodie Bieber
Acclaimed home-grown photographer, Jodi Bieber, has created an open-ended essay which is a celebration and a portrait of life in Soweto today.
The importance of Soweto in the collective consciousness is hard to overstate. It registers as a place born of resistance, perhaps even embodying the South African struggle for freedom. But the birth of Kwaito is attributed to Soweto too. And beyond the grand narratives, there is, and always was, a proliferation of dancing, art and fashion in this place defined by its energy and cosmopolitan nature. Labelling and un-labelling, claiming and discarding, Sowetans have created Soweto anew. This is a phenomenon that is celebrated in this photographic publication, which contemplates daily lived realities, where here, as elsewhere, South Africans are continually reinventing themselves and their urban space.
Jodi will be in conversation with Ismail Farouk, an artist and urban geographer. His work explores creative responses to racial, social, political and economic justice. He is currently employed as a researcher at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town.
Wine and snacks will be served.
Date: Thursday 29 July
Time: 17h30 for 18h00
Venue: Lobby Books, 6 Spin Street, Cape Town
Speakers: Jodi Bieber in conversation with Ismail Farouk
RSVP: 021 467 7606; aspath@idasa.org.za; or book on www.strictlytickets.com
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DISCUSSION:
Pop, Popular, Populist: examining the relationship between the ruling party and society
Join us for a fascinating evening as group of heavy-weight political analysts come together to look at the state of our democracy and ask: Where to from here?
Listen to Richard Calland in conversation with Judith February, Raymond Suttner and Ronnie Kasrils.
Wine and snacks will be served.
Date: Thursday 29 July
Time: 19h30 for 20h00
Venue: Lobby Books, 6 Spin Street, Cape Town
Speakers: Richard Calland in conversation with Judith February, Raymond Suttner and Ronnie Kasrils
RSVP: 021 467 7606; aspath@idasa.org.za; or book on www.strictlytickets.com
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BOOK LAUNCH:
In the Balance: South Africans Debate Reconciliation edited by Dr Fanie du Toit and Erik Doxtander
Editor Dr Fanie du Toit (Executive Director, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation) will be in conversation with Raenette Taljaard and other contributors to the book.
Reconciliation is an open and urgent question. We do not agree about what reconciliation means. We do not agree about how it works. We certainly do not agree about what it has done or the ways in which it can be brought to bear on the problems that confront South Africa today. In short, reconciliation keeps us off balance. A source of strength that sits at the very heart of South Africa’s remarkable transition to democracy, reconciliation is also a frustrating fault line and a yet unfulfilled promise.
There are no simple answers. As the leading voices in this book make clear, reconciliation is a question that must be debated – together – with a candid acknowledgement that the disagreements provoked by reconciliation are an opportunity to interact and learn from one another. Only by sharing our diverging accounts of reconciliation will we come to terms with its contested legacy, its contemporary meaning and its future possibilities. Direct and thought-provoking, the essays here offer staunch defences and pointed criticisms of reconciliation. Together, they challenge the conventional wisdom and sound an important call: once again, it is time to ask after reconciliation’s meaning, practice and value.
Wine and snacks will be served.
Date: Friday 30 July
Time: 17h30 for 18h00
Venue: Lobby Books, 6 Spin Street, Cape Town
Speakers: Dr Fanie du Toit in conversation Raenette Taljaard and other contributors to the book.
RSVP: 021 467 7606; aspath@idasa.org.za; or book on www.strictlytickets.com
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DISCUSSION:
Sustainability: A voting issue?
Listen to Prof. Edgar Pieterse (African Centre for Cities) in conversation with Lance Greyling (MP and Chief Whip of ID Parliamentary Caucus), Muna Lakhani (Earthlife Africa) and Prof. Mark Swilling (Director, Sustainability Institute) on the topic of how to get sustainability on the political agenda for the upcoming local elections?
A delicious and affordable (from R35) brown bag lunch will be on sale at the venue.
Date: Saturday 31 July
Time: 12h30 for 13h00-14h00
Venue: Lobby Books, 6 Spin Street, Cape Town
Speakers: Prof. Edgar Pieterse in conversation with Lance Greyling, Muna Lakhani and Prof. Mark Swilling
RSVP: 021 467 7606; aspath@idasa.org.za; or book on www.strictlytickets.com
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The Jacana Jamboree is a Jacana Media, Book Lounge, Cape Times and Equal Education initiative
Please bring high quality children’s and young adults’ books, in good condition, to donate to Equal Education’s book drive for school libraries. 10% of all Jacana Books sold at the event will also go to Equal Education for their library book drive.
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