Blessing’s HIFA Diary - Day 4, Bedridden spirit, poetry & ZESA
30 April Friday
Lion Lager day
“Life is just a shelter for the soul.” – Phillippa Yaa de Villiers - poet (HIFA 2010)
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Today my body came to HIFA but my spirit stayed in bed. It caught up with me much later on, just before the Hot House Flowers show in the evening but by that time I could only persuade my body to stay only a little bit longer.
My day started off with Only Hope, a play at the Standard Theatre, which ironically enough began with a funeral scene, just like Hamlet did, in the same theatre two days ago. The dirge they sang was exactly the same as in Hamlet, but without the searing quality of the delivery, however, it fitted the scene. Deja-vu? I sat too close to the front and felt far too involved in the whole enterprise. I always prefer to be a little further away so as not to feel too captive an audience. However, there was some really good acting here. Read more
The Book Café & Mannenberg, Feb 06–14
SPECIALS THIS WEEK
FRI 06, 6-7pm, BOOK CAFÉ HAPPY HOUR! All local beers ‘almost free’!
FRI 06, 10pm, F.L.A.M.E. BURNING for CLARE NYAKUJARA with THE OTHER FOUR - fresh new creative energy on the Zim afrojazz scene! Another exciting event from Pamberi Trust’s gender project - ‘Female Literary Arts & Music Enterprise’ - supported by Hivos.
SAT 07, 2-5pm, House of Hunger POETRY SLAM – Commemorating ‘International Mother Language Day’ (21 Feb) - Come Feel The Energy! All Poets Welcome. A Pamberi Trust Project supported by Hivos
THE ARTS FACTORY @ The Book Café is a new project by Pamberi Trust to support artistic development, and an alternative non-profit-making sales point for Zimbabwean artists’ CDs - HOT off the press! See below for fresh new music now in stock (all sales direct to artist). Read more
