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THE 12th ANNUAL DESMOND TUTU INTERNATIONAL PEACE LECTURE COMES BACK TO CAPE TOWN CITY HALL The 12th Annual Desmond Tutu International Peace Lecture returns on 7 October 2022, marking the first Lecture since Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s passing at the end of 2021. The event is being held on Archbishop Tutu’s birthday and will honour... Continue Reading →
From Litnet Stemme | Voices | Amazwi is LitNet’s series of 15 short, powerful monologues, written by established and upcoming playwrights, presented in collaboration with Suidoosterfees, NATi and ATKV. In Siphokazi Jonas’ Mkhuseli, a fallen star whose memory was wiped when it fell to earth, stands guard at a shoreline to save the spirits of the drowned. Peggy Mongoato performs the... Continue Reading →
Siphokazi Jonas will be at Poetry Africa in October
SA WOMEN’S ARTS FESTIVAL IN DURBAN The Playhouse Company, celebrates its annual SA Women’s Arts Festival in Durban’s Playhouse complex between 2 and 13 August 2022. Featuring a stellar roster of cultural icons, this lynchpin event on our county’s Women’s Month calendar has long been one of the flagships of the Company’s yearly Arts Plan. “Over the years, our role in underlining... Continue Reading →
The interview on 18th May with Siphokazi Jonas on Cape Talk, the drive time show at 5.50pm speaking about the SAGSA conference (South African Girls School Association ) #sagsaCPT2022 https://soundcloud.com/martinmyers/siphokazi-jonas-a-writer-performer-and-a-poet-with-a-vision-for-education?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
MOËT & CHANDON CELEBRATES CHAMPAGNE DAY WITH A GRAND ‘TOAST TO TODAY’ From South Africa to Dubai, the French Champagne House brought people together in glamorous celebration Moët & Chandon has been associated with the celebration of success and of life’s most memorable moments for nearly three centuries. It Is the world’s most loved champagne for good... Continue Reading →
Siphokazi Jonas. Picture: Supplied By Kedibone Modise South African poet, playwright and producer, Siphokazi Jonas is honoured to be the featured act at the 2021 Poetry Africa Festival. Under the theme “Unmute: Power to the Poet”, the 25th edition of the virtual festival is set to take place at the Centre for Creative Arts at the... Continue Reading →
Siphokazi Jonas Stella Nyanzi South African poet, playwright and producer, Siphokazi Jonas will be the featured poet during the 25th Poetry Africa Festival presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal from 11 to 16 October 2021. Poet Dr Stella Nyanzi, a multiple award-winning medical anthropologist, specialising in sexual and reproductive... Continue Reading →
Siphokazi Jonas along with Im4theArts Arts Education Working group committee members are taking part in the first Creative Arts Conference, hosted by Rustenberg Girls Junior School and Western Cape Education Department, funded by Old Mutual Foundation this weekend from 27 to 28 August We invite you to attend the virtual conference. The ticket is just... Continue Reading →
Poetry and Song, LIVE! A special evening of Poetry and Song with the inimitable Siphokazi Jonas, Heinrich Frans, Benedict De Maar and Valentino Europa. Heinrich Frans has performed as lead and backing vocalist for international artists such as Jonathan Butler, Kirk Whalum, Oleta Adams, Diana Ross, Bebe Winans, Josh Groban, and Mark Fransman’s Strait and... Continue Reading →
We are delighted to introduce The Empty Chair, a new podcast series from PEN South Africa about writing, freedom of expression, censorship, resilience and solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic. For these first five episodes, we have drawn together an eclectic and electric group: novelists, poets, performance poets, journalists, constitutionalists and academics, who together offer us... Continue Reading →
A collection of presentations interspersed with powerful cultural items will make up a programme focusing on health scheduled for Wednesday 7 April 2021, from 7pm to 8.30pm. The programme, titled Health for All, takes place on World Health Day and is organised by the Cape Cultural Collective in partnership with the Foundation for Human Rights, the People’s... Continue Reading →
Siphokazi Jonas will be appearing at Cafe for Poems on 21st March from 4 to 5pm Details on posters Si
Poet Siphokazi Jonas to deliver bespoke work prior to SONA 2021 Siphokazi Jonas who holds an MA degree in English Literature as well as an undergraduate degree in Drama and English has been invited to deliver a two minute bespoke work prior to the President of the Republic of South Africa delivering the State of... Continue Reading →
Highly respected and much-applauded producer, playwright, performer and UCT Masters graduate, Siphokazi Jonas returns to Artscape with a brand-new poetry and music production, #WeAreDyingHere, on 30 November and 1 December 2019. #WeAreDyingHere is three women’s responses to the prevalence of the violent culture of harassment, abuse, rape and femicide in South Africa. “We want to... Continue Reading →
An important read by Siphokazi Jonas
Following the success of her Wrestling With Dawn production, in late 2015, and 2016’s sold-out masterpiece, Around The Fire, the much-applauded producer, playwright, performer,poet and UCT Masters graduate, Siphokazi Jonas, is rekindling Around The Fire this week in Cape Town. Not one to rest on her laurels, Jonas has unpacked, rebuilt and infused the original... Continue Reading →
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