'We don't talk No More' Poetic Musings at PASS

Nonkululeko Godana, Yewande Omotoso, Philipa Kabali - Kagwa, Diana Ferrus and  Sindiwe Magona in conversation with you about life, love, writing & the mundane in between.

When? Thursday, 7 October 6-8pm
Where? @ Pan African Space Station, which is in the Africa Centre on 44 Long Street, Cape Town.
Entrance is free. Just bring an open mind and some poetry/ music to share.

Why?

"Writing is not therapy but it is therapeutic. It is not magic but it can be magical. It is not hell but it can be hellish. Writing is not brutality but it can be brutal. It is not real but it must be realistic."
Sindiwe Magona, literary stalwart and social activist, from her book 'Please Take Photographs'

"When you're writing, a kind of instinct comes in to play. What you're going to write is already there in the darkness. It's as if writing were something outside you, in a tangle of tenses : between writing and having written, having written and having to go on writing; between knowing and not knowing what it's all about; starting from complete meaning, being submerged by it, and ending up in meaninglessness. The image of a black block in the middle of the world isn't far out."
Marguerite Duras (1914 - 1996) French "novelist, playwright" - from her book 'Practicalities'

There are many a pieces I can quote here that speak a lot to me about writing and what it can do to link our everyday stories of living, loving and doing what we need to do to get by. There are conversations we are not having as women/people of how the to pen your joy as potently as we pen our strife/sorrow. Conversations about why we seem to be write more when we're not in intimate relationships.Conversations about how to merge our love for words with our love for humanity, and our need to get paid while doing all of this.
 
This is how it went down... http://www.panafricanspacestation.org.za/?p=2004#comments
More to follow on video and podcast. Keep following @missgods or keep the blog bookmarked.

Thanks to all those who attended or listened over the PASSwaves.