DFL IN STUDIO TODAY

TONI STUART

Joins the Morning Cruise to discuss Drama For Life and the Lover + Another Performance Poetry competition.

" Lover+Another is an innovative performance poetry competition which encourages the youth to openly and creatively talk about relationships, sex, HIV/Aids "

 

Entries are open now until July 30th 2012. To enter your poem, please contact the Lover+Another coordinators in your region to find out when and where you can register:

Durban: Natasha (Tash) Hosken from LIFE CHECK, E-Mail: tash@lifecheckydi.com

University of Zululand: Gift Marovatsanga, E-Mail: tatiwamaro@yahoo.co.uk OR gmarovat@pan.uzulu.ac.za

University of KZN ...– Pietermaritzburg: Karen Suter, E-Mail: suterk@ukzn.ac.za

Cape Town & University of Western Cape:Toni Stuart, E-Mail: tonistuart@gmail.com

WITS and UJ Johannesburg:Malika Ndlovu, E-Mail: himoon@yebo.co.za

No judgement

No restrictions

No pretence

Just you, the mic and the stage…

Lover + Another Theme: Multiple sexual relationships and HIV and AIDS

Tell us what it’s about.

Use your unique voice, you own style

To share your experience and views

Have your say!

Learn More:

http://www.dramaforlife.co.za/index.php/festival/

Today's Poem: A Dry White Season by Mongane Wally Serote

A Dry White Season

For Don M Banned

It is a dry white season

dark leaves don’t last, their brief lives dry out

and with a broken heart they

dive down gently headed for the earth

not even bleeding.

it is a dry white season brother, only the trees know the pain as they still stand erect

dry like steel, their branches dry like wire,

indeed, it is a dry white season but seasons come to pass

© Mongane Wally Serote

#AfricaDay Interview with @apoetryofliving @LilCya @badilishapoetry

from left: Linda Kaoma, Siyabonga Njica, Mbali Vilakazi

We had a poetic explosion in studio today with our inspiring guests. The conversation circled around Africa Day and touched on what it means to be African. What emerged from the conversation is that we must celebrate Africa, the triumphs, the beauty and the majesty of this beautiful continent.

Linda Kaoma is the Project Manager of Badilisha Poetry Exchange which is an Africa Centre initiative. The http://badilishapoetry.com/ website is a site which seeks to connect and promote African Poets and Poets from the diaspora. Visit the site and follow the easy instructions and you as a poet can have your own profile on this amazing site. You can find Badilisha Poetry on Facebook Badilisha Poetry on Facebook

Siyabonga Njica is an emerging poet on the Cape Town scene and submitted his poem "My Dream for Africa" as part of our Africa Day Poetry Project.

My dream for Africa

My dream for Africa

Is that she blossoms beyond her barriers,
That the values and belief system she upholds,consoles and carries us.
My dream for Africa
Is that she becomes united as one,
Where the lineage of her daughters and son's,
Dance to the the beat of the same drum.
My dream for Africa
Is that she relieves her child soldiers from war,
Where all citizens can be equal before the law,
And the gap decreased between rich and poor.
My dream for Africa
Is that she combats the pandemic of Aids,
Where her infants get to live longer than just today
Away from starvation, death-beds and pain.
My dream for Africa
Is that she conserves our cultural heritage.
Where the marimba's and indigenous sounds of the djembe,
Get to be heard for many more millenniums.
My dream for Africa
Is that she promotes black pride and identity,
My dream for Africa
Is that she reaps the fruit of her soil and history.

Mbali Vilakazi is a force of nature. Her very being oozes poetry and consciousness. This award-winning Poet just returned to South Africa from an European Tour and graced our studio with her presence today. Her poetry speaks for itself, check out her website here http://mbalivilakazi.com/

You can follow all our guests on Twitter:

Linda Kaoma - @badilishapoetry

Siyabonga Njica - @LilCya

Mbali Vilakai - @apoetryofliving

In Studio Today :: @NativeRefugee

We had one of our poets Mfundo Ntobongwana in the Freedom Writers series in studio with us - giving us some insight into his creative process as well as letting us get a sneak peak to his poem Burdens of The Free : The Train Track Chronicles that he recorded for the Freedom Writers series.

Listen to the show on Freedom day where we will be plaiying Mfundo's and the other poets poems on the show