Deadline: September 5, 2014
The Centre for
Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal), with principal funding from the
City of Durban and the Department of Arts and Culture, calls out to Durban’s
creative and undiscovered poets to take part in the festival Prelude Poets
programme as part of the 18th Poetry Africa International Festival.
The Poetry Africa
festival, which takes place from October 13 to 18, brings together some of the
world’s finest poets and musicians to Durban, with artists from the African
continent and beyond.
Poetry Africa is
looking for four of Durban’s brightest undiscovered poets to take part in the
Prelude Poet programme which gives the city’s creative and original poets the
opportunity to showcase their hidden talents to audiences at the country’s
premier poetry festival.
Participants will
be required to audition original works with a five minute limit.
Auditions will take
place at The Centre for Creative Arts (University of KwaZulu-Natal Howard
College Campus) on September 5, 2014. Auditions will be assigned on a
first-come-first-serve basis. To book an audition time, send an email with full
names and contact details with Poetry Africa Prelude Auditions in the subject
title to poetryafrica@cca-ukzn.co.za
For more details
about this year’s Poetry Africa, visit www.cca.ukzn.ac.za
or call 031 260 2506.
Organised by the Centre for Creative Arts
(University KwaZulu-Natal), the 18th Poetry Africa is funded by the
City of Durban and the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Arts and Culture. The Centre
for Creative Arts is housed in the College of Humanities at the University of
KwaZulu-Natal and is a special project of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor
Cheryl Potgieter.
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