(Mervyn
Croft)
St Clements will hold two Mondays at Six
programmes in early December: December 2 (musical) and December 9 (poetic)
December 2 (17h45 for 18h00: Back by
popular demand, the Gypsy Strings, a vibrant cosmopolitan ensemble - all
members of the acclaimed KZN Philharmonic Orchestra - will present a delightful
evening of music, passion and pleasure.
Donations box minimum R50pp to cover costs.
December 9 (17h45 for 18h00): Mervyn Croft
has been an engaged Buddhist for more than 40 years. He lived, taught and
planted many trees at the Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, during the 13 years
he spent there as an inspiration and guiding light from 1986. Mervyn left the
BRC in 1999 then after three months in Sri Lanka, formed a Buddhist trust,
bought a property in Magaliesberg and (In 2000) co-founded the Emoyeni Retreat
Centre, where he teaches and lives in a house of stone. Croft will launch and read from his first
book, Without Limits, at t Clements on Monday 9th December.
Expect an inspiring, visually pleasing and
creative presentation “Mervyn Croft’s
poetry is an invitation to walk out beyond the cacophony, enabling us to ask,
“What is it that listens”?; to push through the panic and violence of “too much
doing”... — Marà Peté
“Mervyn Croft's poetry, written out of a
Buddhist sensibility, but emphatically not Buddhist, are deeply evocative and
impressive... There is a lightness of touch to be found when Mervyn explores
some of the deeply existential and universal themes of life: love and loss,
sensuality and our relationship to the natural world, change and the challenge
of modern life dedicated, as it is, to constant doing...” — John Peacock
St Clements is situated at 191 Musgrave
Road. Mondays @ Six run between 18h00 and 19h00. Table bookings are essential
on 031 202 2511. If you wish to dine after the presentation, place your order
before 18h00.
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