The third Spier Poetry Festival dancing in other words, took place on Saturday, 7 May.
Breyten Breytenbach
Keorapetse Willie Kgositsile
Dominique Botha
Keorapetse Willie Kgositsile
Breyten Breytenbach
Yvette Christiansë
Maram al-Masri
Neo Muyanga and Hans C ten Berge
Adrian van Wyk and Bibi Slippers
Kirby van der Merwe
Catherine du Toit
Pieter Odendaal
Francis Galloway, editor of LitNet Akademies (Geesteswetenskappe), and Matthias Brenzinger, director of CALDi (Centre for African Language Diversity), UCT
James Matthews
Eureka Barnard, SASNEV
Kirby van der Merwe and Yvette Christiansë
Hans C ten Berge
Bibi Slippers
Efe Paul Azino
Desmond Painter
Festival musical director Neo Muyanga
Georges Lory
Video: Keorapetse Willie Kgositsile
Video: Maram al-Masri
Georges Lory reads poetry by the French poet and philosopher Michel Deguy who could not attend the festival.
Video: Breyten Breytenbach, with Schalk Joubert and Laurinda Hofmeyr
The Siyaya Choristers performed the at the evening's poetry reading.
Siyaya Choristers
Siyaya Choristers
Siyaya Choristers
Yvette Christiansë
Video: Efe Paul Azino
Video: James Matthews
Yvette Christiansë and James Matthews
Video: Hans C ten Berge
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