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One Picture One Night With Friends in Jozi

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Lemn Sissay
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I needed  this  night with my people in Melville Johannesburg. By my people I mean friends and artists,  politicised, articulate, charachterful, without ego, non judgemental, fiercely opinionated, kind Read more [...]
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Photo: “The art of tying your shoelace according to Lemn Sissay” by Victor Dlamini

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Lemn Sissay
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Victor Dlamini's photography is  brilliant. Dlamini exhibits across the world. last week bloomsbury bought his  picture of Nadine Gordimer for her next book.  Victor tweeted this photograph taken last Read more [...]
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Durban: Umthombo Surfing Children Construct a Poem

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Lemn Sissay
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In Durban, the street children who live without family employ extraordinary skills to deal with extraordinary situations on a daily  moment by moment basis. They consistently navigate crisis walking the Read more [...]
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The Language of Surfing to surf language – The Poem.

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Lemn Sissay
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How many of us could do what that surfer child is doing. This poem was written by Umthombo children who mostly never attended school.  I had one flip chart - call it a wave -  and one pen and about Read more [...]
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Umthombo Durban (Tuesday night Wednesday day)

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Lemn Sissay
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Arriving in darkness last night couldn't prepare me for this morning. I wake at the hotel in Durban to this view of the sun rising over the sea. A little later surfers scoop the waking waves. No sooner Read more [...]
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Finetown. Forty minutes outside Jo’burg

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Lemn Sissay
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The photo is from my much appreciated  accomodation at Tswalu Grove.  This  Monday and half of Tuesday I worked with CAST for the young people of Finetown in their community centre. Let me praise these Read more [...]
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Badalisha Poetry X-change Cape Town 21st April.

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Lemn Sissay
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Town of Runners Screenings Dates

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Lemn Sissay
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Town of Runners screenings with exclusive Q and A's.This film is for all citizens of the world. If you have anything to do with sport or the olympics, viewer or participant you must see this film. If you Read more [...]
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Stop and Search at The Olympic Site

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Lemn Sissay
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Today at 9.35am at the entrance to Westfield  shopping centre  on The Olympic Site,  a ten minute drive from my home,   I was waved by security into what looked like a toll gate.  My car faced a Read more [...]
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The Decisive Moment. The Shot. Click. A week in film.

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Lemn Sissay
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This week's  all about film filming and films. Film.  Earlier this week I filmed for  unitas. We shot a series of  poems at Southbank Centre.  Unitas is a charity that helps people access, participate Read more [...]
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