HAPPY NEW YEAR, 2016!
Dear Friends,
We are relishing thoughts of 2016 as we thank you for being
great partners and friends this year. The Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation team
is indebted to you for your unyielding support, humour and leadership.
Our Babishai Poetry Festival
takes place next year from 24 to 26 August 2016 in Kampala at The Uganda
Museum. The theme is Abundance: Poetry from Contemporary Africa. -themes include,
but are not limited to:-
i.
Does
poetry from Africa need a definition and how does that impact its production?
ii.
The
extension of poetry and the sustainability of relationships with artists and
the corporate world
iii.
If
poetry exists everywhere, why do so many people say that they don’t understand
it?
iv.
When
and how does a poem become a poem?
v.
The
co-existence of political and personal freedom and bondage
vi.
Teaching
poetry to children and the question of age-appropriate poetry and its
accessibility
If you are interested in
participating in the festival, kindly email festival@babishainiwe.com, from
January 4th 2016.
We will also, together with literary partners, celebrate the
golden anniversary of Song of Lawino’s first publication in Luo and English. A
few schools and guest writers and poets from across Africa, The U.S and Europe
have already confirmed attendance at the festival. From January, we will unveil
them.
We will also launch our new website and in June, hold the
first ever in Uganda, Poetry On The Mountain, scheduled for June and alongside
this will be a launch of a poetry collection. Mount Rwenzori’s first ever
poetry collection launch.
The 2014 and 2015 Babishai Poetry award long-listed poets
will also be published in an anthology during the #Babishai2016 Poetry
festival.
We wish you a magnificent year ahead and sincerely look
forward to bumping our poetry minds together.
May favour and goodness be yours!
From Us.
Kindly note that our new official address is
babishainiwe@babishainiwe.com
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