MALIKA NDLOVU’s words and performances feature on pages and stages across South Africa and globally for over 25 years. She has published two plays, five solo poetry collections and curated multimedia poetry events for various festivals and platforms. This trans-disciplinary artist thrives on collaboration. As an applied arts practitioner Malika consistently promotes healing through creative expression and is member of Sp(i)eel Art Therapies Collective networked to the broader SA Arts in Psychosocial Support community of practice. She features prominently in Our Words, Our Worlds: Writing on Black South African Women Poets, 2000 - 2018, ed. Makhosazana Xaba (UKZN Press, 2019) and Voices Unbound: Poems from the 8th International Symposium of Poetic Inquiry. (HSRC Press,2023). Malika’s keynote Re-turning to Ourselves, Our Wealth: Poetic reflections opened the 2023 Inaugural Conference of the African Humanities Association. Her latest book Grief Seed centering on the regenerative nature of grief will be published in late 2024.
Everything arrives in its time. Nature shows us every day and everywhere that we can learn to surrender and allow the flow of sorrow to move through us naturally and into the renewing currents of life. We are reshaped by this allowing, and we expand beyond our thinking. I am in awe of what grief has grown in my life over the years, through my work as a writer and applied artist, as well as the lifelong learning journey of parenting. I recognise how co-creating space for our experiences of individual and collective loss can be regenerative in unimagined and often underestimated ways. I offer this two hour facilitated conversation with participants, drawing on extracts from my upcoming book GriefSeed as prompts for their own reflections and creative writing on and through grief.
Dates: 16 November 2024
Time: 3 - 5pm
Zoom Link: Will be emailed to you on successful registration and payment
FEE OPTIONS
Option 1 TBC
Option 2 TBC
Option 3 TBC
We’re experimenting with a sliding scale fee model, allowing for the Writer’s Way events to be offered at multiple price points based on your financial circumstances.
For it to work, we’re relying on principles of truthfulness and accountability.
Teachers deserve to be paid and course participants deserve to attend personal development courses which recognise the multiple reality of economic access and privilege that exist.
Fee option 1 is a reduced rate for those whose budget genuinely cannot accommodate option 2.
Fee option 2 represents the fair and true cost of the course.
Fee option 3 is for those who are able to pay for themselves and pay extra towards making it possible for another person to attend a LRC writing course at a nominal rate.