The City of Cape Town’s Arts & Culture Unit identified the need for a creative platform where local authors who have already published works and NGOs can promote and sell their works or raise funds.

Artists interested in exhibiting can contact Nosiseko Nondumo on telephone number +27 (0)21-400-4899 / 4637.

The three day Literary Festival in taking place in Claremont (Southern Suburbs)will include poetry reading, story telling, creative writing sessions and a book fair.

The Arts and Culture Strategy of the City of Cape Town aims to enrich community life by encouraging, integrating and supporting the development of arts and culture, by recognising its importance to tourism and the local economy and by inspiring a vibrant future, while respecting the past.

In order to realise this, the unit aims:

• To have focused and sustainable programmes
• To support the preservation and promotion of the community’s historic and cultural resources
• To promote diversity in the artistic life of the community
• To facilitate equal opportunities for communities to enjoy and participate in cultural activities

City of Cape Town Literary Festival:

Date: 28 – 30 May 2008
Time: 09:00 – 17:00 daily
Venue: Claremont Civic Centre
Location: Claremont, Cape Town

Molo says: “ Whether you are a book worm or the occasional reader – this is something for everyone to discover writers, poets and other literary talent and treasures from Cape Town and the Western Cape.”

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