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Our programme will start at 16.30; welcoming guests with a complementary glass of sherry. While other guests arrive, mingle and browse our local artists and authors’ exhibits and book sales.
Programme
| 16:30-onwards | Artists and authors exhibits and booksales View (and buy) Harrismith’s artists and authors’ works and publications Music by Shay Steyn on the harp |
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| 17:30 | Take your seats Martin Lewer-Allen pipes us into the room, to take our seats ready for the evening’s programme to begin. Dané van Graan entertains on the piano |
| 18:00 | Welcome and introductions Harry Loots welcomes guests and contributors |
| 18:20 | Pete Swanepoel talks about one of our best-known local authors Leon Strachan and shares some stories from his books |
| 18:30 | Machiel Roets sits down behind the piano and entertains us with a few of his compositions |
| 19:00 | Johann Lodewyk Marais delivers a short lecture on South Africa’s first female doctor, Harismith’s own Dr Anna Petronella van Heerden. Doctor, political activist, and author. |
| 19:20 | Costa Georghiou entertains us with a selection of jazz numbers |
| 19.50 | Dinner + guest contributions Jackie Badenhorst, Ané Geel and Mia Prinsloo entertain while we have our dinner. |
| 20:50 | Zelda Grobbelaar recites a Costa Georghiou poem |
| 21:00 | Ephraim Mosokotso plays some of his favourite piano numbers |
| 21:30 | Wrap up and closing Final thoughts and future plans… followed by a collaboration between our multi-talented musicians. |