Dr Diana Ferrus and the Mengelmoes Digters - I've come to take you home

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Dr Diana Ferrus and the Mengelmoes Digters - A Poetry afternoon.

The Koena Art Institute is proud to present Dr Diana Ferrus and the Mengelmoes digters to you. Come and spend the afternoon over tea with us. These seasoned poets will present their most loved poems and share the origins and stories with you.

The Mengelmoes digters/poets came into being in 2013 at the Breytenbach centre in Wellington. They were formed during the time when Dr Diana Ferrus presented and facilitated poetry workshops at the Centre. They have since read at various festivals and published a few anthologies. Join us at the Koena Art Institute. We will start with Dr Diana Ferrus Famous, I've come to take you home - The story and poem of Sarah Baartman.

The Mengelmoes digters will present old and new works covering many current topics in brave and honest ways.

The audience will have an opportunity to engage with the writers. There will also be an open floor session so poets and budding poets are welcome to participate!!

Diana Ferrus (born 29 August 1953, Worcester, Western Cape) is a multi award winning South African writer, poet and storyteller of mixed Khoisan and slave ancestry. Her work is published in Afrikaans and English. Ferrus leads writing workshops in Cape Town and Ferrus is best known for her poem"I have come to take you home. A poem about Sarah Baartman, a South African woman taken to Europe under false pretenses and paraded as a curiosity. She wrote the poem in 1998 while studying at Utrecht University. The popularity of this poem is widely believed to be responsible for the return of Bartmann's remains to South Africa.The poem was published into a French law.