POETRY IN MCGREGOR 2021

Posted by McGregor Tourism McG on 10 November 2021 3:00 PM CAT

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POETRY IN MCGREGOR 2021

Posted by McGregor Tourism McG on 10 November 2021 12:05 PM CAT

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CAR WASH & GO

Posted by McGregor Tourism McG on 28 September 2021 9:30 AM CAT

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A Reluctant Pilgrimage

Posted by McGregor Tourism McG on 02 September 2021 8:00 AM CAT

What is needed to live a life of fulfilment and purpose, even if a chronic health condition has taken away most of what gave fulfilment and purpose before? What lies on the other side of your losses and your suffering?

This supportive little guide takes you from despair and confusion, along several landscapes and reflections, into a place of insight, acceptance and hope.

If for yourself or for someone you know, please drop me a line at heartandsoul.arjan@protonmail.com
and you’ll be sent this little treasure, at no cost, as well as its beautifully illustrated version of selected extracts.

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Reconnecting through your creative conscious 20 - 22 August 2021

Posted by McGregor Tourism McG on 12 August 2021 9:30 AM CAT

Welcome to a creative experience designed by an Artist, Teacher and Specialist Wellness Counsellor. Carl Jung said that in everyone some kind of artist is hiding. This workshop will take you on a wonderful journey back to the true self, the constant unchanging self, the knowing self. Prepare to let yourself go in a holistic space where you will be inspired to elevate your creative awareness. Learn about lost aspects of yourself such as clarity and the ensuing happiness it brings.

Relinquish stress and process your emotions as you reconnect through creative consciousness and self-expression into joy and light.

You don’t need to be an artist, everyone is creative and this workshop is designed to have fun and meditate. The experience does not only involve and is not just about the materials as much as it is about you discovering yourself, In the process of creating. Creativity is a very healing and taps into our inner beings enabling us to learn about interesting areas in our individual subconscious, so valuable in relationships, either with ourselves or with others. You should leave this workshop feeling enlightened.

I look forward to welcoming you on the Friday at dinner 6.30pm at Tebaldis.

Cost of retreat is inclusive of workshop on Saturday and morning, all materials, accommodation and two dinners and two breakfasts at Temenos.

R1960pp for two nights and the Sunday night is free should you wish to stay on. Meals excluding Sunday and Monday but feel free to book at the Temenos restaurant or explore the village.

Mary-Louise has been an Art Teacher for over 20 years as well as an award-winning professional Artist and is registered with the ASCHP as a Specialist Wellness Counsellor. She has dealt with many issues around art as she has helped people through life experiences by using the medium and watching them flourish as a result. She is also an open water long distant swimmer who has done the Robben Island Swim, a writer and a very proud mother of three amazing children. Contact her on 0795149074 to book.

The Artist Roy Adzak cleverly states that good art is not what it looks like but what it does to us.

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POETRY IN MCGREGOR 2021- NEW DATE

Posted by McGregor Tourism McG on 04 August 2021 10:00 AM CAT

EXCITING NEWS!

 POETRY IN MCGREGOR is moving to NOVEMBER from 2021 onwards. We have always wanted to hold the festival in November but chose not to due to the number of other annual events taking place in and around McGregor in November. November’s weather is perfect festival weather with warm days, little wind and no rain. With so many other annual events no longer taking place we are taking the opportunity to move the festival to November in 2021 and plan to keep the festival in the second weekend of November from 2021 onwards. The bonus this year is that it will also be a relatively safer time to hold the festival in terms of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic with more people having being vaccinated and the summer weather not being as conducive to the spread of the virus. Poetry in McGregor 2021 FRIDAY 19-SUNDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2021 will be an intimate and celebratory  festival featuring  over 70 poets performing in group events.

We trust that those of you who have already booked accommodation in August will be able to change your reservations to November. Please contact our office at Temenos ASAP . if you have reserved accommodation in McGregor please contact the Tourism office 023 625 1954

DINNER FOR TWO-OR-MORE

For those of you who would still like to enjoy a weekend in August in McGregor, Patricia Schonstein and Jane de Sousa will be reading the beautiful  poetry of Chris Mann, Hugh Hodge, Candy Rhode and  Bernard Levinson, beloved poets who passed away over these past few months. This will be a celebration evening and include a three course dinner at Tebaldi’s during which poems will be read and glasses raised.

This will take place on Saturday 28 August.

-Three course meal plan and a complimentary glass of sherry R230

Should you be interested to join us, please reserve your seat at Tebaldi’s 023 625 1115

www.poetryinmcgregor.co.za 

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POETRY IN MCGREGOR 2021

Posted by McGregor Tourism McG on 12 July 2021 8:00 AM CAT

INVITATION to Poets to participate in Poetry in McGregor 2021 IN ABSENTIA
 
THE GARDEN OF THE BELOVED
‘Die Tuin Van die Beminde’
 
INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE IN ABSENTIA POETRY IN McGREGOR VIDEO 2021 

Dear Poets,

This year, in spite of uncertain times, we are proceeding with our ninth year of celebrating the Art of Poetry in McGregor. We are aware that many poets are unable to attend the festival in person this year due to the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. We are therefore creating a digital platform through which poets can participate in this year’s festival, in absentia.
Poets can submit a poem to be read by a group of actors and voice artists in the In Absentia video which will be screened at this year’s festival and posted on the website. Poems can be from a poet’s new body of work or on this year’s theme, the Garden of the Beloved.
 If wish to participate send the following to info@poetryinmcgregor.co.za by SATURDAY 31 JULY:

• Your full name and contact details – email and telephone
• Your poem
• Five lines about the writing of this poem – what inspired you to write it, the writing process, the evolution of the poem’s creation
• A photograph of yourself
  You can contact the Coordinator, Jane De Sousa, with any questions:
  021 – 447 9325, 072 446 5420, info@poetryinmcgregor.co.za
  We look very forward to hearing from you.
  Warm Regards
  Billy Kennedy
  Chairman: McGregor Poetry Festival 2021

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Youth Day

Posted by Chayan Singh on 16 June 2021 5:00 AM CAT

Youth Day commemorates the Soweto Uprising, which took place on 16 June 1976, where thousands of students were ambushed by the apartheid regime. On Youth Day, South Africans pay tribute to the lives of these students and recognises the role of the youth in the liberation of South Africa from the apartheid regime.

View full text: https://africantravelcanvas.com/experiences/history-and-politics/hector-pieterson-and-the-soweto-uprising-why-we-celebrate-youth-day-on-16-june/

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Friends of Care

Posted by Chayan Singh on 07 June 2021 5:00 PM CAT

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THE GEOLOGY OF THE KRANS NATURE RESERVE

Posted by Ayanda Khuzwayo on 27 November 2018 7:35 AM CAT

The McGregor Heritage Society celebrated Heritage Day 2018 with a ramble along the paths of the Krans Nature Reserve. This was preceded by a fascinating talk on the geology of the area given by the longstanding member and amateur geologist Mike Kamstra. 

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