Inskrywings vir drama-mentorskapprogram ingewag / Entries still open for playwright mentorship programme | Suidoosterfees
Ontluikende dramaturge het nog tot 26 Junie 2020 kans om in te skryf vir die Jakes Gerwel Stigting en die Suidoosterfees se mentorskapprogram. Met dié projek kry jong dramaturge die geleentheid om aan hulle dramatekste te skaaf onder die professionele leiding van Abduragman Adams. Die stigting en die fees se oogmerk is om dramaturge wat aan die begin van hulle loopbane staan, ’n vastrapplek in die bedryf te help gee.
Abduragman Adams is veral bekend vir sy rol in die kykNET-sepie Suidooster. Hy is by verskeie ander projekte betrokke as regisseur en dramaturg; en doseer drama.
Belangstellendes moet teen 26 Junie 2020 hul nuutgeskrewe dramatekste, of ’n uittreksel daaruit, tesame met ’n kort CV stuur na Theo Kemp, uitvoerende direkteur van die Jakes Gerwel Stigting, by theo@jgf.org.za.
Suksesvolle kandidate sal in September vir drie weke in die Jakes Gerwel Stigting se skrywershuis, Paulet Huis, in Somerset-Oos in die Oos-Kaap te gaan skryf. Dié sjarmante, ouwêreldse huis met sy ruim kamers, elegante leefvertrekke en lowergroen tuin bied die ideale omgewing om onverstoord kreatief te kan skryf. Reis- en verblyfkoste, asook maaltye van die kandidate sal deur die stigting gedek word.
Die Jakes Gerwel Stigting is in die lewe geroep met die doel om die nalatenskap van Gerwel – wat uitgeblink het as opvoeder, bevryder, beskermheer van die kunste en kundige besigheidsman – deur relevante projekte uit te bou. Voorts werk die Stigting en die Suidoosterfees, wat op inklusiwiteit in die kunste fokus en die instrumentele rol van prof Gerwel in sy ontstaan gedenk, as vennote saam aan hierdie projek.
Gerwel se geliefde Paulet Huis is na sy dood deur sy weduwee aan die stigting geskenk met die doel om dit as skrywershuis in te rig.
Young and upcoming playwrights still have until 26 June 2020 to enter for the Jakes Gerwel Foundation and Suidoosterfees mentorship programme. With this project young playwrights get the exceptional opportunity to have their scripts polished and perfected under the professional guidance of Abduragman Adams. The foundation and the festival aim to give novice playwrights a foot in the door of the theatre industry.
Abduragman Adams is best known for his role in the kykNET soapie Suidooster. He is also involved in various other projects as director, playwright, and theatre lecturer.
Playwrights who would like to be part of this programme must submit their new play, or an excerpt from the play, together with their CV, to Theo Kemp, executive director of the Jakes Gerwel Foundation at theo@jgf.org.za by 26 June 2020.
Successful candidates will spend three weeks in September in the writers’ residence of the Jakes Gerwel Foundation in Somerset East. Paulet House with its old-world charm, spacious rooms, elegant living areas and a lush garden, is the ideal environment for undisturbed creative writing. Travel and accommodation costs, as well as meals of the chosen writers, will be covered by the foundation.
Through this project that offers mentorship to talented individuals who would not have had access to it otherwise, the passion of the late professor Jakes Gerwel is continued. In fact, it is with this purpose in mind that the Jakes Gerwel Foundation has been called into life: to build, through relevant projects, on the legacy of Gerwel who excelled as educator, liberator, patron of the arts and astute businessman. As Jakes Gerwel played an instrumental role in the establishment of the Suidoosterfees and, because the festival focuses on inclusivity in the arts, these two organisations are proud to join hands in this project.
After Gerwel passed away, his widow donated his beloved Paulet House to the foundation with the purpose to turn it into a writers’ house.
Texts of the participating playwrights will, after completion of the mentorship programme, be considered for stage productions at a future Suidoosterfees.