Cape Town Book Fair 2009 - Tuesday Programme

tuesday Important Notice with regard to Programme Events / Presentations held on First Floor This notice applies to events held in the following venues (1st Floor of Convention Centre): Room 1.41 • Room 1.42 • Room 1.43 – 1.44 • Room 1.61 • Room 1.62 • Room 1.63 – 1.64 Since seating in these venues is limited, all attendees at the event / presentation are required to obtain an Event Booking Ticket from the Event Ticket Collection Area outside Hall 2 on the Ground Floor of the Convention Centre. • All tickets are available on a first come, first served basis • Two tickets per person • Event Tickets are only obtainable on the day that the event is being held • The duration of each event is 45 minutes - the time indicated on the programme is the start time of the event. • Attendees arriving more than 5 minutes after the start of an event will not be allowed entry to the room since this disrupts the speaker / panellists Events on the Exhibition Floor / Main Hall (Stand Events) do not require tickets and can be accessed on a first come, first served / space availability basis.

TIME

10:00

VENUE

EVENT DESCRIPTION

G3 - MML

Educational fun on interactive whiteboards. Regular, 30 minute, hands-on sessions available every hour, on the half-hour - 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 13:30, 14:30, 15:30, 16:30 and 17:30.

F7 - Via Afrika

Travel like a Local: An insider’s guide to exploring the Mother City.

11:00-11:30 H2 - Paarl Media

Press and Printing demonstration.

11:00-11:45 Rm 1.41

Kevin Brooks will do a reading from his latest book Black Rabbit Summer.

11:00-11:45 Rm 1.42

How Green is My Bookshelf? Living Organic - with Christine Stevens (Harvest: Recipes from an Organic Farm); Pat Featherstone (Grow to Live) and professional food photographer Russel Wasserfall (Harvest: Recipes from an Organic Farm).

11:00-11:45 Rm 1.43 - 1.44

John van de Ruit , bestselling author of Spud and Spud -The Madness Continues... reads an extract from his new book Spud - Learning to Fly and chats about his writing life.

11:00-12:00 K11 - Macmillan

HIV and Aids in the South African Classroom. An informative talk on challenges teachers face dealing with HIV and Aids in the classroom, with an introduction to materials to facilitate the process with Dr Ann Smith.

11:00-12:45 F6 - Dalro Forum

Prof Mahmood Mamdani, author of Saviours & Survivors: Darfur, Politics & the War on Terror (HSRC Press) talks about Darfur: the problem and the way out of it.

11:00

G3 - MML

Early Reading for Babies and Toddlers. Join a prominent educationist on this exploration of how books can entertain and educate, making story-time very special for the family.

11:00

F7 - Via Afrika

Socrates & the Fox. Clem Sunter talks about a new methodology for scenario planning.

12:00

G3 - MML

Longman South African Schools’ e-Dictionary. Find out why this is the best dictionary for South African schools!

12:00-12:45 Rm 1.41

A workshop on indexing by John Linnegar.

TIME

VENUE

EVENT DESCRIPTION

12:00-12:45 Rm 1.42

We will never be a better nation until our African learners can master their first language literacy levels. A discussion with Nompucuko Pam Ncapai & Nodumo Euginia Mabece.

12:00-12:45 Rm 1.43 - 1.44

Adele Parks, bestselling author of 8 novels, reads an extract from her new book Love Lies and chats about her writing life.

12:00-13:30 K1 - Penguin

John van de Ruit signs books at the Penguin stand.

12:30-13:00 H2 - Paarl Media

Press and Printing demonstration.

13:00

Early Reading for Babies and Toddlers. Join a prominent educationist on this exploration of how books can entertain and educate, making story-time very special for the family.

G3 - MML

13:00-13:45 Rm 1.41

Falling Off The Edge. Join Alex Perry, TIME’s Africa Bureau Chief, who will take you on an exhilarating journey to some of the planet’s remotest and most dangerous places to explore the sharp end of globalisation.

13:00-13:45 Rm 1.42

Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe discuss their latest books Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis and Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-apartheid.

13:00-13:45 Rm 1.43 - 1.44

Investigative journalist Jacques Pauw talks about his first novel Little Ice Cream Boy, a chilling crime story based on real events.

13:00-13:45 F6 - Dalro Forum

SA Partridge will talk about her new novel Fuse.

13:30

F4 - Shuter & Shooter Let there be Peace. These beautifully illustrated prayers bring together the world’s major religions in one united plea for understanding. With Jeremy Brooks, illustrated by Jude Daly.

13:30-14:00 M8 - International Translation Grants

Short introduction and presentation of the offers of translation grants by Helene Schär (Swissbooks) and Sabine Erlenwein (Goethe Institute).

13:45-14:30 K1 - Penguin

Adele Parks signs books at the Penguin stand.

14:00

Meet Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe, editors of Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis

E7 - Wits University Press

14:00-14:30 H2 - Paarl Media

Press and Printing demonstration.

14:00-14:45 Rm 1.41

Panel discussion: Copy editors do make a difference to published non-fiction Where do the author’s and the editor’s roles and responsibilities begin and end?

14:00-14:45 Rm 1.42

One Mom, Two Kids and Three Years of a Back Page Column - meet Giselle Willcox, awardwinning writer of the Living & Loving back page column and, now author of Three.

14:00-14:45 F6 - Dalro Forum

Louise Grantham (Publisher at Penguin Books) chats to Fiona Coyne (author of Who Moved My Ladder?)and Kiki Theo (author of Money Alchemy) about making money and moving through the proverbial ‘glass ceiling’.

14:00

Interactive materials for whiteboards. Parents, teachers and learners from grades 4 to 12 are invited to a presentation on a range of interactive materials available for language, reading, mathematics and science.

G3 - MML

14:45-15:30 K1 - Penguin

Jacques Pauw signs books at the Penguin stand.

15:00

The Longman Exams Dictionary. Find out how this dictionary can improve your exam results.

G3 - MML

15:00-15:45 F6 - Dalro Forum

Hip Hop artists Jitsvinger, Teba, Crosby and Godessa perform poetry and songs from their newly released 2nd album, Rogue State of Mind, Part II.

DISCLAIMER : Unless stated otherwise, all events are open to the public. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure accuracy, the programme remains subject to change