Open Book Festival

Open Book Festival

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Open Book Festival episodes

  • OBF2025: Better Late
    Better Late is where the country’s most brilliant, bewildering, and occasionally unhinged creatives – Yaaseen Barnes and Callum Hitchcock – band together on the set of a Late Night TV show to get to the [...]
    59 min
  • OBF2025: The Poetics of I
    In this event, Kopano Maroga, Manthipe Moila and Pieter Madibuseng Odendaal speak to each other through their poetry. Please note the readings will be followed by a short Q&A session.
    This is a recording of a [...]
    1 hr 7 min
  • OBF2025: Spec Fic and Science
    This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival.
    In this event, Jon Keevy and Adriana Marais speak to Wamuwi Mbao about the intersections [...]
    1 hr 4 min
  • OBF2025: Stories of Rebellion
    In this event Foluso Agbaje, Lesedi Molefi and Nathi Ngubane speak to Pumla Dineo Gqola about subverting power and fighting back.
    This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 [...]
    1 hr 8 min
  • OBF2025: Exploring the Queer Imaginary
    In this event Kelly-Eve Koopman, Kopano Maroga and Maneo Mohale speak to Lwando Scott about building alternate presents and futures.
    This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition [...]
    1 hr 1 min
  • OBF2025: Finding Lightness
    This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. 
    In this event Sven Axelrad, Khaya Dlanga and Karen Vermeulen speak to Dela Gwala about [...]
    1 hr 7 min
  • OBF2025: Tensions of Home
    This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival.
    In this event, Antjie Krog, Frankie Murrey and Sarah Uheida speak to Bongani Kona about [...]
    1 hr 5 min
  • OBF2025: Inherited Systems
    This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival.In this event, Rebecca Gore, Adekeye Adebajo and Edgar Pieterse speak to Alexandra Dodd about [...]
    1 hr 2 min