Open Book Festival

Open Book Festival

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Open Book Festival episodes

  • OBF2025: Living in Crisis
    This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival.
    In this event, Veruska de Vita, Saliem Fakir, and Alistair Mackay speak to Natalie Sifuma [...]
    57 min
  • OBF2025: The Secret Keepers
    This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival.
    In this event, Nadia Cassim, Bonnie Espie and Andrew Robert Wilson speak to Palesa Motsumi [...]
    58 min
  • OBF2025: Building on the Past
    This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival.
    In this event, Foluso Agbaje, Zara Julius and Patric Tariq Mellet speak to Aphiwe [...]
    1 hr 1 min
  • OBF2025: No Signs of Justice
    This is a recording of a live event that took place at the September 2025 edition of the Open Book Festival. In this event, Caryn Dolley, Rebecca Gore and Julian Jansen reflect on how their [...]
    1 hr 2 min
  • OBF2024: Gathering Our Voices
    This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024.
    This event closed out the 2024 Open Book Festival with poetry and song. Featuring the aBantu Chorus and [...]
    1 hr 4 min
  • OBF2024: Life is Cheap
    This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024.In this conversation, Olivia Coetzee, Karen Jennings and Nathan Trantraal speak to Bettina Wyngaard about writing poverty.This event [...]
    1 hr
  • OBF2024: Trigger Warning
    This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024.
    In this conversation, Andries du Toit, Lesedi Molefi and Nathan Trantraal discuss the intersection of trauma, anger [...]
    1 hr 1 min
  • OBF2024: Journeys to Self
    This is a live recording of an event that took place at Open Book Festival in September 2024.
    In this conversation, Damilare Kuku, Kharys Laue and Nozibele Mayaba speak to Nwabisa Mayema about women coming into [...]
    55 min