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Reverend Heidi Petersen delivered this sermon this morning at the Saint Barnabas United Church. The scripture reading is taken from Isaiah 6:1 - 8

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Reverend Kelvin Harris prepared this sermon for podcast as a service to the Bosmont Congregational church in South Africa.

Scripture readings:

Psalm 24:7-10

Acts 1:1-11

Ephesians 1:17-23

Luke 24:46-53

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Wesley Pepper sits down with Jane Morris and Brian Jones from amaBooks publishing. They take a look at the world of publishing through the lens of Covid.

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Wesley: [00:00:00] Everybody this is Wesley Pepper here. And your tuning in to my podcasts wesley peppers art lexica. And remember we are brought to you by spot Costa and Bible, and thanks to all my new and returning listeners. Uh uh, thanks for coming for coming in to check on my platform. Uh, it's much appreciated. I know the local, the listeners are growing and there's some shout outs I've been getting and thanks to everybody, uh, much appreciated.

[00:00:38] Uh, yeah, yeah. Um, yeah. Anyway, I'm not very good at that type of thing. So it's just like, thank you. And, uh, yeah, let me continue making sound really dope ass arts based content, which I'm really passionate about man and I really, really enjoy doing. And, um, let's just touch base on last week's episode. Uh, Lerato Sibanda thanks alot my sister for coming through the poetry really gave the episode a lot of.

[00:01:04] But very limited, really layered, really textured. I really, I really loved it. I thought it was, uh, it was, uh, it was really beautiful. And, um, and what I loved about it was, um, yeah, I don't know, organic, everything was so big up to that, uh, today's episode. Um, we are talking to some really interesting for, uh, really interesting people talking to, um, Jane Morris and Brian Jones they from amaBooks, publisher publishing.

[00:01:31] Um, they're based in Zimbabwe but currently are in Wales, in cardigan. Um, we spoke with earlier in the week and I say, uh, book Saturday, uh, event in cardigan over the weekend. So promoting Bryony Rheam’s book, and we'll be talking a little bit about that. So when we're focusing on the, you know, pretty much the A to Zed about them?

[00:01:51] So in talking about, uh, how they came out, how they came to being, um, just to give it some perspective, um, they, uh, how they, uh, curate or, um, How they curate their, um, uh, authors they're their writers. I know that they publishing work is based mostly on, um, you know, stories, you know, short stories, a lot, a lot of poetry, uh, or rather some poetry or some history book.

[00:02:14] So that's really interesting, man. So when we are going to be talking a little bit about why they choose to sell that specific genre books, their author’s are top selling authors, how they will, um, adapting to the COVID pandemic as we always do on this platform and getting to know them just personally, really, you know, um, and giving my listeners or you listeners just a face to the, to the brand, which is amaBooks publishing.

[00:02:38] So. Yeah, man. Um, look forward to that. That's coming really soon. Um, with regards to the, uh, art giveaway, it is still going on. Um, remember to, um, you can catch me on all my social media platforms. So that's, uh, um, Facebook that’s twitter, that’s @wesleypepper, and, uh, Instagram is with the underscore pepper. So you can catch me on there.

[00:03:01] Um, but remember to like subscribe and comment to this channel, um, and we'll select somebody for now a disclaimer that is only available to, uh, South African based listeners. And that's just a money thing. Because it’s all coming out of my pocket. For now. Um, so yeah, man. And, um, so that's something that's, that's going to be ongoing, but like, but I'll explain a little bit more too about that at the end of the episode.

[00:03:27] Um, and in the outro, but for now, um, yeah, I look forward to listen to Brian, to Jane and Brian. Um, from amaBooks and we'll chat after that. And I hope you enjoy today's episode.

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Reverend Heidi Petersen delivered this sermon for podcast. It is based on Acts 2.

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Reverend Kelvin Harris delivered this sermon for podcast. It is based on the following scripture readings:

Ezekiel 34: 1-14;

Psalm 104: 24-34;

Acts 2: 1-3;

John 15: 26-27

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Wesley announces plans for the Artwork give-away to mark his 52nd episode. This week, he chats to Cape Town based author Lerato Lerry Scribess Sibanda about the recent National Arts Council sit in. This is our 52nd episode, meaning we've been running this podcast for exactly one year! Born out of lockdown, it remains one of Wesley's most successful project's since 2020. This is a podcast where we talk art and art processes. So check us out wherever you get your podcasts!

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Transcript

Wesley: [00:00:00] Hi everybody. This is Wesley pepper and you're tuned to my podcast wesley pepper’s art Lexica and its brought to you by Spudcaster and baobulb. Yeah, man. Thanks for everybody for tuning in. If you're in the Southern part of.. if you’re in South Africa or the Southern part of the hemisphere, we are entering winter now and it's pretty chilly where I'm sitting and, uh, yeah.

[00:00:35] So just bear with me. I might have a dripping nose and a Cough and winter related nonsense. So yeah, just bear with me regarding that. And then there also might be some unfortunate noise in the background, but , you can, yeah.

[00:00:49] Anyway. Yeah. Just bear with me, please. For today. It won't

[00:00:52] be too distracting though, but they will be something anyway, moving on to, um, to recap last week's episode, thanks to violette for coming through.

[00:00:59] Um, and the book, Mulberry dreams, all the best with that, my sister. I really, really had fun talking to and talking to about all those, about the book and process and all of that I thought was really outstanding content. Uh, moving on to today's episode, uh, today we're talking to Lerato, uh, Sibanda,

[00:01:16] she's originally

[00:01:17] from, um, Pretoria, but she's now in Cape town.

[00:01:21] She's a multi-disciplinary,

[00:01:23] uh, artists, but she's mostly in the writing field. So she does a lot of poetry. Actually. I know her through the poetry and the journalism route through working through consciousness, that's you, that's it.

[00:01:33] And we'll touch we'll. Um, we'll actually

[00:01:34] touch base, um, with touch on that as well.

[00:01:37] In what she, um, in, in her writing and all the work that she did for consciousness, um, as you guys know, I've been working with them for, or rather I've been involved with them for

[00:01:47] the better part of 15, 16 years. So it's been awhile,

[00:01:50] it's been awhile and we still, and we still around,

[00:01:52] we still alive. So yeah, man, it's still consciousness.

[00:01:54] Let's see what I'd say. Uh, yeah, you can still check it out. So we'll definitely touch

[00:01:58] base with all that. Talk about

[00:01:59] her writing processes and given that, um, um, that was the papers. Art later is almost a year old. Um,

[00:02:05] with the recording of this episode, we'll touch base on some

[00:02:07] about, uh, major themes, um, that I have, you know, that I spoke about throughout the, um, throughout the past 52 weeks, you know?

[00:02:16] Uh, so we’re gonna touch base get Lerato’s, uh, opinion on some of the things like the tech boom, uh, the NAC sit-in and so on, but that will be the latter part of the interview. We're gonna be focusing on her. Uh, writing. I know she's, um, I've been listening to a YouTube channel, uh,

[00:02:34] over the past week.

[00:02:35] So she's been doing a lot of singing, which is really fantastic. She's got quite an interesting, I think, quite a

[00:02:40] smooth, uh, voice. So we're going to be seeing what direction she's planning to go with that and her journalism of course. Um, she'd like, as I said, she did some interesting work for us on consciousness and, um, Yeah.

[00:02:52] So she's a very smart sister as well. So when we covering the A to Z on her processes and who she is as a human being and as an artist and so on. And, um, yeah, I guess as you guys know, um, you know, the...

Reverend Heidi Petersen delivered this sermon for podcast. The scripture reading is taken from John 17. This podcast was set up as a service to the Saint Barnabas United church and community.

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Reverend Kelvin Harris prepared this sermon for podcast for the Bosmont Congregational church. This podcast was set up over a year ago almost in response to the lockdown.

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We chat to Violette from Bulawayo, an author with a strong journalistic background.

We will be unpacking her latest novel Mulberry Dreams and looking into her the politics and perspectives around the 'coloured issue' , identity - both social and political and the Zimbabwe story.

This is a podcast where we talk art and art processes.

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Transcript

Wesley Pepper: [00:00:00] Hey greetings everybody. This is Wesley pepper and you're tuned into my podcast Wesley Pepper’s Art Lexica, which is brought to you by spudcaster and baobulb, um, yeah, man, um, Just before we start, like, uh, recap on last week's episode. I had a lot of fun with the Erica last, um, last week, I think we touched on some really cool stuff.

[00:00:33] We spoke about some really cool stuff. And, um, she does, um, um, you know, I really think those, uh, uh, ice sculptures are incredibly beautiful. And, uh, I know she was also working on that, uh, trying to raise funds for that project in Worcester. So all the best for that. I kind of hope that my, um, our episode yesterday, would help somewhat, you know, maybe somebody would hear it somewhere, some potential or whatever.

[00:00:59] Yeah. So yeah, big up to her for that. I think that was a, that was a lot of, that was fantastic. Fantastic episode. Yeah, man. Uh, moving on to this week, um, this week we're talking to an author from Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. Uh, her name is Violette Sohaili Kee-tui. Um, I hope I pronounced that correct. Um, so she's the, uh, um, she's an author of a book titled, uh, Mulberry dreams.

[00:01:30] And I actually came across the book very interestingly enough, um, through Philani, uh, we know we spoken with, we spoke to him a few times on this podcast and, uh, Philani made me, uh, uh, you know, made me do it and like added what he said about it. And I read the, uh, uh, what John Eppel, uh, was also a very, uh, for those of you don't know, he's a really highly rated, um, um, poet in Zimbabwe where I've read a lot, bunch of his stuff too.

[00:02:00] And I think he's an incredible writer as well. Um, and that really made me like, then I got really, um, or other, those, you know, reading up about that, like really I said, okay, sure. I really would like to talk to this, um, to, um, to talk to the author and, um, you know, we set it up in and everything and like one of the things that, um, Um, from what I can, from what I can tell that, um, that she writes about, um, something that strikes home to me, you know, given that I am, um, um, um, mixed race or whatever you want to call it.

[00:02:33] Um, yeah, is the, you know, is the whole like, uh, I guess Southern African, uh, um, Identity politics around mixed race people. Um, you know, I don't speak to it. I don't speak about it too much. In fact, I've memory serves me. This will actually be the first episode where I sort of tackle or, or speak about that through, um, through, um, through another artist’s work.

[00:03:00] Uh, yeah. Cause it's a topic that is just so complicated for me and so layered. And I think it'll just take me for you, for me to give. Uh, for other, for me to give you my perspectives on, that'll take a whole bunch of episodes and it's a really complicated thing. Um, but yeah, but anyway, um, but besides that, that's not just, we're going to talk about, about the entire book, about publishing or rather her career before.

[00:03:25] Um, I know she started off as a journalist, so we were talking about her career before she started, um, um, um, um, you know, became a full-time writer and what she's doing now and of course moving forward and like, you know, like with everybody else, I'm also interested in how about, how are they adapting to the post COVID world, you know?

[00:03:42] Oh, in terms of technology? Um, yeah, so, so a lot of cool stuff to look forward to our chat, to you’s towards the end of the episode about, um, The last few, uh, about...

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