Etienne van Heerden Veldsoirée – Page 2

Die tweede Etienne van Heerden Veldsoirée vind vanjaar van 22 tot 25 September op Cradock en Somerset-Oos plaas. Darryl David, feesorganiseerder, vertel vir Naomi Meyer hiervan.

Darryl, die Etienne van Heerden Veldsoirée vind binnekort plaas en ek sien jy noem dit jou mees egte Karoofees. Sal jy, wat boekefeeste dwarsoor die land reël, asseblief nog meer van die fees vertel? Waarom Cradock?

Ligging vir enige fees is uiters belangrik. Vir al my feeste het ek fraai dorpe gekies: Montagu, Howick, Pniel. Natuurlik is daar BookBedonnerd in die hart van die Karoo. Maar by al hierdie feeste val die klem meestal op die literêre. By die Etienne van Heerden Veldsoirée vind die meerderheid van die fees plaas in ’n verlate Karoo-landskap by Buffelskop – die laaste rusplek van Olive Schreiner. En die fees skop af by Die Tuishuise – sekerlik die pragtigste “straatskap” in Suid-Afrika met tipiese Karoo-argitektuur. Geeneen van my ander feeste het hierdie kombinasie nie. As jy deur Dirosie Gastehuis ry, dan hoor jy Olive se woorde – “such a sense of wild exhilaration comes over me”. En hierdie jaar gaan ons na Somerset-Oos ry. Geen ander literêre toer is mal genoeg om mense 100 km te laat ry nie. Maar vir hierdie toer wou ek mense ’n tipiese Karoo-ervaring gee. Die wildernis is goed vir die siel. Soos Etienne nou die dag op Facebook gesê het: “The brain needs silence.”

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Fogarty’s book shop, Port Elizabeth, presented a book table (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Fogarty’s Bookshop, Port Elizabeth, had a book table there (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Festival organiser Darryl David and Lisa Ker-Antrobus (Victoria Manor and Die Tuishuise) (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Kaia van Heerden, Godfrey Meintjes, Etienne van Heerden, Sandra Antrobus (Victoria Manor and Die Tuishuise), Clinton du Plessis and Helize van Vuuren (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Darryl David with Godfrey Meintjes (Rhodes University) who presented a lecture on intertextuality in Van Heerden’s work. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Bernard Odendaal (North-West University) (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Ernst Kotzé (Nelson Mandela University) spoke about his Afrikaans-Japanese dictionary. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Examples from Ernst Kotzé’s Afrikaans-Japanese dictionary (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Ernst Kotzé with novelists Alexander Strachan and Etienne van Heerden (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Alexander Strachan, Ernst Kotzé, Godfrey Meintjes and Kaia van Heerden (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Helize van Vuuren (Nelson Mandela University) spoke about her book A necklace of springbok ears. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Cas Wepener (University of Pretoria) spoke about his book Die reis gaan inwaarts. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

The programme of the Veld Soirée (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Amos Mtetwa, an activist during the struggle, spoke about the Cradock Four. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

With organiser Darryl David. (Photo: Ruby Gouws van Heerden)

The Cradock Four. Nelson Mandela: “They were the true heroes of the struggle.” (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

The Cradock Four memorial (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Raymond Smith, novelist Lien Botha and Ilse Reuter at the Cradock Four memorial (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Darryl David and Etienne van Heerden (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Coenie de Villiers performed in the Moederkerk, a church in Cradock. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Moederkerk, Cradock (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Heather Costaras spoke about her book How Heather got her HAT’ness back. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Darryl David interviewed Etienne van Heerden. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Christa du Plessis presented a lecture on illness and disability in Etienne van Heerden’s oeuvre. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Architect and heritage expert Raymond Smith and Lien Botha (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Barry Pienaar, member of Fred van der Vyver’s legal team, spoke about his book Freddie Boy. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Ilze le Roux and Kirby van der Merwe (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Kirby van der Merwe discussed Van Heerden’s My Kubaan and his own radio drama, Krokodil. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Kaia van Heerden, Riekie Meintjes, Coenie de Villiers, Barry Pienaar, Wilna Adriaanse and Hanno Reuter (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Kirby van der Merwe, Etienne van Heerden, Marsha and Barney Barnes (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Lien Botha and Raymond Smith on the way to Olive Schreiner’s grave (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Front: Etienne van Heerden, Hanno and Luca Reuter. Back: Ingo, Sabine and Ilse Reuter (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

The view (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Visitors to the veld soirée (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Wilna Adriaanse, Etienne van Heerden and Lien Botha (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Wilna Adriaanse and Lien Botha

With organiser Darryl David and novelist Kirby van der Merwe (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

The Fish River valley in the background (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Back to Buffelshoek Dirosie Lodge (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Darryl David spoke about his book Church tourism in South Africa (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Irma de Klerk, winner of the Huisgenoot 100 love story competition. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Lien Botha (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Lien Botha presents Darryl David with the Order of the Windmill as recognition for his initiatives and hard work as organiser of many festivals around the country. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Wilna Adriaanse (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Heather Costaras (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

HemelBesem (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Clinton du Plessis launched his new poetry anthology, Aantekeninge teen die skemeruur. (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Buffelshoek Dirosie Lodge (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Sherry and biltong, with Cradock in the distance (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

On bakkies at Buffelshoek (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Darryl David and Dirkie Visser, owner of the Buffelshoek Dirosie Lodge (Photo: Amy Coetzer)

Sheritha David and Barry Pienaar

At Olive Shreiner’s grave, Buffelskop, Cradock

At novelist Olive Schreiner’s grave, Buffelskop, Cradock

Darryl David, Sheritha David, Raymond Smith and Etienne van Heerden (Photo: Lien Botha)

Being interviewed by Darryl David

Lunch at Buffelshoek Dirosie Lodge, with Wilna Adriaanse, Pieter du Plessis, Christa du Plessis, Cas Wepener and HemelBesem

Lunch at Buffelshoek Dirosie Lodge

With Christa du Plessis, who presented a lecture on an interesting theme in Van Heerden’s work

With Irma and Sampie de Klerk, winners of the Huisgenoot 100 love story competition. (Photo: Christa du Plessis)

With former colleague Godfrey Meintjes and Lisa Ker-Antrobus (Victoria Manor and Die Tuishuise).

With HemelBesem

Darryl David with his well-deserved Order of the Windmill award

Novelist and artist Kirby van der Merwe captured the veld soirée in a series of 30-second-sketches

A sketch of a Cradock Karoo cottage by Kirby van der Merwe

Lien Botha presents Darryl David with the Order of the Windmill in recognition of his initiatives and hard work as organiser of many festivals around

Coenie de Villiers CD signing, with Christa du Plessis

With HemelBesem and Coenie de Villiers at Victoria Manor

With Alexander Strachan

Coenie de Villiers, Moederkerk, Cradock

Cradock Moederkerk, where Coenie de Villiers performed

Michausdal, Cradock

With novelists Alexander Strachan and Lien Botha, Victoria Manor

Academics Helize van Vuuren and Ernst Kotzé before their presentations

Dining hall, Victoria Manor Hotel, Cradock. Together with Buffelshoek Lodge in the same town’s district, Victoria Manor and its associated Tuishuise are headquarters and home to the Etienne van Heerden Veld Soirée.