This year is Leap Year, we get an extra day on the 29th of February!

So we thought we would read stories about time and days of the week, things we have in place to help us understand the idea of time.

Tick Tock Tick Tock!

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Do you love trucks and motor cycles and diggers and maybe even boats or aeroplanes? Today’s story time is just for you then.

We will read stories about big machines that move and go VROOM!

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It is nearly Valentine’s Day, which is a great reminder that we have to tell the people we love how much we appreciate them.

Today we will read stories about love of course and get to make a card for someone special. Why don’t you bring a someone special along to story time for a treat?

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Imagining Web 3.0 – The advanced development of the Internet and the cornucopia of information it provides has only been in existence for just over 18 years. During that time, the Internet has evolved from Web 1.0 or the Information Web, which was characterized by static content. The current version of the Internet, Web 2.0or the Social Web, is defined by online users communicating, contributing and collaborating. This online user collaboration and sharing has resulted in the breaking down of traditional, monolithic methods of communication and content generation.

Imagining Web 3.0 seeks to trace the next forecasted phase in the Internet’s development, which through intelligent software will allow the Internet to have the power to learn, intuit and decide, giving information found on the Internet well defined meaning.

Lee-Roy Chetty began his career in advertising at Ogilvy Cape Town, working as a digital strategist on some of South Africa’s biggest and most loved brands. He holds a Masters degree in Media studies from the University of Cape Town and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A two-time recipient of the prestigious National Research Fund Scholarship, he is currently completing his PhD through UCT as well as a degree in Economics with Unisa. He works for the Department of International Relations and Cooperation in the South African government in public diplomacy.

Lee-Roy will be in conversation with Dr Adam Haupt, author of Stealing Empire: P2P, Intellectual Property and Hip-hop Subversion, and Eve Gray, Honorary Research Associate of the Centre For Educational Technology at UCT.

Published by Big Red.

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We are delighted to welcome Azila Talit Reisenberger to the Book Lounge, to read from her new collection of poems – Silver Highlights.

Azila Talit Reisenberger was born in Tel Aviv and lives in South Africa. she is an academic, a women’s rights activist and the only woman in South Africa serving as a rabbi. She is the spiritual leader of the Temple Hillel community in East London. She also heads the Hebrew section of the School of Languages and Literature at the University of Cape Town.. She is the author of several previous collections of poetry.

Azila will be in conversation with Nancy Richards from Otherwise at SAFM.

Published by Snailpress.

“Reisenberger’s fresh moments of insight and nostalgia make an important contribution to the multi-lingual nature of South African poetry.”          Marcia Leveson

“Azila Reisenberger’s poetry makes us overwhelmingly aware how often we have to translate ourselves in order to matter.”         Antjie Krog

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Ballet is the stuff of dreams for little girls (and some boys!) who love to feel light as a feather on their feet and dance around pretty in pink.

Today we are reading ballet stories and feeling like princesses on our toes.

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