May 20, 2023 | ARTiculate
By BRUCE DENNILL The second day of a festival is quite different to the first. The novelty of being in a new place is diminished and there may be a dip in energy if you committed to the after-hours offerings of wherever you’re staying – eating out;...
May 19, 2023 | ARTiculate
By BRUCE DENNILL As with so most enterprises, the Franschhoek Literary Festival – and every other cultural event in the calendar – was forced to endure a fallow period during the Covid pandemic. Happily, though, despite the enthusiastic naysaying of...
May 17, 2014 | ARTiculate
By BRUCE DENNILL This weekend, I’m a FLFer. It’s pronounced like that word, but it’s not nearly so hard on the knees. The Franschhoek Literary Festival is, as I write, half-way done, and it’s been its usual melange of the entertaining, intellectual, naïve,...
