Lauren Beukes

The official launch party for the Moxyland soundtrack from African Dope kicks off in Cape Town this Saturday at Fiction in Long Street from 9pm til the early hours.

Get a clandestine listen-in (better than a sneak peek) of the tracks here:
http://www.africandope.co.za/albums/moxyland3.htm

Or read the carrot for the album in the Levi’s Music Mag here (proving that the crunchy orange veges are good for the ears as well as the eyes) and also in this month’s Big Issue magazine.

Stay tuned – the Joburg launch will kick off sometime in Oct/Nov.

I just got fabulous news from Tania, who organised the inaugural Litblitz event at the Joburg Country Club and Baobab Bookstore in Long Street on Sunday past, that the event raised R7880!

The evening featured five minute readings from me, Finuala Dowling, Gus Ferguson, Hugh Hodge, Patricia Schonstein, my awesome coworkers Sarah Lotz and Sam Wilson, Epiphanie Mukasano and Mary Magdalene Yuin Tal of the Whole World Women Association, a xx chromosome refugee group who benefited from the evenings proceedings. (more…)