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| L-R: Delme Cupido, Lesle Jansen, Abhishek Choudhury, & Kabir Bavikatte |
Natural Justice, in collaboration with
LEDLAB and Srishti School for Arts, Design and Technology (India) participated
in the Open Book Festival at the Fugard Theatre on Saturday, 20 September
2013. The Open Book Festival is an
annual literary festival that features top international and South African
writers of today. It aims to showcase the
best of South African writing. It also
aims to make a contribution to ensuring the youth of Cape Town has a love of
reading and books.
The Hoerikwaggo Chronicles: The Return to
the Kalahari, along with some other items, based on the novel, was featured at
this festival’s market stalls. Many
South Africans had the opportunity to engage this novel. It is a 5-part series being developed by the
illustrator Abhishek Choudhury and Kabir Bavikatte as the script writer. The
Chronicles are based on Joseph Campbell's idea of the Hero's Journey and Carl
Jung's archetypes of the king, warrior, trickster and lover. It seeks to tell
the story of four young people growing up in the Cape Flats. The Chronicles
unfold as a conversation between the material reality of their everyday lives
and the mythical world of Khoi-San myths and legends. While the Chronicles began as a way for the
Heroes Project to assist youth in the Cape Flats and townships in the Northern
Cape to engage with their Khoi-San heritage, the anticipated audience for the
Chronicles are young adults in both South Africa and beyond.
The day ended with participation in a panel
discussion featuring this graphic novel. The panel consisted of Delme Cupido
from the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa as the discussant; Lesle
Jansen, Kabir Bavikatte and Abhishek Choudhury.
The name of the panel discussion was: The Khoisan experience: Healing
historical trauma through Storytelling and Creative Action.
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