OWN is abbreviation for Our Writer’s Network. Its main objective is to pull from the expertise of writers of all kinds; academic and creative in the metro – particularly the young black writers I rub shoulders with. The purpose of focusing on young black writers is to shatter the myth of the one narrative. OWN is to spotlight the voice and views of young writers in a space that they can own – away from the overlooking eye of institutional trickery. Providing a space for writers to be as honest and if needed brutal as possible.

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Sakhumzi and Msindisi Nyendwana together with invited artists and School children from different Mandela Bay. Opening Saturday 29 October at 3PM and the show runs until 19 November 2016.
They will be exhibiting today life based on our history, fallen soldiers and the way we see life in this day and age.

Come to the exhibition, you might learn a thing or two, or more ;) ;)

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