Helenvale and Salt Lake Poets

08/09/2026

We sold books at the Fairview Market. we'll post notices of future markets.... All sales provide funds for our work.

15/08/2026

Activities at the Drostdy museum Reading Festival, run by the Friends of the Museum. BCWDP Helenvale and Salt Lake Poets representing their schools, Helenvale Primary School and Machiu Primary School . The poets read well received poems to the large audience.

14/08/2026

BCWDP was represented by the Helenvale and Salt Lake Poets at the Friends of the Drosty Museum literacy event in Kariega on Thursday.

06/08/2026

The poets, joined by artists and conservationists, visited SANCCOB to learn about our changing world and the threatened penguins. Led by the Climate Resilience group, we also did art, working with seaweed and strips of fabric, and discussed the final exhibition in October.

23/07/2026

Bay Creative Writing Development Project, sponsored by the Art Processes for Climate Resilience in NMB, visited the Kragga Kamma Game Park. Charmilla Bosman got a picture of a caracal! The groups -- the Helenvale and Salt Lake Poets -- explored, learned and wrote. Two sample poems below.

01/07/2026

On the 21st of February the BCWDP, Helenvale Poets and the Salt Lake Poets attended a talk on the sinking of the Mendi, which occurred on 21 February 1917. This is our country's biggest sea disaster. The poets gathered on the war memorial afterwards.

We have a few more events to catch up on. Watch this space!

14/06/2026

Helenvale and Salt Lake Poets will be on at 10..00am on June 16th, Makhanda

26/05/2026

This Saturday

Participatory Art Processes for Building Climate resilience in NMB -- this group has supported our recent work, and this launch shows some of the fruits.....

18/05/2026

Participatory Art Processes for Building Climate resilience in NMB -- this group has supported our recent work, and this launch shows some of the fruits.....

14/05/2026

Always working