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-The ''[[US Woordfees]]'' (Lit. "US Word Festival") is an [[Afrikaans]] arts and culture festival, held in Stellenbosch annually.
+The first [[US Woordfees]], staged under the name ''Nag van Passie'' ("Night of Passion") and presented as the MTN/''[[Insig]]'' Afrikaanse Woordfees, was an all-night literary festival held in [[Stellenbosch]] from 19:00 on 17 March 2000 until 07:00 the following morning. A joint project of the Departement Afrikaans en Nederlands and the [[Stellenbosch University Drama Department]] at the [[University of Stellenbosch]], it became the founding event of the annual [[US Woordfees]].
-Also known as the '''''[[Afrikaanse Woordfees]]''''', often simply '''''[[Die Woordfees]]''''' or  even '''''[[Woordfees]]''''' alone. On occasion the name of the sponsor is added (e.g. the '''''[[US Toyota Woordfees]]''''')
+== Founding and aims ==
-==The festival==
+The idea originated with Greetje van den Bergh, secretary of the Nederlandse Taalunie, who proposed a festival bringing Afrikaans and Dutch poets together, in Utrecht in 1994. [[Dorothea van Zyl]] of the Departement Afrikaans en Nederlands took it up, and the festival was modelled on Dutch precedents, chiefly the annual "Nacht van de poëzie" in Utrecht and Poetry International in Rotterdam (Adendorff 2003: n. 5). Trial events in 1999 confirmed that there was interest, and a festival committee worked from June 1999. Rector [[Andreas van Wyk]] and the dean of Arts, [[Izak van der Merwe]], had shortly before urged the department towards greater public visibility.
-Founded at the [[University of Stellenbosch]] ("US")  Stellenbosch in 2000 on the initiative of [[Dorothea van Zyl]] to promote the written and spoken word in [[Afrikaans]]. Originally a one night event it soon blossomed into one of the biggest [[festivals]] in the country, running for a week.
+In her opening address Van Zyl set out the aims: literature figured too little among the arts on offer in the Western Cape, although more writers lived there than anywhere else in the country; readers wanted to see the writer behind the book; and Stellenbosch offered the space for an inclusive festival celebrating the Afrikaans word in as many forms as possible while also embracing Xhosa, English, Sotho and Dutch.
 == Sources ==
-http://www.woordfees.co.za/
+Rossouw, Mandy. 2000. 'Nag van passie 'n eerste', ''[[Die Matie]]'', 15 March 2000: 5.
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
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-Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Venues|South African Theatre Venues, Companies, Societies, etc ]]
+Return to [[US Woordfees]]
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 The ''[[US Woordfees]]'' (Lit. "US Word Festival") is an [[Afrikaans]] arts and culture festival, held in Stellenbosch annually.
-Also known as the '''''[[Afrikaanse Woordfees]]''''', often simply '''''[[Die Woordfees]]''''' or  even '''''[[Woordfees]]''''' alone. On occasion the name of the sponsor is added (e.g. the ''[[US Toyota Woordfees]]'')
+Also known as the '''''[[Afrikaanse Woordfees]]''''', often simply '''''[[Die Woordfees]]''''' or  even '''''[[Woordfees]]''''' alone. On occasion the name of the sponsor is added (e.g. the '''''[[US Toyota Woordfees]]''''')
 ==The festival==

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 ==The festival==
-Founded at the [[University of Stellenbosch]] ("US")  Stellenbosch in 2000 on the initiative of [[Dorothea van Zyl]] to promote the written and spoken word in [[Afrikaans]].
+Founded at the [[University of Stellenbosch]] ("US")  Stellenbosch in 2000 on the initiative of [[Dorothea van Zyl]] to promote the written and spoken word in [[Afrikaans]]. Originally a one night event it soon blossomed into one of the biggest [[festivals]] in the country, running for a week.
 == Sources ==

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−	The [[US Woordfees]] (Lit. "Word Festival") is an [[Afrikaans]] festival	+	The ''[[US Woordfees]]'' (Lit. "US Word Festival") is an [[Afrikaans]] arts and culture festival, held in Stellenbosch annually.

	Also known as the '''''[[Afrikaanse Woordfees]]''''', often simply '''''[[Die Woordfees]]''''' or even '''''[[Woordfees]]''''' alone. On occasion the name of the sponsor is added (e.g. the ''[[US Toyota Woordfees]]'')		Also known as the '''''[[Afrikaanse Woordfees]]''''', often simply '''''[[Die Woordfees]]''''' or even '''''[[Woordfees]]''''' alone. On occasion the name of the sponsor is added (e.g. the ''[[US Toyota Woordfees]]'')

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 The [[US Woordfees]] (Lit. "Word Festival") is an [[Afrikaans]] festival
-Also known as the ''[[Afrikaanse Woordfees]]'', often simply [[Die Woordfees]] or  even [[Woordfees]] alone. On occasion the name of the sponsor is added (e.g. the ''[[US Toyota Woordfees]]'')
+Also known as the '''''[[Afrikaanse Woordfees]]''''', often simply '''''[[Die Woordfees]]''''' or  even '''''[[Woordfees]]''''' alone. On occasion the name of the sponsor is added (e.g. the ''[[US Toyota Woordfees]]'')
 ==The festival==

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	Also known as the [[Afrikaanse Woordfees]] or often simply [[Die Woordfees]] or [[Woordfees]].		Also known as the [[Afrikaanse Woordfees]] or often simply [[Die Woordfees]] or [[Woordfees]].
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		+	The initiative of [[Dorothea van Zyl]].

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