ZAPP Fest 2025
On Saturday the 15th of March 2025, ZAPP held it’s first ever regional event, ZAPP Fest, in which we invited roughly 40 learners, aged thirteen to seventeen, and their teachers, from schools across Gauteng to join us at the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre and Inside/Out Centre for the Arts in lovely forest Town, Johannesburg, for a heady day of inspiration and mad poetic creativity. The event was crowned with a two hour block of performances by learners and educators, alike, inspired by their surroundings and the messages of empathy, social and environmental responsibility they embodied. The performances were judged by an esteemed panel of practicing poets and the twelve best poets from among the learners went on to collaborate remotely with American learners in ZAPP’s first-ever international workshop, in collaboration with the Poetry NonScenes initiative and the American organisation, Youth Speaks!
