The Arts in the time of pandemic

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Notes

1 The 42^nd Oberammergau Passion Play was planned for 16 May 2020, and was also postponed due to the corona pandemic, and is now scheduled for 2022.

2 View at: https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/9358583/andrea-bocelli-music-for-hope-easter-concert-online-records

3 Email Correspondence between the writer and Nirode Bramdaw, April 9, 2020.

4 The UNESCO Creative Cities Network spans over 72 countries, with 180 cities, including Durban, the only Unesco City of Literature on the African continent.

5 See:’Literature and Arts help Slemani [Iraq] cope with COVID-19 – UNESCO’, available at: https://en.unesco.org, accessed 24 April 2020.

6 ‘Verses in the time of virus: Poetry Live unites 71 quarantined poets on Instagram’, The Print, available at: https://theprint.in/features/verses-in-the-time-of-virus-poetry-live-unites-71-quarantined-poets-on-instagram/403640/, accessed 29 April 2020.

7 Alison Flood, ‘Lockdown: Simon Armatage writes a poem about the oubreak of the Corona virus’, Guardian, March 21, 2020. available at: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/21/lockdown-simon-armitage-writes-poem-about-coronavirus-outbreak, accessed 24 April 2020.

8 Ingrid de Kok, ‘Days of Corona virus, Unlocked: Poems for Critical Times’ (part One), March 30, 2020, Maverick Citizen, available at: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-03-30-unlocked-poems-for-critical-times/, accessed 24 April 2020.

9 Afua Hirsch, ‘If Corona virus doesn’t discriminate, how come black people are bearing the brunt?’, Guardian, April 8, 2020.

10 See Rufaro Samanga, ‘Here’s how artists are navigating the world of music amid the Corona virus outbreak’, OkayAfrica, March 26, 2020.

11 Email Correspondence, April 2020.

12 In Financial Times, April 3, 2020.

13 Annamika Misra is an Indian novelist.

14 Shared in email correspondence with the author, April 2020.

15 Shubnum Khan, ‘Is today a day? But those days are gone … ’, Sunday Times Select, April 21, 2020.

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Betty Govinden

DEVARAKSHANAM (BETTY) GOVINDEN (Phd) is a literary and educational scholar and poet. She is the author of the award-winning book ‘Sister Outsiders’: Representation of Identity and Difference in Selected South African Indian Women’s Writings (Unisa Press, 2008) and A Time of Memory: Reflections on South African Writing (Solo Collective, 2008). She was part of the bid for Durban as a UNESCO City of Literature. Dr Govinden co-ordinates the Minara Aziz Hassim Literary Award and is on the panel of judges of Durban’s One City, One Book project. Email: [email protected]