INTERNATIONAL author Lauren Beukes is doing something she usually tries hard not to — repeat a successful formula.
To raise money for a charity that gets books to children who do not have them, Beukes and art curator Jacki Lang have returned to a project that raised R95,000 raised for nongovernmental organisation Rape Crisis in 2013.
This time Beukes has chosen Book Dash, a nongovernmental organisation that creates open-licensed books for children so that disadvantaged children can have access to storybooks. A November 12 Cape Town event saw just over more than R200,000 raised for the charity, enough to sponsor 21,000 books.
Artists created works on pages torn from Beukes’s latest novel, Broken Monsters, which were sold at R1,500 each. The Johannesburg event is on November 26. Both events were sponsored by restaurant chain Nandos, so that 100% of the proceeds go to Book Dash.
"I’ve done a charity art project with all of my books," says Beukes, who is known for tackling new topics for each of her novels. It was only with Shining Girls that she came up with art on a page ripped from her book. That, she says, was Lang’s idea.
"It was a very collaborative brainstorm," says Lang. "Lauren wanted to do an art initiative linked to the book, and I said we should physically use the book."
Lang was the brain behind the UK’s Napkin Project, a 2008 event during which artists produced work on a napkin which was sold off to raise funds for SA’s Peninsula School Feeding Association.
"I am always fascinated by what artists do with a new medium, something they are presented with.… It worked amazingly," says Lang.
Beukes says she first came up with using "whatever celebrity I have for good" when her first novel Moxyland became popular. She raised R15,000 selling soft toy monsters, with the money given to a women’s empowerment organisation.
* Broken Monsters Charity Art Show brought to you by Nando’s, 5.30pm for 6pm17h30 for 18h00, November 26, Nando’s Central Kitchen, 10 A Victoria Road, Lorentzville. Cocktails in the indigenous garden next to a beautiful Brett Murray installation, Nando’s snacks and live music.
* Book Dash http://bookdash.org/
BESTSELLER: Novelist Lauren Beukes is trying to raise money for a charity that gets books to children who do not have them.
INTERNATIONAL author Lauren Beukes is doing something she usually tries hard not to — repeat a successful formula.
To raise money for a charity that gets books to children who do not have them, Beukes and art curator Jacki Lang have returned to a project that raised R95,000 raised for nongovernmental organisation Rape Crisis in 2013.
This time Beukes has chosen Book Dash, a nongovernmental organisation that creates open-licensed books for children so that disadvantaged children can have access to storybooks. A November 12 Cape Town event saw just over more than R200,000 raised for the charity, enough to sponsor 21,000 books.
Artists created works on pages torn from Beukes’s latest novel, Broken Monsters, which were sold at R1,500 each. The Johannesburg event is on November 26. Both events were sponsored by restaurant chain Nandos, so that 100% of the proceeds go to Book Dash.
"I’ve done a charity art project with all of my books," says Beukes, who is known for tackling new topics for each of her novels. It was only with Shining Girls that she came up with art on a page ripped from her book. That, she says, was Lang’s idea.
"It was a very collaborative brainstorm," says Lang. "Lauren wanted to do an art initiative linked to the book, and I said we should physically use the book."
Lang was the brain behind the UK’s Napkin Project, a 2008 event during which artists produced work on a napkin which was sold off to raise funds for SA’s Peninsula School Feeding Association.
"I am always fascinated by what artists do with a new medium, something they are presented with.… It worked amazingly," says Lang.
Beukes says she first came up with using "whatever celebrity I have for good" when her first novel Moxyland became popular. She raised R15,000 selling soft toy monsters, with the money given to a women’s empowerment organisation.
* Broken Monsters Charity Art Show brought to you by Nando’s, 5.30pm for 6pm17h30 for 18h00, November 26, Nando’s Central Kitchen, 10 A Victoria Road, Lorentzville. Cocktails in the indigenous garden next to a beautiful Brett Murray installation, Nando’s snacks and live music.
* Book Dash http://bookdash.org/
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