Donald Parenzee

Donald Parenzee is an architect and a poet who was active for many years
in cultural initiatives opposed to apartheid. He lives in Cape Town,
where he has practised and taught architecture, worked as an exhibitions
curator at the District Six Museum, and collaborated on creative
interventions in the city. He has run many creative workshops, some of
which explore ways of integrating literature and visual art. Donald
hosted talks explores the role that the poet can play in the daily
existence of his/her community during his stay in Grahamstown as Mellon
Writer in Residence, working with the Rhodes MA programme in Creative
Writing.