..... ..for
Makhanda
[the
Grahamstown area]
5
December 2025
Dear
all
I
greet you with a short musical
hello!
I'd
love to be in touch more regularly and look forward visiting South Africa
during the course of 2026.
To
ensure my visit to Makhanda serves everyone at best, can I ask
you to kindly go through the points below and respond by clicking
on the relevant links? Thank you!
Please
note:
-
the
confirmed and/or possible events coming up below,
-
especially
another HA!RETREAT at the Deep South Retreat Centre.
-
the rewards that I offer
for your efforts to make local events happen and to grow
the HA!Network in your area.
As
for any other ideas or requests you might have, let's
talk!
With
best regards
Francois (HA!Man)
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Event
Announcements
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Dates: Fri 11 to Sun 13 Sep 2026
- Time:
Fri 17h to Sun 14h
- Venue:
Deep
South Retreat Centre
- Address:
The retreat is on Firglen Farm, 18 km from
Makhanda on the Highlands Road
- Entrance:
This, and more details TO BE ANNOUNCED
- Interested?
Pop
me a mail!
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Date: Thu 10 Sep 2026
- Time:
(evening)
- Venue:
Acoustic
Café
- Address:
The Vic, New Street, Makhanda
- Entrance:
This, and more details TO BE ANNOUNCED
- Interested?
Pop
me a mail!
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Make
More Events HA!ppen
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Schools
(and other educational groupings)

"This valuable ability to find such a
vivid way to express yourself, can easily
get lost in a world of canned music and backtracks.
Our kids should learn this from artists like
HA!Man"
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Available
date: Fri 11 Sep 2026
- Request:
propose a school visit with an interactive performance
and/or workshop, or bring me in touch with a relevant
staff member
- How:
have a look at/share the School Visits info pdf
with link: haworld.net/schoolvisits
- Note
to them that for a first visit, I am prepared to perform
or give a workshop as a demonstration, free of
charge.
- Reward:
for a confirmed school booking coming through you,
you receive a digital HA! product of your choice
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Help
to Grow the Network
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-
Request:
as this is the only and best way to
make the HA! enterprise viable in
the longer term, kindly spread
the word now, and any time into
the future, so more people in your
area can become connected and have
the opportunity to attend events
-
Network
status: we currently stand on 54 subscribers
for this area. Let's see if we can make it
to 80
by the end of 2026?
- How:
share the Join the Network info pdf with its
subscription link: haworld.net/network
- Rewards:
- You
may note to people that every new subscriber gets
a surprise pack of HA! creations as a welcome
gift.
- And
as for you, you also get a surprise pack for every
three people that join through you
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Summary
of Schedule
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Thu 10 Sep 2026
possible HA!Man Concert Acoustic Cafe
Fri 11 Sep 2026
possible School Visit (workshop and/or performance)
Fri 11 to Sun 13 Sep 2026
HA!Retreat Deep South Retreat Centre
Next
dates during 2027
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Your
work, I feel, is much more than
the making of music. It is muse-ic.
You are using music as a tool, and it is
clearing and creating the old and new, respectively.
(Biren
Shah, India)
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