.......for Lowveld

[Including Mbombela, White River, Hoedspruit and Graskop]

5 December 2025

Dear all / Beste almal

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 the Lowveld 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, and
  • especially another HA!RETREAT at The Bardolino Artist Retreat!
  • 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)

Link to this page: haworld.net/lowveld

Event Announcements
WEEKEND HA!RETREAT
  • Dates: Fri 18 to Sun 20 Sep 2026
  • Time: Fri 17h to Sun 14h
  • Venue: The Bardolino Artist Retreat
  • Address: 8 Hermansburg Road (21 off R40), Mbombela
  • Entrance: This, and more details TO BE ANNOUNCED
  • Interested? Pop me a mail!
HA!Man Show - to be confirmed!
  • Date: Sun 20 Sep 2026
  • Time: (afternoon)
  • Venue: Boulevard Theatre @ Sonpark
  • Address: Sonpark Shopping Centre, Faurie street , Mbombela
  • Entrance: This, and more details TO BE ANNOUNCED
  • Interested? Pop me a mail!
 
Make Another Event HA!ppen

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"
  • Available date: Mon 21 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
 
Help to Grow the Network


  • 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 27 subscribers for this area. Let's see if we can make it to 50 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
 
Summary of Schedule


Fri 18 to Sun 20 Sep 2026
HA!Retreat at The Bardolino Artist Retreat

Sun 20 Sep 2026
possible HA!Man Concert at th Boulevard Theatre

Mon 21 Sep 2026
possible School Visit (workshop and/or performance)

Next
dates during 2027
 

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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