.......for Dam

[Hartbeespoortdam, Broederstroom, Brits area]

1 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 serves the Hartbeespoort Dam area 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:

  • Only one date available: Wed 11 March
  • I do have a request to return to Brits for a workshop and performance at Brits High School. But this is not confirmed yet. I'd like to invite other possibilties just in case!
  • Note the rewards that I offer for your efforts to make local events happen and to grow the HA!Network in the 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/dam


Event Announcement
HA!Man Workshop and Performance - to be confirmed
  • Date: Wed 11 Mar 2026
  • Special features:
    • to be announced
  • Venue: Brits High School
 
Make Other Events 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: Wed 11 Mar 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

House Concert

"with just a few humble sounds, you are able to connect people"

  • Available date: Wed 11 Mar 2026
  • Quick breakdown of requirements:
    • Audience size: no minimum requirement. My risk.
    • We work together to promote. I supply flyer and pdf with a dedicated booking link.
    • I coordinate bookings and issue tickets in advance.
    • Incentives are given for people to bring more people
    • No costs involved. Contributions based.
    • Food and/or drinks up are to the host, or everyone - but not critical.
  • Special features this time:
    • (to be announced)
  • Request:
  • Reward: as host, or as one through whom a host is confirmed, you receive a digital HA! product of your choice

Public Performance



"A world-class cellist & pianist who interweaves music, birdcalls, video, utterances and movement into an evocative, multi-sensory performance."

  • Available date: Wed 11 Mar 2026
  • Request: if you'd like to book me, or connect me with a potential venue host, make use of or share the HA!Man Performances info pdf with link: haworld.net/performances
  • Reward: as venue host, or as one through whom a public performance is confirmed, 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 40 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

Wed 11 Mar 2026

possible School Visit (workshop and/or interactive performance)
possible House or Public Concert

Next
some time 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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