Alert! The details of the memorial service for Margaret Legum have been announced. It will be held on 30 November at St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town. Here’s the (slightly edited) official statement:
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The Memorial Service to celebrate the life works and contributions to society of Margaret Legum (including her contribution as a poet) will be held at St. Georges Cathedral in Cape Town on Friday, 30 November 2007 from 13h00 till 15h00. Tea & Refreshments will be served afterwards in the Labyrinth Area of the Cathedral, with Shared Reflections in the Minor Hall adjacent to the Labyrinth.
One purpose of the Memorial Service is to celebrate Margaret Legum’s national importance in terms of the issues she embraced and the people she energised and inspired with her vitality and optimism. It will be put on by a collage of the organizations she worked with, in the fields of new economics, poverty alleviation, social diversity, environmental activism, women’s issues, thinking skills training, faith-based civil society activism, and so on.
Implicit in the service is a call to Civil Society to carry forward the important work of the day with the spirit characteristic of Margaret Legum.
The celebration will intersperse speeches with singing and music. The idea is that it will be a grand and truly memorable ritual of national significance.
Memorial Service Format
Ritual Service in Cathedral
Tea & Refreshments in Labyrinth Area
Shared Reflections, a Gathering, in Cathedral Minor Hall (Open
Microphone, Quaker Silence Concept, Some Speeches/Performances,
Networking among people/organizations, Etc.)
Photo courtesy The Times.
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