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One thing we all have in common, at any age, is stress. But for young people in particular it can be really hard, both to recognise and to manage. At the Artscape Resource Centre, psychologist, narrative therapist, couples counsellor - and member of the Woman Zone executive committee - DAPHNE COOPER gave this Stress-Less talk-workshop for the young women from ISeeU, but first she talked us through the different aspects of the profession and how she got into it herself.

In her career as Head of Training and Development at the Chrysalis Academy, Janine Turner has learnt a great deal about the lives of young people. In one of our Artscape Conversations, we spoke to her to find out more about the achievements and challenges of their work with the next generation.

Now based in the United States, South African born BO PETERSEN, actor, writer, director, voice over artist and theatre teacher, has come back temporarily, to her home
country to perform in a play she wrote called Pieces of Me. Opening at the Baxter theatre on July 11, it tells her journey of uncovering a very deeply buried family secret about her father and consequently, about herself. Here she shares the back story with Beryl Eichenberger.

The Zeitz MOCAA (Museum of Contemporary African Art) is arguably one of the most creative institutions in Cape Town, not just because of what’s on the walls and floors, but because of what is created within it, not least in the educational wing.
AND SO THE STORIES RAN AWAY was initially an exhibition of art for children held back in 2019. Four years later it’s become a series of children’s books – a collaboration between LIESL HARTMAN, Zeitz head of education, and artists and ‘story carers’, JILL JOUBERT and MERIDIAN BERNDT. The series of four little books are
to be officially launched at the Zeitz on July 20th – but Woman Zone’s own publicist and librarian Beryl Eichenberger, who had something of an input into the series herself, spoke to Jill and Meridian at the WZ Book Club to get some more of the back story.

Irish novelist Cecelia Ahern wrote her first book at 21 and has never looked back. With 25 million books sold in over 40 countries, she is a huge, much sought after, literary success story. A big fan, WOMAN ZONE librarian and publicist Beryl Eichenberger caught up with Cecelia for a chat in the busy Green Room at this years Franschhoek Literary Festival.

With a dizzying number of fans and followers, British Nigerian Bolu Babalola, author of Love in Colour and Honey and Spice, was in Cape Town recently for the Franschhoek Literary Festival . We were delighted to have the opportunity to talk to her at The Women's Library to find out more about the woman and her words - and we invite you to listen in.