.......for Plett

[Plettenberg Bay and eastward - The Crags and Tistsikamma]

3 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 visits to the Plett area 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
  • 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/plett


Event Announcements
HA!Man Workshop and Performance - almost confirmed!
  • Date: Sat 21 Feb 2026
  • Venue: to be announced

School Performance
  • Date: Mon 23 Feb 2026
  • Time: (morning)
  • Venue: Old Nick Village Eco Preschool
  • Address: Old Nic, N2, Plett
  • Enquiries: Inge Basset bassettinge@gmail.com
 
Make More 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 dates: Mon 23 Feb 2026 and Tue 8 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

House Concert

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

  • Available date: Tue 8 Sep 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: Tue 8 Sep 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 61 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
 
Summary of Schedule


Sat 21 Feb 2026
possible Spontaneous Creativity Workshop and public performance

Mon 23 Feb 2026
one confirmed and one possible School Visit (workshop and/or performance)

Tue 8 Sep 2026
possible House or Public Concert

Next
a visit during JULY - possibly!
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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