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Keiskamma Music Academy at the Eastern Cape Eisteddfod

June 12, 2014, 11:09 pm
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Keiskamma Music Academy would like to congratulate two students who took part in the 2014 Eastern Cape Eisteddfod.  Wonke Mapuma (Gr. 9) and Sambesiwe Mavela (Gr. 8) of St. Charles Sojola High School in Hamburg performed on Wednesday 28 May before an adjudicator at Rhodes University in Grahamstown.  They were accompanied by Music Academy instructor Claudia C. Linfelt on piano. 

The Eastern Cape Eisteddfod is a festival in celebration of art and music and a platform for young players to showcase their talents.  Opportunities for performance and professional evaluation are offered over a period of weeks.  This year’s Eisteddfod was held from May 15thtill May 31st.

Wonke Mapuma played a selection from Hans-Martin Linde's Neuzeitliche Übungsstücke on alto recorder and an arrangement of Moritz Moszkowski's Two Spanish Dances on clarinet.  Wonke earned a Bronze Award for his performance on clarinet and a Silver Award for his performance on recorder.  The adjudicator noted his “confident playing” and “attention to dynamics.”  Wonke is currently excelling in both his clarinet and recorder playing, tackling advanced UNISA solo repertoire at a relatively young age. 

Sambesiwe Mavela performed two movements from a sonata in e minor by Benedetto Marcello on alto recorder, earning a Double Gold Award.  Sambe was praised for his “confident performance” and “understanding of genre.”  This is the highest award a Keiskamma Music Academy student has received at the Eastern Cape Eisteddfod to date.


Sambesiwe Mavela


Well done, Wonke and Sambe! Thank you both for your enthusiasm, diligent practice, and dedication. You have made us very proud!

For more information about the Eastern Cape Eisteddfod, please visit:  http://www.foundation.org.za/index.php?pid=14.
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Flower power for Graça Machel

June 20, 2014, 2:33 am
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A bunch of handcrafted aloes that deck the dining hall at Graça Machel residence have "totally transformed the space and given it a unique identity", says Mary Van Blommestein, curator of the UCT works of art collection and the Irma Stern Museum.


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Seven felt flowers were installed into the hall's niches in April, after the UCT Works of Art Committee commissioned the Keiskamma Art Project, based in Hamburg in the Eastern Cape, to create the colourful flora.
"The aesthetic appeal of the structure and beauty of the individual aloes from various regions in South Africa creates a powerful visual statement which celebrates our national flora and promotes an appreciation of the importance of eco-wise sustainable gardening evident in the courtyard planting of this residence," says Van Blommestein.
"Each aloe is first shaped with wire, covered with hand-felted wool, embroidered, and installed in hand-thrown clay pots. In total there are seven separate species in the dining hall:Aloe vryheidensis; Aloe ferosx; Aloe peglerae; Aloe arborescens; Aloe plicatilis; Aloe pearsoniiand Aloe striata."

"Our main wish is to get more and more orders so we keep busy and create more employment to us the locals," says Khayalethu Nqono, one of the artists on the project. "I see my work on some social media sometimes and, yhu! My heart sings with joy. I see unbelievably beautiful handmade art that I was part of producing and that gives me hope."

Shaylok Khoza, another artist from Hamburg, enjoys working with Keiskamma.
"I enjoy my work so much," says Khoza. "The UCT commission was such a great order ... and we looking forward to have more commissions coming through so we can be able to create more employment for ourselves, and maybe one day be able to buy our own company car ... since we are currently struggling for transport to buy our raw materials from town."



Story by Yusuf Omar. Images by Michael Hammond.
17 June 2014

From UCT website
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The Art Project contributes to the Scottish Diaspora Tapestry

June 30, 2014, 3:04 am
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Nozibele Nxadi and Zukiswa Zita
presenting their embroidered panels
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New Steve Biko Tapestry at Grahamstown National Arts Festival 2014

July 2, 2014, 10:12 am
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Nomfusi Nkani is presenting her Steve Biko Tapestry

created thanks to the Keiskamma Art Project artist development programme

at Albany Museum

from 3rd  to 13th July

9:00 - 18:00







Wire and felt indigenous plants and ceramic pots are also part of the exhibition















We thank the Provincial DAC who provided an exhibition venue for this new creation.

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The Keiskamma Altarpiece returns home

July 20, 2014, 9:35 am
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After nine years of travelling the world and South Africa, the iconic Keiskamma Altarpiece has returned to Hamburg to be part of the opening celebrations of the new town centre buildings and other Aspire developments (date to be determined). 

It was absolutely thrilling to see Justus Hofmeyr once again assembling the huge artwork, with a team of Keiskamma staff assisting him, and to see the Altarpiece fill up the heart of the new gallery space in Hamburg.




Keiskamma Trust Art project and its founder Carol Hofmeyr, have been pivotal in attracting attention to this small village, and making its name known for high-quality art--which is one of the main reasons that Hamburg has been the focus of National Treasury, and Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism funding to create an artist retreat , a new town centre-complete with arts and craft buildings, and a Music Academy building--and while we don't have the mandate (yet) to be allowed to operate in them, we have been granted permission to show our work. 

The Keiskamma Altarpiece is a contemporary icon of how the human spirit can rise above adversity and create art of enduring strength and beauty

The Keiskamma Altarpiece, created in 2005 by 130 women and men from the village of Hamburg, travelled to North America, London UK, and Germany, as well as all through SA as part of an international exhibition, and has been on display in Stellenbosch for the past few years. It has garnered international attention and accolades, and has brought Hamburg's story to the world, as well as bringing many people to Hamburg who have been inspired by this incredible artwork.
On the official opening day of the new building we plan to celebrate this-- as well as the new Music Academy buildings --with musical performances and singing. We invite you to stay tuned to this blog to hear more about the events happening here and hopefully to hear news about when we may be allowed to rent the buildings that were designed for us!







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Women's Day Concert

August 5, 2014, 8:18 am
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Saturday 8th August

at 3:00 pm

at Emthonjeni Arts

in Hamburg, Eastern Cape, South Africa
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A workshop in the Kalahari

August 11, 2014, 3:32 am
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A week ago, 4 delegates of the Art Project travelled the 2000 kms that separate Hamburg (South Africa) from the small village of D'kar in the Kalahari Desert.

After driving 2 full days, Carol, Nomfusi, Flo and Sino arrived in the heart of this Naro village: Kuru Art Project - a San art studio specialised in print-making.

During 3 days, Carol, Flo and Nomfusi ran a textile design and embroidery workshop while Sino was being trained at colour print-making.






For the past 3 years, Keiskamma and Kuru have developed flourishing partnership under the leadership of their artistic directors: Carol Hofmeyr and Maudie Brown. 




This partnership led to several exhibitions, in Gaborone (Botswana), Stellenbosch and Kirstenbosch (South Africa), and in London (UK). 
It is also the basis of the very successful Kuru range that you can now also find at Kuru Art Project: kuru@kuruart.com



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Job Opportunity in Community Arts Programme (Hamburg, near Peddie, Eastern Cape)

August 27, 2014, 2:58 am
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The Keiskamma Trust’s Intlantsi Creative Development Programme has successfully completed a 2 year pilot phase. A new job opportunity has arisen within Intlantsi. We are seeking a Trainer for Community Arts Facilitators. Potential applicants should …
(essential): be Xhosa speaking and fluent in English; have minimum 2 years of experience as a trainer of youth/adults in any field; be an experienced artist in any medium (portfolio of evidence required); be comfortable working in all other arts mediums; have good facilitative, diplomatic and communication skills with people from ALL backgrounds; have true passion for empowering rural communities and building self-esteem within people; be free with expressing your ideas; be confident with writing and developing session plans and curriculums; be computer literate (able to use Word, email, conduct internet research etc.).
(preferable): have a drivers licence and your own vehicle you are willing to use on dirt roads; be proficient in writing reports, working with budgets, Excel, fund-raising proposals etc.; demonstrate an understanding of/experience in community development issues and the NGO sector in South Africa.

Currently the job is part-time at maximum 16 days/month (4 days/week or 3 weeks/month – i.e. open to negotiation. (Remuneration negotiable based on qualifications and experience) The contract is for 11 months, with a 3 month trial period built in. There is potential for the days to increase and/or the time to extend depending upon outcomes of other funding applications. The job involves recruiting and training unemployed young adults as multi-medium community arts facilitators for children. All training is grounded in arts therapy principles. 75-80% of the time is on-site training in 3 different rural villages, and 20-25% is office based administrative time. The training functions in parallel with the development of a full weekly programme of arts activities for children attending the Keiskamma Trust’s Child Development Centres, the ECD sites and primary schools in these villages, as well as capacitating the facilitators to host local community arts events and to raise income from their own arts practices. Your input would be required in all aspects of the programme, including making team-based decisions about programme design, implementation, ethics and philosophy. 

For all enquiries and further information, please contact either Merran Roy (Programme Co-ordinator on cell: 072 2377341 or email merran@keiskamma.org) or Mojalefa Koyana (Lead Trainer on cell: 071 1993621 or email mojalefa.k@outlook.com). For background information about the Keiskamma Trust see www.keiskamma.org. To apply, please send detailed CV’s covering all education, training, work and life experience whether directly relevant or not, with a letter of motivation, by 4pm Friday 26th September, 2014. Email to merran@keiskamma.org or fax to 0406781053 or post to Merran Roy, Keiskamma Trust, PO Box 483, Peddie 5640.

(Keiskamma Trust reserves the right not to appoint anyone into this position.)
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Jill Kemp - Recorder Virtuoso

September 2, 2014, 1:02 am
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On Wednesday 27 August, Keiskamma Music Academy welcomed internationally renowned recorder virtuoso Jill Kemp who is the 2007 winner of the Royal Overseas League Wind & Brass Competition. We are honoured that Jill has decided to visit ...our programme to engage with our students who have already experienced her extraordinary talent during last Saturday's workshop by listening to her performance of York Bowen's recorder sonata. For more information about Jill, please visit www.jillkemp.com
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Entyatyambeni exhibition of botanicals collages at The Cape Gallery - 60 Church Street - Cape Town

September 28, 2014, 3:59 am
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Happy teachers make for happy students!

September 30, 2014, 4:03 am
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A dream has come true for a team of Keiskamma artists who wished to develop the skill of teaching art to children. For the past year, Cebo Mvubu and Nomfusi Nkani have had the plan of teaching art to primary school children during school holidays. Their passion generated enthusiasm in 5 other artists who joined them to attend training by our Keiskamma Creative Development expert Themba Mchunu. For the past two weeks, Themba passed on very special skills to this team: how to capture the children's attention, to develop an interest in them for drawing and painting, how to give the children  freedom of expression, to plan a lesson and also how to report on challenges and explore how they might be overcome.




Standing in the class while the trainees are going through the de-briefing of the previous lesson, it is amusing and uplifting to hear the children packing up on the other side of the door. One has to stop them from pushing each other to enter the class. The art class is obviously  THE PLACE TO BE. "That's it," says Themba to the team, "you hear them, they can't wait for your new lesson, because when they wake up in the morning, they remember that the day before you told them they are going to do something new today!".











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Art for Art 2014 | 25th October | Edmonton, Canada

October 2, 2014, 12:27 am
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New Art Project shop at V&A Waterfront

October 6, 2014, 1:42 am
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Come and visit us at V&A Waterfront (Cape Town) from Tuesday 7th October on:

The Watershed, Ground Floor Market Stall F107
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Story telling, flute and piano performance

October 13, 2014, 10:18 am
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Invitation to an interdisciplinary concert with BIRDS as theme: storytelling, flute and piano.

“All Birds Know This” 
after the title of a selection of contemporary Latvian poetry

Sunday 26 October, 16h, Glensheil Manor House, Parktown

Helen Vosloo - flute, pianist Ilse Myburgh and Nomkhubulwane Storyteller. 

Keiskamma Art Project will display bird puppets made from wire, felting and embroidery...





accompanied by poetry and works around by Vivaldi, Mouquet, Ridout and Poulenc on flute and piano.
Programme will appeal to adults and children.

BOOKINGS:
Please contact Ilse Myburgh on +823461482 or iburgh@yahoo.com.
Tickets R150

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Join us! Official opening of our shop at V&A Waterfront in Cape Town

October 22, 2014, 9:51 am
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Keiskamma Trust becomes one of NAC's flagship organisations!

November 4, 2014, 11:04 am
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‘The Untapped Connection’ Keiskamma Trust at the Gender, Water and Development Conference in East London (November 3-7)

November 6, 2014, 9:13 pm
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On a rainy afternoon in Hamburg, the Music Academy’s concert ensemble, twenty experienced students, set off to East London to perform at the International Convention Centre as guests of a high-profile global conference. Keiskamma’s Art and Music programmes were invited by the organisers to participate in this event, thus offering an amazing opportunity to showcase some of our work.

The Art Project provided their beautiful 3 dimensional felt plants and ceramic pots to decorate the main conference hall. In addition, they had produced the conference bags, over 400 of them, which will serve as a lovely visual reminder to delegates as they go their separate ways at the end of the week.






The Music Academy provided the entertainment for the participants on the evening of Tuesday November 4th. In keeping with the theme of water, they performed Alla Hornpipe from Handel’s Water Music and other water-related pieces. The audience were hugely appreciative and really got into the mood when the ensemble played Ubuhle Ben Doda and Pata Pata, jiving enthusiastically and responding to the beat with emphatic ululations! The students also enjoyed the evening, a welcome break from their Matric and end-of-year school exams and study. They said they had such a warm welcome and they all talked about the amazing buffet food!



Keiskamma Trust particularly wishes to thank Glaudin Kruger and other organisers who invited us to this prestigious event, and, of course, everyone – artists, musicians, drivers and other staff – who enabled us to showcase our programmes to this international audience.



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Teenagers Camp

November 19, 2014, 11:31 am
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Our visiting UK doctors reflect on the recent weekend camp for HIV positive children ages 12 to 18


On the 25th of October the health and social work teams worked together to organise a teenagers’ camp for HIV positive young people.

The activities started with a group discussion- the young people indicated the topics that they wanted to discuss and then these were worked through as a group. The first topic they wanted to talk about was peer pressure. All the teens seemed to be worried about alcohol abuse and teenage pregnancy. The temptation to follow the crowd must be incredibly hard to resist when you so want to be like everyone else and to fit in.

The young people were also invited to write down an event from their lives where they had felt stigmatised due to their HIV status. These moments were then put into a box and read out anonymously and discussed as a group. The children tried to give each other ways of working through their problems. A lot of the teenagers disclosed that people wouldn't eat with them, wouldn’t play with them or would gossip about them behind their backs.

As doctors from the UK, volunteering for the Trust, it was incredible to see the resilience of these young people. One of the main worries shared by the group was whether "HIV is a death sentence". It must be very difficult to keep on the right track, go to school and avoid social pressures if you are so unsure about your own future. So we worked hard to explain that with medication their condition can be controlled and they can look forward to healthy lives.

Peer educators tried to set an example of how to stay healthy and showed them that they can and should allow themselves to make plans for the future. We hope that by bringing these young people together they have been given a bit of fresh thinking on their lives and a chance to support each other.

The posters they made towards the end of the day recorded their thoughts and what they had learnt from the activities during the workshop. Their creativity and the messages they wanted to get across to people in their communities were really uplifting.

They also participated in some fun activities and games and everyone went home with a full stomach and hopefully, a lighter heart.








Our facilitators



Dr Amelia Hawkes

Dr Cavitha Vivek
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Miss Port Alfred Wows Mgababa!

November 22, 2014, 8:48 pm
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Fish River Sun, the local hotel and golf complex, recently hosted a Miss Port Alfred competition as a fundraiser. Money raised from ticket sales was divided between three local charities and we were fortunate that one of these was the Bjorn Centre in Mgababa! 


The lovely Miss PA visited the centre to meet the staff and children and present the gift of R4000. The hotel have asked staff to write a wish list which the hotel will purchase and deliver. Our staff are still debating over the items they would like; high on the priority list at the moment are some new small mattresses and blankets for nap time! 





Keiskamma Trust and the Bjorn Centre would like to thank Fish River Sun for their continuing support, their kind generosity and their recognition of the work of the Bjorn Centre and its dedicated staff.
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Christmas sale at Art in the Park

November 24, 2014, 9:05 pm
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The Art Project

will be at

Art in the Park

at

Ann Bryant Gallery

in East London

on 29th November 2014

Info:
Ann Bryant Gallery
043 722 4044
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