23 March – Arts, Culture and Environment

Today we spoke to Bradley van Sitters - from the Cape Town Festival. The Cape Town International Performing Arts Festival will be showcasing a variety of dance and drama performances. Choreographed by the talented Christopher Kindo, the performance showcases the talents of an impressive list of performers. The performance will be at the Joseph Stone Auditorium tomorrow at 8PM. Members of the public can view the show at the Festival reduced ticket price of R30. Bradley is giving away complimentary tickets, if you are interested call him or Joy at (021) 465 9042. Tickets can also be purchased online through Computicket at www.computicket.com or call Computicket on 083 915 8000, or buy your tickets directly at the venue. Full details of the Festival Programme are available on the Festival website www.capetownfestival.co.za

And we also spoke to Troy Truter – Project Manager of Community Health and Arts Trust. The Community Health and Arts trust launched a new pilot project yesterday called art to heal the hurt. The project aims to use art as therapy for the disadvantaged at public service outlets and also to provide work and skills for artists. For more information about the CHAT or if you are an artist interested in being part of this venture, feel free to contact Troy at (021) 788 2806 or email troy@chatsa.org.za

Our last interview was with Jenny Fleetwood – Vice chairperson of Iziko lo Lwazi Craftworkers. Iziko lo Lwazi is a poverty alleviation project that began as an adult literacy programme, offering free English lessons to ladies from the informal settlement, Imizamo Yethu. Later facilitators decided to find a project that will give the ladies an opportunity to earn while they learn. Papermaking was chosen and today they still learn while they create beautiful products all decorated with the locally found objects such as dried seaweeds, shells, feathers, flowers, beads and many more. If you more information about the project you can contact their offices at (021) 790 2123 or email izikoll@tflies.co.za

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