KAMERSVOL GESKENKE CREATES OPPORTUNITIES
STRAATLIG
Straatlig is a community project with the main goal of job creation for the unemployed in the Stellenbosch
region. Various leather products are currently being made from recycled leather by the Straatlig workers for the
Belgian designer, Michael Verhijden. Amelia van Zyl, one of the directors of Kamersvol Geskenke, introduced
this well known European designer to Straatlig. The leather products will also be available during the main
Kamersvol event at De Morgenzon Estate.
Learn more about this project at www.straatlig.org
VLOTTENBURG PRIMARY
Being true to their philosophy, the Kamersvol team will help the 10 teachers of Vlottenburg Primary
to tap into their own creativity. The talented facilitator, Margaret
Laubscher, will assist these teachers in a four week workshop to
discover and develop their own and their 385 learners' creativity.
FEEDBACK
"A Gift from Kamersvol Geskenke to Vlottenburg Primary school.
How would you like to slow down for a while – a few hours each week, to
be precise, and enjoy the opportunity of broadening your creative
horizons? That is exactly what the teachers of the Vlottenburg Primary
school have been doing, for the past three weeks, every Wednesday
afternoon.
This idea of making space for the teachers to explore their own
territories of imagination was a gift from Kamersvol Geskenke, an event
that inspires people to discover their own creativity. Kamersvol
Geskenke is in the seventh year of presenting their collection of
exclusive, handcrafted products, and as part of their commitment to
honouring individual creativity, the organisers reach out to the local
community, in a gesture of sharing the fruits of what this special
event generates. It is out of this ‘wide minded’ thinking that
the idea was borne to offer the teachers of the school, in the
immediate vicinity of De Morgenzon wine estate, an experience not be
forgotten. The event Kamersvol Geskenke will be hosted at De Morgenzon
from the 28th of Oct till the 1st of Nov.
The idea really came together when another training institute added the
final touch. The Private Hotel School, 33 Stellenbosch on
Vlottenburg road, offered their luxury conference facility, as the
special ingredient to this exciting multi-layered course.
If you were lucky enough to be able to peep around the corner into the
lecture room, you would have observed fifteen people beaming with
expression as they explored an array of activities, exclusively
developed by process oriented art facilitators, Margaret Laubser and
Helen van Zyl.
Whether the teachers were transfixed with their own commune with
colour, or the very tactile experience of rolling up their sleeves and
applying chalk pastel to convey a taste sensation or listening to
baroque music whilst exploring forms in sculpting clay or listening to
stories told to one another, they certainly dove into their imagination
and their faces were testament to the fulfilment they experienced.
'I had no idea that just making time for my creativity has shown me
what I can do' was one gleeful comment and another more contemplative
observation was, 'I am so grateful for the opportunity to write about
what I felt – it made it even more meaningful!'.
As the teachers go back to school they hold in their hearts the lilting
words of how the course began and ended: ‘Dit is die maand Oktober! Die
mooiste, mooiste maand! "
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