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NSA GALLERY'S TRAINING ARTS PROGRAMME
The NSA Gallery's Training Arts Programme offers
a creative and therapeutic programme for children,
and an intensive skills development programme
for adults. The NSA runs creative therapeutic
arts projects in Durban, at Wylie House Children's
Home and King George V Hospital's children's TB
ward, both of these projects being funded by the
AIDS Foundation South Africa.
The adult Training Arts Programme is conducted
at the Mazenod/Chesterville Community Hall at
Cato Manor, where training is provided in tufted
wool rug-making, creative embroidery and weaving
to a women's co-op called Senzokuhle. Presently
financed by the SEM British Trust (London), Senzokuhle
aims at being self-sustaining from the middle
of 2003.
Art is taught as a means of healing by providing
an expressive outlet for the children, and to
help in the development of motor skills (hand-to-eye
co- ordination), social skills (sharing and communicating
with each other and their caregivers), awareness
(pride in their own culture and respect for each
other's) and technical skills (such as cutting,
painting, designing and drawing). This creative
self-expression also helps to restore their self-confidence,
which, because of their past experiences, is always
at a low ebb.
For more information, contact: Nkosinathi Gumede,
Assistant Curator at the NSA Gallery, 166 Bulwer
Road, Glenwood, Durban 4001, Tel: (031) 202 3686/7
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