Outreach Foundation Newsletter 4

YOUR FUTURE FOUNDATION

“If you want to go fast, go alone. However, if you want to go far, go together”
~ African Proverb

Newsletter 4 January 2019

Welcome back to all our participants, parents and supporters.
We hope the start of 2019 has been as good for you as it has for us.
Best wishes for the rest of the year ~ from all at Outreach Foundation

Our Youth Centre Library has
officially opened for the year.

It opened with a bang as over
thirty learners from different
schools all over Hillbrow are now
using our facilities and making

use of our assistance.

It's great to see the children's
enthusiasm and eagerness to learn.

"Nothing will work unless you do."
~ Maya Angelou

Registration for all Outreach Foundation projects has commenced

Hurry and submit your registration forms as soon as possible to benefit from
our great programmes!

Computers Homework Support
Jazz
Dance Piano Hip Hop
Rap
Library Art

Marimba Counselling Drama Crafts

- to name but a few of the things we offer

The Youth Centre is thrilled at the positive
involvement from parents.

We want to send our thanks to the
parents who have ensured registration
forms and all documents including the
registration fee has been handed in and
paid.

To those who haven’t submitted the
forms and paid the registration fee, we
urge you to do so as soon as possible.

Children and leaders are showing a
huge amount of commitment by already
initiating study groups and sessions.

Above and right: An Albertina Sisulu learner

Boitumelo held an exhibition in the Dance Studio to give every student and crafter, a chance to promote their
best work of 2018.
Students from Nkosi’s Haven, Albertina Sisulu Centre, RCP-Yeoville and participants from Bienvenu in Bertams
shared lessons learned.
Beautiful weavings made from waste material as well as embroideries and drawings about their journeys to and
from Hillbrow weekly was shared.
A series of artworks from Loxton showed the project ‘Mapping Home’ where children and youth created a new
map of their town onto the walls of a house that has been converted into an art house.
We have shared a beautiful year with so many young people and families. We aimed to restore a sense of own
voice, self-determination and skills that can be used to support and help create additional income to each
person we worked with. At the end of 2018 our learners,students and crafters received a certificate of
excellence for their creative inspiration.

“The Lingering Now” Project

During December 2018, The Outreach Foundation
hosted Brazilain theatre and film director,
Christiane Jatahy, and Thomas Walgrave, a light,
set and graphic designer, on the creation of “The
Lingering Now”.

Linda M. Mhkwanazi & Phana Dube assisted with
logistics of the film shoots in Hillbrow and beyond
and some of our young participants took part in
the film.

“The Lingering Now” is the second part of a
larger project starting from Homer’s “Odyssey”
(the first part, “Ithaca”, premiered in L’Odéon in
Paris).

The work seeks to connect the powerful 3000-year old fiction with contemporary and real stories of people
being disconnected from home, physically and/or emotionally, because of war and oppression.

“The Lingering Now” will premiere in May 2019 in SESC São Paulo, and in July 2019 in the Avignon Festival
and is part of the creation process of Création Studio of the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles.

Townson University visit

On the first Wednesday of 2019, our
performing Arts Project had a glorious opening
to the new year: we welcomed a group of Post-
Graduate students from Townson University
from Baltimore in the USA.

The group included Professor Tavia LaFollette,
head of the newly established Colab at the
University of Baltimore and co-head of post
graduate theatre studies, and Professor
Malcolm Purkey.

Gcebile Dlamini, Malvin Phana Dube, Linda M.
Mhkwanazi, Sibusiso Hadebe, Zibusiso Brian,
Quinton Mamabolo, Thembalenkosi Moyo
jointly created some magic with the Americans.

Watch this space for more collaborative events!

Music teachers Maggie and
Madoda, take the new piano
for a 'spin'

A piano for the Music Centre
A Facebook messenger interaction between Avril Joffe, who currently heads the Cultural Policy and
Management Department of the Wits School of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand and ourselves,
ultimately led to a donation of a piano for our performing arts project.
Our sincere thanks to Greg Wright for selecting the Outreach Foundation Music Centre to receive this
wonderful gift, and to Avril Joffe and Orenna Krut for all the help with this.

Julian Kuhn
It is with great sadness that we were informed of the passing of Julian Kuhn
on the morning of the 15th January 2019.
Julian joined the Outreach Foundation Music Centre last year as part of the
Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra partnership.
He will be sadly missed by his students.

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