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The 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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