On the 21st April an Arts Exchange with Artists from Derbyshire and Mamelodi got together in South Africa. Tom (Myself from the Drop Inn) and Adam (from Filmcity) were amongst the 20 Artists. During the 10 days over in South Africa We got the opportunity to visit a few different communities and learn a lot of the History of S.A.
The main focus of the trip was to collaborate with the South African artists in the Arts Exchange, which worked beautifully. The film crew documented and captured all of the trip and the Artists workshops, the films produced from the footage will be available to get a copy in about 4 weeks. There is 22 Hours of footage to edit.
The Film Crew also got the opportunity to go into the squatter camps in the suburbs of Mamelodi, during one of these visits, the visit to one of the schools we met some amazing people.
We met a lady who runs a Drop In centre called the Entokozweni Resource Centre, it's a youth centre not to different to what the Drop Inn started out as. So we have exchanged emails and are going to see how we (The Drop Inn) can support the Entokozweni Centre in Mamelodi.
Look out for the photo and films and more news updates on the exciting Arts and Cultural Exchange, The Drop Inn wasn't part of this project originally, but is fast getting drawn in with the wanting to help and support the Mamelodi trust, and especially the Entokozweni Centre.
This is a Photo of The Lady that runs the Entokozweni Resource Centre in Mamelodi, and some of the Children from the Local Primary School.
We want to stay in contact with this Lady and Support the Youth project se is running in Mamelodi.
Tom x
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