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Cape Town Field Trip (Sunday)

Important:

The Dance for All project does NOT run during South Africa school holidays :

20 June – 14 July
26 September – 6 October
5 December – 31 December

A suitable alternative project will be visited in place of Dance for All during these dates.

Kindly note that variations to this itinerary are possible, the operation of many of the Uthando projects are dependent upon many unpredictable factors.

Notes, Excludes & Includes

Cost: 650.0

Notes

The townships are safe, but of course it is better to take precautions, please leave valuables in the hotel (i.e. jewellery, expensive watches etc). Bring a camera and sufficient cash to purchase arts and crafts at one or two of the stops.

Tour Day	Sunday
Tour Duration	08:30 - 13:00 (approximately 4.5 hours)
Start Location	Cape Town
End Location	Cape Town
email:	tours@uthandosa.org
tel:	+27 21 469 2650

Experience South Africa like never before…..its not a township tour, its not a trip down guilt lane, it’s not a begging bowl route ….it’s a field excursion to discover, learn, understand, see, experience, feel and most importantly, be inspired!

While the world goes about its daily chores, earning a living and living a life, millions of people around the globe are making amazing human stories in the face of almost insurmountable adversity. Uthando (Love) South Africa now offers visitors to South Africa, the opportunity to obtain a glimpse into these amazing stories. We have tried as far as possible to present an authentic, non-commercialised view of this aspect of South Africa.

The tour will commence with an insight into the political and cultural heritage of the townships around Cape Town, visiting sites of brave struggle against the Apartheid regime. Whereafter we commence with visits to the Uthando projects.

In 2004 the Human Sciences Research Council estimated that 57 percent of individuals in South Africa were living below the poverty income line. Many in SA would argue this statistic has worsened since then. A visit to one of the over 60 urban agricultural gardens in Khayelitsha of Abilimi Bezekhaya (Xhosa for “The Planters of the Home”) will showcase how barren swathes of very poor ground have been converted into organic lush gardens providing food and some income to the locals. We stop here for tea, coffee, delicious South African snacks, and a chat with the locals.

We pop in at the Manyanani (Xhosa for “we do it together”) Peace Park, the first community park to be established in the informal settlements of Cape Town. The Park is a leading model for sustainable community based development in SA. Local entrepreneurs will have handmade arts and crafts for sale should you wish to purchase a momento of the trip.

The next stop is a visit to the Ingqayi Educational Theatre Project. The project creates productions with dance, music and drama as well as running theatre development workshops in Nyanga. Performances are based on community issues and themes such as HIV / AIDS. In the townships there is limited opportunity for budding performers and artists to showcase their talents, and Ingqayi aims to redress this.There may well be time for an interactive session where you could learn gumboot dancing, drumming, playing an indigenous African instrument or drumming coupled with African dance.

A truly inspiring way to end this tour is a visit to the now world renowned Dance for All studios. For the past 17 years, Dance For All has been teaching and promoting dance, as well as nurturing dance talent, in the poorest and historically disadvantaged communities around Cape Town. Sit back, relax and enjoy watching their teacher, Hope Nongqongpo instruct these amazing children. At this time weekly the children from the junior training programme and African and Contemporary Dance programme are practicing. This is not a performance for the audience, but their usual hard working practice session, but still, be prepared to enjoy.