Nna le Seabe art exhibition scheduled for next week

Spira Tlhankane | Thursday December 3, 2015 15:12

The exhibition was initially scheduled for December 2, but has since been moved to December 7.

Aimed at spreading awareness on HIV/AIDS, this year’s artworks will only feature local artists.

Through the exhibition, local artists will be given a platform to effectively communicate messages on HIV/AIDS through visual representation. The exhibition will run until end of January next year.

The exhibition will come almost a week after the commemoration of this year's World AIDS Day, which was held in Tonota on Tuesday. This year’s Nna le Seabe exhibition will be held under the theme, “getting to zero new infections, zero discrimination and zero HIV/AIDS related deaths”.

The National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA) is sponsoring the exhibition. NACA has in the past years helped the artists to better understand the dynamics of the scourge through workshops.

However, this year MYSC did not host any workshop.

The exhibition has been hosted since 2001 and it highlights the critical contribution by local visual artists in combating the scourge of HIV/AIDS in Botswana. 

This year, the exhibition will see Braille material being displayed. On the morning of the event, MYSC will undertake a publicity walk around Gaborone.

The Minister of Youth Sport and Culture, Thapelo Olopeng is expected to officiate at the exhibition. agreement that was reached with one insurance company. He said it was unfortunate that the handover from the old to the new committee was not done hence the confusion.

 

Meanwhile, Bathai said when he left office, BOKA Trust was formed and a board of trustees was appointed.  He said the mandate of the trust was to raise funds and other resources for the benefit of deserving athletes, coaches and administrators. Bathai said the trustees were disappointed when he left office.

“I tried to plead with them to stay, but they decided to leave since they wanted to work with me. I was out of office and they also wanted out,” he said. Bathai said BOKA receives P1 million grant from Botswana National Sport Commission (BNSC) on an annual basis, which is not enough to implement all projects.

He said this was the reason why there was need for board of trustees to assist with fund raising.  Mathe said it was possible that they overlooked the trust. He admitted his committee was quick to dismiss ideas of the previous committee. Mathe said he was willing to have Bathai onboard because he was spearheading the idea of a trust. The BOKA president said they have not dismissed the board of trustees and they are ready to work with them. However, Bathai said he was not keen to be part of the BOKA committee.