Kgosi Sechele I Museum to host Thapong Arts workshop

Friday, February 06, 2009

Following the success of the Francistown artists' workshop, Thapong Visual Art Centre, in conjunction with the American Embassy, is organising yet another workshop for artists on February 9-14 at the Kgosi Sechele I Museum in Molepolole.

Themed Art Healing and Social Responsibility, this works will put more accent on using art as a tool in the fight against the HIV/AIDS scourge.

Thapong, being the only art centre in Botswana, is starting to be active in encouraging professionalism among artists. Facilitator Ivy Radipodi, says the workshop participants will explore some of the relationships between arts, notions of mapping the body healing and issues of social responsibility.

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