Thapong empowers local art teachers

Participants will take lessons in printmaking and easy bookbinding. According to Elsie Scotch, the office assistant at the centre, Thapong decided to empower the teachers so they in turn can teach their students new approaches that they will have learnt. We believe that when we teach those teachers, they will be better prepared to teach their pupils print-making skills. So we can say that although it is the teachers who are participating, the focus is on the empowerment of school children, said Scotch. The facilitator at the workshop Andreas Schonfeldt from Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa, said that the workshop ends tomorrow. The hope is that when the workshop comes to an end, each participant will walk away with a finished book that will have illustrated stories of each and everyone who took part, he said.