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February Newsletter
Another busy month in the Puppetry South Africa Offices
Latest News.
Our Chair, Saths Moodley, has decided to step down from his position on the Puppetry South Africa Board. He
will still be helping the team with the handover and consulting with us from time to time; but the demands of his
schedule and commitment to excellence in all of his projects meant that he had to give up volunteering his
time with us. We would like to wish him the very best in his future endeavours and sincerely thank him for the
time and diligence he sowed into Puppetry South Africa during his period of service with the company. He
shall be missed in the office! In the interim, we continue to operate with Justin, Zandi and Penny; so feel free
to contact us with any enquiries you may have.
Our programmes are also up and running for the year, and we're very excited at the progress they're making
already. ProActive has officially kicked off for 2012 and the workshop series has begun. The first workshops
were held on the weekend of the 11 th and 12 th of February, and 18 trainees representing the following
community-based theatre groups were present:
- Divine Twins
- Eleven Soldiers
- Ubizo Theatre
- African Angels Performing Group
- Artistic Motion Performing Artists
- Siyaphambili
- Ingqayi Drama Group
- Siphesakhe Group
- Mapiko
These young, dynamic and very talented theatre-makers have, so far, learnt How to create stories and
construct narratives from the well-loved Mama Jaqueline (Jaqueline Domisse).
They have also learnt how to make simple rod puppets from the brilliant Andrea Van Meygaarden. They have
many more workshops to comein the following weeks, from mask construction to d by) the Giants, and
everyone in and around them had a lot of fun, dancing, laughing - and there are a lot of photographs to
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