Once again the sculptors from New Xade and Kacgae settlements came together through the Ministry of Basic Education of Botswana, for their fifth workshop in Kang Village, Botswana.
Once again the sculptors from New Xade and Kacgae settlements had the chance to come together through the Ministry of Basic Education of Botswana, for their fourth workshop in New Xade settlement, outside the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
This past July, Botswana’s Department of Non-Formal Education ask me to train ten San wood carvers from Kacgae village, in the western Kalahari, and five beginners from Charles Hill and Ghanzi town. The learners arrived as a group at the Botswana’s Out of School Education Training campus in Maun, site of a gleaming glass and metal building surrounded by, as luck would have it, mopane woodland.
In September 2018 Botswana’s Ministry of Education, the Department of Non Formal Education invited me to New Xade in the Central Kalahari to run a workshop for San carvers. I met with the participants - 17 men and women - at the local school.
