Friday's San Cultural Center Visit

Friday brought the opportunity for the students to visit the Kuru Development Trust's San Cultural Center in D'kar, about 30km outside of Ghanzi. The center includes an artists' workshop, a printing workshop, a small shop, an administrative center responsible for instruction in language teaching methods, a translation and language training / literacy center, and a church.

A prototypical Acacia tortilis at the center of the art workshops at the trust.

Pondering the interpretation of a San oil painting. The San artists' work, shown in the background, focuses on 2-D depictions of elements of natural life as well as daily customs.

Part of the shop's work is in taking the artists' oil paintings and creating relief molds for printing, sometimes a challenge with the complex patterns used in the art.

One of the students' favorites - note the giraffe in the middle (and we had to promise not to sell forged copies of these original pieces in order to be allowed to take photos.

Students walking into the sun towards the language training center and church.