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11 March 2021
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Story Rulanzen Martin
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Photo Courtesy of the artists
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The annual final-year Fine Arts graduate exhibition promises to once again entice even the biggest of art enthusiasts. The exhibition, which runs until 1 April 2021, highlights the artworks/projects of final-year students in the Department of Fine Arts.
Louiza Combrinck, World-building, Digital print, 84 x 49 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
Final-year graduate exhibition at the Johannes Stegmann gallery
Monique Myburgh, Digital Atoll I, Digital drawing, 70 x 100 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
Elizabeth Bosch, Blau Macht mich Traurig, Oil on wood, 80 x 62.5 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
Shenique Roux, Perplexed Recollection, Digital print, 40 x 100 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
Library opens new horizons for Bloemfontein-Oos School
2012-11-27
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Storyteller Gcina Mhlophe is hugging a learner at the Bloemfontein-Oos Intermediary School.
Photo: Kaleidoscope Photography
27 November 2012 |
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” Dr Seuss says that in his book I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
It is hoped that this will also be the experience of learners at the Bloemfontein-Oos Intermediary School where a library has been stocked and unveiled with our assistance. Bloemfontein-Oos is one of the schools that the UFS renovated in partnership with the Free State Department of Education.
The learners also had the rare opportunity to listen to a doyenne of South African storytellers Gcina Mhlophe. She is one of the best storytellers, writers, publishers, directors and international poet.
Tessa Ndlovo, coordinator of the UFS Schools Partnership Programme, said she thought it was important for the school to have a library in order to cultivate a culture of reading. She asked publishers and libraries to send books and in the process, more than 2 000 books were donated by the UFS-Sasol Library, staff and students. New books were sent by publishing houses.
The office of Prof. Jonathan Jansen, Vice-Chancellor and Rector, sponsored the renovation of the library by donating shelves.
Bloemfontein-Oos became the first school in the UFS’s Extreme Makeover intervention. Attention has been given to fencing, electrification, renovation and the bathrooms. Three truckloads of furniture were donated and more will follow in future. The Calculator Project (Project of Peace) was introduced to the school by students from the United States of America.
The library is part of the Culture of Reading Project.