Indigenous Arts Festival '24

Indigenous Arts Festival '24 Indigenous Arts Festival

31/03/2024

Here's a recap on the eventful weekend we had at the Indigenous Arts Festival.

Well-Being Sanctuary

We'd like to express our deep gratitude to everyone who played a part in making the Indigenous Arts Festival a success. ...
04/03/2024

We'd like to express our deep gratitude to everyone who played a part in making the Indigenous Arts Festival a success. A special thank you goes out to Mariette from Well-being Sanctuary, along with the incredibly talented artists, dedicated crew, and our hardworking team. We're especially thankful to each and every one of you who joined us, supporting our efforts to honour and celebrate our rich heritage. Your kindness and generosity left a lasting impact on the festival weekend, and for that, we are truly thankful.

Stay connected with us for updates on all the festivities, and remember to share your experiences with us! Thank you!

All roads lead to Indigenous Arts Festival '24 Are you as excited as we are? šŸ•ļøšŸ˜‰
29/02/2024

All roads lead to Indigenous Arts Festival '24 Are you as excited as we are? šŸ•ļøšŸ˜‰

How can you get to the Well-being Sanctuary? Here are the detailed directions to the venue. *Connect, Celebrate, Cherish...
28/02/2024

How can you get to the Well-being Sanctuary? Here are the detailed directions to the venue. *Connect, Celebrate, Cherish - See You at the Indigenous Arts Festival!* šŸ˜‰

DIRECTIONS TO THE VENUE:
The GPS co-ordinates provided below will take you to the top of Lake Avenue. Lake Avenue is not an official road on Google maps. Look out for the Well-Being Sanctuary Sign on Hoogekraal road (when you come from Wilderness or Knysna).

PLEASE read the directions below, you'll get to the venue. Guaranteed!

Well-Being Sanctuary-Sedgefield

FROM THE SEDGEFIELD SIDE
Once you pass through Sedgefield on the N2, take the Karatara turnoff to your left.

(If you are coming from Knysna on the N2 you will turn right onto the Karatara turnoff.)

Travel about 4km to the first turn to the left. (Also Karatara). Pass over a low water bridge, travel about 3km to the first left turn. It is a dirt road with a sign saying Hoogekraal/George.

Follow the road over the river and up the pass for about 5km to the first left turn.

The Signs say Well-Being Sanctuary, Wilderness Forest Estate, Fynbosvlei. Turn left into Lake Ave.

From the top of Lake Ave just keep following the blue and white WBS arrows. Do not follow the GPS and do not turn off Lake Avenue.

At the bottom of the road you will see a face brick entrance with a wooden gate, turn left and you will see a large wooden gate with the sign ā€¦ LEAVE NO TRACE.

You have arrived.
Once through the gate, travel along the grass road and park your vehicle in the designated area. Voila! Enjoy a blissful time!

FROM THE WILDERNESS SIDE
Once you pass through Wilderness on the N2, take the turn off to Hoekwil, to the left if you are coming from George.

Travel for approximately 21km and take the right turn onto the dirt road to Ruigtevlei.

Travel approximately 3 km along the dirt road and turn right into Lake Ave (at this juncture you will see a few signs, including Wilderness Forest Estate, Fynbosvlei, Tomorrowland & Well-Being Sanctuary). Turn right into Lake Ave.

From the top of Lake Ave just keep following the blue and white WBS arrows all the way straight down. Do not follow Google maps or turn off the road.

At the bottom of the road you will see a face brick entrance with a wooden gate, turn left and you will see a large wooden gate with the sign LEAVE NO TRACE. You have arrived.

Once through the gate, travel along the grass road and park your vehicle in the designated area. Voila! Enjoy a blissful time!

Well-Being Sanctuary Well-Being Sanctuary

Simon Witbooi(South Africa) is the stage name/nom de plume of rapper, writer, poet, actor, and activist Simon Witbooi. H...
28/02/2024

Simon Witbooi

(South Africa) is the stage name/nom de plume of rapper, writer, poet, actor, and activist Simon Witbooi. He grew up impoverished in Capetown, where rap and hip-hop became his outlet for the social inequality he saw all around. Although he began in English, Afrikaans quickly took over as his chosen language.

HemelBesem (Heaven's Broom) calls himself an edutainer or educator because he wants to build bridges between communities and address African social issues. In his 2017 book God Praat Afrikaans (God Speaks Afrikaans), he passionately defends the Afrikaans language. He is an ambassador for the Afrikaans Language and Culture Society (ATKV) and visits schools on a yearly basis in collaboration with the University of Stellenbosch for the Woorde Open WĆŖrelde (WOW) project.

He is a descendant of Hendrik Witbooi, one of the greatest 19th-century resistance heroes during the genocide by the German colonizers in southwestern Africa, now Namibia.

Tickets are still available. Follow the link to secure your spot!
https://shorturl.at/BCMUZ
Well-Being Sanctuary

Only 2 days to go till we meet up at the Indigenous Arts Festivalā€™24. Are you as excited as we are? Here is a full sched...
27/02/2024

Only 2 days to go till we meet up at the Indigenous Arts Festivalā€™24. Are you as excited as we are? Here is a full schedule of the festive activities you can expect for the weekend and a map on how to get around the camp.

Keep an on our page on directions on how to get to Well-Being Sanctuary.

Tickets are still available. Follow the link to secure your spot!
https://shorturl.at/BCMUZ

Well-Being Sanctuary

Willem (Willa) Boezak was born in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. He obtained a diploma and a Master of Theo...
27/02/2024

Willem (Willa) Boezak was born in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. He obtained a diploma and a Master of Theology at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) (both cm laude); a Doctorate in Theology from the Vrije University of Amsterdam (cum laude); and a PhD in Social Science from the University of Cape Town.

He is also a qualified social worker, has done research at Yale University (USA), and served for 12 years as a lecturer in theological ethics at UWC.

A prolific author of many articles, essays, and books, Boezak is a gifted artist, with previous exhibitions held at the Castle of the Cape of Goodhope (Cape Town) about the life of Nelson Mandela.

Tickets are still available. Follow the link to secure your spot!
https://shorturl.at/BCMUZ

Well-Being Sanctuary

Don't miss out on the ultimate foodie experience at the Indigenous Arts Festival. Our Conscious Khoe Kitchen is here to ...
26/02/2024

Don't miss out on the ultimate foodie experience at the Indigenous Arts Festival. Our Conscious Khoe Kitchen is here to tantalize your taste buds with the best of indigenous cuisine.

Friday pm: Wors, smoor, and rooster/vetkoek

Saturday AM: Pancakes & khoe sistas
Saturday PM: Curried Tripe, rice and pumpkin

Sunday brunch is Dumplings with Beef marrow

We only accept cash so if you and your tribe would like to pre-order contact us on WhatsApp at 0842146558. Coffee and chai tea will be available :) Tag your festival friends and let's eat, dance, and celebrate together! PS: we are conscious of the environment so please bring your own lunch box/plate/crockery for the weekend (8)

Diana is a writer, poet, performance poet, and storyteller. Her work has been published in various collections, some of ...
25/02/2024

Diana is a writer, poet, performance poet, and storyteller. Her work has been published in various collections, some of which serve as prescribed texts for high school learners.
Diana is internationally known and acclaimed for the poem that she wrote for the indigenous South African woman Sarah Baartman, who was taken away from her country under false pretences and paraded as a s*xual freak in Europe. This poem touched the heart of the French Senate, and upon hearing it, they voted unanimously that her remains should come home. This poem is published in the French Law, a first in French history.

Dianaā€™s work has had and still has a bearing on and influence on matters of race, s*x, and reconciliation.

Purchase your tickets and donā€™t miss out. Follow the link to secure your spot! https://shorturl.at/BCMUZ

Well-Being Sanctuary

Sylvia Bara-ta-Ken VollenhovenA writer, award-winning journalist, playwright and filmmaker. In 2019 appointed the Univer...
25/02/2024

Sylvia Bara-ta-Ken Vollenhoven

A writer, award-winning journalist, playwright and filmmaker. In 2019 appointed the University of Johannesburgā€™s first ever Professor of Practice. Awarded Sweden's main journalism prize by the Publicistklubben, the prestigious Nordic academy of writers and publishers. The citation readsā€¦ ā€œFor doing a brave, professional job under difficult circumstancesā€¦".

SYNOPSIS
In the now extinct language of the |Xam Bushman people of Southern Africa |Xau or |Xaun meant to shoot with a magical arrow or go on a magical expedition. Unearthed in an ancient dictionary, it is a powerful example of what indigenous people have lost. The newer languages that have come to replace the rich indigenous lexicons do not have a word that comes close in meaning.

It is hard to restore our connections with the land, our love and respect of all that is, without finding the |Xau of now. For the mixed descendants of the indigenous people, the colonials and the slaves (brought to South Africa mainly from Asia and other parts of Africa) their version of Afrikaans has been until recently the only tool they had to build and solidify an African identity. But now things are changing. People are delving into history to fetch precious intangible possessions that have been ripped out of their existence, out of their beings. In Southern Africa people are healing by relearning the languages that have survived, mainly
Khoekhoegowab or its closest equivalent Nama (also from Namibia).

When languages were destroyed, First Nations people lost important elements of their culture as well as entire civilisations. They lost a way of being in the world. Emulating a colonial way of expressing themselves, their connection with the land and with the divine aspects of themselves became broken. This short film is an reflection of tumbling around in the maelstrom of the modern world, in search of what has been lost, in search of those magical arrows. People need to find the |Xau of now to restore their relationship with the land and the Divine within. Only then will we begin to heal what has been destroyed without and within.

Tickets are available. Follow the link to secure your spot and donā€™t miss out! https://shorturl.at/BCMUZ

Well-Being Sanctuary Sylvia Vollenhoven

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