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Busisiwe HohoBy Busisiwe HohoJune 17, 2010No Comments2 Mins Read
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This year’s lineup for the Children’s Arts Festival at St Andrew’s Preparatory School is even more spectacular than before.

The Children’s Arts Festival started in 1988 to provide a source of entertainment for youth through artistic education. Cindy Renard, the Festival Director says, “We are an integral part of the National Arts Festival.

This year’s lineup for the Children’s Arts Festival at St Andrew’s Preparatory School is even more spectacular than before.

The Children’s Arts Festival started in 1988 to provide a source of entertainment for youth through artistic education. Cindy Renard, the Festival Director says, “We are an integral part of the National Arts Festival.

We advertise extensively in all their publications and our children attend National Arts Festival productions. The National Arts Festival also sponsors various artists to do workshops or lunch time concerts at the Children’s Arts Festival.”

The Children’s Festival runs for the duration of the Festival and caters for both primary and pre-primary children.

The theme for this year will revolve around the World Cup and activities involve fabric painting and making makarabas, says Renard.

These “develop and encourage entrepreneurial skills in the field of art and culture through focused workshops that concentrate on perfecting particular techniques.”

The St Andrew’s Prep campus is equipped for various workshops and craft expositions for the children to visit within a safe and secure environment.

The workshops vary from arts and crafts such as pewter work, beading, fabric painting and wirework to music workshops including marimbas and African musical instruments.

Attendants should also expect a storytelling workshop run by the Jungle Theatre Company. The festival attendance has steadily increased over the years, now averaging at 1 500 children a year, although, due to the Fifa World Cup, the festival is not as full as usual.

The Children’s Arts Festival also sponsors pupils from disadvantaged schools allowing them to share in the empowering experience.

Renard says, “Apart from our day visitors, through very generous sponsorship, we are able to sponsor children to be part of our boarding.”

children will be housed in the St Andrew’s preparatory hostels during their stay and group bookings can be made with Marian Jayes on cafbookings@saprepschool. com.

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