Hillcrest AIDS Centre shop Contest!

 

The Woza Moya Hillcrest AIDS Centre Facebook page is holding a contest! They’re aiming to get 500 likes on their page for the shop, featured above, and once they reach 500 likes they will be drawing a name from those to send a free little traveller! The link to their page is here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Woza-Moya-Hillcrest-Aids-Centre-Trust-Friends

We highly recommend liking this page. Besides having the opportunity to have an adorable little traveller sent to you, you get all the updates on the quickly expanding shop at Woza Moya in South Africa. Just look at how elegant, and unique the dress in the photo below is. 

You can also get previews for some of the Christmas ornaments and decor that Fashioned for Change will be selling at different venues closer to the Holiday season (more updates to come as we approach). 

Woza Moya Group Exhibition, Spring, at the KZNSA Gallery!

The artisans of Woza Moya haven’t just been beading beautiful jewelry masterpieces, but they have also been creating art!

“With exciting new work from the following artists:

Nkululeko Chiliza

Nokuthula Phewa

Frank Sesing Nthunya

Sphamandla Mpilwenhle Mdluli

Tholakele Mbambo

Lindiwe Ngcobo

Woza Moya Manager Paula Thompson said the exhibition will display South African art at its best. “These eight crafters have developed from just making products so they could put food on the table to using their craft to express themselves – they are phenomenal artists and the exhibition will excite and inspire,” she said.

The artists, who are all from communities in the Valley of 1000 Hills region, have each developed a body of work over the past year and their best pieces have been curated into this exhibition.  “One of the hardest parts of being a crafter is you never get the opportunity to show the world who you could be as you are too busy making craft to sell to survive.  Over the past year our chosen craftsmen and women were given the opportunity to make pieces from the heart, which were the culmination of their emergence from crafter to Artist/Artisan,” said Paula.

Highlights of the exhibition will include a beaded portrait of Nelson Mandela, beaded designer shoes, ceramic art, a short movie about the well-known Yarn Bombing project Woza Moya undertook in 2012, and an 8000 origami crane installation depicting the statistics for HIV tests conducted by Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust in 2012. “The number of cranes is equal to the number of HIV tests we did in 2012, with one colour representing those that tested HIV positive, and one colour representing those that tested negative,” explained Paula. “In this way we can give people a powerful image of the impact of HIV in our province.”  – http://www.kznsagallery.co.za/exhibitions/woza_moya.htm

The exhibition runs from September  3rd until September 22nd.