If you are interested in the Amazwi Abesifazane / Voices of Women project, I created a group for it by the same name on Facebook today. If you happen to have a Facebook account and would like to read about the group and join it, please do so. My intention in this post is not to endorse Facebook, rather the group and I are exploring it as one of many options for the project to reach a wider audience (with Facebook, this means wider in terms of geographical and age demographic since the social networking site reaches a large amount of college/university students as the site initially restricted membership to individuals with a .edu email address). We hope to post recent news and feature individual cloths with their accompanying narratives on the group page.
J asked me today about setting a blog up for the project as well. At some point in the future we may use a freeware blogging software and embed the blog within the Create Africa South website. I've always felt that besides having considerate and interesting content, a blog should be consistent in posting in order to keep an audience. For the blog then, besides news updates as they occur, it would likely feature a cloth each week from the project's archive. The first cloths were created in 1999 in collaboration with the African Art Centre and the most recent cloths were produced in December 2007 in the Western Cape. Over the past eight years the cloths have shifted from using applique techniques to incorporating more beading (a medium that has been used in art in this area far before British missionaries introduced lessons on cloth sewing and embroidery in certain areas).
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