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Free Workshops in August!
Join us at the Yeoville Public Libary for Hotel Yeoville's series of workshops. These workshops will let you use the space to express yourself while learning some useful compter skills at the same time! Promote your business, create a memorable video with a loved one, or learn how to write personal stories and put them on your own website! All workshops are free to the public, but require pre-registration/RSVP (Telephone: 071 874 3253).
We'll be offering:
How to Promote Your Business Online, where we'll assist you in posting a free ad on our website, setting up a free email account for your business, and composing or editing your CV/Resume, and more! Friday, August 13th and Saturday, August 14, from 11:00-13:00.
Interviewing on Video, where you and a family member/friend attend in pairs and learn how to share stories through interviewing each other. At the end of the programme, everyone will have a chance to record a video of their interview in our Video Booth. Please note that pairs sharing stories of migration (How did you come to Yeoville?) will be given first priority in signing up for this workshop. Saturday, August 21st and Saturday, August 28th, from 11:00-13:00.
Short Story Writing and Blogging, where you'll learn how to write about yourself and your life so that you can set up a page online for your thoughts! Your first story (which we'll produce during the workshop) will also be included on our website, and we'll offer you writing and editing help if you need it! We'll especially focus on how to write about movement and migration (Have you ever moved? How did you come to Yeoville? What is life like here, or where you used to live?). Friday, August 20th from 11:00-13:00 and Tuesday, August 24th, from 15:00-17:00.
Please note that each workshop has limited space, due to the number of computers we have. To attend, we requst that you RSVP/Register by signing up at the library (sign up sheets are located downstairs at the main desk and upstairs in the Hotel Yeoville space) or calling or texting us at 071 874 3253.
See you there!
Destination Johannesburg
For more coverage, portraits and backstage accounts of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa (in French), click here:
Pour plus de reportage, portraits, compte rendu et les coulisses de la Coupe du Monde de Football en Afrique du Sud (en Francais) Cliquez ici:
Launch of Hotel Yeoville
The Hotel Yeoville Project has just opened to the public in the brand new public library on Raleigh Street. Hotel Yeoville is not a hotel! It’s a community website and an interactive art project available for the use of residents of Yeoville and Bellevue. Adding a new frequency to the trans-continental whispers upstairs at the new library, Hotel Yeoville is a ground-breaking public art project which, by way of freshly designed digital interfaces, keys into the diversity of immigrant and South African experiences that make the legendary suburb of Yeoville such a hot melting pot.
Come into the library at the specific hours mentioned below, and check it out! Raphael Bope, Godfrey Tshis Talabulu, and Brittany Wheeler are there to show you around and guide you through how to use it.
Survival Guide
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) have just released an extraordinary resource: a beautifully designed and user friendly, up-to-date survival guide for South Africa's refugee community.
African Diaspora Forum
African Diaspora Forum (ADF)
The ADF is an umbrella organisation for people from the Diaspora who are resident in South Africa. The African Diaspora Forum is a non profit organisation open to all willing individuals and organisations sharing the objectives of the Forum. Its originality consists in the union of a number of organisations representing African migrant communities living in South Africa. So far 21 African countries are represented in the Forum: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. The organisation works for an integrated society, free of discrimination or any kind of xenophobia. It promotes tolerance, builds relationships between South Africans and Africans of the Diaspora and fosters a pride in being African.
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