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We Need Ice Cream Containers

We Need Ice Cream Containers

Date: 2013-09-20
We need your help to make a huge public artwork - please bring us your old CDs and empty ice cream containers!!

Umcebo Design is making an enormous "vine" installation public art-work and needs recycled materials. They need two litre ice cream containers - preferably the cream, beige and white ones and non-operational, old or used CDs.

The culmination of the Social Justice Season will be a one-day festival on 19 October at Diakonia to showcase some of the social justice projects on offer - the context being: "churches as life-affirming communities".

The Vines Social Justice Festival will be hosted jointly by Diakonia Council of Churches and its project partners, Umcebo Design, Durban Music School, Diakonia Centre and Vuleka Centre.

The festival will have as a central symbolic theme - the Vine. A dramatic giant vine public art piece, adorned with solar powered LED fairy lights, is currently being made out of discarded recycled materials to beautify the inner city.

The Festival will be in partnership with Durban Music School who will co-ordinate an afternoon al-fresco free music concert to be held in Diakonia Avenue. The idea is to enjoy live music, and to wonder through the Social Justice "Flea Market" to be held in the beautiful courtyard of Diakonia Centre.

The Vine Art Work is being project-managed by Robin Opperman and Ujala Jackie Sewpersad of Umcebo Design - who specialise in bespoke mixed media creations and services. Umcebo makes a range of highly collectable art and décor pieces, using local craft, design and manufacturing skills.

The vine components are currently being made through a series of public participative workshops. The Vines will be displayed throughout Diakonia Centre and surrounds - unveiled at the Festival on 19 October.

For further details about the festival and the workshops, contact reception@diakonia.org.za or karen.read@diakonia.org.za or call 031 3103500

To donate ice cream containers or old CDs, please contact Robin Opperman or Jackie Sewpersad. Their studio is in Glenwood, opposite the KZNSA Gallery - they would love it if you could pop them by the studio - they are 171 Bulwer Road. Or contact them for collection: Cell: 083 7933408 / Email: robin@umcebodesign.co.za / Facebook: Umcebo Design | Umcebo Trust.