A Different Way of Seeing. Helping You Make Sense of the Overwhelm
The opportunity to host two events to showcase the work done on the Never Seen project was an exciting postscript to the initial project. We were delighted to receive additional funding from British Council Sub-Saharan Africa Arts for the events, a hybrid event at the Athlone School for the Blind, and an online public event …
First, an apology for my long silence. Since I last posted I’ve been in hospital twice and have had to focus on my health. Hopefully, all is now sorted out and I can get back to everything I’ve been putting aside. When we last spoke, I told you about the amazing experience we had during …
July is firmly part of the rainy season in Cape Town. Which means that the idea of organizing a half day nature workshop at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens at that time of year may be somewhat of a risky thing. But that’s what we decided to do for the second phase of the Never Seen adaptive …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji. I’m so sorry I didn’t post last week like I was supposed to – I took a short, little nap and suddenly my time to post had come and gone. So I asked Mom if I could post this week instead. And she agreed. I think she is happy …
Last week I told you how I became involved in the Never Seen blind photography project, led by professional photographer Karren Visser that was funded by British Council Sub-Saharan Africa Arts. Today I’m going to tell you what happened next. The first phase of the Never seen project was a still life photography workshop that …
For the past few months I’ve been involved in a project introducing photography to the blind youth community in Cape Town. Over the next few weeks I’m going to share a little about that project with you, because it’s been so much fun. If you’re anything like me, the idea of blind photography may seem …
Since moving to South Africa from the UK when I was four years old I have lived by the sea, first in Durban and now in Cape Town. Despite this, and notwithstanding the fact that spending time on the beach has always been a favourite activity of people around me, I have never really been …
Note from Lois: For Fiji’s non-South African readers, load shedding is a system of scheduled rolling electrical blackouts that can affect us for periods of two hours several times a day. Hi everyone, it’s me – Fiji! I usually feel like we dogs make perfect sense. Most of the time, humans also make sense. But …
The second day of the Capacity Building Conference funded by the EU as part of the Enable Mauritius project was an in-person event held at the University of Mauritius. Somewhat to my surprise, due to one of the speakers having been delayed, my slot was shifted from mid-morning and I again was the first to …
One of the main reasons I was in Mauritius was to speak at the European Union funded capacity building workshop for NGOs in the disability sector, which was part of the Enable Mauritius initiative. The event took place over two days. The first day was online and the second was a physical conference at the …