Red Bull celebrates community spirit and creativity through innovation festival
Everyone is invited to experience the Red Bull Amaphiko Social Innovation Festival and join in the celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship in a friendly and secure environment with lots of activities for children and the whole family.
THE Red Bull Amaphiko Social Innovation Festival is coming to Umlazi on Saturday, 2 June and New Germany entrepreneur, Bathabile Mpofu will be present, to showcase her mini science kit with experiments that high school learners can do themselves.
This unique event is a showcase of innovative local solutions to some of the social challenges faced in South African communities, as well as a celebration of community spirit and creativity.
It’s yet another way in which Red Bull ‘gives wings’ to people who push boundaries, excel and rise above their limitations – in this case, grassroots social entrepreneurs who are making a positive difference in their communities.
The Red Bull Social Innovation Festival is part of the Red Bull Amaphiko programme, and seeks to provide an opportunity for residents of Umlazi to gather, interact and discover their neighbourhood and welcomes visitors from surrounding communities.
The festival route will include a journey through innovative ideas from Red Bull Amaphiko participants, and will also involve a range of organised and spontaneous activities on the street.
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Umlazi residents, guests from surrounding neighbourhoods and members of the broader community and general public are encouraged to join in the celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship in a friendly and secure environment with lots of activities for children and the whole family.
This exciting event will be held from 11am until 5pm at the outer fields of the King Zwelithini Stadium.
The festival is an opportunity for Umlazi to celebrate its community and community leaders who work to make their space safer and more creative.
The intention is to have fun, meet interesting people and explore. The Red Bull Amaphiko Social Innovation Festival brings together key ingredients with an extra dose of inspiring ideas from young South African entrepreneurs.
One of the central highlights of The Red Bull Social Innovation Festival will be the extraordinary work of the social entrepreneurs that contribute to Umlazi. In this way, it becomes an opportunity for attendees and members of the community to interact with local entrepreneurs and build their community together. The aim of the festival in Umlazi is to use creativity to build a stronger community, healthier citizens and an improved quality of life.
Bathabile Mpofu (ChemStart)
Bathabile showcases science visually through demonstrations giving festival goers the experience of experimenting. Demonstrations will be held throughout the day, where there will be 13 experiments in total e.g. the properties of gases, an experiment producing CO2 as a fire extinguisher, carrying fire in your hand trick, etc.
There will be an opportunity for active audience members to take part and be educated on interesting facts around African Scientists and partake in their own experiments overseen by Bathabile.
A ChemStart kit giveaway will run on social media, post the event to drive traffic to their online platforms.
WATCH: Social entrepreneurs, Nozipho Zulu and Bathabile Mpofu share some information about their businesses and innovations.
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