Crafters gather for imbizo
Crafters deliver their goods at craft imbizo
CLOSE to 30 crafters attended this year’s Vukani Museum Imbizo held next to Fort Nongqayi in eShowe yesterday.
The aim of the Imbizo was to invite crafters to display and sell their work, while encouraging buyers to attend the event too.
‘We want this to be a place where collectors and crafters meet,’ said Vukani curator Vivienne Garside.
Each crafter was provided with a table to display their work and they were set-up outside the museum.
Crafts ranged from beadwork, wood carvings and horn carvings to basket weaving.
‘The Imbizo is good for us, it’s a chance for us to show customers our work,’ said local bead crafter, Victoria Mthethwa
‘The money I get from beading helps my child go to school,’ she said.
Interest in the Imbizo came from far and wide.
‘We have local buyers and buyers from as far as Pietermartizburg.
‘There is also a group of about 30 people from America coming to SA and they’re art lovers. ‘They want us to have another Imbizo just like this when they’re around,’ said Garside.
For more information, contact the Vukani Museum at vukanimuseum@lantic.net.
