Backchat 15 February 2008
**SPIER CONTEMPORARY FESTIVAL**
Today we started the show chatting to Adam Letch and Sue Williamson who are both artsists involved in the Spier Contemporary Festival.
Adam who was born in England studied graphic design at Cape Technikon and completed his studies at the University of the Western Cape.
Sue Williamson was born in 1941 and is currently a practising artist and writer that based in Cape Town. She is a trained printmaker and works in photography and mixed media. She's currently a Artist Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
If you would like to see their art and oh those involved in the Spier Contemporary Festival visit the Spier Estate in Stellenbosch
**Belhar Outreach Forum**
We then spoke to Veronica Smith from the Belhar Outreach Forum.
The Forum as she explains offers HIV, drug and nutritional counselling. They also have daily soup kitchens feeding +- 300 people daily. They generate income through a food garden and sewing.
They are currently in urgent need of kitchen utensils and goodies.
For more information contact 021 952 0665 or 079 3933119
**ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING GROUP**
We then chatted with the director of the Environmental Monitoring Group (EMG) Steve Law.
He explains that the EMG encourages the development of environmental policies, practices and actions that lead to a deeper, more human and more sustainable relationship with each other and the natural environment.
The aim to disseminate information, analysis and alternative viewpoints into public domain
facilitate mutual learning, dialogue and effective action and demonstrate and share best-practice through building partnerships, facilitating action-research and promoting dialogue.
For more information contact 021 448 2881
Today we started the show chatting to Adam Letch and Sue Williamson who are both artsists involved in the Spier Contemporary Festival.
Adam who was born in England studied graphic design at Cape Technikon and completed his studies at the University of the Western Cape.
Sue Williamson was born in 1941 and is currently a practising artist and writer that based in Cape Town. She is a trained printmaker and works in photography and mixed media. She's currently a Artist Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
If you would like to see their art and oh those involved in the Spier Contemporary Festival visit the Spier Estate in Stellenbosch
**Belhar Outreach Forum**
We then spoke to Veronica Smith from the Belhar Outreach Forum.
The Forum as she explains offers HIV, drug and nutritional counselling. They also have daily soup kitchens feeding +- 300 people daily. They generate income through a food garden and sewing.
They are currently in urgent need of kitchen utensils and goodies.
For more information contact 021 952 0665 or 079 3933119
**ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING GROUP**
We then chatted with the director of the Environmental Monitoring Group (EMG) Steve Law.
He explains that the EMG encourages the development of environmental policies, practices and actions that lead to a deeper, more human and more sustainable relationship with each other and the natural environment.
The aim to disseminate information, analysis and alternative viewpoints into public domain
facilitate mutual learning, dialogue and effective action and demonstrate and share best-practice through building partnerships, facilitating action-research and promoting dialogue.
For more information contact 021 448 2881
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