St. Joseph's Adult Education Programme

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Directed by Julia Landau

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This documentary is about the healing journey through Kundalini yoga and the creative arts that four formerly abused women from Cape Town embarked upon. In this uplifting and inspiring film, they speak about their life-changing experiences. Through visually stunning images and lyrical music, we accompany them on their self-exploratory path from Cape Town and Betty's Bay to Namibia, where they travel by plane - their first time away from home.

St. Joseph's Adult Education Programme, which was nominated as one of the three Western Cape finalists for the Premier and Presidential Education Africa Awards, was initiated 12 years ago. We have a huge literacy project. We offer free literacy to those from the disadvantaged community in the three dominant languages of the Western Cape. We also have a large range of skills orientated courses including photography, art, sewing and business offered by KPMG, the international auditing company.

We also offer free cultural programmes to the general public. Our past guests who offer their skills include the Alibass duo from the UK, Russian concert pianist Victor Rybchikov who performed at the Baxter and other venues during his debut visit to South Africa, Michael Rosenzweig award winning composer and conductor and eleven American women writers, as part of the ambassadorial tour. We have an alternative health project and a Montessori training project and we offer bursaries and reduced fees for seniors, the unemployed and students. Our alternative health project is wide and diverse including classes in Kundalini yoga, tai chi and Hare Krishna vegetarian cuisine. We also have a free child care facility so that learners can leave their children while they study. Each week we also pick up our disabled literacy learners and women and children who live in inaccessible areas. Our Programme is open to everyone.

The Programme brought out its second publication entitled "We Came for Mandela"  about the cultural life of the refugee community in South Africa. It is compiled and edited by Keith Adams, the other coordinator on the Programme. It has been highly commended by the National Minister for Education Professor Kader Asmal. The book was invited to the Frankfurt Book Fair and did really well. It has been excellently received by the media and in addition to being in all the major Cape Town bookstores at the moment as well as other national outlets and overseas.

You can order the book directly from Footprints at a reduced price of R100-00 (retails at R150-00) by

e-mailing us on info@stjosephsaep.co.za or you can buy directly through our ONLINE SHOP.

" Journey to Myself "

First book of women’s creative writing from inside prison. Compiled and edited by Julia Landau. Published and distributed by Footprints.

ENQUIRIES (CO-ORDINATORS)

Keith Adams and Julia Landau
Tel: +27 21 685-1257

Fax: +27 21 686-9295

P.O. Box 27, Rondebosch, 7700
21 Belmont Road, Rondebosch, 7700

http://www.stjosephsaep.co.za