Evening Sessions

Evening Sessions

The Umthombo Evening Sessions run every Wednesday and Thursday night providing alternative activities to street life for children outside of conventional working hours. Hosted by Sihle and Sox the sessions seek to explore daily feelings and experiences through performance and to workshop new performance ideas.

In preparation for the Talent Showcase competition in March small groups of former street children have written songs and rehearsed a short drama reflecting their experiences in finding Umthombo.

Art Programme

Independent Beadwork

The new art room at Umthombo Safe Space is designed to facilitate daily arts activities for children using the drop-in centre. Many children previously enrolled in soccer and surfing programmes in the morning can now spend more of their extra free time engaged in arts activities throughout the day.

Mxolisi together with volunteers lead regular craft, drama and music workshops, additionally arts materials are available to access all day for independent activities. Beadwork has been extremely popular example of this type of activity allowing for meditative, focused, independent work.