CEDERBERG/ROCK ART EXCURSION

 

Dates: 9–11 May  

Course fee: R4 400                                                                

Maximum: 20 participants  

Booking is through Webtickets: https://www.webtickets.co.za/v2/event.aspx?itemid=1567182349

 We will visit rock art sites in the Pakhuis Pass. These paintings offer intriguing insights into San motives and meanings and add to our understanding of the relationship between painting and landscape in the San mind. We highlight the images of social and life history occasions of the hunter gatherer painters and show how making painted places out of previously undifferentiated rocky locations enabled the artists to remember and celebrate who they were as well as their sense of belonging in their painted landscape.

 The fee includes accommodation and dinner but not breakfast, lunch, or drinks. All the cottages at Travellers Rest are self-catering. There is a restaurant, the Khoisan Kitchen, which will provide breakfast and lunch for those who don't want to bring their own breakfast and lunch.

We will meet at 12:00 at the Khoisan Kitchen at Travellers Rest in the Cederberg after which will go out to look at rock art sites. On the first evening there will be a lecture by Professor Parkington before dinner. Saturday all day and Sunday morning will again be spent looking at various rock art sites. We will have a braai each evening in the Khoisan Kitchen area where Professor Parkington will talk about the cosmology of the San as well as about the San and their rock art. Departure is after lunch on Sunday.