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Motion animator / editor: Kai Lossgott

Still animator: Reboile Motswasele

Project Co-Ordinator: Gwenneth Miller / Wendy Ross

a UNISA / Arts in Action Project

digital animation / community embroidery project

Bawo Thixo Somandla. 2004.

A group of artists digitally animated the stitched apartheid memories of two local black women's embroidery groups. The result was a multimedia choir performance of South African struggle songs comemmorating 10 years of democracy in SA. Part of the Journey to Freedom Narratives, a conference between the University of South Africa and the University of Mississippi, which was celebrating 40 years of civil rights in the USA.