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Art Forum and Art Tours

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The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum will hold an Art Forum on Public Art on Monday 11 April 2011 from 8:30 to 14:30. Topics to be presented for discussion and debate will include shared heritage, public art and politics and a vision for the city.

Two tours of public art in the city will take place on 4 and 16 April 2011. The first tour will concentrate on memorials and monuments while the second will cover public art in the city including colonial history, modern art and the apartheid era and post 1994 which will include Route 67 and the MBDA sculptures. A group of historians and specialists will accompany each tour to give facts and informed opinions as each artwork is examined and discussed as part of a shared history.

A practical workshop on the process/es of moulding and casting will take place from 4 – 8 April 2011.

In May, a presentation and workshop on collaborative work, successes and relationships in the realm of public is being planned. Details of this event will be available at the end of March 2011

To book for the Art Forum, public tours and workshop, please telephone the Art Museum on 041 5062000. All events are free of charge. Bookings will be open from 14 March 2011.

If you are travelling to Port Elizabeth and need accommodation then browse our Port Elizabeth Guest Houses and book direct – no fees.

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