Macaronic: Mixed mosaics make a cultural impression

Once again MOSAIC will be represented at the Brighton Festival Children's Parade this year. The theme for the Parade is 'World Food', and MOSAIC's theme will be 'Roots', with workshops taking place throughout April. We will be having costume making workshops at the MOSAIC Office, at the Under Five's and at April's Bring-a-dish.

We have expanded our adult education program for the upcoming season to include a variety of courses. Various media, traditional and new techniques, as well as classes for personal growth are all offered. Every season we plan to invite an artist who teaches something unique or exceptional. This year Nancy Pobanz from Oregon will be teaching a mixed media workshop, Collect and Collage

The works were co-produced over a period of three months with the young people leading the way in terms of design and construction. Initially the group focused on Liverpool’s architectural heritage; they subsequently explored the legacy of immigration and the contribution made by new arrivals to the culture of the city.

Shaped by the actions of river, sea and wind, iSimangaliso's landscape offers critical habitats to a wide range of Africa's marine, wetland and savannah species. Its varied landforms include wide submarine canyons, sandy beaches, forested dune cordon and a mosaic of wetlands, grasslands, forests, lakes and savannah. The iSimangaliso Wetland Park has its origins in the St Lucia Game Reserve, declared in 1895 and made up of the large lake and its islands. St Lucia Park was proclaimed in 1939, containing land around the estuary and a strip of about one kilometre around most of the lake shore. In 1971 St Lucia Lake and the turtle beaches and coral reefs of the Maputaland coast were listed by the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance.