Artists: Judy Seidman

Artists: Judy Seidman

Newsletter has interview section of Mosa Jonas Gwangwa who is a composer, musician and member of Medu Art Ensemble. He is interviewed by Medu project co-ordinator Mongane Serote. Jonas Gwangwa shares his background from his early childhood when his parents arrived at Orlando in 1931. Furthermore, he talks about his musical background that is influenced by his musical family.

Cultural Bodies are a means for artists to learn from and communicate with their communities. How is it done? This edition of Medu opens discussion on the inter-communication between artists and communities. To this end, a "Graffiti Page" has been added to allow for public comments on Thami Mnyele's exhibition, which was held at the Gaborone Museum. Critical artistic reflection is included in this issue through reviews of the art of Thami Mnyele, Maselwa Malatji, Bachana Mokwena and Dennis Brutus. Like all Medu Newsletters, this includes exciting poetry by Mongane Serote and Keorapetse Kgositsile. Front page graphic by Heinz Klug on lithograph.

A list of the various artists who produced and displayed work at the Art Toward Social Development Exhibition. It includes a list of the artists, photographers and poster makers and a brief background of these cultural workers.

An art exhibition catalogue titled 'Statements in spring' by Thami Mnyele and Medu Collective at National Museum and Art Gallery, Gaborone, Botswana, 3 to 12 September 1980.

Fresh footsteps is a play that is developed by four women who are Medu members, Theresa Devant and Lulu Emmig. The play is about South African liberation struggle affected women living in Botswana and the issues facing them as women, the workshop facilitation by Mongane Serote.

Medu collaborated with the Botswana National Museum and Art Gallery to design an art handbook for teachers as part of education. The handbook was designed by Ellen Forrester on behalf of Medu and used in Botswana schools.

Memorial service of Jenny and her daughter Katryn Schoon (6 years old) was held on the 8 July 1984 at Anglican Church. They were killed by a parcel bomb in Angola, six months after they fled Botswana due to attempted attack on their home in December 1983. They were murdered on the 28 June 1984. Programme has key note speakers, hymns, South African Anthem and Botswana National Anthem.

Volume five number two magazine includes culture and resistance festival that took place in Gaborone, six stories by different writers, poetry by Frank Chipasula, Andries Oliphant. Photographs of various artists such as Hugh Masikela, Abdullah Ebrahim, Mongane Serote, photographers including Lesley Lawson, Peter Mckenzie and Paul Weinberg who later became members of 'AFRAPIX' which was focusing on social documentary photography.