The Display

Cherry Giljam and Sharon McCallum colaborated, planned the theme with Josh Gericke, the Zandvlei Reserve Manager and Mark Arendse the Environmental Education Manager and the staff.

They sourced the display materials and the theme this year is to stimulate everyone including the residents of Muizenberg to think and act posivitely regarding the dumping / removal of litter, waste material, invassive plant species and to think about biodiversity of species.

The display had a split theme of polluted water bodies, and local terestrial areas with invassive plants, insects and animals, as opposed to the organised and managed suburban natural areas within the City of Cape Town.

Neil Major from Cape Flats Fynbos Nursery supplied the display plants all local indigenous species from his nursery at CAFDA in Retreat just off the M5 freeway. Neil specialises in Strandveld and Sand Plain Fynbos plants. Contact him on  076 473 7095 when you need to plant or replant.

There was a full 3 – day programme running from 09h30 to 15h30 each day. A number of local schools attended the various workshop classes. Well done to all involved.

The Play

Then one of the attractions,  SNAKE MAGIC, a play about the conservation of snakes. It is about overcoming a fear of these smaller creatures than ourselves, the myths, the legends and the disinformation.
The play also deals with greed, selfishness, authoritarianism, generosity, love, forgiveness and reconciliation. David Muller –  Chairman of Zandvlei Trust is the narrator in this interactive play. Heather Mac is the producer.

 The snake charmer.

David unfolds the story......                                              .....and the snake spirit speaks to all present.

The play is going to SciFest 2009 in Grahamstown and will be seen by many rural Eastern Cape School learners / pupils. 
ZVT is proud to have already hosted 60 disadvantaged children at a performance of SNAKE MAGIC at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town recently.

Everyone had fun, sometimes                 The audience participation is evident as the message is spread.
a little scared too.