Feel the sunshine pull you up and out, like the plants and animals. Watch the buds rush into leaf, often doubling their size in a day. Feel the life within you, like that in nature, thrust up out of darkness into new possibilities. In Spring when nature reinvents itself, we too can see relationships and situations with new eyes. The energy of Spring brings new vision, new creativity, new hope.
Self-Compassion - makes it possible for us to be with ourselves just as we are - in all our messiness. Fierce, fearless compassion - with courage, curiosity and trust in basic goodness helps us to see possibilities we might not have otherwise imagined or ever thought possible and invites us to take action.
Creative Guiding centres on the creative process and journey of making art rather than the finished product. Karen Nebe gently nudges and guides art-making in a supportive environment. She draws on inspiration from nature and its elements, stories, poetry and other stimuli.
The Emphasis is on the experience of creating, developing and reflecting. There is a deepening of self-awareness in which one's thinking does not override the process of spontaneity and creativity. It’s about an inward exploration, being in the present moment, letting go of expectations and being curious about whatever emerges.
No art experience is required.
Join Karen Nebe for a long weekend of creativity, gentle movement, meditation and self-compassion. Pause, breathe, reflect and connect.
Contact Temenos at 023 625 1871 for more information.
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They have a race team of 12 young mountain bikers, living in the small village of McGregor who participate in all the big events in SA.
They have a BMX programme for kids from 8 to 14
McGregor Young Warriora ( MYW) has brought in over 600 bikes 3 years ago into the village making it the highest per capita of any town in SA!
They have a full-time bike service centre
We are a team of young mountain bikers, living in the small village of Mcgregor in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Visit their Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/mcgyw for more information
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Founder JP du Plessis of McGregor Community Services Projects. (MCSP) is a NPO formed with 2 main objectives: 1. To find work opportunities for some of the poor in our communities, 2. To provide them, when they have done some community work, with a meal. For any support email him at mcsprojects17@gmail.com
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The Mothertongue is a women-run collective comprising artists, activists, academics and practitioners who are committed to personal and social transformation through participatory theatre and integrated arts methodologies. The Mothertongue Langeberg Youth Arts Project believes in telling stories for building communities of Resilience, finding ways to navigate this new normal as we explore our existence and build new identities. We send LOVE, PEACE, COMPASSION, COMMITMENT, CARE, FAITH, EMPATHY, COMMUNICATION, LISTENING AND TRIUMPH.
For more information visit their facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TheMothertongueProject
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#WineLandturns90 | Hear ye, hear ye!
Allow us to reintroduce this gorgeous, friendly female donkey from Eseltjiesrus Donkey Sanctuary in McGregor…Lady Rosé, Duchass of WineLand.
As part of our 90th birthday celebration, WineLand Media will help aid three different charity organisations. The second being
Eseltjiesrus Donkey Sanctuary.
WineLand Media has pledged to donate R10 000. We’re also committed to sharing their plight across our platforms.
Can you match our contribution? We challenge YOU to assist in any way possible! It can be as simple as sharing this post, making a donation or visiting the sanctuary. Every little bit helps ...
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Welcome to a creative experience designed by an Artist, Teacher and Specialist Wellness Counsellor. Carl Jung said that in everyone some kind of artist is hiding. This workshop will take you on a wonderful journey back to the true self, the constant unchanging self, the knowing self. Prepare to let yourself go in a holistic space where you will be inspired to elevate your creative awareness. Learn about lost aspects of yourself such as clarity and the ensuing happiness it brings.
Relinquish stress and process your emotions as you reconnect through creative consciousness and self-expression into joy and light.
You don’t need to be an artist, everyone is creative and this workshop is designed to have fun and meditate. The experience does not only involve and is not just about the materials as much as it is about you discovering yourself, In the process of creating. Creativity is a very healing and taps into our inner beings enabling us to learn about interesting areas in our individual subconscious, so valuable in relationships, either with ourselves or with others. You should leave this workshop feeling enlightened.
I look forward to welcoming you on the Friday at dinner 6.30pm at Tebaldis.
Cost of retreat is inclusive of workshop on Saturday and morning, all materials, accommodation and two dinners and two breakfasts at Temenos.
R1960pp for two nights and the Sunday night is free should you wish to stay on. Meals excluding Sunday and Monday but feel free to book at the Temenos restaurant or explore the village.
Mary-Louise has been an Art Teacher for over 20 years as well as an award-winning professional Artist and is registered with the ASCHP as a Specialist Wellness Counsellor. She has dealt with many issues around art as she has helped people through life experiences by using the medium and watching them flourish as a result. She is also an open water long distant swimmer who has done the Robben Island Swim, a writer and a very proud mother of three amazing children. Contact her on 0795149074 to book.
The Artist Roy Adzak cleverly states that good art is not what it looks like but what it does to us.
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Please inform your friends and family.
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EXCITING NEWS!
POETRY IN MCGREGOR is moving to NOVEMBER from 2021 onwards. We have always wanted to hold the festival in November but chose not to due to the number of other annual events taking place in and around McGregor in November. November’s weather is perfect festival weather with warm days, little wind and no rain. With so many other annual events no longer taking place we are taking the opportunity to move the festival to November in 2021 and plan to keep the festival in the second weekend of November from 2021 onwards. The bonus this year is that it will also be a relatively safer time to hold the festival in terms of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic with more people having being vaccinated and the summer weather not being as conducive to the spread of the virus. Poetry in McGregor 2021 FRIDAY 19-SUNDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2021 will be an intimate and celebratory festival featuring over 70 poets performing in group events.
We trust that those of you who have already booked accommodation in August will be able to change your reservations to November. Please contact our office at Temenos ASAP . if you have reserved accommodation in McGregor please contact the Tourism office 023 625 1954
DINNER FOR TWO-OR-MORE
For those of you who would still like to enjoy a weekend in August in McGregor, Patricia Schonstein and Jane de Sousa will be reading the beautiful poetry of Chris Mann, Hugh Hodge, Candy Rhode and Bernard Levinson, beloved poets who passed away over these past few months. This will be a celebration evening and include a three course dinner at Tebaldi’s during which poems will be read and glasses raised.
This will take place on Saturday 28 August.
-Three course meal plan and a complimentary glass of sherry R230
Should you be interested to join us, please reserve your seat at Tebaldi’s 023 625 1115
www.poetryinmcgregor.co.za
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