Museum Night @ Iziko SA Museum | Free Workshop on Hunter-Gatherer Food Culture
Thu Feb 21, 18:00 - Thu Feb 21, 22:00
Iziko South African Museum and Planetarium
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About Museum Night Cape Town
Museum Night is a multi-institution after hours cultural experience. For one night, the public is invited to explore their city’s museums and cultural institutions after-hours and free of charge.
The next edition of Museum Night Cape Town takes place on Thursday 21 February 2019. Our theme is Proud of Our Roots.
In South Africa, we have diverse cultures and we celebrate this in various ways through traditional dance, music, songs and our food. It is very important to keep it alive for our future generations. Our ‘sense of place’ and where we come from may widely affect our identity. We are privileged to celebrate South Africa’s rich heritage, not only cultural heritage, but our natural heritage in the form of fossils, and the diversity of flora and fauna on both land and aquatic habitats.
The Iziko South African Museum is proud to be part of Museum Night Cape Town and will be hosting amazing talks on some of our World Heritage Sites in South Africa and a free workshop on the hunter-gatherer food culture of the first humans on Earth.
Museum Night is an initiative of Thursdays Projects, with Iziko Museums of South Africa as a founding partner.
About the Free Workshop - Hunter-gatherer food culture of the first humans on planet Earth
Come and discover the “roots” of humans, and how they survived since the dawn or humankind.
This four-hour tour through our history will be a mix of short talks by various experts – and fun, practical hands-on sessions, and an opportunity to taste variety of indigenous foods.
- Explore the early history and cultures of our ancestors
- Learn how to identify what is edible, and taste foods from the veld.
- Make your own strong rope, and try your hand at using fire sticks.
- Enjoy entertaining interactive learning.
Speakers: Truida Prekel, Ruben Richards, John Compton, Sue Kingma (Gatherers and History), and Wallace Vosloo, Cleve Cheney (Hunters)
Artefacts display: Gerald Klinghardt (Iziko Social History Collections Department)
Support: Centre of Excellence in Food Security (University of the Western Cape)
Talks based on the book A FEAST FROM NATURE, Food Culture of the First Humans on Planet Earth by Renata Coetzee, who explored the food culture of early humans, and of the Khoi-Khoin. She combined her knowledge as a nutritionist and food culture expert with fascinating multi-disciplinary research over almost two decades. She brought together aspects of archaeology, palaeontology, botany, genetics, history, food culture and much more, in a unique way. The book is beautifully illustrated and a true collectors’ piece. Dr Coetzee passed away in June 2018.
The book will be on sale at the session at a special price of R590.