De Doornkraal

LANGENHOVEN 1960 MATRIEKKLAS RE-UNIE

Die re-unie van Langenhoven se 1960 martieks vind plaas vanaf 1 Oktober tot 3 Oktober 2010. Die Saterdagaand funksie op 2 Oktober vind plaas in die Dalene Mathee / William Hansell sale by De Doornkraal. Hierdie gebeurtenis beloof om baie herinneringe te herroep.

Daar is spesiale bed en ontbyt tariewe beskikbaar vir alle funksiegangers wat die naweek De Doornkraal se 4-ster boetiek hotel geriewe wil ervaar en geniet. Vir meer besonderhede kontak gerus die bestuur deur op  "CONTACT US" hierbo te kliek.

NAMO NATURAL HEALTH

30 October 2010 - 03 November 2010

 A 5-day Retreat for Women!

Presented by: Alana J. van Rensburg (see web) 

Theme:  Wholism

·         Are you ready for the Golden New Age of Aquarius?

·         Lets get back to basics into the future!

·         Empower the wild woman within and cope with fear of the unknown.

·         Experience Namo Natural Health treatments and self-help healing methods.

·         Discover your personal TRUTH through the NATURE of things!

·         Heal your past through art.

·         Come and listen to the sound of silence; hear your soul and reconnect to the cosmic sound of LOVE.

 

TOPICS COVERED:

A.  Full-body Namo treatments, dealing with personal and specific health issues.

B.  Lectures:

(a) 2012 and beyond

(b) Why dis-ease? and how to self-cure.

(c) Feeding your body & weight management.

(d) Question and answer sessions

C.  Bodywise:

·         Breathing – belly, cerebro-spinal, chakra, auric & universal

·         Body beautiful?

·         Laughing and dancing therapy

·         Preventing and curing women’s diseases

·         Self-help pain relief and natural self-healing

D.  Grow your own – How to feed your body with happy healthy food. 

E.   Swimming pool leisure

F.   Soul retrieval

G.  Stress management:

·         Daily morning walks

·         Detox mustard baths

·         Mountain and veld walks

·         Horse riding

·         No TV or smoking; early bed-time – get out of your BOX!

·         Can you handle a nice surprise?

 

 

CHRIS JANSEN: DISTRICT SIX

De Doornkraal Art is privileged to host the permanent “District Six” exhibition of well known photographer Chris Jansen.  Jansen resides on a small farm in the Riversdale district where he lives close to nature. The first “District Six” exhibition called “In Memoriam”, took place in 1985 and covers a period from the late fifties to 1971. He captured the lifestyle, character and environment of an area and era that is no more. Some of the photographs on display are originals from the book “Oos Wes Tuis Bes Distrik Ses” that he, together with Adam Small produced in memory of District Six.

Born in 1929 in Wageningen, Gelderland, Holland Chris Jansen studied engineering and commercial art during the aftermath of World War II. He then became interested in photography and worked as a photo journalist since his arrival in 1952 in South Africa. He produced several photographic Coffee Table Books and contributed to many of other publications. Chris Jansen is well known for his contribution to several books from the KWV regarding, sherry, brandy and then of course wine. This led to “Cape Winelands”, written and photographed by himself. Also by Jansen is “Face of South Africa”, a collection of  photographs of South Africa, all in black and white (1972). “Paradise of the World”, “Oos Wes Tuis Bes Distrik Ses”, “Cape Dutch Houses”, and “Namaqualand: Thirstland in Bloom”, are some of his other publications.

He had several exhibitions over the years of which the “In Memoriam”(District Six), “South African Portfolio” by the Luga Group of photographers (Cloete Breytenbach, Chris Jansen and John Rubython), which was shown in Australia, South Africa, Argentine and Portugal.  “Wijnland” a photographic essay in colour, the “Camphill” Exhibition and most recently, November 2009, an exhibition in Stellenbosch called “Woman”, covering a period of forty years.

Some views on the work of Chris Jansen:

Melvyn Minnaar - "For looking at the images now - you can see why he was so admired by his peers - and even younger photographers who nowadays work in an altogether different, modern digital medium (2009)

Maxwell Leigh – “While others may regard his work as art, though, Chris avoids applying the word to camera work.  He regards photography as a medium of expression”.

O D Wolheim – “Jansen is rapidly becoming known as one of our topmost artists who uses a camera instead of a brush and palette”. (1983)

Madelein van Biljon – “Jansen has always had the ability to establish both mood and place in his pictures.”

Stephanie Baum – “Chris Jansen achieves an impressive tonal range and harmoniously   balanced compositions in his landscapes,” and “It is in his portraits that Jansen shows his real poetry” (1973)

Eldred Green – “..he uses what poets have used verbally for centuries because it pleases the ear and helps hold the attention, and that is rhyme, in its pictorial form called pictorial echoes.”