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The Friends of Oliewenhuis / Vriende van die Oliewenhuis represents a voluntary association dedicated to supporting and enhancing the activities of the Museum. The Friends aim to find innovative ways to raise funds to purchase works of art for the Museum’s Permanent Collection and to present special exhibitions.

The Friends organise a wide range of events including monthly lectures, educational outreach programmes and exhibitions allowing members to broaden their knowledge of the arts. The Friends endeavour to involve the entire community in the life and growth of the Art Museum so that all may benefit.

Friends of Oliewenhuis activities

Friends of Oliewenhuis Art Museum hosted a very special Poetry and Wine evening on 28 July 2011.

3 POETS, 4 POETRY READINGS,
4 KWV LABORIE WINES, 1 SOMMELIER

3 POETS
Gisela Ullyatt, Tony Ullyatt and Nandi Venter

4 KWV LABORIE WINES

Laborie MCC Blanc de Blanc (Sparkling Brut Method Cap Classique)
Laborie Ltd Collection Chardonnay
Laborie Ltd Collection Merlot Cabernet Sauvignon
Laborie Ltd Collection Shiraz

1 SOMMELIER

Argentinean born Miguel Borge is a Sommelier and Cape Wine Academy graduate who lives in Bloemfontein.
He is the owner and manager of Vida&Arte Café where he hosts regular wine tastings
and Food &Wine related events.  Borge presents lectures onbehalf of the Cape Wine Academy
in the Free State and Northern Cape. Passionate about wine; he travels the great wine
regions of the world to learn more about the fascinating and ever-changing world of wines.

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Andries Botha and Strijdom van der Merwe present free lectures at Oliewenhuis Art Museum

 

Oliewenhuis Art Museum, the Friends of Oliewenhuis Art Museum, and the hosts of the 5th Annual South African Journal of Art History (SAJAH) Conference (the Department of Architecture and the Department of History of Art and Visual Culture Studies, University of the Free State) cordially invited the general public to two free lectures at Oliewenhuis Art Museum by well-known South African artists Andries Botha and Strijdom van der Merwe.

On Friday, 8 July 2011 sculptor Andries Botha presented a lecture titled, Things we do not want to hear or see and on Saturday, 9 July 2011 land artist Strijdom van der Merwe presented a lecture titled, Nature is the art of which we are part.