Lalela Project celebrates Heritage Day

On September 24th, Lalela Project, a local organisation focused on empowering disadvantaged youth through the arts, celebrated Heritage Day by launching its first stand-alone gallery at the One&Only, Cape Town. The event showcased Heart Maps, created by Lalela Project Artists, which was inspired by a number of iconic South Africans.

A Heart Map is a signature Lalela Project curriculum. The Heart Map project involves interviewing a subject and engaging with them about their dreams, hopes, fears, and challenges, which are then reflected into an artistic expression of the four chambers of the heart, by the artist. Some of the influential subjects interviewed by the Artists for a unique Heart Map included Beezy Bailey (artist), Yvonne Chaka Chaka (musical artist), Colin Cowie (celebrity event planner and lifestyle guru), Goldfish (electronica band), David Kramer (entertainer), Breyton Paulse (rugby), Reuben Riffel (celebrity chef), Leon Schuster (entertainer), and Archbishop Tutu (Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist).  A Heart Map created for Nelson Mandela will remain a permanent exhibition fixture at the new Lalela Project Gallery, situated on the first floor mezzanine of One&Only Cape Town and is open 7 days a week.