Vansa project(2010 Reasons to live in a small town)"Up and Down" workshop at Bekkeersdal (Gauteng) FAZE A: workshop ends outdoor

Concept
Up and Down aims to create an experience of participation somewhere between sport and artistic site-specific interventions. Bandoma and Mbikayi aim to build two soccer pitches, one in Gauteng and one in the Western Cape. Playing with the metaphor of the ‘level playing field’, they will be traditional soccer fields with a difference: one will be built on a hill and the other in a valley with the fields conforming to the shape of the landscape. The project intends to foster dialogue between foreign nationals living in the town and local residents through soccer matches on these pitches.

• The workshop was effectively filmed and well documented. And in addition, names and details of different participants can be found in the workshop lists. Therefore we ended the workshop outdoor to localize a relevant site. All participants showed an enthusiastic sense of exchange and involvement in the project. Although questions were asked about the realization of this particular concept, we sensed a determination of participants to be involved in the final project
Community leaders of Bekkeersdal were very supportive through the workshop and seemed very much keen to see the project happen. And therefore a follow up with the community assistance to confirm with the site picked. We drafted a documentation to be joined with Faze B