STUDENTS Enjoy Dance Display

Thursday, 02 September 2010 |

MORE than 100 health care students gathered at James Watt College’s Waterfront Campus, Greenock, for lively display of traditional Zimbabwean music, song and dance.

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The event was part of a workshop aimed at raising awareness of issues such as HIV/AIDS, poverty and discrimination.

Fresh from their stint at the Edinburgh Festival, Zimbabwean theatre group ‘Grassroots’ performed a selection of traditional dances and songs, followed by a series of workshop for students studying Higher Health Care on the root cause and effect of HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.

Students warmly welcomed the Zimbabwean performers as they arrived to begin their performance, which took place outdoors at the entrance to the college.

Grassroots is an independent not-for-profit theatre development group from Bulawayo. Using dance, music and drama as means of educating, the group tours the UK annually for five months visiting primary and secondary schools, colleges, churches and community centres.

The event was organised by Ian English, lecturer in health care at James Watt College. He said: “Our students study HIV/AIDS as part of their course, so we thought that the live performance and workshops the Grassroots Theatre Company deliver would be a way to highlight the catastrophe that this epidemic is presenting to the African nations.

“Our students enjoyed the performance and were very impressed with the workshop where they could speak to the cast and learn from their experience of the situations affecting HIV/AIDS sufferers in Africa.”