1. Tapestries for Hope

2. About ACGC
The Alberta Council for Global Cooperation is a coalition of organizations located in Alberta, working locally and globally to achieve sustainable human development.  ACGC supports organizations and individuals to work towards ending poverty and achieving a health world.

3. About Keiskamma Canada Foundation
Keiskamma Canada Foundation is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, founded in Keiskamma Canada Foundation partners with Keiskamma Trust to strengthen communities in the Eastern Capre region of South Africa by raising awareness and funds, and providing opportunities to purchase the beautiful handmade embroideries for which the Trust is so renowned.

4. Keiskamma Trust Community Solutions to Sustainable Development:
Reflections from South Africa
This 15 minute documentary was created by Alberta High School students on a visit to the Keiskamma Trust in 2015.

5. Keiskamma Trust: The Art of Healing

6. About Keiskamma Altarpiece
was created by the women of the Keiskamma Art Project, as a message of hope for people who are living in the midst of poverty, AIDS and other hardships
Photo Credit: ACGC. 2015

7. Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece
Constructed and painted between 1512 and 1516, the enormous moveable altarpiece, was created to serve as the central object of devotion in an Isenheim hospital built by the Brothers of St. Anthony
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8. Analyse and Discuss
Analyse and discuss the Isenheim Altarpiece and the Keiskamma Altarpiece
• What is an altarpiece? What role does it play both physically and spiritually?
• The South African artists chose to create the Kieskamma Altarpiece based on the Isenheim Altarpiece. Why did they do this? What similarities did the two communities face, despite being five centuries and a continent apart?
• What message(s) did the two art pieces communicate? What elements emphasized these messages?
• From whose point of view were the pieces created?
• Compare the various mediums used in the two pieces. How did culture, technology, and environment affect the mediums chosen?
• How do the two pieces depict suffering, yet provide hope?

9. Global Citizenship
Reflect upon and discuss the following questions
Besides providing an income, what other benefits has art played in the empowerment of women in Hamburg?
Why is the economic empowerment of women important to sustainable development?
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10. Extension Analyse the Keiskamma Tapestry, based on the Bayeux Tapestry
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11. Extension
Analyse the Keiskamma Guernica, based on the Picasso’s Guernica
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12. Take Action
World AIDS Day: Create an art piece to explore HIV and AIDS in honour of World AIDS Day, December 1st each year
Use non-traditional media to create a piece of art exploring a current health crisis in your own community. Raise awareness by displaying your pieces for the public.
Photo Credit: ACGC. 2015

13. References Keiskamma Trust: www.keiskammatrust.org
Keiskamma Canada Foundation
Khan Academy
The Art of Healing
Community Solutions to Sustainable Development

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