Afrikaburn Outreach – The Dung Beetle Project https://dungbeetle.africa An Alliance Earth Environmental Education Art Project Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:33:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 https://dungbeetle.africa/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-dungbeetle-icon-32x32.jpg Afrikaburn Outreach – The Dung Beetle Project https://dungbeetle.africa 32 32 The Dung Beetle Project Ignites Young Imaginations in South Africa’s Northern Cape. https://dungbeetle.africa/2019/05/22/the-dung-beetle-visits-pofadder/ Wed, 22 May 2019 07:17:32 +0000 https://dungbeetle.africa/?p=833 On the evening of their matric dance, the students of Hoërskool Boesmanland in Pofadder, South Africa engaged with the Dung Beetle’s recycling message of hope. While the stage churned out music by Jade Barbee, Lovely Day and the band HUMANWINE flames rose into the air and the students learned how waste plastic can be a [...]

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]]> On the evening of their matric dance, the students of Hoërskool Boesmanland in Pofadder, South Africa engaged with the Dung Beetle’s recycling message of hope.

While the stage churned out music by Jade Barbee, Lovely Day and the band HUMANWINE flames rose into the air and the students learned how waste plastic can be a powerful rural electricity solution and also about the benefits of recycling.

The visit is part of the Afrikaburn outreach program through their Blank Canvas Express initiative helping drive community science education through fiery fun in one of South Africa’s most economically challenged provinces. Helping bring the magic, the education and the music of South Africa’s most famous art festival to young minds thirsty for all three is what the Dung Beetle does best!

Spectators get close to the Dung Beetle stage.

Kids from the Boesmanland High School in Pofadder, South Africa interact with the Dung Beetle Sculpture after the engagement talks from the Dung Beetle stage as part of the collaboration between Alliance Earth's Dung Beetle Project and the Afrikburn Art event for public outreach, called Blank Canvas Express. The waste plastic that poweres the stage is first shredded by the Plastisaurus Wrecks and then fed to power the Pyrolitic reation that runs the Dung Beetle Project's moving art stage within this recycled steel sculpture
Dung Beetle being carried on-top of a trailer to it's new destination.

The Dung Beetle stage on the move up Van Rynspas on it's way to the Afrikaburn Art Festival. The Dung Beetle stage is part of the collaboration between Alliance Earth's Dung Beetle Project and the Afrikburn Art event for public outreach, called Blank Canvas Express. The waste plastic that poweres the stage is fed to power the Pyrolitic reation that runs the Dung Beetle Projects moving art stage, creating science education that is #poweredbyplastic .

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