{"id":64,"date":"2024-09-28T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/?p=64"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:50:19","slug":"field-trip-to-nama-cultural-festival-pella-northern-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/2024\/field-trip-to-nama-cultural-festival-pella-northern-cape\/","title":{"rendered":"Field trip to Nama Cultural Festival, Northern Cape"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Field trip to Nama Cultural Festival, Northern Cape\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Sharon Gabie and Mr. Boetles Gewers travelled to Pella, Northern Cape to attend the South African iteration of the annual Nama Cultural Festival. The festival, colloquially called \u201cNama Fest\u201d, features vendors of traditional Nama crafts such as leather shoes, quilted clothing, and beadwork; vendors of Nama cuisine; performances by Nama musicians, dancers, storytellers, and comedians; and communal dances. Boetles surprised festival goers with an impromptu performance of Riemvasmaaker music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more about Nama Fest on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/p\/Annual-Nama-Cultural-Festival-Namibia-100063595955931\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo of a flyer advertising the Nama Cultural Festival in Pella, NC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Screengrab from a video recording of Nama step line dance performed at the festival\u2019s opening ceremony.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Screengrab from a video recording of Mr. Boetles Gewers\u2019s performance on the main stage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Screengrab from a video recording of langarm social dancing in the evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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View from the courtyard of a home in Pella, NC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Sharon Gabie and Mr. Boetles Gewers travelled to Pella, Northern Cape to attend the South African iteration of the annual Nama Cultural Festival. The festival, colloquially called \u201cNama Fest\u201d, features vendors of traditional Nama crafts such as leather shoes, quilted clothing, and beadwork; vendors of Nama cuisine; performances by Nama musicians, dancers, storytellers, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/soundingindigenous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}