A FLOURISHING COMMUNITY
Waldimar Pelser
M-NET Director: kykNET Channels
When can we describe a community as flourishing? To flourish means to have more than a roof over one’s head and food on the table. Thriving communities are constantly in discussion, both internally and externally. Healthy communities engage in conversations with themselves, with their history, and with other communities through words, sound and images. They do this through discourse, music, the performing and visuale arts. Also through theatre, television and film. It’s a vibrant endeavour, this conversation, and requires the willingness to listen as well as talk, and to look as well as show.