Kersfees kruip nader en dus is dit tyd vir die immergewilde Robertson-feesmark. En vanjaar gaan die mark nog meer besonders wees met sy 20ste verjaars\u00addag deel van die fees.<\/p>\n
Die idee om \u2019n Kersmark te begin, het in 2003 ontstaan toe die twee orreliste van die Robertson-Oos-gemeente, Stefn\u00e9 Marais en Marlene Zietsman, van die suksesvolle kunshandwerkmark, \u201cKamers vol geskenke\u201d gehoor het. Hulle het van die konsep gehou as \u2019n manier om geld in te samel vir \u2019n projek om die kerkorrel te laat uitbou ter wille van \u2019n beter klank vir die kerkgebou, wat jare gelede vergroot is om die groeiende gemeente te huisves. <\/p>\n
Hulle het die kerkraad van die Oos-gemeente genader vir \u2019n lening vir die vergroting van die kerkorrel, met die belofte en onderneming dat \u2019n Kersmark gere\u00ebl sal word om die nodige geld te help insamel. Die twee orreliste het geweet van \u2019n gemeentelid, Ernst Bruwer, \u2019n boer van De Hoop, se groot bewondering en liefde vir die orrel. Om die mark \u2019n hupstoot te gee, het hulle \u201coom Ernst\u201d genader en ingelig wat hulle beplan en hy was dadelik bereid om te help. Sy voorwaarde was dat die gemeente moet werk om nog meer geld in te samel. \u2019n Groot bedrag is hierna deur oom Ernst bewillig ter herinnering aan hul seun, Pieter, wat kort tevore in \u2019n ongeluk oorlede is. Hy wou Pieter Bruwer vergestald sien in musiek, en wel in hul geliefde kerkorrel van die gemeente.<\/p>\n
Die gemeente het aan die werk gespring en onder die naam \u201cFeesmark\u201d begin om kunstenaars, wat mooi handwerk maak, deur \u2019n keuringsproses te werf. Hulp van die hooforganiseerder van die Worcester-Oos-kerk se Kersmark was van onskatbare waarde. Om nie datums vir die mark te laat oorvleuel met ander gevestigde markte nie, is die Feesmark vir Oktober\/November beplan en die Robertson-Oos-gemeente het met talle vrywilligers se hulp en ondersteuning aan die gang gekom <\/p>\n
As organiseerders van di\u00e9 groot projek het Stefn\u00e9 en Marlene iemand benodig wat die finansi\u00eble deel van die mark kon hanteer. \u2019n Jong Helaine Louwrens, die ma van drie klein kindertjies, het haar dienste aangebied. En so het haar reis saam met die Feesmark \u2019n baie lang een geraak en is sy n\u00e1 20 jaar steeds in hierdie \u201camp\u201d, maar met veel meer hooi op die vurk as aan die begin. Sy is reeds die laaste ongeveer 16 jaar die hooforganiseerder en sy is die hart van die Feesmark. <\/p>\n
Flukse vroue met kreatiewe denke het Helaine deur die jare bygestaan en die mark het toenemend van jaar tot jaar gegroei. <\/p>\n
Elke jaar word ongeveer 110 makers van kunstige handewerk of uitsonderlike artikels gekeur om by die mark te kom uitstal. <\/p>\n
Hulle staan kommissie af aan die kerk en dit bring vir die meeste van hulle vir die 14 dae wat die mark duur, \u2019n stewige inkomste asook vir die kerk, wat binne die eerste drie jaar die orrelskuld kon delg. Die Feesmark se bydrae tot die kerk se geld is standhoudend, danksy harde werk van \u2019n klein groepie toegewyde vroue.<\/p>\n
Die Feesmark is \u2019n hoogtepunt elke jaar van middel Oktober tot begin November. Wonderlike kunstenaars kom stal uit en moet soms ver na Robertson reis. Die mark het hom bewys as een van die mooiste markte in die Wes-Kaap. Besoekers van oral \u2013 van die Karoo, die Tuinroete, die Overberg en die Weskus se dorpe \u2013 kom ondersteun die mark. Die gemeente van Robertson-Oos geniet dit om by die Feesmark bymekaar te kom, saam te werk deur dienstye te verrig, inkopies te doen of net heerlik saam te kuier in die restaurant wat keurige maaltye en lekker drinkgoed verskaf. <\/p>\n
Mag daar nog baie gese\u00ebnde jare voorl\u00ea vir hierdie mark, wat nie net \u2019n fees van geskenke vir kopers bied nie, maar ook met al die mooi goed \u201ckos vir die siel\u201d bied en kos op die tafel sit vir die talle mense wat kreatief dink en doen..<\/span> Vanjaar se Feesmark vind plaas van 20 Oktober tot 4 November. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kersfees kruip nader en dus is dit tyd vir die immergewilde Robertson-feesmark. 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