A CELEBRATION of 200 years of braille will be celebrated on 16 October at 18:00 at the Provence reception hall in Wellington where dinner will be held in the dark.
The dinner is combined with an auction of beautiful paintings done by visually impaired pupils and also on auction will be estate wines in bottles with Braille mouldings in the bottle which are, and will remain, the only ones of this kind in the world!
The choir and musicians of the Institute for the Blind will entertain guests and also take part as waitrons for the serving of the dinner. World renowned authority on Braille, Michael Mellor, and Dr William Rowland, former international president of the World Union of the Blind will do presentations. Tickets R200 at 021-864-1758.
