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Artistic Dreaming - Women, Art and Empowerment in La Perouse | Human Rights in Australi... - 0 views

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  • Ngala Nanga Mai
  • Since its inception, it has been an accessible and popular program within the community, bringing together mostly young women from lower-socio economic backgrounds that face issues of social isolation and disadvantage, which have previously restricted them from using these essential services.
  • Often, guest artists will attend to lead workshops that expose the women to different artistic techniques and cultural experiences.
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  • The project is about women and children and their access to health, education, art and social interaction. Art is central: it is about the process for the individual as an integrated being
  • be removed from their circumstances by immersing in the present and learn about themselves through the process of education and expression.
  • For the women, these meeting times exist in a space that provides a momentary respite from the role of mothering, where they can focus on the project before them,
  • We discuss how art gives shape to identity, pain and discovery as it taps into the unconscious. It connects the body, mind and spirit, allowing the opportunity to create and then step back and reflect. It is this holistic process that promotes the greatest right: human dignity.
  • Overall well-being has increased, contributed to by a greater sense of purpose, social connectedness, self-confidence and belonging.
  • In the past four years, Ngala Nanga Mai has grown into a strong, unified group that continues to prosper.
  • Art will forever remain one of the most effective mediums of expression. As blank canvases are filled with colours that depict stories, identities and lives, art will continue to inspire and empower change, growth and reflection. Initiatives such as Ngala Nanga Mai reveal the potential of art as a tool for promoting human development, building community and fostering well-being. Whilst law, policy and large-scale government intervention lack the capacity to ensure holistic change on an institutional level, it is vital that more creative ventures emerge that foster artistic expression, human rights and social empowerment. With motivation they are not only possible but sustainable.
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'Medea Project' Brings Hope to Incarcerated Women : NPR - 0 views

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  • Well, I feel like I am from that area of the culture of women where some many women are silent.
  • And these two women alone, I took them to Rutgers a few years back, and we were all a part of a seminar called Performing Communities. They make up the core of the company along with women from the community. And then there's a lot of them that's not with me anymore but they're not in jail, and they would give me that respect when we meet. And they have hard time, because they want to pretend it didn't happen. But when they see me, they speak to me. They introduce their children to me, their men to me. And so, yeah, there are stories out there. And my own life, you know, I mean, if it had not been for theater and a large part for the "Medea Project," I would be no more than a bad memory or a sister with a very bad attitude.
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YWDEP - 0 views

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  • peppermara on 08 Jul 14
     
    Interactions, interviews, testimonials of The Young Women's Drumming Empowerment Project out of Washington, DC. Hoaning in on the interviews with Maya & Amari-sharing their beliefs on what this program of empowering young women has done for their life. What they believe it can do for all young women who come in contact with it.
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SoundCloud Manages Criticism As It Moves To Become The YouTube Of Audio - 0 views

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  • Now with 38 million users, the platform has users in almost every country around the world. It could hit 55 million users by year’s end as it registers 70,000 people a day.
  • The company has more than tripled its user base since January 2012, when it had 10 million individuals registered. Since its redesign, average plays per artist have gone from about 6,900 a month in December to more than 12,000 plays in March
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How SoundCloud Is Avoiding Becoming The Next MySpace - 0 views

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  • “What started as a way to share files is now way more about the social experience.”
  • Ljung says SoundCloud functions less like MySpace in its heyday and more like a Flickr or YouTube for sound.
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Engaging Communities through creative arts. - 1 views

urbanbushwomen.org/...e%20Teacher%20March%202009.pdf

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  • peppermara on 07 Jul 14
     
    -testimonials of community engagement with arts. -the importance of such presence.
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Interview with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar - 0 views

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  • peppermara on 07 Jul 14
     
    founder and artistic director of Urban Bush Woman out of New York City. -speaks of inspiration, influences of her movement/project -sheds light on intertwined history of the Black Art's Movement -reflects on community-what individual voices provide -"I can be me, and I can create from that place. I can create from who I am and from the strengths and vulnerabilities of my community."
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Michigan Womyn's Music Festival - 0 views

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  • peppermara on 05 Jul 14
     
    This journal was a recap of an All-Woman's (Womyn's) Music Festival in Michigan in 1984. Though it doesn't provide specific instances of a woman's connection of music to building her confidence and self-esteem-it's an interesting insight to understand where woman who were heavily doused with feminism, musicality, community, radicalness. Speaking of woman coming together as one community versus drawing the divides between sexual preferences and ways of identifying oneself. I felt most connected to this article since I had the privilege for two years to attend a festival/conference as open and eclectic as this but definitely not as full of frustration and anger to the anti-feminists.
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