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The outstanding musician from Northern Ghana King Ayisoba is coming today the 28th of October - and we cant wait to have his great company back here with us in Copenhagen. King Ayisoba plays the kologo, a two string instrument and has a voice out of this world… read more here
Have just returned home after a fantastic event at Betty Nansen Theatret, Copenhagen – An event underpinning that together we can make a difference, and that we shall not stop fighting for a better and equal world for all! The group of artists and the organizers left me with great inspiration and optimism that there still is a chance for peace in the Middle East! Read more here…
HeartRebels has been nominated for the DANISH WORLD AWARDS 2009, which will be happening this Saturday the 24th of October. Come join us for the event at Jazz House 19.00 and see if we win the prize for having done a difference for world music in Denmark 09. Read more about the event here
The Danish World Awards is organized by the World Music Denmark (formerly The Danish World Music Association), which is a non-profit organization, founded in 1992 by a group of musicians, journalists, dancers and concert organisers. The organization is dedicated to the development and promotion of Danish world music and to improving the conditions for world music and related dance forms. World Music Denmark is recognised as the official interest group for world music in Denmark and receives an annual subsidy from The Danish Arts Agency (Ministry of Culture). The organization supports bands based in Denmark with supplementary tariffs, marketing costs, supports workshops and events which promotes world music in Denmark. WMD cooperates with 4 jazz festivals and the SPOT Festival, organize the annual Danish World Awards and an upcoming World Music Festival, besides general information services, music export and the promotion of Danish world music abroad. Read more here
It has been a great experience to formulate, design and carry out three full day Sababas workshops at ‘Ørestad 10 klasse skolen’, in Helsingør and ‘Magleblikskolen’ in Frederiksværk, where we followed the youngsters on the ‘journey’ where they with guidance from the artists expressed themselves through art…. Read more about the youth comments about the workshops press here
The 4th of August 09 the Sababas group from Ghana arrived in Denmark and met with their Danish Sababas counterparts to begin a 7 weeks program, doing workshops at primary schools and touring with performances at various venues and festivals. For you who did not experience the Sababas, you really missed out on a great energy proving that collaboration beyond boarders… read more press here
DON’T MISS a uniq mix of art and music at the TrailerPark Festival 09 running from Friday 21. - Sunday 23. of August 2009. TrailerPark Festival is a Copenhagen-based charity event organized by ArtRebels that help fund the HeartRebels project Art To Action. Read more about TrailerPark Festival here…
Experience the Sababas! A diverse group of artists and musicians from Ghana and Denmark are taking audiences on a journey across physical, social and personal boundaries. With a touch of Ghana, Denmark, Somalia, Egypt and Surinam, the Sababas introduce a cross-over presentation of video art, reggae, R&B, dub, hiphop, traditional music and soul. Be there for instance at TrailerPark Festival 2009 from the 21-23 of august to meet the Sababas and furthermore gain an extraordinary insight to a world of music and art, whilst at the same time supporting the HeartRebels project ‘Art to Action’… read more about the Sababas here and the TrailerPark Festival here…
Picture taken in front of the Shurouq Youth House in Palestine 09.
SHUROUQ YOUTH HOUSE - For three years ago the youth from the Peace and Freedom Youth Forum (PFF) began to build Shurouq Youth House which should become a cultural center dedicated to the youth, and now this month June 2009 they can be proud of announcing its grand opening. The meaning of Shurouq is sunshine and it will provide the space and tools youth need to develop and implement their ideas, projects, and enhance their talents and skills, thus strengthening them in transpiring form individuals to contributors towards their society. Their wish is that the Youth House shall function as a platform for them to become stronger in their own struggle for becoming their own agents of change.
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Photo: Sewing project - one of the projects taking place at the Youth Home, where girls are trained by professional tailors for two years before getting a certificate and a sewing machine to continue their work, independently.
At the end of our stay in Tamale and after we had been working with the Youth Home for 6 months, we came to the decision, together with the user groups of the Youth Home, that the best way forward was to establish a fund - The Youth Home Fund. We are happy for this decision as we can see great prospective in how this can benefit the Youth Home. We are convinced that The Youth Home Fund not only can strengthen the place, but also the relation and cooperation between the different user groups.
Photo: Workshop at the Youth Home on youth and development in Northern Ghana. From the left: Firdaus, Kudus, Osman and Hamza.
By: Issah Osman, 22 years old
I am a youth of this country (Ghana) and said to be the backbone of my community and the country at large. Hence, I am classified as a youth because the youth is said to be a person or persons who has/have the maturity to understand and make good decisions that will help him/her in acquiring knowledge and skills for the development of his/her community.
In the traditional society that I live most of the youth are not educated properly, especially those in the villages, and this is a very big problem to my traditional society and Ghana as a whole. In my traditional community where traditional religion dominates we have a belief that the youth must be in the farm instead of schooling. And another issue that is hindering the development of youth is that we believe that the older generation should always lead the youth even if they lack experience.
Lack of education and opportunities for the youth in my community has led the youth to engage themselves in dangerous and various immoral acts that are not accepted by the society. Even some of the youth of my community who are educated to the tertiary level engage themselves in these immoral activities such as stealing, prostitution, alcoholism and even gamble so as to earn them a living, because they are denied jobs. Where ever they go the older generation claims that the youth are not experienced to work in the community. So, I therefore think that in order to help solve these uprising immoral acts in the country the government should provide more vacant places in the society so as to help the youth leaving school to be enrolled in a place of work. Another way of solving these are that there should be more youth associations that should be organised within the society so that the associations would be properly educating their country. A country with a stranded youth shall never develop! To finally draw a conclusion to how to solve these problems of the youth is when their needs are properly taken care of.
