We had a fantastic music event at Peace Day yesterday, here in Grahamstown-South Africa! We celebrated Peace and awareNet with great HipHop music that was composed especially for this event. It took us only 2 months to get five groups together and train them to perform their own song in the contest while they learned Read more about awareNet Peace Day Celebration[…]
What an excitement again! Today (15/09/11 at 5pm), a few of our rappers gave an impression of their competence at the Youth 4 Youth Show on Radio Grahamstown while we announced our awareNet Peace Day Celebration. We also used the show to inform about the work of the Village Scribe Association, about awareNet and the Theme Song Read more about awareNet Rappers live on Radio Grahamstown[…]
We have worked very hard the last weeks to train learners how to use computers and the Internet using awareNet while training them how to rhyme, sing and rap a HipHop song. All of this is now documented in a short film which will be screened on Peace Day at both, Noluthando Hall in Grahamstown Read more about The awareNet Peace Day short film[…]
Ron Wertlen from eKhaya ICT has created a video about the idea and functionality of awareNet, the online social networking site for learners that was co-developed by eKhaya ICT and the VSA. You can find the video on the eKhaya ICT website and on YouTube. Please, have a look at it! We would be interested Read more about A video about the idea and functionality of awareNet by eKhaya ICT[…]
The awareNet song competition is taking place on Peace Day (21/09). Here some news around that day. The Makana Municipality has agreed to sponsor Noluthando Hall for the Peace Day Celebration = song competition. Thank you to the Special Programmes Unit! Erika Wertlen, Jared Lang, Keagan Prince and Roderick Zipp have agreed to be the judges for the Read more about Some exciting news about our music event on Peace Day[…]
On 11/8/11 the Village Scribe Association was officially registered as a Non-Profit Organisation.