All the songs of the awarenet Peace Project 2013 are recorded and the CDs are produced. Congratulations! The CD will be released on the first day of the Grahamstown Arts Festival 2014, on Thursday, the 3rd of July 2014 during a small celebration party for all people involved and our partners, supporters and friends. The Read more about awarenet Peace Song Collection 2013 CD Release Party[…]
We proudly announce that the awarenet Peace Song and Music Video 2014 is finished, recorded, shot and cut. The outcome is really wonderful. We are very happy with it and happy for the learners, the HipHop stars of Ntaba Maria School in Grahamstown. The learners were trained by the Village Scribe Association and Sonic Art Read more about The awarenet Peace Song and Music Video 2014[…]
We can proudly announce that the second annual awarenet Peace Day Concert took place and was a huge success. Some people might complain now that Peace Day is on the 21st and not on the 18th, but to keep the peace and to make people happy, we decided that the 18th had to be the Read more about The 2nd awarenet Peace Day Concert[…]
This week, the VSA will officially release the awarenet Peace Song Compilation CD in South Africa with a big Release Party in Grahamstown. The event will take place on Friday 1/2/13 at 2.30 pm at Nombulelo Hall in Joza. Invited is everyone who took part in the awarenet Peace Song Project in 2012 and a Read more about awarenet Peace Song Compilation CD Release Party[…]
The VSA has received a generous donation by an overseas member to produce another 100 awarenet Peace Song Collection CDs. This means that every participant in the awarenet Peace Song Project will receive their own copy, and the rest can be used for advertising our programme and hopefully to attract more funding to repeat the Read more about A generous donation leads to an official awarenet CD release party![…]
Today is Peace Day! Exactly one year ago, the awareNet Peace Day Concert happened in Grahamstown, South Africa, in partnership with Peace One Day, who will tonight give another huge Global Truce 2012 Concert in London, UK. Subsequently, Corinne Cooper and Lunga Heleni from Sonic Art Studio recorded all 5 schools’ songs about Peace and Read more about The awareNet Peace Song Music Video[…]
Are you aware yet? This blog provides more information to the music CD The awareNet Peace Song Collection 2011, which will be published soon. The challenge – write a theme song for awareNet Popular music culture is big amongst the youth worldwide – in Grahamstown East the Rap and Hip Hop music forms are particularly Read more about Background Information on The awareNet Peace Song Collection 2011[…]
We are proud to announce that the video clip for the awareNet theme song was shot last weekend by Roderich Zipp. The learners from Mary Waters HS and winners of the HipHop song competition last Peace Day worked very well together and truly had fun, even though it was a long and tiring day, which Read more about Shoot of awareNet song video clip[…]
As we mentioned in a previous blog, the Makana Municipality sponsored the awareNet-Peace-Celebration on Peace Day, at which five schools from Grahamstown competed for the best HipHop song about Peace. This gives us the opportunity to record every of the five songs professionally to produce a CD. The CD will help us to publizise awareNet Read more about Recording of the awareNet Theme Song[…]
The VSA published a short film about the music event on Peace Day. Have a look at the outcome of our wonderful project, in which learners from 5 schools in Grahamstown learned how to use computers and the Internet, how to write HipHop lyrics and perform them on stage in only 2 months. Please, watch Read more about A Video about the awareNet-Peace Day Celebration event[…]