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[…]
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[…]
awareNet is aiming for something bigger this year. The Village Scribe Association decided that either awareNet will become more famous and used by more learners pretty soon, or it’s not worth investing into it anymore. So, we hope that this will become a great success story…! It all started with the rather unpleasant and surprising Read more about awareNet is evolving into a new space![…]
It’s time to give you some background about Inyaniso, our new partner for awareNet. I am just going to take some information out of the Grocott’s Mail, the Grahamstown local newspaper (the 19/07/11 issue), because I couldn’t find any electronic information yet. Inyaniso (‘the truth’) consists of the two artists Zukani Melikhaya and his nephew Read more about Who is Inyaniso, our new partner for awareNet?[…]
The VSA and a lot of amazing partners become serious now about the awareNet theme Song Project. You probably wonder what it’s all about. Let me explain. It’s going to be an amazing story for Peace Day, I hope. It all started with the idea that awareNet needs a song for the learners and all Read more about awareNet theme song battle on stage on Peace Day[…]