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Harnessing the power of spoken word poetry and mural art to amplify the impact and resonance of advocacy messages and dialogue
⏮️ Our Previous Experience
⏮️ Our Previous Experience
Project with Partners
Project with Partners
❤️🩹 Colour Me Mad
As part of our poetry for development initiatives, we partnered with Tamara Dogubo and Kolawole “Pariolodo” on the spoken word theatre presentation, - "Colour Me Mad".
Colour Me Mad: The Ego and Femi Story is a poignant spoken word poetry production that delves into the turbulent lives of Ego and Femi, a couple ensnared in a cycle of conflict and domestic violence. Through expressive poetry, music, and drama, the production sheds light on the complexities of relationships, the destructive nature of ego, and the harrowing consequences of abuse. It aims to provoke thought, spark dialogue, and empower its audience to confront issues of toxic relationships and domestic violence.
Partners: Dike Chukwumerije Centre, Pyros Academy, Pariolodo, orange poetry
Partners: Sip and Pain Mental health Nigeria
❤️🩹 Improving mental health awareness through therapeutic arts
9 out of 10 people are dealing with low and high levels of mental health issues but hide under the humbling fine and perfect narrative, and we need to explore all the alternatives available to curb this menace so we can have saner and healthier people in society. Sip and Paint is a form of expressive group therapy that helps people express themselves in ways beyond words. It teaches service users the basics of artistic expression and allows them to use art mediums to explore their inner emotions.
🗼 Working Together Against Corona: Addressing misinformation in COVID-19
Working Together Against Corona was a project of the Search for Common Ground (SFCG) funded by the EU. The project was directed towards identifying COVID-19 misinformation, rumours, and myths among the populace in northeast Nigeria.
Partners:
olu__bambi.mp4Olu Bambi - Iya Shade
⛪🕋 Advancing Religious Tolerance North East Youth Circle Activity
The search was implementing the Advancing Religious Tolerance (ART.38) project, which aims to strengthen engagement between key stakeholders to advance conversations and responses on religious tolerance. They collaborated with communities to develop initiatives that promote tolerance and curb violent narratives tied to religious conflict in Nigeria. Search organized the ART North East Youth Arts Interface between secondary schools.
Partners:
👦🏾 Rehabilitation of Children formerly associated with armed groups
As part of efforts to end the use of children in armed conflict, several children formerly associated with armed groups were housed at a rehabilitation centre in the Borno state capital to equip them with the necessary life skills to thrive. The creative and Mural art programme was embedded alongside other life skills and psychosocial activities to ensure wholesome rehabilitation
Partners:
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📈 Poetry for Development (Vic'Adex Concepts)
The Poetry for Development series addresses essential development issues in Nigeria as prioritized by the SDGs, Agenda 2063, and national action plans. These issues include FGM, gender equality, health, education, and climate action, among others.
End FGM
Close the Care Gap
Gender Equality
⏫ Improving Cognitive, Imagination, and Problem-Solving Skills; Using Spoken Word Poetry as a Tool for Human Capital Index Development (Vic'Adex Concepts)
This program is designed to develop essential life skills through spoken word poetry artistry. Poetry, owing to its versatility, is a perfect tool to get the job done. Using gamification and edutainment, participants will learn to develop life skills in a safe space and at a tailored pace.
Perform 📈 Write, Speak, Perform!
This programme is designed to develop essential life skills through spoken word poetry artistry. Poetry, owing to its versatility, is a perfect tool to get the job done. Using gamification and edutainment, participants will learn to develop life skills in a safe space and at a tailored pace.
Spoken word poetry is an art that improves communication proficiency[1], critical thinking[2], creativity[3], self-awareness, self-expression[4] and self-therapy[5]. As such, this programme provides a comprehensive approach to help children explore their creativity, improve their literacy skills, and build confidence in expressing themselves through the various channels available to them. Arts initiatives are known to improve adherence and performance in both formal and informal education settings[6]. Competency developed through this programme will spur life-long curiosity and experimentation in creativity, spontaneity, reflection, and self-awareness that contribute to human capital development[7].
↗️ With more coming soon
🗒️ Footnotes
[1] Agosto, D. (2013). If I Had Three Wishes: The Educational and Social/Emotional Benefits of Oral Storytelling. Storytelling, Self, Society, 9, 53. https://doi.org/10.13110/STORSELFSOCI.9.1.0053.
[2] Camangian, P. (2008). Untempered Tongues: Teaching Performance Poetry for Social Justice.. English Teaching-practice and Critique, 7, 35-55.
[3] Osowiecka, M., & Kolanczyk, A. (2018). Let’s Read a Poem! What Type of Poetry Boosts Creativity?. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01781.
[4] Camangian, P. (2008). Untempered Tongues: Teaching Performance Poetry for Social Justice.. English Teaching-practice and Critique, 7, 35-55.
[5] Alvarez, N., & Mearns, J. (2014). The benefits of writing and performing in the spoken word poetry community. Arts in Psychotherapy, 41, 263-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.AIP.2014.03.004.
[6] College Board. (2016). Total Group Profile Report: 2016 [PDF file]. Retrieved from https://reports.collegeboard.org/pdf/total-group-2016.pdf
[7] Banks, I. (2001). Hair matters: Beauty, power, and black women's consciousness. New York: New York University Press.
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