Ingoma Nshya Festival is a platform that aims to promote girls’ talents, give them the power to dream, act, and reinvent themselves on their own terms; and advocate for a culture that is women-friendly. …
During May 2023, the Intergenerational Dialogue Project, supported by colleagues from Kathmandu University and lead YAAR Juhi Adhikari, visited Tikabhairav village and a public secondary school, just outside the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. Through peer to peer training on the use of Image Theatre, students were introduced to working with ‘sculptor’ and ‘clay’ exercises as…
During the April-May 2023 inception visit, the Deuda Folklore team led by Prof Simon Dancey visited the rural municipality Mellekh, in far western Nepal, where a large scale Deuda performance was being held with over 1,500 participants from surrounding villages. Musicians and dancers led a ‘call and response’ inter action amongst the circles of performers….
On July 31 2023, the University of Lincoln core team, Tom Martin and Michelle Walsh held an ideation workshop with Kwetu Film students. Together, they carried out a Creative treatment of MAP students storyboards. This included idea generation, visual strategies, how to use metaphor and practical production planning techniques. The images show the presentation of…
On July 27 2023, the Visualising Peace project held a series of sessions with trainers, young people and film crew to explore the film themes, final approach and existing artworks to inform the films. MAP students pinned their existing artwork from phase one on walls and then discussed the artworks and how the forthcoming films could…
On July 26 2023, the Visualising Peace project held a series of exercises with trainers, young people and film crew to learn about photo sequencing and framing: both skills useful in film production. Young people learnt about how to think through ordering images in a film in relation to building a story and creating affect….
On July 25 2023, the Visualising Peace project held a series of onboarding exercises with young people interested to be part of the films. The sessions included ice-breakers, an explanation of the project aims and methodology, as well as gaining consent. Young people learnt about the project aims, asked questions and were informed about what…
On August 5 2023, the Visualising Peace project began shooting the video “Family Conflict”. This film is concerned with mental health issues and ways to address these within the family unit. Students and Kwetu film crew storyboarded and scripted the film in advance, and spent the day on location in the hills above Kigali. The…
On August 3 2023, the Visualising Peace project, held a screening and feedback session for all the actors, crew and students involved in scripting the video “Mental Health in Schools”. It was a moment to celebrate, share ideas for how to make the film more engaging and learn from each other. The images show participants…
On August 2 2023, the Visualising Peace project, began filming filming for the video “Mental Health in Schools”. MAP students as well as scripting the film also acted in it. Filming began on a quiet residential street in Kigali. The images show student actors and Kwetu film production crew on location at a residential street…
On August 1 2023, the Visualising Peace project, ran a one day production workshop to plan and undertake filming for the video “Mental Health in Schools”. MAP students cast the roles. This included a female student as the principle character (shown in the photo) performing her own story relating to mental health. Alongside her peers,…
This song tells the story of MAP’s impact in Rwanda, as reflected by Iteriteka Alexandre from Umuduri Band.It was performed during MAP Impact Week Rwanda, 17 July 2023. Song Lyrics: “Mobile Arts for Peace” by Umuduri Band, Rwanda Mobile Arts for Peace, has made change. It makes change, has made change. Mobile Arts for Peacemakes change. Mobile Arts for Peacethe…
This short film was created by School Club in Batken (Kyrgyzstan) as part of MAP Small Grant project (2022). The aim of this short film is to build a relationship between young people, their parents, and teachers, in order to motivate young individuals to pursue a quality education. In the film, the students write an…
This is a comic book explaining how children were physically abused and how they were comforted and healed through consolation. The writing and drawing shows two causes of mental health problems in children, alcoholism and domestic violence, and suggests ways of tackling the problem. It explains how children’s friendship and humanity can save many desperate…
Mbera Incuti (I am a friend) song performance by students at GS Remera Protestant, 2022. This is a children’s song performance that encourages parents and teachers to be kinder to their children, as this will help them feel better….
It shows how children can develop mental health problems as a result of parental negligence….
Translated as: Be comforted, you are not alone I have raised my voice I have come to comfort you I have come to speak to you, children of Rwanda. The Rwanda of yesterday is the one that gave birth to you. I’m here to take care of you. You are not alone, I know there…
Kirehe Youth Club members, Rwanda, are performing a peace song during a listening session on 11 June 2021….
It is a drawing that sends a message to people that if someone is struggling with mental health issues, it is important to be supportive and comforting and make time for them….
The AHRC PhD student, Vina Puspita, explores youth participatory murals with Children’s Forums in Jakarta, Indonesia. Following a series of mural projects that took place from July to December 2022, young people, together with youth facilitators and Vina, co-created a guidebook with content drawn from the process and experience of creating murals in four locations…
The MAP School Club organised a drawing competition entitled “The World through the Eyes of Children”, which focused on the issue of violence against children. This theme included bullying, early marriage, migration of parents, and other issues that children could see in their community. The competition was held in all pilot schools. Selected drawings were…
This is a song that reflects on the effects of parental migration on children left behind. It explores the challenges faced by these children when parents leave in search of better job opportunities abroad, often resulting in a lack of parental care. Drawing inspiration from Chingiz Aitmatov’s White Steamship, which portrays a child’s experience of…
Beyond Tradition’s Lenong performance combined several Betawi cultural forms, namely Lenong, Gambang Kromong, Pantun (rhyme), dance and Maen Pukul (martial arts), and actively involved young people in the Lenong performing arts. …
This video shares the work of the Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP) project ‘Deuda Folklore and Social Transformation in Nepal’. It serves as an introduction to Déudã folklore and its significance within MAP research project to call for individual, social and communal change in the community….
