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• Artistic output activities

  • Performance art

  

  Ingoma Nshya Drumming Festivals, Rwanda – May & August 2023

  • Rwanda

  • Advocating for progressive education
  • Tackling child and gender-based violence

  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. ...

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  Ideation workshop

  • Rwanda

  • Cultivating well-being and mental health

  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...

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  Dialogue session: approach & exploring existing artworks

  • Rwanda

  • Cultivating well-being and mental health

  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...

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  Photo sequencing & framing workshop

  • Rwanda

  • Cultivating well-being and mental health

  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....

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  Onboarding workshop: getting to know each other

  • Rwanda

  • Cultivating well-being and mental health

  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...

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  Production Day 1 for Film 2: Family Conflict

  • Rwanda

  • Cultivating well-being and mental health

  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...

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  Screening & Feedback Day 3 for Film 1: Mental Health in Schools

  • Rwanda

  • Cultivating well-being and mental health

  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...

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  Production Day 2 for Film 1: Mental Health in Schools

  • Rwanda

  • Cultivating well-being and mental health

  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...

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  Production Day 1 for Film 1: Mental Health in Schools

  • Rwanda

  • Cultivating well-being and mental health

  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,...

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• Journal article

  

  Journal article: Sharing and listening to stories for peacebuilding in post-genocide Rwanda

  • Rwanda

  Cite this article: Breed, A., & Uwihoreye, C. (2023). Sharing and listening to stories for peacebuilding in post-genocide Rwanda. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 28(1), 160–171. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2023.2185130 Abstract: This article explores how sharing and listening to stories linked children and young people, educators, artists, civil society workers, and policymakers as part...

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