All Blog Posts Tagged 'music' (10)

Fair Play Wins a WSYA Award!

Fair Play is amazing, you know it and we know it! So in an attempt to let the rest of the world know, we sent a proposal right along to the World Summit Youth Award to let them know of the good work we've been doing. Well, we must be doing something right, we applied in the Create Your Culture…

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Added by Raphael Shepard on September 15, 2012 at 3:30am — 2 Comments

FAIR PLAY 2012 WINNERS!

75 videos from 35 countries were submitted to the 3rd edition of the Fair Play global music video competition for original songs by young bands (18-35 years) on the theme of anti-corruption.



And the winners of this year’s competition are...



1st: Youssra El Hawary  (Cairo, Egypt) - ‘El Soor (The Wall)’

Released in April 2012, with lyrics by political cartoonist and poet Waleed…

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Added by Kate Declerck on September 4, 2012 at 4:11pm — 1 Comment

Fair Play 2012 – Music Fighting Corruption!

GYACers!

 

Fair Play has been on fire this year! With thirteen (13) days left in the 3rd edition of Fair Play, there are forty-seven (47) videos from twenty-three (23) countries around the world. Check out…

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Added by Raphael Shepard on July 12, 2012 at 1:22am — No Comments

''What Are You Doing For Peace?'' contest to be launched soon by MasterPeace Cameroon

On the 12th of August 2012, during the International Youth Day (http://www.un.org/en/events/youthday/), MasterPeace Cameroon Club will launch a national competition entitled ''What Are You Doing for Peace ?''. The contest will call children aged from 7 to 14 years and youth aged from 15 to 20 years to submit artworks in…

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Added by Jean Paul Brice Affana Affana on July 10, 2012 at 4:12pm — 1 Comment

Fair Play 2012 Opens

On Tuesday, 24 April 2012, the third edition of Fair Play will open! The Fair Play global anti-corruption music video competition and global anti-corruption campaign is presented by the JMI Foundation, the Global Youth Anti-Corruption Network, and the World Bank Institute. Artists are invited to submit their…

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Added by Joseph Mansilla on May 14, 2012 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Ni-Vanuatu Youth, United Against Corruption

Vanuatu might not be a country with a large population or a big budget but it certainly does not mean that they don't feel the urge to fight corruption! In early November, Ni-Vanuatu -- that's how inhabitants of the beautiful isles call themselves -- youths flocked to join the youth anti-corruption forum and music…

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Added by Bunga Manggiasih on December 3, 2011 at 7:07pm — No Comments

New anti-corruption music released!

Recorded in Nairobi during the Voices Against Corruption forum, here are the 3 collaborative tracks featuring artists from the 4 winning bands of the 2011 Fair Play Anti-Corruption Youth Voices competition - Kafulu Xenson (Uganda), Teddy & Tenny (Bulgaria), Young Life (Vanuatu) and De Bruces a Mi (Colombia)!

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Added by Kate Declerck on May 12, 2011 at 7:26pm — 1 Comment

VANUATU ON AIR!

Hi all,

Hope everyone had a safe journey home, or is still enjoying the fabulous sites in Kenya! Just wanted to share this link with you, to hear an interview with Vanuatu's Young Life on ABC Radio Australia: http://blogs.radioaustralia.net.au/english/2011/pacific/vanuatan-band-perform-at-global-anti-corruption-forum-in-nairobi

Be sure to…

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Added by Kate Declerck on May 4, 2011 at 9:30am — No Comments

1+1+1+1 = 3





I am not good in numbers but the equation was right this time: there are four Fairplay winner bands, and together they will make three (yes, THREE!) songs in the 2nd Voices Against Corruption Network Forum (GYAC) in Nairobi, Kenya. It means triple the fun we had in Brussels, where three bands collaborated to make… Continue

Added by Bunga Manggiasih on April 28, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

What Is Artivism?

It's a new noun. Activism paired with art.
And the one who's doing artivism is of course called an artivist.


(I'm borrowing the phrase from Ndungi Githuku of Katya Emmanuel Band :)


"I'm a human right artivist... We put human right activism into art," said Githuku in his elevator pitch on Wednesday (27/5).


His fellow band member Katya Vinywasiki Emmanuel believed music can makes greater impact to…
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Added by Bunga Manggiasih on May 27, 2010 at 4:23pm — No Comments

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