Thursday 23 April 2009

Teaching continues

I guess that things are starting to slot into place a bit. At this moment Nick is giving a second lesson to what is now becoming a sizeable crowd. This is really important as these are the people who are going to take the equipment that we have brought and take it to locations and record music.
Each day it seems we have the amazing opportunity to visit another project that is working for the greater good. Today we visited ´La Familia Ayara´, a Bogotá based group who run workshops in Hip Hop and grafiti as artistic forms of expression. These guys are really together and produce music in their own studio and sell it in a shop they have. They are hoping to expand their social enterprise to their home province on the pacific coast where the local population is severely affected by war and poverty.
These guys are very well organised and appear to get funding from a variety of NGOs, but they still need more help and we definately want to work with them. It is amazing to see how many people are interested in what we are doing and the creative links that we are making are increadible.
We went back to the community centre in Juan Pablo II today and began to clear out the room we are going to set the studio up in. There is a lot to do there before it is ready but at least we have made a start. Tomorrow we are going to look at another place that wants to host the equipment we brought over on a temporary basis. Each day our schedule is filling up with more and more places to visit and amazing people to talk to. Its hard to catch your breath sometimes, especially when so many people have something to say.

1 comment:

  1. Might seem like there no point at the beginning of the projct but I think its brilliant idea...keep going

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