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Hearts broken are open mended, ended, me, she, it was us not no more...

Bangin it out....

Yo famz,

wuts gud? past few weeks have been pretty eventful....there is a young dude from Sydney, Australia who came through and i toured him around AE. Turns out he's into film and produced a film that was nominated (and won) Best International Doc of the Year at a film festival here. It's called Ubuntu: a Street Child Story one of the key interviewees is Stephen Lungu, the CEO of AE. Anyway, in that way AE is connected to the film and we were invited into a partnership with this film festival through it all - madd kool connect, God is good!

What that meant is that last minute we had to send someone to the award dinner and there was no one available except for my colleague Jerry and yours truly (was also hype cuz we're both into independent film and are always talking about it - oh, you should check a SA produced film called Jerusalema if you can).

Jerry and I - hot ta deaf ryt?

So after travelling into the depths of nowhere on dirt, deserted road and in thick fog we end up at the venue. Was a small gathering and they were expecting us.....soon as we reach the director of the festival comes up to us and tells Jerry he's presenting an award....caught him off gaurd. It was a nice scene, as we met producers and directors from all over the world. So we were waiting in tension for the moment of being called up to present the award cuz Jerry didn't wanna do it and neither did i; he was saying they actually had my name in the schedule to announce it so it was a mistake they went to him...whatever, i wasn't sure what it was so was just tryin to stay calm. Well the moment came and my man took it by the........ He actually presented the award to the overall winner of the whole festival, he's actually the dude who directed Pretty Woman and Undersiege! He and his wife produced this film called Jackson which is like a street opera; we saw a clip and it looked pretty hype.

Jerry's moment of fame

There were quite a few hype-looking films there....another one called Machetero out of New York about the Peurto Rican independence struggle. Check out any or all of the above films, especially Ubuntu of course......

yup, that's it for now. Stay bless to be bless!

Ya ya famz,

bak again.......tnx to those of you who were supporting re:touching a mic. It went aight....wasn't totally pleased with it, but "i know i'm my own worst enemy, i make things harder when it's really elementary.........." Basically i had to switch it up right before i stepped on stage (which was massive, highly elevated and plain) cuz there was all this crumping activity right before me (nothing against that artform at all) and then i was supposed to come on some spoken word - howz dat for killing the energy? So i came with something that was more punchline oriented den my sistren, Carmel, joined me for the rhyme joint. That was going okay until i found out after that they couldn't hear us over the instrumental....can't really blame the hosts cuz the dj came set up his equipment.....den boogied. Anyway, it was kool for the fact that i brought some Americano's with me and they got a good look into Kwaito culture and other local music. Big up to most of the musicians, they did a pretty good job.

Americanos - students from Azuza Pacific University

That's how it goes. I've been really thinking though about coming alongside the event organizers (good peoples) and helping them establish this platform they're trying to create. Praying for direction with that.

The two sistrens who organized the event in black, MC in orange, Carmel (singer) and her daughter in white

Peace&Bless