Thank You!

... Thank you to the students of Ms. Toussaint, Ms. Jackson and Mr. Bunch (and thank you teachers!) of  Boys and Girls Highschool for making my morning! How nice it was to share with you and to hear YOUR stories! :-)  Thank you Ms. Huggins for putting together the conference and for inviting me!   Gratitude!
                                  ~ Nehprii

The Danger of a Single Story

I originally posted this video over a year ago...and  have watched it over and over.   Now, as I prepare for a presentation in the morning with some High School students, I'm re-watching it again and  re-minded of how powerful it is and can't help but to...re-post!



"... Show a people as one thing, and only one thing over and over again, and that is what they become..."

"power is the ability to not just tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. ...'If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and  start with "secondly." Start  the story with the arrows of the Native Americans and not with the arrival of the British, and you have an entirely different story.  Start the story with the failure of the African state and not with the colonial creation of the African state and you have an entirely different story."

an excerpt...

"...The new vision is taking shape and is becoming the ground of human conduct and behavior, for ultimately creation is only  fully itself when it becomes conduct and behavior. It can only truly be itself when it steps out of the deep waters of the imagination, the place where the reeds grow in us, and emerges to walk the solid earth in deed of flesh and blood." ~ Laurens Van der Post, The creative pattern in primitive Africa.


(se-nefer)

Finally!

In 2010 Khunum Productions was given a grant by Downtown Brooklyn Partnership to create an exhibit based on its publication "Memories of the Little Elephant." www.NehpriiAmenii.com The creation of the exhibit was a community arts project--or as we liked to call it--a "LIVE Exhibit!" The process of creation was exposed as doors were opened for the entire community to enter and participate. In the midst of creating the exhibit, the space also doubled as a full functioning community arts center. People from all walks of life joined in on LIVE collective art, as well as classes, discussions and performances. The community's thirst for togetherness, creativity, dialog and expression...quenched. Here are a few moments captured. Thank you to you all...for LIVE Beauty!

A very very special thank you to Vicki Khuzami, Francisco Cuesta, Mohandass R., Kousalya J. and Adin Kachisi and the owners of Renaissance Plaza.

For exhibition booking please contact:
Khunumproductions@gmail.com

** Music Credit: hypnotic brass ensemble ballicki bone http://www.hypnoticbrassensemble.com/downloads

Creative Fire!

...well, the only justification i really have for posting this is because...it makes me happy! Every time i press play and hear these brothers making music on their invisible instruments, i am lifted! CREATIVITY in full release.
... mama's, daddy's, aunties, uncle's  teachers and all folk...nurture and water that creative spirit in your child--including your inner one---let it breathe...and spark a  flickering orange glow to the body's electrical system... and then, watch it spread like fire in the wind..

An amazing tribute to Herbi Hancock---what he did with a stage full of instruments, they've done with only one! :-)

Naturally 7 - Performing At 2011 BET Honors (Live) (2011)

"My contention is that creativity now is as important as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status."

"All children are born artist, the problem is...remaining an artist when you grow up..."

" ...The consequence is that many highly talented brilliant creative people think that they're not...because the thing they were good at in school wasn't valued or was actually stigmatized...We need to radically rethink our view of intelligence... "