It is on nights like these that anything in our country, in our community and in our lives feels so completely possible! Thank you so much to everyone enabled this event to be a success, there were so so many people who gave of their skills, their time and their energy!!! It was such an amazing experience for the I Am Somebody! team to have so many people support and take ownership of the vision and work of the organization, to have the participants and people from the community together and to experience, and to listen to the music while watching fish swim by! Watch out for our next big event coming in September. These photos were taken by Andre Meyer, who volunteered his time and skill to support our work.
Thank you so much to the Two Oceans Aquarium for collaborating on the event and to our sponsors TRUTH photography, Web Tickets and Lourensford Wine Estate. A huge thank you also to the Rhythm Workshops, Diana Ferrus, Tina Schouw and Sandile Mhi.
All proceeds of this event supported I Am Somebody!'s first Rites of Passage Programme camp! Thanks to your support, we raised R8500. Thank you so much for all of your support.
Above Left: Poet Diana Ferrus gave a beautiful performance in Afrikaans and English that used the power of words to transformAbove Right: Helen Lockhart of the Two Oceans Aquarium and Nicole le Roux of I Am Somebody! introducing the collaborative event
Right: Julie Blundell, Jonny Blundell and Anele Viti of Rhythm Workshops enabling us to create music with tubes - it was magical!
Above Right: Tina Schouw sharing her music and her heart with us
Left: One of the participants of our programme, Sandile Mhi rocked his first performance ever sharing his music, rhymes and wisdom in English and Xhosa
Right: Board member, Tina Schouw talking back stage with two of the participants in I Am Somebody!'s Rites of Passage programme Nolubabalo and Zimkhitha.
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