Community Engagement Week

Held by the Rhodes University, the Community Engagement Week ran from the 5th to the 9th of May in Grahamstown. A colourful programme consisting of education activities, youth dialogues, development workshops and panel discussions was provided to the visitors.

All departments and student organizations involved in Community Engagement initiatives, as well as community partners set up exhibition displays in Eden Grove.

The Village Scribe Association in cooperation with the Rhodes University Department of Music and Musicology presented the ‘awarenet Peace Day project’, one of the biggest projects of the awarenet programme.

More than 50 awarenet learners from 5 schools participated in this project and created their own songs for international Peace One Day. Corinne Cooper, Lunga Heleni and Zukani Budaza trained the learners aged between 12 to 15 in song writing and song composition for 7 weeks. They presented one song per school at the Peace Day concert in front of 400 visitors in September 2013. Finally learners from Ntaba Maria School won the first prize for the best song and received their own music video shot. Furthermore all the songs in the competition were recorded by Corinne Cooper who will also produce the CDs at the Rhodes recording studio.

After the CE Week had been officially opened on Monday, every department and organization presented their projects on the following day. Terri-Lynn Penney (Village Scribe Association) and Corinne Cooper (Rhodes University Dept of Music and Musicology) were introducing the awarenet project to the audience. Visitors were able to listen to all the songs while watching the music video and several slideshows which showed the whole process of the project.

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Posted: May 12th 2014 09:51