Category: Arts & Culture

{Horyou, the Social Network for Social Good, will present Horyou Village at the 2015 Cannes Festival. For 12 days, the values of social good will be highlighted through the lenses of art, culture and diversity}

Among the various activities scheduled to take place at the Village, Horyou will be featuring five Global Cause Days. Each day will be committed to sharing knowledge, raising awareness and promoting solidarity among those devoted to the featured causes. Notable personalities, media members and non-profit organizations from around the world will join efforts during the festival to spread positivity.

{{Five Days, Five Themes}}

{{Nature & Wildlife (May 17) }} will focus on reinforcing the need for preservation of the Earth and its wildlife.

{{Education for All (May 18) }} will highlight the importance of education accessibility around the world.

{{Women Empowerment (May 19)}} will celebrate the achievements of women while advocating gender equality.

{{Innovation for Good (May 20)}} will create awareness of challenges and potential solutions that spur and enable social innovation on all levels.
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All for Climate (May 22)}} will give voice to efforts that are changing the way we think about and utilize natural resources.

{{Showcasing Non-Profit Organizations}}

Spanning the spectrum of promoters of social good, 30 organizations will be present at an exhibition area to advance their causes by raising awareness and sharing information. Each day, multiple communications outlets will serve to promote the event and its partners through the Horyou platform, Horyou Village website, Horyou YouTube channel, along with an international group of media, corporate and cultural partners. Media will play a key role in sharing their experiences through ideas, posts, videos and much more.

“The non-profit world and its initiatives will resonate in Cannes this year. We are very happy to have non-profit organizations from our social network showcasing their contributions at Horyou Village. We invite everyone around the world and everyone present at Cannes to participate and join us in this unique initiative. This will be a special moment where diversity and culture connect for good, and cinema and art join forces at the heart of the world’s most prestigious cinematic event,” Horyou founder and CEO Yonathan Parienti said.

{{Interview Stage, Concerts and More}}

Located in the gardens of Le Grand Hotel on the famed Croisette, Horyou Village will be a cultural hub for global social consciousness via a multimedia experience. Featuring a dedicated interview stage for local and international artists and personalities, concerts as well as a screening area set up to showcase socially oriented documentaries, Horyou Village will be a focal point where participants will engage with attendees and film personalities to promote their ideas and projects. All of the above will be shown at horyouvillage.com on the Horyou social web channel.

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Horyou is the Social Network for Social Good. Its Members, Organizations and Personalities promote a humanistic approach to technology and encourage positive action, provide quality content and prompt meaningful interaction. At Horyou, social networking facilitates the process of transforming ideas into concrete actions, while contributing to the building of constructive relationships between the online and offline worlds. Let’s Dream, Inspire and Act.

For more media information, contact:
media(at)horyouvillage.com

For partnership opportunities, contact:
partners(at)horyouvillage.com

{Dear Rwanda
I wish today you came to pick me up so we could be together again.
When I left you, I thought it’d be good so that I would long for the time I got to see you again.
I wonder how you are,
How tall you’ve grown from overcoming your daily challenges
I’m sure that either way you rejoice from the lessons learnt along the way
The waves you crossed after each day.
I want you to teach me how you do it
How you come from something so small
Full of hurt, destruction, failure, and rock bottom
To the most beautiful thing in the pearl of Africa
And most importantly, to the most generous host of all your beloved children
I’m sorry to hear about how rough it’s been for you to remember your lost ones,
I mourn with you, but rejoice in the thought that they are in paradise
Helping you get stronger day by day
Helping you become a world model of what reconciliation should look like
Helping you teach the world that only PEACE is what humanity deserves.
Oh Rwanda, you’re so lucky,
You always find a way to overcome your problems,
I feel like mine are just tumbling over my head in a pile
What should I do oh Rwanda, what should I do oh dear?
Teach me how you did it then
Teach me how you’re doing it now
}

{{Nicole Kagoyire, Texas}}

It is a regretful moment
It is an oath that we don’t want to remember, that April, 7th 1994
I am referring to it today as history
Twenty-one years ago, it was a calamity, gnashing, barbarous,
cruelty……
It was agony, disastrous and inhuman
A regretful situation that lasted for 100 days but caused
national disaster
Interehamwe slaughtered Tutsis in cold blood
And the world was in arms akimbo watching the slaughter
A genocide that recorded approximately 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu sympathizers dead

A regretful episode, we talk about it only when we are commemorating it
We solemnly pledge not to witness such an incidence, ‘genocide’ on our mother land again

The Sages are musing on what called for such a 100-day menace in Rwanda
But seems there is no answer

Tutsi and Hutus are peaceful people who are easily categories through
Marriages or cattle acquisition
Then what happened in 100 days……????

A regretful event that that cause a lot lives
Atrocities, holocaust, brutalities, massacre, killing ………………
But later the expert define it as genocide
Ah! If the world watch the genocide with stories and nice definitions,
Is like a skilful player about to score and the referee offer an infringement…..,
It is unfair, isn’t it?
Men, women and children were murdered with hand weapons, machetes, and clubs in schools, churches and hospitals.

The world remain spectators for perpetrators to do their own criminality
This is a regretful event
My eyes are dropping tears
My ears are aching with stories
Our hearts are traumatized with unbelievable torture
And this is the basic definition of genocide

But the world watched, recorded videos and took pictures without remorse
Today is a commemoration day
We will never forget this day in Rwandan life
We pledge not to experience this in Rwanda again
Regretful day. The day without placatory

By Daniel Djan
Student of Hanyang University
Global health and Development
Seoul, Korea
+82 10 30 45 49 22

You’re beautiful beyond compare and equate
A woman around whom my thoughts gravitate
Without you the earth can never rotate
Without you blood doesn’t circulate
Because heart sinks and fail to operate
Temperature flies too high to estimate
I would rather die than lose you, mate
I shall love and cherish you at any rate.

Your touches are so deep and liberate
Your voice is unique thus hard to imitate
We’re equally kind and considerate
So amazing that we call each other intimate
There are many lovers but we do dominate
We built bondage which no one can penetrate
It’s time our love was legitimate
Wedding is what we should negotiate.

As we hold all parts of our bodies participate
We share exciting things to relate
As every date we have what to celebrate
Happy that there hasn’t been any hitch of late
Sorry is a principle that we can’t violate
When you feel like seeing me babe don’t hesitate
Please show up before body and soul separate
Tonight we shall kiss until we suffocate.

BY Gratien Uwayezu
{{ugratiens@gmail.com
}}

{A partnership between Innovation Group and the Government of Rwanda, Innovation Village aims to promote literacy and culture, and to inspire innovation.}

Based at the rooftop of the Kigali Public Library, Innovation Village will comprise a media lab and kids’ corner, a co-working space and a café, as well as an events space.

The multi-media lab will provide users with audio, photo and video equipment and computers, equipped with the latest creative software and editing programs. It will also feature a space designed for kids, storytelling.

The co-working space will be reserved for individuals or small start-ups that offers private meeting rooms and Wi-Fi, printing/scanning facilities and a café that serves hot and cold beverages along with light meals.

The events space will be comprised of a stage for performances, a screening area, and an exhibition space—where between 60 and 100 people can be hosted.

The Village will have three membership categories, including:
Social – visitors, friends, explorers
Community – small clubs, corporates, families, friends, groups with shared interest
Co-creators – fellows, partners and contributors

According to information available on its website, the Innovation Village is designed to help connect and equip storytellers, innovators and educators with tools for learning, growth and innovation through on-site programmes and an interactive online platform.

In an email to RwandaPost, Oriane Ruzibiza, Director of the Innovation Village, explained the ultimate purpose of this new venture:

“Our intention is to simply ignite inspiration in our communities. Through our upcoming events and programs we aim to connect different communities and equip them with tools to think big. Ultimately our hope for the Innovation Village is to contribute to expanding Rwanda’s horizons.”

To learn more, please visit www.innovationvillage.co

{{Source: Rwanda Post}}

{Israel will, in the future, expand its cooperation with Rwanda in many other sectors including strengthening cultural and social ties with Rwandan citizens, [{{IGIHE}}->www.igihe.com] reports.}

Last month during an exclusive Interview with IGIHE, Mr. Leo Vinovezky, Israeli Deputy Ambassador to Rwanda, Burundi and Ethiopia has told this website’s reporter that his country will expand its cooperation not only in business sector but also in culture.

“I would like to share that with you as well and of course in the future we can establish cooperation in the culture arena which is to strengthen the links between the two peoples.” Mr. Leo Vinovezky said.

He said Rwanda and Israel are friends not only because of specific interests but that the two countries share a common vision and a common approach.

“We are two peoples that had suffered a lot and from this suffering we are trying to recover, we are trying to rebuild our nations and our peoples which is a very difficult task. But you are doing well, we are doing well and beyond that of course we found common interest in the international arena consolidating this friendship.

“…..that’s why I am here also to promote culture, Israel music, Israeli literature that has been translated into French and English as well we would like to screen documentary films from Israel made by Israel Filmmakers telling specific stories. So we are very similar in a way. “ Vinovezky said.

According to Mr. Leo Vinovezky “It could sound a paradox or controversy to invest because when people talk about investment they necessarily think about business, about doing money, which is fine and legitimate.”

However, he thinks, it is great to invest in other things.

“I mean countries like Rwanda or like Israel could benefit from investment in those social areas which we need to improve and promote which is for the future generations. In Israeli we have the concept of “Matnas” (culture, social and sport centre). Every neighborhood has a Matnas in which you will see that the young kids and teenagers have all the facilities to develop their imagination, their creativity, their leadership skills, they are involved in positive things. Also important are the Youth Movements based on human values.” Explains Leo Vinovezky.

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{The samurai (or bushi) were the warriors of premodern Japan. They later made up the ruling military class that eventually became the highest ranking social caste of the Edo Period (1603-1867). Samurai employed a range of weapons such as bows and arrows, spears and guns, but their main weapon and symbol was the sword. }

Samurai were supposed to lead their lives according to the ethic code of bushido (“the way of the warrior”). Strongly Confucian in nature, bushido stressed concepts such as loyalty to one’s master, self discipline and respectful, ethical behavior. Many samurai were also drawn to the teachings and practices of Zen Buddhism.

Samurai related attractions can be found across Japan in form of castles, historic residences, museums, historically themed amusement parks and dress up tours. The following are some of the Photos of Samurai in the Last Century of Japanese Warriors.

Photo: Live Science

{Rwanda is set to join the rest of the countries in the East African Community to carry out a survey on cultural and creative industries.}

The survey has been done and completed in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and it is now time for Rwanda.

In Rwanda, the study is to be undertaken by the Ministry of Sports and Culture, the Ministry of East African Community Affairs and the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda. To these institution shall be adjoined the Rwanda Academy of Language and Culture (RALC).

The study will collect information on Culture and Creative Industries especially in the areas of products and operators, productive/economic activity, statistics, marketing and domain specific information.

The mapping study is significant due to the increasing recognition of the sector’s contribution to social, economic and political development in East Africa and the world at large. The results of the study will be disseminated to various stakeholders in Rwanda and other EAC Partner States.

The objectives of this study are:
-To identify institutions, organizations and individuals working in cultural and creative activities within Rwanda and the EAC Partner States
-To establish their contribution to the economic growth of the region.
– To provide a relevant data for decision makers and planners both for the Republic of Rwanda and the East African Community.
-To map the existing data/statistics being generated by institutions, organizations and individuals involved in cultural and creative industries;
-To identify the productive/economic activities of institutions, organizations and individuals involved in the cultural and creative industries;
-To collect information on employment, revenue, expenditure and marketing strategies from the institutions, organizations and individuals in the cultural and creative industries;
-To identify challenges faced by institutions in promoting cultural and creative industries within Rwanda and the EAC region;
-To build a database of creative and cultural industries as well as a Management Information System for the exploitation of the collected data

This survey shall be district based and shall be concerned with institutions, organizations and individuals involved in cultural and creative industries that are registered by the Ministry of Sports and Culture, Rwanda Academy of Language and Culture, and District’s art and culture database.

Hence, a training session has been organized for the district officers in charge of sports and culture as well as other selected research assistants working in the Ministry of Sports and Culture and its partner institutions. This training provided detailed information and skills, protocol and the terms of reference of the mapping project to the enumerators. This training session shall also serve as a platform for disseminating strategies and goals of the enumeration

Enumeration phase in Districts:

• 17th to 24th November 2014: Northern, Western provinces and Kigaki city
• 28th November to 5th December 2014: Eastern and Southern provinces
The general survey will be conducted at provincial level from 15th to 28th December 2014.

Cultural and creative activities have been grouped into sectors and their subsectors as exhibited in the table below

{{Artistic Profile Table }}