Final Project; 'Lil Movie

Persistence in ACTION!!! :D from Khadejah on Vimeo.

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My Community Walk

CommunityWalk Map - Places with my name

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WEEKEND POST: My B-Day Festival

CrAzY TiMeS!! :) from Khadejah on Vimeo.

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Hello To All The Children Of The World Lyrics

Chorus:
hello, Bon Jour, Buenos Dias!
g'day, Guten-Tag, Konichiwa.....
ciao, Shalom, Do-Brey Dien,
hello To All The Children Of The World!

we Live In Different Places From All Around The World.
we Speak In Many Different Ways!
though Some Things May Be Different,
we're Children Just The Same-
and We All Like To Sing And Play!

Chorus

there Are Children In The Deserts,
and Children In The Towns,
and Children Who Live Down By The Sea!
if We Could Meet Each Other,
to Run And Sing And Play-
then What Good Friends We All Could Be!

Chorus

WEEKEND POST: Storytelling

Storytelling has historically served as a form of entertainment but also as a cultural necessity. Stories carry histories, map moral laws and religious beliefs, and teach lessons of survival. Whether bearing sorrow, humor, or wisdom, they are remembered rather than memorized, they are given as gifts and belong to all. A good story is told time and again over the centuries; it travels from country to country, in each place picking up something new as well as leaving something behind. Tales, myths, fables, parables, yarns, and legends are all variations on the story, but they all address humanity. Scholar and specialist in oral traditions W.S. Penn writes, that stories "put the 'I' in the context of the 'We.'"

A picture, it is often said, is worth one thousand words. Images predate language and are still able to transcend it. The images in ONE THOUSAND WORDS convey ways in which stories carry meaning for diverse cultures and help them understand their common bonds.

While oral stories leave images up to the imagination, visual tales leave the actual narrative open to interpretation. For example, New York artist Whitfield Lovell draws on the rich minefield of human memory and imagination. His imagery emanates from photographic studio portraits of his grandmother's relatives in the 1920s and '30s as well as similar photographs of African Americans that he found in flea markets and thrift shops. His graphite drawings of people long dead seem hauntingly illuminated by people we feel we have known. Rife with personalized though fading detail, the drawn images are juxtaposed with telling artifacts such as a jar of pennies or a softly playing radio, thus tapping into the viewer's own associations with objects and the universal expressions of pride, tenacity, and endurance.

Similarly, Tracey Moffatt, an Aboriginal Australian photographer and filmmaker, makes complex narrative images that provoke stories in the mind of the viewer. Her works capture the surreal quality of dreams as she explores how pop culture and her native heritage have blended to shape her life. From folk-style narratives of everyday events to the evocation of ghosts and dreams, the artists in the exhibition - - sometimes inadvertently - - portray their own cultural relationship to the art of storytelling.