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		<title>Rock Girl, on the Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Across Africa, you hear about girls on the move.  Usually, it is stories of girls being trafficked, fleeing war, escaping child marriage.  Girls are rarely the storytellers. Rock Girl is changing that. Rock Girl is back on the road. From October 2 to 11, Rock Girl is taking 16 teenage girls on the second Rock Girl Road Trip, from Cape Town to the Kalahari Desert.  Just as Rock Girl did in June 2015, these girls will interview girls and women along the way, documenting their lives through radio and photography.  Over 1200 miles, they will be catapulted far from what they know as they sleep under the stars, track scorpions through the desert, and raft down rivers.  They will learn how to read maps, pitch a tent, and read the night skies. “These girls are modern day adventurers,” said India Baird, founder of Rock Girl, “and they are heroes, not only because they face gangsters each day, but because they care about other girls and can empathize with them about the common challenges they all face.” Upon their return, the girls will meet with the Minister of Justice, Michael Masutha, to brief him about what they have learned, sharing the stories of girls who have never been heard. This is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adejoke Tugbiyele presents TESTIMONY at Goodman Gallery Cape Town</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goodman Gallery Cape Town 5 September – 10 October 2015 Exhibition opening Saturday 5 September at 11:00 Walkabout with the artist at 12:00 In her forthcoming solo exhibition, TESTIMONY, the first in South Africa and on the continent, Adejoke Tugbiyele speaks to her personal experience and the lived and imagined experiences of all Nigerians, regardless of gender and sexual orientation. She takes as her motivation the fact that many Nigerians and other Africans cannot survive each day without dreaming of being elsewhere – somewhere far away. For example, Nigerians and other Africans migrate to places like South Africa for survival and freedom – including the freedom to love – managing existing trauma amid fears of xenophobia in a country still healing from its own apartheid past. Tugbiyele notes that her fellow Nigerians use various means to acquire the necessary documentation to allow them to travel, taking steps that are dangerous and often placing them at odds with the law. Prostitution and sex work is common among both straight and gay people, because it is viewed as a means to success or a way out of the country. These are acts of survival given the conditions that cause Africans to risk [...]]]></description>
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