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Project RAFT Invited to Harvard University to Present ICTs and Sustainable Developmen
April 3, 2006 - 02:10 AM
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Project RAFT Invited to Harvard University for the SMT Conference April 7-9th
Project RAFT Intl would like to announce our invitation to Harvard University from April 7-9 presenting ICTs and sustainable development. The SMT Sweet Mother is an international project started by a group of artists, activists, and educators from around the globe.
They use the tools of popular culture being music, film, and television as an empowering force to stimulate positive change in the images and reality of Africa and her people throughout the Diaspora.
The Sweet Mother Tour (SMT), a global youth movement with a mission to use the tools of popular culture to present empowering images of Africa and the African Diaspora, will host its first annual Conference & Benefit Concert at Harvard University entitled Youth and the New Pan-African Renaissance: Rebuilding Africa for the 21st Century," in partnership with the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard and student leaders from Harvard, UMass, Simmons and BU.
On Saturday April 8th the SMT will host a Benefit Concert featuring the Diaspora Funk Movement (DFM) a project spearheaded by critically acclaimed Boston based groups Soulf觥 Soul Fege and The Foundation Movement Foundation Hip Hop The founders of DFM have collaborated with such renowned artists as Dead Prez, Bounty Killer and Bobby McFerrin and been featured in such major outlets as the Boston Herald, Boston Globe, BBC Worldservice Radio, BBC 1Xtra, S. Africa's Channel O and more. The DFM aims to "reflect a positive vision of the world" and "to make music that moves heart, body and soul and uplifts the spirit of people who hear it" November 29, 2005, Boston Herald.
Joining the DFM will be slam poet Iyeoka href=" http://www.iyeoka.com"class="noem_links"> Iyeoka , featured on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, and closing out the night from NY, DJs Fabian Alsultany and Derek Beres of Globesonic Sound System (www.globesonic.com) Simple Global Sonic a DJ triumvirate that has spun worldwide alongside such respected artists as Yerba Buena, Antibalas, The Gypsy Kings and Jamiroquai.
All proceeds from the SMT Benefit Concert will go to the Selula Sandla AME Village, a home for HIV orphans in Swaziland; and Liberty Hall, the former offices of Marcus Garvey, today a youth center teaching cultural literacy and computer skills to children in the toughest ghettoes of Kingston Jamaica.
The SMT Benefit Concert will be broadcast live to a global audience at www.sweetmother.org courtesy of Technology Sponsors: Heart In Action, Asita Informatica Inc. and MidNet Inc.
Project RAFT will be presenting ICTs Technologies based on the making of Biofuels from oleaginous seeds as well as sustainable construction based on Adobe structures. Both of these presentations are sustainable, renewable, educational and empowering exactly what these developing African countries need. With 600, 000 schools across the African continent looking to implement internet and ICT technologies Project RAFT feels that going to the SMT conference at Harvard is a good opportunity to network to make this vision and effort a reality for millions of young people across the continent!
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