Here is a site that I frequent and it has ways in which youcan help stop the violence and conflict production in the Congo. I wrote a commetn and signed you can take a look at the site.
http://www2.americanprogress.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=113
Friday, March 25, 2011
REMEMBER, RESTORE , RAISE HOPE for CONGO
MAN !
Family and friends there is SO much to tell and my sincerest apologies for not updating you over the months. Well am back and have much to report to you all ! God surely has blessed me indeed and has brought so many opportunities my way. In trust and faith in Him , I have stepped into increase.
Things began brewing when I went out to get a job and actually got the job ! That was just a hint of the things God had lined up. Next , I was informed that my classmates had the opportunity to see Eve Ensler, the writer of the Vagina Monologues , speak in London. I was not going to go because to be honest I wasn't as interested as much as the other women. For some reason though I had this feeling that I should go. So I went. And bless the Lord for leading me to go because it changed my life. I haven't cried like that in some time. She was the most empowering , inspirational women that I have meet. She truly had a loving heart , her passion and drive to help women was so pure , it even went beyond helping them , it became about breaking the silence and opening the gateways for women to speak out. She brought to light the horror that is taking place in the Congo. I was hurt to the core. I never felt so much spiritual pain for the Congolese women , children , men and land. I vowed that I would do what I could with the talents God has given me to stop such terrors. So since then I have met with several girls on my program and have read up about the issue in the Congo. My head of course / Director knows Eve Ensler personally and told her that we wanted to go to the Congo and do what we could with our craft and construct a program at the City of Joy to aid the women in channeling their experiences and stories into theatre, dance and writing. Today Eve Ensler and Christine ( a Congolese Activist at the City of Joy) gave us the okay !!!! BUT , since then I thought I should branch out and audition. So I did. I was to have an audition this past Sunday for an up and coming theatre company called RavenRock. The day of I wasn't going to go because I didn't have the address and hadn't heard back yet. Then just when I was on the verge of giving up , I got an email. I had the address and left the tube station at 9 , when the audition was at 10 in London !! Which is not enough time, well shouldn't be since it takes about 40-45 minutes to get to the central and I was going further out than that. Well I was praying my entire journey that I would get there on time. By the grace of God I got there right on time with 2 minutes to spare. Of course though , the auditioned consisted of singing AGAIN ! haha AHH . I said okay Lord we can do this again. So I sang and danced for the first round. Then when we all came back , I got called back. Then I had to sing AGAIN ! This time I chocked , but the guy who was playing the guitar comforted me and told me I just got nervous about the first note, but he knew that I could sing. So that was good. And they must have seen something because I got accepted into the company for both the London and the Edinburgh productions.
Now Edinburgh is the world's largest theatre festival and RavenRock is performing there for a month , the whole month of August , which does unfortunately conflicted completely with the Congo.
Then yesterday I received a Facebook message with an offer to be apart of another play that would head to Edinburgh ! I couldn't believe it ! Could I do to? And apparently I can , so I am doing both. However, I couldn't get the desire in my heart to go to the Congo. So I prayed about , asking for a sign , a feeling , ANYTHING ! So I've been on the computer at school looking around and reading about the Congo and I realized more than anything I want the injustices in the Congo to stop. What could I do ? So a thought popped into my my head. I could promote change ,bring awareness at Edinburgh ! I mean there would be soooooo many people there , hundreds of thousands of flows of people ! The perfect place to spread the word , get petitions signed and so forth. So I have decided to do the footwork over here . STILL , I am going to the Congo. Whether it is in September or next year I am going. I plan to work on the proposal and structure of the course we are taking to City of Joy so that I can still be apart of it.
ALSO , I got asked to be apart of another project that deals with Women and the Media. So I am doing some pieces for that as well , and will be using my poem " Women in My Mirror" from Lovin'Chocolate in an ensemble piece with two other Black/African women , which I am SO excited about !
So that is about all caught , I may be missing some minor details but though it may be alot I am truly grateful for this heavy load , as heavy loads come in all forms. Hope you are all well love you dearly !
Family and friends there is SO much to tell and my sincerest apologies for not updating you over the months. Well am back and have much to report to you all ! God surely has blessed me indeed and has brought so many opportunities my way. In trust and faith in Him , I have stepped into increase.
Things began brewing when I went out to get a job and actually got the job ! That was just a hint of the things God had lined up. Next , I was informed that my classmates had the opportunity to see Eve Ensler, the writer of the Vagina Monologues , speak in London. I was not going to go because to be honest I wasn't as interested as much as the other women. For some reason though I had this feeling that I should go. So I went. And bless the Lord for leading me to go because it changed my life. I haven't cried like that in some time. She was the most empowering , inspirational women that I have meet. She truly had a loving heart , her passion and drive to help women was so pure , it even went beyond helping them , it became about breaking the silence and opening the gateways for women to speak out. She brought to light the horror that is taking place in the Congo. I was hurt to the core. I never felt so much spiritual pain for the Congolese women , children , men and land. I vowed that I would do what I could with the talents God has given me to stop such terrors. So since then I have met with several girls on my program and have read up about the issue in the Congo. My head of course / Director knows Eve Ensler personally and told her that we wanted to go to the Congo and do what we could with our craft and construct a program at the City of Joy to aid the women in channeling their experiences and stories into theatre, dance and writing. Today Eve Ensler and Christine ( a Congolese Activist at the City of Joy) gave us the okay !!!! BUT , since then I thought I should branch out and audition. So I did. I was to have an audition this past Sunday for an up and coming theatre company called RavenRock. The day of I wasn't going to go because I didn't have the address and hadn't heard back yet. Then just when I was on the verge of giving up , I got an email. I had the address and left the tube station at 9 , when the audition was at 10 in London !! Which is not enough time, well shouldn't be since it takes about 40-45 minutes to get to the central and I was going further out than that. Well I was praying my entire journey that I would get there on time. By the grace of God I got there right on time with 2 minutes to spare. Of course though , the auditioned consisted of singing AGAIN ! haha AHH . I said okay Lord we can do this again. So I sang and danced for the first round. Then when we all came back , I got called back. Then I had to sing AGAIN ! This time I chocked , but the guy who was playing the guitar comforted me and told me I just got nervous about the first note, but he knew that I could sing. So that was good. And they must have seen something because I got accepted into the company for both the London and the Edinburgh productions.
Now Edinburgh is the world's largest theatre festival and RavenRock is performing there for a month , the whole month of August , which does unfortunately conflicted completely with the Congo.
Then yesterday I received a Facebook message with an offer to be apart of another play that would head to Edinburgh ! I couldn't believe it ! Could I do to? And apparently I can , so I am doing both. However, I couldn't get the desire in my heart to go to the Congo. So I prayed about , asking for a sign , a feeling , ANYTHING ! So I've been on the computer at school looking around and reading about the Congo and I realized more than anything I want the injustices in the Congo to stop. What could I do ? So a thought popped into my my head. I could promote change ,bring awareness at Edinburgh ! I mean there would be soooooo many people there , hundreds of thousands of flows of people ! The perfect place to spread the word , get petitions signed and so forth. So I have decided to do the footwork over here . STILL , I am going to the Congo. Whether it is in September or next year I am going. I plan to work on the proposal and structure of the course we are taking to City of Joy so that I can still be apart of it.
ALSO , I got asked to be apart of another project that deals with Women and the Media. So I am doing some pieces for that as well , and will be using my poem " Women in My Mirror" from Lovin'Chocolate in an ensemble piece with two other Black/African women , which I am SO excited about !
So that is about all caught , I may be missing some minor details but though it may be alot I am truly grateful for this heavy load , as heavy loads come in all forms. Hope you are all well love you dearly !
PEFORM
Hey Everyone !!
My it's been awhile ! I hope all is well with everyone and that you're enjoying the wonderful weather , which I am sure is much warmer than the weather that I am experiencing haha. Well since we have last spoken I have been working on a scene from " Miss Julie ", a Church , got a job , been to a jazz club , made new friends and was told about a wonderful theatre.
"Miss Julie " written by August Strindberg is a play in which I despised at first because Strindberg was a misogynistic womanizer who intended the character that I am playing Miss Julie to be a monster and to show that women need to stay in their places and stop trying to better themselves with revolutionary ideas of feminism. I had such a problem with her submissiveness and fall in the end of the play. I discovered that the judgement I felt towards Miss Julie inhibited me from exploring and becoming Miss Julie. Once I read more in depth and sought to understand where Miss Julie was coming from I realized that she was like most women I know today and stopped judging her. Now my scene partners and I are having more fun and success with our scene. We perform it next week.
The job that I recently got is exactly the kind of opportunity that is perfect for me and a wonderful means of income as well as networking. http://www.perform.org.uk/ . I will be teaching kids from 4 to 8 years old drama , singing and dancing. It was such an experience auditioning for this position. I wanted it so bad from the start however, the day of the audition I was thinking of not going for it . But I was like no Kelley you need this. So I gathered my laziness and went on with calling and emailing the people at Perform. Once I received the information about the place and time I was on my way. Now I got there like an hour ahead but as people started to spill in I began to freak out a bit . Everyone seems to look like professionals and have all this talent and I'm like uugghh dang it haha. So I began praying my butt off. " GOd give me strength to get through this , to not defeat myself before I meet defeat. So I walked into the audition room with the others with my head held high. Once the interviewers , including the creator of Perform herself , I realized that I was exactly what they were looking for , and that's when it was easy cause all I had to do was be nobody else but me. So I passed the first cut and then the next part of the audition was dancing and I was like YES I missed dancing , especially hip hop and to my blessing that's what we did. So we learnt , performed and passed the next cut. NOW came the part of the audition that I began to worry. We spilt up into two groups and the creator of Perform was our interviewer and she tells us that in this section of the audition we have to sing 4 lines of an audition song acappela !!!! OMG my stomach dropped and i began to worry!! haha I couldn't think of any songs that would be comfortable in my range that would be nice enough to pass this cut. So I wait till the end and as people begin to sing , i freak out even more. I felt like I was amongst people who make it to the Hollywood round from American Idol. Also people start to mention where they have been to school , RADA , LAMDA , etc which are basically the Yale and NYU (TISCH) of London. Well I waited till the end to sing and asked if I could sing a Christmas song , so I sang " Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire". I don't know how I did it but it came out alright. I felt quiet good about the audition and the next day received an email that I had got the job !!! I was SO ecstatic !
Now for the church my friend from East 15 has been inviting me to his church since we meet at the beginning of the year. I have been wanting to go but it's far and just never took the time. Finally , I went and LOVED it ! It's an amazing place and the message is wonderful and has me thinking about it throughout the week. Well he , Raphael and his cousin Fem are really nice guys and they are determined to get me to see more of London. So since that I have been to jazz clubwhich reminded me of home and was soo nice to be around such an atmosphere.
My it's been awhile ! I hope all is well with everyone and that you're enjoying the wonderful weather , which I am sure is much warmer than the weather that I am experiencing haha. Well since we have last spoken I have been working on a scene from " Miss Julie ", a Church , got a job , been to a jazz club , made new friends and was told about a wonderful theatre.
"Miss Julie " written by August Strindberg is a play in which I despised at first because Strindberg was a misogynistic womanizer who intended the character that I am playing Miss Julie to be a monster and to show that women need to stay in their places and stop trying to better themselves with revolutionary ideas of feminism. I had such a problem with her submissiveness and fall in the end of the play. I discovered that the judgement I felt towards Miss Julie inhibited me from exploring and becoming Miss Julie. Once I read more in depth and sought to understand where Miss Julie was coming from I realized that she was like most women I know today and stopped judging her. Now my scene partners and I are having more fun and success with our scene. We perform it next week.
The job that I recently got is exactly the kind of opportunity that is perfect for me and a wonderful means of income as well as networking. http://www.perform.org.uk/ . I will be teaching kids from 4 to 8 years old drama , singing and dancing. It was such an experience auditioning for this position. I wanted it so bad from the start however, the day of the audition I was thinking of not going for it . But I was like no Kelley you need this. So I gathered my laziness and went on with calling and emailing the people at Perform. Once I received the information about the place and time I was on my way. Now I got there like an hour ahead but as people started to spill in I began to freak out a bit . Everyone seems to look like professionals and have all this talent and I'm like uugghh dang it haha. So I began praying my butt off. " GOd give me strength to get through this , to not defeat myself before I meet defeat. So I walked into the audition room with the others with my head held high. Once the interviewers , including the creator of Perform herself , I realized that I was exactly what they were looking for , and that's when it was easy cause all I had to do was be nobody else but me. So I passed the first cut and then the next part of the audition was dancing and I was like YES I missed dancing , especially hip hop and to my blessing that's what we did. So we learnt , performed and passed the next cut. NOW came the part of the audition that I began to worry. We spilt up into two groups and the creator of Perform was our interviewer and she tells us that in this section of the audition we have to sing 4 lines of an audition song acappela !!!! OMG my stomach dropped and i began to worry!! haha I couldn't think of any songs that would be comfortable in my range that would be nice enough to pass this cut. So I wait till the end and as people begin to sing , i freak out even more. I felt like I was amongst people who make it to the Hollywood round from American Idol. Also people start to mention where they have been to school , RADA , LAMDA , etc which are basically the Yale and NYU (TISCH) of London. Well I waited till the end to sing and asked if I could sing a Christmas song , so I sang " Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire". I don't know how I did it but it came out alright. I felt quiet good about the audition and the next day received an email that I had got the job !!! I was SO ecstatic !
Now for the church my friend from East 15 has been inviting me to his church since we meet at the beginning of the year. I have been wanting to go but it's far and just never took the time. Finally , I went and LOVED it ! It's an amazing place and the message is wonderful and has me thinking about it throughout the week. Well he , Raphael and his cousin Fem are really nice guys and they are determined to get me to see more of London. So since that I have been to jazz clubwhich reminded me of home and was soo nice to be around such an atmosphere.
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