Hello im to see one to welcome to africa its good to have your Company South africas economy has shed some 3000000 jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic as a result many people whove lost their income have had to leave the cities and move back to their villages. Travel to the Limpopo Province to meet one woman who was forced to make the move but as it turns out it could prove as an opportunity to start something off her own. When cynthia needs water she can no longer open the tap that she could all dramas quite a few weeks ago she lost her office drop in the city and moved back to her village. To collect water from the neighbors to. Im hoping to get more on taking so that i can connect my words with straight because everything in the 6 you do is inside the house so theres not sort of go outside. Except going maybe jogging oakum to wake. Her daughters remains in the village while their mother spent 8 years in the city working to support them trips home where it wasnt making sense in a way because i had to pay rent home and at the same time i took some money to my kids home and also with the percent of us looking after my kids so it wasnt a long thing at all so i thought i might as well just come back home and be with my kids and do something here. For me and my family now the 38 year old is turning a pastime into a profession and her small house she bakes breads and this fits. She receives up to 7 orders a week and has already made enough to invest in an oven her daughters cell powered they are happy to have their mom back home. Where did you miss me just remember the most places. When youre home different. And after living in the city it cynthia is keen to offer advice many of us on the boat being married having kids didnt get. So many young women that are independent but getting to see women. In their lives it encourages me it helped me go on how we moved and it helped me even become. Cultivating fruits for export is just one of the Business Opportunities she could explore here in the village. Cynthia is full of ideas and optimism for her new life in her home village but also here in the rural areas people are feeling the. Crisis and the economic consequences of the knock down. Since the determines to curse of beer in the backyard shes already working on her next project. I wanted a certain critical place this small place is like ill be sending. People. So the people do not have to go to to get pizza because so they can only. Look at the list of the little money that im getting from baking is one thing that im trying to save so that i can be able to do that cynthia timebomb is happy to let her daughters move to the city to continue their education but she is certain her own future lies here in the countryside. We go to not only what makes the home of nigerias bustling movie industry the way the producer of a film focused on a lesbian love affair plans to evade since is by premiering the work on the line and. Outside of a legos court house a lineup of alleged lawbreakers gay men heading for their day in court 47. 00 charged with public displays of affection in a country that criminalizes same sex relationships. Elsewhere in that same city filmmakers prepare for an intimate scene between same sex lovers discussing relationships. While. The films director the actors all face prosecution if censors decide their work promotes homosexuality in the past nollywood has depicted queer characters as mentally ill or deeply troubled but the crew of the movie see their work perpetrating normal life for a sizable percentage of nigeria i feel like for a very long time weve been told one sided. And the story is not complete it does not represent all the groups in a society so what i wanted to do was until the full story by representing the people in. The face trailer was released online last month it advertises a film that touches on a shared theme in some nigerian families being forced to choose between family and happiness i understand where theyre coming from in that in nigeria its not accepted and so doing Something Like that puts you where you feel like its not its not the norm but but but i dont feel that its both i feel that its ordinary i feel that its my life just being shown on screen but its been beautiful beyond family and stigma same sex relationships in nigeria are in theory punishable by up to 14 years in prison and depicting such relationships on the Silver Screen or on you tube or netflix may be considered just as unlawful. And im now joined by the producer off the film if they have is joining me from a family good to see you if this is the 1st film off its kind tell us about why you made the film and what you hope to accomplish with it. So thank you for having me christine i am indeed if there is one of its kind its the 1st film coming out of nigeria that centers the love story of 2 women 2 Nigerian Women and we really wanted to make this film to add to the narrative. About people and a bunch of beauty rights because when you look at most of the narratives that come out of the major. Film industry and all you want. People including. Usually portrayed people to be. People that sort of mentally ill and people of the interest of children all of which are quite far right and i am one of 2 a sort of get on the other perspective too. That if youre going to have to be releasing the film online because the National Film and video censors boards wont allow it in cinemas in the country. Do you think that nigerians want to see films like this it. First of all there hasnt been any fear might released in the major airlines. Want to see a major landscape im in a Major Incident so it will be really difficult to tell whether or not millions want to see it so in many ways this is going to be a test to see the kind of content the nigerians are ready to see. If it goes right pamela one of the things that this film is set to do it is to show the lives of women in nigeria and youve already alluded to the fact that a lot of people in the country the way people in your community have been portrayed are people to be fear etc but there are a lot of people who believe that homosexuality your lifestyle is a corrupting western import what do you have to say to people like that. Well 1st of all the thing about it is homosexuality is not a lifestyle it is a persons Sexual Orientation just like being straight in their sexual being you know or whatever its not a lifestyle science where they say theyre for us. Ok in terms of how its been how weve been portrayed i mean you know i dont im im not really sure what what they have informed the negative portrayal. But what i do know is that such portrayals have. Have contributed to the way that people can see homosexual people in and cheer and its affected it in they can see liked solo things i really hope to do with this film is also to help to change perceptions to help to give people a big leaps into into the lives of of lesbians in nigeria and what it means to be in a same sex relationship in their tyria and the struggles and the challenges but also to show people the beauty of it all and to and to say that you know were not people that should be feared we are just like everybody else we have our lives we love our families we have fears we have dreams and you know and were just living it every day every day and we hope that people see this film. Will see that as well all right thats the producer of the movie its a panel at a talking to us from great us thank you panel. Now the National Film video incenses board already has the film on his radar. Thomas is the executive director of the nigerian census board he joins me now from bush welcome to the 70 s. Africa mr thomas why will you not allow this film to be screened to the nigerian public we need to look at the content and if the content negates the constitution of the country then we go ahead on classified since one plus for it and if the name gets so we wont give up over principle only what ive read about. L g b t v. Its not allowed so if you look at. The courts of law. Its becomes very necessity for all smoke to permit sorts as well so does the police on our street a city you quite rightly say that the film is about portraying the l g b t community but let us consider the argument that film is about portraying reality so not necessarily about what is right and what is wrong and the reality is mr thomas that they arent gay people in nigeria however one feels about that. 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Greetings from berlin and welcome to arts and culture under normal circumstances it would have been impossible but for the past 6 months nothings been really very much normal anyway which is why the impossible orchestra came to be we learn more about it and also coming up today. First of 3 medal laureates for 20 french. And brought indigenous art into the international. And in our series new the germans Rachel Stewart to get the lowdown on germanys special relationship books. When the covert lockdown hit in earnest back in march mexican conductor. Like so many musicians needed a way to combat the silence and to commune online with her colleagues and imagine the network that she could reach out to when she decided to make a covert video with mexican music oboist violinist maxime venga of horn virtuoso sarah willis and many more came on board to be part of what she called the impossible orchestra and with d. W. As media partner the result is a thing to behold. I was sent home. And i couldnt conduct so what could i do. I was imagining what would be an artist trying to have an artist to have the worlds best seller lists. And call my friends 1st i called all the people that i had their phone numbers and have i had worked with. Its a karma project obviously it would have never happened if it wasnt for the situation. Its impossible orchestra because of the normal situation if i had to call them up they wouldve said that sounds great but they have this concert and that concert and we can plan it for 2024 hours so i never would have not been possible without a doubt but suddenly everyone was free all wrong. Wrong. I dont want to see home made. It had to look professional as if we could go to a concert hall or an opera stage. 2 the impossible orchestra aims to raise awareness and trace funds to help from the sions in mexico who help women and children in many aspects. It had to be a mexican piece for this project of course peace that people would recognize in my country and the people around the world could be fascinated immediately by had it all as much as the author set up though as i said. My last play after marcus well because its an amazing piece of music that moves people so much and i have probably. Thats prone to be said conduct at the most in my career so its been my friend since i started my career. And hats off to. Our for putting together this impossible orchestra with absolutely marvelous piece of music the done son number 2 by attitude of lot of cans fantastic musicians and of course that gorgeous mexican prima ballerina. Company in Adrian Kennedy here to speak to me we heard briefly in the report that this project is supporting women womens charities in mexico just tell us who will be benefiting from this production and not just Women Charities project will raise money for save the children and for a foundation which helps women who are victims of male violence in mexico the situation of course for women and children has not been improved by the coronavirus knock down one direct beneficiary is the coax women feel a more like orchestra which supports the Artistic Development of women the main source of income performing live has been cut off by pandemic restrictions case so its great to hear that theyre getting some support from this now obviously with the plethora of covert videos that weve seen in the past couple of months many of them were very tricky to put together but this one of course really stands out its visually striking what can you tell us about the making of power wanted to get away from this. Farai aesthetic that we know from lockdown videos from artists she wanted to make it more stylish musicians recording individually or in small groups they chose a very classical black background because they needed something that looked sleek but could easily be recreate. In the various places they recorded los angeles new york valencia paris and of course were mexican. The ballet recorded contribution to shoes is. Poetry in motion and kudos of course to the very own christian bagga who play director for this effort and just for our viewers information you can see the full music clip on the 5th of September Edition of arts 21 that will be featured so try to catch that thanks very much to Adrian Kennedy for bringing us that back story thank you so many consider him to be germanys shakespear johann fund good to great poet and writer best known for his masterpiece drama fazzt and every year on his birthday august 28th this friday the group to Institute Awards its good to medal which is given to luminaries whose work actively promotes International Cultural exchange while the 1st of this years 3 winners is. Bolivia a weaver artist poet and musician whose Indigenous Roots are key to her creative drive. I cant believe youre an artist poet essayist musician and weaver she fought hard to succeed in a world that traditionally sidelines women and indigenous cultures. Is the belief that every civilization is complete in its way has its own language its own forms of artistic expression be it textiles wood cutting ceramics. Its not always painting the pictures on the canvas. She was 6 when her mother taught us how to weave but she wanted more this determination led her to leave her family and she financed her Higher Education herself. The 1st time she saw baroque art she was in a charge and was instantly captivated. Me what did these paintings mean people who had put them there why are they so important to the priest explained this art to me its importance and he also told me i could train as an artist myself. My curiosity was sparked and you know i went on to study art in the past so i was the 1st to indigenous dress in the academy the one up at a sauna a field called sort that i had to pick up f. R. I was a very reader she devoured texts on anthropology medicine archaeology and linguistics studying indigenous languages but she was especially interested in textile art our comes traditionally mad she traveled throughout the andes researching ancient craft passed down from one generation to the next in the oral tradition. To tell a bit that i was in peru in chile argentina ecuador and of course all over the livia on the high plains and in the valleys and i wanted to learn as much as possible about these. Techniques and this expertise together with weavers we want to experiment with various techniques and combine them with modern contemporary techniques. In 2013. Was appointed director of the National Museum of admonitory and folklore in la crosse as expected she gave it an extensive revamp displaying traditional art from various countries in a contemporary framework today the museum is widely seen as one of the most important Cultural Centers in bolivia it came as a shock when spring this year it was announced that she would be giving up her position after president evo morales resigned them 2019 and bolivia fearful of the current government will reverse the countrys controversial opening up its ambassadors of art and culture including s. P. F. Our i can see ongoing exchange with the garter institute as more important than ever. I congratulations to everyone who hopes to keep up those relations between bolivia and germany Going Forward while germanys reputation as the land of dished out want to thank our or poets and thinkers goes way back and has a lot to do now with how germans experience books as well see next. Once upon a time. 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