the, the, today we're coming to you from the malawi, where we are attending this year's, like a stars arts festival beyond the i think the stars also provides tourism revenue training and a whole lot of community work over the span of one weekend. but you know, i'm bringing the glass, but 1st we meet molly i think brought from nigeria. we use as a technology in the arts discover how selena l'aquila transformed her community in kenya into an eco friendly environment. and we get moving to the sounds of the getsco, an adverb, pop, adverb beat star from tell me who i am is going to enjoy watching after you max the

at 1st we moved candice lawrence from cape town, south africa, a talented, innovative designer, kansas was fusion of traditional african artistry and contemporary flare as me some of the pieces the most sought after across the continents. some of the work was even featured in the black had to what kind of whatever movie. now that's what i call illuminating the path to african design. take a look, the she designs her own mazda pieces and she can make them herself to in this industry. it's not usual that a woman be the one in the workshop coverage sort desk and rolling up his sleeves. how did candice challenge the status quo and lights up the world with real creations? i would say some challenges i've experienced being in the workshop is definitely

being confident with my tool. i think with any business as you go, you know, new machines come in and new software. you need to then have to update that. i think that's been the biggest challenge because sometimes you're so comfortable with what you know. back to time then something new is sometimes a bit daunting as a creative and the business side of things was very much new for me, even though we had learned about the business, i think warranty actually in it. does it become more deals today? we unravel the story behind the enchanting designs of home way designer, candace lawrence, who's lighting mazda piece, made its way onto the 20. 22, dropped by step black pens that what kinda forever. but before we hear about the lights that made it to hollywood, who is this creative force behind these hand crafted mazda pieces? and how did she get? yes. summer life home way started with, i guess my family,

my father is a very hands on a dad. so you would build a lot of things in the house, and so i think just observing him kind of spock back with me to also be hands on work with my materials. and yeah, i just, i loved making the beautiful, i love being able to be in the space that i'm happy with and i'm comfortable in. and so for me it was kind of like a natural move to, to design home. we are committed to liking to all sorts of other little pieces. candace, his parents were crucial in her journey, especially her dad, who told her many of the skills she uses today. everything here is made by hand, and kansas has never been afraid to get hamstead. she kind of took the most of the work i saw and um, and then as time went on different direction to randolph and she needed to get an

extra help our sister and all that. and, and, and of course i know ok, bye 6 of the machines as we went along. but as we've grown employees, more people to, to assist and we've got to get machines to, to get things going search for their learning pro for both of us. and they seem to be really grateful to have my dad on bulk. there was a lot i did not know. and i think in the early stages of this year, some of our machines were down. and that's also been a big challenge for me, is a small business owner. and then having my dad on board to be able to understand how to put our machines to get the way it's done. how do we fix it? vested quite a teamwork. and i'm definitely grateful that my data is at mine. seek to be able to take on such challenges. i've looked at trying to employee people from the community that i've grown up in. and that's really important to me. and i would

like them to, to know that, you know, they supporting a port to middle cost community. and you know, i'm using these bills in a creative way as well. hope for many clients and customers. that's something that they would like to support and be proud to support. and that's really important to my interest here from woven lampshades to stunning vases in myra's candice. these pieces can be found in many, a hotel all home locally and globally. how does this award winning design a 10, wex thread into mesmerizing pieces of art? so we're started with hand weaving. i was looking at different materials and different colors as well to bring into lighting designs. and i came across this rec score that offered it age of kind of and i wanted to work with that. i started leaving by name as well. so part of

a journey for myself and just repeating the same pattern over and over. how means you speak to me and being to be as well? kansas designs we've together, african est, takes an environmental consciousness with each creation carrying a sustainable touch. we designed it so that it can be because some of the challenges we have with the international shipping is that how do we design? i think that can be to use on waste and plastics. but also to be able to print as many lights in a box is also something we think about candice marriage is traditional african beadwork aesthetics with contemporary design. one of a 1st lighting designs was the woven nicholas named shade that contributed to the said design of black pinto. what kind of for ever it, let me know that's more than just a was on that level of being able to be seen. and also just i think, as

a designer in my confidence, as a designer. so yeah, it was. so it was really great experience and a great opportunity. the candice is almost 15 year during the highlights, the rewards of dedication, authenticity and owning it. as a woman in her industry, her commitment to staying true to her croft shines through every piece she creates the is truly inspiring. candace is an elevator that lights up homes and hearts. for over 20 years. the lake of stars, malawi, arts festival has 4 arts tourism and sustainability to communities. over that time, it has truly evolved into a festival that gives that i'm here with somebody else who is head of projects and production. what is like a stores and what sets it apart from other festivals? oh wow. and they could start as i believe we build platforms. so for those that are

not known yet us in the world, especially malawi itself into putting malawi on the map that contributes a global image altogether. it's spaces where we're able to promote arts. yeah. where people are not a way of those particular talents that we have him and always space where we're able to come out to your location such as some critical to for instance, where people are not aware of how beautiful the is. and the rich cultural heritage that they actually hold. what happens when the show is over? we pack up to down, but believe it or not, those stages a bolt from donated woods that's come from the national park. some of it, obviously we've had to purchase and a like, so if it is recycled, they put it all together. do you like this beautiful transformation of the festival sites and then off to the face to go? we tear it all down this place, going to look like a beach. again, this is not going to be any of us when we turn it into days that we've been donated to the schools within the community. sure,

thank you so much for having the saw. you're welcome up next week, travel to nigeria. when we meet, like i said, we're a visionary. so laker, and are, does that is using a i to tell, captivating, creative stories, think african identity needs future was the creative to. and you've got to picture this fashion show with senior model, was inspired by images that were created by artificial intelligence, which that's where a runway with real models. why is it still so groundbreaking? the elderly series is about representing the people in the face that you must send them before and why did i create the series as my months out? you and, and i was trying to just rep, remember, hired a space that was most impressed or wish it was at moments. and what i thought about was her memories, you know, when she was always happy, you know, address a lot of ways, events or functions normally. like if you would want to do something like that, it's going to be either very expensive or you have to do

a little convincing. but i was the way to go to german technology lover and filmmaker. my leads of the board use is artificial intelligence to create things that would otherwise not exist. we'll find out later why he chose to focus on older people. but 1st, let's find out why he resorts the a i. in the 1st place, me just researching what tech would be, what's coming to cation would be 510 years was why always try to be at the forefront of tech and the, what we had back there was something called gun lots. what we have to do, jenny, and all of that. so, but i followed him through and i kind of was at a far, far as i was reading when he became open source, when it became a facade, i was already there. so i just need, you need found a way to express myself more for also learn about the technology and also find how to navigate that space. technology is evolving and changing industries around the

world. and the world of phil making is taking on a whole new dynamic is the world even prepared to receive stories inspired by a i think is if it's a for synergy because the fact that now the could see things. and then imagine the things that we can normally see, you know, an example is what i did, something about us, it is last year. so what kind of jim called lead? and normally, the custom design that i was working with with casa, who was the custom designer for what kinda told me that she works with 68 low straits, is normally what she's doing. something like this because of the stages that have passed through about points where i was doing it was that was just one, many of the ways that i've used it as what in fuel making, leak worked in traditional media such as television and film before moving. so virtual reality and a i generated images. why is it important to him to redefine storytelling? and why does he focus on aging?

in the age of a i at all, it i has helped me to represent under representative voice is a lot more easier because now i could imagine i could create, i could imagine. and i could experiment even faster with even higher quality than i felt before. monique has amazed the world with his a i fashion shows slightly into weaving african heritage and futuristic echoes. but how exactly does he use the potential of artificial intelligence to explore new dimensions of storytelling? and cultural expression i like to incorporate of all history is africans hates age and that's the cost of the false. and that receives, has been portrayed in the media, you know, and also because effect over stuck on the space where most of the time to kind of go past that. that means we're always looking for some kind of handouts of some kind of help with some kind of permission to do something for my studies. i like to

the same things or, you know, do things in the service to make you realize who you are. the power that you have, but you don't really need to ask for permission and just do. just remind yourself about us. what this image is mostly say about the confidence about the elegance and the essence of being a black press in an african and mostly say that so i find every technology i can get and use that to and has most of them. and my, my story telling technique, so find new ways to represent us in a plastic glass space. how does the artist manage to match his own human experience? his cultural knowledge with the hallucinations of a i, and question. it's suggestions and his perceptions in equal measure. this a 5 years later when intent is and this is so making is in the hands of machines. we're still being biased, misrepresented, that's a problem. we want to go for the side interview for reasons,

and it's an a i that is going to respond. i do write data about you are right, is a biased misrepresentation of what's that going to be? so that's a problem. so we as africa as we have an insurance needs to be able to for, for us to tell us what we need to be at it for, for us to learn how to mitigate it. that would be most information on this information in the future though this comes, how will you protect yourself? i'm not going to be for the even though to use that tech. so think about everything . i think about just the fact that tech always wins. what are you like you don't? there's always gonna be any felicia monique's body of work is deeply rooted in the contemporary understanding of socially shaped unconscious behaviors, primarily in flu just by our immediate society. with a i may have already come a little closer to his vision of world and history. let's see what comes next. amazing now is changing the world. so i just around the flow. as i mentioned before, we have the fabulous lake aside from the arts festival. and let's have

a chat with some of the patients here. what has been your best legal starts experience right now? my best like us does experience has been the stand up comedy. actually. i enjoyed the diversity in the stand up comedy and i'm tied with the stand up comedy was the panel discussion, but we had this morning and on that no. let's head over to kenya at a place called from a norma. this equinox is located right in the heart of the messiah or off region. it is there where we moved selena. selena has been described as a woman. that's the possibilities. we are this. the obstacles and the norman. she's taking sustainability. so a whole nother level. this messiah woman has transformed community into an eco friendly environment, which is powered by the sun, nourished by rain, water ended reached by organic farming. but how could she break away from the anti

women practices and say me know my the culture of the my site and bring renewal and well my numa, we have been able to provide a safe space with community and coast outside of our firm has been able to do kits our community and is presented, we have selected women groups. they come to a phone and land different phones of another 200 coats a how to plant food. ho. tomorrow's. the secondary goal is that this we may not able to produce food. we know we can see the community we've and so to the local market and get some costs. as the guide born into a marginalized community, the clings to age old traditions, salinas live could have followed a very different path. let's explore how she defy the odds, escaped the constraints of early marriage and female genital mutilation, pursued education, and returned a believe, talk community. when you said in the,

in the suddenly reboot that it was this going to be a home. and because i am going to get it from us, we felt that it was nice for us to open our doors to a neighbor's so then they can land also different ways of individuals because of that to implement here. because most of us from them, i say community, we did not grew up growing fluid. some of the differences between now the woman almost the top and the community is the building and how we have you. last 5th, we kind of have a zone nodes our kitchen gardens, different places we have to call country life and seeing and being nature. we have also been able to secure our land from destruction, from wild anymore. it's possible for the local community, but most of them they cannot afford to even sense of places where they can grow phone. in the next bypassing on how knowledge of sustainable farming

methods selena is changing her own community and empowering messiah. we men in particular, how are they now dealing with the ever increasing problem of what his capacity and draughts? yes, we have what i and security. so we've decided then we would say oldest and defend ms. a concept. they want to even planting indigenous seeds. that mod low to to 11, then the hybrid and this that some of the techniques that we had not only doing but demonstrating and showing the community that yeah, we know that what a is no 10, but this is how you can learn to a vendor to most so that they can literally need to autonomy once or twice. so we state of every day i'm on i'm on the mass, i deal with my my some boma noma is really helping women a lot. it is taught us about farming such that even drought now is not affecting us . we grow our food and we eat it. every week we hold 3 meetings, and selena teaches the women different ways of farming and other aspects of life.

out of women in this community have learned a lot. thanks to selena. about on the also standing there as close to the community about the center hasn't been mostly positive because everything we do with the community it is collaborate to and we meaningfully and gives them we do it in the local native language. so we have to translate other materials so that this movement can, in this 10, most viewed fairly and also practically in kenya around 1200000 messiah people hold strongly to traditional practices like female genital mutilation. and alibaba each. selina escape these customs as a child, but how is she now using high experience to help other girls liberate themselves from these deeply ingrained practices? i have not been very lucky enough to escape s g m i also natalie is king size

mattress. and i kept because a good, any new kitchen, i took it as an opportunity for me for those 3 pending to send my if jim story and this reminds them that it is not a true proof of womanhood. i saw them that we kind during the same woman who would, in the must say community and focusing on in the gym efforts have saved over $500.00 goes from child levins is. and you getting them on as jam and standing up against it. finishing the institution has helped me as a, let's say go salinas, do i have for vice shows up in all ways as unless it goes and so he's hoping to have been technicians in the future. i'm looking ahead to become a pilot for just a moment. norma is, i'm right when i dream of a neighborhood that is food sick you, i, people have access to safe 1st and then you can,

is it coming from store and is available for the was to enjoy and today from taking them from i know my easy just about sustainable farming or escaping outdated practices. it's about nafta resilience and tries the. it's always amazing to see the passion of woman, truly making a difference of cost africa. you go for leila, a lex, we had to keller, rules where we need megastar. i'm a get stuff and if you're not dad seen by the end of this than i just don't know. when you talk, i'm a reading and music yukon. ignore my getsco. he's a megastar born in 1988 in the mend northwest and come a room. my desk was low for music, stopped early at the age of 6, when he sung in church. after a student at university, my desk who became an all out musician and famous one at that inspiring millions.

but his biggest fan is this little daughter missing for you mama to think or not. who is your mother been make up your lot. sure. i just gave you, gave me i gave his dad will take me to his cultural events and you know he's meeting things where the culture are in chance mens my mom would take me to the church or she used to be part of this traditional choir traditional plans of some possible way that would seem traditional songs and the dialect and i would, i was just amazed by everything. i'm a products of all what i was listening when i was a kid coming in

a split by politics and language. so my desk who mixes english and french and his songs as an ode to the linguistic heritage and the division of come a room to create unity. so that's depaula. music has like he just unites people without them even knowing that the knife is it like football plays a role, but it can't really just go all the way because at the end of the day on the policy is done. so for the music channel, they come to reduce the paying for a while. is like a pain killer. appealing to all kinds of unions is easier sung, been done since 2017 cameron's military and separate his forces from the 2 and the phone north west and south west regions have clashed violently around 6000 people, a thought to have been killed one another 765000 has been displaced. and that the

unfolding tragedy. augusta released the song theory and collaboration with the u. n . refugee agency, which translates s peace. the track ships light on the plight of remedies displays for regional and local conflict, surviving and coming. union comes i was also choose to just to visit some of this refugee comes, i think years ago and last year again, the numbers just keep going crazy. so decided to come up with this. i don't see really to spread the message. i felt like it was on my part to play that small role of making it, you know, make present more awareness. why my guess school believes come a reading and music's tingle a long way and spreading joy and awareness. this team has experimented with an eclectic plethora of feeds books and music videos to bring to it to his family. so what makes some difference for me is the diversity of his music,

where it's because he's a room by it's for this one with the haitian artist recently she's done songs on the company, she's done songs like and i for in, he's done some of that going to make and of course, like a casual union and the different genres that we have as communions. he's already explored all of them. i have done well with them. why? my guess the hopes the signature style can do both. embracing the cultural heritage of his home nation while raising a voice against the pain and hardship of his fellow citizens at a time where they come on in some way to the gas. coal really knows how to get people going along that know we've come to the end of today's show . i really hope you've enjoyed our time here at the lake of stores, malawi, od spetchko. don't forget to go to g, w dot com slash after max for more until next time to buy the,

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