Every year OYO hosts a major youth festival, inviting youth members from groups it has worked with to participate. This year, OYO worked with the Opuwo and Khorixas youth groups in the Kunene region and the Uis and Arandis youth groups in the Erongo region. During the year, each group created drama, songs and dances. The most successful songs and dances were taught to all the groups. The Arandis drama was selected as the strongest one and selected for the festival.
Matias Kamati, Production Coordinator and Ivan ‘Fly’ Mueze, production assistant, toured to all the groups to train them and finalise the preparation for the festival. It was hectic. However, it was mostly successful. Uis and Opuwo even presented parts of the festival performance in their respective communities.
 |
| Uis group members posing with their certificates |
This year the festival will tour the Oshana and Oshikoto regions between 9 and 18 September. It will present its mostly in schools but will also have a chance to perform at the Oluno Rehabilitation Centre. OYO has performed in the rehabilitation centre few times already and feels it’s important to address people who have spent time in jail and are about to reinsert society. OYO has always been warmly welcomed to the centre and we look forward to this year performance.
This year’s festival will include:
- The drama created by the Arandis youth group
- The dances ‘all for one’, created by Lucie Carmen Gregoire from Canada, ‘Money, money’ and ‘one moment in time’, created by Philippe Talavera and ‘single lady’ and ‘vuka’ created by Sisi
- The songs ‘last night’ created by the Opuwo youth group, ‘condoms’ created by the Khorixas youth group, ‘Imagine’ originally created by the Otjimbingwe youth group, ‘what were you thinking’ and ‘break the chain’ created by the Arandis youth group and ‘peer pressure’ created by the Uis youth group.
|
