Music can overcome violence and marginalization. The language of music is able to transcend physical and non-tangible barriers to connect people including those at the urban margins. Co-created music during our project ¿Cuál es la verdad? not only allowed us to understand and to disclose local realities of the group...
Creative responses to COVID-19, new regional consolidating learning research projects, and our first international film festival – find out what Changing the Story got up to in our third year! Following the scoping, development and capacity strengthening of our first year and the launch of our funding structure and Small...
By Lisa Glybchenko, PhD student in International Relations, founder of Color Up Peace My recent engagement with Changing the Story’s Youth Research Board made me once again, and slightly differently, reflect on the project I started as an undergraduate student at the American University in Bulgaria four and a half...
[English Version. Sigue desplazándote para ver la versión en Español] Are you a young person (18-24) connected to Changing the Story and interested in finding out about how young people are trying to change their societies around the world? Are you interested in finding out more about research, activism...
By Benrilo Shitiri, Changing the Story filmmaker, Nagaland. It’s been one year after joining The Kohima Institute. To talk of my experience during this short span of time I think I am facing one of the most difficult tasks since it’s quite impossible to phrase or put in a word....
By Thepfuchanuo Kire, a Changing the Story filmmaker from Nagaland, India. My case study describes the current prevailing mental health issues faced by the youth in Nagaland and how different art-based civil society organizations are playing a role in helping the youth. Fulfilling “Changing the story” project’s aims and objectives,...
Susan Kathayat is a master’s student in the Department of Conflict Peace & Development Studies at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal. Susan participated in a webinar with Rajib Timalsina, our Regional Lead for Asia, and reflects here on how it led them to recall an experience that has particular resonance in our age of pandemic. ...
With support from the Changing the Story Mobility Fund the team from Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba made the 4-hour journey down to the coast to meet with a Khoe (or Khoisan) community that has been fighting against a nuclear development on the Eastern Cape coast. This film presents key moments in...
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This blog is part of Changing The Story’s #YoungChangemakers series. If you are a young person leading alternative actions for civil society building in the Global South and would like to be featured in the series, get in touch! Written by Jian Li Yew from GEMA, a Civil Society Partner on...