Conservation arts Malawi - Elias Gaveta
Responding to COVID-19, Conservation Arts Malawi will implement an ‘Arctivists’ project through community journalism and mental wellbeing initiatives. The objectives of the project are to document, monitor and analyse COVID-19 events in real time as well as to reflect on wellbeing of the artists, activists and the communities we serve. By keeping artists and activists engaged in creative work, the initiative will help the artists and activists to positively reframe while at the same time providing information, entertainment and hope to thousands of people that are in despair due to COVID 19. The initiative will amplify activism and facilitate conveyance of key messages and information, compensating for the lack of narratives or manipulation of realities. This will involve engaging artists in composing songs, poems and stories to be shared through print and online platforms.
Music, blogs and the first poem (available in English and Chichewa) from Conservation Arts Malawi are published below. Conservation Arts Malawi discuss the restrictions musicians in Malawi are facing in this article in the Nyasa Times.
Music & Poems
Conservation Arts Malawi is a registered, non-profit organization made up of activists and artists from a wide array of expertise, from musicians, poets, journalist, and human rights activists.