Archive for April, 2010
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Poet/Artist, Tantra-zawadi and Betty Makoni, CNN Hero and founder of Girl-Child Network Worldwide
Peace and Blessings!
Here we are in Melbourne, Florida to welcome Betty Makoni, a 2009 CNN Hero Awardee/founder of Girl-Child Network Worldwide, as she shares her compelling story tonight as the honored guest at AuthenTec’s Speaker Forum.
I would like to personally thank Stephanie Griffin, my long-time friend and a member of the AuthenTec Staff, Scott Moody (CEO of AuthenTec), and his beautiful family for welcoming me into their home and the Melbourne community. The Moody’s hosted a lovely dinner last night for Betty and we had a great time sharing stories and discussing the many ways we can all contribute to the well-being of others. I applaud AuthenTec for their vision, support and tireless effort in organizing this monumental event and providing a forum for innovative ideas.
If you are in the Melbourne area, please come out tonight and join us. For more information about tonight’s event and AuthenTec, please read the press release provided below.
Thank you for your love and continued support. See you out there!
Tantra-zawadi
www.tantra-zawadi.com
Press Release
AuthenTec to Host Girl Child Network Worldwide Founder and CNN Hero Betty Makoni –
Award-winning Girl’s Rights Advocate Presenting in Melbourne, Florida on April 22
MELBOURNE, Fla., April 15, 2010 – AuthenTec, Inc. announced today that it is hosting Girl Child Network Worldwide (GCNW) founder and CEO Betty Makoni as part of its continuing AuthenTec Speaker Forum. The event is planned to be held at the Holy Trinity Academy in Melbourne on April 22, 2010. Makoni, who received a CNN Top 10 Hero award for 2009, will present her compelling story and share her experiences as founder of GCNW, which has helped rescue and support over 35,000 girls from sexual and physical abuse in her home country of Zimbabwe. Since it was founded in 1998, GCNW has grown to 700 girls’ clubs and three empowerment villages across Zimbabwe, providing assistance to an estimated 300,000 girls.
“We are highly honored to host the GCNW founder and CEO Betty Makoni as part of AuthenTec’s Speaker Forum, and are very pleased that she has offered to share her inspiring story and dedication to girls’ rights with an audience here in Brevard County,” said AuthenTec CEO Scott Moody. “Betty has helped thousands of girls overcome tremendous challenges in one of the most difficult regions of the world, and inspired them to unlock their potential as human beings and as young leaders. We are proud to host Betty at our upcoming event and would encourage anyone who is inspired by triumph of the human spirit to attend.”
Event Information
When: April 22, 2010, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Where: Holy Trinity Academy
The Scott Center for Worship and the Performing Arts
5625 Holy Trinity Dr., Melbourne, FL 32940
Tickets: For free tickets, please visit www.authentecspeakerforum.com or for larger blocks of tickets, please call 321-308-1302.
In addition to receiving the 2009 CNN Heroes Award, Ms. Makoni is also the recipient of the 2009 Dalai Lama Unsung Heroes of Compassion Award, the 2008 Ginetta Sagan Award from Amnesty International USA, and the 2007 Global Friends’ Award. More information about Betty Makoni and the Girl Child Network can be found on the organization’s website at http://girlchildnetworkworldwide.org. A press photo of Betty is available at http://www.authentec.com/makoni.
AuthenTec’s Speaker Forum is designed to help bring interesting and innovative speakers to Brevard to help foster a more entrepreneurial and innovative community. Through this forum, AuthenTec will host inspirational speakers from business, the arts, charities and other areas that have fostered new ideas and an innovative spirit. Previous speakers have included Louis Martin-Vega, Dean of the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University, and Bob Grady, former Chairman of Carlyle Venture Partner and current AuthenTec Chairman. More information about AuthenTec’s Speaker Forum can be found at http://www.authentecspeakerforum.com
About AuthenTec
AuthenTec provides security, identity management and touch control solutions for enterprise and consumer applications. The Company’s smart sensor products and security solutions are used in virtually every aspect of life, from the PC on your desk to the mobile device in your hand to the server in the cloud. AuthenTec’s newest generation of TruePrint® smart sensors, TrueSuite™ identity management software and TrueProtect™ embedded security products (formerly SafeNet Embedded Security Solutions) provide developers and users secure and convenient ways to manage today’s rapidly evolving digital identities and security needs. For more information, visit www.authentec.com or follow us at twitter.com/authentecnews.
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Media Contact:
Brent Dietz
AuthenTec Director of Communications
+1-321-308-1320
brent.dietz@authentec.com
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
On behalf of the participants of “A Silent Genocide – A Brief Insight into HIV/AIDS,” a short documentary by Tantra-zawadi, filmed and edited by Oliver Covrett, XYAYX Multimedia, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Cinema Mostra AIDS for offering to host an exhibition of our film in Sao Paulo, Brazil in August, 2010 (http://www.cinemamostraaids.org.br).
The event is promoted by Grupo Pela Vidda/SP, a non-governmental and not for profit organization which has been working in the fight against AIDS for over 20 years in the development of volunteer activities, prevention, and defense of rights of people living with HIV-AIDS. For more information about the Grupo Pela Vidda/SP, please visit them on-line at http://www.aids.org.br.
The event is non-profit and most of the tickets will be distributed for free at the NGO’s and at health systems which attend people from all walks of life who suffer from HIV/AIDS, access to watch the movie.
Cinema Mostra AIDS believes that “A Silent Genocide – A Brief Insight into HIV/AIDS” is an important contribution to the fight against AIDS and will have great repercussions on the media in Brazil.
Thank you Cinema Mostra AIDS. It is a blessing to know that our contributions will help people in Brazil and the world community in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
With Love and Gratitude,
Tantra-zawadi
www.tantra-zawadi.com
www.youtube.com/tantrazawadi
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New York City, New York
December 6, 2009
A Silent Genocide: A Brief Insight into HIV/AIDS
A Documentary by Tantra-zawadi
Filmed and Produced by Oliver Covrett, XYAYX Multimedia
www.youtube.com/tantrazawadi
On December 6, 2009, Brooklyn born performance poet/artist Tantra-zawadi, released a short documentary titled “A Silent Genocide: A Brief Insight into HIV/AIDS.” Ms. Zawadi created this project for Stony Brook University’s World AIDS Day banquet.
This documentary offers a brief insight into the personal experience of those living with HIV/AIDS and those striving to decrease the staggering numbers of new infections through art and activism.
The film was shot on location in New York City and Los Angeles featuring commentary by Betty Makoni, the founder of Girl Child Network Worldwide and one of CNN’s Top Ten Heroes for 2009. It is directed by Ms. Zawadi and Oliver Covrett of XYAYX Multimedia who also edited and produced the film. Musical contributions for the project include Tut Burks and Xavier Kemp with artwork by Shanna Melton.
This is Tantra-zawadi’s third project to raise awareness regarding HIV/AIDS. Her video “Scarlet Waters” was featured on the Product(RED) video wall as well as a PSA for Mark Herbert Productions/Betah and Associates.
Tantra-zawadi is an internationally known performance poet/recording artist and the author of “alifepoeminprogress.” She has performed her soul stirring life-poems to standing room audiences at venues all over the world; most recently at the Badilisha Poetry X-Change Festival in Cape Town, South Africa. Her latest projects include: “Girl – A Choreospective”, “Soldier Blues” and collaborations such as The Love Planet EP by Collective Spirits, Do It Now Recordings, EARTHOLOGY by Floyd Boykin, Jr., and The Liberation Sessions by Mwalim.
To view the documentary, “A Silent Genocide” and other videos by Ms. Zawadi, please visit www.youtube.com/tantrazawadi or her other websites at www.tantra-zawadi.com, www.myspace.com/tantrais.
Media Contact: Debra Williams
Diamond and Company
449 West 49th Street #3D
(212) 247-3692
www.diamondandcompany.com
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Friday, April 16th, 2010
2010 New England Urban Music Awards
The star-studded musical event of the year.
Saturday April 24th.
The Strand Theatre
Lights. Camera. Action!
Featuring: A Tribute Performance to Boston’s own “New Kids On The Block.”
Additional performances by K’Loni Sky, The Maestro Z.O.O.M., Nichelle Mungo, Mwalim, Famous Nobodies, Swagga Inc. and more.
(Mwalim Peters – nominated for The Liberation Sessions CD)
Red Carpet Entrance 5:30pm
Showtime 6:30pm
Exclusive VIP Reception to follow – Tickets are selling out so purchase today!
Love and gratitude to Mwalim for including me in the “Liberation Sessions CD Project” for which I received a nomination for best female spoken word artist for “Tension.” Congratulations to all the amazing nominees on their outstanding work/performances!
Love, light and gratitude to NEUMA, their fans and sponsors. For more about NEUMA, please visit them on-line at: http://ne.urbanmusicawards.org.
Love Power!
Tantra-zawadi
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Friday, April 16th, 2010
(photo credit: Arnold Browne
Love and gratitude to Tah Phrum Duh Bush who curated and hosted last night’s awesome event: Hip Hop Hybrids! The talent was amazing all the way around and the energy was beautiful! Love and thanks to King Tut who accompanied me on sax, word and flute…he even beat boxed and played flute at the same time!
(photo credit www.awwman.net)
Love and gratitude to all our sponsors, especially the Brooklyn Arts Council and Kay Turner.
Enjoy a few photos from last night’s event courtesy of Arnold Browne Productions.
(photo credit: Arnold Browne, www.myspace.com/brownebagproductions)
Love power and thanks to all of you for your support. See you out
there!
Tantra-zawadi
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
Peace and Blessings All!
Check out the best in spoken soul/house with Dana Byrd and Tantra-zawadi on “Secrets of Life” for dO it nOW Recordings. Stream it, download it, but most of all, enjoy it!
Have an insightful day and thank you for your love and support!
http://www.saveoursoul.es/soulfly-30-and-abto-thanks.htm
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Love Power,
Tantra-zawadi
For more about Do It Now Recordings and Dana Byrd, please visit them on Facebook and Myspace.
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Sunday, April 11th, 2010
New York is the melting pot. Brooklyn is the sticky bottom of the stew in the pot where all of the robust flavors tend to culminate. The main ingredients are the artists and Hip Hop is the seasoning. Hip Hop Hybrids will wow and dazzle with the diverse verbal dexterity and dance sensationalism that only Brooklyn can host. Hip Hop has been a grand part of the Black Brooklyn Renaissance since it’s inauguration into the eye of the mainstream in the late 70s. This event will expose the raw talent and cultural blending that parallels the multicultural backgrounds of Brooklyn’s inhabitants. Ranging from the roots of spoken word to the rise of the emcee, from the B-Boy and B-Girl to the DJ. Transcending gender, race, religion and language barriers. The spectator will witness diversity in the raw as we bring to the stage more than simply music and dance. We bring forth the intermingling of instrument with verbiage; the literal “marriage” of DJ and Emcee; spoken song; meshing of languages; jazz infusion; theatrical mastery; visual articulation; and the masterfully artistic control of the human body to the rhythms of the streets it inhabits.
Curated & Hosted by: Tah Phrum Duh Bush
Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 9:00pm
Location: Public Assembly, 70 N 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
In this photo – King Tut
Tantra-zawadi
Featuring performances by:
Coole High
LMNOP
Charlotte Mishell
Dyalekt
M-Tri and Leecy T
Tantra-zawadi with musical guest King Tut
Ngoma
Saga One
Demostina
D-Cross
Special Guests – eYe of Braggin Rites & DJ Tahleim
Tickets available at the door $10
Hip Hop Hybrids
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
April is here! Let’s take long walks, enjoy more light and the beauty of creativity!
March was wonder-filled with the opening of “A Night of Three God/desses” at the WOW Cafe Theater.
Thanks to you, it was a success and we are blessed with another run in February 2011 at LaMaMa Theater in New York City! God/desses will also be performing at the Performance Library at Lincoln Center on June 28th at 6:00PM. Love and gratitude to Mildred (the artist formerly known as Dred) Gerestant, Sokhna Heathyre Mabin and the WOW Cafe Theater for your love and support.
Xavier Kemp and Tantra-zawadi (Soldier Blues) at “Night of Three God/desses”
March was a month of abundant blessings with performances at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Love and thanks to Mwalim Peters, Askia Toure, Tah Phrum Duh Bush, Mikal (Hired Gun) Lee, Corey Cokes and the beautiful people who showed us love and kindness.
Love and thanks to the beautiful and talented I’serene Oasis for holding it together on vocals and bass, Friday Night Mic with Ronne in Harlem, Sabrina/Giorgio and the beautiful people at the R Bar, Dr. Julie Spooner and the folks at the Spirit Lounge, Sankofa Soulz/King Tut for “Phenomenal Women” at Ella’s Lounge, and the PEA and Rhythm Justice for a fantastic Women’s History Month Celebration.
Tantra-zawadi with Rhythm Justice
April eased in beautifully with Ashley Brockington and the beautiful people at Rivers of Honey at the WOW Cafe Theatre! Thank you! It was an incredible evening and a wonderful way to welcome National Poetry Month.
Join me in welcoming the founder of Girl-Child Network Worldwide to New York City on Thursday, April 8th at the SGI-USA New York Culture Center as part of its monthly Culture of Peace Distinguished Speaker Series. Ms. Makoni, a finalist for CNN’s Hero of the Year Award in 2009, formed Girl Child Network to fight against the terrible sexual abuse pervading Zimbabwe.
Betty Makoni, founder of Girl Child Network Worldwide
CULTURE OF PEACE DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES
SGI-USA New York Culture Center
7 East 15th Street
New York, NY 10003
212-727-7715
Buddhist evening Prayers 7:00pm-7:15pm (all welcome)
Culture of Peace Lecture 7:30pm-8:30pm
In April – CNN Top Ten Hero Betty Makoni Presents at AuthenTec Speaker Forum – Betty Makoni presents her compelling story as Founder of the Girl Child Network Worldwide (GCNW), which has saved more than 35,000 girls from abuse and has 700 girls’ clubs and three empowerment villages across Zimbabwe, providing assistance to an estimated 300,000 girls. Contact Stephanie Griffin www.authentecspeakerforum.com.
Hope to see you on April 15th for Hip Hop Hybrids and on May 8th in “Reconnections” featuring La Lupe and Tantra-zawadi at Pearl – WOW Cafe Theatre’s 30th Anniversary Festival and the Montserrat Poetry Festival in Missouri on Sunday, May 23rd! Check my performance calendar for more details.
Thank you for your love and support. I love you and look forward to seeing you out there!
Love Power,
Tantra-zawadi
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