It's been a long while since I posted on my blog, but that's not because I have been inactive. Since my last entry, I had quite a few more screenings in Kenya (pics to be posted soon), gathered enough footage and interviews to put together a promo video for "Kenya: Until Hope is Found," and had a whirlwind of a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to return to Kenya to gather more footage for the documentary. So far, I have posted 11 updates on the site, all of them Vlogs (video blogs) which, I am learning, are far more easier for me than blogs:
The Healing and Rebuilding our Communities (HROC) workshop was held at St. George's Orthodox Church in Kianda Village in Kibera. I held a screening of "ICYIZERE:hope" at the church's Community Hall last year, and I immediately thought it would be a great venue for the workshop.
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| ICYIZERE screening @ St. George's Orthodox Church, Dec 2011 |
The only problem we had was that the church had corrugated iron roofing (also known as mabati), thus making it difficult for the video camera to capture a well-lit image:
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| Corrugated iron roofing |
The genius solution suggested by my brother Duncan? Replace some of the mabati (ma-ba-tee) roofing with translucent material. We asked the church for permission, and they were extremely delighted. So we purchased four sheets and hired a fundi (foon-dee)/ handy-man:
And viola:
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| Clear mabati installed |
We had a spectacularly-lit hall which, by the way, is saving the church money on their lighting bill. Surely God is creative:
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| Incandescent beats fluorescent any day |
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| Me in the middle & my friend Kyalo, 2nd camera, on the right |
The workshop was a great success. There is too much to say about it at the moment. I am actually still processing what transpired. More about that to come soon. Bye for now.
