Our 2014 Community
Fran Tarr, our director/founder, believes this photo of Mahmoud, Siybulela, Ojo, Musa and Martha sums up the unity and creative spirit of breaking walls.
Our breaking walls 2014 Album
Nine-days of beautiful scenery, sunshine, writing from our deepest inner feelings, rehearsal and performing an amazing theater piece “Under the Rainbow: A Village Called breaking walls“, and of course making friends with young men & women from diverse cultural backgrounds!!
Under the Rainbow: A Village Called breaking walls
Today we are sharing a glimpse into our 2014 Cape Town culminating performance at Erina Hall on August 16. Our performance “Under the Rainbow: A Village Called breaking walls” illustrates the power of words and theater. https:////www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9PlZX6Qex8
breaking walls 2014 Cape Town — Sharing Life Experiences
breaking walls is dedicated to guiding young men and women, our artists, to discover their voice and offer them a platform on which to use it. This exciting and powerful work is led by our ambassadors who were once artists themselves. Their sensitivity and strength in guiding our artists to reach-into their deepest hearts to […]
breaking walls 2014 Cape Town — Under the Rainbow: A Village Called breaking walls
Nine-days of beautiful scenery, sunshine, writing from our deepest inner feelings, rehearsal and performing an amazing theater piece “Under the Rainbow: A Village Called breaking walls”, and of course making friends with young men & women from diverse cultural backgrounds!! This is what breaking walls is all about. Today we are posting an album of […]
LOVE, ART & AWARENESS . . . breaking walls MAY 17
Our fundraising evening on May 17 brought together many talented artists and enthusiastic breaking walls supporters. Everyone looks back with fondness on the experience. In the words of our 2014 breaking walls assistant, Nick Sylvester: “The word is out — breaking walls throws a great party.” Please share a glimpse into some of our special […]
Indiphile Nqevu Speaks on breaking walls 2014 Cape Town
I am so excited that I am going to have the privilege and opportunity to meet other children from other countries. So that we can learn more about each other, our communities, and our backgrounds also the challenges we face in our countries and communities that we live in. We are all going to have […]
Sharing Exciting News!
Exciting news. Our breaking walls artists & ambassadors will be collaborating on a mini-breaking walls writing/performance workshop and cultural exchange with the students at the German International School on Wednesday, August 13. The empowerment that comes from knowing our young artists & ambassadors are being embraced so beautifully among the youth of Cape Town feels […]
ERIN HALL . . .
breaking walls 2014 Cape Town is singing with joy!!! We have booked the amazing Erin Hall in the Rondebosch area of Cape Town for our culminating performance. Can you say beautiful, reverent, relevant theater happens here?! https:////erinhall.co.za/home/ Can you say ONWARD TO CAPE TOWN, BABY!?
Looking Back . . .
As breaking walls looks forward to our 2014 Cape Town initiative, our director/founder, Fran Tarr, is looking backwards for a few moments. The image below is of Ryan Smith, Ameer Shan Fazal and Mahmoud Abu Srour. It was taken in the Aida refugee Camp in 2010. We were in Aida Camp to film our second […]