Born and raised in Raetihi at the base of his ancestral mountain Ruapehu, Julian Arahanga has been involved with film from an early age, working as a grip, camera assistant and lighting technician, and landing roles in Once Were Warriors and The Matrix. His production company, Awa Films, has produced docu-drama and TV series for Māori Television and created the highly acclaimed reality show Songs from the Inside.
Ladi6 is an award-winning and critically acclaimed musician. In 2011, she won two NZ Music Awards (Best Urban Album and Best Female Artist) and two Pacific Music Awards (Best Pacific Urban Album and Best Female Artist). Her sophomore album, ‘The Liberation Of…’, was certified Gold in New Zealand and won the prestigious Taite Music Prize; its Platinum-selling, Top 10 single ‘Like Water’ was voted by MTV Iggy as the Best Love Song of 2012.
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Songs from the inside... music programme administered in New Zealand prisons... helping write, recording, then gifting to the prisoner...
WOW what an incredible initiative... The power of music to celebrate, restore, 'make easy'...
One opportunity to pitch an idea... that one idea and one opportunity are often all that is needed...
Prison idol... yeah right... loving listening to this story... fake it til you make it!
Give prisoners the opportunity to tell their story through their song... they are communicating a story that is more readily acceptable...
The power of music to change the emotional space. Music cuts through social, emotional and cultural barriers...
Designing a course to make this possible... getting established artists to mentor the prisoners. Push them out of their comfort zone, gain trust first.
Teaching prisoners to tell stories through performance.. if you want someone to open up to you, you have to open up to them...
The telling of the story reveals the prison, not as a statistic, but as a person, with respect deserved...
The power of mentoring so evident here... finding the song on the inside... Everyone has a song on the inside... we are born with it... it is our past and our hope for the future... often our song is suppressed... and we fail to sing...
Some of the most vulnerable in our community, teach us how to shed our own skin, pull back our own layers, so we can see and feel the hope.
Good people gathering for good reasons, great things happen - MAGIC even.
Volunteers go into the prisons everyday - to help, to make a difference,
Safe environments are so fundamental to all initiatives... mentees and mentors across the cultures... Māori, Pakeha, Pasifika...
Scribe, Anika Moa, Ladi6, ... opportunities to give back! Thoughts of being able to help and make musical dreams come true...
Belief that something about us can help others... becomes a reality that it is not about us... it is about others... it is about vulnerable sharing...
Valuing and embracing the stories that NEED to be heard, and NEED to be understood...
Oh my goodness... we had the privilege of sitting with this AMAZING guy and chatting at the lunch break...
From the cage to the stage....
All anyone needs is someone who believes in us...
We all make mistakes... change the life of someone...
We are all challenged to change the life of someone...
Songs from the inside - empwered, free, nobody to somebody...
People helping people is the solution to a better tomorrow...
How does it feel... how has it changed me... I feel free to stand here. I represent them all...
We are people too...
1200 of us her at #tedxchristchurch will NEVER EVER be the same after this story today....
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