Pathways Community Time Presentations

 

Thursday November 24th marked the inspiring end of semester Pathways for Promise program –called the “Pathways Community Time Presentations”, celebrating “change”. The program, held at the 20 G rooftop from 4:00-6:00pm, had a Gallery walk and PowerPoint presentation session. The students had prepared creative poster presentations and hand-crafted scrapbooks which covered vast topics as evolving fashion in Afghanistan, Queen Elizabeth and her reign, drug addiction, education and dowry, inter-faith marriages and pollution. The pathways proudly displayed their adaptability, development and evolvement to the theme of “change” both in their presentations and through their own lives.
~Transmitter Faizah Aziz~

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Spoken Words at AUW

The marvelous “Spoken Words” we saw today are the result of tremendous hard work and dedication of the performers. Each of them worked really hard. We tried our best to provide them with necessary materials about slam poetry, and helped them to improve through practice session, which was quite challenging and exciting for us at the same time”, said Farzana Fayeza, secretary of the AUW Speak Up​ club. On December 4, ‘Spoken Words Season 1’ took place after one-month long intense preparation. The program was conducted by Sneha Sandaz, president of AUW Speak Up Club and Farzana Fayeza. Despite the hectic schedule of final week of the semester, students and faculty members gathered in the Tale Space to enjoy the enthusiastic performances. The session started with the performance of Insiya khan and Shamael from Undergraduate First year, where they performed “If I should have a daughter” originally written and performed by Sarah Kay. Snapping with the performances, clapping, laughing, even crying, and the audiences gradually connected with the multidimensional themes of different spoken words. The program continued with 17 more poetry with diverse topics. The selected slam poetry performed by the student talked about profound love, amazing power of youth, social stigma towards women, friendship across border, fault in traditional education system, objectification of women, necessity of teaching sex education to children, influence of technology in modern lives, family, and misinterpretation of Islam. Each of the performers was overwhelmingly appreciated by the audiences- continuous snaps and huge round of applauses kept the room lively for two hours. With “Easy in not an option” performed by Choki, the program came to end; left AUW with some amazing moments to reminisce. With the successful ending of the first season, AUW Speak Up Club is looking ahead to organize Season 2, with the participation of more students, and in a larger scale.

Three Transmitters amazed the audience with their captivating performances

Performers and organizers in one frame

Report prepared by: Tahira Tazreen

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