{"id":14977,"date":"2023-05-23T09:20:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T14:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/5badbfa87a.nxcli.io\/banaadir\/?p=14977"},"modified":"2023-05-23T09:20:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T14:20:13","slug":"banaadir-academy-poetry-folktales-comedy-performances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtcs.org\/banaadir\/banaadir-academy-poetry-folktales-comedy-performances\/","title":{"rendered":"Banaadir Academy Poetry, Folktales &#038; Comedy Performances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1352px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>The youngest and oldest Banaadir Academy students came together in the sunny gym, to offer a program for fellow students, staff and family.\u00a0\u00a0The younger grades shared stories and acted out Somali folktales\u2014student emcees told jokes and engaged the audience.\u00a0\u00a0Students experienced the evolution of what it takes to put on a performance, from adapting the script, rehearsing, memorizing lines to the final production with an audience.<\/p>\n<p>The 11<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>and 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0grades worked with a poet in residence, Khadijo Abdi, for eight weeks.\u00a0\u00a0During this time the students studied poetry, learned and practiced interpreting poems and ultimately created their own, personal poems that they shared.\u00a0\u00a0It was a beautiful expression of words and hearts\u2014and power.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/kIwIahJOSu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>You can take a look at the live performance here.<\/u><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banaadir-academy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Banaadir Academy Poetry, Folktales &amp; 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