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Come to the evening celebrating fatherhood!

A fab awards evening celebrating fatherhood

at the Decorium, London, 15th December 2006

Attend the evening celebrating fatherhood, organised by Nomadic Expression and win prizes!

Tickets will be on sale soon!

We’re looking for poets, performers, storytellers, comedians etc. Write to nomadicexpression@googlemail.com with your name, age, contact details. You will have an audience of 500 people available to you! Recommend yourself or another. Don’t miss this opportunity to be seen!

Storytellers, get involved with Nomadic Expression and  StoryQuest and keep alive the Somali oral tradition. Tell us your Somali-related story during the evening celebrating fatherhood- go back in history and recreate an event for us, modify a traditional story for a modern day audience or write your own new story.

Send your ideas to Nomadic Expression at nomadicexpression@googlemail.com , we will pick two of the best and invite you to perform at the evening celebrating fatherhood.  After you perform,  Nomadic Expression will send recordings of your performance to  StoryQuest and your performance will be entered in the StoryQuest competition. If your storytelling wins the StoryQuest competition, you will win a storytelling performance at a venue of your choice!

In the meantime,  StoryQuest will help publicise the evening celebrating fatherhood across the country.  Get exposure for your talent!

The sooner you contact Nomadic Expression with your idea/entry, the closer you will be to performing in front of 500 people and and standing a chance of winning the  StoryQuest competition.  Represent Somali tradition in the StoryQuest competition! Read more here.  Write to Nomadic Expression with your idea here: nomadicexpression@googlemail.com. Hurry!! 

Poets, Nomadic Expression is running a poetry competition in conjunction with the evening celebrating fatherhood. There are 3 different competitions. Enter any one or all of the below:

· write what inspires you about your father(download entry form1)

· write a poem with your father (download entry form2)

· write what inspires you about your son/daughter(download entry form3)

Winners will be VIP guests on the evening celebrating fatherhood and will read their work to 500 people! Prizes to be announced soon.

How to enter!

Download the relevant entry form by clicking on the links above.  Fill in ALL the details(don’t forget the poem!) and email as an attachment to nomadicexpression@googlemail.com. In the subject line of the email write, ‘poetry competition’.

All entries to reach Nomadic Expression by December the 6th 2006.

Competition judge and prizes to be announced soon! Come back for an update! Any questions, leave a comment or email us at nomadicexpression@googlemail.com.

Poetry Competition Rules :

Must be a resident of the UK(we want you there on the night!)

If you are under 16, you will need parental consent to enter.

Other than that anything goes!! What are you waiting for, get writing!

If you are a Somali-run business and would like to donate prizes(something fabulous, please!), have your name associated with the charity, the evening celebrating fatherhood and the competition, write to us at nomadicexpression@googlemail.com. Your business will be advertised on the website. Get involved,  get free publicity, celebrate fatherhood with the community.

If you live in London, are over 16, would like to organise the evening celebrating fatherhood and get experience with media, sponsorship & fundraising, running competitions, managing a big event, read more here. We’re particularly interested in hearing from students at CONEL and Northumberland Park School, North London. Tell your teachers about the evening celebrating fatherhood and the work experience available to you, give them the link to this page of the website. We want to come and talk to YOU!

Posted on Sun, October 22, 2006 at 02:40PM by Registered Commenterparadise | Comments15 Comments | References15 References

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Reader Comments (15)

Sounds very interesting. 15th December, right? I will put it in my diary, I'A.
October 24, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterFirefly
Oppsie ignore my questions in your other entry. Would you like us to post an entry in blog. There are plenty of poets and writers in our midst and it can give them a chance to participate in your event. Send us an e-mail if its ok with you @ somali.blogs@gmail.com
October 25, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterSleepDepraved
I will inshallah, tomorrow, though it already is after midnight so it is tomorrow, er today, stop it..... at some point during the UK daylight hours of Thursday.
October 26, 2006 | Registered Commenterparadise
Hi P,

How you holding on?

I'm glad things are nicely coming together. Keep the blog updated so we know how things are going.

Please cc somali.blogs@googlemail.com when you e-mail me today so Firefly and SD can get in on the action too.

Also, let me know when the tickets go on sale. You must reserve a few tickets for some london bloggers! I can just visualise a small blogger meet-up already. Far too cool!



Keep well.
October 26, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterFOC
I just wrote to you all. I love the idea of bloggers getting together. Let's do it.

I thoroughly dig the formation of an online community that walks and talks outside its medium and makes things happen. A great networking opportunity. Bring it on!

Also, the sooner we all meet, the sooner you will have access to front-row tickets at the evening celebrating fatherhood. We might even theme some of the tables to highlight talent amongst the guests, e.g, the poets table, the bloggers table, the scientists table....I like, I like....
October 26, 2006 | Registered Commenterparadise
This makes me so sad. :( How utterly unfair that you will all meet up and I will miss it.

**runs away crying**
October 27, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterSleepDepraved
So be there. Make it happen. I will support your endeavour in every way, icluding setting up a Get-SD-To-London fund-raising campaign. You run one at your end of the pond too and pretty soon we'll have enough to get a few US bloggers to our get-togther and/or the evening celebrating fatherhood. That's a delicious possibility. Let's make it happen.

Everything is possible.
October 27, 2006 | Registered Commenterparadise
Awww how sweet. Maybe inshallah I will make it to your next event. Dec 15th coincides with exams at school so i got my hand tied behind my back. I put a post up about the event on the blog. Let me know if there are any discrepencies in it.
October 29, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterSleepDepraved
^ you only have a hand tied behind your back if you actually have a hand tied behind your back! Thank you for the mention of Nomadic Expression on the father of all Somali blogs. :-)

I would like all contributors to this cause to be there on the night. Now, do you actually have an exam on the 15th itself?

You know where I'm going with this. Work with me. You have my email address if you prefer to continue this privately but why not continue this as part of making what's not possible possible and have it visible for all to see..:-)
October 29, 2006 | Registered Commenterparadise
December 15? What holiday is that? Do you not know we are wage slaves here in America and can hardly take time off without any national holidays? Still, to miss the first annual gathering is sacrilege and like Sleep Depraved, I'm traumatized.

Perhaps I can send a video message. LOL. NOT!
October 29, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterOO
^I see you're both ready with preemptive reasons. Americans! :-)
Why send a message when you can be there Oh-Oh? Where's the get-up-and-go in you, man? Live a lot.:-)
October 31, 2006 | Registered Commenterparadise
Erm......I might come to UK the last week of Dec. Its still up in the air pending prices of tickets. I will only be there for a day and wished you had picked another date. :(
November 8, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterSleepDepraved
^So be in the UK twice in December.

Don't be :-(!
November 8, 2006 | Registered Commenterparadise
^^^Its a starving student you talking to. I ain't that kinda cash yet. Once a year vacation is saved for throughtout the year. I'm even planning on sleeping in the airport for the one day cause I can't think of carting my luggage around UK for just a day. Wonder if they have lockers i can leave it @ so I can go visit my friends without saying excuse me and sorry for bumping people in the tube.
November 10, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterSleepDepraved
I wasn't suggesting you pay for it yourself. :-) You could get creative and raise some funds.

Get your friends to pick you up and help with the luggage. They won't have any qualms about bumping people on the tube.
November 10, 2006 | Registered Commenterparadise

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