MAPEACOCKS SET FOR GERMANY LEAD PROJECT By Fumban Innot Phiri Jnr.

Off the stage, less talking of art but let’s discourse about youth and leadership a subordinate topic which you can gain as a student of Solomonic theatre class. In that effort from Mapeacocks two students under theatre class were selected to take part In 2017 and 2018, "Peer-Leader-International" qualifies 20 young people who work as team leaders in *non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Germany and 9 countries of the global South including Malawi.

To the left Is Jack Msumba and Right is Lydia Banda

Aware and fair project started in 2013 here in Malawi the project is being run by Solomonic Peacocks theatre and two years after Solomonic Peacocks introduced Theatre class where they mentor youth in theatre, leadership and Entrepreneurship. From the Theatre Class; Lydia Banda and Jack Msumba were selected as team leaders of the project representing Malawi. The LEAD project will run for two years from 2017 to 2019 and it is involving countries like Germany, Ukraine, Bosnia, Israel, Tunisia, Egypt, Uganda, Malawi, Republic of South Africa and Brazil.

These team leader will have to give out a presentation based on a theme “Leadership Education and Development” There will also have symposium and presentation and trainees will go through different workshops like; Theatre introduction, Skills lab Video Editing and filming, Project Management and Creation.



During Blantyre Arts Festival, Lydia to the right and Jack on the middle of the two maidens

The main aim of the project is train young people to become future leaders of civil society organizations in their respective countries. They have to become catalysts of change that we want to see in the world by creating global citizens. The development of leadership competences, intercultural competences and competences for the management of North-South youth initiatives and networks local and international, in direct encounters and through the use of media and understand globalization and sustainability concepts.

Lydia standing during kukhala kundende play

Solomonic has been in front of driving youth into a centre of leadership through art under the theatre class, in 2013 and 2015 Solomonic Peacocks theatre travelled with Chichiri sec students to Hannover in Germany and Poznan in Poland respectively under Ware and fair project. With this background enrich the power of driving the lead project into a greater benefit of the youth of Malawi and global at large.

Jack on The Great Famine Play

Lydia and Jack will present what we call contemporary theatre in storyline a furrowed to the theme; “Leadership Education and Development” “Set in a remote village of northern region of Malawi, the Inkosi land two love birds set to unite families from two different tribes. The Story visualize some traditional dance and other Malawi’s cultural elements” This presentation has just outline the uniqueness and creative mind from what they have been drilled under the theatre class.

Despite this Lead project Lydia and Jack has been involved several projects under Solomonic; Mindset Change, Theatre for Education, other arts festivals and intercultural competences, with this experience, it will help them to contribute a lot in this Lead project.


Jack  and Lydia as Romeo and Juliet

They will depart from Malawi on 7^th April, Friday and return on 14^th April. The conference will take place in Bremen, about 10 countries will converge in Bremen to approve own ideas in different fields of practice, getting to know different perspectives and areas of focus of the partner organizations and applying the learned. Just to highlight on the theme; Leadership Education and Development, the focal areas of educating the youth to become future leaders towards sustainable development goals.