On Health // Repost from Dr Gabor Maté

 The Health of the Mind

According to the research the best place to be esquizofrenic in world is not in north america with all its pharmacopeia is actually village in Africa or in India where there is acceptance where people make room for your differenceness where connection is not broken but is maintained where you not excluded in society but you welcome, when there is room for you, you act out wherever you need to act out or express even wherever you need to express and may all community even sing with you or chant with you or held ceremony with you, and maybe finding some meaning in your code call on your craziness.
Excerpts from video interview bellow by Gabor Maté 

 

photo via : briarpatchmagazine

The Myth of “Normal” in Psychological Disorders. He explains how mental distress and pathology exists in a continuum and are largely a result of a materialist culture that rigidly “idealize individuality and ignores emotional needs,” prioritizing objects over people and well being.
 Mate is a Hungarian-born physician, living in Vancouver, B.C., who grew up and was educated in Canada.  

 

I think you will find his perspective fascinating more info about Dr Mate philosophical healing approach and publications check his web site : Gabor Maté

 More about Gabor

Gabor Maté  Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1944, he is a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. His maternal grandparents were killed in Auschwitz when he was five months old, his aunt disappeared during the war, and his father endured forced labour at the hands of the Nazis. He emigrated to Canada with his family in 1956.
 Today as  Jew Canadian is physician who specializes in the study and treatment of addiction and is also widely recognized for his perspective on Attention Deficit Disorder and his firmly held belief in the connection between mind and body health. He has authored four books exploring topics including attention deficit disorder, stress, developmental psychology and addiction.He is a regular columnist in news papers

more see :
Gabor Maté: How Capitalism Makes Us Sick 

An interview on health and politics

edit by celeste cambaza / stockholm Sweden  jan 2016

Art Through Mozambican Female Heart

Art Through Mozambican Female Heart

 
in continent of africa we need more women engaging in art field,
in the country where im from Mozambique, we even need more because barely you do not see female artist don't basically exist, I believe woman have a great potential in expressing in huge way in art.
What i feel is necessary to do is to give women more space, more opportunity so she can be free to choose where she want to explore.
in this post i choosed two visual art Mozambican artists that i like their works, is Olga Dengo, explores more abstraction, and Reinata Sadimba in ceramic sculpture. Reinata works and live in mozambique while Olga works and live in Belgium Antwerp.

visual art

 The visual arts are art forms such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking and architecture. Many artistic disciplines (performing arts, conceptual art, textile arts) involve aspects of the visual arts as well as arts of other types. Also included within the visual arts are the applied arts such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design and decorative art.
Current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art as well as the applied, decorative arts and crafts, but this was not always the case. Before the Arts and Crafts Movement and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, the term 'artist' was often restricted to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting, sculpture, or printmaking) and not the handicraft, craft, or applied art media. The distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, who valued vernacular art forms as much as high forms. Art schools made a distinction between the fine arts and the crafts, maintaining that a craftsperson could not be considered a practitioner of the arts.

Reinata Sadimba 

Reinata Sadimba Artwork

Reinata Sadimba was born in 1945 in the village of Nemu, Mozambique. Daughter of farmers she first received the traditional Makonde education that included making utilitary objects in clay.
Although the Makondes attribute the main part in society to women, in Mozambique, and also in Tanzania, sculpturing is still a "man's job". Maybe that is the reason why no one took Reinata Sadimba 's art too seriously at first. Reinata Sadimba at her studio
However, in 1975 she initiates a deep transformation in her ceramics becoming known worldwide by her "weird and fantastic forms". Reinata Sadimba is now considered one of the most important women artists of the entire African Continent. She has received several prizes, exhibited her work in Belgium, Switzerland, Portugal or Denmark and her work is represented in several institutions from the National Museum of Mozambique, to the portuguese Ethnographic Museum or Culturgest Modern Art Collection, and in numerous private collections around the world. via :

Reinata Sadimba Artwork

Reinata Sadimba wearing red dress in Limo Ride

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Olga Dengo 

Video interview Olga in her studio in Antwerp  Belgium

Olga Dengo Art Work

Olga Dengo Art Work

 

Olga Dengo

edited by celeste 

stockholm Sweden 2016

Heritage & Culture / Chapter 5 on Culture Preservation

 Happy new year may 2016 be a year of peace, health and happiness

I had opportunity to meet informally Hugh Masekela in August 2013 in Stockholm, he explained me how why his in Heritage and culture restoration and i confess i falling love with.

Celeste.Cambaza and Hugh Masekela 2013 in Stockholm

 

 

Africa Stands in front line when it comes of losing cultural identity
Hugh Masekela is in Crusade on Restoration

One of the giants of South African music, Masekela's work has closely charted the history of his country of birth. Throughout the 60s and 70s the legendary trumpeter's music was inspired by the hardships and humiliations visited on his countrymen by the apartheid regime. His musical styles have ranged from township jazz and blues to funk and rock; he has toured with Paul Simon and appeared on stage with U2 and many others. Throughout his career he has remained outspoken on civil rights, and he has being steadfast in articulating and defending the heritage and culture of his fellow countrymen.

Check Hugh Masekela  TEDxObserver in UK - Hugh Masekela -

 The western influence on African youth plus music performance.

Via: Ted Talks youtube 

edited by 

Celeste.Cambaza

Sweden, Stockholm Jan 2016