Street Priests’ Erupt 2019 competition for creatives open: win up to N200,000
ERUPT 2019 is an online campaign that seeks to engage a diverse group of creatives across all art genres; basically anything that is a form of creative art expression.
Press Release For Connect Conference 2019
Connect Conference is one of the greatest experiences every young person wants to have. It’s an unforgettable moment for the team, volunteers, our partners and our amazing audience.
BlankPaperz and her Editor Mirabelle Get Recognized by the U.S Department of State
Here’s some super exciting news! Isn’t it amazing for Mirabelle Morah to be recognized by the United State’s government? Well yes! Look who got recognized by the Study of the U.S Institutes! It’s us!
Mirabelle Morah Represents BlankPaperz in South Africa as Ashoka Africa Youth Champion
Mirabelle Morah, our Editor represents BlankPaperz in South Africa as an Ashoka Africa Youth Champion. During the summit, Mirabelle alongside Catherine Peter, Chairman of One Young World Africa, facilitated a parallel session on the topic, A Future for Youth; asking fellow participants about their opinions on formal education in Africa and how formal education affects youth employability. “A good attitude and a great learning spirit, these two things go beyond formal education and are important skills or values every youth should have,” said Mirabelle. IMPACT! AFRICA is a mobilizing summit organized by the British Council and Ashoka, which aims to accelerate innovative solutions to Africa’s most pressing challenges by inspiring, supporting, and connecting leading social entrepreneurs and key ecosystem players across countries, organizations, and sectors – such as policy, social investment, business, and education. See more images and videos below.
The A-Writers Masterclass Just Ended!
Many thanks to the James Ene Henshaw Foundation, Bramodigi, Simon Cohen and the amazing rockstars who volunteered to make the masterclass work! Uche Nelson with his photography, Jacob Happiness with his strong hands on the technical unit, Godwin Ovat and James Okina with their presence to make sure everything worked well, Bukola Edgar taking care of the registrations and participants, and Mary Benedicta for being a participant and a volunteer! Thank you all!
Concluded Social+Media Usage Share it Session
This session of BlankPaperz Share it Session was a very exciting one! This was a free knowledge sharing session to teach writers and creatives on how to maximize the powerful potentials of social media and media in general for their good
Writing Workshop With Teens at NICO Commercial School
Thanks so much to Godwin Ovat and Victor Eyo for volunteering to make this a success. The essence of this workshop was to inspire and encourage young teenagers who had writing skills to write better and to let them know that stories are powerful and they are not too young to accomplish anything in life. Books were given out as well. Thanks to the Sunrise Youth Intervention Organization for contributing a carton of Teenage Bibles, Reach 4 Life, which was distributed for free to the students and many thanks as well, to the management of NICO Commercial School for their reception and hospitality.
BlankPaperz Editor is a 2018 Global Teen Leader!
MIRABELLE MORAH NIGERIA, 19 Project: Blank Paperz Basic Human Needs: Education Growing up in Calabar, Nigeria, Mirabelle knew many girls who were victims of sexual abuse, and had witnessed gender-based violence regularly in her community. While these horrible injustices went on, few people acknowledged them. Mirabelle saw the power of influential writers in her nation to inspire citizens to fight for equality, and knew writing could be a tool to address the issues in her society. Mirabelle created Blank Paperz, an online platform for young writers to share their voices and advocate for social change. Since its inception, 100+ young people from more than 12 countries have been published on Blank Paperz, reaching 70,000 viewers online. With the strong belief that education is the way to improve society, Mirabelle has trained several other young people to use media for social change, and organized book giveaways for the public. Since coming to the United States with…
When Bloggers & Writers Met in November 2017
Where were you on the 11th of November 2017 when young Bloggers & Writers met in Calabar? Were you at iKapture Networks? Sitting and listening to people speak, and writing about your own self-reflections? Well if you were not at this event last month here’s a recap of what happened.
A World Beyond Our Age
A World Beyond Our Age was a secondary school talk session with the outgoing students of St. Annes High School, speaking to them about life after high school, why they needed to find their purpose as well as answering questions they might have had about making career choices and also making life choices at such a young ages. James Okina from Street Priests and Mirabelle Morah, BlankPaperz Editor in Chief were around to talk to the class of over 40 students about life choices and finding their purpose.
YOU SHOULD MEET BLANKPAPERZ YOUNG WRITER OF THE MONTH (JANUARY)
It’s not about being the best, it’s about having the desire. Through words, whether it’s working on Canaan City FM or writing and performing poems, Ofem uses words to change his immediate society. Ofem Ubi was born on the 25th of May. He is just another average Nigerian citizen with love for music and scripting (of any and all kind). He obtained his Secondary School Certificate from Hope Wadell Training Institution and is currently in pursuit of a degree in Mass Communication, Cross River University of Technology. Ofem seeks to explore the world of Arts and the intricacies that come with it and sees himself as nothing but a bleeding pen held by the hands of nature to converse with the world and with each line, each rhythm, each melody, each piece of Art Mother Nature uses him to create,he hopes the world listens. Check out Ofem’s blog here
DONATIONS FOR BOOK GIVEAWAY
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.” The Blankpaperz Monthly Book Giveaway is a simple contest carried out monthly so as to gift book prizes to as many young people as possible. This contest was started in December 2016, with the first winner being Idongesit Peter. The goal is to encourage and increase reading habits amongst young people. GUIDELINES TO DONATING You can help young people read more by donating books to be given out during the giveaway contests. More books means more people reading, and more people reading means more knowledge. Books such as: – Biographies, autobiographies, novels, motivationals, history books, notepads, journals, Bibles, etc. are accepted. For now we do not accept Academic text-books, except they are interdisciplinary. Physical donations are accepted and if you are not in the city of Calabar, the cost of your…