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We’re creating performing arts inspired by a combination of traditional and modern cultures. We see ourselves as contributing to the arts, and we are doing this through promoting stories from BAME communities. Providing a platform for women to take part in producing works related to diverse cultures. We know that there is a lack of representation of women and BAME in the performing arts.  Therefore, the ‘Arawelo’ project is working towards reducing the lack of representation.

An untold story By Peeplimon BACKGROUND During this period the Somali people are engaging in clan-based warfare, the Buraan droughts have ravaged their lands for many years at this point. The story unfolds as the drought is at its peak and many cattle and grazing land dying, and food and water are becoming scars. Women and female children are left to fend for themselves or left to starve. The role of the women was to look after the farm, tend the herds, and child rearing. It