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Sustainable Musician//
Climate Artivist & Activist🌎
Energy Technology Engineer//
“Music For Impact Experience” 👇🏽

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what an experience we had
an appreciation to all that came and believed in the vision🎶💚

Music as a catalyst for impact!
Amplifying the grassroot voices of youth led organizations that are dedicated to making this world a better place 🌍

“ We are all outlets for change”🔌

#musicforimpact

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Appreciation to the Music Curation Team 🌍💯
At Music for Impact Experience!

Led by Music Director
🎵 @kuboandthe5strings
🎸 @one.maina.guitar
🎹 @gashoheyclef
🪘 @dimalfredrick
Full of good vibes on the Dex
🎧- @dj_vick254

Program lead 🙌🏾 @seroneybrian

Channeling our gifts for a bigger cause!
A call to take action🌍

#musicforimpact
#climateaction
#sustainability

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The Climate Justice Anthem by @jesse_david_j
“Hope You Can See”
Too our audience on a journey of climate realization and various realities 🌍

#musicforimpact
#climatejustice
#climateaction

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Faces of hope and resilience.

We appreciate all the beautiful and handsome faces that showed up for the Music4Impact Experience. Your presence, ideas and commitments are the seeds and what we do over the coming months is what counts. We would like to walk the journey together to know how you plan to carry it forward.

As we said, this is the first of many and if you missed this one, trust us we have another one coming. All you have to do is follow us through and walk the journey with us. This matter because the energy and work did not end when the final curtains were drawn. It is a journey that has just started. We are building a community and most definitely you are part of it.

What is one action that you are taking after the event?

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Music for Impact is a call to action!
@larry_dwayne8 Climate Artivist using art and music to highlight actions and drive impact! 🌍

#musicforimpact #climateaction

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Some artists perform for the crowd, others perform for a cause. Jesse David does both.

Six years, he has been preparing for something bigger. For six years he has been using his vocals, saxophone and guitar to inspire, impact and advocate for sustainability.

As the vision bearer of Music4Impact Experience, Jesse David ensured everyone in the room could feel the presence and the weight of the words he sung. He ensured everyone could feel the sound of the saxophone and each string of the guitar. This is what made his set the highlight and closing for the Music4Impact Experience.

After a day of engagement, sorrow, hope and learning, he took the stage and carried the room though three movements: wellness, action and sustainability. His songs brought reflections of mind and healing, call for young people to organize, act and speak for the world we are building. Jesse, throughout his performance was able to hold both the heaviness and the hope. He showed that music can turn care into something a whole room can feel together.

Together, as a network and with the @music_4impact team, we will keep building spaces where music, art and climate action meet. Do you have a song that resonated with you? Because a melody can be a movement.

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Every moment, every action has a root. Ours looked back to Professor Wangari Maathai. 'It is the little things that citizens do. That's what will make the difference.' she often added 'My little thing is planting trees.

Partners, friends and organizations working tirelessly to protect the environment and provide locally-led solutions to communities got a chance to share their experiences and efforts. The efforts reflected on the legacy that Wangari Maathai instilled in them and the courage to speak even when it was uncomfortable. Her story reminded us that often mentorship and advocacy is a sustainability tool.

@earthnowmedia shared on their project 'Faces of Adaptation' showcasing resilient projects from grassroot communities. @ujamii_conservation Initiative come through to showcase the work with farmers in Nyeri County on Agroecology. The Founder @youngenvirornme shared on why it is important to work with children on climate education and the efforts being made.
The @africawaterambassadors team also shared on the water stress facing our country and how the youth can be at the center of advocacy and contribute to water resilience. Bringing the community at the center through educating, equipping and sustaining, @saabikogroupoffriends highlighted why empowerment if communities is key to climate action.

For us at The SPAC Network, it was important to share the importance of science and policy in all these efforts and how communities can understand and implement sustainable initiatives. What was clear is that, young people refuse to stay quiet, and keep on championing for the planet.

What is your little big thing? What's the one thing you are doing to create a voice for the planet?

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Sustainable Musician @sallymatei 🌱
Music for Impact is not just a sustainable showcase of music but also a community that seeks to take climate crisis from realization to action 🌍💯

#musicforimpact
#hope

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Climate advocacy took an artistic route during the Music4Impact Experience. Each artist coming on stage with a unique style of delivery and engaging the participants of the day.

In between the storytelling and the chapters, the artists took the stage with songs and spoken word narrations on water, food security, war, displacement and hope. Each performance with its own theme, but all geared towards the same thing: Sustainability.

What stood out was how each artist was a witness of the crisis. Each came with a perspective of the challenge as well as the solution. They did not lecture. They shared the realities as they were, turning real life experience into something the audience could carry out of the moment.

This was a great moment to appreciate the role of artists in bridging the complex realities, giving climate action a human face that is relatable. They capture what reports cannot. A song and spoken word on water and droughts is not just a song, but a record of a place, loss and hope.

We are working towards with artists in the sustainability field and we would like to hear from you. Mention the sustainability artists you know and let's take the advocacy a notch higher.

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“Music for Impact Experience” had the opportunity of working with renowned Music Director 💯
@kuboandthe5strings his professionalism brought out structured melody connecting with our audience 🙌🏾
Above all making the experience wholesome 🌍🎶

#musicforimpact
#climateaction
#hope

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🎶🌍 MUSIC FOR IMPACT — MUSIC WITH A PURPOSE! 🌍🎶

What an incredible Saturday! On 3rd October, we brought together an amazing community of artists, creatives, changemakers, and sustainability champions for Music for Impact a celebration of how music can inspire action and create a better, more sustainable future. 💚

From powerful performances to meaningful conversations, every artist brought their unique voice and talent to the stage, reminding us that sustainability isn't just a conversation — it's a movement we can all be part of. 🌱🎤

A huge shout out to every artist who performed, every partner who believed in the vision, every volunteer who gave their time, and the incredible team behind the scenes who worked tirelessly to make it happen. 🙌🏾✨

Events like this remind us that when music, purpose, and passionate people come together, we can create an impact far beyond the stage. 🌍💫

Here’s to more music, more awareness, more collaboration, and more action for our planet. 💚🌱

Music for Impact. Music for Change. Music for a Sustainable Future. 🎶🌍

#MusicForImpact #Sustainability #MusicForChange #SustainableFuture #ClimateAction ArtistsForChange YouthForSustainability EnvironmentalAwareness Impact Community SustainabilityMatters Kenya

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Every song carries a story, a story can move a heart, and a heart moved to act can change a community.

Our landscapes hold stories, but they are changing with the realities of the people who depend on them.

@music_4impact reminds us that lasting change is often built from the actions we take, and there is hope that sounded in the music and lived in the art. 🌍🎶🌱

#ArtIsAction #Music4Impact #ClimateAction #YouthForClimate #ClimateAdaptation

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