POLITICS: Free West Papua FREE song for download follow me @sandybigara

In my lifetime, performing from the age of 4 and then as a touring singer from the age of 14, I had the opportunity to climb waterfalls, I've walked through brand new forests (3 -10 years old), I've experienced singing with our state choir inside the Sudwala and Cango Caves where the total darkness - and I mean absolute pitch blackness - is so complete that it takes your breath away... I have swam in rivers, touched the murky bottoms of lagoons (where they caught a croc a week later!!), met some friendly leeches inside lakes, bathed in warm rock pools while starfish winked at me from the rock shelves below... I've hiked mountain ranges and raced horses over mountain tops. This song was inspired by those memories. 

I am an Opera and Vintage Blues/Jazz singer so this is really not my usual singing style!! BUT the song style is simple, I was very young when it was written, and spent a lot of time playing my guitar in my room - I decided to not commercialize the sound of the song now - I just recorded it exactly as my friends and I used to perform it. 

Written by myself somewhere between 1994 - 1996 after spending time touring and travelling around my home Country South Africa. I was suddenly aware of things like deforestation, genocide and other atrocities against our world and the people living in it. I can't imagine having those freedoms and nature roughly taken from me. So this is the song of a young teenager who felt the sadness of these issues... 

This song is dedicated to the people of West Papua.

(Listen to the song HERE)

How Long 

Lyrics:

May times, I have stood, 

at the top of a waterfall - 

and looked to the pools 

where the water thunders.

Many times I have swam, 

silent pools of crystal water, 

but I cannot help thinking: 

How long will this one last?

Many times I have walked 

through new young forests green, 

where the trees are alive, 

and you get to know yourself.

Many times I have walked 

in a cave all black and beautiful, 

and I cannot help thinking: 

How long will this one last?

Chorus: Waterfalls, Forests gone. 

Silent Crystal waters... 

there's not much at all. 

That's not much at all.

For Free Public use - if directly linked to the support of the Free West Papua Campaign. For more information or to be of use look at the following links:

Free West Papua Campaign Papua New Guinea

Free West Papua Campaign

Free West Papua Campaign (Nederland)

Free Papua Movement

MUSIC: NEW songs and FREE downloads on my page!

Hey guys,

I have recently added a whole lot of fresh recordings to my Reverbnation page, please have a look, and feel free to download any of the FREE downloads available.

Take care!!

EQUALITY: Something Classy — Every woman in every Disney/Pixar movie....

I'm amazed. I kinda realised it but never looked any further... Wow. Just wow.

http://every-flavored-bean.tumblr.com/post/112569173199/every-woman-in-every-disney-pixar-movie-in-the

HEALTH: New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function - ScienceAlert

"The team reports fully restoring the memories of 75 percent of the mice they tested it on, with zero damage to the surrounding brain tissue. They found that the treated mice displayed improved performance in three memory tasks - a maze, a test to get them to recognise new objects, and one to get them to remember the places they should avoid."

To read more please follow the link below:

http://www.sciencealert.com/new-alzheimer-s-treatment-fully-restores-memory-function

DECOR: Classy Candles and Function Decor Hire at Decorex Pop Up Market

DURBANITES!!

Classy Candles and Function decor hire will be at the Decorex pop up market on Friday night, 20th March 2015!

Please come support, they will be selling beautiful hand made candles. I've had a look at their stock after being invited to their premises and I was blown away! So many beautiful lighting ideas and options to choose from.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152691475310779&set=a.10151685716990779.1073741828.666795778&type=1

About the Market:
The Decorex Pop Up Market will be held at the Durban Exhibition Centre, Walnut Road, 4001 Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. To see who else will be there visit: https://m.facebook.com/events/1567880310126559/

(apologies for the link, posting from my CrackBerry)

Take care everyone xx
Regards,

Sandy Bigara
www.sandybigara.com

ENTERTAINMENT: Tree63 Kickstarter campaign message from John Ellis

As a longstanding fan and supporter of Tree63, I'm so excited to see this new album come to fruition. The link to their Kickstarter page is at the bottom of the post, please click on it and either share or donate - every little bit will help them achieve their goal :)

Below is a personal message from John Ellis, lead vocalist and guitarist:

"The three of us are making our seventh album in 7 years, and owing to the massive changes in the music industry since we made our first record, we're doing this one via Kickstarter.

Which, for those of you who don't know, is a crowd-funding platform: you pay a little towards helping us to make our record, and you get a variety of 'rewards' in the process...

It's in US dollars, which is 10 times as scary as SA Rand, but if any of you feel inclined toward throwing either a bit of money or a bit of word-of-mouth at our Tree63 Kickstarter campaign, it would be much appreciated!
We need all the help we can get, and in exchange you all get fabulous perks: autographed mp3's, used Tree63 T-shirts, mugs with our pictures on it…etc. 

Seriously, though, we have seven days as of today to reach our target of $20 000. We're getting there slowly, but we could use your help. If we don't reach our target, of course, we don't get any of the money pledged so far.

It's a good record, I promise you! 

Click on this if you're interested in helping Tree63:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tree63/the-new-tree63-record


John"

Aaaand GO!
Regards,

Sandy Bigara
www.sandybigara.com

POLITICAL: Violent end to EFF ‘land grab’ attempt - Crime & Courts | IOL News

I honestly have no words... Come on ANC, make things alright!!

Excerpt:
EFF West Rand regional secretary Itani Mukwevho vowed that "no amount of violence" would stop them from taking vacant land and giving it to the people. "By April we will have taken all the land that is idle and unused."

http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/violent-end-to-eff-land-grab-attempt-1.1831934?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook#.VQWuOR_8LbU

Sandi Toksvig's top 10 unsung heroines | Books | The Guardian

Sandi Toksvig is well known for her TV and radio work as a broadcaster, writer and actor, and currently chairs Radio 4's News Quiz and presents Excess Baggage. Her numerous books for children include Hitler's Canary, based upon her family's experiences in Nazi-occupied Denmark, was published in 2005 to considerable acclaim. Her latest, Girls Are Best, is a knockabout look at the overlooked achievements of women down the ages.

Buy Sandi Toksvig books at the Guardian bookshop

"When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar.'

"It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men's place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles's book The Women's History of the World (recently republished as Who Cooked the Last Supper?) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They're not all saints, they're not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering."

Follow the link below to read about these inspiring women, all but forgotten:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/28/sandi-toksvig-unsung-heroines

BREAKING NEWS: Volcano Eruption in Costa Rica

Turrialba Volcano, located in the province of Cartago, 67 kilometers from the capital San José, has erupted

For more information and videos/photos visit -> http://www.ticotimes.net/2015/03/13/breaking-new-explosions-at-turrialba-volcano

My thoughts are with the families and community in Costa Rica.

(Image taken from http://m.9gag.com/u/apopi)
Regards,

Sandy Bigara
www.sandybigara.com

FOODIE: Need a quiet spot to chill out for a while? Hinghams Nursery Tea Garden

I feel these days like you need to say "This girl went to this restaurant, what she saw there will make your blood boil" in the title, and then its just a restaurant crit ya'know? #ViralShizz

Click on the picture. I dare ya. 

Anyway, I had the chance to do a write-up for DurbanZone Magazine and if you're keen on a little read then hop on Down The Rabbit Hole...