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I break the silence with music, how do you break it?
I love music! I cannot remember a time when I was not curious about how to play it, compose it, arrange it, or how to conduct it. Having had the opportunity to work with many great artists, I still have the curiosity and the need to discover how to create and play the music.
To this end, I have created multidiscipline productions for The Silence Is Broken HIV awareness campaign. Through the creative and performing arts and a sustained media campaign-music, dance, poetry, visual art, and design-we are uplifting the vibration of the world and lending an inspirational and thoughtful hand to effect change. I believe that being creative opens the door to possibility and answers that can help us all become better selves and halt the spread of HIV.
At The Silence Is Broken we are demonstrating the healing effects of music and story and we invite all people to participate. Every idea is important. We hope that through our DVD’s, Blue Ray Discs, and our concert video downloads we will quicken the hearts and minds of every citizen to break the silence around HIV and AIDS. We also invite you to act by sharing our work with others in your networks.
Proceeds from the sale of our work goes to producing the twelve concerts in our series and giving away sales to community based organizations (CBOs) throughout the United States. With our concert series we are creating awareness about HIV, the silent and relentless killer, settling into communities of color at an unprecedented rate, we are educating, advocating testing, and we are giving away our money to strengthen CBO’s so that they have the resources necessary to carry out their missions.
We began traveling the fifty states to interview executive directors from HIV/AIDS CBO’s to hear your stories about how and why you do what you do. We videotape our interviews and post them at www.thesilenceisbroken.com. Please watch for new interviews beginning March 15, 2010.
I break the silence through music, how do you break it?
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Many people have asked me why am I speaking out about HIV and AIDS. From this moment forward, I don't want to see the promise of multiple generations of people eclipsed by this preventable disease. HIV forces me to take a look at my own humanity and the difficulty in living as a full and complete self no matter your station in life. Through my work with The Silence Is Broken, we are raising money to create awareness of this disease and we are raising money to give away to community based organizations throughout the United States that provide care and services to those affected.
Though HIV and AIDS affects all people on the planet, our focus is on bringing awareness to communities of color in the United States. Specifically, black women whose new infection rate in 2007 was at 64%.
Like other communities, African Americans face a number of risk factors that contribute to the high rates of HIV infection:
• Sexual risk factors
• Injection drug use
• Sexually transmitted diseases
• Lack of awareness of HIV Status
• Stigma
• Socioeconomic Issues.
Healing, eradicating, halting the spread, and curing HIV and AIDS intersect at health policy, public policy, poverty, race, stigma, civil rights, and human rights. I want to revel in the promise of the world. We cannot allow a new generation of people to become infected with this preventable disease.
Join us at www.thesilenceisbroken.com and help us break the silence.
Patrick
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It's all about passion, love, connection and staying true to yourself and to the people you love. Cultural Fusion, a cooking show, is the initial piece to include: lifestyle, design, and spiritual growth. These elements are all centered around the cultural blend that is Latin/South American, African, Asian and European flavors.
My technique is a mind/body/spirit approach to living and food. The show is about how to care for yourself without sacrificing experience, whether its dining, personal style, interior design, dance, music, health and spirit.
I will explain how to achieve these principles, the origins and health properties of the ingredients/products that I use, and how to replicate the dishes and styles with a maximum of flavor and a minimum of cost.
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SIB is a media company with an interactive website that streams original programming. We use the Creative and Performing Arts to inspire, uplift, and inform its users.
The mostly free programming focuses on excellence and accomplishment, and provides instruction on a wide array of topics including art, music, health & fitness, style, money, history, and science.
Users will be able to learn about different cultures and lifestyles, while watching and interacting with extraordinary people who reveal their individual process for success.
SIB offers a strong message for self improvement, self actualization, and the need to be fully realized selves.
~Patrick
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