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  • Battle Hooch of San Francisco entertains the crowd with their wild performance on 6th St.
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  • Maud in Cahoots prior to her performance during 2010 SXSW Music Festival
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  • Outside the venue of a sold out show, fans climbed up to get a better view of the bands' performance.
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  • Maud in Cahoots plays her violin during her performance.
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  • Battle Hooch of San Francisco entertains the crowd with their wild performance on 6th St.
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  • Outside the venue of a sold out show, fans climbed up to get a better view of the bands' performance.
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  • Outside the venue of a sold out show, fans climbed up to get a better view of the bands' performance.
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  • Outside the venue of a sold out show, a huge crowd listens in to the bands'  performance.
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  • Battle Hooch of San Francisco entertains the crowd with their wild performance on 6th St.
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  • Battle Hooch of San Francisco entertains the crowd with their wild performance on 6th St.
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  • Battle Hooch of San Francisco entertains the crowd with their wild performance on 6th St.
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  • Battle Hooch of San Francisco entertains the crowd with their wild performance on 6th St.
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  • Battle Hooch of San Francisco entertains the crowd with their wild performance on 6th St.
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  • Musicians perform in the middle of 6th street attracting the crowd.
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  • Holy Fuck  is a four-piece experimental electronic band from Toronto. Instead of using laptops, loops and programmed backing tracks, the band uses live instrumentation and a slew of miscellaneous instruments to achieve an electronic sound that is truly one-of-a-kind. Holy Fuck are long time veterans of SXSW, and have also entertained audiences at Coachella, Lollapalooza, CMJ, and Glastonbury. Their debut album was named one of the Montreal Mirror's top ten albums of 2005, while their second album was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. The band is best experienced live, where their multi-layered electronic compositions come to life via pummeling bass and drum...Holy Fuck performs at AAM 2010 SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas.
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  • We Were Promised Jetpacks are a four-piece rock  band from Scotland currently signed to Fat Cat Records...We Were Promised Jetpacks performs at AAM 2010 SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas.
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  • We Were Promised Jetpacks are a four-piece rock  band from Scotland currently signed to Fat Cat Records...We Were Promised Jetpacks performs at AAM 2010 SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas.
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  • A band performs inside a bar during 2010 SXSW Music Festival
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  • A band performs inside a bar during 2010 SXSW Music Festival.
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  • Yes Giantess of boston performs at Malverde during 2010 SXSW Music Fesitval
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  • Nicostai of Los Angeles performs at the Aquarium on Sixth.
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  • A huge crowd gathers around Joshua Morrow from Bloomington, Indiana as he performs beating on his drums.
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  • Estelle is an English R&B singer-songwriter, rapper and producer. She won a grammy for American Boy featuring Kanye West in the category best rap/sung collaboration and received three consecutive 'Best Female Artist' trophies from the UK Hip-Hop Awards...Estelle performs at The Blast Live @ SXSW sponsored by Digiwaxx on March 20, 2010 at The Ranch.
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  • Ozomatli music-- a notorious urban-Latino-and-beyond collision of hip hop and salsa, dancehall and cumbia, samba and funk, merengue and comparsa, East LA R&B and New Orleans second line, Jamaican ragga and Indian raga.  The band had long been a favorite of international audiences--playing everywhere from Japan to North Africa and Australia--and their music had always been internationalist in its scope, seamlessly blending and transforming traditions from Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East...Ozomatli performs at Auditorium Shores Stage in Austin, Texas in front of thousands of fans during 2010 SXSW music Festival.
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  • Ozomatli music-- a notorious urban-Latino-and-beyond collision of hip hop and salsa, dancehall and cumbia, samba and funk, merengue and comparsa, East LA R&B and New Orleans second line, Jamaican ragga and Indian raga.  The band had long been a favorite of international audiences--playing everywhere from Japan to North Africa and Australia--and their music had always been internationalist in its scope, seamlessly blending and transforming traditions from Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East...Ozomatli performs at Auditorium Shores Stage in Austin, Texas in front of thousands of fans during 2010 SXSW music Festival.
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  • Ozomatli music-- a notorious urban-Latino-and-beyond collision of hip hop and salsa, dancehall and cumbia, samba and funk, merengue and comparsa, East LA R&B and New Orleans second line, Jamaican ragga and Indian raga.  The band had long been a favorite of international audiences--playing everywhere from Japan to North Africa and Australia--and their music had always been internationalist in its scope, seamlessly blending and transforming traditions from Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East...Ozomatli performs at Auditorium Shores Stage in Austin, Texas in front of thousands of fans during 2010 SXSW music Festival.
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  • Ozomatli music-- a notorious urban-Latino-and-beyond collision of hip hop and salsa, dancehall and cumbia, samba and funk, merengue and comparsa, East LA R&B and New Orleans second line, Jamaican ragga and Indian raga.  The band had long been a favorite of international audiences--playing everywhere from Japan to North Africa and Australia--and their music had always been internationalist in its scope, seamlessly blending and transforming traditions from Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East...Ozomatli performs at Auditorium Shores Stage in Austin, Texas in front of thousands of fans during 2010 SXSW music Festival.
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  • Ozomatli music-- a notorious urban-Latino-and-beyond collision of hip hop and salsa, dancehall and cumbia, samba and funk, merengue and comparsa, East LA R&B and New Orleans second line, Jamaican ragga and Indian raga.  The band had long been a favorite of international audiences--playing everywhere from Japan to North Africa and Australia--and their music had always been internationalist in its scope, seamlessly blending and transforming traditions from Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East...Ozomatli performs at Auditorium Shores Stage in Austin, Texas in front of thousands of fans during 2010 SXSW music Festival.
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  • Holy Fuck  is a four-piece experimental electronic band from Toronto. Instead of using laptops, loops and programmed backing tracks, the band uses live instrumentation and a slew of miscellaneous instruments to achieve an electronic sound that is truly one-of-a-kind. Holy Fuck are long time veterans of SXSW, and have also entertained audiences at Coachella, Lollapalooza, CMJ, and Glastonbury. Their debut album was named one of the Montreal Mirror's top ten albums of 2005, while their second album was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. The band is best experienced live, where their multi-layered electronic compositions come to life via pummeling bass and drum...Holy Fuck performs at AAM 2010 SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas.
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  • We Were Promised Jetpacks are a four-piece rock  band from Scotland currently signed to Fat Cat Records...We Were Promised Jetpacks performs at AAM 2010 SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas.
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  • We Were Promised Jetpacks are a four-piece rock  band from Scotland currently signed to Fat Cat Records...We Were Promised Jetpacks performs at AAM 2010 SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas.
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  • Holy Fuck  is a four-piece experimental electronic band from Toronto. Instead of using laptops, loops and programmed backing tracks, the band uses live instrumentation and a slew of miscellaneous instruments to achieve an electronic sound that is truly one-of-a-kind. Holy Fuck are long time veterans of SXSW, and have also entertained audiences at Coachella, Lollapalooza, CMJ, and Glastonbury. Their debut album was named one of the Montreal Mirror's top ten albums of 2005, while their second album was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. The band is best experienced live, where their multi-layered electronic compositions come to life via pummeling bass and drum...Holy Fuck performs at AAM 2010 SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas.
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  • We Were Promised Jetpacks are a four-piece rock  band from Scotland currently signed to Fat Cat Records...We Were Promised Jetpacks performs at AAM 2010 SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas.
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  • We Were Promised Jetpacks are a four-piece rock  band from Scotland currently signed to Fat Cat Records...We Were Promised Jetpacks performs at AAM 2010 SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas.
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  • A musician performs before a mural on 6th St.  The mural reads "Austin, Texas, Live Music Capital of the World."
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  • A band performs inside a bar during 2010 SXSW Music Festival
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  • Talib Kweli is a Brooklyn emcee and is one of the most critically successful rappers of his time.///Talib Kweli performs at The Blast Live @ SXSW sponsored by Digiwaxx on March 20, 2010 at The Ranch.
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  • Bajofondo performs at Auditorium Shores Stage on March 18, 2010 during SXSW music Festival in Austin Texas.  Bajofondo is an array of music based on the fusion of diverse electronic genres (house, trance, trip hop, dub, drum n' bass, etc.), rock, hip hop with the traditional sounds of tango, murga, milonga and candombe.  It is comprised of Gustavo Santaolalla (guitar, percussion, vocals, backup vocals), Juan Campodónico (programming, beats, samples, guitar), Luciano Supervielle (piano, keyboards, scratch), Javier Casalla (violin), Martín Ferrés (bandoneon), Gabriel Casacuberta (upright bass, electric bass), Adrián Sosa (drums) and Verónica Loza (VJ, vocals).
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  • Holy Fuck  is a four-piece experimental electronic band from Toronto. Instead of using laptops, loops and programmed backing tracks, the band uses live instrumentation and a slew of miscellaneous instruments to achieve an electronic sound that is truly one-of-a-kind. Holy Fuck are long time veterans of SXSW, and have also entertained audiences at Coachella, Lollapalooza, CMJ, and Glastonbury. Their debut album was named one of the Montreal Mirror's top ten albums of 2005, while their second album was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. The band is best experienced live, where their multi-layered electronic compositions come to life via pummeling bass and drum...Holy Fuck performs at AAM 2010 SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas.
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  • DJ Spyder performs during Red Bull Thre3 Style concert during 2010 SXSW Music Festival.
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  • A musician performs before a mural on 6th St.  The mural reads "Austin, Texas, Live Music Capital of the World."
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  • A huge crowd gathers around Joshua Morrow from Bloomington, Indiana as he performs beating on his drums.
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  • A scene outside a tattoo parlor on 6th St.
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  • Despite the cold weather, a huge crowd attends the Red Bull Thre3 Style concert during 2010 SXSW Music Festival.
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  • Night scene on 6th St. Austin, Texas during SXSW music festival.
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  • Night scene on 6th St. Austin, Texas during SXSW music festival.
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  • Night scene on 6th St. Austin, Texas during SXSW music festival.
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  • Street vendors sell glow in the dark light saber to the 6th street crowd during 2010 SXSW Music Festival.
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  • Night scene on 6th St. Austin, Texas during SXSW music festival
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  • Long Way from Orange County, California initiates a mosh pit on 6th St.
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  • Inside Pure lounge on 6th St.
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  • The neon light of an ATM machine illuminates at night during the Red Bull Thre3 Style concert during 2010 SXSW Music Festival.
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  • Musicians jamming outside a tattoo parlor during 2010 SXSW Music Festival.
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  • Despite the cold weather, a huge crowd attends the Red Bull Thre3 Style concert during 2010 SXSW Music Festival.
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  • Musicians jamming in the alley during 2010 SXSW Music Festival
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  • Despite the cold weather, a huge crowd attends the Red Bull Thre3 Style concert during 2010 SXSW Music Festival.
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  • Night scene on 6th St. Austin, Texas during SXSW music festival.
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  • The Texan flag hangs inside Hoeks Death Metal Pizza
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  • The American flag hangs next to a poster inside Hoeks Death Metal Pizza.
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  • A tattoo parlor on 6th St.
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  • A long line forms ouside of Hoeks Death Metal Pizza.
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  • A woman films herself in the middle of 6th street.
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  • Gloria Cycles traveled from England to participate in SXSW music festival.
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  • Seen from above, a steady stream of crowd walk the pavement of 6th street.
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  • Despite the cold weather, a huge crowd attends the Red Bull Thre3 Style concert during 2010 SXSW Music Festival.
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  • Despite the cold weather, a huge crowd attends the Red Bull Thre3 Style concert during 2010 SXSW Music Festival.
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  • Party goers celebrating St. Patrick Day pose for a photo outside a bar on 6th St.
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  • A portrait of ondel-ondel performer at Monas Square.<br />
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Ondel-ondel is a form of folk performance originated from Betawi.<br />
Traditionally, it is performed to provide protection against calamities or for warding off wandering evil spirits. It is often thought of as a spiritual representation of the ancestors who safeguards the village residents and their descendants. Although, as of late, ondel-ondel is utilised more for livening up festivals or for welcoming guests of honor. Ondel-ondel is one of only few Indonesian folk performances that has survived modernization and is still being regularly performed.
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  • A child cried in fear terrified at the sight of "Ondel-Ondel" or puppets at Monas Square. Ondel-Ondel is a form of folk performance originated from Betawi.<br />
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Traditionally, ondel-ondel is performed to provide protection against calamities or for warding off wandering evil spirits. It is often thought of as a spiritual representation of the ancestors who safeguards the village residents and their descendants. Although, as of late, ondel-ondel is utilised more for livening up festivals or for welcoming guests of honor. Ondel-ondel is one of only few Indonesian folk performances that has survived modernization and is still being regularly performed.
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  • A pig is used to perform "adat", a traditional healing ritual in Tanah Papua.<br />
<br />
One of the most common practices in the highlands to diagnose and cure HIV is by conducting a traditional ritual termed adat.  This involves killing a pig and examining its blood, heart, lungs, and kidney.  After cutting the pig open and inspecting its internal organs, the practitioners of adat remove what they interpret as parasites or cancerous parts that they believe caused the sickness.  Cleaning the pig's flesh by washing it with water would also "cure" the person's illness.  Performing the adat ritual is expensive since a pig can cost hundreds of dollars.  The treatment does not work despite the strong cultural belief behind it.  In the end, after killing numerous pigs and spending a fortune, many people give up hope.  By the time they finally decide to go to the hospital, their condition is too critical with little chance for survival.<br />
<br />
Due to a lack of HIV/AIDS education, limited access to health services, and strong pre-existing cultural beliefs about illness, many Papuans who are desperate for a cure turn to alternative medicines and traditional methods of healing.  Sometimes it involves cutting different parts of the body to drain "dirty" blood believed to cause the sickness.  Fruit potions such as the renowned red fruit potion (buah merah) are also extremely popular for its perceived healing capability.  In some cases, those who are already taking ARV medication abandon it to take expensive alternative medications such as Herbal Life vitamin supplements because they are promised an immediate cure.
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  • Heather Singleteary, owner of Balance Dance Project. 14th Avenue, Sacramento.<br />
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Doors have been closed so it hasn't been easy to pay the rent. We've lost more than 50% of our students. We can't have recitals. We can't go out and perform. For a lot of these kids, this is craziness, they're struggling mentally. They can't see their friends, they can't be in school, they're on electronics so much more. And so dance is a way for them to get back engaging with people outside safely and it's a way to get them moving and staying healthy. Their life would not be the same without dance. It’s changing them, making them feel comfortable and confident. This studio is a place where they can just be themselves, express themselves and be creative, and I got to keep it going for them.
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  • Heather Singleteary, owner of Balance Dance Project. 14th Avenue, Sacramento.<br />
<br />
Doors have been closed so it hasn't been easy to pay the rent. We've lost more than 50% of our students. We can't have recitals. We can't go out and perform. For a lot of these kids, this is craziness, they're struggling mentally. They can't see their friends, they can't be in school, they're on electronics so much more. And so dance is a way for them to get back engaging with people outside safely and it's a way to get them moving and staying healthy. Their life would not be the same without dance. It’s changing them, making them feel comfortable and confident. This studio is a place where they can just be themselves, express themselves and be creative, and I got to keep it going for them.
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  • Heather Singleteary, owner of Balance Dance Project. 14th Avenue, Sacramento.<br />
<br />
Doors have been closed so it hasn't been easy to pay the rent. We've lost more than 50% of our students. We can't have recitals. We can't go out and perform. For a lot of these kids, this is craziness, they're struggling mentally. They can't see their friends, they can't be in school, they're on electronics so much more. And so dance is a way for them to get back engaging with people outside safely and it's a way to get them moving and staying healthy. Their life would not be the same without dance. It’s changing them, making them feel comfortable and confident. This studio is a place where they can just be themselves, express themselves and be creative, and I got to keep it going for them.
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  • Heather Singleteary, owner of Balance Dance Project. 14th Avenue, Sacramento.<br />
<br />
Doors have been closed so it hasn't been easy to pay the rent. We've lost more than 50% of our students. We can't have recitals. We can't go out and perform. For a lot of these kids, this is craziness, they're struggling mentally. They can't see their friends, they can't be in school, they're on electronics so much more. And so dance is a way for them to get back engaging with people outside safely and it's a way to get them moving and staying healthy. Their life would not be the same without dance. It’s changing them, making them feel comfortable and confident. This studio is a place where they can just be themselves, express themselves and be creative, and I got to keep it going for them.
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  • Heather Singleteary, owner of Balance Dance Project. 14th Avenue, Sacramento.<br />
<br />
Doors have been closed so it hasn't been easy to pay the rent. We've lost more than 50% of our students. We can't have recitals. We can't go out and perform. For a lot of these kids, this is craziness, they're struggling mentally. They can't see their friends, they can't be in school, they're on electronics so much more. And so dance is a way for them to get back engaging with people outside safely and it's a way to get them moving and staying healthy. Their life would not be the same without dance. It’s changing them, making them feel comfortable and confident. This studio is a place where they can just be themselves, express themselves and be creative, and I got to keep it going for them.
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  • A fresh-killed pig is washed with water and placed on top of a fire pit to burn off its hair.  After 3 days in the hospital, David who is in the late stages of AIDS insisted on checking himself out to perform "adat," one of the common traditional methods of healing to cure HIV/AIDS.<br />
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Due to a lack of education about HIV, limited access to health services, and strong preexisting cultural beliefs about illness, many people who are desperate for a cure turn to traditional methods of healing.  This involves cutting different parts of the body to drain "dirty" blood believed to cause sickness.  Fruit potions such as the renowned red fruit potion (buah merah) are extremely popular. Holy water and prayers, and expensive Herbal Life vitamin supplements can also replace clinical treatments and ARV.  Sometimes people who are already taking ARV abandon it to take expensive alternative medications because they are promised an immediate cure.  <br />
<br />
One of the common practices in the highlands to try to diagnose and cure HIV is by conducting a traditional diagnostic ritual termed adat. This involves killing a pig and examining its blood, heart, lungs, and kidney.  The intention of this practice is to discover the causes of the disease.  After cutting the pig open and inspecting the pig's internal organs, the practitioners of adat remove what they interpret as parasites or cancerous parts that they believe caused the sickness. Cleaning the pig flesh by washing it with water would also "cure" the person's illness.  Making adat diagnoses and cures are expensive since a pig can cost hundreds of dollars.  The treatment does not work despite the strong cultural belief system that is behind it.  In the end, after killing numerous pigs and spending a fortune, many people give up hope, and when they finally decide to take the sick person to a hospital, the patient's condition is critical and they soon die.
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  • Heather Singleteary, owner of Balance Dance Project. 14th Avenue, Sacramento.<br />
<br />
Doors have been closed so it hasn't been easy to pay the rent. We've lost more than 50% of our students. We can't have recitals. We can't go out and perform. For a lot of these kids, this is craziness, they're struggling mentally. They can't see their friends, they can't be in school, they're on electronics so much more. And so dance is a way for them to get back engaging with people outside safely and it's a way to get them moving and staying healthy. Their life would not be the same without dance. It’s changing them, making them feel comfortable and confident. This studio is a place where they can just be themselves, express themselves and be creative, and I got to keep it going for them.
    _AWT4139-Edit.jpg
  • Heather Singleteary, owner of Balance Dance Project. 14th Avenue, Sacramento.<br />
<br />
Doors have been closed so it hasn't been easy to pay the rent. We've lost more than 50% of our students. We can't have recitals. We can't go out and perform. For a lot of these kids, this is craziness, they're struggling mentally. They can't see their friends, they can't be in school, they're on electronics so much more. And so dance is a way for them to get back engaging with people outside safely and it's a way to get them moving and staying healthy. Their life would not be the same without dance. It’s changing them, making them feel comfortable and confident. This studio is a place where they can just be themselves, express themselves and be creative, and I got to keep it going for them.
    _AWT4122-Edit.jpg
  • ++ performs performs during Deus Sunday Sunset Session.
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  • ++ performs performs during Deus Sunday Sunset Session.
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  • A street performer wearing a Spongebob costume rests against the Monas Entrance Sign. On average street performers earn $5-10 in tips per day posing for pictures with Monas visitors.
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  • ++ performs performs during Deus Sunday Sunset Session.
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  • A freshly killed pig that David purchased for $300 to conduct the adat ritual. <br />
<br />
One of the most common practices in the highlands to diagnose and cure HIV is by conducting a traditional ritual termed adat.  This involves killing a pig and examining its blood, heart, lungs, and kidney.  After cutting the pig open and inspecting its internal organs, the practitioners of adat remove what they interpret as parasites or cancerous parts that they believe caused the sickness.  Cleaning the pig's flesh by washing it with water would also "cure" the person's illness.  Performing the adat ritual is expensive since a pig can cost hundreds of dollars.  The treatment does not work despite the strong cultural belief behind it.  In the end, after killing numerous pigs and spending a fortune, many people give up hope.  By the time they finally decide to go to the hospital, their condition is too critical with little chance for survival.<br />
<br />
Due to a lack of HIV/AIDS education, limited access to health services, and strong pre-existing cultural beliefs about illness, many Papuans who are desperate for a cure turn to alternative medicines and traditional methods of healing.  Sometimes it involves cutting different parts of the body to drain "dirty" blood believed to cause the sickness.  Fruit potions such as the renowned red fruit potion (buah merah) are also extremely popular for its perceived healing capability.  In some cases, those who are already taking ARV medication abandon it to take expensive alternative medications such as Herbal Life vitamin supplements because they are promised an immediate cure.
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  • David’s family members examine the pig’s internal organs to search for the cause of his illness during the adat ritual. <br />
<br />
One of the most common practices in the highlands to diagnose and cure HIV is by conducting a traditional ritual termed adat.  This involves killing a pig and examining its blood, heart, lungs, and kidney.  After cutting the pig open and inspecting its internal organs, the practitioners of adat remove what they interpret as parasites or cancerous parts that they believe caused the sickness.  Cleaning the pig's flesh by washing it with water would also "cure" the person's illness.  Performing the adat ritual is expensive since a pig can cost hundreds of dollars.  The treatment does not work despite the strong cultural belief behind it.  In the end, after killing numerous pigs and spending a fortune, many people give up hope.  By the time they finally decide to go to the hospital, their condition is too critical with little chance for survival.<br />
<br />
Due to a lack of HIV/AIDS education, limited access to health services, and strong pre-existing cultural beliefs about illness, many Papuans who are desperate for a cure turn to alternative medicines and traditional methods of healing.  Sometimes it involves cutting different parts of the body to drain "dirty" blood believed to cause the sickness.  Fruit potions such as the renowned red fruit potion (buah merah) are also extremely popular for its perceived healing capability.  In some cases, those who are already taking ARV medication abandon it to take expensive alternative medications such as Herbal Life vitamin supplements because they are promised an immediate cure.
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  • Iwanouz performs during Deus Sunday Sunset Session.
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  • A family member finds a "worm" clinging to the wall of the pig's lungs that they believed to be the cause of HIV.<br />
<br />
One of the most common practices in the highlands to diagnose and cure HIV is by conducting a traditional ritual termed adat.  This involves killing a pig and examining its blood, heart, lungs, and kidney.  After cutting the pig open and inspecting its internal organs, the practitioners of adat remove what they interpret as parasites or cancerous parts that they believe caused the sickness.  Cleaning the pig's flesh by washing it with water would also "cure" the person's illness.  Performing the adat ritual is expensive since a pig can cost hundreds of dollars.  The treatment does not work despite the strong cultural belief behind it.  In the end, after killing numerous pigs and spending a fortune, many people give up hope.  By the time they finally decide to go to the hospital, their condition is too critical with little chance for survival.<br />
<br />
Due to a lack of HIV/AIDS education, limited access to health services, and strong pre-existing cultural beliefs about illness, many Papuans who are desperate for a cure turn to alternative medicines and traditional methods of healing.  Sometimes it involves cutting different parts of the body to drain "dirty" blood believed to cause the sickness.  Fruit potions such as the renowned red fruit potion (buah merah) are also extremely popular for its perceived healing capability.  In some cases, those who are already taking ARV medication abandon it to take expensive alternative medications such as Herbal Life vitamin supplements because they are promised an immediate cure.
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  • A freshly killed pig that David purchased for $300 to conduct the adat ritual. <br />
<br />
One of the most common practices in the highlands to diagnose and cure HIV is by conducting a traditional ritual termed adat.  This involves killing a pig and examining its blood, heart, lungs, and kidney.  After cutting the pig open and inspecting its internal organs, the practitioners of adat remove what they interpret as parasites or cancerous parts that they believe caused the sickness.  Cleaning the pig's flesh by washing it with water would also "cure" the person's illness.  Performing the adat ritual is expensive since a pig can cost hundreds of dollars.  The treatment does not work despite the strong cultural belief behind it.  In the end, after killing numerous pigs and spending a fortune, many people give up hope.  By the time they finally decide to go to the hospital, their condition is too critical with little chance for survival.<br />
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Due to a lack of HIV/AIDS education, limited access to health services, and strong pre-existing cultural beliefs about illness, many Papuans who are desperate for a cure turn to alternative medicines and traditional methods of healing.  Sometimes it involves cutting different parts of the body to drain "dirty" blood believed to cause the sickness.  Fruit potions such as the renowned red fruit potion (buah merah) are also extremely popular for its perceived healing capability.  In some cases, those who are already taking ARV medication abandon it to take expensive alternative medications such as Herbal Life vitamin supplements because they are promised an immediate cure.
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  • A young teenager performing a back flip into the Wouma river.
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  • Sashi performs during Deus Sunday Sunset Session.
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  • Iwanouz performs during Deus Sunday Sunset Session.
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  • Spectators gather under the cool shade at Monas Square to watch street performers spit fire and extinguish flame with their tongue.
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  • A family member finds a "worm" clinging to the wall of the pig's lungs that they believed to be the cause of HIV.<br />
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One of the most common practices in the highlands to diagnose and cure HIV is by conducting a traditional ritual termed adat.  This involves killing a pig and examining its blood, heart, lungs, and kidney.  After cutting the pig open and inspecting its internal organs, the practitioners of adat remove what they interpret as parasites or cancerous parts that they believe caused the sickness.  Cleaning the pig's flesh by washing it with water would also "cure" the person's illness.  Performing the adat ritual is expensive since a pig can cost hundreds of dollars.  The treatment does not work despite the strong cultural belief behind it.  In the end, after killing numerous pigs and spending a fortune, many people give up hope.  By the time they finally decide to go to the hospital, their condition is too critical with little chance for survival.<br />
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Due to a lack of HIV/AIDS education, limited access to health services, and strong pre-existing cultural beliefs about illness, many Papuans who are desperate for a cure turn to alternative medicines and traditional methods of healing.  Sometimes it involves cutting different parts of the body to drain "dirty" blood believed to cause the sickness.  Fruit potions such as the renowned red fruit potion (buah merah) are also extremely popular for its perceived healing capability.  In some cases, those who are already taking ARV medication abandon it to take expensive alternative medications such as Herbal Life vitamin supplements because they are promised an immediate cure.
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  • A young teenager performing a back flip into the Wouma river...Scenery (establishing shots)
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  • The race is more of a block party than a footrace.  A live jazz band performs outside of a house providing an exciting form of entertainment and energy.
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  • Iwanouz performs during Deus Sunday Sunset Session.
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  • he race is more of a block party than a footrace.  A live jazz band performs outside of a house providing an exciting form of entertainment and energy.
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  • A performer is seen outside of iGrow during 4/20Eve...iGrow, the Bay Area's largest full service hydroponic superstore, hosts 4/20Eve, a celebration with onsite consumption for verified patients. magicians, artists, food, music, and vendors.
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