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Using the power of art + storytelling to: 1) Help create positive, social change. 2) Build the world we want to live in. One story at a time 📖🦄🦋🧚🏽‍♀️

Joined April 2020
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Looking to cast SOMALI ACTORS for an APPLE TV+ show called “Little America”. Please share, retweet & boost! #SomaliActor #Casting #Somalia #Somali #Actor #Hollywood #Acting #Casting #AppleTV #CastingCall #TV #TVShow #Film #LittleAmerica #Immigrant #Refugee #Somalis
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Here is the flyer 4 the APPLE TV+ show “Little America” casting call. It has more info about this opportunity!! Please continue to share, boost & audition! 🙏🏾🔊 I’m here to help however I can! 🇸🇴✨ (To find out how to submit, watch the video above where I walk u how 2 submit)!!
Mabrook @KhadarM!! This is so well deserved. Here’s to a new era of #Somali Filmmakers! 🥳🎊🎉👏🏾👏🏾🎬🎞✨🇸🇴
"The Gravedigger's Wife" is chosen as Somalia's first official entry for the Oscars. 🇸🇴🙏🏾
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Y’all the sun is shining, ROCKS has been long listed for the BAFTAS, it’s FINALLY WATCH PARTY time! ☀️📺♥️ We’re having a Clubhouse Q&A w/ the filmmaking team behind Rocks!! So come ready with your questions y’all! 📝🎙💡 Links in bio!! #Rocks #RocksFilm #Screenwriting #Film
I'm discussing “Navigating the film industry: 🎥📺” with @MoAliDirector. Today, Jan 31 at 1:00 PM CST. Join us! Here’s the link for anyone that wants to join the convo: joinclubhouse.com/event/MKB6… Talk, or rather hear, you soon! 🥳🎥🎞🙏🏾✨
We’re officially on TikTok & Clubhouse y’all!! Come find us on there, because this is DEFINITELY gonna be interesting! 😂😭😪🤷🏽‍♀️😅😳👀👀🏃🏽‍♀️💨 #IsThisWhereISayYOLO #AskingForAFriend 🧐🤔💭 -Abla xx 🦋🦄📖✨ (@ElmiHouse) #ElmiHouse #RepresentativeStorytelling #Clubhouse #TikTok
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It’s my first foray into the podcasting world y’all!🥰🧡 We chat about life, the state of our mental health, careers, storytelling, representation, Elmi House, & so much more!🎙🗣 Coming to wherever podcasts are available near you THIS Wednesday, Jan. 27th! So stay tuned!🦻🏾👀⏳
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It’s been a wild year, and somehow we’ve managed to move forward. One step at a time. 👣👣 And now we find ourselves here. Having completed the first ever project that we’ve produced as a company. 😱😱🎉🎉 Lots of love went into this series. ☺️😭🙏🏾🥰
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It was our absolute honour to travel around the world with our wonderful guests, through the stories we read. Very proud of what we’ve managed to create together! ☺️😭🙏🏾🥰 (#Somalia #Hmong #Brazil #Arab #Circassian #Folktales #RepresentationMatters)
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We’re entering this next year the same way we survived it. One step at a time. We can’t wait to share what’s coming up next for us! Thank you for your support thus far!!! It’s not something we take for granted. Sending you all so much love! 🦋🦄🌍📖🤍 Onwards & Upwards. 🥳✊🏾🧡✨
My creative process: 📸📖📝😪😭🌃🌙🧡✌🏾✨ • • • • • • 🎙: ‘House with no mirrors’ by @sadgirlsloan.
MY friend Abla and I of @ElmiHouse founder of her amazing storytelling company are going to chat on my Instagram via live @ taraviolet tomorrow afternoon/evening !
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Did you know that Caucasian did NOT originally mean “white”? In fact, the term Caucasian referred to people from the Caucasus region. 🌏🎠🏔 Go to @ElmiHouse to watch the entire 'Long Ago' series! Available on our IGTV page now, via the link below: 🦄🦋 instagram.com/elmihouse/
This final clip I chose to share is where my sister & I are doing what we do best. Laughing our behinds off, and expressing pure joy. 😂🤣🥰 For the last time, Welcome to Long Ago - a Virtual #Storytime Series, where we take a look at heroes from different cultures.📽🎞👩🏽‍🏫✨
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Go to @ElmiHouse to find all 3 parts of this episode! Available on our IGTV page now. 🦄🦋 You can find the rest of this clip, here: instagram.com/tv/CG0cFkLnvxY… THIS IS OUR FINAL EPISODE! 📺📫📰 #Circassian #Africa #Stories #Folktale #Representation
"Circassian Beauty" & the "African Savage": A Story about The Horrors of Colonialization). Here, Diana & I are comparing the war wounds of our ancestors. According to the colonizers, Circassians & Africans are on opposite ends of the spectrum... More in link below 👇🏾
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Go to @ElmiHouse to find the full episode! Available on our IGTV page now, via the link below: 🦄🦋 instagram.com/p/CGszS5qHooL/ You can find the rest of this clip, here: instagram.com/tv/CGt_bnflXuQ… THIS IS OUR FINAL EPISODE! 📺📫📰 #Circassian #Africa #Stories #Folktales #Story
Our parents’ generation has lived through some pretty horrific things like - War & Ethnic Cleansing. As did our grandparents before them. And we wonder, after people survive horrific experiences like that, what happens?
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Go to @ElmiHouse to find Parts 1 & 2 of this episode! Available on our IGTV page now. 🦄🦋 You can find the rest of this clip, here: instagram.com/tv/CGyD6KeHlTL… THIS IS OUR FINAL EPISODE! 📺📫📰 #Circassian #Africa #Stories #Folktale #Representation
DID YOU KNOW: That the style of dress you usually associate with EUROPE’S MEDIEVAL AGE, actually got its influence from the CIRCASSIAN PEOPLE’S CULTURAL DRESS? 🤯🤯🤯🤯 Y’ALL, we talk about SO MUCH in this episode. You won’t want to miss out. 🌟🧡
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Go to @ElmiHouse to find the full episode! Available on our IGTV page now, via the link below: 🦄🦋 instagram.com/tv/CGszS5qHooL… #Circassian #RepresentationMatters #RepresentativeStorytelling #Culture #Stories