"The Final Ceremony for Cohort 01 of Yemen SOUT Project "Yalla Podcast

17 January 2024

As part of “Yemen SOUT” project, implemented by a group of young Alumni of cultural exchange programs in partnership with PASS Foundation - Peace for Sustainable Societies and funded by the Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF2023), Cohort 01 of the training program "Yalla Podcast" has ended an intensive training journey for (60 hours), for 20 Aden artists from different fields (Drawing and Design, Literature and Writing, Public Speaking, Audio Engineering...), the Training Program's journey focused on all the preparation, design, production, industry and audio engineering needs of podcast makers for a Podcast Episode, and the training concentrated on 4 main subjects: (Ethics of Journalistic Work and Research Methodology, Visual Identity Design, Script Writing, Audio Engineering).

Each group of 5 artists in Cohort 01 - with a total of 4 groups - have produced their own podcast episode under the supervision of the trainers (Eng. Sara Al-Shuaibi and Eng. Ali al-Saadi), starting from the creating the idea, to searching for supporting resources, writing and reviewing scripts and scenarios, designing visual identity, in addition to recording and editing the audios of the podcasts. The Output of the production phase is that 4 podcasts are now created and produced in Adeni accent made by the participants with concepts and backgrounds from the Adeni art and culture, entitled (Showha, Hendrab, Masamatosh? and Yellow Light) podcasts.

The journey of making and producing these podcast episodes for Cohort 01 of the project "Yemen SOUT" will be shared in the coming days..

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