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Use Your Head - Integrate Bristol (Official Music Video) - Dance to End Gender Violence

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"It was important for us to feature famous individuals as well as members of the public to show the range of people willing to give their time and energy to contribute to the young people's message." (Oliver Zimmermann, director of the music video)

This video from United Kingdom (UK) young people's organisation Integrate Bristol brings singers, rappers, dancers, kids, and Ministers from the UK government together to dance to end violence against women and girls (VAWG) including ending female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C).

The video promotes action, such as showing support by adding one's picture (selfie) with the tag #useyourhead and posting it on the Integrate Bristol Facebook page, as well as sharing the video on social media.

On Integrate Bristol from the YouTube website:
"The young people of Integrate Bristol have had a stream of high profile projects. Having overcome at times fierce opposition, the charity has grown from a small group of four terrified teenagers in 2008, writing poetry about the then taboo subject of FGM, to a thriving group of over 100 young people to date. In 2010-2011, thirteen girls from the project made a drama doc for radio that was featured on Woman's Hour; in 2011-2012, twenty-seven girls made the award winning film Silent Scream that has since gone global, winning the 2012 First Light Young Voices Award and reaching well over 300,000 views on YouTube. In 2012 the young people also hosted a national conference for 300 delegates at Bristol University, featured on Newsnight and advised on a two parter for BBC Casualty and an episode of Law and Order. In 2013 they wrote and performed the critically acclaimed play My Normal Life, a production that placed female genital mutilation (FGM) firmly within the context of violence against women and girls (VAWG)."

"Copyright 2014 Integrate Bristol and Zed Productions Ltd. - we actively encourage people to embed or link to this video including audio on other web sites and blogs. However, we do not grant permission for this video to be downloaded and then re-uploaded elsewhere. We are very happy for people to use the music for creating video replies and responses. The music track 'Use Your Head' will be available for free download on iTunes very soon."

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4:44
Date Year of Production
Not specified
Source

DFID Girl Summit YouTube Channel, accessed on August 11 2015.