https://lullaby.hannah.ph Living Lullabies Sat, 09 Jan 2021 04:32:50 +0000 https://lullaby.hannah.ph en https://lullaby.hannah.ph/Home Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:43:32 +0000 Living Lullabies https://lullaby.hannah.ph/Home <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8337b85269129803a83c9a0c4f61d767123702f6732e0bcb4ee6a3dd19ffa864/MM9153_190904_01371.jpg" data-mid="94366824" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8337b85269129803a83c9a0c4f61d767123702f6732e0bcb4ee6a3dd19ffa864/MM9153_190904_01371.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f70eb1c810cfd2d768a405653dfbcd9fe4d965694acfbad602ae7a68cd79179b/MM9153_191221_08988.jpg" data-mid="94242887" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f70eb1c810cfd2d768a405653dfbcd9fe4d965694acfbad602ae7a68cd79179b/MM9153_191221_08988.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af56417c39eba3bb4c2a34c84b33cb84ffde33aaaff2385f654166ce9dbdff2c/MM9153_200111_12864.jpg" data-mid="94366920" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af56417c39eba3bb4c2a34c84b33cb84ffde33aaaff2385f654166ce9dbdff2c/MM9153_200111_12864.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b04962432b51927582006c64707d15d5175ffd3762913be657b4854decae3acf/MM9153_200109_11098.jpg" data-mid="94366879" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b04962432b51927582006c64707d15d5175ffd3762913be657b4854decae3acf/MM9153_200109_11098.jpg" /> The song comes alive as night draws in. Hear it curl beneath the blanket, slip between the fold of cradling arms, in rooms across the world. To an audience of children, a hidden chorus of caregivers fills the night with song. They’re singing lullabies. Living Lullabies illuminates critical issues facing women and children through the multidisciplinary storytelling of families’ night-time rituals. It explores how caregivers prepare children for sleep in environments fraught with risk, and the unique role of the lullaby as a vector for sense- and place- making. https://lullaby.hannah.ph/Intro Fri, 08 Jan 2021 10:37:16 +0000 Living Lullabies https://lullaby.hannah.ph/Intro <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/52eec2c688e260105116eda8a37088050019bd0f8ff989815ca26d1656e2df1e/MM9153_190906_03419.jpg" data-mid="94372209" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/52eec2c688e260105116eda8a37088050019bd0f8ff989815ca26d1656e2df1e/MM9153_190906_03419.jpg" /> We’ve been singing lullabies for millennia. Inscribed on a clay tablet is a Babylonian lullaby that’s about 4,000 years old. (Play, to listen to the oldest known lullaby) By the glow of a phone, or to the thrum of a city, lullabies still charm babies to sleep today. We inherit them, and we pass them on. We carry lullabies across borders and make new ones along the way. They contain the traces of those who came before us, and they will carry traces of us long after we’re gone. They are likely to be the first love songs that we hear. Within lullabies we’ve inscribed not just our greatest fears, but in the same breath, our prayers, our hopes, and our reassurances. https://lullaby.hannah.ph/Displaced-from-Home Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:52:34 +0000 Living Lullabies https://lullaby.hannah.ph/Displaced-from-Home <img width="7952" height="5304" width_o="7952" height_o="5304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be31e5891c8c8ffdfd1651b08d36340ac168ee8e3406ef7724f1a9c57dadb7b8/MM9153_200729_18579-3.jpg" data-mid="94249701" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be31e5891c8c8ffdfd1651b08d36340ac168ee8e3406ef7724f1a9c57dadb7b8/MM9153_200729_18579-3.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c4d0175c2ba44cdfc6d201c2de186c009f923418de3e238ef4e46a576b1355df/MM9153_190907_04414.jpg" data-mid="94238587" border="0" data-scale="58" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c4d0175c2ba44cdfc6d201c2de186c009f923418de3e238ef4e46a576b1355df/MM9153_190907_04414.jpg" /> For Mona, a Syrian refugee living in Turkey, the lullaby is a window into a caregiver’s soul. Mona’s&nbsp; three sons left their home in Syria to avoid being drafted into a war that has killed more than half a million people since 2011. A year after her last son left, Mona followed and crossed into Turkey. Five years after the crossing, her eldest son Mahmoud, and his wife, had a baby, Zaid. Mona became a grandmother. ‘There is no one more precious than your child, until you meet your grandchild,’ she says. Mona describes how bedtime is fraught with risk for refugees. When Zaid would wake up crying in the middle of the night, their Turkish neighbours would threaten to call the police. The same complaint saw the previous tenants evicted. In love and fear, Mona would hold Zaid all night long, and she sang. ‘I placed you in the loft to sleep, but I feared the snake.’ https://lullaby.hannah.ph/Breathtaking-Air Thu, 07 Jan 2021 08:58:53 +0000 Living Lullabies https://lullaby.hannah.ph/Breathtaking-Air <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3642ef6a22e8a64ef76247ff71596aa87b21bdc9fde1ea527696af08142f4541/MM9153_200109_11272.jpg" data-mid="94451126" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3642ef6a22e8a64ef76247ff71596aa87b21bdc9fde1ea527696af08142f4541/MM9153_200109_11272.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/671591afd9be8a608625f861c4bb03866d23ade1db45921809c0f0eec5c5bed9/MM9153_200109_10966.jpg" data-mid="94238737" border="0" data-scale="61" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/671591afd9be8a608625f861c4bb03866d23ade1db45921809c0f0eec5c5bed9/MM9153_200109_10966.jpg" /> On a winter evening in Nailakh, a district of Ulaanbaatar - one of the world’s coldest and most air polluted capitals, Dejid, Todgerel, and their youngest son Galanbagana get ready for bed.As the air pollution reaches hazardous levels outside their home, Dejid sings to soothe her kids, and her own worries. ‘Here comes the dreamboat of stars, taking you to a dreamy silver night...’ https://lullaby.hannah.ph/Community-Cradle Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:04:17 +0000 Living Lullabies https://lullaby.hannah.ph/Community-Cradle <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d832480ce2c8654abde956ea75904844efc59283e9dc4624db6dd5039b500735/MM9153_191216_05983.jpg" data-mid="94238929" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d832480ce2c8654abde956ea75904844efc59283e9dc4624db6dd5039b500735/MM9153_191216_05983.jpg" /> In Liberia, about 1 in 3 girls are mothers by the time they are 19. Patience Brooks gave birth to her first daughter at 14. Here in Patience’s neighborhood, caregiving is an exercise in community.&nbsp; The children huddle together around Patience as she takes care of her neighbors’ children. ‘Once upon a time…’ Patience begins; “TIME,” the children reply, then quiet into listening. Later, they tell&nbsp; their own stories - about kings and queens, forests and magic creatures. At home, Patience puts her daughter Marta to sleep.‘I sing to forget the baby’s Pa,’ she says.&nbsp; Don’t cry baby, Your ma is iron soap. https://lullaby.hannah.ph/Sign-Language Thu, 07 Jan 2021 10:47:03 +0000 Living Lullabies https://lullaby.hannah.ph/Sign-Language <img width="2500" height="1667" width_o="2500" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3e674efd1767d131d3654f046f501b55901d2c87e3af2d3dea604b7c5a9f064/MM9153_200617_16187.jpg" data-mid="94248948" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3e674efd1767d131d3654f046f501b55901d2c87e3af2d3dea604b7c5a9f064/MM9153_200617_16187.jpg" /> 6 year old Xavier gets tucked up for bed, hugging his doll with toy hearing implants. Xavier is deaf, and uses implants to help him hear. At night, he and his mom Jessica sing - and sign - lullabies together before going to bed. After singing, Jessica, says “I love you” out loud to Xavier every night, knowing that with his condition, there is a possibility they may not work in the future.“I make sure to tell him in case it is the last thing he hears,” she says. How I wonder what you are. https://lullaby.hannah.ph/Song-of-the-Sea Fri, 08 Jan 2021 10:47:07 +0000 Living Lullabies https://lullaby.hannah.ph/Song-of-the-Sea &nbsp; Bedtimes and lullabies are shaped by the physical world we live in. For Zaijan, a child in the Philippines, sleep is dictated by the tides of the sea. At night, he fishes with his father, falling asleep to the sound of the waves and the putt of the engine. The Philippines is the beating heart of the Coral Triangle, with more species of marine life than anywhere else on Earth. With schools closed due to the COVID pandemic, and with his father under mounting pressure to meet the family’s needs, Zaijan learned to fish. ‘He learned to survive in a time of loss,’ Umbing says.&nbsp;In the daytime, after fishing, Zaijan rocks his sister Jazzy to sleep. I pray to God that she might never shed a tear.&nbsp; https://lullaby.hannah.ph/Physical-Distance Sat, 09 Jan 2021 04:32:50 +0000 Living Lullabies https://lullaby.hannah.ph/Physical-Distance <img width="2500" height="1668" width_o="2500" height_o="1668" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd94e8e75fe27020894454539c7b224d76cb404a2dd6bd4b2d29854b3cc049a3/MM9153_200516_14452.jpg" data-mid="94457515" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd94e8e75fe27020894454539c7b224d76cb404a2dd6bd4b2d29854b3cc049a3/MM9153_200516_14452.jpg" /> As the pandemic began altering life across the world, physical distancing drastically changed the way we connect. Women comprise nearly 70% of health and social service workers. For mothers working on the frontline of the pandemic, putting themselves at risk to care for their communities comes with the additional challenge of caring for their own families at home. Press play to watch screen recordings of essential workers calling their families during bedtime. https://lullaby.hannah.ph/News Fri, 08 Jan 2021 09:22:19 +0000 Living Lullabies https://lullaby.hannah.ph/News National Geographic Magazine, December 2020 &nbsp; “In cultures around the world, the songs that coax kids to sleep are windows into parents’ hopes, fears, and dreams for the future.” Read the story &gt;&gt; https://lullaby.hannah.ph/News-copy Fri, 08 Jan 2021 13:37:01 +0000 Living Lullabies https://lullaby.hannah.ph/News-copy Talk, National Geographic Live