Blog Updates and inspiration

“Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.” -Vladimir Mayakovsky Monday Mini Mixtapes are back! For those of you new to this game, this is a chance for us to share artists with you that we LOVE: music that makes us feel and makes us move. […]

You know that feeling you get on a rollercoaster ride when your stomach and your heart become one, and you scream with your hands in the air like that may help with the dizziness? That barely begins to describe the past few weeks on the road. We have experienced unconditional love from host homes, been […]

After review of applications, in-depth interviews with students and countless home visits, the Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP) team at last announced the newest scholarship recipients. A crowd of 114 students and their family members gathered in the Invisible Children (IC) compound as one by one, the children came forward to receive their scholarship awards. Through […]

Here’s a fun photo recap of what Invisible Children Music has been up to for the past few weeks. We started off Spring in Austin, TX for SXSW filming takeaway shows with St. Lucia and Charli XCX and co-hosting showcases. Then quickly headed our on tour with Delta Spirit and Waters. As you can tell, we […]

Mercy Southam, one of the LRA Crisis Tracker Project Developers in our San Diego headquarters, is compiling weekly reports based on data generated from IC’s Early Warning Radio Network, the UN, and organizations on the ground. She will be breaking down the information and highlighting specified activity in the weekly blog post, On The Radar. […]

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being […]

When Elizabeth, an English teacher at Sir Samuel Baker in Northern Uganda, visited the United States as part of the Schools for Schools (S4S) Reciprocal Teacher Exchange program, she was surprised – and a little amused – by some of the misconceptions she encountered. “The students had a lot of questions in their minds; they […]

If you’re used to purified, fortified, drinkable water flowing from taps in every kitchen and bathroom in the house, it can be difficult not to take the life-giving substance for granted. Even so, somewhere in the back of our minds we are aware that it’s not that easy for everyone. In fact, according to a […]

We knew there would be critics. We knew there would be tough questions. We didn’t know that we would be welcomed at a lovely University in Hawaii with anti-Invisible Children flyers describing us as “Conquerors of Africa”. We opened our hearts nonetheless and Papito and Carlos spoke with conviction about our cause. When the floor […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following remarks earlier today on the decades-long series of atrocities committed by Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Ros-Lehtinen expressed her support for current legislation before the U.S. House of Representatives designed to assist in bringing Kony and […]