Laura Schuerwegen

When I left Malawi a year ago, one of the goals I set out to was to dedicate my self more to my art. To take that part of me seriously, rather than just seeing it as a hobby. Describing myself as an artist is a fairly recent thing for me, even though art in… Read more: Accidental Art Sales

This month of September marks 10 years of Afrochoc, but we’ve sure seen ups and downs, from having two shops, 11 employees, to being back in the basement and going on hiatus and trying to sell the whole business alltogether. But here I am, back in Malawi, and fully up and running again, ready to… Read more: The Chocolate Lady is back

STATS: 4 days, 11 applications It’s been four days since I took up the challenge of getting rejected 1000 times in a year. The goal I set is to apply to 3 things each day, which would give me ample opportunities to get to 1000 rejections. Since I have started doing this, I have come… Read more: 1000 Rejections – Early Reflections

I read this article a little while ago about this person who had set out to get rejected 1000 times, and ended up landing parts in plays etc. Now recently, life has felt a bit slow. Mostly because I am not in the stress of the festival creation and I do really really well in… Read more: 1000 rejections

Many years ago, a Ghanaian friend once told me, “We women need to always be doing something with our hands.” At the time, my younger feminist self bristled at the comment. It felt like a call back to domesticity, to the very limitations I wanted to escape. But twenty years later, I find myself thinking… Read more: The Power of Collective Creation