15/05/2016

Starting Festival Season


With:




Near Paris, in Vincennes, early June!!
Music and ethics. Friendly and green.

Read more:


«We Love Green» : le festival de musique éco-responsable

Verres en plastique non recyclés, mégots par terre, grosse facture d'énergie liée aux sonos et lumières... Les festivals de musique sont souvent de rudes moments pour l'environnement. 


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La troisième scène du festival est une proposition ambitieuse et inédite, pour conjuguer pédagogie et ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives pour élargir notre champ de vision.
Au programme des conférences, rencontres, débats et projections de documentaires ou grands films.

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Les Inrocks :

Cette année, We Love Green a décidé d’envoyer encore un peu plus de lourd en affichant PJ Harvey et LCD Soundsystem en tête d’affiche de sa programmation. Le festival vert, qui se tiendra au Bois de Vincennes les 4 et 5 juin prochain, a également pris des libertés en se dirigeant davantage vers la musique électronique : les noms annoncés ne sont autres que le duo versaillais AirFatima YamahaDiplo ou encore Hudson Mohawkepour les DJ sets. Pour ce qui est du live, Floating Points se chargera de nous ambiancer. Et surprise : c’est le duo rap PNL qui se chargera de la street cred de la prog.
Mais il y aura aussi FKJSuperpozeJacques ainsi que L’Imperatricepour la tendance frenchie. A prévoir également : les Anglais de Hot Chip, le Brésilien Amon Tobin et la chanteuse r’n’b Kelela. 
Des infos sur les pass sont à retrouver sur le site du festival.



"Another hidden treasure from Bristol”: Lady Nade's album launch - Sat. May 21st


Not to be missed!!!


1 week until my official album show at tickets avalible @ www.ladynade.co.uk until Wednesday! X



Lady Nade ‘Hard To Forget’ Album Show

Saturday 21st May Bristol Folk House

Doors 7pm | 8-11pm  

Lady Nade has been described as having a voice that speaks of long-lost jazz clubs, with a poise that belies her age. Mixing modern soul and folk. Her sound has been likened to “Anthony and the Johnsons and Nina Simone”  

Lady Nades first album single ’Mind’s Made Up’ is already being acclaimed by local press gaining airplay on both BBC Bristol’s Introducing Show and Tom Robinsons BBC6 Fresh Net show. 

Lady Nade will launching her debut album on Saturday 21st of May The Bristol Folk House, featuring special guests and support performances from: 
    Access To Music
    The Rock Project 
Tickets on sale at www.ladynade.co.uk
FolkHouse Bristol 0117 926 2987
£5.00 in Adv £8.00 on the door
Reviews:

"To call Lady Nade a ‘singer-songwriter’ hardly hints at the emotional weight of her lyrics, let alone the unique richness of a unique voice. Some of the best soul music lives where blues meets jazz and Lady Nade is right there, too". 
Tony Benjamin from Bristol 24/7 

"Whatever the aliment, Lady Nade is the cure…a satin voice." 
Sam Bonham BBC Introducing

"Unique, wonderful, voice which has the power to move you.” 
Ian Matthews of Kasabian

"Great voice, distinctive and original, another hidden treasure from Bristol.” 
Roni Size

"Lady Nade ‘a captivating soul singer ‘one to watch’ ".
The Musicians union

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info@ladynade.co.uk
www.ladynade.co.uk
Facebook: Lady Nade
Twitter: Lady Nade


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My review from Nade's performance in WOMAD 2015 - in French fro RFI Musique:



Festival

WOMAD 2015 
Reportage  

28/07/2015 - 

Le festival WOMAD – World of Music, Arts and Dance – créé en 1982 par Peter Gabriel et quelques acolytes passionnés de musique, dans le Somerset, comté du sud-ouest de l’Angleterre, s’est depuis étendu sur d’autres continents. Cette 33e édition anglaise se tenait à Charlton Park, dans le Wiltshire près de Bristol, et confirme son statut de plus grand festival en matière de musique du monde, avec des têtes d'affiche comme le chanteur sénégalais Cheikh Lô, ou l'Ivoirien Tiken Jah Fakoly, mais aussi quelques groupes en devenir comme les Congolais du Mbongwana Star.


Un festival anglais sans pluie ni boue ne serait pas un festival digne de ce nom… Le WOMAD 2015 s’est donc ouvert le jeudi 23 juillet au soir sous une pluie battante. Cela n’a pas empêché les festivaliers et campeurs d’arriver en masse sur le site de Charlton Park, où se tient l’édition historique de ce festival à déclinaison. Ce qui caractérise le WOMAD est un mélange de découvertes locales britanniques et des performances des meilleurs musiciens des cinq continents, associées à de nombreux ateliers, des événements parallèles, des débats et projections de films. Cette année, parmi les artistes attendus dès le premier jour de concert, le vendredi, figuraient le duo des Franco-Cubaines Ibeyi, l’électro franco-orientale d’Orange Blossom et la formation nigérienne de Tal National. Pour la première soirée, la scène de la Siam Tent a ensuite accueilli le blues du désert des Maliens de Kidal Tinariwen sous des tonnerres d’applaudissements.

Parmi les sept scènes du festival, celle du Molly’s Bar a reçu les formations plus intimes. Vendredi, s’y sont produits les percussionnistes ghanéens de Kakatsi Drummers suivis de la chanteuse de Bristol, Lady Nade. De son vrai nom Nadine Gingell, elle fait partie des groupes qui montent dans l’ouest de l’Angleterre. Venue l’an dernier en spectatrice, Lady Nade a depuis produit un premier single, Mind’s Made Up, et joué intensément dans la région sa soul musique qu’elle qualifie de "folky et moderne", inspirée par les ladies du jazz Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, ainsi que par Leonard Cohen, Lianne La Havas, Katy Perry ou encore Anthony and the Johnsons.

Autre star de Bristol en vedette, le DJ pionnier Daddy G, membre du groupe Massive Attack, s’est produit sur la scène de la RedTent samedi soir, pour une soirée de mix reggae et dub, accompagné du jeune britannique MC Deemas J.

À l’autre bout du spectre musical, l’un des temps forts de la soirée de samedi, reste la prestation jazz de l’Israélienne d’origine éthiopienne Ester Rada et de son groupe aux trois magnifiques cuivres, sur l’Open Air Stage. Elle a été suivie dans un immense enthousiasme par l’apparition de l’Ivoirien Tiken Jah Fakoly.


(...) Enfin, dimanche, le festival recevait également les très attendus Ghostpoet et Laura Mvula, ainsi qu’une seconde performance du chanteur sénégalais Cheikh Lô, ovationné, et celle du Français surdoué Chassol. L’Analog Africa Sound System a clos les festivités par un DJ set multiculturel.

Mélissa Chemam

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My review for Toutelaculture.com:


Le WOMAD est le point de rencontre entre un pays extrêmement riche musicalement, le Royaume-Uni, sur ses terres culturellement fertiles du sud-ouest, et de ses multiples influences et passions, venant des cinq continents. Rendez-vous de multiples talents, le festival attire forcément des artistes locaux.
Incarnation de la musique de l’ouest de l’Angleterre

C’est le cas de Lady Nade, de son vrai nom Nadine Gingell, venue de Bristol. C’est sous une pluie battante qu’elle quitte vendredi matin son quartier de St Werburghs, connu pour sa superbe ferme urbaine et ses légendaires soirées sound systems reggae, qui ont fait le son de Bristol. Ce concert est son premier lors du festival de renom. « Je suis venue l’an dernier en spectatrice et je savais que l’année suivante je serai ici sur scène ! », s’enthousiasme Nade. Tentes, parapluies, sandwiches et rhum coca sont prêts ; le mini van peut démarrer !
Au sein de sa formation, Nade est accompagnée par trois musiciens : le guitariste Seb Gutiez, un Français vivant à Bath, le contrebassiste de Bristol Dan Everett, qui compose avec elle nombre de ses morceaux, et le jeune batteur Mike Cooper. Nade travaille également avec Allan Keen, son producteur et co-auteur, également fondateur du label indépendant Kitchen Studio.
Le groupe est déjà bien connu de la scène de Bristol, où il se produit régulièrement comme ce dimanche dans le quartier de Clifton, après ses deux concerts du WOMAD. Lady Nade a produit cette année un premier single, ‘Mind’s Made Up’, qu’elle a présenté sur la scène du Molly’s Bar du WOMAD, qui accueille de nombreux musiciens de l’ouest de l’Angleterre. Née à Bristol en 1988, d’une mère anglaise et d’un père de Sainte-Lucie et La Barbade, Lady Nade s’est formée au chant et à la guitare à partir de seize ans et se produit dans la région depuis trois ans. Sa musique, qu’elle décrit comme de la « folky soul moderne » s’inspire aussi bien des grandes ‘ladies’ du jazz, dont Nina Simone et Ella Fitzgerald en tête, que de Leonard Cohen, Lianne La Havas ou encore Anthony and the Johnsons et Maroon 5.
Pour ses textes, elle construit un univers personnel qui parle d’amour, de pertes et déceptions mais surtout d’espoir. « Bristol a beaucoup à offrir aux jeunes musiciens, mais il est temps pour moi d’en sortir et de partir en tournée », explique Nade, qui rêve de jouer à Paris. Son premier album sortira en en octobre, suivi d’un second single en novembre et d’une tournée en Angleterre.
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14/05/2016

Dadaab's closure: Somalia's reaction



Somalia protests against Kenyan plan to close refugee camp

Thu May 12, 2016 4:35pm GMT
 
Refugees stand outside their tent at the Ifo Extension refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border in Garissa County, Kenya October 19, 2011. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya/File Photo
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia protested on Thursday against Kenyan plans to close a refugee camp packed with hundreds of thousands of Somali citizens, saying the move would increase the threat of militancy in the region.
Kenya had announced a day earlier it was drawing up a timetable to shut Dadaab camp, shrugging off pleas to reconsider the move by the United Nations and rights groups. [nL5N18902B]
The vast settlement on the Kenyan side of the Somali border houses about 350,000 Somalis and other refugees taking shelter from conflicts raging across the region. Kenya says militants have also used it as a base to launch attacks.
But Somalia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said any move to close it would only hurt the refugees and possibly drive more people into militancy.
"Expelling vulnerable Somali refugees at a time Somalia is making internationally recognised progress towards stability and institution building, will only increase the risk of insecurity in the region," the ministry said.
"This decision will negatively affect the majority of Somali refugees ... and will make the threat of terrorism worse, not better," it added.
Somalia's Western-backed government is struggling to rebuild the country after more than two decades of turmoil, first at the hands of clan warlords, then Islamist militants.
Kenya says fighters from Somalia's al Shabaab militant group have used the camp as a launch pad for attacks on the nearby Garissa university in 2015 and other targets.
Last year, Kenya said it was setting a three-month deadline to close Dadaab, but backtracked on following U.N. condemnation of any forced return.
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, Kenya and Somalia signed a tripartite deal in 2013 to repatriate Somali refugees voluntarily, including 50,000 in 2016.
But UNHCR acknowledged at the time it would be difficult to carry out, given the continuing al Shabaab insurgency and the poor state of schools and public services in Somalia.
(Reporting by Abdi Sheikh; Editing by George Obulutsa and Andrew Heavens)

Changements en vue à Grande-Synthe



Les dernières infos, dans le quotidien La Voix du Nord :

http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/region/grande-synthe-l-etat-et-la-ville-veulent-remettre-de-ia17b47594n3504085


Grande-Synthe : l’État et la ville veulent remettre de l’ordre au camp de migrants de la Linière 

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L’association Utopia56 a coordonné l’ouverture du camp humanitaire de Grande Synthe depuis son ouverture le 7 mars. L’Etat a annoncé qu’il va en reprendre la gestion et nous sommes actuellement en attente d’information. 
Les réfugiés peuvent compter sur nous : entre 50 et 100 bénévoles, venus de toute l’Europe, s’inscrivent tous les jours aux différents postes nécessaires à la vie quotidienne du camp, pour assurer la distribution de repas, de vêtement, la veille incendie, l’accueil des nouveaux réfugiés, la laverie, la construction de cuisines collectives, etc.
Nous soutenons et remercions la Mairie de Grande-Synthe pour sa confiance. Nous rendons hommage à Médecins Sans Frontières pour leur engagement et leur aide indéfectible. Nous remercions particulièrement les associations locales qui nous appuient quotidiennement et les bénévoles qui ont travaillé jour et nuit en collaboration avec les réfugiés pour obtenir le feu vert de la commission de sécurité du 25 mars.
Nous appelons les bénévoles à rester mobilisés et à s’inscrire sur Utopia56.com pour venir aider dans les camps du Nord Pas de Calais où notre action est nécessaire.
Les réfugiés peuvent compter sur nous et nous comptons sur vous smile emoticon

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We, the association Utopia 56, have been running the Grande Synthe humanitarian camp since it opened on 7th March. The state has announced that it is going to take over management of the camp and we are currently awaiting more information. 
The refugees can count on us: between 50 and 100 volunteers from all over Europe are here each day, helping to run the camp - distributing meals, clothes, keeping an eye out for fires, welcoming new refugees, doing laundry, building shared kitchens, etc.
We support, and would like to thank, the mayor of Grande Synthe for placing his trust in us. We pay homage to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) for their commitment and tireless assistance. We would particularly like to thank the local associations who support us each day and the volunteers who worked day and night with the refugees to obtain the go-ahead from the security commission on 25th March.
Volunteers! Please remain available and sign up on Utopia56.com to come and help in camps of the Nord Pas de Calais region where our help is needed. 
The refugees can count on us, and we are counting on you smile emoticon

Message from Giles Duley about the refugee crisis and the power of stories

We cannot listen to this man enough. 

So grateful some people are doing such a great work with so much involvement. 

He's right: we can make a difference! Listen to his stories, share, think, try to understand the situation of the refugees from the inside, instead of just remaining afraid and puzzled. We are one world! Their problems are our problems.

Giles Duley started as a music photographer before finding he needed to report on news, crisis and war. He paid a high price for his involvement and only got stronger and stronger, and more committed.

He is one of the photographers who documented the whole of the recent refugee crisis, from the Syrian war to the shores of Greek islands, to mainland Europe. And it's not over.

Who wants to choose to remain insensitive in front of such a tragedy?


Here is Giles Duley's talk at the TedX Exeter, in southern England:



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Here are some of my photographs from Calais and from Northern Iraq. They are not as powerful but they are my way, as a journalist and storyteller, of involvement. 
We are messengers. 
It's very little but it's already something...



Calais, Afghan restaurant open by migrants:





Calais, The "Jungle":




Grande-Synthe, near Dunkirk, volunteers from D'Ici et D'Ailleurs, Feb. 2016:







Debaga camp for displaced people, Kurdistan, Iraq, April 2016:





Sardehti, Sinjar Montains, Nineweh province, Iraq:




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NB. I'm organising an exhibition of photos of refugees in Greece and Serbia by Livia Saavedra for the NGO WAHA International, in Paris. It'll be in the 10th art, in the town hall, from June the 20th to the 30th. More here soon.

13/05/2016

Nuit Debout reaches Bristol


Invoking the spirit of 15M movement in Spain, #NuitDebout is now inviting people across the globe to join a #GlobalDebout on May 15, and so will we do in Bristol!

We invite you to participate in an global day of action on the 15th of May 2016, called by Nuit Debout in France and coinciding with the fifth anniversary of 15M in Spain. We will meet at College Green on the 15th of May at 12:00 in order to show our rejection to a system based on competition and individualism and answer with solidarity, participatory democracy and collective action. After the concentration, we would like to carry on with an open asssembly, a workshop and with a popular meal in College Green, where we can share our thoughts and ideas. Please, feel free to bring some food.

Supported by Bristol People's Assembly Against Austerity and by Bristol IWW.

INTERNATIONAL CALL:
We call for a #GlobalDebout day of action on may 15, 2016!


We call on peoples’ movements across the world to mobilize for justice and real democracy on May 15, 2016 for a #GLOBALDEBOUT. We invite you to come to Paris for an international gathering of movements at Place de la Republique on May 7 and 8.

Today #46mars (April 15) is just two weeks after one million people mobilized in Paris, and the Nuit Debout movement continues to grow. In numerous cities, both in France and abroad, #Nuitdebout (Night on our Feet) is a light in the dark, giving testimony to our hopes, dreams and common rebellions. Those who have taken the squares in the past and those who are taking them now: we know something is happening.

The struggle for a better world is global and without borders, let’s construct together a global spring of resistance! Join to us on May 7 and 8 in Paris at Place de la Republique to debate, to share our experiences and to begin to construct common solutions. There we will strategize and prepare for an International day of Action on May 15 (#76mars). On this date we will occupy, mobilize and take direct action together across the world.

Nuit Debout’s first aim is to create a space for the ‘convergence of struggles’. We hope this convergence will go beyond France and spread across the globe. There exist numerous links between social movements in all four corners of the world; from unemployment to the imposition of the financial markets, from the destruction of the environment to war and unacceptable inequality.

In response to a system based on competition and individualism, we answer with solidarity, participatory democracy and collective action. Our differences are not a source of divisions, but rather our strength, as we complement each other’s struggles. We are neither listened to, nor represented by the current economic system.

Together we retake public space and politics because politics is a matter of all of us. Now is not the moment retreat, but to come together for change.

We are the 99% and we are here to reject the financial and political rule of the 1% and their world. We are here to take back our cities, our places of work and our lives.

On May 7 and 8, let’s come together to Paris to the square of the Republic!

On the day of May 15 we will rise up together for a global day of action.

#NuitDebout everywhere! #GlobalDebout!



More info:

http://twitter.com/GlobalDebout

https://www.facebook.com/events/254751298208004/

intnuitdebout@riseup.net

Via nuitdebout.fr



“Yesterday’s News" - June 7 - 11 - London


Next month in London:

Come and see a photo exhibition dealing with the highly important issue of "what become news when it's no more news"? Remarkable work from brilliant photographers and a debate on June 11th in the very interesting area of Southwark.

Details below.


"Yesterday’s News"





PRESS RELEASE



“Yesterday’s News brings together the work of three photographers that focuses on three
sites of past disasters: Chernobyl, Bosnia and Nepal.

It is presented at the newly opened and critically acclaimed Platform Southwark, an exhibition space at the intersection of visual and performative art.
Each artist presents their photography in collaboration with set designers and a sound artist. The space has been reconstructed as an immersive journey, portraying how people live in remains of catastrophes.

Public Event: 11 June | 15:00

Join a panel of professionals for ‘Yesterday’s News / Today’s Context’ with:

. Tony Barber, Europe Editor of the Financial Times, Moscow correspondent for Reuters news agency at the time of Chernobyl and war reporter for The Independent during the Bosnian war.
. Mario Petrucci, PhD physicist and metaphysical poet, winner of the 2002 Arvon/ Daily Telegraph International Poetry Prize for ‘Heavy Water, a Poem for Chernobyl’.


PHOTOGRAPHER 1: KAREN BLOCK

Karen Block specialises in fine art and social documentary. She is a qualified member of the Royal Photographic Society and has been selected for UK Graduates 2015 – Darwin Magazine, June 2015 and is currently represented by the Travers Smith Art Program 2015-16.
Her contribution is based on her visits to Belarus and documents the broken lives and landscapes associated with the fall out of Chernobyl.
She presents thirty photographs, one for each year since the disaster.
Karen was struck by the long term unseen effects and the hidden illnesses related directly to the catastrophe.
Her work becomes a poignant statement of the limitless impact of a nuclear contamination.


PHOTOGRAPHER 2: SOPHIE FAUCHIER

Sophie Fauchier is a fine art photographer specialising in photographic narratives.
MuSA International Art Space has recently selected her photography for their new publication project: ‘Woman’s Essence’.
Initially, she was commissioned to document the work achieved by ‘Miracles Centre for Prosthesis and Care’ a small NGO based in Mostar.
Her new project documents her journey through the devastation of the Bosnian war, which was once headline news.
She has captured the scars left on the earth, remnant of a forgotten war. In dialogue with its survivors she has created photos that serve as artefacts of human suffering.


PHOTOGRAPHER 3: CHRIS GRAVETT

Chris Gravett is a freelance photographer specialising in social documentary.
His previous work includes ‘Gravette, the Heart of Hometown America’ featured in The British Journal of Photography and ‘Aftershock’ which documents the humanitarian support following the 2015 earthquake in Nepal. To commemorate the one year anniversary of the Nepalese disaster, it was part of a co-host exhibition with human organisation Kidasha.
Through ‘Yesterday’s News’, Chris reveals the resilience of a society riven by economic and agricultural depression underlying child labour, human trafficking, exploitation and chronic poverty.

INSTALLATION DESIGN: JOJO FAUCHIER & DARCY DAVIES.

Students of Central St Martins specialising in performance design, their main interest lies in creating immersive experiences.
Darcy has previously made work for the Royal Albert Hall and The Hospital Club.
Jojo’s previous work includes collaboration with Rambert Dance Company, Drama Centre London and YouMeBumBumTrain.

SOUND DESIGN: EVAN LOPEZ DE BERGARA

Evan Lopez de Bergara is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound designer and producer, whose main means of expression is electronic music, as a vehicle for deep immersion and transduction of cognitive and
emotional nodes.
His trajectory includes record production, television work and mixed media.
Currently studying an audio production Master's Degree, he is increasingly interested in the power of soundas a cognitive aid and as consciousness catalyst.


yesterday’s news

Platform Southwark
1 Joan Street | London | SE1 8DD
Private View
Tuesday 7 June |18.00 - 21.00
Exhibition Dates
8 - 11 June | 12.30 - 20.00
Karen Block | Chernobyl Sophie Fauchier | Bosnia Chris Gravett | Nepal