Textile waste: Interview with Greenpeace Africa

 

Listen to Sam Quashie-Idun and Hellen Dena from Greenpeace Africa in my podcast, Spotlight on Africa:

This video was produced for my podcast's new episode, which focuses on textile waste from fast fashion. As cheap clothes from China, Asia and Europe increasingly end up in West Africa, pollution is rising – particularly in Ghana.

For RFI English, I spoke to Greenpeace Africa investigators to understand the scale of the issue and how to combat it.

Listen from this link: https://www.rfi.fr/en/podcasts/spotlight-on-africa/20241018-ghana-grapples-with-crisis-caused-by-world-s-throwaway-fashion All episodes here: https://www.rfi.fr/en/podcasts/spotlight-africa/

TERRA: AN EXHIBITION ACROSS CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES IN BURGUNDY, FRANCE

Welcome to the TERRA exhibition at the Chateau de Chevigny-en-Valière, near Beaune, Burgundy, France...

TERRA is a site-specific art exhibition held in Burgundy's UNESCO World Heritage vineyards, blending art and wine. Curated by Jenn Ellis 
(Apsara Studio) and Emie Diamond, and produced 
by Milena Berman (Hautes Côtes), TERRA features multidisciplinary works by emerging and established artists. 

Set in historic châteaux, convents, theatres, and hôtel particuliers, the exhibition explores the concept of terroir, reflecting the relationship between art, place, and history. Visitors are taken 
on a sensory journey through painting, sculpture, ceramics, and installations in and around Beaune's medieval surroundings.

The painting of Antoine Langenieux-Villard 

French artist Emmanuelle Rosso at the TERRA exhibition in Beaune's Chateau de Chevigny-en-Valière

Interview with curator and art historian Emie Diamond and with event producer Milena Berman, in Beaune, Burgundy, France, Sat. 19 Oct. 2024 

One of Emmanuelle Rosso's art pieces at TERRA, at 67 Pall Mall, Beaune

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Curator Jenn Ellis at 67 Pall Mall, Baune

Jodie Carey's sculpture: Guard (2024: Jesmonite, earth, steel)

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Maison de Pommard, Sunday 20 October 2024, Burgundy, France

Singapourian artist Wyn-Lyn Tan and her tryptic at Maison de Pommard

Milena Berman

Emie Diamond and Jenn Ellis at Maison de Pommard 

Artists Wyn-Lyn Tan and Emmanuelle Rosso at Maison de Pommard

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More words and video soon

On the road again... In Burgundy under the sunlight of arts!

 

 

 Beaune

  TERRA

  https://apsarastudio.co.uk/projects/terraii/ 

NEW POST ON MY NEWSLETTER

 

In the words of George Orwell...

“In a peaceful age, I might have written ornate or merely descriptive books"...

NEW POST ON MY SUBSTACK NEWSLETTER:With Greenpeace, Black artists and the coming Palestine Film Festival...

Link to read: https://melissa.substack.com/p/in-the-words-of-george-orwell

Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2024

      📽️📽️🍉🍉 Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2024 programme is live. 🍉🍉📽️📽️

Tickets at https://bristolpff.org.uk/

This year’s festival takes place 30 November - 8 December at Arnolfini Arts, Watershed Cinema, Palestine Museum Bristol and The Cube Microplex.

This year they have a huge lineup of 14 events, including From Ground Zero (2024), Reem Kelani live, The Teacher (2023), To a Land Unknown (2024) and Thank You for Banking with Us! (2024). 

Plus olive oil tasting, shorts, director Q&As, panel discussions and a club night.

They are showcasing a wide selection of Palestinian arts, music, film and DJs across our programme this year as testament to the vibrancy and endurance of Palestine despite the horrors of ongoing war.

This year the BPFF is collecting donations for Haneen Koraz and @filmlabpal

Full programme and tickets from www.bristolpff.org.uk

📅 30 November - 8 December 2024

Gaza: The US must move beyond warnings to Israel and "act decisively to end its complicity in these atrocities”

 

DAWN Statement on Letter from US Secretaries of Defence and State to Israel

Washington, DC – October 15, 2024 On October 13, 2024, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin sent a letter to Israel warning that “failure to demonstrate a sustained commitment to implementing and maintaining [humanitarian measures] may have implications for U.S. policy under NSM-20 and relevant U.S. law.”  The letter demands “urgent and sustained actions by your government this month” to reverse the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza.  It calls for several specific steps, including “rescinding evacuation orders when there is no operational need” and facilitating a minimum of 350 trucks per day of aid into Gaza through all major crossings. DAWN issues the following statement in response to the letter: “However long overdue, this official warning that Israel must stop blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza or face a suspension of U.S. military aid is an important and unprecedented signal that Israel has crossed even the Biden administration’s permissive red lines,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, DAWN’s executive director.  “We now need the Biden administration to show action, not just words, in enforcing U.S. laws, which prohibit aid to Israel given not only its relentless obstruction of humanitarian relief but deliberate starvation and incessant bombardment of Gaza’s civilians.” “The language in this letter acknowledges the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from northern Gaza but stops short of naming it,” said Raed Jarrar, DAWN’s advocacy director.  “In the letter, the Secretaries write that evacuation orders have ‘forced 1.7 million people into a narrow coastal zone,’ resulting in extreme overcrowding and high risks of lethal contagion.  While the letter demands Israel rescind evacuation orders, it is time for the U.S. to enforce these demands immediately rather than issuing vague deadlines. The U.S. must move beyond warnings and act decisively to end its complicity in these atrocities.”

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DAWN is a non-profit organisation based in Washington, D.C.

Art from Brazil to Africa

 

My latest: 

1.  Africa

Culture

Artistic exchange between Brazil and Angola aims to reclaim colonial ties

For the first time in its 73-year history, the Sao Paulo Biennial is taking artworks to the African continent with a travelling showcase in Angola. The event's curators told RFI they hope the project will highlight long-standing correspondences between Angola and Brazil, united by a shared colonial past.

Issued on: 12/10/2024

https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20241012-sao-paulo-biennial-artistic-exchange-between-brazil-and-angola-aims-to-reclaim-colonial-ties

I need more sad music...

 

Tamino - 'Babylon' (Live)

On the road again...

 

England, Oct. 2024

One shot from 1:54 London, Oct. 2024

 

More soon...