This Sunday May 14th 1-4pm under the Marble Arch itself, a co-ordinated global action takes place across major cities in Europe and the USA to support Toomaj Salehi, an Iranian rapper wrongfully imprisoned for making music
Announcing a 2 day conference “Tomorrow, Today: Woman Life Freedom” Wednesday April 19th / Thursday April 20th at the University of the Arts London.
British-Iranian journalist Vahid Beheshti has been on hunger strike for 26 days, an unimaginable endurance, lasting longer than the month of February. Not only an internal struggle, but Beheshti braves the physical endurance of spending the tail end of a British winter outside on the inhospitable streets of London, in a tent. The journalist has …
This film shows the depth of misogyny and reaction that underpins sex apartheid and femicide in Iran.
London’s Iranian avant-garde music and sound arts community, with their friends, put on a fundraiser at Iklectik. Electronica, piano, cello, soprano, Welsh-Iranian folk, works by singer-song-writers and visuals. Tickets on the door or via Paypal here, donations also welcome.
Plus an art exhibition of the “Say Their Names Art Project”, portraits of the fallen in Iran, by artists of other backgrounds. Also participating are Art Terry on piano, of the Art Terry Band and “Is Black Music” on Resonance04.4FM and Omid Amir Larijani on sax.
It is no secret the the Kurdish spirit has long been a thorn in the side of the Iranian regime, their own Kurdish regions and Iraq’s have been instrumental in the struggle against the totalitarian regime. Meanwhile Turkey’s dictator Erdogan is irritated by Turkish-Kurdish resistance, and has recently been bombing the Kurdish regions in Turkey …
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After many years, we’ve finally able to upload the full recording. Singers Parvin Cox, Mansour Gorjian – composed Fari Bradley Performed in the foyer of the V&A Museum for Norooz.With the Resonance Radio Orchestra and musicians from the Royal College of Music. Words: Amir Khosrau, 13thC Indian poet writing in Persian:“I have become you and …
Audio recorded during a tour of the current Official Nelson Mandela exhibition at the Leake Street Gallery, Waterloo. Learning Manager Caroline Kumana describes aspects of this major new exhibition that explores the life of the world’s most famous freedom fighter and political leader. The multi-media exhibition is full of fascinating objects, images and documents, personal …
By Camilla Turner, Chief Political Correspondent 25 March 2023 • 9:00pm The immigration minister is understood to be concerned about whether sufficient due diligence is being carried out before visas are issued The Home Office has launched a review into visas issued to Iranian clerics, amid concern they are being used as a “backdoor” entrance … Continue reading
We hear direct from Iranian voices and also from activist Steve Marsling who as a teenager from South East London worked towards the end of the bloody South African regime, with exemplary success. Continue reading
Since International Women’s Day 2022 a growing movement of unrest about the gender apartheid instilled by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s regime since 1979, and the culture of fear it uses to instill these arbitrary laws, has been growing exponentially. BBC reports news of sexual misconduct by the military, while also reporting atrocities the regime … Continue reading
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The TBA21 Academy is dedicated to projects that facilitate artists’ research of the oceans. TBA21 director Markus Reymann visits the studio to discuss this itinerant site of cultural production and trans-disciplinary research and questions put to him by host Fari Bradley such as “Who owns the seas?”. Conceived in 2011 as a moving platform on … Continue reading
Exercises in Displacement Cultural and artistic displacement investigated via five evenings of performances of original work across London. The most recent iteration, 3/5, is at the South London Gallery, Peckham by Tuttoquestosentire. Visual artist Rebecca Salvadori, and composer/ cellist Sandro Mussida visit the studio to discuss the series and the TQS collective, and we sample … Continue reading
A look at certain events going on in July for Shubbak, the Arab festival of arts and entertainment Continue reading
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