In Ireland Wander talks to: South African poet Neo Gilson, Syrian-Irish writer Suad Aldarra, Ukrainian poet and performer Olha Matso (and hears their poetry) and community arts activist Joanna Dukkipatti of GoodDay Cork.
From Dzaleka refugee camp, Malawi, writers and activists with the African Youth Artistic Poetry group share their creative work; poets from Afghanistan and Iran in a community centre in Athens, Greece; and young people at the Cork Migrant Centre, facilitated by Raphael Olympio.
Also for the first time, a special live event at the Laneway Gallery, Shandon St, Cork on the 20th July 2024 with spoken word performances and specially commissioned digital art videos by Silvio Severino.
Stay tuned, stay protesting, stay demanding - in solidarity with people seeking refuge, and everyone fighting for change .
This season commissioned new pieces by Sandrine Ndahiro, Raphael Olympio, Nandi Jola and Samuel Yakura. And WANDER was Runner Up in the International Women's Podcast Awards 2023!
Also features: FeliSpeaks, Majed Mujed, Nalougo and Sheila, two writers from the Write To Life (Freedom From Torture) group, and members of the Cork Migrant Centre group who work with Raphael Olympio.
Cover painting by Shukran Shirzad.
Theme music by Josie Flood
With thanks to the Arts Council of Ireland.
Cover illustration by Haya Halaw.
Created with the support of the Pulitzer Center. An openDemocracy podcast presented by Mahmoud Hassino with interviews by Bairbre Flood, looks at refugee-led projects including: a Syrian activist group in Athens, a photography project in Jordan, an LGBTQ+ refugee network in Türkiye and the first Spanish magazine set up by refugees. With a title inspired by James Baldwin, ‘I Am Not Your Refugee’ offers resistance and support in the face of closed camps and isolation, Frontex and loneliness, violent pushbacks and marginalisation.
Read more in The Irish Examiner, GCN, Baynana and The New Internationalist.
مرحبًا بكم في سلسلة البودكاست الجديدة التي تم إنتاجها بالتعاون مع ناشطين وناشطات وفنانين وفنانات من مجتمع اللاجئين/ات الذين/اللواتي يعملن على تحدي الصور النمطية حول الهجرة. تذاع هذه السلسلة بشكل مشترك من قبل جريدة آريش إكسامينر وأوبن ديموكراسي.
به مجموعهٔ پادکست‌های جدید ما خوش آمدید. این مجموعه پادکست‌ها توسط برخی از سازمان‌های پناهندگان، فعالان اجتماعی و هنرمندان پخش می‌گردد که برای چالش‌های متعدد پیرامون مهاجرت ساخته شده است. این مستندهای رادیویی از سوی مجله دموکراسی باز و مجله آیرش ایگزماینر به گونه مشترک تولید شده است.
With poets from Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Yemen and Ukraine. A Rohingya poet, a Yazidi writer, and the first episode’s guest, a Syrian British poet of Kurdish origin.
Amir Darwish, Dawood Saleh, Aryan Ashory, Mayyu Ali, Njamba Koffi, Shehab and Iya Kiva share their poetry, and why it’s important that everyone narrates their own stories, especially those with refugee experience. They talk about the writing process, their experiences and activism, and WORDS WORDS WORDS
Poets living in refugee camps in Greece, Malawi, Western Sahara and Jordan bring us their work, and explore the links between creativity and politics.
Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Cover art painting by Shukran Shirzad.
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