This three day festival near Hastings presents an opportunity to explore research I’ve been conducting over the four past years of my PhD topic
“Woman, Life, Freedom, Voices and Art from the Women’s Protests in Iran” – This Weekend at Essex Book Festival
The Iran International TV report on the performance and panel talks that launched “Woman, Life, Freedom,[…]
Women, Art, Freedom Symposium – Cambridge University
Bringing together women academics and artists of Iranian origin to speak about the role of the visual and performing arts in the movement for women’s rights in Iran.
Frieze London – Two-Part Radio Transmission
How have I been broadcasting from Frieze since 2006 when we had a transmission radio booth[…]
South Oxford Arts Week – Collaborative Improvised Performance
From a classical music base that is Oxford, we will be raising funds for the woman, life freedom movement in Iran via the charity helping striking workers who can’t make bail.
The Wire Magazine Review – “I Will Greet the Sun Again”
Back in January 2023, on the 17th, we brought the issue of the Iran Revolution to into the realms of music and experimental sound. The Wire Magazine’s Clive Bell was there to review.
Arts Fundraiser for Woman, Life, Freedom Tonight
London’s Iranian Avant Garde musician and sound arts community and their friends put on a fundraiser at Iklectik. Electronica, piano, cello, soprano, Welsh-Iranian folk, singer-song-writer and visuals. Plus an art exhibition of the “Say Their Names Art Project”, portraits of the fallen in Iran, by artists of other backgrounds.
“I want a sound like the earth cracking open.” 15 Questions Interview.
On the eve of a new vinyl release on Morphine Records, Berlin on Lebanese improvisor Mazen[…]
The Sign to Return is in the Earth’s Spin
A new double-vinyl release on Berlin’s Morphine Records is a collaboration between avant-garde Lebanese trumpeter Mazen[…]
Women, Life, Freedom Radio Special
I asked women from Iran to think about what we overseas should know, and what we might do, and there are surprising, important results. I also got to question a seasoned and renowned activist Steve Marsling.