Chronicles of an Elder
I’m old now. I didn’t take that in until my latest February birthday. Reaching it, I’m three years older than my mother who died at...
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Jul 302 min read
Thatch House: Bringing Positive Change Through Threatre in the Community
Thatch House (Abuja, Nigeria) Theatre Initiative is a not-for-profit theatre organisation. Its mission is to utilise theatre to bring...
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Jul 3019 min read
In Memoriam: We Are Not Numbers
In Memoriam. We pay tribute to four young Gazans, all of whom were part of the We Are Not Numbers community. Huda Al-Sosi The WANN...
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Jul 301 min read
Empowering Change: Lydiah's Afro-Fusion Journey
Lydiah is an Afro-fusion musician based in Nairobi. She is a composer, singer and guitarist. Lydiah’s music began and is grounded in...
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Jul 305 min read
Future Machine Summer 2024 Update
Emerging Voices is pleased to present an update from Rachel Jacobs on her journey with Future Machine, an interactive artwork designed to...
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Jul 301 min read
Jackie Hopfinger - Japan
Jackie Hopfinger is a north London photographer. Her work has appeared in other EV issues. We're pleased to share more of her striking,...
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Jul 301 min read
Nyatiti Arts Centre
Kake Wakake is the founder of the Nyatiti Arts Centre in the Korogocho slums. A dedicated and visionary leader in the arts community, he...
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Jul 306 min read
From Words to Action: The Power of Resilience and Resistance in Gaza’s Stories
London’s P21 Gallery is a platform for Arab Arts and Culture. Betty Townley reports on their recent exhibition featuring over three...
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Mar 191 min read
Arts Centre in Korogocho Slums
Located in the heart of Korogocho Slums, our Arts Centre is dedicated to preserving and promoting our rich African musical heritage.
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Mar 191 min read
Images of Nepal
Photographer Jackie Hopfinger has exhibited her work widely, including in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. She lives in north London. Ja
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Mar 194 min read
Ashes, Ashes, We All Fall Down
Seeing photos of dead Palestinian children no longer shocks me. But if we had a wall chart measuring years on earth, my line would reach the
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Mar 192 min read
Good News Comes For Eman
From We Are Not Numbers Basman Derawi Gaza Strip January 14, 2024 Eman Dewari along with her husband Tayseer Abu Holy and her four...
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Mar 193 min read
I Miss You, My Brother
At the end of the road I see you, standing tall. Why are you fading? From We Are Not Numbers Mahmoud Alyazji Gaza Strip Mohammed and...
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Oct 18, 20233 min read
‘...where ignorant armies clash by night…
I don’t really want to be part of the conversation around what’s happening in the Middle East. I don’t have to, actually. I’m not a...
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Oct 18, 20232 min read
Update on Rachel Jacobs’ Future Machine
Rachel Jacobs, a contributing editor to Emerging Voices, first wrote about Future Machine in March, 2020. She has contributed ongoing...
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Oct 18, 20234 min read
Our Food Will Make Us Proud!
It’s not a surprise that Zimbabwe's culinary culture is one to be greatly celebrated. After all, the country is shaped like a teapot and...
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Oct 18, 20235 min read
To Love and Unlove
We're including this essay and accompanying audio in our Conversations with Old(er) Women section. It's certainly not because of the...
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Oct 18, 20231 min read
Death and Hope
We are living through a time of great chaos, confusion, rage and fear. Whether directly involved with persons in Gaza, Israel or...
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Oct 18, 20233 min read
Welcome Kenyan Artists: Voices Rising
We’re thrilled to be introducing the work of five Kenyans. Their art and ideas will continue to be featured. For now, see our...
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Oct 18, 20237 min read
Palestine Voices: Jana Alhanafi
Jana Alhanafi is mentored by David Heap at We Are Not Numbers This is our third publication of works by Palestinians. These creatives are...
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Jul 5, 20234 min read
Passport Apartheid
Condemn the South African apartheid regime and support the international boycott (1976) vintage poster by Rachael Romero. In Zimbabwe,...
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Jul 5, 20235 min read
A Letter to My Non-Jewish Friends
We Jews were often lauded for our cosmopolitanism. In today’s Israel, the desire of those in power is to assert Jewish supremacy.
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Oksana Ponaida Reads Ukrainian Poetry
Oksana Ponaida reads Ukrainian poetry by Borys Humenyuk and Lyubov Yakymchuk. Oksana came to the UK under the Homes for Ukraine scheme.
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Jul 5, 20236 min read
Olive Harvest in Palestine
November is not an ordinary month in Palestine. Young and old hands come together as the olive harvest season begins.
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Jul 5, 20231 min read
Scenes from Turkey: Photography by Jackie Hopfinger
Jackie Hopfinger is an Islington based photographer. In March 2023 she recorded these striking images of Istanbul.
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Jun 15, 20232 min read
When Photography Serves Film
Gülce Tulçalı is a London-based visual artist whose practice includes moving image, photography, and performance art. She visualises...
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Jun 15, 20232 min read
Photography & Resilience: by Jeremy Alvarez
I was born in a very small city, more like a town, in the Southern Philippines. I grew up on a farm and later moved to the capital,...
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Jun 15, 20232 min read
Artwork by Noga Shatz
I usually just start working in my studio, using what’s available in the space. I begin with drawing and painting, experimenting with...
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Jun 15, 20232 min read
Gülce Tulçalı Reviews Two London Exhibitions
British Espionage & Male Homosexuality: Ungentle Huw Lemmey in collaboration with Onyeka Igwe Studio Voltaire is a hidden oasis in busy...
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May 5, 202315 min read
Palestinian Voices: Aseel AlBajeh
On April 25, 2023, Emerging Voices hosted a zoomcast featuring Aseel AlBajeh, a legal researcher and advocacy officer for Al-Haq, a...
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Mar 27, 20233 min read
_Rock bottom_, the last of Zimbabwe's Shona Sculpture pioneers
The name Zimbabwe is derived from the Shona phrase dzimba dzemabwe, meaning “houses of stone”, an homage to the ancient kingdom of the...
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Mar 27, 20234 min read
Open Closed Open
Recently, three people close to me opened--or closed-- depending on how you see it. One was my brother-in-law Jim.
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Mar 27, 20233 min read
Q&A: Artist Charlie Wooley
Tess O’Bamber talks with poet and designer Charlie Wooley about how the pandemic affected her creative process.
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Mar 24, 20239 min read
Palestinian Voices: Sally Abed, Standing Together
Sally Abed was the featured presenter at an online event hosted Emerging Voices on January 18, 2023. Read edited excerpts from Sally.
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Mar 24, 20232 min read
Palestinian Voices: Huda Abuarquob and Nivine Sandouka, ALLMEP
Zoomcast Notes: November, 2022 Warmest thanks to Huda Abuarquob and Nivine Sandouka for a passionate presentation on the peace building...
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Mar 24, 20235 min read
When War Ends, the Struggle Begins – We Are Not Numbers
The Gaza based group, We Are Not Numbers (WANN), will be regular contributors to the Palestinian Platform, along with others. As their...
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Dec 14, 20226 min read
Where are you from?
Where are you from? I have been asked this more times than I can remember. And having lived in several places, the idea of home is elusive.
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Dec 14, 20223 min read
Chronicles of an Elder: Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, August, 2022 Zimbabwe is a beautiful, distressed, struggling country of 15 million. Its government is corrupt, its social...
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Dec 13, 20224 min read
Q&A: Musician Shane Cullinan
Gülce Tulçalı talks with Shane Cullinan, musician and composer, about his experience of making an album during the pandemic.
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Dec 12, 20221 min read
'Web of Hate' Documentary
Manasa's documentary Web of Hate explores the intersection of social media, hate speech and India's Hindu nationalistic politics.
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Dec 12, 20222 min read
Enough is Enough is Enough
On 1st Oct, Tess joined the crowds at King's Cross, protesting our need for a competent government to handle the cost of living crisis.
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Sep 20, 202210 min read
I Mourn A Different Mourning
The unease that trails the celebration in black Our personal identities - at times fragile, other times stubborn abstractions--are given,...
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Sep 20, 20223 min read
To Autumn
‘Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness’... From John Keats, 'To Autumn' This time of year, September, has always had an aspect of...
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Sep 20, 20222 min read
Conversations: Continuations and New Dialogue
In June, Emerging Voices presented a three part series on Zoom: Examining Palestine/Israel. This series will continue in October.
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May 24, 20225 min read
The India That Is: Story of the ‘Population Propaganda’
A Dispatch from the Indian Affairs Series Manasa Narayanan is a journalist and writer, trying to navigate the mighty and confusing world...
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May 24, 20226 min read
Future Machine Spring 2022 Update
by Rachel Jacobs Future Machine is an artist-led project planned to continue for 30 years, a witness to when the future comes, however...
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May 24, 20222 min read
I Died in Hell. They Called it Passchendaele
From a poem by Siegfried Sassoon SQUIRE nagged and bullied till I went to fight, …. I died in hell— (They called it Passchendaele). My...
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May 24, 20224 min read
Oh, What a Lovely War (Not)...
Part I This is my fifth war when I'm counting as an American. There was the Cold War; then Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan. Those are...
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Feb 1, 20224 min read
A Mother is a Sometime Thing
I have outlived my mother. Our February birthdays were two days apart. She died twenty minutes before another year would have begun....
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Feb 1, 20223 min read
When the Autumn Leaves Fell: Future Machine Procession in Finsbury Park by Rachel Jacobs
Finsbury Park in North London had a difficult 2021, as did much of the world. As the pandemic continued, the park struggled with...
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