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...

Thatch House (Abuja, Nigeria) Theatre Initiative is a not-for-profit theatre organisation. Its mission is to utilise theatre to bring...

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...

Lydiah is an Afro-fusion musician based in Nairobi. She is a composer, singer and guitarist. Lydiah’s music began and is grounded in...

Emerging Voices is pleased to present an update from Rachel Jacobs on her journey with Future Machine, an interactive artwork designed to...

Jackie Hopfinger is a north London photographer. Her work has appeared in other EV issues. We're pleased to share more of her striking,...

Kake Wakake is the founder of the Nyatiti Arts Centre in the Korogocho slums. A dedicated and visionary leader in the arts community, he...

London’s P21 Gallery is a platform for Arab Arts and Culture. Betty Townley reports on their recent exhibition featuring over three...

Located in the heart of Korogocho Slums, our Arts Centre is dedicated to preserving and promoting our rich African musical heritage.

Photographer Jackie Hopfinger has exhibited her work widely, including in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. She lives in north London. Ja

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

From We Are Not Numbers Basman Derawi Gaza Strip January 14, 2024 Eman Dewari along with her husband Tayseer Abu Holy and her four...

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...

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...

Rachel Jacobs, a contributing editor to Emerging Voices, first wrote about Future Machine in March, 2020. She has contributed ongoing...

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...

We're including this essay and accompanying audio in our Conversations with Old(er) Women section. It's certainly not because of the...

We are living through a time of great chaos, confusion, rage and fear. Whether directly involved with persons in Gaza, Israel or...

We’re thrilled to be introducing the work of five Kenyans. Their art and ideas will continue to be featured. For now, see our...

Jana Alhanafi is mentored by David Heap at We Are Not Numbers This is our third publication of works by Palestinians. These creatives are...

Condemn the South African apartheid regime and support the international boycott (1976) vintage poster by Rachael Romero. In Zimbabwe,...

We Jews were often lauded for our cosmopolitanism. In today’s Israel, the desire of those in power is to assert Jewish supremacy.

Oksana Ponaida reads Ukrainian poetry by Borys Humenyuk and Lyubov Yakymchuk. Oksana came to the UK under the Homes for Ukraine scheme.

November is not an ordinary month in Palestine. Young and old hands come together as the olive harvest season begins.

Jackie Hopfinger is an Islington based photographer. In March 2023 she recorded these striking images of Istanbul.

Gülce Tulçalı is a London-based visual artist whose practice includes moving image, photography, and performance art. She visualises...

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,...

I usually just start working in my studio, using what’s available in the space. I begin with drawing and painting, experimenting with...

British Espionage & Male Homosexuality: Ungentle Huw Lemmey in collaboration with Onyeka Igwe Studio Voltaire is a hidden oasis in busy...

On April 25, 2023, Emerging Voices hosted a zoomcast featuring Aseel AlBajeh, a legal researcher and advocacy officer for Al-Haq, a...

The name Zimbabwe is derived from the Shona phrase dzimba dzemabwe, meaning “houses of stone”, an homage to the ancient kingdom of the...

Recently, three people close to me opened--or closed-- depending on how you see it. One was my brother-in-law Jim.

Tess O’Bamber talks with poet and designer Charlie Wooley about how the pandemic affected her creative process.

Sally Abed was the featured presenter at an online event hosted Emerging Voices on January 18, 2023. Read edited excerpts from Sally.

Zoomcast Notes: November, 2022 Warmest thanks to Huda Abuarquob and Nivine Sandouka for a passionate presentation on the peace building...

The Gaza based group, We Are Not Numbers (WANN), will be regular contributors to the Palestinian Platform, along with others. As their...

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.

Zimbabwe, August, 2022 Zimbabwe is a beautiful, distressed, struggling country of 15 million. Its government is corrupt, its social...

Gülce Tulçalı talks with Shane Cullinan, musician and composer, about his experience of making an album during the pandemic.

Manasa's documentary Web of Hate explores the intersection of social media, hate speech and India's Hindu nationalistic politics.

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.

The unease that trails the celebration in black Our personal identities - at times fragile, other times stubborn abstractions--are given,...

‘Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness’... From John Keats, 'To Autumn' This time of year, September, has always had an aspect of...

In June, Emerging Voices presented a three part series on Zoom: Examining Palestine/Israel. This series will continue in October.

A Dispatch from the Indian Affairs Series Manasa Narayanan is a journalist and writer, trying to navigate the mighty and confusing world...

by Rachel Jacobs Future Machine is an artist-led project planned to continue for 30 years, a witness to when the future comes, however...

From a poem by Siegfried Sassoon SQUIRE nagged and bullied till I went to fight, …. I died in hell— (They called it Passchendaele). My...

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...

I have outlived my mother. Our February birthdays were two days apart. She died twenty minutes before another year would have begun....

Finsbury Park in North London had a difficult 2021, as did much of the world. As the pandemic continued, the park struggled with...