Hi, I really wanted to add this post to the website, it’s about Roger who has been volunteering at the Union Chapel for several years plus he takes part in the poetry and visual arts workshops. As part of the Postcard project he produced an amazing piece, please click her to listen to Roger himself.
Hello everyone, I must tell you all, we put lots of effort making sure that there would be plenty of activities, performances and opportunities for everyone. We really hope you come along to the festival and have a great time; it has been a year of work and preparations to make this happen and finally it’s SHOWTIME!!! I also want to say thanks to all the people who in one way or another contributed to make this possible. But there is one person I have to mention here and that is Julia Farrington for having that vision and believe this event was achievable.
Please click here and check out the festival program, if there is something missing please leave a comment, if it is urgent give me a call +44(0)7795430152.
Straatnieuws (Dutch homeless streetpaper) vendor Martijn borrowed an Ipod and a 5 dollar microphone and went on the street asking innocent bypassers what they think of the local media. Journalist Femke Rongen assisted and our megamedia experts Robert van Dijk en Paul Wolterink added some licks and groovy tunes to make it Hollands first radiopodcast [...]
The Dellow Centre’s art group is producing a special commission for ten feet away internation. International Voices is an installation telling the stories of London’s internationalised homeless community. This is an excerpt, with Dellow Centre artist David Mills talking about arriving in London penniless. Click here to listen
Sasha has been the Art Director of the excellent ‘Put Domoi’ - St. Petersburg’s Street Paper. In this interview he talks about his journey, and in the second interview (coming soon) he will talk about the famous ‘ Art Squat of Pushkinskaya’ which he helped found in the late 80’s. This is the first time we have attampted simultaneous translation, so your feedback will be much appreciated.
picture taken by Nadezhfida Davydova
The picture shows Arcady Tyurin of St. Petersburg’s Street Paper ‘Journey Home’ in a public performance piece. For Russians, access to social services is dependent on registration at an address. St. Petersburg has at least 54,000 unregistered individuals living in the city. To be registered you have to have proof of past residency, and without this you cannot get access to jobs, healthcare and other necessities to live. If you cannot get a job you cannot get an address. This means you cannot get registered. This is the vicious circle of homelessness in Russia.
In this short podcast interview, Arkady Tyurin of ‘New Social Solutions’ talks about new ’surviving technologies’, solutions to tackling social exclusion within St. Petersburg’s unregistered population.
New Social Solutions also publishes Putdomoi (Journey Home), St. Petersburg’s Street Paper.
Design by Alexander Menus
OSW brought three groups - from Madrid, Paris and Budapest - to visi TFA’s art workshop at Union Chapel in North London- we had a discussion of the festival - audio here. The conversation is between Csilla Horváth and Sebo from Fedel Nelkul and Jo and Ade from ten feet away.
Hi everybody, these are the interviews i did with two squatters that can give us an idea of how squats can be place for art. To listen to Diego, click here. To listen to Val from former X-vortex click here and to listen to what people think about squats as place for art click here.
Hi everybody! i’m barti and i’ve been living in london in the last 6 months and these are some audio files that i made speaking a little about my experience until now. You can check. Click here to !
Hi everyone, I want to introduce you to Jaqui Chin, I met her at the podcast training and we had a really good time. She is a great person and very talented. Music, drawings, digital arts, she is doing everything! please no more written words, Click Here to listen to an interview I made to her about homelessness, arts and life.
Here are some of her paintings as well. Enjoy them!
Billy
