In Place of War

In this first episode of Music Saved My Life, Ruth & Laima are joined by two prolific techno makers and DJs - Derrar Ghanem and Dave Clarke.

Derrar Ghanem, also known as DJ Dar, is an international Palestinian DJ and co-founder of UNION Collective - a Ramallah-based group of DJs and artists aiming to provide a free space for artists and a learning environment to learn from each other and teach their skills to others. Dave Clarke was born and raised in Brighton, England, but currently resides in Amsterdam, a city which revitalised his life and work. He’s had a long and respected career as a DJ and music maker and producer – playing across the world nurturing an extraordinary relationship with the crowd.

In this series, In Place of War CEO Ruth Daniel and musician & artist Laima Leyton explore the critical role of music in the lives of music makers, listeners, producers and facilitators across the world.

In this first episode of Music Saved My Life, Ruth & Laima are joined by two prolific techno makers and DJs - Derrar Ghanem and Dave Clarke.

Derrar Ghanem, also known as DJ Dar, is an international Palestinian DJ and co-founder of UNION Collective - a Ramallah-based group of DJs and artists aiming to provide a free space for artists and a learning environment to learn from each other and teach their skills to others. Dave Clarke was born and raised in Brighton, England, but currently resides in Amsterdam, a city which revitalised his life and work. He’s had a long and respected career as a DJ and music maker and producer – playing across the world nurturing an extraordinary relationship with the crowd.

Farah Wardani is a theater actress, trainer, clown doctor, puppeteer, and applied theater practitioner.

A theater graduate with a DipHE, a BA in psychology, currently finishing her MA in Drama Therapy.

Farah is the director of Laban (a Lebanese theater based NGO). A Playback practitioner, trainer, actress, conductor and faculty member of the ASPT. She leads drama therapy workshops with Intisar Foundation targeting Arab women victim of war.

Farah trains and uses Theater of the Oppressed, Drama Therapy and other techniques with different communities and contexts as a medium for healing, social change and political activism.

Pedro Inoue is a Brazilian born, self taught graphic designer and artist. He’s Adbusters magazine creative director and was part of the team that created the 2011 #occupywallstreet meme and poster that helped sparked the worldwide movement #OCCUPY. In 2019 he was a Latin Grammy nominee for a music video direction for Brazilian rap artist Criolo.

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https://www.adbusters.org/

Eli Moura is based in Brazil and is a producer, entrepreneur, activist and mainly a decolonial feminist. She is CEO

at Iduna Creative Productions, and Partner at both Convida Festival & Reverbera - Cultural Female Platform.

She loves plants, puppies and white wine, and believes that human beings are powerful and beautiful, when

recognised as a person and not a tool from a colonial structure.

Comrade Fatso

“Bold, daring and very talented” - BBC Focus on Africa

“Sharp satire for troubled times” - The Economist

Samm Farai Monro AKA Comrade Fatso is Zimbabwe’s trailblazing political satirist, a leading activist for freedom of expression and a media disruptor in a country with very little democratic space. Comrade Fatso is co-founder of Magamba Network, one of Zimbabwe’s most dynamic organizations working on the cutting edge of arts, digital media, activism and innovation. Through Magamba, his award-winning media projects include the internationally acclaimed Zambezi News satire show, the weekly political news show The Week and the pioneering citizen journalism project Open Parly ZW. Comrade Fatso is also co-founder of the country’s longest running urban culture festival, Shoko Festival, and Zimbabwe’s first creative hub, Moto Republik. Comrade Fatso’s work has been highlighted and featured on CNN, the BBC, Channel 4 (UK) and The Guardian to name a few.

Comrade Fatso has won awards locally and internationally for his work, recently being named one of the 100 Great Zimbabweans by leading newspaper publisher AMH and having Magamba named by Nelson Mandela’s Elders as one of the global 100 Sparks of Hope in 2018.

www.magambanetwork.com

Recorded on 1st October 2020

1hr 9 mins

In Place of War Creative Director and CEO Ruth Daniel talks to David Tovey, a formerly homeless artist, educator and activist who works in a range of media.

David is a photographer, painter as well as an installation artist and performance-maker. At the heart of David's practice is a very special quality - the ability to bring you to the subject in ways both beautiful and hard-hitting in equal measure in order to raise awareness about the social issues he tackles.

David has exhibited internationally in locations such as the Atsa Festival Montreal, Somerset House, Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool and he is also the founder of the UK’s first One Festival of Homeless arts. He speaks regularly at housing and homelessness events and teaches art to people experiencing homelessness at the Pilion Trust and Passage Day Centre. His Man on Bench performances have earned him significant acclaim and have taken place on the pavement of the London's Southbank, The Mayfield Depot Manchester and the halls of Tate Exchange.

www.davidtoveyart.co.uk

www.onefestivalofhomelessarts.com