Red Transmissions Podcast

The Danish band SKARN is the self-described joker in your deck of cards. An 8-legged trio consisting of drums, standup bass, guitar, vocals and Erling the Duck. The band plays their own songs and a couple of cover songs, with a focus on transporting their listeners to a specific longing or poetic emotion relatable in both a local and global level. The band released their debut album "Hjemad" in May 2020, and was nominated for a Danish Music Award in the categori "Best New Roots Act". On this episode of Red Transmissions Podcast, the vocalist and guitarist of the band, poet, songwriter and booker Mikkel Vinther, shares the creation story of this project, the making of an album as an independent band, the challenges and lessons throughout the pandemic, and what drives this group of musicians to keep on going, rain or shine.

Listen to the album: https://open.spotify.com/album/6prPzbUWxhwnufu7gIOLkZ?si=iJ9QgZo0RnO7SUuHm_ST3w Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SKARNsKAT

VOID International Animation Film Festival (VOID IAFF) is an annual ten-day cultural event taking place at the Cinemateket of Copenhagen, DK. VOID IAFF was created by VOID Copenhagen in 2015 with the purpose of celebrating animation in all its forms by creating and promoting a space where storytellers connect with a broader audience. The festival envision a future that cherishes animation as the powerful storytelling tool it is in telling stories that are diverse, experimental, compelling, and that matter.

On this episode, Sandra Brunkow Simonsen, Head of Programming at VOID joins the Red Transmissions Podcast to share the current must-sees, programming and modifications to the festival due to the current lockdown… as well as tips for filmmakers and animators on how to submit their work to festivals and how to pitch their stories successfully.

https://voidfilmfestival.com/

Sune Frandsen is a self-described one man army, board game creator and designer, who likes to document the quirks, neighbourly vibes, history and culture through board games he designs, produces and distributes independently.

This time, he talks to Red Transmissions Podcast about his latest creation, "Slaget Om Nørrebro" (The battle of Nørrebro) which combines the styles of various board games to bring you the funniest, the most cliché and classics of this part of Copenhagen.

Learn more about the boardgame here:

https://www.slagetom.dk/slaget-om-noerrebro/

or follow on FB: https://www.facebook.com/slagetom/

S. Elizabeth is a writer, curator, and frill-seeker, currently promoting her new book The Art of the Occult, a visual feast of eclectic artwork informed and inspired by spiritual beliefs, magical techniques, mythology and otherworldly experiences.

Her essays and interviews about esoteric art have appeared in Coilhouse, Dirge Magazine among others. Her occulture blog Unquiet Things intersects music, fashion, horror, perfume, and grief.

www.quartoknows.com/ www.unquietthings.com/

Professor in glaciology and climate at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Jason Box is the go-to speaker for climate change conversations and is often sought by the media and organizations discussing this important topic.

"Reframing the Human Spirit" is a concept Jason Box is developing to help us understand how, by modifying the key aspects of our life to include wellness and mindfulness as a daily practice, we can change our relationship with the planet. On this podcast, Jason shares these ideas, what they look like and where they're going, as well as current projects, experience and other initiatives.

For this episode of the Red Transmissions Podcast, Jason suggested we team up with another organization doing similar things with a different approach. Located in LA, Tree Media is a production think tank that uses stories and media to encourage an open society based on wisdom and informed, positive action. They have developed a channel called N2K (Need to Know) where they post shorts and documentaries that promote environmental consciousness and other subjects of a social nature.

Follow Jason Box on Twitter: twitter.com/climate_ice

Named one of the most original European poets writing today by the Bavarian Academy of Arts, Ales Steger is the author of numerous books of poetry, novels, essays... as well as an editor, translator, initiator of artistic and cultural events, and director of Versopolis, a European Poetry Platform that creates new opportunities for writers and promotes mobility through a series of literature festivals.

As part of a collaboration with Litteraturcentrum KVU, Versopolis introduces its Festival of Hope, which Red Door will be documenting through a series of interviews for its Red Transmissions Podcast.

To learn more about the Festival of Hope, visit: www.versopolis.com/festival-of-hope

To learn more about Aleš Šteger, visit: www.alessteger.com

To learn more about Litteraturcentrum KVU, visit: www.litteraturcentrum.nu/

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Michael Favala Goldman, is a translator, poet, educator and jazz clarinetist. Among his 16 translated books are The Water Farm Trilogy by Cecil Bødker, Dependency (a Penguin Classic) by Tove Ditlevsen (now part of a trilogy coming out this January in the US), New and Selected Poems by Knud Sørensen, and Something To Live Up To, Selected Poems of Benny Andersen. Goldman's first book of original poetry, Who has time for this? came out in 2020. His second book, Small Sovereign is forthcoming in October, 2021. He lives in Massachusetts, USA, where he has been running bi-monthly poetry critique groups since 2018. www.reddoormagazine.com/podcast https://hammerandhorn.net/

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The art of translation as it relates to poetry is an intimate practice that varies from person to person, but still borrows certain precepts and common principles from other types of translation.

This event, created in collaboration between write4word, La Libélula Vaga, Red Door and Kultivera, gathers translators, authors and lovers of poetry in translation to dig deeper into the subject. What is the purpose of translation? Why is it important in our time? Contributing to the discussion: Jonas Ellerström, Elizabeth Torres, Bengt Berg, clare e potter, Maria E Blanco; moderated by Aleisa Ribalta Guzmán and Dominic Williams.

Bengt Berg was born and raised in Torsby, Sweden, in the forest and lake province of Varmland, near the Norwegian border and the 60th parallel, where he also lives and works. Bengt made his debut in 1974 with the poetry collection "Where the Dream Ends". He has written more than 30 books, mostly poetry. Poems by Bengt Berg have been translated into Nordic languages as well as Arabian, Hebrew, English, German, Dutch, Greek, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Russian, Latvian, Vietnamese and Hindi. Since 1990 his publishing house Heidruns Forlag, has published 135 works -novels, books of poetry and art, translations of other works and reference books.

Clare E. Potter is a Welsh speaking writer and performer who studied an MA in Afro-Caribbean literature in Mississippi and taught in New Orleans for a decade. Awards include two Literature Wales writing bursaries, the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry, and the Jim Criddle prize for celebrating the Welsh language. spilling histories (Cinnamon Press, 2006) will be followed by A Certain Darkness. clare has translated for the National Poet of Wales, was a Hay Festival Writer at Work, enjoys facilitating community projects and collaborating with jazz musicians. She's currently researching the creative process for Threshold, a new poetry collection thanks to a Literature Wales bursary.

Elizabeth Torres (Madam Neverstop) is a Colombian poet, multimedia artist, translator and speaker. Elizabeth resides in Copenhagen, where she works as a writer and translator, edits and published the Red Door magazine and curates the Red Door Gallery. She is host to the Red Transmissions Podcast, as well as project coordinator for other initiatives in Europe and abroad. 'Det usynlige sår/La herida invisible' (The invisible wound), a selection of her poetry was translated to Danish by Malene Boeck Thorborg and released by Det Poetiske Bureaus Forslag in November, 2019. Previous to that, 'En las Fauces del Olvido' (In the Jaws of Oblivion) was published in Puerto Rico by La Impresora, and then launched in Mexico and Guatemala, with additional presentations in Sweden, Finland, Germany and Denmark during 2017. The ways of the Firefly (German / English) (2020) Would You Like to Come Home? (German/English) (2021)

Jonas Ellerström is an author, translator and publisher. He has most recently published 'Under tidens yta. En annorlunda svensk poesihistoria' (ellerströms, 2014)/A different Swedish poetry history (ellerströms, 2014) and Homesickness from the world. Essays on poetry/Hemlängtan ur världen. Essäer om poesi (Ariel, 2015). He regularly participates in Lyrikvännen and has translated poetry by, among others, Arthur Rimbaud, T S Eliot, William Blake, Richard Brautigan, Sylvia Plath, Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood and Janet Frame.

Maria Elena Blanco is a Cuban poet, essayist and translator. Besides her activity as literature researcher, lecturer and critic, she has worked as U.N. translator since 1983, presently freelance. Poetry translator from English, French, Italian and German. Poetry: 'Posesión por pérdida' (1990), 'Alquímica memoria' (2001), 'Mitologuías. Homenaje a Matta' (2001), 'danubiomediterráneo /mittelmeerdonau' (2005), 'El amor incontable' (2008), 'Sobresalto al vacío' (2015) and several poetry anthologies. Essays: 'Asedios al texto literario' (literary analysis,1999) and 'Devoraciones. Ensayos de período especial' (Cuban culture and politics, 2016). Lives mainly in Vienna with seasonal stays in Chile.

Academic and professor, author and editor of over 14 books Oliver Harris, founder and president of the European Beat Studies Network, shares his story and arrival to Burroughs and the Beat generation, his work documenting and publishing on this subject, the purposes and projects of the EBSN, and of course, the cut-up technique.

Learn more about Oliver Harris and the ESBN: https://ebsn.eu/

Music by William S. Burroughs and King Khan, from the album "Let Me Hang You", which you can acquire here: khannibalism.bandcamp.com/album/let-me-hang-you www.reddoormagazine.com/podcast

Known as one of the pioneering voices in space genre music, singer and songwriter Susan Dietrich, who performs under the name of "The Space Lady", speaks to the Red Transmissions Podcast from her home in Colorado, about her past and arrival to music, how it changed her life and allowed her to build an audience and travel through Europe extensively, her creative process and plans for the near future.

Learn more about The Space Lady at: https://www.facebook.com/TheSpaceLadyMusic

Photo credit: Terri Loewenthal.

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