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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Emerging Voices
A webzine for shifting times
Webster Makombe
- Mar 27, 2023
- 3 min
_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...
Manasa Narayanan
- Dec 14, 2022
- 6 min
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.
Emerging Voices Team
- Sep 20, 2022
- 10 min
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,...
Emerging Voices Team
- May 24, 2022
- 5 min
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...
Emerging Voices Team
- Jun 29, 2021
- 6 min
When Will We Ever Learn?
All good myths and fairy tales begin with a journey. The heroine takes their first step into the unknown, a new vision of the world is...
Emerging Voices Team
- Aug 16, 2020
- 6 min
Lives on the River
Lives on the River: Rachel Jacobs We’ve moved our narrowboat from our lockdown spot on Tottenham Marshes after a dramatic series of...
Emerging Voices Team
- Aug 16, 2020
- 4 min
The Fire This Time
The Fire This Time: Josh Buchin America is on fire. In truth, America has always been on fire. The fire has raged for 400 years. But now...
Emerging Voices Team
- Aug 16, 2020
- 5 min
Chalking It Up
Oakland, California; Spring 2020: Chalking It Up When COVID-19 hit Oakland, California, the first thing to go was toilet paper. Videos of...
Emerging Voices Team
- May 9, 2020
- 2 min
“Black People are Not Allowed to Enter this Restaurant”
I am not a stranger to racism. Racism is a global experience for African people, and Coronavirus is intensifying that reality. I am an...
Emerging Voices Team
- May 9, 2020
- 1 min
When This Tree Blossoms
Two years ago, the artistic project Performing the Future (devised by Frank Abbott and myself) considered public space with no agenda and...
Emerging Voices Team
- Oct 22, 2019
- 6 min
Brexit's Psychological Devastation
My world changed in June 2016. Against all expectations, my country voted to leave the EU. Over 46 years, we shared the tasks of building...
Emerging Voices Team
- Jul 3, 2019
- 1 min
The Stones You See
Report on Zimbabwe's Cyclone Meeting with the survivors and examining the rubble covering the residential places where homes were...
Emerging Voices Team
- Jan 13, 2019
- 3 min
That it should come to this
Human history, according to some historians and philosophers, is driven by an innately progressive force, be that [a] god in society, the...
Emerging Voices Team
- Oct 9, 2018
- 2 min
A conversation between ourselves
I see my dear friend and co-contributor (a.k.a. Rose, EV’s Managing Editor) is at a loss to know what is going on with the UK and Brexit....
WORDS
Gülce Tulçalı
- Jun 15, 2023
- 2 min
When Photography Serves Film
Gülce Tulçalı is a London-based visual artist whose practice includes moving image, photography, and performance art. She visualises...
Gülce Tulçalı
- Jun 15, 2023
- 2 min
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,...
Gülce Tulçalı
- Jun 15, 2023
- 2 min
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...
Gülce Tulçalı
- Jun 15, 2023
- 2 min
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...
VISUAL ARTS
Tess O'Bamber
- Mar 27, 2023
- 3 min
Q&A: Artist Charlie Wooley
Tess O’Bamber talks with poet and designer Charlie Wooley about how the pandemic affected her creative process.
Gülce Tulçalı
- Dec 13, 2022
- 4 min
Q&A: Musician Shane Cullinan
Gülce Tulçalı talks with Shane Cullinan, musician and composer, about his experience of making an album during the pandemic.
Manasa Narayanan
- Dec 12, 2022
- 1 min
'Web of Hate' Documentary
Manasa's documentary Web of Hate explores the intersection of social media, hate speech and India's Hindu nationalistic politics.
Tess O'Bamber
- Dec 12, 2022
- 2 min
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.
STREET CHATTER
Emerging Voices Team
- May 5, 2023
- 15 min
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...
Emerging Voices Team
- Mar 24, 2023
- 9 min
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.
Emerging Voices Team
- Mar 24, 2023
- 2 min
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...
Emerging Voices Team
- Mar 24, 2023
- 5 min
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...
PALESTINE
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
- Mar 27, 2023
- 4 min
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.
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
- Dec 14, 2022
- 3 min
Chronicles of an Elder: Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, August, 2022 Zimbabwe is a beautiful, distressed, struggling country of 15 million. Its government is corrupt, its social...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
- Sep 20, 2022
- 3 min
To Autumn
‘Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness’... From John Keats, 'To Autumn' This time of year, September, has always had an aspect of...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
- Sep 20, 2022
- 2 min
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.
Emerging Voices Team
- May 24, 2022
- 2 min
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...
Emerging Voices Team
- May 24, 2022
- 4 min
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...
Emerging Voices Team
- Oct 27, 2021
- 9 min
On Lamentation and on My Father
by Rose Levinson Photo by Julia Yee From William Carlos Williams Tract “I will teach you my townspeople How to perform a funeral. Or do...
Emerging Voices Team
- Jun 29, 2021
- 5 min
Tough Times
...the old is dying and the new cannot be born Antonio Gramsci, circa 1930 Emerging from the latest round of Covid-19 lockdown feels like...
Emerging Voices Team
- Mar 23, 2021
- 3 min
Chronicles of an Elder: Rivers of Time
“And to make an end is to make a beginning.” Little Gidding. T.S. Eliot I measure time by my years on earth. I measure time by the...
Emerging Voices Team
- Dec 7, 2020
- 3 min
Chronicles of an Elder: Teach Us to Number Our Days
If I live to my next birthday, I’ll be the age my mother died, forty minutes short of hers. My mother’s memory looms over me, as it has...
Emerging Voices Team
- Nov 16, 2020
- 1 min
Rose Reflects: Black Lives Matter – 7 minute listen
Rose Levinson reflects on the recent impact of the Black Lives Matter movement and reads the poem 'Riot' by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Emerging Voices Team
- Aug 17, 2020
- 3 min
Chronicles of an Elder: Post Lockdown Blues
During the lockdown, even ageing was suspended. Everything stopped. No visits to doctors, dentists. No worries that my pains were heart...
Emerging Voices Team
- May 10, 2020
- 1 min
April 2020 Poem
Birthday party through a window Waving, singing, hands and lips on glass. The New Normal. On the sidewalk, I outstretch my arm Warning...
Emerging Voices Team
- May 10, 2020
- 2 min
An Old Woman and the Virus
I am that woman. And I hate being old. It’s not just because my seventies inevitably means death is closer. It’s because I hate being...
Emerging Voices Team
- Dec 17, 2019
- 3 min
Post Election Thoughts from a Londoner
It’s no longer a ‘crisis’. It’s reality. Remain is dead. Brexit is the world we live in, normalizing fear and destroying ties that bound...
Emerging Voices Team
- Oct 22, 2019
- 3 min
Geographica
"Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion." Directive, Robert Frost, 1946 Harsh,...
Emerging Voices Team
- Jul 3, 2019
- 3 min
A Song of the South
The road is never straight, the way is seldom clear. I went to Savannah, Georgia, to take part in a Jewish wedding. I ended making a...
Emerging Voices Team
- Jul 3, 2019
- 3 min
Ruminations on Exhaustion
.".. in the centre of our lives, this time, this day... this spring among the politicians playing cards. In a village of the indigenes,...
Emerging Voices Team
- Apr 9, 2019
- 4 min
Remembering Things Past
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Tolstoy; Anna Karenina Family: Oxford English Dictionary: A...
Emerging Voices Team
- Feb 18, 2019
- 3 min
This is the way the world ends...
This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. -- T.S. Eliot The Hollow Men 1925 Choking on Brexit, Trump, climate...
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