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Emerging Voices
Jul 5, 20231 min read
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.
Webster Makombe
Mar 27, 20233 min read
_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, 20226 min read
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.
Manasa Narayanan
Sep 20, 202210 min read
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,...
Manasa Narayanan
May 24, 20225 min read
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...
Rachel Jacobs
Jun 29, 20216 min read
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...
Rachel Jacobs
Aug 16, 20206 min read
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...
Josh Buchin
Aug 16, 20204 min read
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...
Samara Rosen
Aug 16, 20205 min read
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...
Yoknyam Dabale
May 9, 20202 min read
“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...
Rachel Jacobs
May 9, 20201 min read
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...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Oct 22, 20196 min read
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...
Sophie Chirongoma
Jul 3, 20191 min read
The Stones You See
Report on Zimbabwe's Cyclone Meeting with the survivors and examining the rubble covering the residential places where homes were...
Gillian Dalley
Jan 13, 20193 min read
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...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Oct 9, 20182 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20232 min read
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, 20233 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20221 min read
'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, 20222 min read
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
May 5, 202315 min read
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
Mar 24, 20239 min read
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
Mar 24, 20232 min read
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
Mar 24, 20235 min read
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, 20234 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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.
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
May 24, 20222 min read
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...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
May 24, 20224 min read
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...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Oct 27, 20219 min read
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...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Jun 29, 20215 min read
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...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Mar 23, 20213 min read
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...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Dec 7, 20203 min read
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...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Nov 16, 20201 min read
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.
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Aug 17, 20203 min read
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...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
May 10, 20201 min read
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...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
May 10, 20202 min read
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...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Dec 17, 20194 min read
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...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Oct 22, 20193 min read
Geographica
"Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion." Directive, Robert Frost, 1946 Harsh,...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Jul 3, 20193 min read
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...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Jul 3, 20193 min read
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,...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Apr 9, 20194 min read
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...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Feb 18, 20193 min read
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...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Jan 13, 20193 min read
Outside Looking In
Outsider, definition: one not involved with a particular group of people or organization, one who does not live in a particular place; in...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Dec 22, 20181 min read
Climate Breakdown
These pictures are from a demonstration at London's British Broadcasting Corporation headquarters organized by Extinction Rebellion which...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Nov 26, 20182 min read
The Days of Our Years
I've gone through life implicitly believing in key notions of the Enlightenment: reason, knowledge, freedom, skepticism. Sure there were...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Nov 14, 20182 min read
Three Cheers for the Home Team
The US midterm election is over. Democrats now control the House of Representatives. Republicans have a majority in the Senate. And a...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Oct 28, 20181 min read
100 Year Old Poem, For Today
"It is difficult to get the news from poems, but people die everyday for lack of what is found there" - William Carlos Williams
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Oct 9, 20182 min read
American Rhino
Check the online definition. You learn a rhinocerous is a large, heavily built mammal with one or two horns on its nose and thick folded...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Oct 9, 20182 min read
Brexit Blues
I’m weary beyond words at the ongoing disaster that is Brexit. Yes, I'm an American citizen who cannot vote in the UK. Fundamentally, I’m...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Sep 17, 20183 min read
Lament for My Mother, Florence
‘When I was a child, I spake as a child. …. My mother was angry when I came home from secondary school with a grade D in maths class....
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Jun 7, 20183 min read
Identity and its Discontents
The recent furore over anti-semitism in political circles in the UK pushes me back again into that circle of identity: Jew. When asked...
Rose Levinson, Ph.D
Mar 5, 20182 min read
Beginnings
A traditional Jewish saying cautions "all beginnings are difficult." It's an apt reminder for my first blog post. I've written a book, ...