Community Arts

 

DIY Radio

Commission by Hear Me Out / Music in Detention.

With Mohamed Shyheim aka KB and Johnathan Russell

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“DIY radio takes radio back to its ultimate form, transferring information from one place to another without wires. For us this means making a radio station for people in detention in which ever ways we can.”

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Participatory art on Zoom

With Arji Manuelpillai and Kathryn Corlett

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Read the whole zine

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Opinion Pole

WIth YARA + DAVINA at Bloomsbury Festival 2020

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In partnership with

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Project Collections

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When The Music Stops (2016)

Highly Commended in the 2017 Koestler Trust Awards

This track was created in a single day of music making and song writing at Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre, September 2016. The recording was inspired by a quote from members of the Zomba Prison Project Band, in Malawi, who talk about seeing no walls when they are making music and how music brings ‘sunshine’ into their lives.  

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Unheard Voices: Sounds of MID (2019)

Compilation of MID tracks selected by James Baker, mastered by Grammy-nominated producer, Derek Pacuk.

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All we need is hope (2018)

A series of participatory music-making workshops connecting detainees held at Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre with young people from the NHS CNWL’s Hillingdon and Harrow Early Intervention Service (EIS) group that meets at the Pembroke Centre in Ruislip. A powerful collection of original music that explores themes around mental health, including anger, drug treatments and the people who help you get through.

Friends in the City of Atlantis (2014)

Collaboration between Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre, North Leigh Youth Project and an Oxfordshire youth arts project.

The first section of the album contains live recordings of sharing sessions in Campsfield House. Large crowds would gather to hear solo performances and everyone would join in singing sea shanties togetherThe Farming song was offered by Munya, Entertainments Officer in Campsfield, drawing out a theme of worksongs. This inspired songwriting sessions at NLYP, where the young people created Friends in the City of Atlantis with George Latore, an amazing spoken word artist from Campsfield.

Unlock Freedom in my Mind (2013)

A group of detainees from Campsfield House Detention Centre and a group of people from the homeless community at Crisis Skylight Oxford engaged in a dialogue through music, poetry and spoken word.

"We know the arts can be incredibly effective in helping people begin to break the cycle of homelessness. Music can be a rare chance for self-expression, to get involved in a social activity and begin rebuilding confidence shattered by the awful experience of homelessness."
Kate Cocker, Director, Crisis Skylight Oxford

Breaking Boundaries (2011)

Dover Immigration Removal Centre.

Dover Youth HQ Centre.

Participants at Dover Youth HQ talked about the climate of fear in the aftermath of the riots in the UK in August 2011. Some of the detainees in Dover IRC were able to identify with the feelings of stigma and misunderstanding. From this position of commonality, participants united to send a message of empathy and community through creative expression.