Long Journey Home musicians played at festivals in Nottingham, Derby and Leicester:
We collaborated with Grand Union Orchestra performing Doctor Carnival at de Montfort Hall, Leicester
Many more photos to come …
Live Adventurously: the noble Crow has been observing our behaviour for millenia. It is the conscience of humanity
Long Journey Home musicians played at festivals in Nottingham, Derby and Leicester:
We collaborated with Grand Union Orchestra performing Doctor Carnival at de Montfort Hall, Leicester
Many more photos to come …
We call upon the British and Irish States to act immediately so that all undocumented, destitute and migrant people in the legal process in both the UK and Ireland are granted Status Now, as in Indefinite Leave to Remain. In this way every human, irrespective of their nationality or citizenship can access healthcare, housing, food and the same sources of income from the State as everyone else.
Join the campaign here: http://statusnow4all.org
A Diary of folk song, music and dance events in Leicestershire and the surrounding area.
see lfd.org.uk
Walk with Amal: One little girl. One BIG hope.
Little Amal, a young refugee, embarks on a remarkable journey – an epic voyage that will take her across Turkey, across Europe. To find her mother. To get back to school. To start a new life. Will the world let her? Can she achieve what now seems more impossible than ever?
Continue reading “The Walk: Hope. Too BIG to ignore.”If someone starts asking do all the refugees come to UK, you can show them this video
and suggest they look at information here: https://care4calais.org/the-refugee-crisis/
15 June 2020: So Pete Titchener and I played as Residents in the same folk club at the Black Horse, Telham 45+ years ago. He’s in Australia and I’m in UK but due to the wonders of modern technology look what we have – some Covid-19 lockdown and socially-distanced wizardry (musicians in Australia and I’m in UK). It was great fun to do, and Pete’s done a fantastic job. I’m really pleased I responded to his challenge
⚘⚘⚘ Big thank you to the wonderful band – Micheal O’Callaghan on guitar, and Pete Titchener on rhythm and lead acoustic guitar, and also electric bass.
“When You Say Nothing at All” was written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz
Morning Star: I can’t breathe – Protesters clash with police after death of George Floyd
PROTESTERS clashed with police in the US city of Minneapolis today, responding to Monday’s killing of a black man in police custody.
Footage of a white police officer kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for eight minutes, ignoring his pleas for help, was captured on video.
Hundreds took to the streets where the 46-year-old was killed displaying banners reading “I can’t breathe,” the words he was repeatedly heard saying.
Demonstrators were met with a wall of riot police who fired tear gas and projectiles at the crowd.
Continue reading “Black Lives Matter”We hear with sadness that one of the founder members of People’s Arts Collective – PAC, Sonja Grossner died last night, 12 April 2020. She had been unwell for some time. Our thoughts are with her daughter Lorna Grossner, who is also an active PAC member.
Continue reading “Sonja Grossner 1942-2020”QUICK FACTS
1. Nine years of war, systematic targeting of health and water infrastructure by occupying Turkish forces, lack of international recognition, and the January 2020 closure of the only UN aid crossing into North and East Syria (NES) have left the autonomous region at extreme risk from coronavirus.
With the World Health Organization (WHO) refusing to support it directly, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) is reliant on its own meagre resources and aid routed via the Assad government, little of which ever arrives to the north-east.
At the time of writing (5 April), only 7 potential cases of coronavirus have been identified, though the lack of testing facilities outlined below means the real prevalence is far higher.
Continue reading “The Coronavirus Crisis in North and East Syria: from Rojava Information Centre:”