Check out this great conversation between GRIT TV’s Laura Flanders and Ora Wise of the Palestine Education Project, Ras K’Dee of SNAG Magazine, Invincible of Detroit, and Narcy of Iraq/Canada. The crew discusses the experiences of indigenous peoples across the globe and organizing around those experiences, as well as a recent youth delegation to Palestine. ...
Today is mixtape madness!! We have been feeling this for a while and meant to drop a shout out before yesterdays FELABRATION… The Messengers is a collaboration between JPeriod and K’naan that brings together the art and genius of Bob Marley, Boy Dylan, and Fela Kuti. Download it here: http://www.jperiod.com/knaan/ J.Period, K’NAAN & Co. in ...
Next Week’s CMJ Music Conference here in NYC will see the return of the GLOBAL HIP HOP THROWDOWN and its sure to blow some minds. Put on by our friends at Nomadic Wax and the Bloom Effect, The event will unite the talents of a creative and diverse group of lyricists, DJs and visual artists ...
The Very Best’s album Warm Heart of Africa is a collaboration between European producers Radioclit, Ezra Koening of Vampire Weekend, and Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya, with guest appearances from high-queen of continent breaching, M.I.A. The record took its gestation in a mixtape and has finally evolved into a 13-track album of pure sunshine pop. However, ...
Currently showing at DUMBO’s Powerhouse Arena is a series of photographs by Kim Badawi, colorfully documenting with boldness, immediacy and resonance the lives of those involved in the ‘Taqwacore’ scene. Marking the release of the new (and very beautiful) book, ‘The Taqwacores: Muslim Punk in the USA’, this is much more than yet another CBGB’s ...
Big red tour buses cruise through Brooklyn streets these days. Tourists click, save, name and upload photos instantly, proving to friends in far off places that their dreams of visiting “The Planet” have been realized. Street signs, cultural sites, and an occasional trendy dresser are passed along in Facebook photo albums and Flickr accounts titled, ...
In case you missed it…this is what we were up to all summer long
Tomorrow marks round five of the Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte Gallery’s series of potluck dinners given an arty twist. Curators Joseph Montgomery and Jesse Willenbring have capitalized on the long-standing symbiosis between art and food in their ‘exhibition’ Don’t Perish, in which visitors to the exhibition each bring along a dish (contributing to what Montgomery ...
Extra Golden Knitting Factory Brooklyn, NY September 23, 2009 As they take to the stage, it’s hard to decipher through the smile lines, hot-tin-roof footwork and unabashed ebullience just how much grit it’s taken for Extra Golden to be here. Traveling across continents, even their physical presence tonight is something to be admired; but the ...
World Up had the pleasure of hosting Tahani Salah, Palestinian poet and activist, as a teaching artist this summer at the International Rescue Committee’s 2009 Summer Refugee Youth program. Tahani will bring the student’s energy from the summer program to the upcoming Tug of War Tour, a unique performance piece dedicated to bringing “Peace to ...
