DRConnect

Fundraiser for Goma University, DRC

Tuesday 23rd February, 6.30- Midnight. At the University of Sussex Falmer Campus, Mandella Hall, Brighton BN1 9RH.
£4

Refugee Radio in association with Hear Afrika, Climate Connections, CDEC and AASULE present a fundraising concert to raise awareness about the Twinning Project and the plight of people in the DR Congo and to fund raise £2000 from the ticket sales in order to buy Video Conferencing Equipment, which will cost us £6000 to build intellectual and academic solidarity.

The event is scheduled to take place in Mandella Hall, University of Sussex, on the 23rd of February 2010, between 6.30pm and 1am. Ticket cost £4.

The people of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been victim too many atrocities; rape, dismemberment, torture, kidnapping and theforced use of children as labourers and soldiers by armed militias. These atrocities occur on a daily basis. Furthermore, up to 4 million people have been internally displaced and on average, 45,000 have died each month, as a result of a war which has been going on since the mid-nineties. The scale and depth of the suffering makes it almost
unintelligible.

In 2008 the Students’ Union of the University of Sussex and the University of Goma (in the Eastern DRC) both placed their faith in education as the foundation of peace, reconciliation and reconstruction. With this shared belief the students of Sussex University, lobbied for the twinning of the two universities and achieved a great victory in winning a referendum vote to twin the the two Student Unions.

Your hosts:
Fernand
Kheston

Dj:
DJ Too Cold

Artists:
Baba Slips
Mr Man & The Illersapiens
Mohammed Yahya
College Boy Mo
Bakk Lamp Fall
Sweet Sweet Lies
24
Your Army
Spliff Richard
Poetic Pilgrimage

The Refugee Radio Roadshow

Steampunk pioneers play in aid of Refugee Radio

Sunday Driver
Live @ Jam, 9-12 Middle Street, Brighton, BN1 1AL
Friday 21st August 7PM £6



Like an Indian Kate Bush from some mad alternative reality where the Victorians had access to spaceships, Sunday Driver are here to put the steam into Steampunk. With sitars and guitars, clarinets, tablas and god knows what else, this Cambridge six-piece mash up the East and the West, the past, present and future into a kind of science fiction folk music.

Sunday Driver are playing an exclusive show at Jam to raise funds for the Refugee Radio Orchestra, with support from global musicians.

Refugee Radio are a local community arts group working with refugees and asylum seekers. In the face of hostile anti-immigration media stories, Refugee Radio aim to bring people back together. “There is a desperate need for people to stop seeing each other as stereotypes and to start seeing each other as people again,” says Refugee Radio’s Steve Silverwood “We believe in the power of music, just like Bob Marley, and believe in using the media as a positive force.”

Paolo Boldrini, a Trustee of Refugee Radio says “Sunday Driver are amazing. This gig is going to be a brilliant way to raise awareness of our project and help overcome the barriers between people in our city.”

NOTES:
Sunday Driver have played everywhere from Camden to Bangalore. Their new album, In the City of Dreadful Night, was inspired by Victorian London and Raj-era Calcutta. Their music has featured on Radio4 as the soundtrack to a documentary on leprosy (!).

Steampunk is a growing subculture of literature and art based on Neo-Victorian fantasy such as steam-powered computers and space-faring zeppelins (e.g comic book The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or the Philip Pullman “His Dark Materials” series).

The venue, Jam, was formerly known as Cybar & the Water Margin.