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Speakers include UnConvention: Voices Roundhouse, Camden 11th February, 2012 10:30am – 6pm. PLUS MANY MANY MORE Un-Convention: This Un-Convention looks at political voices and social messages through spoken word, hip hop, social media, art and culture. It’s about people’s voices and getting them heard. Two simultaneous events connect Roundhouse, London UK with The Museum of Modern Art, Medellin Colombia in real time, to explore the voices and messages of young people through art and digital. The day explores the sounds, ideas and projects that help change the world and society, and make people think differently. Panels include Female MCs, Hip Hop (live from the barrios of Medellin), Social Media in Places of War, Digital Innovation, Latin American Music in the UK (curated by Como No), intermixed with spoken word and hip hop performance. 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I want people to come away questioning exactly what music can and should do and for young artists to be inspired to take their own music and art to new levels and feel that their ideas can be shared in a wider artistic community. Oliver Kluczewski, Producer, Roundhouse Rising. EACH YEAR THE ROUNDHOUSE WORKS WITH OVER 3,000 11-25 YEAR OLDS ENABLING THEM TO REALISE THEIR CREATIVE POTENTIAL. th ed exclusively wi editing, we work eo vid of o int rts d so ve all Before we mo voices. 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She said: “I will not speak too long because there are still things unsaid, too terrible for you to hear, and too terrible for me to say, and my heart is heavy with them. Nkosi”. And then, in the report of this moment, it says ‘Begins song’. At the very moment that this woman suggests she can no longer speak she begins to sing. I’ve always been interested in how the arts can give a voice to different communities, but in recent years started to worry that this has become clichéd. What does ‘giving a voice’ really mean, when for some speaking out might be dangerous, limited in scope or the problem itself. ‘Giving voice’ might not really solve the question of the heavy heart. This woman did not speak, but instead she sang against what was too terrible to say. Music was an alternative — it was almost the opposite of giving voice: it allowed her to remain silent. Perhaps we should stop carelessly talking about ‘giving voice’ and respect communities who find their own means of expression — which may not involve words. There is a right to silence — to not speak out: but this doesn’t mean people won’t sing. Hearing a voice is abo ut making someone spe ak out in the first place, as well as making our selves listen carefully despit e the propaganda. The Space Programme The Hub 14:00 – 15:00 Panel 16:00 – 17:00 COLOMBIAGE PRESENTS Female Voices Panel 11:30 – 12:30 In Place of War and Un-Convention presents: Panel Female MCs used to get a bad rap, but a new generation is taking things back to the street. And if you don’t like them, they don’t care — because they know they’re good. CREATIVITY IN PLACE OF WAR Panelists: Lioness Panelists: Professor James Thompson (In Place of War, The University of Manchester) Tracey Moberly (Interdisciplinary Artist, Author) Noha Atef (Citizen Journalist, Egypt) Christian Payne (AKA Documentally) Alex Wilks (Avaaz) Marcel ‘Afroriazz’ (Tiuna El Fuerte) Moderator: Andrew Dubber (New Music Strategies) Spoken word performance: Bridget Minamore bridgetminamore.blogspot.com 12:45 – 13:45 Panel The Politicisation of Music 2011 was a year of change across the world, from uprisings to riots to environmental disasters on a monumental scale. How have musicians responded to the changing social environment? Is it possible to be political with music? Is there an audience for politicised music? And what is the point in making music with these messages? Panelists: Jon McClure Soweto Kinch Steve Ignorant (Crass) Dizraeli Moderator: John Robb Spoken word performance: Zia Ahmed Andrew Dubber RoxXxan NoLay Lil Simz RoxXxan Soweto Kinch Is Colombia’s new wave of cultural stars changing the image of a troubled nation? Moderator: Chantelle Fiddy (Guardian Journalist) 15:00 – 16:00 Panel POLITICISED HIP HOP Curated and moderated by Jon McClure (Reverend and the Makers, Mongrel) Panelists: Pariz-1 Blak Twang Lowkey Bridget Minamore Zia Ahmed Dean Atta Moderator: Jon McClure With Mexico, Cuba and Argentina successfully mapping themselves on the global cultural landscape and now the world beating a path to Brazil’s door with the World Cup and the Olympic Games, how is Colombia changing the way it is seen on the international scene? It’s a country that defined Latin America’s booming literary landscape in the 1980s, with Gabriel García Márquez and his friends, but how is the country currently responsible for Shakira and Juanes defining itself in a moment of relative prosperity and safety? And what role does Colombia’s emerging talent have to play in all of this? Has Colombia finally learned how to export its culture? And what will it mean for its future? Panelists: Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (Author of What if Latin America Ruled the World?) Cristina Fuentes La Roche (Director of Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias, Colombia) Maya Jon McClure A panel exploring creativity in places of armed conflict and social hardship and how those communities use the web/ social media to gain exposure for their creative and political responses to their situation. What are the difficulties of working in those contexts? Why is it important to be creative in difficult social contexts? What is the impact of digital as a means to get voices heard? CULTURE IS PROPAGANDA Special performance of ‘I Am Nobody’s Nigger’ by Dean Atta. Colombiage is the leading, independent platform for the promotion of Colombian art and culture in the UK. It was conceived as a “collage” of artistic expressions, cultures and audiences; an alternative space for stimulating dialogues between Colombia and the rest of the world. Today Colombiage is considered to be one Jaggi (Award-winning cultural journalist and critic, who writes for the Guardian Review, Independent, Financial Times, Economist and Newsweek International among other publications) Jenny Addlington (Head of Marketing at Because Music) Moderator: Landa Acevedo-Scott (Founder/Artistic Director of Colombiage) of the most influential celebrations of contemporary Colombian culture internationally and remains wholeheartedly committed to giving Colombia’s artistic talent a meaningful voice on the global stage while forging a strong cultural identity for Colombians living outside their homeland. Programme: Studio Theatre 11:00 – 11:30 Introduction and music/spoken word: Un-Convention introduces the day. 11:30 – 12:00 Performance 1 The Rise of African Music SHAKING OFF THE WORLD MUSIC TAG CASSETTEBOY (a special one-off performance) Cassetteboy are a semi-anonymous duo from Essex who have been making jokes by re-editing the rich and famous since the mid-nineties. They released five albums between 2002 and 2008, before moving onto video cut-ups. Their Youtube channel has amassed nearly 13 million views, and their most popular video ‘Cassetteboy vs The Bloody Apprentice’ has been watched over three and a half million times. Their live show with DJ Rubbish has become a firm favourite at the Glastonbury Festival, and they have also performed in America, Canada, Poland, Greece and Colchester. They sum up their work as “cutting up celebrities to make them talk about sex or drugs”, but alongside the smut and the scatological jokes there is also a political aspect to much of their work. In 2011 they became regular contributors to Amnesty International’s ‘Amnesty TV’, causing controversy with re-edits of President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu. 12:00 – 13:15 COMO NO PRESENTS: Panel LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC IN THE UK 13:45 – 14:30 Panel 13:15 – 13:45 Performance 2 THE JUICE MEDIA: RAP NEWS (a special unseen specially recorded film) Phil Manzanera Panelists: Jose Luis (DJ & Promoter of La Bomba Club Nights) Phil Manzanera (Producer of many Latin Alternative artists, Leader of Group Corroncho, Guitarist with Roxy Music) Cal Jader (Promoter of Movimientos Live Events and DJ) Lewis Robinson (Label manager for London Brazilian label Mais Um Discos and DJ) Moderator: Andy Wood (Como No) The Juice Media Rap News – the news source for the discerning viewer, delivering a bulletin to restore your faith in the fourth estate, make you nod your head to the beat even as you shake it in disbelief. An off-beat musical, current-affairs programme, ‘Rap News’ is responsible for turning bollocks-news into socio-poetic/ comedic analyses which everyone can relate to and understand. The Juice Media: Rap News is written and created by Hugo Farrant and Giordano Nanni in a home-studio/suburban backyard in Melbourne, Australia. thejuicemedia.com With the likes of D’Banj from Nigeria being signed by Kanye West’s label and selling out shows in Europe alongside Wizz Kid, P square, Seun Kuti and Amadou & Mariam all crossing over, Damon Albarn’s Africa Express project, plus African electronic dance music hitting the dancefloors across the globe, is African music the new frontier? Panelists: Stephen Budd (Stephen Budd Management and Africa Express co-founder) Ian Birrell (Ex-Deputy editor of The Independent and Africa Express co-founder) Mark Antoinne Moreau (Manager of Amadou and Mariam) Gilles Peterson (Expert DJ from BBC Radio 1 and 3) DJ Edu (Expert DJ from BBC Radio 1 Xtra) Caspar Llewellyn Smith (Music editor of The Observer and Guardian) Moderator: Andy Morgan (Journalist and ex-manager of Tinariwen) Gilles Peterson 14:30 – 15:00 Performance lecture 3 by Tracey Moberly Comedian, activist and author Mark Thomas first met with socio-political artist, activist and author Tracey Moberly (formerly Sanders-Wood) in 2004 at The Foundry, Shoreditch London that Tracey co-owned. He wanted to hold a wrap party there for a TV programme he had just finished based on the Iraqi national debt. From this first introduction and conversation they uncovered a lot of shared ground, similar interests and ways of working. The ultimate bonding factor, which struck up their friendship and working partnership being that they had both used military missiles in their work. Tracey acquiring hers for free whilst Mark having paid for his. They soon began organizing a number of projects using art as activism; collaborating in different formats through an artistic vehicle to promote and highlight serious and contentious issues. These were presented to a global audience. The duos first collaboration was called the Coca Cola Nazi Advert Exhibition — which they co-curated following the deaths of eight union workers at a Coca Cola bottling plant in Colombia. With an investigation into the companies past they centered the exhibition on the companies association with Nazi Germany around the period of the 1936 Olympics, which were held in Germany. They looked at how Fanta was produced for the Nazi market. Mark and Tracey invited ex-students, artists and designer friends to contribute to the exhibition. The exhibition soon amassed hundreds of contributors from Banksy to Jimmy Cauty and continued to grow. Artistic licence was used to recreate the adverts the company may have used, whilst other originals were bastardized. This was then toured in areas from Siberia and Moscow to Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico. Their forth-coming book highlights several other collaborative projects where Mark and Tracey use art as activism as a medium to highlight many other local to global issues. Some of these include stopping a particular Club 18-30 Billboard advertisement campaign; Socpa — Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005; forming McDemos — a protest solutions company; interacting with a project on the fourth Plinth… Programme Live stream livestream : especiales .com/ telemedel lin Bloomberg Studio 15:00 – 16:15 Comuna 13 presents Panel 14:00 – 14:45 Presentation of MUSIC FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION Tiuna el fuerte venezuela by Marcel ‘Afroriazz’ Tiuna El Fuerte is a liberal space where people are able to be experimental and are trying new ways to change the injustice that is happening today in Venezuela. In 2005 many street artists were able to live out a dream of having a space where they could experiment and express themselves without fear of being outcast or rejected by the elitists who control what people are exposed to with regards to art, music etc. in Venezuela, in particular Caracas. Tiuna El Fuerte is in a popular part of the city called El Valle, but thousands of the people who live there are living in poverty or in dangerous situations. Tiune El Fuerte were able to find a space, thanks to many young artists, where they could experiment and continue with their creative development. This is one of the most inspirational projects in the world and it’s leader presents the work at Un-Convention. The Colombian city of Medellin has a history of drug, gang and paramilitary violence during the decades of civil war. It is still recognised as one the most dangerous cities in Latin America. Cultural activists, embedded in hip hop culture, have developed hip hop schools for young people in the neighbourhoods or barrios across the city. Set up by local hip hop collectives, the schools provide young people a safe place to learn the four elements of hip hop: MC-ing, DJ-ing, graffiti and breakdancing. But is not just music that is taught, but life long learning skills — self expression and self esteem, literacy and arithmetic, and social and cultural heritage awareness — in the belief that these skills will all play a role in changing and empowering their communities ensuring that younger generations do not become victims of gang and paramilitary violence. The impact of music and digital technology on changing people’s lives is clear – in 5 years the city has transformed from the most dangerous city in Latin America to a safer place with less crime and more opportunity for all. Music literally saves people’s lives in this city. This panel will be in Spanish (with simultaneous translation in UK) Panelists in Colombia: Lucia Gonzales (Rights Campaigner) Faber Andrés Ramírez (Comuna Seis Rock Festival, Productor) Carlos Desadaptadoz (Musician and Social manager) Altavoz (Festival of Young People’s Music) Red De Escuelas De Musica (Cultural Network) Juan Antonio Agudelo (Cultural promoter) Panelist in UK: Jez Collins (Birmingham City University and Birmingham Music Archive) Medellin, Colombia 16:30 – 17:45 Museo de Antioquia presents Panel Programme: Other locations Digital tools and digital infrastructure for musical and cultural cities 11:00 – 18:00 Video workshop: How to make a wi-fi router out of a tin can Medellin provides a progressive cultural and digital vision. Medellin has a larger cultural spend than the rest of Colombia put together. It also has an outstanding commitment to the use of digital technology to educate and empower people, especially in the poorer barrios – the whole city is wi-fi enabled; free laptops are given to children (and they are encouraged to teach their parents how to use them); adverts on the TV show how to make a wi-fi connection from a tin can; and there are many projects around recording and mapping the sounds of the city. 11:00 – 18:00 Results from labsurlab: Video installation The different sounds of the city play on a loop as recorded in the mapping Medellin project, with a map of Medellin. What strategies do cities need to introduce to make change, empower people and ultimately create cultural and creative cities? This panel will be in English Panelists in Colombia: Mauricio Mosquera (Director, Telemedellín Channel) Juliana Restrepo (Director, The Museum of Modern Art of Medellín) Alejandro Vélez (Musician and Producer, Seriesmedia) Federico López (Sound engineer and producer) Panelists in UK: Andrew Dubber Andrea Goetzke Steve Lawson Small Room 1 Small Room 2 Small Rooms 15:00 – 17:00 Speed networking: with panelists from the UK (announced on sign-up sheets outside rooms) Media Lab 1 11:00 – 18:00 Webcams from the City of Medellin – the computers will show live webcam broadcasts from the hip hop schools and cultural centres. Media Lab 2 11:00 – 18:00 Great digital projects from the UK. A showcase of 8 of the most interesting digital cultural projects in the UK with presentations from those who created them. Upstairs Bar Sounds from the City Project: Featuring the sounds recorded across the city of Medellin as part of a social music project. Live stream livestream : especiales .com/ telemedel lin Various locations around Roundhouse 11:00 – 18:00 EXHIBITION: THE ART OF PROTEST Exhibition featuring master works from: Banksy Turner Prize winner Gillian Wearing Lyrics from singer songwriter Billy Bragg Imagery from John and Yoko’s ‘Bed-In’ Fashion Designer Katherine Hamnett’s ‘58% Don’t Want Pershing’ t-shirt Stella Vine Leading German Artists Joseph Beuys and Thomas Peiter THANKS Thank-you to our partners: In Place of War, NOISE Festival, El MaMM, Medellin Digital and Tiuna El Fuerte. Oliver Kluczewski, Dave Gaydon, Ed Frith, Sylvia Harrison, Scott Parker, Marta Sala Font, Bea Hankey, Juliana Restrepo, Yan Camilo Vergara, Martin Giraldo, Andy Wood, Denise Proctor, Jon McClure, Kate Tempest, Chantelle Fiddy, James Thompson, Stephen Budd, JuiceMedia Rap News, Cassetteboy, Andrew Dubber, Ev Sekkedis, William Williamson, Leo Fawkes, Emma Reynolds, Allison Schnackenberg, Mark Brown. Thank you to all the panelists and artists involved, all are mentioned in the programme. Special thanks to all who make this event possible: www.unconventionhub.org Team Un-Convention: Ruth Daniel, Elliot Callard, Jeff Thompson, Richard Cassar, Alex Butcher, Jeroen Sjoers and Nicole Rennick. www.roundhouse.org.uk/rising Design: markbrownstudio.co.uk