Amnesty’s Iran researcher Drewery Dyke talks about Amnesty’s new initiative for Iran, launched with a new study into detainees and prisoners in Iran. we also hear from Ashram Parsi of the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees. Many thanks to South Leeds Community Station for this interview.
This show also includes a dramatisation of the Iranian Folk [...]
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Six Pillars – Refugee Week 2010 Special
June 18th, 2010 · No Comments
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Pédilüv ep.6 – Comme un dimanche !
May 5th, 2010 · No Comments
Une après-midi à Saint Ouen, c’est bien, c’est audonien, c’est kok-drouhin.
Sanne, Julia et un peu Arjan vous raconte des histoires pas racontables.
Idéal pour une écoute au chocolat chaud devant le feu de cheminée.
Le plus court chemin entre les pieds et les oreilles, c’est Pedilüv
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Six Pillars – Gender, Wars and Chadores…Art Basel Miami with Canvas Magazine
April 21st, 2010 · No Comments
This interview with Canvas founder and director Ali Khadra looks at a series of talks curated by Canvas hosted at Art Basel by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co- Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London.
Ali Khadra explains why and how Canvas intends to [...]
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Pédilüv – Dzoin / Japinski par Simon Drouhin
April 16th, 2010 · No Comments
Pédilüv vous propose 2 pièces de Simon Drouhin, artiste sonore aimant les chausses pieds,
qui vous enverrons dans le décor ou alors au Japon, au choix.
Dzoin 10min 23 sec
Pièce électro acoucore
mélange breakcore bit électro acoustique
Souhaitant trancher avec l’esthétique rigoureuse de l’électro acoustique, telle une trame plane et précise,
Dzoin renoue avec une idée [...]
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Pédilüv ep.4 – Petit guide sonore intergalactique
April 6th, 2010 · No Comments
Le Petit Guide Sonore Intergalactique par Julia Drouhin
Julia Drouhin, plasticienne, s’inspire des feuilletons radiophoniques crées en 1978 pour la BBC par Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
A partir de souvenirs enregistrés et de field recordings, elle a composé un Petit Guide Sonore Intergalactique : quelques épisodes sonores de l’humanité [...]
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Six Pillars Human Rights in Iran Gig – 29th Nov, Ginglik
November 26th, 2009 · No Comments
Read more about the event here
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In aid of Amnesty International
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The Ginglik underground bar is directly in front of Shepherd’s Bush tube station in the middle of the green as you cross the road to reach the West 12 Shopping Centre.
http://www.patrickmonahan.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/theslidingrule
http://www.myspace.com/roshisongs
http://www.iranian.com/salehi.html
70’s Iranian music sounds like:
http://www.myspace.com/persianfunk
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Organised by Six Pillars to Persia radio show, on Resonance 104.4FM
http://sixpillarstopersia.wordpress.com
Get tickets [...]
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Voice On Record
November 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Episode 6: Space.
In the year of the fortieth anniversary of mankind’s first lunar landing, this episode of Voice On Record presents many of the original transmissions from the expeditions leading up to this remarkable achievement. The programme features audio from John Glenn’s visions of mysterious particles surrounding his Mercury capsule to the “One Giant Leap” [...]
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Magic of Persia and the Contemporary Art Prize
October 10th, 2009 · No Comments
An interview with Shirley Elghanian from Magic of Persia.
Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize finalists exhibit in London this month, as do the artists involved in the Iran Unbowed exhibition which Magic of Persia have curated to coincide with the Frieze Art Fair.
With luminaries such as Abbas Kiarostami on board and Sheena Wagstaff chief curator [...]
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Six Pillars – Mansour Bahrami & East
June 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Famous for serving six balls at once on a professional court, under arm serves, and speciality shots including the ‘power shot through the legs’, ‘the lob through the legs’ and ‘the drop shot’ which bounces back over the net due to excessive backspin tennis impresario Mansour Bahrami is not to be matched. At the launch [...]
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Six Pillars – The Pursuit of Pleasure
June 1st, 2009 · No Comments
Author Rudi Mathee discusses his study of Persian uses for narcotics and other more mundane stimulants throughout history. Mathee’s book “The Pursuit of Pleasure” has just been released in Iran, and Fari Bradley asks him about Sherry, Shiraz wine and stimulants and opiates in ancient Persia from coffee to opium.
Mathee focusses on the Safavid period [...]
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