Podcast feedVolunteering Is...with Hopscotch
From the global International Women’s Day festival to small, local employability events, student Marissa Piccolo has learned to fund, plan and run successful events as a Volunteer Community Champion with Hopscotch.
Kushba Bibi, Employment & Training Co-ordinator, describes how Hopscotch nurtures volunteers, helping them to set and achieve their goals.
For more information telephone:
020 7388 8198 or email: info@hopscotchawc.org.uk
Package by: Angela Routley
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What's On in Camden from week beginning 19th May 2013
Find out how the Metropolitan Police are planning to use Tasers, meet the new Borough Commander and hear how crime and anti social behaviour are being reduced. Survivor of Institutional abuse in Ireland, Mary Lodato will be talking about the road to recovering her who self, at the Feminist Library on Sunday 19th May; The Festival of Asian Literature comes to a close at Asia House with a conversation between Maya Jaggi and Tan Twan Eng. ‘How Can Art?’ youth sessions are taking place at the Camden Arts Centre .
Read by: Mainga Bhima, Marian Larragy & DJ P.Tosh
Research & Editing: Mainga Bhima
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Whats On from 29th April 2013
Celebrate May Day in Camden Square with the Speakeasy Jazzmen – or in the Irish Centre if it’s raining; There is Hubcap Music at the Roundhouse; Join a chat about feminist consciousness raising group at the Feminist Library on Tuesay 2nd May.
Writers from fifteen countries feature in Asia House Festival 2013, which will be opened by Michael Palin on 7th May and follows the theme ‘Freedom’.
Read by: Marian Larragy, Mainga Bhima & DJ Rudeboy P.Tosh
Edited by: Mainga Bhima
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Women Media Professionals from around the world
Nine podcasts were made as part of the International Media Training Day for women, held in London on 25th & 26th April 2012 – organised by Frauen Solidaritaet and Central American Women’s Network, with Camden Community Radio.
Here 3 women media professionals talk about their work. Hazel Dewan from Puntos De Encuentro, in Nicaragua tells of a TV soap that marries comedy and love themes with tackling underlying social problems among young people. Spanish with English interpretation.
Beatrice from Spain explains the work of Young Women Rights (FMJ) to challenge gender based violence among teenage couples and a film they have made to raise issues
Pria from Jeeran talks about a film project to raise awareness on the taboo subject in the Asian community of preference for boys over girls, which leads, among other things to elective abortion of female pregnancies.
There are links to each of the other podcasts, links related to this podcast and links related to the training programme organisers.
- Rani on Jeena International
- Nbecco & Joanna
- Helga and Ishrat
- Yula Burin on the Feminist Library
- Rani Bilkhu, founder of Jeena International talks with Lisa Giessauf
- Betti interviews Thabisa Bobo, a Public Educator in South Africa
- Violence Against Women in Latin America
- Against criminalisation of emergency contraception in Honduras
- Puntos De Encuentro
- Jeena International
- Central American Womens Network
- Frauen Solidaritaet
- Back to Camden Community Radio
- Follow Camden Community Radio
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What's On: Week Beginning 10th Nov 2012
‘The Trebic Ghetto’ at 4pm on Sunday 11th November marks the 70th anniversary of the deportation of the Jews of Trebic to death camps: Walk on Hampstead Heath 9.50am on Monday 12th:
Two Launch events for King’s Cross Neighbourhood Forum – Saturday 10th and Wednesday 14th November: The London Jazz Festival runs from Friday 9th to 18th November: Theatro Technis presents ‘Who is Noskov’ – five short plays: ‘Rust And Bone’ is film of the week: ‘Journeys East – A Discovery of Hidden Treasures’ a community exhibition at The Wallace Collection – including work form the Asian Women’s Group in West Hampstead.
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