It’s now been a week since I returned home from a my first ever trip to Israel and Palestine, and my head is still trying to make sense of everything I saw, heard and felt while I was out there. Two Saturdays ago, a disparate bunch of arty types (and one seriously cool reverend) got [...]
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“All we want here is peace…”
Posted by George Luke on April 8, 2012
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/all-we-want-here-is-peace/
Greenbelt 2011: a look back
It’s now been a good few days since I ‘de-camped’ from Cheltenham and took the train back to London – feeling absolutely shattered but also inspired, elated and, dare I say it, turbo-charged from Greenbelt. It was a much scarier Greenbelt than usual for me this year – mainly because I’d accepted the major responsibility [...]
Posted in arts, Christianity, Culture, human rights, Life in general, music, politics, social action
Tagged GB11, Greenbelt festival
Posted by George Luke on September 4, 2011
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/greenbelt-2011-a-look-back/
Live review: Ruben Blades
Well, not so much a review as a collection of thoughts… I’m on a 148 bus (hooray for smartphones! But on what planet do people say “hooray” when they really wanted to say “bootstraps”?), going home after a brilliant gig I went to mostly out of curiosity. Ruben Blades has just come off the stage [...]
Posted by George Luke on July 28, 2011
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/live-review-ruben-blades/
Peace and Hope in Latin America
This past week has been one of those “hyper Latino” weeks I have from time to time. Yesterday, for instance, I spent the afternoon in a farm somewhere in Reading, helping my friends at Latin Link with the orientation weekend for the batch of (mostly young) people heading out in short-term teams to various Latin [...]
Posted by George Luke on June 26, 2011
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/peace-and-hope-in-latin-america/
Africa Oyé!
Africa Oyé 2011 Sefton Park, Liverpool, 18-19 June Liverpool’s African music festival has become a key event in my calendar. It’s a chance for me not only to hear great music and gather material for the Sounds of Africa show I produce, but also an opportunity to socialise and hang out with a few other [...]
Posted in Africa, arts, Culture, human rights, Latin America, Life in general, music, politics, refugees, social action
Posted by George Luke on June 20, 2011
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/africa-oye/
Review: “The Man Who Committed Thought”
You’d have to be seriously brave (or just mental) to try to set all Africa’s issues straight in two hours. But that’s basically what Patrice Naimbana sets out to do in the one man show which won him an Edinburgh Fringe First award (on tonight in London’s Cockpit Theatre, as part of the Pentecost Festival). [...]
Posted in Africa, arts, books, Christianity, Culture, film, human rights, Life in general, politics, social action, television
Tagged Pentecost Festival 2011, Sierra Leone
Posted by George Luke on June 6, 2011
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/review-the-man-who-committed-thought/
My Road Trip/Hanging Out With the Women of Hope
All the years I lived in Sierra Leone, I was a spoilt city boy who rarely ventured out of Freetown. We had an uncle who worked as an air traffic controller at Lungi Airport, whose family we visited frequently, and my mum worked at the hospital there for a while, so we would always go [...]
Posted by George Luke on May 8, 2011
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/my-road-triphanging-out-with-the-women-of-hope/
In Conversation: Watcha Clan
Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of hanging out with Sista K, Supreme Clem and Nassim – three members of the Marseille based ‘global fusion’ band Watcha Clan. Their fifth album, Radio Babel, comes out in April and it’s simply the most awesome take-everything-you-can-get-hold-of-and-shake-it-all-about concoction I’ve ever heard; a mix that includes dubstep, drum [...]
Posted in Africa, arts, asylum, Culture, film, human rights, Life in general, music, politics, refugees, social action
Tagged Watcha Clan, World Music
Posted by George Luke on March 18, 2011
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/03/18/in-conversation-watcha-clan/
Shahbaz Bhatti: A Tribute
I’ve interviewed hundreds of people in my time – both the very famous and the nowhere-near-as-famous-as-they-think. Some of them have been on the receiving end of threats (mostly those involved in campaigning for the human rights of others); some have even been attacked once or twice. But this week was the first time that someone [...]
Tagged Shahbaz Bhatti
Posted by George Luke on March 5, 2011
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/shahbaz-bhatti-a-tribute/
Crimea: Day 1
Oh crap, it’s cold… When Operation Christmas Child (the charity that mobilises schoolkids across the UK to fill shoeboxes with gifts for kids in poorer countries) asked me to accompany a team of theirs on a trip abroad, I jumped at the chance. Well, why wouldn’t I? The last time they did, I’d ended up [...]
Posted by George Luke on December 16, 2010
http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/crimea-day-1/
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