Week 11, The experience of having to flee one’s country is told in reports, stories, songs or drawings.
PlanetHeroines25th June 2020
Notes: George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis sparked huge anti-racist demonstrations in most of the western world protesting discrimination and police violence. This programme questions the definition of race, shows how racism is based on false premises and who profits from it. ‘They're talkin' 'bout a revolution’ sings Tracy Chapman, US-American singer-songwriter and…
PlanetHeroines18th June 2020
‘The calendar is made up of the past, for those at the top. So that it will stay that way, the powerful fill it up with statues, holidays, museums, homages, parades. That all serves the purpose of keeping the past in place; where things have already happened and not where they will…
PlanetHeroines16th June 2020
Week 9, The USA, a state founded on forcefully expropriating land from its Native American inhabitants and exploiting that land using slave labour, has always had a problem with institutionally embedded racism and state violence aimed at maintaining the power of the wealthy.
PlanetHeroines11th June 2020
As a cultural organisation, how do we respond to and acknowledge the pain and injustice felt by individuals and communities facing on-going racial violence?
PlanetHeroines4th June 2020
Week 8 : This programme will show how women (singers, monarchs, seamstresses or peasant women) can greatly improve our lives and living conditions by resisting, fighting back, standing up or raising their voices.
PlanetHeroines4th June 2020
The funny thing about writing poetry for me is that it only comes when it wants to. It hides in the back of my mind then suddenly shows it’s face out of the blue.
PlanetHeroines30th May 2020
Week 7, An iconic excerpt from the 1979 film Hair introduces the content of this programme. Different Hair Stories will be told, a subject on many people’s mind at home in quarantine.
PlanetHeroines28th May 2020
