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JIU JITSU LouE116: Josh Mensah - Brown BeltJosh Mensah is a Brown Belt and founder of The Grapple League. Supported by an incredible team they host events with a similar format to Grappling Industries with Round Robins. Josh explains some of the terminology and rules for competitions, especially for those of us that don't fully understand what goes on. Josh started his Brazilian Jiu Jitsu journey in 2014. and shares some of the challenging times in his life where he now feels like he owes Jiu Jitsu for his progress and success. Listen to this episode to watch and hear the infamous 'Uncle J...
2026-02-1447 min
ShadeUnreadability in South Asian PhotographyIn today's episode, I'm reading an essay by Eleanor Sanghara Güstard, published in Shade Art Review today.Eleanor inherited an old Nikon F50 from her late father. When the lens cracked, she kept shooting through it. Those "poor images" became a methodology for navigating her position between Britain and India, whiteness and brownness. In her essay, Eleanor traces a lineage of South Asian photographers who use technical strategies, from blur and opacity to degradation, to work against the colonial demand for clarity. From Umrao Singh Sher-Gil's pioneering work from the 1890s through the mid-20th century t...
2026-01-2412 min
ShadeWho Gets to Show Up in the Art World?Shade Podcast closes out 2025 by returning to the Shade Art Review archives. This episode adapts "Oh God It's Frieze Week Again," an article I wrote in October 2023, asking: Who gets to show up in the art world? As Art Basel Miami Beach wraps the year's art fair circuit and we await next week's Turner Prize announcement, I explore the barriers disabled artists and arts workers face during heightened art world moments—from navigating packed art fairs to participating in gallery openings and museum events.Nnena Kalu's historic Turner Prize nomination—the first learning-disabled artist shortlisted in the priz...
2025-12-0609 min
ShadeDeana Lawson's Photography Divides Critics. And I'm Here For ItI'm reading "Deana Lawson's photography divides critics and I'm here for it" from the Shade Art Review archives, asking questions about critical freedom, backlash culture, and when we lost the ability to be honest about art.This one asks: when did bland takes become the safest option? And who does this serve?Questions I'm still asking about art criticism, fear, and the freedom to feel something.Links mentioned in this episode:Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw's essay "The Many Problems with Deana Lawson's Photographs" (Hyperallergic, May 2021): https://hyperallergic.com/the-many-problems-with-deana-lawsons-photographs/...
2025-11-2910 min
ShadeWhere is the Black Nan Goldin?Shade Podcast is back. After months away, I'm returning to what we were at the beginning—intimate, unedited conversations, just me and you. This episode adapts an article I wrote in February 2024 for Shade Art Review, asking: Where is the Black Nan Goldin? Where is the documentary photography showing Black intimacy—real, unguarded, not staged, celebrated in major exhibitions or published by prominent publishers? 22 years after I viewed Nan Goldin's The Devil's Playground at Whitechapel Gallery, I explore why I haven't seen a Black photographer gain the same recognition for work depicting intimacy with the same unflinching honesty.Th...
2025-11-2208 min
Une Si Belle HistoireEpisode 8/10 : Le droit à l’oubliSi Camille se réjouit de l’avancée de l’enquête, sa productrice semble de plus en plus réticente à l’idée de continuer le podcast sur Julien. La productrice s’appuie sur la réaction des auditeurs et des auditrices. Une grande partie soutient Julien, qui invoque maintenant le droit à l’oubli pour qu’on ne parle plus de son histoire. Camille et sa productrice prennent contact avec un avocat pour comprendre ce qu’est le droit à l’oubli...
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2025-07-0444 min
1st & NorthBears minicamp, Lions' Ragnow retires & Madden cover funOn this episode of "1st & North," sports anchor Lou Canellis and other NFC North division insiders talk about the Bears' mandatory minicamp, Lions’ Frank Ragnow retirement, and Packers’ Jordan Love expectations for the season. Also, the Vikings extend GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah to a multi-year deal. Plus, fun alternative covers for the new Madden video game.
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2025-06-0426 min
ShadeHospital RoomsHospital Rooms has been bringing world-class contemporary art into NHS mental healthcare units since 2016. Today, we focus on their most ambitious work to date at Hellesdon Hospital, part of the Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. This project embodies both successes and challenges – from the triumph of commissioning fifteen incredible artists to create site-specific works, to the complex realities of working within a healthcare setting that has faced its own struggles in recent years. Joining me are three remarkable individuals who have been integral to the transformation of the Hellesdon spaces: Ken Nwadiogbu, a multidisciplinary artist from Lagos whose jour...
2025-03-1830 min
Ça n'engage à rienPodcast Théâtre #47 ~ Avec Lou Simon pour "Insomniaques" (Cie Avant l'averse)Rencontre avec la metteuse en scène Lou Simon, à l'occasion de la création de son spectacle INSOMNIAQUES.Que s'est-il passé à Rouen en Juin 1940 ? La compagnie remonte le fil de l’histoire pour éclairer un massacre oublié de soldats noirs, et questionne les mécanismes qui façonnent et parfois effacent notre mémoire collective.Avec Lou Simon, Mariama Diedhou, Clémentine Pasgrimaud, Arnold Mensah et Thomas Demay.Conception, animation, co-réalisation : Steeve Brunet Montage, mixage, co-réalisation : Nicolas Leborgne
2025-01-1415 min
ShadeVisualise the futureThis series of conversations with art educators expand on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. In this episode 'Visualise the Future' we are joined by Carey Robinson, Deputy Director, Learning and Public Programmes at The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. She has formerly held strategic, curatorial, and creative producer roles at leading cultural institutions including Tate, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the South London Gallery, and The Courtauld. Carey and I reflect and expand on the reports recommendations for the future and imagine a new direction for art...
2024-11-1924 min
ShadeThe Art of TeachingThis series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. In this episode 'The Art of Teaching' we are joined by Shepherd Manyika, an artist and educator based in London. Shepherd graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communications and has since gone on to work and exhibit with Spike Island, Iniva, Camden Arts Centre and Tate. Shepherd joins me today to discuss teachin...
2024-11-1225 min
ShadeArt Outside the ClassroomThis series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. In this episode 'Art Outside the Classroom' we are joined by Dr Sadegh Aleahmad, an Iranian-born multi-disciplinary artist, facilitator and lecturer based in London. Sadegh's practice explores dynamics of his diasporic identity by experimenting with mirrors and voice. Today, we discuss Sadegh's art education work beyond the classroom, enabling new ways of thinking, creating and coming together in community.Freelands Foundation works to broaden access...
2024-11-0530 min
ShadeClassroom PortraitsThis series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. In this episode 'Classroom Portraits' we are joined by Exodus Crooks, a Birmingham-based multi-disciplinary artist and educator who works with installation, film-making and text. Through their practice they explore ideas of self-determination, religion and spirituality at the intersection of education, using their role as a teacher to re-imagine Western pedagogy. Exodus has previously exhibited with Iniva, Ikon Gallery and the National Gallery, among others. Today they’ll be joinin...
2024-10-2929 min
ShadeBroad CanvasThis new weekly, five part series of conversations with art educators, practitioners and makers expands on the ideas presented by Visualise: The Runnymede Trust and Freelands Foundation 2024 report on Race & Inclusion in Secondary School Art Education. These conversations aim to support educators in providing a more diverse art curriculum. In today's episode 'Broad canvas' I talk with Henry Ward, an artist, educator and the Director of Freelands Foundation and Shabna Begum, CEO of the Runnymede Trust who give an overview of the UK arts education ecosystem.Freelands Foundation works to broaden access to art education and the vis...
2024-10-2229 min
ShadeLondon Sculpture Week symposiumEnjoy our special episode which captures and reflects on a discussion on new approaches to sculpture outdoors which took place at the inaugural London Sculpture Week symposium at London Metropolitan University on 25th September 2024. The discussion features contributions from the following speakers:Jo Baxendale, Visual Arts Project Manager Fourth Plinth, Greater London Authority Sarah Carrington, Deputy Director, The Line Dr Libby Heaney, Artist, Frieze Sculpture Stella Ioannou, Artistic Director, Sculpture in the City and Founding Director, LacunaKatie Schwab, Artist, The Line Vanessa da Si...
2024-10-081h 14
Access Unmissable Full Audiobooks in Romance, LGBTQ+Bound and Beguiled by Rowan MerrickPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/817796 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bound and Beguiled Series: #2 of Consorting with Monsters Author: Rowan Merrick Narrator: Tempest Mensah Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 32 minutes Release date: September 12, 2024 Genres: LGBTQ+ Publisher's Summary: Follow the rules. Obey your god. Do your duty. Tereza’s life was all obligation and no pleasure, but she’d never expected anything else. When a glimpse of undreamed of possibilities propels her into a decision that changes everything, the consequences shatter her world. Fleeing, bleeding, she stumbles into the arms of four fae. With them, she feels things that make...
2024-09-1305 min
ShadeDonald Rodney: Visceral Canker. A major survey exhibition at Spike IslandDonald Rodney (b. 1961, West Bromwich; d. 1998, London) worked across sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, and digital media, experimenting with new materials and technologies throughout his life. His work is known for being incisive, acerbic, and evocative in its analysis of the prejudices and injustices surrounding racial identity, Black masculinity, chronic illness, and Britain's colonial past. Rodney was also co-founding member of the BLK Art Group: an association of young Black artists formed in Wolverhampton in 1982.Visceral Canker is the major survey of the artist’s work at Spike Island, bringing together all of Rodney's surviving works. This in...
2024-07-1226 min
ShadeMaja Wismer Head of Contemporary Art Kunstmuseum Basel: in conversation with Anne KimunguyiEnjoy our special episode from the exhibition When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting at Kunstmuseum in Basel recorded by Anne Kimunguyi. Many of you know Anne from her Shade Art Review. features.Our guest is Head of Contemporary Art at Kunstmuseum Basel, Maja Wismer. As part of her role, she specialises in art of the late 20th and early 21st century, having previously held the role of Curatorial Fellow at the Busch Reisinger Museum of the Harvard Art Museums. Based at the Kunstmuseum, her previous work has seen the realisation of...
2024-07-0516 min
ShadeMatthew Krishanu: in conversation with Lou MensahMatthew Krishanu (b.1980, Bradford, UK) paints atmospheric, pared-back compositions including scenes from the artist’s life, particularly his childhood years in Bangladesh growing up with his brother, and their parents—a British Christian missionary and an Indian theologian. In the paintings, seemingly familiar narratives are alluded to but destabilised. The viewer’s own projections are called upon to fulfil the interpretive loop, raising questions about childhood, religion, race, power, and the legacies of empire.The Bough Breaks is showing at Camden Art Centre until June 23. Krishanu's forthcoming solo exhibition will show at Tanya Leighton L.A., in the...
2024-06-2123 min
ShadeVenice Biennale Special: Aindrea Emelife interviewWelcome to the second of our episodes from the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. I am delighted to welcome back Aindrea Emelife as my guest. Aindrea is a curator and art historian of modern and contemporary art, whose practise specializes in colonial and decolonial African histories and the politics of representation. Aindrea is the curator of Nigeria Imaginary at the Nigeria Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, which sees the country participating in the festival for the second time. The pavilion will show projects made in collaboration with the Museum of Wes...
2024-04-2313 min
ShadeVenice Biennale Special: Sir John Akomfrah interviewWelcome to the first of our episodes from the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.Today, I am delighted to hand the mic to my dear friend the arts writer Dale Berning Sawa, who met with John Akomfrah at the preview of The British Council commission Listening All Night To The Rain. You'll also hear from me in this episode and Dale shares a reflection on her first Venice experience and conversation with the artist on this special occasion. You can also enjoy Dale's review of Listening All Night To The Rain and...
2024-04-2130 min
ShadeLegacy Russell: in conversation with Lou MensahLegacy Russell is Executive Director & Chief Curator of the experimental arts institution The Kitchen, one of New York's oldest non-profit spaces. She is writer, curator and author of the critically acclaimed Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto. I am delighted to have Legacy join me to talk about Black Meme, which is due to be published on May 7th. Black Meme focuses on the history and production of the ‘Meme’ – tracing through Black visual culture from its first appearance in the early 20th century all the way through to present times. It is a critical dissection of race, class, and gender as perf...
2024-04-1836 min
ShadeIbrahim Mahama: in conversation with Lou MensahIbrahim Mahama is an installation artist who works with textiles, material production and found objects to create large-scale public interventions. He initially garnered widespread attention for his open-air installations made of stitched-together jute sacks that were draped on or over architectural structures, such as libraries, an airport, and a museum, in the cities of Accra and Kumasi, where he is based. His practise involves a collaborative process of sourcing, collecting, reproducing and installing the often-textile based materials he works with. His pieces speak to ideas around historical memories, traditional belief systems, local economies and the democratisation of art.
2024-04-1116 min
ShadeMichael Ohajuru: in conversation with Lou MensahMichael Ohajuru is a London-based art historian who returns to the podcast to discuss the John Blanke project, a large gathering of artists and historians who have come together to re-imagine John Blanke, the black trumpeter to the courts of Henry 7th and Henry 8th and the first person of African descent in British history that we have both a visual and written record of. The participating artists include Keith Piper, Wole Lagunju, Phoebe Boswell, Paul Dash and Larry Achiampong. David Olusoga Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester says of the project:"The John...
2024-04-0418 min
ShadeJoy Gregory: in conversation with Lou MensahJoy Gregory (b. 1959. Bicester, UK). Born in the UK to Jamaican parents, Joy Gregory’s work explores the impact of colonialism on global perceptions of beauty, memory, botany, health and traditional knowledge. As a photographer, Gregory has worked over decades in various media, including video, digital and analogue photography, film installation, Victorian print processes and more recently textiles; exploring photography as technology and as mode of artistic expression. She is interested in understanding how individuals and communities remember and interpret their history, particularly in relation to their connection to the land.Joy & Lou discuss the themes of...
2024-03-2821 min
ShadeTiona Nekkia McClodden: in conversation with Lou MensahThis evening, 21 March '24 6 - 8pm GMT: Artist Talk - Tiona Nekkia McClodden at White Cube Bermondsey, London. Tiona will discuss the impetus of her solo exhibition ‘A MERCY | DUMMY’, which spans two discrete bodies of works produced alongside each other. McClodden will explore the impulse to present two bodies of works together for the first time in her career through a choreographed sharing of her collection of archival research, music, video, and texts. Reserve a spot here. MERCY | DUMMY runs until 24 March.Tiona Nekkia McClodden (b.1981, Blytheville, Arkansas) spent her formative years throughout the A...
2024-03-2131 min
ShadeCynthia Lawrence JohnWelcome to the final episode in my seven part, end of year series! Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual, I am joined by friends to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them.Cynthia is a costume designer, whose work you will have seen in successful British films, like the recent Rye Lane directed by Raine Allen-Miller. Cynthia's currently showing work at Somerset House in London as part of the exhibition Missing Thread, which ch...
2023-12-2113 min
ShadeRashod TaylorWelcome to the penultimate episode in this Christmas series of conversations. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual, I am joined by friends artists to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them. Rashod Taylor is a Missouri-based photographer whose photographs are a window into the Black American experience. His work uses portraiture to address themes of family, race, culture, and legacy. Rashod is most recognised for his Little Black Boy series, an ongoing pr...
2023-12-2021 min
ShadeTyrone Isaac StuartWelcome to this seven part, end of year series - new episodes are released each weekday between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual. I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, musicians) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them.Tyrone is a concept driven artist whose skills originate from Jazz and Hip-Hop Theatre. Working as a performer across dance and music, his practice has grown to become a mixture of K...
2023-12-1926 min
ShadeJose Campos AKA Studio LencaWelcome to this seven part, end of year series! New episodes released each weekday between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual. I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, musicians) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them. Today I am joined by Jose Campos, who is also known by his artist name, Studio Lenca.Jose considers himself to be an artist that doesn’t belong anywhere apart from the...
2023-12-1823 minShadeHelene Love-AlloteyWelcome to my seven part end of year series! New episodes will be released each weekday between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual, I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, musicians and in today's episode an art specialist) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them. Get ready to be inspired!Helene is Head of Sale and a specialist in Modern and Contemporary African art at Bonhams. She travels to G...
2023-12-1533 minShadeAxel KacoutiéWelcome to my seven part end of year series! New episodes will be released each weekday between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual, I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, musicians) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them. Get ready to be inspired!Today I am delighted to introduce my friend, Axel Kacoutié - the multi-award-winning creator who's been crafting sound, music, and words to challenge the familiar and re...
2023-12-1421 minShadeBrian JacksonWELCOME TO SERIES NINE!This is my end of year series! New episodes will be released each weekday, between Dec 13-21. Inspired by the Black radical tradition of the harmony between the lyrical and visual. I am joined by friends (artists, dancers, photographers, musicians) to explore the musical influences that inspire their work. We also look to the people, real and imagined, familial and ancestral who guide them. Get ready to be inspired!Today I am delighted to introduce a special episode, with my friend the musician Brian Jackson. You may know Brian's work f...
2023-12-1323 minShadeWandering: An immersive gallery walk with Harold OffehWelcome to Wandering. A four part series of immersive podcast gallery walks, brought to you by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié.Today we meet the artist Harold Offeh at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London as he prepares to present work in their forthcoming exhibition, Soulscapes.Opening on Feb 14th 2024, Soulscapes is a major exhibition of landscape art. Featuring more than 30 contemporary works, it will span painting, photography, film, tapestry and collage from leading artists including Harold Offeh, Hurvin Anderson, Phoebe Boswell, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Kimathi Donkor, Isaac Julien, Marcia Michael, Mónica de Miran...
2023-11-3020 minShadeWandering: An immersive gallery walk with Kayo ChingonyiWelcome to Wandering. A four part series of immersive podcast gallery walks, brought to you by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié.Today we meet writer, editor and broadcaster, Kayo Chingonyi at the Graves Gallery in Sheffield, as he meditates on process and practice and what Patrick Caulfield's, The Hermit reveals to him.Artworks Discussed in this listen: The Hermit, (1966) - Patrick CaulfieldFountains Fell, Yorkshire Dales, 3 August 2008, (2016) - Simon RobertsDiscover more episodes in this series as we meet Zakia Sewell, Nabihah Iqbal and Harold Offeh as they enjoy ar...
2023-09-2719 minShadeWandering: immersive gallery walks, with contemporary creativesToday we meet musician, producer, broadcaster and DJ Nabihah Iqbal at Sir John Soane's Museum in London as she explores the many trinkets and secrets, hidden in the open.Wandering is brought to you by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié.Discover more episodes in this series as we meet Zakia Sewell, Kayo Chingonyi and Harold Offeh as they discover artworks in the National Portrait Gallery, Graves Gallery and Dulwich Picture Gallery. Listen today on the Bloomberg Connects app or search for Shade Podcast wherever you download your podcasts.Sponsored by Bloomberg Connects...
2023-09-2011 minShadeWandering: a new four part podcast series of immersive gallery walks, with contemporary creativesBroadcaster, DJ and writer Zakia Sewell walks with us in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Zakia reflects on how memory and legacy influence our way of seeing, and how our contemporary eyes judge the face of history. We ask, to what extent is a portrait a mirror? We view a photographic portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta (1843-80)Room 23, Floor 2. Historian and essayist; Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and explorer once a Governor of Jamaica, Edward John Eyre (1815-1901). Room 23, Floor 2. Subscribe to Shade Podcast to l...
2023-09-1315 min
Short CutsMovementJosie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about being in motion - from scandalising dance moves to taking flight.The Twist
Extract from Between the Ears: Monument (London 1935 - 1993)
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1993
Composed by Ian Gardiner
Produced by Alan Hall
Performed by Ensemble George W Welch
With a cast of voices from the BBC Sound ArchiveLife Begins in the Stillness
Featuring Gabriel Rodreick
Produced by Julie CensulloUnknown Person (from Baggage Allowance)
Released on the album A Secret Code
Composed and performed by Pamela ZJoy...
2023-06-1329 min
ShadeEddie Hutton-Mills. Director BBC Kanaval: A Peoples History of Haiti in Six ChaptersToday my guest is the Director Eddie Hutton-Mills. Eddie co-directed Kanaval: A Peoples History of Haiti in Six Chapters with Leah Gordon. Eddie Hutton-Mills is an award winning documentary filmmaker, who has made films for all the major UK & US broadcasters including the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. He’s also made biographicalfeature films about Naomi Campbell and Diane Abbott. His passion is for making films about subjects that need confronting like Fighting The Power: Britain After George Floyd. He is currently directing a film for the prestigious BBC Storyville strand.Eddie and I...
2023-06-0128 min
ShadeInterludes: Shade at Tate Modern. Liz Johnson Artur sound installationInterludes: Black Balloons is a new sound installation by Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié now showing at Tate Gallery. Responding to Liz Johnson Artur’s display Time don’t run here, the piece references Artur’s Black Lives Matter protest images and works from her ongoing Black Balloon Archive documenting people in Africa, and of the African and Caribbean diasporas. Experience Liz Johnson Artur’s work with the ear and body. How does sound change how you see the works? What pulses through you when you see the images, braille and thread? The soundscape fea...
2023-05-2616 min
ShadeJermaine Francis on film : Lost In Music A Post Industrial DreamscapeAn exploration of race and politics via the dancefloor.Today my guest is the photographer and filmmaker Jermaine Francis. Jermaine and I discuss his recent film Lost in Music: A Post Industrial Dreamscape - an exploration of race and politics within a dancefloor context. This work was recently presented alongside a discussion with the writer Nathalie Olah and photographer Edward "Eddie" Otchere at Camden Arts Centre.His practice works within documentary & portraiture, in the format of personal driven photo projects & editorials, exploring the issues that arise from our interaction in the everyday environment. H...
2023-05-2241 min
ShadeCaribbean film with Patrice RobinsonSnapshots: Caribbean Cinema Up Close at The Barbican.Today my guest is Patrice Robinson who talks about Snapshots: Caribbean Cinema Up Close, at The Barbican, her debut curatorial season. With interest in communities, community access to film and the intimacies of the human experience, Patrice is a film programmer and writer working in the intersection of audiences and cinema.We discuss Patrice's late entry into film following a change in career, and how the Independent Cinema Office’s FEDS Scheme led to her permanent position at The Barbican. She also shares how her time at...
2023-05-0914 min
ShadeShade Shorts on Film with June GivanniPerAnkh – The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, now showing at Raven Row London.Today my guest is the film curator and archivist, June Givanni.June's new exhibition, PerAnkh: The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive, is showing at Raven Row in London until 4 June 2023.The June Givanni PanAfrican Cinema Archive (JGPACA) holds a unique collection of artefacts and archival material, which has at its core the interest of PanAfrican cinema and its relationship with Black British cinema and culture. The exhibition reveals histories and ideas in African and African diasporic film. June has been co...
2023-05-0237 min
ShadeHear, Now. A Podcast from Whitechapel Gallery: Tracing Absence exhibitionFeaturing Lou Mensah & Sunil Shah.Enjoy this bonus episode of my conversation with the curators of Tracing Absence, a Whitechapel Gallery exhibition opening at the Kistefos Museum in Norway on April 29th, 2023. The MA student curators of Tracing Absence re-imagine the show to respond to the local context. Episode 18 of Whitechapel Gallery’s Hear, Now podcast series was published in October 2022. It delves deeper into the themes that underpin the exhibition Tracing Absence. Students graduating from the MA Curating Art and Public Programmes course, run by Whitechapel Gallery and London South Bank University, had the...
2023-04-2843 min
ShadeShade Shorts: on curation with Jareh DasWriter, researcher and independent curator: Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art.Dr Jareh Das is an independent curator, researcher and writer who lives and works between West Africa and the UK. Das’ academic and curatorial practice is informed by an interest in global modern and contemporary art with a specific focus on performance. In 2022, Das curated Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art an exhibition that spanned seventy years of ceramics and explored how clay has been disrupted, questioned and reimagined by Black women artists. She has written for publications including Ocula Magazi...
2023-04-0335 min
ShadeShade Shorts: on Curation with Aindrea EmelifeCurator and art historian specialising in modern and contemporary art and curator of Black Venus at Somerset House.*Please note that the sound quality in this episode is compromised due to an unstable internet connection between London and Lagos, where this conversation was recorded. However, Aindrea's insights are not to be missed!Aindrea Emelife is a Nigerian-British curator and art historian specialising in modern and contemporary art, with a focus on questions around colonial and decolonial histories in Africa, transnationalism and the politics of representation. Aindrea is currently the Curator, Modern and Contemporary...
2023-03-3124 min
ShadeShade Shorts: On curation with Bolanle TajudeenBolanle Tajudeen founded Black Blossoms in 2015 to showcase the work of contemporary artists of colour. In 2020, Bolanle launched the Black Blossoms School of Art and Culture, an initiative highlighting the art histories and creative practices of artists from historically marginalised backgrounds. As an alternative art school, Black Blossoms offers short educational courses including Art and Revolutionary China, Black British Art, The Black Image in London Galleries, and Curating Black Art.Lou & Bolanle discuss her shift in focus from studying politics, to art at UAL where, as the Vice President of the Student Union she co-founded U...
2023-03-2115 min
ShadeShade Shorts on curation with Péjú OshinAssociate Director Gagosian Gallery.Péjú Oshin is the Associate Director of Gagosian Gallery and curator of Rites of Passage the exhibition featuring work by nineteen contemporary artists who share a history of migration.Rites of Passage explores the idea of “liminal space,” a coinage of anthropologist Arnold van Gennep (1873–1957). It is structured in correspondence with liminality’s three stages: separation, transition, and return. Each of these phases addresses the act of movement, not only through individual experience, but also in the broader context of community. The exhibition examines the status of postcolonial Black identity, specifically...
2023-03-1518 minShort CutsThrough the Looking GlassA private empty gravel lot transforms into a community beach in the pandemic and an invitation to step inside a work of art - Josie Long presents short documentaries about worlds turned upside down.Bloordale Beach
Feat. Shari Kasman
Produced by Sarah Melton
With music from Pop Plug & Canada Katana and CatjamPortals
Featuring Cassi Namoda
Originally produced for Shade Podcast's series Interludes.
Conceptualised by Executive Producer, Lou Mensah and created by Audio Artist, Axel Kacoutié
Shade Podcast - https://pod.link/1469562537FIELDS
Original music by Ariana Martinez
Produced by Ariana Martinez
2023-01-1029 min
ShadeInterludes: PortalsPortals features the voice of Cassi Namoda who shares her reflections based on her practice and work titled 'Worship at Bar Mundo' (2022).View 'Worship at Bar Mundo' here whilst listening to Axel's sonic response throughout this episode. Cassi Namoda is a painter whose work interweaves the personal with the historical. Born in Maputo and having lived in several different countries throughout her life, Namoda’s nomadic lifestyle and multicultural identity has long informed her work. The duality between past and present, colonialism and post-colonialism, Africa and Europe, spiritual traditions and a globalised world is a la...
2022-11-0112 min
ShadeInterludes: MandalaMandala features the sounds of the artist Nnena Kalu creating an untitled work and the voice of ActionSpace Associate Artist, Charlotte Hollinshead.Nnena Kalu has created a vast body of sculptural and 2D artworks and developed a live, performative element to her practice. She is driven by an instinctive urge to build repeated marks and forms, creating intensely layered, visually impactful artworks with dense colours and compacted, flowing lines. Nnena has developed her artistic practice at the ActionSpace studio in Studio Voltaire since 1999.ActionSpace is London’s leading development agency for learning disabled artists. All o...
2022-10-2507 min
ShadeInterludes: featuring Ming SmithWhere the sun sleeps features the voice of photographer Ming Smith who shares her reflections based on her practice and work Circle of Life (Hakone, Japan 1985). Ming Smith was the first female member to join Kamoinge, a collective of black photographers in New York in the 1960s, working to document black life. Smith would go on to be the first black woman photographer to be included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art. Smith has often described her work as ‘celebrating the struggle, the survival and to find grace in it.’ Many of Smith...
2022-10-1812 min
ShadeInterludes: featuring Amy SheraldDream Recurred features the voice of Amy Sherald who shares her reflections based on her practice and new work For love, and for country (2022). 'For love, and for country' features in 'The World We Make', Sherald's first solo show in Europe. In this new body of work, Sherald humanises the Black experience by depicting her subjects in both historically recognisable and everyday settings, at once immortalising them and reinserting them into the art historical canon.View 'For love, and for country' here whilst listening to Axel's sonic response throughout this episode.Interludes...
2022-10-1110 min
ShadeInterludes: Forgetting EdenForgetting Eden features the voice of Rahima Gambo who shares her reflections based on her practice and project Education is Forbidden and Tatsuniya.Rahima’s deeply layered mixed media engagement is about the aftermath of conflict, the nature of memory and the echoes and consequences of colonial education in north eastern Nigeria.Discover more of Rahima's work on her Instagram and her website. Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda.Fra...
2022-10-0410 min
Hear, Now. A Podcast from Whitechapel Gallery.Hear, Now. Episode 18: Tracing AbsenceEpisode 18 of Whitechapel Gallery’s Hear, Now podcast series delves deeper into the themes that underpin the exhibition Tracing Absence. Students graduating from the MA Curating Art and Public Programmes course, run by Whitechapel Gallery and London South Bank University, had the opportunity to curate this exhibition as part of their course, which confronts the different ways in which absence manifests in the world.
Tracing Absence features new sound art pieces by Joseph Sergi and Yiskāh (alias Jessica Beechy) and works from the Christen Sveaas Art Foundation. Student Cathy O ‘Sullivan presents and introduces fellow student Ada Egg Koskilouma who t...
2022-10-0444 min
ShadeLarry AchiampongLarry Achiampong is a British Ghanian, Jarman Award nominated artist. In 2020 he was awarded the Stanley Picker fellowship and in 2019 he received the Paul Hamlyn Artist award in recognition for his practice. Larry’s most recent solo exhibition Wayfinder showed this summer at the Turner Contemporary Gallery. He serves on the Board of Trustees at Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and The Elephant Trust. Join Larry & I in exploring the impact of race on arts education and access to the arts sector. We highlight the urgent need for change as set out in The Run...
2022-09-3038 min
ShadeInterludes: DrexciyaDrexciya features the voice of Phoebe Boswell who shares her reflections based on her practice and project The Black Horizon Do We Muse on the Sky or Remember the Sea?Discover more of Phoebe’s work on her Instagram and her websiteThis episode also features a performance by Jazz Tenor Saxophonist JD Allen who collaborated with Phoebe Boswell on The Black Horizon project. His work is also available on all music platforms.Interludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Bos...
2022-09-2712 min
jberg PodcastEsterel Happy Hour 2022-09-08Track List: Esterel Happy Hour 2022-09-08
Num. Title Artist Label
1 Breathe (Original Mix) Telepopmusik Music For Cocktails
2 Cool Melt (Original Mix) HVOB Tragen Records
3 Un Simple Histoire (Rewound By Voidd) Thievery Corporation ESL Music
4 Zosmo (Extended Mix) Nikola Melnikov; Max Sorokin Anjunadeep
5 Fire Mountain (Original Mix) Zuma Dionys Bercana Music
6 A Forest (Original Mix) Of Norway Hope Recordings
7 Love Rehab feat. Meital De Razon (Original Mix) Chaim Bpitch Control
8 Tribafunk (Original Mix) Nnatn Sundries Digital
9 Allagi feat. Ali Kartalsuna (Original Mix) Kaan Üner; Cüneyt Öztürk Bercana Music
10 Boreal (Original Mix) Chiari; AWKA Seven Villas
11 Undisputed (Autodeep's Evil Work...
2022-09-252h 23
jberg PodcastEsterel Night Terrace 2022-09-07Track List: Esterel Night Terrace 2022-09-07
Num. Title Artist Label
1 Checkmate (Cinthie Remix) Kerri Chandler Watergate Records
2 Thief In The Night (Extended Mix) George Mensah Lovejuice Records
3 Your Love Feat Jem Cooke (Kerri Chandler Instrumental Mix) Kate Simko; Jem Cooke No.19 Music
4 Stone (Original Mix) Dirtytwo Large Music
5 Something About You (Groove Assassin Remix) Kathy Brown; Tsalikee King Street Sounds
6 Body Werk (Mike Millrain Remix) Soledrifter Plastik People Digital
7 Rising Life (Luis Radio Remix) Walter G Groovebom Records
8 Nightjar feat. SHELLS (Riva Starr Extended Bassbin Remix) Sonny Fodera; SHELLS; Vintage Culture Defected
9 Thunder (Original Mix) Minnado Kindisch
10 Sinestesia (Original...
2022-09-242h 24
ShadeInterludes trailerInterludes is a collaboration between Shade Podcast and Axel Kacoutié featuring six contemporary artists: Amy Sherald, Ming Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Rahima Gambo, Nnena Kalu and Cassi Namoda.Framed by the question "What does healing sound like?", these podcasts offer a visceral connection with the artists' work. In each episode we weave the artists' reflections through Axel's original soundscapes, as a collaborative exploration of their creative experience.Interludes opens an alternative space. The aim is to soften our tendency to intellectualise artwork, and instead create a sonic texture that is more intimate in its connection with t...
2022-09-2202 min
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2022-07-0814 min
ShadeEkow Eshun, Writer and Curator of In the Black Fantastic at Hayward Gallery, London.In this episode I am in conversation with Ekow Eshun. Ekow is a writer and the curator of In the Black Fantastic, currently on show at the Hayward Gallery, London.In the Black Fantastic is a new exhibition of 11 contemporary artists from the African diaspora, who draw on science fiction and myth to question our knowledge of the world. Although the exhibition encompasses themes within Afrofuturism, Ekow and I discuss why and how he is drawing from ideas distinct from this movement.We explore the works on display including the epic themes of exploration and...
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2022-05-0609 min
ShadeSHADE SHORTS with Co-Editors In Chief of Citizen Magazine, Henrietta Gallina & Danielle Powell-CobbAWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021In this episode I’m in conversation with Co-Editors in chief of Citizen, Henrietta Gallina & Danielle Powell-Cobb.In 2017, the idea for Citizen magazine was born out of the desire to see something that did not quite exist, an independent magazine documenting Black life and culture through the words of Black thinkers and the lenses of Black creatives, a beautifully designed record of Black life. Henrietta & Danielle tell Lou about the journey of Citizen from conception through totheir plans for the magazines fu...
2022-04-0918 minShadeSHADE SHORTS with Johny Pitts, author of AfropeanAWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021Shade Podcast is back with ‘Shade Shorts’ the new series of conversations with the founders of some our most radical, Black led art & culture journals. These episodes will keep us connected and inspired between the main seasons of the podcast. We will explore the power that we all have when we focus on considered communication and building community. In this episode I’m in conversation with author of Afropean and Guest Editor of The Eyes Journal, Johny Pitts.️The Eyes is an inde...
2022-03-2926 minShadeSHADE SHORTS - The Photographer's Green BookAWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021Shade Podcast is back with ‘Shade Shorts’ the new series of conversations with the founders of some our most radical, Black led art & culture journals. These episodes will keep us connected and inspired between the main seasons of the podcast. We will explore the power that we all have when we focus on considered communication and building community. In this episode I’m in conversation with Jay Simple, founder of The Photographers Green Book.️The Photographers Green Book is a resource hu...
2022-03-1216 minShadeMaking Sense of Inclusive Education with Dr. Aminul Hoque, at the South London GallerySHADE 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021Special edition from Shade at South London Gallery ‘Making Sense’ - a new digital resource that assembles people around ideas for structural change through creative practice.In this episode Lou Mensah speaks to Dr. Aminul Hoque about inclusive education and how our local community can support educators in achieving it.Dr. Aminul Hoque is a lecturer in the Educational Studies Department at Goldsmiths College London.Aminul's work focuses on issues of multicultural Britain, identity, social justice, youth policy, religion...
2021-08-0237 minShadeThomas J Price 'Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces' : Hauser & Wirth x ShadeSILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021Welcome to our third and final episode in this special series of conversations from Shade, supported by Hauser & Wirth, where we will be exploring ‘Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces: Inspired by the life & work of Sir Frank Bowling’. Released throughout this summer, the series provides a collaborative platform for diverse perspectives investigating freedom of expression today and throughout art history. Today my guest is Thomas J Price.Born in London in 1981, Thomas studied at Chelsea College of Art an...
2021-07-1332 min
ShadeHauser & Wirth x Shade with Guest Michael OhajuruSILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces: Inspired by the life & work of Sir Frank Bowling - a three-part summer podcast series, investigating freedom of expression today and throughout art history.This second episode in a special series of conversations from Shade, supported by Hauser & Wirth is with art historian Michael Ohajuru. Based in London, Michael Ohajuru is a Senior Fellow of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies where he leads the ‘What’s Happening in Black British History’ workshops, fostering a creative dialogue between...
2021-06-1521 min
Pod Bible Podcast#084 • Anthems • Shade Podcast • The MMA Fan PodcastWelcome to episode 84 of the Pod Bible podcast!Adam is back to walk you through the weeks podcast proceedings, with guests including Hana Walker-Brown from Broccoli Productions talking about Anthems, Lou Mensah from Shade and Blake Harrison from The MMA Fan Podcast!LISTEN TO THIS WEEKS GUESTS!Anthems • Acast • SpotifyShade Podcast • Acast • SpotifyThe MMA Fan Podcast • Acast • SpotifyLISTEN TO THIS WEEKS RECOMMENDATIONS!Today In Focus • Acast • SpotifyYour Floating Bed • Acast • SpotifyPODBIBLE LINKS!Pod Bible Magazine
2021-06-0733 min
ShadeHauser & Wirth x Shade on the life and work of Sir Frank Bowling with graphic designer Silas MunroSILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021Unencumbered Voices in Curated Spaces: Inspired by the life & work of Sir Frank Bowling - a three-part summer podcast series, investigating freedom of expression today and throughout art history.This first episode in a special series of conversations from Shade, supported by Hauser & Wirth, is with Silas Munro—LA-based critic, writer and partner of graphic design studio Polymode.Silas Munro’s past collaborations include the City of LA Mayor’s Office, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Mark Bradford at the Venice Biennale...
2021-05-1830 min
ShadeAxel Kacoutié. Multi-award-winning audio artist, poet and sound designerSILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021Welcome to the final episode of the four-part series of conversations exploring anti-racism and the arts, co-curated by Shade and Convergence at the South London Gallery In this episode Lou Mensah is in conversation with Axel Kacoutié. Axel is is a multi-award-winning audio artist and poet. His work has featured on the BBC, Channel 4, NOWNESS and the Barbican. He is also the Sound Designer and theme composer for The Guardian daily news podcast, Today in Focus.'How to Remember' by Axe...
2021-04-1720 min
ShadeAuthor Season Butler in conversation with Shade at the South London GallerySILVER AWARD WINNER 'BEST ARTS & CULTURE' PODCAST - BRITISH PODCAST AWARDS 2021Welcome to the third episode of the new four-part series of in-conversations exploring anti-racism and the arts, co-curated by Shade and Convergence at the South London Gallery Season Butler is a writer, performance artist and teacher. Season's debut novel 'Cynet' was published in 2019 by Dialogue Books in the UK and Harper Collins in the U.S. Season & Lou discuss Race, Character and The Racial Empathy Gap in storytelling.Shade Podcast is produced and hosted by Lou MensahEditing a...
2021-03-2018 min
ShadeThe White Pube talks BLMArt futures & BLMin conversation with The White Pube The White Pube is the collaborative identity of art critics Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad. They return as guests to talk about the positive changes they saw and those they hope for in the Arts, as a result of the BLM uprisings. @tate_united @riotgames @mark.leckey @swarzymacaly @thewagaduchronicles @theresnosignal@creativedebuts @cubitt_gallery @languidhandsI also share my thoughts on the season and our shared...
2021-03-0130 min
ShadeBarack Obama's Presidential Campaign Artist: Nicola GreenIn this episode I take you through the origins and manifestations of the raised fist salute, which has more recently been associated with the BLM movement. We move on to my conversation with Nicola Green, the artist behind the work ‘In Seven Days’ - a series created from her unprecedented artistic access to Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign trial.Nicola Green is renowned for gaining access to iconic personalities from the worlds of politics, religion, and culture, including collaborations with Pope Francis and the Dalai Lama. In 2008 Nicola Green gained artistic access to Obama’s Presidential campaign...
2021-02-2242 min
ShadeSmall Axe Screenwriter Courttia Newland in conversation with Lou MensahWelcome to the second episode of the new four-part series of in-conversations exploring anti-racism and the arts, co-curated by Shade and Convergence. This episode is part of the South London Gallery's Convergence Community Film Festival on Saturday 20th February 2021. Our guest today is Courttia Newland.Courttia wrote the screenplays for Steve McQueen's BBC Small Axe 'Lover's Rock' & 'Red, White & Blue' films. Courttia grew up in west London and published his first novel, The Scholar: A West-Side Story, aged 23, earning critical praise for his portrayal of a teenager’s life in the inner city. Since then he’s writt...
2021-02-2026 min
ShadeLEGACY with guest photographer Andre D. WagnerWith Guest Photographer Andre D WagnerGordon Parks’ work was shared widely during the 2020 BLM protests, perhaps to share comfort, solace and act as a collective creative marker acknowledging that our civil justice work continues. My guest Andre shares the impact of Parks’ work on his own photography, his experiences of the protests, plus his working practice & life as a street photographer It's such a beautiful episode. Thank you Andre for the conversationAndre D. Wagner is a photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He explores and chronicles the poetic and lyric...
2021-02-1526 min
Pod Bible Podcast#076 • Made Of Human • Distraction Pieces • Shade PodcastWelcome to episode 76 of the Pod Bible podcast!Allow Adam to casually walk you through the weeks podcast proceedings, with guests including Sofie Hagen from Made of Human, Scroobius Pip from Distraction Pieces and Lou Mensah from Shade Podcast!LISTEN TO THIS WEEKS GUESTS!Made Of Human • Acast • SpotifyDistraction Pieces • Acast • SpotifyOur Voices In The NHS • Acast • SpotifyLISTEN TO THIS WEEKS RECOMMENDATIONS!Last Party On Earth • Acast • SpotifyA Latto Thought • Apple Podcasts • SpotifyPODBIBLE LINKS!Pod Bible Ma...
2021-02-1533 min
ShadeSophie Williams. Author 'Anti Racist Ally' & 'Millennial Black'Guest Sophie WilliamsAuthor Anti Racist Ally & Millennial BlackSophie had a career in advertising, before she left to create her own business, working with clients such as Netflix on projects combining her professional advertising experience with active anti-racism work. In the summer of 2020, Sophie posted 10 slides to Instagram outlining how to be an anti-racist ally. Her slides, which were created in response to those outside the Black community wanting to help and be allies, went viral. We talk about how our visual culture and the language we use...
2021-02-0829 min
ShadeSYMBOLS OF PROTEST with Joshua Virasami and George Osei-PrempehImage Focus (click on link below to view image)Protestors remove statue of Slave Trader, Edward Colston. June 7, 2020, Bristol, UKGuestsJoshua Virasami, BLM UK Member & AuthorGeorge Osei-Prempeh, The Photographers Gallery LondonGuests share their personal responses to the statue removal and it’s symbolism within the wider context of the civil rights movementShade is produced and hosted by Lou MensahPlease support this work by becoming a Shade Patron Full season music is composed by Brian Jackson...
2021-02-0149 min
ShadeBLM protests: with Lanre Bakare, Carey Robinson and Patrick HutchinsonUK BLM ProtestsPress PhotosImage Focus: Patrick Hutchinson BLM ProtestImage REUTERS/Dylan Martinez June 13 2020We discuss the impact of the image from social, cultural and art history perspectiveGuestsLanre Bakare. Arts & Culture correspondent, The GuardianCarey Robinson. Head of Education, The South London GalleryPatrick HutchinsonShade is produced and hosted by Lou MensahPlease support this work by becoming a Shade Patreon Patron Full season music is composed by Brian Jackson
2021-01-2549 min
ShadeShade at South London Gallery with filmmaker Kevin MoroskyThis bonus series of four co-curated conversations between Shade and Convergence - the South London Gallery’s platform for critical conversations, screenings and written commissions - explores anti-racism and the arts.This first episode features Kevin Morosky, filmmaker, advertising creative director and co-founder of We are Pocc (the creative network accelerating equality and equity, for culturally and ethnically diverse people in the creative industries) who speaks to Lou Mensah about the role that advertising plays in challenging racism, in our everyday lives. Future Convergence + Shade co curated conversations will be released through Feb, March & April, and the...
2021-01-2327 min
ShadeVOGUE Magazine and BLM 'Hope' Covers with Osman Ahmed and Mariel TylerFashion & the BLM uprisingsImage Focus: British Vogue Cover, The September Issue 2020American Vogue Covers, The September Issue 2020GuestsOsman Ahmed, Fashion Features Editor i-D Magazine Mariel Tyler, Photographer(Former Photo Editor of ELLE.COM & Getty)Shade is produced and hosted by Lou MensahPlease support this work by becoming a Shade Patron Full season music is composed by Brian JacksonEpisode Two additional music by Luke CageMixing & sound design CA DavisThank...
2021-01-1835 min
ShadeTIME Magazine and BLM, with Editor at Large (Special Projects) Paul MoakleyGuest Paul Moakley Editor at Large, Special projects TIME MagazineImage ‘The Overdue Awakening’ TIME, June 2020 Photographer Devin AllenProduced and hosted by Lou MensahMusic composed for Shade Podcast by Brian Jackson Copyright Brian Jackson/Shade PodcastMixing & sound design CA DavisAvailable on all podcast apps & Shade WebsitePlease support this work by becoming a Shade PatronSeason 4 is supported by KlorisThank you so much Kloris for supporting Shade this season! Sign up to Shade Patreon to receive your Klor...
2021-01-1140 min
ShadeSeason Four Trailer - 'Black Images Matter' Launching 11 Jan 2021Shade returns for a new season, reflecting on the images and stories that emerged from the 2020 BLM uprisings.Join Lou, along with the trailblazers and change-makers from the worlds of magazine & book publishing, photography, art, journalism and activism, to consider the effect of the summer 2020 uprisings on our visual and social cultures.Music has been composed for Shade this season by musician Brian Jackson (of Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson). The duo composed the politically resonant 70's hit 'The Revolution will not be televised.'Released weekly every Monday from 11 Jan 2021Subscribe...
2020-12-0801 min
The CinemileEpisode 205 - RocksDave and Cathy are thrilled to be joined by Lou Mensah of Shade Podcast to watch Rocks.We were so pleased to have Lou on the podcast and you should all check her work out here and follow her on Instagram here.Don’t forget to check out our Patreon where we have dozens of bonus movie and TV reviews.FYI, Rocks is now available on Netflix! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...
2020-09-1852 min
DiyojenS2E13 Bernard Mensah, Süleyman Hurma, Ali Koç, Lou Williams, Luka Doncic (ft. Tancan Fümen)Diyojen ekibi giyinik kaydedilen son bölüm olan 28. bölümde futbolun amansız pençesinden kurtulmak adına bir basketbol duayenini, Tancan Fümen'i konuk aldı. Eğlenirken öğrenecek, öğrenirken üzüleceksiniz. İyi dinlemeler... Emre Özcan, n'aber abi?
2020-08-2148 min
DiyojenS2E13 Bernard Mensah, Süleyman Hurma, Ali Koç, Lou Williams, Luka Doncic (ft. Tancan Fümen)Diyojen ekibi giyinik kaydedilen son bölüm olan 28. bölümde futbolun amansız pençesinden kurtulmak adına bir basketbol duayenini, Tancan Fümen'i konuk aldı. Eğlenirken öğrenecek, öğrenirken üzüleceksiniz. İyi dinlemeler... Emre Özcan, n'aber abi?
2020-08-2148 min
Podcast Radio HourAnti-racist activism, bingeworthy documentaries and other new listens.Amanda Litherland and Scott Bryan recommend great new podcasts and speak to creators. Firstly, some bingeworthy documentary and real life podcasts:
The Town That Didn't Stare (Nick Hilton & Podot)
Rabbit Hole (The New York Times)
Real Dictators (Noiser)
The Reality of Reality TV with Fleur East (Planet Radio)We hear from Shade podcast creator Lou Mensah about her series of discussions around creativity and anti-racism.And a selection of other notable new listens:
The Joe Wicks Podcast (BBC Sounds)
When Someone Great Is Gone (Izzy Lee-Poulton and Transmission Roundhouse)
The Harrowing (Storyglass)
Crossbread...
2020-07-3157 min
VAMOS A LA PLAYAVamos 218, 219, 220, and 221<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DoUgI-WPvpU/VNkBcaXdfAI/AAAAAAAAA5w/kMY9RqzQWNM/s1600/me_beachladies_triangle.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DoUgI-WPvpU/VNkBcaXdfAI/AAAAAAAAA5w/kMY9RqzQWNM/s1600/me_beachladies_triangle.png" height="400" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br />It's been a busy couple of months but here are the last few shows and playlists. Remember to tune into HTTP://KLANGBOX.FM every Monday from 2-4pm for your live...
2015-02-0950 min
Planeta Prohibido Radio ShowPlaneta Prohibido Radio Show #5 (5/03/2011)Planeta Prohibido Radio Show, producido, realizado y conducido por Ra Malone & Alberto Sweet Sinners, es un programa de radio que se emite desde Febrero de 2011 por TEA FM de manera semanal (los sábados de 12:00h a 13:00h, en el dial 98.9 FM de Zaragoza y On Line).
Dicho programa de radio es un espacio sonoro que, inspirado en el Espacio Exterior y en las películas de Ciencia Ficción, busca elaborar una estética marciana espacial, con una sintonía, jingles, juegos de fx y samplers de películas del género fílmico citado. Por medio de esta Sci-Fi s...
2011-03-1059 min