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MIAAW.netKernowek, Management & RewildingSovay Berriman describes her work as “rooted in their experience of being Cornish, their culture’s shifting identity, and the mutability yet power of a sense of place”. She “uses her practice as a structure and prompt for action and discussion, and is committed to questioning balances of power”.In 2015 Sovay trained as a plumbing and heating engineer and works in the construction industry alongside their art activity with a commitment to helping customers transition to low carbon heating. Their experiences in this line of work have developed the critical socio-economic and political aspects of their p...2025-04-2536 min
EMPIRE LINESHouse of Weaving Songs, Dhaqan Collective (2024) (EMPIRE LINES Live at the Eden Project, Cornwall x Counterpoints Arts, Art Reach)In this special episode, Fozia Ismail and Ayan Cilmi from the feminist art collective Dhaqan Collective join EMPIRE LINES live at the Eden Project in Cornwall, alongside artists Kaajal Modi and Sovay Berriman, and environmental humanities lecturer Jim Scown, to discuss Somali cultural heritage in the face of climate crises.
In the last few decades, Somali nomadic lives have been endangered by environmental degradation, civil war, and displacement. Created in 1960 from a former British protectorate and an Italian colony, the country collapsed into 30 years of conflict following the overthrow of the military regime of President Siad Barre in...2024-10-101h 21
Woman's HourWeekend Woman's Hour: Welfare Support at Sandhurst, Women Plumbers, Flying with ChildrenIn her only broadcast interview, Louise Townsend, the mother of Olivia Perks who took her own life in 2019 whilst at Sandhurst Military Academy, speaks to Woman’s Hour. Louise discusses her view that there was a lack of welfare support from the academy towards her late daughter and what steps need to be taken to ensure it doesn’t happen again.According to the ONS, only 2.4% of plumbers are women. We speak to two female plumbers about why that figure is so low and whether they recommend the job to other women. Sovay Berriman runs the company Plum...2023-07-1556 minWoman's HourThe effect of being a victim in high profile cases, Ruchira Gupta, Women Plumbers Women & premature deaths, Story of Ana ObregónWe look at the effect of being a victim in high-profile cases, after the BBC suspends a presenter accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photos. Nuala speaks to former Chief Prosecutor for the CPS, Nazir Afzal.Ruchira Gupta is a journalist, social justice activist and Emmy-award winning documentary maker who has dedicated her life to fighting for the rights of women and young girls. She is the founder of Apne Aap Women Worldwide, an anti-sex trafficking organisation that has helped thousands of girls and women in India leave a life of forced prostitution. She joins...2023-07-1057 min
MESKLA | Brewyon DrudhMESKLA | Brewyon Drudh #10 A Conversation About Place, Art & Cultural Capital with Amanprit SandhuFor this tenth podcast, and the last in this MESKLA series, I am joined by Amanprit Sandhu.
Amanprit is a London based curator and educator with a focus on expanded exhibition practices, pedagogy and widening participation in the arts and arts education, and collaborative approaches to working. She is currently working as a Senior Lecturer on the Fine Art programme at Chelsea College of Arts, London.
Amanprit and I discuss the terms 'place-making', 'cultural capital' and 'social mobility' - what do they mean exactly, and for whom? We consider art’s role a...2022-12-181h 12MESKLA | Brewyon DrudhMESKLA | Brewyon Drudh #9 A Conversation About Fractured Culture and the Power of Stories with Angeline MorrisonFor this ninth podcast, I visit Cornwall based songwriter vocalist, choir leader, researcher and writer Angeline Morrison for a conversation at her home, with a small intervention from her cat, Ted. Angeline is actively concerned with raising awareness about the hidden historic black presence in the UK. And has recently released her acclaimed album, The Sorrow Songs, Folk Songs of Black British Experience on Topic Records. We join the conversation with Angeline about to tell us about her research for this album.
MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh (tr. Mussel Gathering | Precious Fragments) is a multi-platform project using s...2022-12-121h 04MESKLA | Brewyon DrudhMESKLA | Brewyon Drudh #8 - A Conversation About Cornish Life & Lifestyle Cornwall, with Joanie Willett & Natasha CarthewFor this eighth podcast I invited Dr Joanie Willett to talk about lifestyle culture and socio-economic situations in Cornwall, Joanie in turn invited Natasha Carthew to join her in this conversation.
Natasha Carthew is a working-class writer from Cornwall. Her new book Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience, is a powerful exploration of rural poverty and a story of hope, beauty, and fierce resilience. Undercurrent publishes with Coronet/Hodder & Stoughton in April 2023.
Natasha is well known for writing on Socioeconomic issues and has written extensively on the subject of...2022-12-041h 09MESKLA | Brewyon DrudhMESKLA | Brewyon Drudh #7 - A Conversation About Art Working & Colonial Legacies, with Association of Unknown ShoresIn this seventh podcast I am joined by artists Kayle Brandon and Angela Piccini of Association of Unknown Shores.
Association of Unknown Shores, formed in 2018, is an interdisciplinary social practice art project and platform for the research, production and commissioning of art and cultural works. The project explores the hidden nature of persistent material and remembered traces of the enforced cultural exchange between what we now know as the UK and Canada. Working with the legacies of Martin Frobisher’s 16th-century attempt to colonise Nunavut.
A collective of disaporic artists, Association of Unknown Shores turns th...2022-11-271h 09MESKLA | Brewyon DrudhMESKLA | Brewyon Drudh #6 - A Conversation about Tourism, Commodification & ClassIn this sixth podcast, I'm joined by Dave Beech, an artist and writer from a working class background. We talk about tourism, class and colonial gaze; how culture and lifestyle is commodified and purchased, and the potential impacts of this.
Dave is reader in art and Marxism at University Arts London, and is author of the books Art and Labour (Brill 2020), Art and Postcapitalism (Pluto 2019) and Art and Value (Brill 2015). Beech worked in the collective Freee (with Andy Hewitt and Mel Jordan) between 2004 and 2018. He has recently had exhibitions as a solo artist in UNO ga...2022-11-181h 05MESKLA | Brewyon DrudhMESKLA | Brewyon Drudh #5 A Conversation with PerformersIn this fifth podcast I'm joined by Ellie Allen, caller for ceilidh band Splann. Becky Bordeaux actress, performer and production assistant with Rogue Otherworld and Luke Passey otherwise known as Passman, one half of Hedluv + Passman.
We talk about Redruth, living working and growing up in Kernow, nightlife housing and the cost of living, community and the intangible nature of local knowledge; tourism, stereotypes and TV; gentrification, the diaspora and responsibilities of being contemporary Cornish performers.
MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh (tr. Mussel Gathering | Precious Fragments) is a multi-platform project using sculpture-making and conversation to...2022-11-111h 02MESKLA | Brewyon DrudhMESKLA | Brewyon Drudh #4 A Conversation about Language, Land & Fractured CultureIn this fourth podcast I am joined by Dr Stephanie Pratt - Dakota and Anglo-American Art Historian, and Jowdy Davey - Director of Lowender Peran Festival. Steph and Jowdy both share aspects of their research which covers intangible cultural heritage and representation of indigenous peoples through colonial gaze. Through our conversation we explore fracturing and healing of cultures, the importance of language, remembering that we too are ancestors, and relearning relationships with land and cultural identity.
Stephanie is a member of the Dakota Nation, and became the first Cultural Ambassador for her Tribal Council at the Cr...2022-11-071h 04MESKLA | Brewyon DrudhMESKLA | Brewyon Drudh #3: A Conversation about ExtractionIn this third episode of the MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh podcast series I am joined by Dr Hilary Orange & Prof. Emma Gilberthorpe who share some of their thoughts and research about the impacts of extraction industries on communities around the world, and the relationship of this labour to identity and sense of place and belonging.
Emma Gilberthorpe is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her research is concerned with the social and cultural aspects of development. Her main area of research examines the parameters of social organisation, kinship and exchange in co...2022-11-021h 03MESKLA | Brewyon DrudhMESKLA | Brewyon Drudh #2 A Conversation with Artists Part 2
In the second part of A Conversation With Artists I am joined by artist Libita Sibungu. Our conversation responds to topics raised in Part 1, and further talks of growing up in Cornwall, wildness, granite, dislocation, the subterranean, and writing new narratives for Cornwall.
Libita made a presention at the MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh symposium on Sat 29th October. A recording of this event will be available on the MESKLA website from late November 2022.
Podcast 2 - A Conversation with Artists.
Artists Libita Sibungu, Georgia Gendall, & Liam Jolly share their experiences of growing up in Cornwall & becoming artists. They also talk about how t...2022-11-0257 minMESKLA | Brewyon DrudhMESKLA | Brewyon Drudh #2 A Conversation with Artists Part 1The push and pull of connection to place - belonging, othering, disconnection, discrimination and barriers imposed by others. Pace and space, drekly does it, wildness, rough edges, more commodification, and what just is.
Artists Libita Sibungu, Georgia Gendall, & Liam Jolly share their experiences of growing up in Cornwall & becoming artists. They also talk about how their relationship to Cornwall has shifted over the years and how it plays out in their work.
We had planned to all be in a room together to have this conversation. But we were meeting on one o...2022-10-221h 06
Out of SPACEArtonomics: Supporting a multi-faceted practiceArtists Sovay Berriman and Lucy Harrison talk about how they sustain their art-making by respectively working as a plumber and at an offset litho printers, alongside varied sources of public arts funding. They also discuss their diverse creative practices which include working with communities, publishing and exhibitions. Hosted by artist and curator Cathy Lomax.Recorded remotely in June 2022.The experiences, views, opinions and recommendations presented in the podcast are the speakers’ own. The content does not constitute professional, financial or legal advice from SPACE or a-n and any reliance on it is...2022-10-2049 min
MESKLA | Brewyon DrudhMESKLA | Brewyon Drudh, #1 A Conversation With BardsLanguage, authenticity and the Celtic revival are among topics discussed when Sovay is joined by Grand Bard, Pol Hodge, Deputy Grand Bard, Jenefer Lowe and Cornwall Council’s Principle Culture Lead, Mark Trevethan, for the first episode in the MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh 2022 podcast series.
MESKLA | Brewyon Drudh (tr. Mussel Gathering | Precious Fragments) is a multi-platform project using sculpture-making and conversation to explore contemporary Cornish cultural identity. To find out more please visit www.sovayberriman.co.uk/MESKLA-Brewyon-Drudh.
Through workshops, podcasts, a symposium and an exhibition the project invites people to share thei...2022-10-151h 09
BetaTalk - The Renewable Energy and Low Carbon Heating PodcastRenewable Heating - Heat Policy Part 2Send us a textCarbon capture storage, gas networks, Future Homes Standard it's all discussed in part 2 of Ken Bone and Nathan's trip to Cornwall to meet with Richard Lowes. In this episode we are also joined by Sovay Berriman who discusses her transition into the heating world from art and higher education.At the beginning of the episode you will hear Richard talk about the ways engineers can help shape policy. It's not easy but he gives examples. He also mentions a study which was carried out by Faye Wade at Edinburgh university which...2020-02-111h 01