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The Marty Davis ShowFrom 100,000 Rubber Ducks to International Fame: How Facundo Yebne Built a Creative Empire!Join us this week on The Marty Davis Show for an inspiring deep dive with Facundo Yebne, the creative force behind Fly Miami Art and Miami Beach’s iconic rubber duck installations. Facundo is a serial entrepreneur whose journey spans real estate, hospitality, and art activism—culminating in a legendary invitation to the Biennale in Florence! Discover how he turned butterflies into rubber ducks, overcame business obstacles, and built a powerful message of unity, pride, and creativity.KEYWORDS: Facundo Yebne, Marty Davis Show, Fly Miami Art, rubber duck art, Miami Beach Pride, entrepreneur interview, creative business, LGBTQ Chamber Miami, insp...
2025-10-1031 min
UnpublishedWe Need Men's Art Too!Today we're talking to the boys! Or, given our audience demographics, we're talking to the girls and gender non conforming folks about the boys... Buy We Need Your Art here and be our best friend forever!00:00 Introduction and Preamble00:47 Discussing Men and Creativity00:49 Housekeeping and Personal Updates03:13 How we're trying to be less tired07:10 Book Launch and Pre-orders12:12 The Importance of Men's Art27:37 The Gendered Nature of Art and Craft27:48 Men's Role in Art: Historical Context29:13 The Struggle of Monetizing Art for men and women32:33 Cultural Influences on Art Monetisation 33:33 The Australian Male and Creativity35:10...
2025-02-2052 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingHuman Rights Day 2023: a ReSounding Roundtable - Part 2As we cap off 2023, we brought back two collaborators and friends of art27 to participate in a special 2-part episode of ReSounding, in acknowledgement of International Day of Human Rights. Yigit Aksakoglu is a social change advocate whose career spans Human Rights advocacy, early childhood development, NGO policy, and even political prisoner. Having been unjustly imprisoned in his native Turkey for peaceful protest, Yigit now lives in Exile in the Netherlands, where he advocates for better treatment of refugees and undocumented migrants. Godfrey Lado is a musician and poet living in Amsterdam. Having migrated from...
2023-12-2234 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingHuman Rights Day 2023: a ReSounding Roundtable - Part 1As we cap off 2023, we brought back two collaborators and friends of art27 to participate in a special 2-part episode of ReSounding, in acknowledgement of International Day of Human Rights. Yigit Aksakoglu is a social change advocate whose career spans Human Rights advocacy, early childhood development, NGO policy, and even political prisoner. Having been unjustly imprisoned in his native Turkey for peaceful protest, Yigit now lives in Exile in the Netherlands, where he advocates for better treatment of refugees and undocumented migrants. Godfrey Lado is a musician and poet living in Amsterdam. Having migrated from...
2023-12-2227 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingIn Place of War with Ruth DanielIn Place of War is a global network. It includes artists, theatre-makers, dancers, DJs, and musicians. It supports artistic projects around the world in numerous contexts, providing alternatives to conflict, helping heal the trauma of war, and building arts equity where it's needed most. In this episode, Laura Hassler talks to Ruth Daniel, the CEO of In Place of War. Connecting over their shared passion for activism, arts and climate justice, and a lifelong belief in the power of music, the two discuss how artists can work to create new narratives around conflict, environmental disaster, and wellbeing.
2023-12-2038 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingPainting Ownership with Omaid SharifiThis month we are joined by prolific human rights advocate and self proclaimed Artivist, Omaid Sharifi. Omaid grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan, and has considered himself an activist from the age of 12. Under the injustices of both the US intervention of his country and both Taliban regimes, Omaid has been using art to speak truth to power and point out cruelty and corruption. In 2014, Omaid co-founded ArtLords, a guerilla operation of artists painting murals on the blast walls of Kabul. By involving local people with the painting of these murals, the organization inspired hope and spoke out against corrupt p...
2023-11-0136 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingPicturing Displacement with Luciana AbaitLuciana Abait is a multimedia artist whose artworks can be seen in all manner of place: in galleries, at airports, in shop windows, and projected onto enormous walls. Born in Argentina, living in the USA, movement, migration, displacement, and nationhood are all core themes of Luciana's works. So too is the topic of climate, and the connections between climate crisis and forced migration. In this episode, Laura Hassler talks to Luciana Abait, taking a deep-dive into her mixed-media works such as the Iceberg and Displacement series'. They talk migration, maps, and climate protest. See all...
2023-09-2935 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingWhat Art Can Do with Kate McMillanKate McMillan is an artist, academic, and artistic researcher whose work is dedicated to exploring the afterlives of colonialism, the lived experience of migration, and the narratives of women and migrants through complex evocative site-specific installations. Her latest work, Never At Sea is richly symbolic work developed for St Mary Le Strand Church in the heart of historic central London. The piece explores the interconnection between climate crisis and refugee experience. In the episode Kate tells us all about how she brought together so many strands of artistic enquiry, and shares with us her research on how t...
2023-07-3142 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingFilming Asylum with Lizzi & John SwatlandIn the early 2000's Lizzi and John Swatland were not yet filmmakers or activists. After a chance encounter with a famous musician, however, the two soon found themselves involved in advocating for better treatment of refugees in Australia. Their involvement continued to grow into what would become Scattered People: a feature length documentary telling the stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Australia, and how musicians were there to meet and support them. Scattered People is an inspiring documentary showing how music and the arts can be the supporting tool that politics and policy often cannot. In...
2023-07-0334 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingTaking the Stage with Selam AmareIs it ok to make a joke of the refugee situation in Europe? Meet the London-based initiative that suggests that sometimes, humor can indeed be the best medicine! No Direction Home, an event series by Counterpoints Arts is an event series that trains refugees and migrants in London in the art of stand-up comedy, getting them stage ready, and creating opportunities to share their stories with UK audiences. This month Darren Abrahams spoke with Selam Amare, the producer of No Direction Home and stand-up comedian. Selam told us all about her surprising journey to the...
2023-05-3127 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingUnsilencing Artists with Ghawgha Taban & Jan Lothe EriksenWhen we hear the phrase "artistic censorship," it's easy to conjure up a stereotypical image of oppressive control, and to assume that it's only happening in certain countries or regions. However, the truth is that censorship takes many different forms and is present in countries all over the world. Fortunately, there are organizations like Safemuse that are working to address the global spread of censorship against artists and the arts. Based in Norway, Safemuse is dedicated to protecting artists who are being persecuted and providing them with a safe space to create and freely express themselves.
2023-05-0238 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingDissenting with Mai KhôiVietnamese singer Mai Khôi is a dissident. After gaining enormous fame as a pop "darling of the state" in her home country, Mai Khôi used her platform to speak out against the repressive laws in the one-party Vietnamese society. Speaking out against strict censorship laws for artists and performers, as well as the gendered restrictions against women, turned Mai Khôi from a celebrated patriotic artist, to an outspoken rebel. Now Mai Khôi lives in exile from Vietnam in Pittsburgh, USA, where she continues to release new music with her band, The Dissidents. In this...
2023-04-0436 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingThe Challenges of Activism with Yigit AksakogluYigit Aksakoglu is a social change advocate whose career spans Human Rights advocacy, early childhood development, NGO policy, and even political prisoner. Having been unjustly imprisoned in his native Turkey for peaceful protest, Yigit now lives in Exile in the Netherlands, where he advocates for better treatment of refugees and undocumented migrants. His organisation Mahalle Art & Kultur aims to create a network of support for refugees and migrants by creating routes into stable employment for undocumented artists and creatives. Sign the petition, Call for Action to Dutch Government: Visa and family reunification for the Turkey...
2023-03-0140 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingReSounding Ep.19 – Laughing at Power with Mr FishWe start 2023 off with a long anticipated guest, the political cartoonist and artist Dwayne Booth, better known as Mr Fish. Fish's incendiary political artwork and relentless truth-seeking has been a recurring topic around the art27 office, and we couldn't wait to get him on the podcast. In this wide-ranging conversation, Musicians Without Borders' Laura Hassler and Mr Fish dig deep, into the historical forces of artistic activism in the US, the truth-telling capacity of humor, and the crucial enrichment that art provides us in our lives. Mr Fish argues that the engagement with, and enjoyment of art...
2023-02-0139 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingArtist Profile: Anas Qadamani & Anan AlkadamaniIn 2022, we launched the first art27 open call for artistic commissions. The Arts for Social Inclusion project awarded successful applicants funding for the creation of new collaborative artworks. The works bring artists of different mediums together to create pieces that tell new stories about migration, displacement, and the lived experience of upheaval. In this episode we spoke to Anas Qadamani & Anan Alkadamani, whose new piece Delirium melds music and filmmaking to evoke the ambiguous feelings of nostalgia and separation that comes with migration. ReSounding was produced and edited by Ed Holland. The art27...
2023-01-1023 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingArtist Profile: Abubacar Adam Togo, Ana Guerrero & Liliya GolovanovaIn 2022, we launched the first art27 open call for artistic commissions. The Arts for Social Inclusion project awarded successful applicants funding for the creation of new collaborative artworks. The works bring artists of different mediums together to create pieces that tell new stories about migration, displacement, and the lived experience of upheaval. In this episode we spoke to Adam Togo, Ana Guerrero, Liliya Golovanova. In recent years, they have been working on Adam’s Book. The book is an intimate portrait of a single artist’s experience through life, including memories of his home in Sudan, the jour...
2022-12-2322 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingArtist Profile: Yoanna Ayers & Mariam ShurghaiaIn 2022, we launched the first art27 open call for artistic commissions. The Arts for Social Inclusion project awarded successful applicants funding for the creation of new collaborative artworks. The works bring artists of different mediums together to create pieces that tell new stories about migration, displacement, and the lived experience of upheaval. In this episode we spoke to Mariam Shurghaia and Yoanna Ayers. Their new work - Letters to ukrainians - is a musical anthem in solidarity of the victims of the full scale war in the country. Mariam and Yoanna shared with us the story of...
2022-12-2220 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingArtist Profile: Elena Yaqubee & Fabio Joel TunnoIn 2022, we launched the first art27 open call for artistic commissions. The Arts for Social Inclusion project awarded successful applicants funding for the creation of new collaborative artworks. The works bring artists of different mediums together to create pieces that tell new stories about migration, displacement, and the lived experience of upheaval. In this episode we spoke to Fabio Joel Tunno and Elena Yaqubee. Having met in a refugee center in Greece, they started working together on musical works. Their latest piece, Charkh Bezan, narrates the struggle facing Afghani women and serves as a reminder of the...
2022-12-2224 min
The Human HiveTakeover Special! ReSounding with art27For this special takeover, Human Hive co-founder Darren Abrahams takes the reins and hosts an episode of the art27 ReSounding Podcast! Featuring Jennie Spears & Bemeriki Bisimwa Dusabe.Art27 is a brilliant platform for artists, arts educators and arts organizations working with refugees and asylum seekers in Europe and beyond. Darren has a fascinating conversation with two organizations that use gardening, plants, food, and permaculture to create sustainability and resilience for refugees living in camps in East Africa and Northern Iraq/Kurdistan.Bemeriki Bisimwa Dusabe is the founder of the Rwamwanja Rural Foundation, working in...
2022-11-2344 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingPutting Down Roots with Bemeriki Bisimwa Dusabe and Jennie SpearsThis month art27 member Darren Abrahams takes the reigns hosting and speaks to two organizations that use gardening, plants, food, and permaculture to create sustainability and resilience for refugees living in camps in East Africa and Northern Iraq/Kurdistan. Bemeriki Bisimwa Dusabe is the founder of the Rwamwanja Rural Foundation, working in Uganda to create farming and sustainable food solutions within refugee camps. He is an educator in the field, leading training for young refugees to develop permaculture gardens. Jennie Spears represents The Lemon Tree Trust, an organization transforming refugee camps in Iraqi Kurdistan by...
2022-11-1143 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingStriving for Regeneration with Darren AbrahamsThe Human Hive is an international organisation shifting the paradigm of development work. The Human Hive are in the process of training a mass collective of educators, facilitators, front-line workers, and students who are equipped with a better way of working. A way of working with the environment, rather than through it. In this episode co-founder Darren Abrahams draws on his expertise as a musician and a body trauma therapist to discuss how practitioners can create safe spaces, and work “with” and not “for” participants. Whilst the Human Hive is built on a foundation of the 17 UN Sustainab...
2022-09-3037 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingPainting Home with Jason and Salam NoahIn 2014, when ISIS began their attack on the minority Yazidi population of Northern Iraq/Kurdistan, the Noah brothers Jason, Salam, and Ismail, together with the rest of their family were forced to flee their homes and search for safety across the border. After many deadly attempts to cross into Europe, the Noah family found themselves as Yazidi refugees in Greece, facing dual persecution due to their asylum seeker status and their religious identity. Now, 8 years the later, the Noah family live in France, where the three brothers paint, create music, and write poetry. Together they...
2022-08-3135 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingProtecting Artistic Freedom with Julie TrebaultThe crucial freedoms that artists need to carry out their work - freedom to express, to tell the truth, to reach any audience - are not upheld equally around the world. In some situations artists face considerable risk or danger because of the work they do. In such situations, initiatives like Artists at Risk Connection step in, in order to help those individuals and uphold our universal freedoms and human rights of expression. This month our guest is Julie Trebault, the director of Artists at Risk Connection, a program of PEN America dedicated to defending artistic freedom...
2022-07-3138 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingLaughing at our Mistakes with Natalie PoriasWe are all funny and we all make mistakes. Sometimes we like to forget these aspects of human nature in favor of the serious side of life. But, the ability to embrace our humor and our flaws and laugh at ourselves can be incredibly powerful. So says Natalie Porias, director of Red Noses International, an international organisation of clowns who have been bringing laughter, joy, and silliness to vulnerable people around the world for almost 20 years. In this episode, Natalie spoke with Laura Hassler about the surprisingly zen beauty of the art of clowning, and how she...
2022-06-3039 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingBuilding Community with Godfrey LadoThis month art27 Co-Founder Laura Hassler takes up hosting duty and speaks to Godfrey Lado, a musician and poet living in Amsterdam. Born in South Sudan, Godfrey fled the country as a refugee when he faced the prospect of mandatory military service. Since arriving in the Netherlands he has negotiated a long and difficult journey to become a fully documented citizen. Now, through storytelling, music, and community building, Godfrey works with other undocumented migrants in Amsterdam to create a better standard of life. Godfrey works with the organization ASKV Steunpunt Vluchtelingen, find out more about...
2022-05-3136 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingStorytelling Migration with Laura NyahuyeLaura Nyahuye is a Zimbabwean born artist, storyteller, a curator, writer, performer, and the founder of Maokwo a social enterprise exploring ways in which creativity can bring communities together. She joined us to talk about how we can tell stories of migration through art, and how this process can help minoritized people form an understanding of their experiences. She also told us how she explores her own story through her stunning body adornment artwork. ReSounding is hosted by Dr Chris Nicholson, Program Development Manager with Musicians Without Borders. The art27 theme music ‘Come Tog...
2022-04-3038 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingReclaiming Creativity with Alaa AbdulfatahIn the 1960's the town of Amude on the Northern border of Syria was a haven of creativity and expression. However a tragic fire in one of the town's cinemas left a deep scar within the community that has not been healed for over 60 years. That is until 2021, when Alaa Abdulfatah and her husband Gernas Haj Shekhmous decided to return to their hometown after years of living in Europe, to build Kulturvan Cultural Center to teach and show art, cinema and music. Kulturvan created the first new cinema in the town since the 60’s, and bring creativity ba...
2022-03-3136 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingFinding Hope with Laura HasslerOur first episode of a new season of the ReSounding Podcast, and we kick 2022 off with a moving interview with Laura Hassler, the founder and director of Musicians Without Borders, and one of the co-founders of art27. Laura is an award-winning peace activist who has worked with Musicians Without Borders for over 20 years to help heal the wounds of war through music education, sustainable school programs, and an approach informed by the power of art on the body. In this episode she tells about how she "accidentally" founded the charity, how she finds her hope, and a...
2022-02-2838 min
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2022-01-291h 35
art27 Presents: ReSoundingRehumanizing with Rikko Voorberg and Rouddy KimpiokaWalk of Shame is an organisation that has one mission: to rehumanize the way Europeans engage with the topics of migration and refugee status. By acknowledging the collective feelings of shame at having not done enough as a global society to help those in need, Walk of Shame hope to create greater communication through empathy and vulnerable understanding. Rikko Voorberg and Rouddy Kimpioka join us this week to discuss the important difference between helping and understanding, and ask the question 'when should we intervene, and when is it enough just to be there for someone?'
2021-12-0339 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingThe Meaning of Wellbeing with Injonge KarangwaWhat do we mean when we talk about health and wellbeing? Across countries and cultures these words may take on totally different meanings and connotations. In countries where healthcare is taken for granted, the term "healthy" may be totally different to those in countries where healthcare is less easy to access. This month's guest, Injonge Karangwa, is a Rwandan singer, songwriter, and the Chief Organizer of the Hamwe Festival - a festival dedicated to discussing health equity and the role of arts in culture in healthcare around the world. Through her work Injonge seeks to empower health...
2021-10-3131 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingChanging the Narrative with Alana Francis de GoviaThe Africa Center in New York City has set out on a huge task: to repair the narrative of African heritage and the African diaspora. Through it's incredibly varied programme of events, talks, exhibitions, outreach programmes and performances, the Center aims to create a healthier and more inclusive portrayal of the lives of African people and their descendants. In this episode Chris speaks to Alana Francis de Govia, the Chief Program and Experience Officer at the Africa Center. She explains their global vision and delves into the power of narratives in identity. You can find...
2021-10-1230 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingDeclaring Emergency with Victoria BurnsCulture Declares a Climate & Ecological Emergency is a rapidly growing worldwide network of cultural institutions and creatives who are dedicating their work to tackling the worsening environmental disaster. In this episode we spoke to Victoria Burns, Coordinator of Culture Declares. She told us how the initiative works with - rather than against - large institutions to bring about demonstrative sustainability, as well as how culture can make us all feel more powerful in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Head to https://www.culturedeclares.org/ to declare your institution and check out their beautiful letters c...
2021-09-0132 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingCelebrating Sanctuary with Danny VincentAs a registered City of Sanctuary, the city of Bristol UK, has been celebrating it's diverse cultural society for years. Central to these celebrations is the Bristol Refugee Festival, an annual display of the art, music, food, and beauty of the city's migrant and arrived populations. Last month, as part of our Artists as Changemakers conference series, our host Dr Chris Nicholson sat down with Danny Vincent from the festival, to discuss how a festival like this comes together and the crucial work of long-term community engagement. You can see more of the festival on...
2021-07-3029 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingThe Human Right to Culture with Zena Edwards This month, Dr Chris Nicholson talks with Writer, Poet, Activist, and Educator, Zena Edwards, in a special episode recorded for our Artists as Changemakers Conference that took place on June 20th, Refugee Day. Together they unpack the article 27 of the Declaration of Human Rights, stating that everyone has a right to participate in culture. Zena is a prolific writer, speaker, and performer based in London. Visit zenaedwards.com to explore her projects and view her performances. ReSounding is hosted by Dr Chris Nicholson, Program Development Manager with Musicians Without Borders. ReSounding was produced b...
2021-06-3033 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingMusic as an Intercultural Practice with Matthias Witt & Ayham NabutiThe IN.DI.E Music Project stands for Interculture, Diversity and Empowerment. They offer support and training in music education, career advice and industry networking for musicians with diverse backgrounds living in Germany. This month, Chris Nicholson spoke to project leaders Matthias Witt and Ayham Nabuti to explore the many ways IN.DI.E Music is creating social and personal change on both the large and small scales. Matthias and Ayham share touching stories from their experience putting together the project and demonstrate how the negative effects of socially constructed labels can be rejected through music and c...
2021-05-3036 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingThe Healing Power of Art With Christopher Bailey Our host Chris Nicholson is joined by Christopher Bailey, Arts and Health Lead at the World Health Organisation, in a discussion spanning the many ways that arts and health intersect, how artists facilitate different ways of healing, and how these issues relate directly to the lived experiences of displaced people. During the conversation Christopher shared with us some deeply moving personal stories from his experience of the healing nature of the arts, as well as a new initiative that he and the WHO are supporting, the Healing Arts Initiative. You can learn more about The...
2021-05-0338 min
art27 Presents: ReSoundingSounding the Alarm With Eduard NazarskiIn our first episode of the new ReSounding podcast, our host Chris Nicholson spoke with Eduard Nazarski, the former head of Amnesty International Netherlands. Eduard is now working with the refugee advocacy initiative Alarm Europa, in order to resound the alarm for greater action to be taken for refugees and forced migrants. Eduard draws on his career in international advocacy and policy lobbying, as well as his experience as a musician, to explore what makes an effective advocacy campaign and where music and performance plays a crucial role in making a statement. You can s...
2021-03-2942 min