The CTM festival 2016 focused on „new“ geographies in the global landscape. Together with last months edition this is a unit dealing with musical & political activities in the Middle East. WiseUp focuses its attention once more towards the Lebanon in an interview with Beiruts radiohost & music activist Ziad Nawfal.
The second part features the Rojava solidarity campaign organized by the network female:pressure. They introduced their initiative for the women of Rojava at the CTM discourse program with a discussion of f:p members DJ Ipek, AGF, Sky Deep, Annie Goh and women involved in the Rojava Revolution. »»»»
Libanon
WiseUp! 03/2016 – CTM 2016: Beirut Musicscene & Rojava Revolution
WiseUp! 02/2016 – Jerusalem In My Heart & CTM 2016
This edition is dealing with the so called „new“ geographies in the global musical landscape, which was the theme of CTM festival 2016 which invited several artists from Lebanon, Indonesia or Egypt which WiseUp will focus. I took the chance and interviewed Radwan Ghazi Moumneh at CTM – a Canadian musician with Lebanese roots, who’s project Jerusalem In My Heart has been lingering around for 10 years as a live project, but has become more known since he released his debut album 2013. »»»»
