Podcasts about okri

En Afrique subsaharienne, l'agriculture est bien souvent une affaire de femmes. Si elles représentent la plus grande partie de la main d'œuvre agricole, elles n'en récoltent pas toujours un juste bénéfice. Pour lutter contre cet état de fait, des femmes s'organisent en coopératives exclusivement féminines, comme pour la Maison du karité de Siby, au Mali. En Côte d'Ivoire, c'est aussi l'un des axes sur lesquels travaille notre invitée, Marie-Paule Djegue Okri. 

Knighted in the King's Birthday Honours, Sir Ben Okri is one of Britain's most significant writers. Influenced by his experiences of both his adopted home and his native Nigeria, his novels span contrasting cultures and traditions. Awarded the Booker Prize in 1991 for The Famished Road, Okri has gone on to establish himself as an author of international repute. Here he discusses his childhood, the Nigerian civil war, a period of homelessness in England, his journey into writing, his knighthood, his championship of the environment and his horror at the climate crisis, his passions outside work, and the changing face of the UK. His latest book, Tiger Work, mixes fiction, essay and poetry in its appeal for change in the face of global warming.  

[REBROADCAST FROM March 3, 2023] For over thirty years, the work of the Booker Prize winning British-Nigerian author Ben Okri, known for his 1991 novel, The Famished Road, has gone unpublished in the U.S. Recently, two of Okri's works have been published in this country, including his latest poetry collection, A Fire in My Head. The collection includes poems about 2020's racial justice protests, the Grenfell Tower disaster, and the pandemic. Okri joins to discuss and read from the collection.

For over thirty years, the work of the Booker Prize winning British-Nigerian author Ben Okri, known for his 1991 novel, The Famished Road, has gone unpublished in the U.S. Recently, two of Okri's works have been published in this country, including his latest poetry collection, A Fire in My Head. The collection includes poems about 2020's racial justice protests, the Grenfell Tower disaster, and the pandemic. Okri joins to discuss and read from the collection.  

In episode 241 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on photography now and how we got here, whilst suggesting advice on photographic practice from Jack Kerouac and Tony Ray-Jones. Plus this week, photographer Mitra Tabrizian takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which she answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Mitra Tabrizian is an Iranian‐British artist and filmmaker whose photographic work has been exhibited and published widely and represented in major international museums and public collections. Solo museum shows include at Tate Britain in 2008 and the Venice Biennale, Iranian Pavilion in 2015. She was awarded the Royal Academyʼs Rose Award for Photography in 2013 and selected as one of Hundred Heroines: Celebrating Women in Photography Today, by the Royal Photographic Society in 2018. Her short film The Insider was made in collaboration with the Booker Prize Winner, Ben Okri and commissioned to accompany Albert Camus' The Outsider, adapted for the stage by Okri. Screenings of her film-work include at the British Museum and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. Tabrizian's latest photographic book Off Screen was published in 2019. Her critically acclaimed debut feature Gholam had a theatrical release in 2017 and is now available on BFI player, Amazon Prime and Itunes worldwide. Mitra is currently developing her second feature The Far Mountains with the British Film Institute. www.mitratabrizian.com Dr. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was first screened in 2018 www.donotbendfilm.com. He is the presenter of the A Photographic Life and In Search of Bill Jay podcasts. © Grant Scott 2022

When poet Ben Okri was just seven years old, he and his family moved back to Nigeria on the eve of civil war. Ever since, he has been fascinated by what he calls “cusp moments,” the periods just before catastrophe strikes. His new novel, "The Last Gift of the Master Artists," takes place in an African society just before the Atlantic slave trade. In the book, he sets out to examine the spirit of a culture on the eve of its destruction. In today's episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle's editor in chief, James Shaheen, sits down with Okri to discuss how writing can help us face what we refuse to see, how Buddhist teachings have influenced his work, and why he believes that art is most powerful when it brings us to a point of crisis.

Ben Okri reads his story “The Secret Source,” from the September 19, 2022, issue of the magazine. Okri is the author of eleven novels, including “The Famished Road,” which won the Booker Prize in 1991, and “The Freedom Artist,” which came out in 2019. His poetry collection “A Fire in My Head: Poems for the Dawn” was published last year.

‘Here we are on the edges of the biggest crisis that has ever faced us. We need a new philosophy for these times, for this near-terminal moment in the history of the human. It is out of this I want to propose an existential creativity.' Ben Okri, The Guardian newspaper, November 12, 2021I'm back in Ottawa and I'm going to record this monologue in one take, as I have been doing since the beginning of season 3 of this podcast. So here we go. Today's episode features quotes from Artists must confront the climate crisis – we must write as if these are the last daysby Nigerian novelist and poet Ben Okri from the November 12, 2021 edition of The Guardian newspaper.Here is the first quote from Ben Okri's article: Here we are on the edges of the biggest crisis that has ever faced us. We need a new philosophy for these times, for this near-terminal moment in the history of the human. It is out of this I want to propose an existential creativity. How do I define it? It is the creativity wherein nothing should be wasted. As a writer, it means everything I write should be directed to the immediate end of drawing attention to the dire position we are in as a species. It means that the writing must have no frills. It should speak only truth. In it, the truth must be also beauty. It calls for the highest economy. It means that everything I do must have a singular purpose. It also means that I must write now as if these are the last things I will write, that any of us will write. If you knew you were at the last days of the human story, what would you write? How would you write? What would your aesthetics be? Would you use more words than necessary? What form would poetry truly take? And what would happen to humour? Would we be able to laugh, with the sense of the last days on us?Words like this provide clarity and insight, don't they?I think they help contextualize complexity and they help us cut through destructive fantasies like endless growth.They literally lay out the truth so that we can see, and hear, the world in which we live, as it really is and it reminds me what a zen teacher once told me: ‘Zen practice shows us how to take care and take responsibility with, and as each moment, by opening attention to reality and responding to what actually needs to be done.'It being December, Okri's words are all the more poignant as we enter this crazy period of hyper consumerism that we call the holiday season. This is how Okri concludes his article and I encourage you to read the entire thing: This is the best and most natural home we are ever going to have. And we need to become a new people to deserve it. We are going to have to be new artists to redream it. This is why I propose existential creativity, to serve the unavoidable truth of our times, and a visionary existentialism, to serve the future that we must bring about from the brink of our environmental catastrophe. We can only make a future from the depth of the truth we face now.I'm intrigued by this notion of existential creativity, and I wonder what it might sound like?(Sound of a piece of paper ripping)Maybe it sounds like a piece of paper being torn. Once torn, the paper cannot be put back together again, like Humpty-Dumpty, and one is left holding the pieces. More on the sound of some of these concepts in a future episode. I'll end with an excerpt from episode 87, where theatre artist Kendra Fanconi comments upon Ben Okri's article: We are all artists of the Anthropocene. We inherently are because this is the world that we're living in right now. There's no other world. We were down earlier at Robert's Creek (BC) and it's a salmon bearing stream. I think of it like we're artists in the Anthropocene, like fish would be in the ocean: the water is all around us and the Anthropocene is all around us. I think it may be what Ben Okri is tasking us with is: can you describe the water? It's all we know, but we need to be able to look from this moment now into the future and maybe that's the job of artists. We're the visionaries, we can see the future and we can envision it in different ways. I think he speaks to that too at the end of the article about saying part of why we need to talk about the times we're in now is in relationship to a future, whatever that future looks like. And I do spend a lot of time trying to negotiate my belief in the future.I wish you peace, peace of mind as you negotiate your own belief in the future.  I want to thank Ben Okri and The Guardian newspaper for sharing these words and Kendra for her reflections upon them. And I thank you, for listening. The act of listening, to me, and maybe I should say the art of listening, true listening, sincere and radical listening, through to the depth of the truth, is at the heart of this moment. *END NOTES FOR ALL EPISODESHere is a link for more information on season 5. Please note that, in parallel with the production of the conscient podcast and it's francophone counterpart, balado conscient, I publish a Substack newsletter called ‘a calm presence' which are 'short, practical essays for those frightened by the ecological crisis'. To subscribe (free of charge) see https://acalmpresence.substack.com. You'll also find a podcast version of each a calm presence posting on Substack or one your favorite podcast player.Also. please note that a complete transcript of conscient podcast and balado conscient episodes from season 1 to 4 is available on the web version of this site (not available on podcast apps) here: https://conscient-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes.Your feedback is always welcome at claude@conscient.ca and/or on conscient podcast social media: Facebook, X, Instagram or Linkedin. I am grateful and accountable to the earth and the human labour that provided me with the privilege of producing this podcast, including the toxic materials and extractive processes behind the computers, recorders, transportation systems and infrastructure that made this production possible. Claude SchryerLatest update on April 2, 2024

The Gamer Dads head to California (virtually) this weekend to hang out with Jon Ong aka Okri!Jon is a Singapore-born, LA-based film composer. He has worked on numerous top notch films and productions ranging from the Netflix series 'A Series of Unfortunate Events', box office smash 'Paddington' and the Tina Fey feature 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot'.Jon currently works at Remote Control Productions, Inc., a film score company run by the legendary composer Hans Zimmer.

It's a Battle in the Sky as the Soulbound secure a Landing Pad with Kharadron Gunhaulers. Okri ponders his redemption. Falas sails high and free. Cass talks the talk. Frostglade's plan takes root.Check out our friends over at Gasket Games who just released Age of Sigmar: Stormground!Looking for new Hobby Supplies? Head over to www.gameenvy.net to load up on brushes, hobby holders, bases, and more! Use the Promo Code “Questward” at Checkout for 10% Off your order.Help Support the Show on Patreon!If you want to stay up to date, follow us @goquestward on Twitter or find us on Facebook.MAIN CAST:David Dryden (he/him) as the Dungeon Master AKA The Dave-Meister | @dwdryden. Dylan (she/her) as Meriss Honeysuckle the Trade Pioneer | @flippantremarks. Isaac Calon (he/him) as Frostglade the Kurnoth HunterJonathan Franco (he/him) as Cassandra TurnerMarielle (she/her) as Bort Jortsson | @iron_swanMurray C (he/him) as Falas Osses-Bosun | @MrScaryMuffinNikola Cadieux-Rusan (he/him) as Okri Okrisson | @nikolarusanConnect:Website: https://www.goquestward.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/goquestwardTwitter: https://twitter.com/goquestwardDiscord: https://discord.gg/eAgRJBFPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/Questward Subscribe:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/questward/id1373087389Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4s28H0o1FMZoUye1Rmps5DYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7iuDumHAdViTH3POpCQMQ/

Ben Okri joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time,” four short fiction pieces by Franz Kafka, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, which were published in The New Yorker in June of 2020. Okri is the author of two dozen books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including the novels “The Famished Road,” which won the Booker Prize in 1991, and “The Freedom Artist,” which was published in 2019.

Frostglade and Okri lead the party to face off against Kharadron Admiral Kobaldus Grimwrought's armada in the eastern reaches of the Simmersoul Sea.Help Support the Show on Patreon!If you want to stay up to date, follow us @goquestward on Twitter or find us on Facebook.MAIN CAST:David Dryden (he/him) as the Dungeon Master AKA The Dave-Meister | @dwdryden. Dylan (she/her) as Meriss Honeysuckle the Trade Pioneer | @flippantremarks. Isaac Calon (he/him) as Frostglade the Kurnoth HunterJonathan Franco (he/him) as Cassandra TurnerMarielle (she/her) as Bort Jortsson | @iron_swanMurray C (he/him) as Falas Osses-Bosun | @MrScaryMuffinNikola Cadieux-Rusan (he/him) as Okri Okrisson | @nikolarusanConnect:Website: https://www.goquestward.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/goquestwardTwitter: https://twitter.com/goquestwardDiscord: https://discord.gg/eAgRJBFPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/Questward Subscribe:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/questward/id1373087389Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4s28H0o1FMZoUye1Rmps5DYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7iuDumHAdViTH3POpCQMQ/

Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri launches his timely new collection of stories, Prayer for the Living, in conversation with novelist and essayist Porochista Khakpour. Their passionate and poetic conversation touches on the spiritual, political, aesthetic and emotional aspects of writing fiction, and in particular the tension for non-white writers between the freedom to write about universal human ideas and the demand that they represent their specific cultural context. Their conversation unveils the power and necessity of storytelling in our time; as Okri says, "We as the human race are in the Last Chance Saloon of our great narrative... we're holding the bowl of the future in our hands and it's very, very fragile." (Recorded February 4, 2021)

Falas, Meriss, and Okri meet up with Lolus Hammersword and Dekila Brightmane to discuss the revelations discovered in the lighthouse.Help Support the Show on Patreon!If you want to stay up to date, follow us @goquestward on Twitter or find us on Facebook.MAIN CAST:David Dryden (he/him) as the Dungeon Master AKA The Dave-Meister | @dwdryden. Dylan (she/her) as Meriss Honeysuckle the Trade Pioneer | @flippantremarks. Isaac Calon (he/him) as Frostglade the Kurnoth HunterJonathan Franco (he/him) as Cassandra TaylorMarielle (she/her) as Bort Jortsson | @iron_swanMurray C (he/him) as Falas Osses-Bosun | @MrScaryMuffinNikola Cadieux-Rusan (he/him) as Okri Okrisson | @nikolarusanConnect:Website: https://www.goquestward.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/goquestwardTwitter: https://twitter.com/goquestwardDiscord: https://discord.gg/eAgRJBFPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/Questward Subscribe:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/questward/id1373087389Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4s28H0o1FMZoUye1Rmps5DYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7iuDumHAdViTH3POpCQMQ/

In this episode, Meghan explores the stories we tell — and don't tell — about the extraction and production of oil. Nigerian-British writer Ben Okri's short story What the Tapster Saw leads to discussions of magical realism, African literature and the environment, and the geopolitics of oil. She talks with political and environmental anthropologist Omolade Adunbi about the history of oil in the Niger Delta; postcolonial literature scholar Rose Casey about Okri's short story; and African literature scholar Cajetan Iheka about representations of the environment in African literature. >>Transcript here. >>Music by Doctor Turtle, Sergey Cheremisinov, and Alex Mason. >>Narration by Chimdi Ihezie. >>Cover Art by Nonny Cartoons.

The Binding faces off against the cruel power of Clan Bilgerot. Okri discovers a void in himself that only slaying giant humanoid rats can fill. Cass Takes a Dive. Falas finds his white whale.PATREON ANNOUNCEMENT: https://www.patreon.com/QuestwardIf you want to stay up to date, follow us @goquestward on Twitter or find us on Facebook. Feel free to drop us an email at goquestward@gmail.comMAIN CAST:David Dryden (he/him) as the Dungeon Master AKA The Dave-Meister | @dwdrydenDylan (she/her) as Meriss Honeysuckle the Trade Pioneer | @flippantremarksIsaac Calon (he/him) as Frostglade the Kurnoth HunterJonathan Franco (he/him) as Cassandra TaylorMarielle (she/her) as Bort Jortsson | @iron_swanMurray C (he/him) as Falas Osses-Bosun | @MrScaryMuffinNikola Cadieux-Rusan (he/him) as Okri Okrisson | @nikolarusanConnect:Website: https://www.goquestward.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/goquestwardTwitter: https://twitter.com/goquestwardDiscord: https://discord.gg/eAgRJBFSubscribe:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/questward/id1373087389Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4s28H0o1FMZoUye1Rmps5DYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7iuDumHAdViTH3POpCQMQ/

Cass, Falas, and Okri discover a platform in the sea maintained by the swashbuckling Clan Bilgerot! Will they parley a deal or come face to face with sinister rat lashes?PATREON ANNOUNCEMENT: https://www.patreon.com/QuestwardIf you want to stay up to date, follow us @goquestward on Twitter or find us on Facebook. Feel free to drop us an email at goquestward@gmail.comMAIN CAST:David Dryden (he/him) as the Dungeon Master AKA The Dave-Meister | @dwdrydenDylan (she/her) as Meriss Honeysuckle the Trade Pioneer | @flippantremarksIsaac Calon (he/him) as Frostglade the Kurnoth HunterJonathan Franco (he/him) as Cassandra TaylorMarielle (she/her) as Bort Jortsson | @iron_swanMurray C (he/him) as Falas Osses-Bosun | @MrScaryMuffinNikola Cadieux-Rusan (he/him) as Okri Okrisson | @nikolarusanConnect:Website: https://www.goquestward.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/goquestwardTwitter: https://twitter.com/goquestwardDiscord: https://discord.gg/eAgRJBFSubscribe:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/questward/id1373087389Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4s28H0o1FMZoUye1Rmps5DYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7iuDumHAdViTH3POpCQMQ/

Cass, Frostglade, and Okri face down the roiling fury of a Molten Infernoth in the heart of Caldera Isle.If you want to stay up to date, follow us @goquestward on Twitter or find us on Facebook. Feel free to drop us an email at goquestward@gmail.comMAIN CAST:David Dryden (he/him) as the Dungeon Master AKA The Dave-Meister | @dwdrydenDylan (she/her) as Meriss Honeysuckle the Trade Pioneer | @flippantremarksIsaac Calon (he/him) as Frostglade the Kurnoth HunterJonathan Franco (he/him) as Cassandra TaylorMarielle (she/her) as Bort Jortsson | @iron_swanMurray C (he/him) as Falas Osses-Bosun | @MrScaryMuffinNikola Cadieux-Rusan (he/him) as Okri Okrisson | @nikolarusanSam C (she/her) as Feryl the Stormcast Knight-VenatorConnect:Website: https://www.goquestward.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/goquestwardTwitter: https://twitter.com/goquestwardDiscord: https://discord.gg/eAgRJBFSubscribe:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/questward/id1373087389Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4s28H0o1FMZoUye1Rmps5DYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7iuDumHAdViTH3POpCQMQ/

Ben Okri reads his story from the February 8, 2021, issue of the magazine. Okri is the author of eleven novels, including “The Famished Road,” which won the Booker Prize in 1991, and “The Freedom Artist,” which came out in 2019. His story collection, “Prayer for the Living,” was published in the U.S. this month. 

Cass, Frostglade, and Okri face down the roiling fury of a Molten Infernoth in the heart of Caldera Isle.If you want to stay up to date, follow us @goquestward on Twitter or find us on Facebook. Feel free to drop us an email at goquestward@gmail.comMAIN CAST:David Dryden (he/him) as the Dungeon Master AKA The Dave-Meister | @dwdrydenDylan (she/her) as Meriss Honeysuckle the Trade Pioneer | @flippantremarksIsaac Calon (he/him) as Frostglade the Kurnoth HunterJonathan Franco (he/him) as Cassandra TaylorMarielle (she/her) as Bort Jortsson | @iron_swanMurray C (he/him) as Falas Osses-Bosun | @MrScaryMuffinNikola Cadieux-Rusan (he/him) as Okri Okrisson | @nikolarusanSam C (she/her) as Feryl the Stormcast Knight-VenatorConnect:Website: https://www.goquestward.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/goquestwardTwitter: https://twitter.com/goquestwardDiscord: https://discord.gg/eAgRJBFSubscribe:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/questward/id1373087389Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4s28H0o1FMZoUye1Rmps5DYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7iuDumHAdViTH3POpCQMQ/

The second part of our Year's End Endeavours episode! Cass digs deep and plants the seeds of a new relationship. Frostglade taps into his inner voice. Falas realizes he needs help getting whipped into shape. Okri maintains his gear. Bort sets his eye on new allies.If you want to stay up to date, follow us @goquestward on Twitter or find us on Facebook. Feel free to drop us an email at goquestward@gmail.comMAIN CAST:David Dryden (he/him) as the Dungeon Master AKA The Dave-Meister | @dwdrydenDylan (she/her) as Meriss Honeysuckle the Trade PioneerIsaac Calon (he/him) as Frostglade the Kurnoth HunterJonathan Franco (he/him) as Cassandra TaylorMarielle (she/her) as Bort Jortsson | @iron_swanMurray C (he/him) as Falas Osses-Bosun | @MrScaryMuffinNikola Cadieux-Rusan (he/him) as Okri Okrisson | @nikolarusanSam C (she/her) as Feryl the Stormcast Knight-VenatorSupport Questward: Inspired to Start-up your own adventure? Consider making your RPG digital purchases through our Affiliate Link: DriveThruRPGConnect:Website: https://www.goquestward.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/goquestwardTwitter: https://twitter.com/goquestwardDiscord: https://discord.gg/eAgRJBFSubscribe:iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/questward/id1373087389Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4s28H0o1FMZoUye1Rmps5DYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7iuDumHAdViTH3POpCQMQ/

Ben Okri published his poem 'Grenfell Tower, June 2017' in the Financial Times a few days after the inferno. On Channel 4's Facebook page it was played more than 6 million times. This is but one of his poems written in response to current events, politics and people, gathered in his new book, A Fire in my Head: Poems for the Dawn. Okri considers the poet's role to be the town crier, and there are poems about that other fire, at Notre Dame, Barack Obama and the Covid pandemic. But, as he tells Samira Ahmed, his collection also includes the personal, love poems and a tender evocation of a new-born's encounter with life, and the wonder of the world. A new miniseries, The Pembrokeshire Murders, starts soon on ITV. It tells the real story of the investigation by Dyfed Powys Police into 2 decades-old previously-unsolved fatal shootings, using advances in forensic science to find microscopic clues that were previously invisible to them. We speak to the writer for the series – Nick Stephens – about writing a gripping story when the outcome is already known. Composer, broadcaster and cross bench member of the House of Lords Michael Berkeley is tabling a question to ministers about the issue affecting UK musicians who will no longer be able to viably tour Europe as a result of the recent Brexit deal. He tells Samira about his concerns in light of reports over the weekend that a reciprocal arrangement was offered the British government but was refused. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Simon Richardson Main image: Ben Okri Image credit: Mat Bray

Cassandra (Human Rustler), Meriss (Human Trade Pioneer), and Okri (Kharadron Aether-Khemist) set out to the port town of Gromer’s Town to meet with Captain Brokka Brokkisdotr for a job escorting a Skyfleet. Okri watches his back for duardin rivals. Cassandra regains new footing. Meriss meets a new lifelong friend.Crash & Burn is a free supplement for Age of Sigmar: Soulbound created by Cubicle 7. The adventure is downloadable for free from their website! We adapted the introduction to fit in with our current campaign but you can use it to start a fresh adventure and learn the rules of Soulbound.MAIN CAST:David Dryden (he/him) as the Dungeon Master AKA The Dave-Meister | @dwdrydenDylan (she/her) as Meriss Honeysuckle the Trade PioneerSam C (she/her) as Feryl the Stormcast Knight-VenatorNikola Cadieux-Rusan (he/him) as Okri Okrisson | @nikolarusanIsaac Calon (he/him) as Frostglade the Kurnoth HunterMurray C (he/him) as Falas Osses-Bosun | @MrScaryMuffinMarielle (she/her) as Bort Jortsson | @iron_swanSupport Questward: Inspired to Start-up your own adventure? Consider making your RPG digital purchases through our Affiliate Link: DriveThruRPGConnect:Website: https://www.goquestward.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/goquestwardTwitter: https://twitter.com/goquestwardDiscord: https://discord.gg/eAgRJBFSubscribe:iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/questward/id1373087389Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4s28H0o1FMZoUye1Rmps5DYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7iuDumHAdViTH3POpCQMQ/

The adventure on Gladesreach resumes as Falas, Frostglade, and Okri track down the missing Trenton Skiggs to a Pagoda on the North edge of the isle and begin their infiltration. Oh My!Support Questward: Inspired to Start-up your own adventure? Consider making your RPG digital purchases through our Affiliate Link: DriveThruRPGConnect:Website: https://www.goquestward.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/goquestwardTwitter: https://twitter.com/goquestwardDiscord: https://discord.gg/eAgRJBFSubscribe:iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/questward/id1373087389Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4s28H0o1FMZoUye1Rmps5DYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7iuDumHAdViTH3POpCQMQ/

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This episode of the Tunecreators Artists Spotlight features Natalie Okri a singer and songwriter based in London, UK natalie is currently promoting her new song, Quarantie Thoughts and on the show she talks about what inspired the song, how she got into music and at the end she shares an awesome practical tip for new artists.

Falas grapples with his newfound feelings and denial. Okri sets his eyes on new depths. Frostglade gets his feet wet.Support Questward: Inspired to Start-up your own adventure? Consider supporting us through our Affiliate Link: DriveThruRPGConnect:Website: https://www.goquestward.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/goquestwardTwitter: https://twitter.com/dwdrydenSubscribe:iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/questward/id1373087389Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4s28H0o1FMZoUye1Rmps5DYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7iuDumHAdViTH3POpCQMQ/Previously On Music: “Ocean Game Title” by Eric Matyas: www.soundimage.org

Assault on the Outpost! The creature from the woods arrives, but with what dastardly intent? Falus the Black Ark Corsair considers new dietary options. Frostglade the Kurnoth Hunter shoots from the hip (trunk?). Okri the Kharadron puts it all on the line.Support Questward: Inspired to Start-up your own adventure? Consider supporting us through our Affiliate Link: DriveThruRPGConnect:Website: https://www.goquestward.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/goquestwardTwitter: https://twitter.com/dwdrydenSubscribe:iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/questward/id1373087389Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4s28H0o1FMZoUye1Rmps5DYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx7iuDumHAdViTH3POpCQMQ/Previously On Music: “Ocean Game Title” by Eric Matyas: www.soundimage.org

I decided to come up with this Nigerian classics mix. If you remember any of the songs, please comment below.. If you no sabi, hide your face please lol... Artist Name 1. Majek Fashek - Send Down The Rain (Kpangolo Remix) 2. Sonny Okosun - Now or Never 3. Mike Okri - Wisdom 4. Onyeka Onwenu - Ekwe 5. Mandy Ojugbana - Taxi Driver 6. Veno - Nigeria go survive 7. Christie Essien Igbokwe - Teta Nu na Ula 8. Mike Okri - Rumba Dance 9. Majek Fashek - So Long 10. Jazzman Olofin - Raise Da Roof Ft Ayuba 11. Styl Plus - Olufunmi 12. Chris Mba - Baby Dont cry 13. Sunny Okosun - Woman 14. Felix Liberty - Ifeoma 15. Mike Okri - Omoge 16. Fela Anikulapo Kuti -Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense 17. Fela Ransome Kuti - Open & Close 18. Fela Anikulapo Kuti - Lady 19. Mike Okri - Time Na Money 20. Blackky - Blacky Skank 21. Onyeka Owenu - Bia Nulu 22. Christie Essien Igbokwe - Seun re re 23. Victor Uwaifo - Joromi 24. Trybesmen - Shake Body 25. Tony Tetuila - My Car 26. P Square - Dem don kolo 27. The Remedies - Sade 28. Tony Tetuila - Jigi Bam Bam 29. Pasuma Ft. Eedris Abdulkareem - Legali 30. 2 Shotz - Carry Am Go 31. Crazy Culture - Jupa 32. The Remedies - Judile 33. The Remedies - Shakomo 34. Eedris Abdulkareem - Come back home (Sho wa le) 35. Majek Fashek - In a New York 36. Sunny Okosun - Motherless Children 37. Daddy Showkey - Welcome Daddy Showkey 38. Seyi Sodimu - Jeje (Love Me Tender)

Questions of voice, agency, participation and empowerment are central to the practice of community development, and for this reason it has been has been described as a subversive occupation (Ife 2013). Its way of working is to challenge and question the done thing, the taken-for-granted. Yet, funding cuts and structural changes within the field since 2008 have seen the spaces for community work increasingly narrowed and squeezed (Harvey 2015; Community Work Ireland 2017). This situation places community workers in a dilemma: do they cease telling uncomfortable stories and cease being true to the values of community work; do they step away from long term community struggles? This panel details research from the field of community work that speaks back to such restrictive forces as communities and practitioners struggle to find their voices: From the voices of marginalised older men in Dublin city, to a community finding their voice when faced with the threat of fracking and the voices of community workers themselves as they navigate a path for critical practice in neoliberal times. Bringing together three community worker who are engaged in research, this panel seeks, as Okri evocatively suggests, to ‘breach and confound the accepted frontier of things’ by amplifying unseen voices and placing them at the centre of conversations about social change in Ireland. Jamie Gorman is a PhD researcher in community development at the Maynooth University Department of Applied Social Studies. His research is a case study of community action for environmental justice in the north-west of Ireland. He is a board member of Community Work Ireland and the Chairperson of Friends of the Earth Ireland.

Questions of voice, agency, participation and empowerment are central to the practice of community development, and for this reason it has been has been described as a subversive occupation (Ife 2013). Its way of working is to challenge and question the done thing, the taken-for-granted. Yet, funding cuts and structural changes within the field since 2008 have seen the spaces for community work increasingly narrowed and squeezed (Harvey 2015; Community Work Ireland 2017). This situation places community workers in a dilemma: do they cease telling uncomfortable stories and cease being true to the values of community work; do they step away from long term community struggles? This panel details research from the field of community work that speaks back to such restrictive forces as communities and practitioners struggle to find their voices: From the voices of marginalised older men in Dublin city, to a community finding their voice when faced with the threat of fracking and the voices of community workers themselves as they navigate a path for critical practice in neoliberal times. Bringing together three community worker who are engaged in research, this panel seeks, as Okri evocatively suggests, to ‘breach and confound the accepted frontier of things’ by amplifying unseen voices and placing them at the centre of conversations about social change in Ireland. Dave Donovan is a PhD researcher in the Department of Applied Social Studies in Maynooth University. His research is a narrative study of community workers professions. He lives and works in Galway city.

Questions of voice, agency, participation and empowerment are central to the practice of community development, and for this reason it has been has been described as a subversive occupation (Ife 2013). Its way of working is to challenge and question the done thing, the taken-for-granted. Yet, funding cuts and structural changes within the field since 2008 have seen the spaces for community work increasingly narrowed and squeezed (Harvey 2015; Community Work Ireland 2017). This situation places community workers in a dilemma: do they cease telling uncomfortable stories and cease being true to the values of community work; do they step away from long term community struggles? This panel details research from the field of community work that speaks back to such restrictive forces as communities and practitioners struggle to find their voices: From the voices of marginalised older men in Dublin city, to a community finding their voice when faced with the threat of fracking and the voices of community workers themselves as they navigate a path for critical practice in neoliberal times. Bringing together three community worker who are engaged in research, this panel seeks, as Okri evocatively suggests, to ‘breach and confound the accepted frontier of things’ by amplifying unseen voices and placing them at the centre of conversations about social change in Ireland. Tommy Coombes manages the Bluebell Community Development Project. His doctoral research, at the Department of Applied Social Studies, Maynooth University, explores stories of the lived experiences of older men residing in a sheltered housing complex in Dublin.

Upon his election as leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn spoke of some of the people who have inspired him on his extraordinary journey. He said: ‘The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love..’ The author of that quote was Nigerian poet and novelist, Ben Okri. Speaking together for the first time in this recording, Corbyn and Okri discuss the forces that have made them what they are, the state of the world today, their literary influences and their belief that we can transform ourselves for the better. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Booker Prize-winning author, Ben Okri, read for Pindrop at the Royal Academy of Arts in February 2016 during the landmark exhibition, Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse. Okri read one of his superb short stories followed by an audience Q&A. Ben Okri has published eight novels, including The Famished Road and Starbook, as well as collections of poetry, short stories and essays. His work has been translated into more than 20 languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been awarded the OBE as well as numerous international prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction and the Chianti Rufino-Antico Fattore. He is a Vice-President of the English Centre of International PEN and was presented with a Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum.

Auckland Writers Festival 2015 Not long ago Nigerian poet and novelist Ben Okri caused a stir, writing in the Guardian that black and African writers should “not be expected to write about slavery, poverty or racial injustice. The greatest literature comes not from the heaviest subjects but from freedom of thought.” Okri has written many poetry, essay and short story collections, as well as ten novels including his Booker-winningThe Famished Road. His recent novel The Age of Magic is imbued with what Okri dubs “dream logic”, as well as with sensibility and imagination as he charts the journey of a group of documentary film makers on their way to film a piece on happiness in Arcadia, Greece. He speaks with Paula Morris.

Hong Kong’s name evoked very powerful visual connotations before he saw it, says Booker Prize-winning writer Ben Okri. But the Nigeria-born novelist and poet says that on his first visit to the SAR he has been astonished by the sheer number of people he saw at the Book Fair; seeing the city provoked him to write a poem. Mr Okri was among a star-studded cast of international writers attending the fair, including Alain de Botton, Simon Sebag Montefiore and Carol Thatcher.

Not long ago Nigerian poet and novelist Ben Okri caused a stir, writing in the Guardian that black and African writers should “not be expected to write about slavery, poverty or racial injustice. The greatest literature comes not from the heaviest subjects but from freedom of thought.” Okri has written many poetry, essay and short story collections,... Read full post ›

Nigerian poet and novelist Ben Okri on the relevance of his talk at the Gibraltar Literary Festival. Considered one of the foremost African authors in the post-modern and post-colonial traditions, Ben likens literature to ‘the magic thread’ in the mysterious labyrinth of life. For Ben, Gibraltar was the most appropriate location to speak of the conjunction of Africa and Europe.

The 34th Book Slam podcast is a bumper edition, with Man Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri discussing 'A Time For New Dreams', Simon Armitage picking up hitchers, and Philip Wells catching alight. There's also our old friend Joe Dunthorne reading from 'Submarine', music from Tanya Auclair and debut novelist Nikesh Shukla discussing 'Coconut Unlimited' and facing up to the robo-charm of Angebot. Patrick is lugubrious, Elliott reaches for the dictionary.