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AFRO-PEAN: podcast in collaboration with NoOx Management on being an African and European descendant in the music industry

AFRO-PEAN: podcast in collaboration with NoOx Management on being an African and European descendant in the music industry

AFRO-PEAN: podcast in collaboration with NoOx Management on being an African and European descendant in the music industry

AFRO-PEAN: podcast in collaboration with NoOx Management on being an African and European descendant in the music industry

Hi listeners & Thinkers. My name is Silvia, also known as Nox, and I am the CEO of NoOx Worldwide, called NoOx Management before. NoOx Worldwide is a new start-up in the music business and a pioneer in the Italian Afro Urban music market. We focus on bridging Italians, the Afro community and the Sub Saharan African culture. This is an introduction to a new podcast series in collaboration with The...

Fashion Industry - The Facets of Sustainability, Vol. 5 - In this episode Ridhwana Shaik, Co-Founder/Creative Lead at Creatively Connected, chats to Kate Ogueri and Yemurai Mhlanga about fashion’s lack of efficient size inclusivity. They have a robust conversation about the changes happening and the changes needed within the industry.

In this episode Ridhwana Shaik, Co-Founder/Creative Lead at Creatively Connected, chats to Mabel Suglo about Dignified Wear, a sustainability-driven social enterprise in Ghana that focuses on up-skilling differently abled people and allowing them to be active participants in the fashion economy.

In this episode Ridhwana Shaik, Co-Founder/Creative Lead at Creatively Connected, chats with Winnie Mchenry ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/winnie-mchenry-6a947910/) about how Upcycle is changing the narrative around social and corporate acceptance of re-invented, refurbished and up cycled items.

In this episode Ridhwana Shaik, Co-Founder Creative Lead at Creatively Connected, chats with Nicola Luther and Sonja Stanislaw Kaw Di Aping from Lunar about their sustainability journey and what it means to be a heritage brand in a Fast Fashion world.

In this episode Ridhwana Shaik, Co-Founder/Creative Lead at Creatively Connected, chats with Elise Thetard-Henry (Sormani) Founder and CEO at WeAllShareRoots to discover what makes a socially driven enterprise tick. We learn about the entrepreneurial environment surrounding social development and how her brand makes a difference in the lives of others.

It’s 700 years from Dante Alighieri’s death but the lessons we can learn from this poet are still many. We leave to others more competent than us to illustrate Dante’s qualities; we prefer to indulge on small things with an important meaning, such as the sonnet Guido, i’vorrei che tu, Lapo ed io – Guido, I would like that you, Lapo and me Apart from the beauty of the sound and of the words that on...

Un viaggio di storie di donne tra Africa ed Europa, alla ricerca della bellezza di essere attrici del cambiamento sostenibile

Today is the Holocaust Remembrance Day. The day on which we remember the extermination of the Jews. The denial of the other, persecuted for no reason whatsoever, even if it is difficult to admit a reason for any atrocity. A dismembered population to which dignity has been denied both as a collective and as a group of individuals. Entering the camps, their identities were torn away, even before the...

Another animal belonging to the Norse mythology deserving attention is Gullinbursti, a boar covered in golden bristles able to run anywhere, on earth and in the sea, even in the darkest place thanks to the light radiating from its body. It is the fastest of the chargers and is at the service of Freyr, the god of beauty and fertility. We will not investigate what Gullinbursti symbolizes in the Nors...

Today we celebrate the International Day for the Elimination of violence against women. We abhor all kind of violence; violence is unacceptable at all times. Violence on women is the violence often consummated within the family and in affective contexts; it originates from the assumption that males are superior just because they are physically stronger. It is the violence unleashed against wives,...

Even if we are all human beings, we often think that our ideas and opinions are influenced by the places where we were born, the words we listened to and that educated us, the difficulties and the opportunities that we have been offered during our growth and relationship exchanges. For this reason we ask - and we ask only to those born and bred in Africa – to tell us what they think is ethical and...

During the lockdown period, while the beauty of living terraces and balconies is something that Romans will never forget, the silence, unreal at times, gave the pleasure of listening to the bells again, not covered by the traffic noise any more. Rome and bells is a binomial that has been existing for centuries. “With tolls and tolls the bell rings” in the prisoners’ song marking time passing usele...

GIACOMO AND METKA FROM BRUSSELS Giacomo: Good morning everybody, Giacomo and Metka from Brussels, we try to tell you very briefly which is our small contribution to fight climate change in our daily life. The first thing that we are quite proud of, I have to say, is that although we have two small kids, very small, we manage during the week not using at all the car and we organize ourselves in a w...

Climate change has always been a major concern for our world, especially in recent times. It is the cause of different types of pollution, loss of green areas, soil degradation and erosion. But we all together can be part of the solution. For example, small actions like riding a bicycle or taking public transportations instead of a singular regular car, can diminish the amount of carbon dioxide em...

Remember you’re not too young to do big things! Remember to love, respect and protect animals, forests, sea and mountains and with small daily gestures: Save electricity, remember to turn off lights when you don’t need them. Save water, remember to turn off the taps so as not to waste. Save environment, remember to recycle, don’t just toss eveything in the trash, glass, metal, plastic, paper can b...

Today, the 12th of May is the International Nurses Day. We are glad to take the chance to thank nurses and, in general, all sanitary staff for the exceptional and fundamental role they are playing in this particular moment, as in many other occasions in the past and in the ordinary course of life. Heal sufferings, cure diseases and stand by people in the moment of extreme passing, is something tha...

I’ve just listened to my friend thinking watermill and she was doing something about all the different ways that a single mum can afford to buy the right things, and I thought it was really inspiring mine is going to be about what I really want to do this year, hopefully I am going to be moving and getting a garden and I just want to create the perfect place where lots of butterflies and moths can...

Today we celebrate 700 years since Dante, according to the scholars, started his journey depicted in the Divine Comedy. About the poem itself, we don’t have much more to say that hasn’t already been said. The idea of the journey, the Poetry that Dante represents, the love for Beatrice, lead our thoughts far away, to remember Saffo’s poetry (VI century B.C.) celebrating the power of love with: “It...