The Centre Cannot Hold project presents a
virtual migrants live performance



“Passenger 5: Climate Racism”
SUNDAY 4TH OCTOBER 2.00PM FREE
at The Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA   Tel: 0117 917 2300

Artists, guests and participants - live and recorded - discuss racial and imperialist backgrounds to climate change interacting with sampled documentary, interviews, music and video.  Special Guests: Arun Kundnani (virtual) from the Institute of Race Relations, and Guy Bailey OBE (live) originally of the 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott and vice-chair of the Black Development Agency.  Presented by artists/activists Kooj Chuhan, Aidan Jolly, Jaya Graves and Tracey Zengeni, plus contributions from Graeme Evelyn just back from Jamaica with new video footage.
Presented in association with Bristol's Black Development Agency.

The Centre Cannot Hold project presents a
virtual migrants live performance



“Passenger 6: Third Resistance”
SATURDAY 7^TH NOVEMBER 2.00PM FREE
at The Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA   Tel: 0117 917 2300

Artists, guests and participants - live and recorded - discuss the struggles of indigenous peoples and imperialist backgrounds to climate change interacting with sampled documentary, interviews, live music and video. 
Special Live Guests: Reynaldo Mariqueo from Mapuche International Link who will discuss the Mapuche People's struggle (Chile and Argentina), and Ina Hume founder of Vanishing Rites who will discuss the Jumma people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. 
Presented by artists/activists Kooj Chuhan, Aidan Jolly, Tracey Zengeni and Graeme Evelyn, in association with Bristol's Pierian Centre.  The event will also launch a set of video interviews from the Pierian's recent Conference on the Declaration of Rights for Indigenous People which will be integrated into this event and the installation.
This will add to the evolving new material continually added in response to contributions and global events that take place.

"Passenger 7: BAHIA-EARTH set"
VM @ Bahia Beats and Boogie

Sunday 13th December: 7pm - late  
at Band On The Wall, 25 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JZ.
£6 / £5 concs.  Tickets on sale now! Visit www.bandonthewall.org

Virtual Migrants will feature alongside the Beating Wing Orchestra, Mojito, the Global Grooves Master-Class performance and Global Star Sounds DJ - World Set

We will present VJ sets incorporating recorded perspectives and experiences, audio underscores and beats relating to the links between climate, global inequality and racism as a part of our new project “The Centre Cannot Hold”.  It will give a preview slice of what the project is about including some of the video dialogues set to music and making the lings with Brazil politics and culture.  VM performers will be Kooj Chuhan (VJ), Aidan Jolly (soundscapes), Tracey Zengeni (vocals) and special guest from Leeds Simon Murray (spoken word).  This event coincides with the global climate change conference in Copenhagen and Virtual Migrants will connect the evening’s music with cultural, social and environmental consciousness.

Following an intensive weekend of full-on Samba Reggae workshops, the Global Grooves team and participants bring you a blistering live performance of Bahian beats and boogie brought to the Northwest. This performance features leading international percussion and dance tutors from Brazil and beyond, and is guaranteed to get you grooving! The evening will also open up suppressed perspectives on the global inequalities of climate change with VJ and beat-driven dialogues from Virtual Migrants (www.virtualmigrants.com) closing with two fantastic headlining acts The Beating Wing Orchestra (www.can.uk.com/exodus/exodus_orchestra.htm) and Mojito (www.mojitosalsa.co.uk ).