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True Definition presents Strictly Vinyl with Deli G & special guest Donovan City Rockas!

True Definition – The House That Jack Built returns for another night of banging Rare Grooves, Street Soul, Boogie & Reggae!

 

Deli G, host of the weekly show True Definition on Ujima Radio Saturdays

4-6pm hosts “Strictly Vinyl” with special guest, Ujima’s very own

Donovan City Rockas on Saturday 29th April 2023.

Get on down to The Plough in Easton, Bristol for a night of sublime

Soul, Rare Grooves, Boogie & Reggae.

Doors open 9pm – Ends 2am.

 

Don’t forget to check out City Rockas Vibration with Donovan every

Sunday 8-10pm on Ujima Radio.

98FM / DAB / ONLINE


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Code of The Streets with DJ Style returns to Ujima Radio!

From April, one of Ujima’s longest standing shows returns to the airwaves.

We are so excited to welcome back Code of the Streets to the Ujima airwaves.

From Saturday 8th April between 8-10pm, check out Bristol’s legendary DJ Style in the mix with the hottest Hip Hop – RnB – Afrobeats & Dancehall & live interviews.

Plus once a month check out the Classic Old School Mix.

Visit the Code of the Streets show page

For more updates visit: www.djstyle.co.uk

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St Paul’s 16 year Old Barber Shaq’ille Fearon hits over half a million Likes on Tik Tok!

Shaq has been at Supertonic, the coolest Barbers in St Paul’s, Bristol for over 6 years. Sharpening his skills after school and on Saturdays, Shaq has built up a tasty following on Tik Tok with over 500 million Likes, this Bristol Barber is set for success!

Shaq has always wanted to be a barber, and started cutting hair at just 10 years old. His first trim was his dad, and he went from there. His proud dad is Lucky House Management’s Jade Fearon and is Shaq’s biggest fan, and said he’s in awe of his work ethic.

On his afternoons and evenings off, he’s been visiting a number of schools in Bristol where young pupils rush to watch his skills with the clippers.  Shaq’ille has been to Fairfield School, Downend School and Bristol Met, and his TikTok videos in a ‘Pulling Up To UK Schools’ is getting tens of thousands of views each time as he cuts hair outside the schools for free.

 

Watch this space for more news about this social media sensation, @barbershaq

Make sure you follow him on socials to see what happens next!

Tik Tok: @barbershaq

Instagram: @barbershaq.0117

MGMT @luckyhousemanagement

 

https://www.tiktok.com/@barbershaq/video/7213438055347145989

 

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The Cause Bristol to promote Unity, Equality, and Opportunity!

THE CAUSE BRISTOL

The Cause Bristol is a community organization formed in 2020 based in the city of Bristol.

Made up of a team of like-minded individuals from different backgrounds with various assets, qualities, skills, and life experiences, who all share a mutual passion for The Cause Bristol to promote Unity, Equality, and Opportunity.

Aiming to create a community that works for everyone, striving to find effective solutions, and inspire change for the future, through collaboration, regular discussion, and proactively challenging ongoing underlying issues.

The Cause Bristol also places young people at the heart of what they do, as they want to create numerous opportunities in order to support and nurture voices, ideas, and creativity.

The Cause Bristol believe divisions still exist between people of different class, race, age, sexuality, gender identity, disability & minority groups, and even as people move towards a more compassionate society, there are still those who are left behind.

Whilst there are organizations that do great work to promote inclusion on behalf of single demographic groups, inevitably that means some people, often the most marginalized in society, find themselves under represented.

The Cause Bristol aim to promote an inclusive culture that can exist between ALL, and rather than just imposing their own ideas and philosophies, they will collectively listen, understand, to then take action that actually achieves goals.

Priding themselves in the ongoing development of people, from 1-2-1 mentorship, small to large group settings, and taking a holistic approach to those with specific and additional needs.

The Cause Bristol work to put empowerment and making a real difference first, striving to ensure the knowledge and tools that will enable individuals to see and feel the benefits of continuous progression, are available to those who require it most.

The Cause Bristol have weekly Creative Youth Sessions that are located in various Youth Centres around Bristol and offer the opportunity for young people to express themselves mentally and physically freely through the means of
creativity.

The Cause Bristol Creative Workshops are designed to give people the chance to explore their creativity within music production, vocal recording, live performance, DJ-ing and video / photography and opportunities to learn more about the creative industries.

The Cause Bristol also facilitate community events, pop ups, and collective discussions in order to find effective solutions to barriers many face, as they believe different ideas along with aligned principles can strongly contribute to change.

The Cause Bristol is a self funded organization and are always looking to partner and collaborate with individuals and other organizations who may have their own ideas but share the same principles as theirs to promote Unity, Equality, and Opportunity.

TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

WEBSITE: thecausebristol.co.uk
INSTAGRAM: @thecausebristol
FACEBOOK: The Cause Bristol

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Docta Flex’s Mum, Lorna Da Angel hits the headlines with success of latest single!

Ujima Radio’s DJ’s Mum, Lorna Da Angel, has global success with hit single!

 

Mum of Docta Flex, Lorna Da Angel recently released her hit single “Hot Gyal Step Out” and has been played all over the world!

Lorna has been featured on Ujima since her single was released and performed at Ujima’s Christmas Party at The Mount Without and again at the Ujima Sisters Takeover on International Women’s Day  at Cosies in St Paul’s, Bristol.

Lorna is enjoying her moment in the spotlight with her song being played all over the world. Lorna Miles released, her debut single Hot Gyal Step Out under the name Lorna Da’Angel.

Now it’s been played in the United States to Holland and France.

Lorna said: “I feel great to know that my talent is taking my single places that I have never travelled before.”

 

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Harbouring a musical talent? Applications are open to perform at the 2023 Bristol Harbour Festival

Harbouring a musical talent? Applications are open to perform at the 2023 Bristol Harbour Festival

 

Bristol Harbour Festival is calling out for local talent to perform at this year’s harbourside celebrations

 

The iconic city-wide Bristol Harbour Festival will return from the Friday 14 – Sunday 16 July 2023 and organisers are calling for singers, songwriters and performers to submit their applications to perform before the deadline on Friday 21 April.

 

Previous editions of the Bristol Harbour Festival have seen more than 80% of the acts and entertainment on offer coming through the Expression of Interest application form. Once again, festival organisers are on the look-out for even more artists and entertainers to wow crowds and communities from across the city in the unique setting of the harbour.

 

Bristol Harbour Festival is one of the UK’s biggest free-to-attend events, attracting around 250,000 people across the weekend in what is a fantastic opportunity to showcase Bristol’s rich musical, maritime and cultural heritage. More information about this year’s festival will be announced shortly.

 

The wide-spread stages that create the iconic festival include stellar acts including multiple music stages, a theatrical stage bursting with circus performers and trapeze and the much-loved on the water entertainment.

To submit an application and join in the city’s celebrations, head to the Bristol Harbour Festival website and complete the Expression of Interest form before 5pm on Friday 21 April 2023. To keep up to date with all Harbour Festival news, follow them on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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New focus single from Stormzy’s third #1 album “This Is What I Mean”

  •  New focus single from Stormzy’s third #1 album  “Need You” featuring Afropop sensation Ayra Starr & rising star tendai to be released on 28th April. 

Further to achieving the #1 position with his critically acclaimed, third album “This Is What I Mean”’ and offering up a stand-out performance at this year’s BRIT Awards, British musician Stormzy has returned with a new single “Need You” featuring Afropop sensation Ayra Starr & rising star tendai.

 Over the course of his expansive, heartfelt and defiantly sprawling #1 album, the BRIT and Ivor Novello award-winning, Stormzy delivered an undeniable classic; effortlessly condensing any number of disparate styles and genres into music which bravely broaches any gap between modern Black British music, soul and hip-hop

 A bold and courageous leap forward from his critically acclaimed previous two #1 records, “Gang Signs & Prayer” and “Heavy Is The Head”, this isn’t music simply for the pop charts but rather, an intimate and sincere love letter to music. He speaks on forgiving his absent father on the mellifluous “Please” and refers to his challenges with paranoia, depression and self-doubt on penultimate track, “I Got My Smile Back” – which also features a guest vocal from the incomparable India.Arie 

It’s a record which showcases intensely personal and lyrical themes which in turn lay bare the vulnerabilities, regret, frailties, healing, joy and triumph in a manner and to an extent that reframes the notion of what rap artists traditionally might do and be

 The confidence which drove the album stemmed from a deeper and far more spiritual place than we have seen from Stormzy previously. For all the success and awards that he has accrued during his brief, meteoric career, the lockdown that ensued from the coronavirus pandemic gave him one commodity he’d long lacked: time. And thanks to his sense of accomplishment following Glastonbury he was, for the first time, in a position to make the most of it 

Much of the creative energy that shaped the album emerged from a Stormzy music camp in Osea Island – a remote island in the Essex estuary that’s only accessible via a Roman Causeway for four hours a day at low tide

 Surrounded by leading-edge producers and musicians (who will all be unveiled in due course), each and every morning they would eat and pray together and then spend the rest of the time driven to creative heights by each other’s talents

 “When you hear about music camps they always sound intense and sombre,” says Stormzy. ““People saying: “We need to make an album.” “We need to make some hit records.” But this felt beautifully free. We’re all musicians but we weren’t always doing music. Some days we played football or walked around taking pictures. And the bi-product to that was very beautiful music. Because when you marry that ethos with world class musicians and the best producers, writers and artists in the world, and we’re in one space, that’s a recipe for something that no one can really imagine. You can’t even calculate what that’s going to come up with. And it came up with a big chunk of this album.”

 

The net result is that while “This Is What I Mean” sounds very much like Stormzy, it sounds like no Stormzy album you have ever heard before!

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St Paul’s Carnival comes to St Monica Trust

St Paul’s Carnival comes to St Monica Trust

A unique outreach project has brought Carnival to residents at a South-Bristol retirement village.

Community Elders and pupils from Fairlawn Primary School, joined residents at St Monica Trust’s Monica Wills House Retirement Village for a screening of a film celebrating the roots of St Pauls Carnival.

Inna Wi Carnival: Reflections of a Generation was directed by St Pauls Carnival Community Outreach Worker, Keziah Wenham-Kenyon. The film explores the culture and tradition of the St Pauls Carnival from the 1960s to the present day, as told by the generation that helped create it.

Keziah’s role has been funded by the St Monica Trust since 2021 with the aim of providing outreach to Community Elders and preserving the traditions of Caribbean Carnival for future generations.

As well as the film, other community development projects delivered by Keziah include digital inclusion workshops and the creation of human libraries.

Keziah said: “The initial stage of the project was about engaging with the older generations in the St Pauls community and combating the social isolation caused by the pandemic.

“We then continued working with the same group of elders to capture and preserve the stories of the generation that brought carnival over to the UK from the Caribbean.

“There were a number of ways we could have gone about it, but after a discussion with the elders and the team, we decided that making a documentary was the best way of preserving their memories for future generations.”

St Monica Trust residents were greeted with a steelpan performance by Year 5 pupils, followed by a screening of the documentary in the activities room. Afterwards, Community Elders and residents swapped their own memories of St Paul’s Carnival.

Keziah is working towards an online release of the film later in the year, plus arranging more community screenings, such as the ones taking place across the St Monica Trust this week.

There are also plans to design a workshop for schools that will see the film screened as part of an active learning programme, which will include talks given by the community elders.

Keziah said: “I feel truly honoured to have delivered such important work and am overjoyed by the positive impact it has had on those involved.

“It is a really special thing for the elders to see their stories reflected on the big screen and it means a lot to their generation that their stories are still valued and being celebrated.”

“Our thanks go to the St Monica Trust for funding such a special project and supporting Carnival’s long-term commitments to our elders.”

The St Monica Trust has been supporting the lives of older people in Bristol and the surrounding area since it was established more than 100 years ago.

The Trust’s Charitable Impact Team helps tackle a variety of issues by distributing hundreds of thousands of pounds to individuals, families and organisations across Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bath & North-East Somerset.

Director of Charitable Impact, Adam Rees said: “The Charitable Impact Team have been working alongside St Pauls Carnival since 2019 when we first funded their Elders Brunch on the morning of Carnival. We are delighted to have provided £50,000 of funding over the last two years for Keziah’s important work with Community Elders.

“The funding has helped ensure that the traditions and history of Bristol’s iconic Carnival celebrating African-Caribbean culture are secure and that these traditions and skills are passed on through the generations.”

For more information on the Trust’s Charitable Impact Team, please go to www.stmonicatrust.org.uk/charitable-impact/grant-giving or email charitableimpact@stmonicatrust.org.uk.

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