Refugee Week 2011 – jingles

Here are some jingles for Refugee Week 2011 which you may use on your radio station (in a non-profit way). Please credit the contributors and note/report the music details. If you also let us know if you use any of them, we’ll add you to the list of participating stations.

Click on the links to play or download. All the jingles are in MP3 format.
More to follow shortly.

Set A
~ Jingle 1 – This Is Refugee Week (0′ 07″)
~ Jingle 2 – This Is Refugee Week (0′ 14″)
~ Jingle 3 – Celebrate Refugee Week (0′ 12″)
~ Jingle 4 – Celebrate Refugee Week (0′ 18″”)
~ Jingle 5 – Simple Acts campaign (0′ 20″)
Set A were voiced and produced by Carla Fernandes.
Music: Publisher: Freenotes Music; Composer: Maurice Cheetham, Steve England; Track: “Counting Down”

Set B
~ Jingle 1a – This is Refugee Week – female voice (0′ 06″)
~ Jingle 1b – This is Refugee Week – male voice (0′ 06″)
~ Jingle 2a – This is Refugee Week – female voice (0′ 10″)
~ Jingle 2b – This is Refugee Week – male voice (0′ 10″)
~ Jingle 3a – Celebrate Refugee Week – female voice (0′ 10″)
~ Jingle 3b – Celebrate Refugee Week – male (0′ 10″)
~ Jingle 4a – Celebrate Refugee Week – female voice (0′ 19″)
~ Jingle 4b – Celebrate Refugee Week – male voice (0′ 19″)
Set B were voiced by Davinia Dillon (female).and Conor Hughes (male) and produced by Simon Catt.
Music: Publisher: Freenotes Music; Composer: James Harrington, Steve England; Track: “Long Summer”

Jingles anyone?

We will shortly be posting some Refugee Week jingles for any radio station to use in a non-comercial way.

If you are good at voicing or producing jingles (for sharing, at no charge) please get in touch as soon as possible. All individuals (and their radio station/media organisation if applicable) will be credited on this website.

Sunday 20th June 2010

Today is World Refugee Day.
In London there’s a World Refugee Day Umbrella Parade – hundreds of refugees, asylum seekers, and their supporters will march through London to celebrate the protection of refugees. Marches and parades will also take place simultaneously in cities across Europe – Brussels, Dublin, Lyon, Berlin, Lisbon, Madrid, Istanbul and Ankara, as well as London. Click here for more details.

On air:
  10am – 12 Folk, Roots & Branches Refugee Week Special on 10 Radio in Somerset (repeated from Thursday)

  11am Balana – special programme for Refugee Week, on Awaz FM in Glasgow

  6pm Welcome to Britain – I’m Aaron Barschak on Resonance FM in London

  6pm The Truth About Asylum – Refugee Week Special on Preston FM
Preston FM marks refugee week with a special programme created by local asylum seekers and refugees, looking back at their journey to the UK and reflecting on how their life has changed since they arrived. The programme is part of the Preston & Beyond strand and is funded by UKAid

  7-8pm African Essence on Resonance FM in London
This week African Essence looks at the darker side of the World Cup. In light of recent mass evictions in South Africa, African Essence speaks to Cape Town’s Akraf Cassiem (The Anti-Eviction Campaign) and updates listeners on the work of The Amos Trust (organisers of the Street Kids World Cup). Moroccan multimedia artist Bouchra Khalili will also be on the show, discussing her work which features in the current exhibition Whose Map is It? at INIVA, London. Tribute will also be paid to the South African singer/composer Bhusi Mhlonga, who passed away this week. www.african-essence.com

  7pm Celebrating Sanctuary on Peterborough FM

  8-9pm Refugee Radio on Radio Reverb in Brighton

  8.30pm Six Pillars to Persia on Resonance FM in London (repeated from Monday)

  Homely Planet, based in Belfast, is streaming a range of special programmes and items for Refugee Week from its website, including at 7.30pm Wilson Magwere and Talking Drum, recorded live at The Black Box in Belfast.
To listen, go to the Homely Planet website, then select your player and click on the appropriate listen button.

  South Leeds Community Radio is streaming special programmes for Refugee Week, including an interview with Arsham Parsi, an activist and a gay Iranian asylum seeker. Click here for more details and to listen on demand from the South Leeds Community Radio website.

NB: the links may be live before and/or after the actual Refugee Week programmes. Please note also that Refugee Week Radio is not responsible for material broadcast on other radio stations.

Saturday 19th June 2010

Around the country:
Live fairs and events are being held in various places around the country including Portsmouth, Oxford and Barnsley.

On air:
  10-11am Africa Live from Awaz FM in Glasgow
With George Murevesi and Belinda Matarutse

  11am-12 Saturday Late Breakfast from Awaz FM in Glasgow

  7-8pm Camden Unlocked from Camden Community Radio in London
Harriet Bird talks with Khadeja Shireh of British Somali Community about their work in Camden. Marian Larragy talks with Asha Kin Duale, Community Partnership Advisor for the London Borough of Camden, about the work of the partnership to embed child protection amongst all local communities. Matina Grebener talks with Debora SInger of Asylum Aid about its work over the past 20 years and about its Charter for a better understanding of the needs of female asylum seekers and refugees. Agnes Pareyio, from the Tasaru Rescue Centre, Narok, Kenya, and Asha Kin Duale in discussion with Marian Larragy on the topic of FGM (female genital mutilation) and work to eradicate it.

  8pm Refugee Week news and roundup

NB: the links may be live before and/or after the actual Refugee Week programmes. Please note also that Refugee Week Radio is not responsible for material broadcast on other radio stations.

Friday 18th June 2010

On air today there are special programmes for Refugee Week all over the country, including from radio stations in Norwich, London, Edinburgh and Belfast.

  10am-12 Community Chest Refugee Week special on Future Radio in Norwich
Featuring interviews with Norwich’s Amnesty International Group, Police Diversity Liason Officer Hau Yee Lam and a feature at one of Norwich’s International Friendship Groups. Presented by Jasmine Marie

  1.30pm Refugee Week Special on Leith FM in Edinburgh
Guests today include Zimbabwean musician Rise Kagona. Click here to read more about the Refugee Week programmes on the Guardian Local Edinburgh website.

  7pm Refugee Week programme from trainees on the PEARLS project at The Panjabi Centre/Desi Rado in Southall, West London

  7.35pm Working to stop female genital mutilation (FGM) in Kenya, Somalia and London – from Camden Community Radio
Agnes Pareyio and Asha-Kin Duale in discussion with Marian Larragy.
Click here for background and links.

  7.45pm Acton African Well Women Centre – from Women’s Radio Group
Juliet Albert and Hayat Arteh from the Centre discuss their work supporting women in Ealing affected by FGM, with Rashmi Varma. Click here for background and links.

11am till late Homely Planet, based in Belfast, is streaming a range of special programmes and items for Refugee Week from its website, including:
  10pm Wilson Magwere and Talking Drum, recorded live at The Black Box in Belfast.
To listen, go to the Homely Planet website, then select your player and click on the appropriate listen button.

NB: the links may be live before and/or after the actual Refugee Week programmes. Please note also that Refugee Week Radio is not responsible for material broadcast on other radio stations.