Compared to the thrill of interactivity during filming...

...editing can be such a lonely process.

PEACE OF MIND
Role - all
Shown - satellite event to Future Music Festival, Brisbane, Australia

World Health Organisation commission
Role - sound and editing
Shown - internally at WHO

TAR BARRELS OF OTTERY
Role - all
Shown - various short film screenings, London

YOUR OUR THEIR STORY
Role - sound and editing
Shown - Flickering Light Film Festival, Philadelphia, USA

An Interview with Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Shirin Ebadi -Six Pillars

Dr Shirin Ebadi, the First Iranian woman, indeed Middle Eastern woman, to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, spoke at SOAS on 2 February 2011 on ‘The Role of Women in Promoting Peace in the Middle East’.
Here she discusses the women’s movement in Iran and the difficulties she herself has faced in standing up for human rights in Iran.
This was originally broadcast on Six Pillars to Persia as part of a longer show, on Resonance 104.4fm.
Catch the podcast HERE

Mr Scruff Interview

The spinmeister discusses his drawings, thoughts on music today and life ambitions.
Oh, and prompted by my own confession, owns up to having bought a Mel and Kim tape in the 80s (I swapped mine behind a lorry in Moscow for some Russian dolls before the iron curtain fell though, so that's nearly cool, eh?). Recorded at The Big Chill 2008.

Mr Scruff Interview - Fari Bradley, Resonance 104.4fm by Fari on Mixcloud

Passages for Light - Frieze Art Fair Commission

Passages For Light - Frieze Project Commission by FariB

mixcloud “A blast of original music to vibe up your day with. My radio show broadcasts Sat nights on Resonance 104.4fm - a massively buoyant and eclectic mix, leaning towards fringe dance genres, peppered with sounds you never heard til now. If you like it let me know... Enjoy! Fari” On Mixcloud you can listen to great DJs and radio presenters on-demand - all for free! Fari United Kingdom 7 Cloudcasts / 3 followers / 9 listens / 2 favorites Block future invites here © Mixcloud LTD - Registered in England and Wales | Company number 06710137

ResonanceFM Astounding Auction All Night and Tomorrow....

Where can you get a cheap unicycle or sitar lesson or a one to one bass lesson with John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin? How can you gain access to a day at the races with Rapha-Condor-Sharp, in the team car of this leading British professional road racing team? How to find a conversation between Tracy Emin and Bob and Roberta Smith recorded through a vinyl burner onto a CD? 

Resonance 104.4FM is running a massive auction weekend, anything you can bid and win on is yours, you have until midnight tomorrow to win...

Here is a hand made Persian enamel plate donated by The Persian Shop in Chipping Norton to mark Persian new year this weekend.
I've been on air for five hours now along with Jonny Trunk and Robin Warren to promote these amazing items and more (e.g. a holiday for 4 in Cyprus) to raise funds for the UK's leading art music radio station. Bid up! We're on again tomorrow with YBA Bob & Roberta Smith as anchor, I'll be joined by Babak Emamian at 5pm to talk about fund raising, business sense and the amazing items donated by Resonancefm lovers that we are flogging.

Join Me At The Bridge

No Woman Is An Island, As Long As There Are Bridges....

Women for Women organised a march from the Millenium bridge to Royal Festival Hall led by Annie Lennox last Tuesday March 8th 2011. Fari Bradley spoke to some of the groups and individuals taking part.
Groups featured are: The Soroptimists, London Feminist Network, Refugee Council, Afghan Aid and Object.
This podcast also includes the speeches which took place at the end of the march, with Annie Lennox, Bianca Jagger, Lynne Featherstone (someone is shouting “get off the fence!” during this!), the highest positioned woman on the Afghanistan Refugee Council in Afghanistan, Helen Pankhurst from Care International (descendant of Emmeline), Berra Kabarungi, Natasha Walter, Judith Wanga, Liz Morgan-Lewis (The Soroptimist president), Sophy Ridge (Sky blogger), Cherie Lunghi and more.

Hear the PODCAST HERE

Six Pillars at Art Dubai

We'll be meeting the art world of the middle east and it's lovers over at Art Dubai this year.

Art Dubai features over 80 galleries from 34 countries and an extensive programme of events some of which are:

• Global Art Forum – a series of discussions and debate featuring world-renowned artists, curators, critics and art professionals
• Art Park - an underground car park converted to house film screenings, projects and Art Park Talks
• Projects – a dynamic programme of exhibitions, installations, artist commissions, radio dispatches and performative tours of the fair
• Abraaj Capital Art Prize – the world’s most generous art prize awarding $1 million in disbursements to five artists from the Middle East, North Africa & South Asia region plus one international curator
• START – a non-profit organisation established by Art Dubai and the Al Madad Foundation operating art workshops for refugee and orphaned children throughout the region
• Art Week – Art Week is a cultural programme aimed at both residents and visitors, launched during Art Dubai in recognition of the UAE’s role as a regional centre of artistic production and creativity

Pearls on the Ocean Floor

This Torture
Why should we tell you our love stories
when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is a pearl lost on the ocean floor,
…or a fire we can’t see,
but how does saying that
push us through the top of the head into
the light above the head?
Love is not
an iron pot, so this boiling energy
won’t help.
Soul, heart, self.

Beyond and within those
is one saying,
How long before
I’m free of this torture!
(by Hafez, C14th)
 
To mark International Women's Day a screening of the documentary 'Pearls on the Ocean Floor' followed by a panel discussion.

The 77min documentary is by American film maker Robert Adanto and features a large group of women artists such as Shirin Neshat (pictured) talking frankly about their work, their lives and their relationship with Iran especially as explored through the medium of art.

This event has been organised by the Centre for Iranian Studies and Fari Bradley, Six Pillars

Panel include: Malu Halasa writer and co-author of Transit Tehran, Chili Hawes director October Gallery; Sara Shamsawari, Iranian contemporary artist; Azadeh Fatehrad, Iranian contemporary artist; Fari Bradley, Iranian arts broadcaster.

http://www.soas.ac.uk/iranianstudies/events/07mar2011-monthly-film-screening-pearls-on-the-ocean-floor.html

Hear my interview with the director on Resonance 104.4fm

 

Norooz A Go-Go

This month it's Persian new year, NOROOZ, just after Spring Equinox on March 21st, and also International Women's Day

To mark this we've 4 tickets to give listeners for an all female line-up performing contemporary and traditional international & Iranian dance, music and opera, at Cadogan Hall, Monday March 7th:
Q: The first journal published by a woman in Iran was around 1910, what was it called? Easy to find the answer, first emails win, please state if you'd like 2 or 4 tickets

We're screening a  film at The School of Oriental and African Studies, London on women artists from Iran Pearls on the Ocean Floor, Monday March 7th, with a panel discussion afterwards. 7-9pm
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=100460573369908

You can hear our interview with the film's Director Robert Adanto this Sunday at 20.30 GMT online, on air and on Facebook. Details of how to listen are on the Six Pillars discussions page
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8593595853&v=app_2373072738&ref=ts
Details of above mentioned and other events, norooz & chahar shanbe soori are on the Facebook wall

New Podcast:  The .Com Father Jahanshah Javid on a visit to the UK
http://podcasts.resonancefm.com/archives/6149

Forthcoming radio shows:
March 7th
Composer Amir Tafershipour on his life, music, compositions and childhood during the Iraq bombings

March 14th
Celebrating the ancient Persian new year with Persian music live in the studio, later to be performed at the Southbank for 'A Persian Feast'

March 28th
Animated film The Green Wave premiers in London for the Human Rights Watch film festival. A look at modern political rebellion and the hopes that continued resistance may galvanise a new Iran
See the Resonance 104.4fm schedule for details

Do send in anything you feel is of note or ideas about future topics, Resonance 104.4fm won the Radio Academy's Nations and Regions Awards, again!