by Ngaio Anyia | Apr 14, 2023 | Community, Culture, Events, Music
Last week I ran the latest Empowerment Programme with Bristol Beacon discussing feminism and empowerment with young women and non-binary people. Over the 3 days, we dissect what feminism means to us individually, how it supports a variety of identities in society, and...
by Ngaio Anyia | Jul 21, 2019 | Booty Bass, Community, Culture, Events
As some of you may remember, this year started off in a bittersweet way – Booty Bass had a largely successful New Years Eve party at the Plough except for a very upsetting incident in which a friend of mine was assaulted behind my back whilst I was DJing. The...
by Ngaio Anyia | Jul 15, 2019 | Community, Culture, Music
Currently working with ACE Project as a youth worker and as a regularly gigging vocalist and DJ, Ngaio has a few strings to her musical bow. Sharing skills and knowledge has always been something that I’ve been interested in and now have time to...
by Ngaio Anyia | Jul 23, 2018 | Culture, Music Reviews, Opinion, Reviews
I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to write about the amazing things that have been happening but it’s been mad busy so I’m letting myself off. To kick off with the most important recap…. ST PAUL’S CARNIVAL!!!! Let me say first and...
by Ngaio Anyia | Apr 19, 2017 | Culture, Music Reviews, Reviews
Bumping along on the bus to Rag n Bone man I didn’t have a whole to go on in terms of expectation which I love – I take great joy in discovering an artist after they’ve blown up. It was the same with Kendrick Lamar, I point blank refuse to listen to...
by Ngaio Anyia | Apr 11, 2017 | Culture, Interview, Music
“I could count on my hand the amount of people of colour I’d played with in the past 35 years… That’s not good.” Fresh off the phone from BBC Radio 4, Chi-chi Nwanoku walked me through her mission to champion change and celebrate diversity...
